Stellenbosch 2018

The Crises of European Legal Traditions inside and outside Europe

Read the abstracts of the papers.

17.‒18.2.2018
Room 1028, Ou Hoofgebou, Law Faculty of the Stellenbosch University (corner of Ryneveld Street and Victoria Street)

Organized by Reinventing the Foundations of European Legal Culture 1934-1964 (University of Helsinki) and Prof. Jacques du Plessis (Universiteit Stellenbosch)

17.2.2018

09:00-09:30
Coffee and opening words by Jacques du Plessis and Kaius Tuori

09:30-10:30
Jacques du Plessis (Universiteit Stellenbosch University): Receptions of civil law and good faith: a South African perspective

Coffee break

11:00-12:00
Philip Thomas (University of Pretoria): The European legacy in South African law

Lunch break

13:00-14:00
Thomas Bennett (University of Cape Town): Ubuntu: A Challenge to South Africa’s European Legal Heritage

14:00-15:00
Jacob Giltaij (University of Helsinki): The theory and practice of natural law after 1945

Coffee break

15:30-16:30
Tommaso Beggio (University of Trento): Beyond Germany: Paul Koschaker’s legacy after WWII

16:30-17:30
Kaius Tuori (University of Helsinki): Roman law, ius commune and the lost futures of European law

18.2.2018

09:30-10:30
Matthew C. Mirow (F.I.U. College of Law, Miami): Léon Duguit and Property in Latin America, 1925-1960

10:30-11:30
Francisco Andrés Santos (Catedrático de Derecho Romano, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain): The role of Roman Law in codificatory and post-codificatory era in Spanish America

Coffee break

12:00-13:00
Franz-Stefan Meissel (Universität Wien): Between Nationalist Xenophobia, Racism and Cosmopolitanism – the Roman Law Experience in Vienna during and after the Nazi Period

Lunch break

14:30-15:30
Ville Erkkilä: Law, Conscience and scholarship. Reconstructing a European future