I’ve added the paper of Hesi Siimets-Gross, which I had forgotten before. There’s also a new version of Kaius Tuori’s paper available.
We need to switch around a couple of the papers in the program because of an early flight on Wednesday. The new program will be posted here as soon as possible.
Rome, Italy 30th November – 3rd December 2008
Sunday 30.11.
20.00 Dinner – Ristorante Angelino ai Fori (Largo Corrado Ricci 40/43a; metro line B, station CAVOUR).
Monday 1.12.
Roma Tre, Il Dipartimento di Storia e Teoria Generale del Diritto (Via Ostiense 161)
Session I (chair Pia Letto-Vanamo)
9.00–9.15 Opening of the seminar
9.15 – 9.45 Kaius Tuori: The Magic of Contract: Mancipatio, the Supernatural, and the Contractual Obligation
9.45 – 10.15 Lára Magnúsardóttir: Why was ecclesiastical law in Iceland and Norway written in the vernacular?
10.15 – 10.45 Helle Vogt: Danish Penal Law in the Middle Ages – Cases of Homicide and Woundings
10.45 – 11.00 Coffee break
Session II (chair Ditlev Tamm)
11.00 – 11.45 Emanuele Conte and Sara Menzinger: The Summa Trium Librorum of Rolando da Lucca in the background of the public law in Italy during the twelfth century
11.45 – 12.30 Mia Korpiola and Elsa Trolle Önnerfors: ”Disinheriting Disobedient Children: Attempts to Transplant Justinian Legislation (Novella 115.3) in Early Modern Swedish Law and Practice
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch
Session III (chair Helle Vogt)
14.00 – 14.30 Skúli S. Ólafsson: Public absolution as punishment in Early-Modern Europe
14.30 – 15.00 Martin Sunnqvist: Judicial ethics and judicial oaths
15.00 – 15.30 Marianne Vasara: The challenges of researching matriculation records
15.30 – 15.45 Break
Session IV (chair Heikki Pihlajamäki)
15.45 – 16.15 Mariavittoria Catanzariti: About secrets: arcana imperii. Historical perspectives.
16.15 – 16.45 Iisa Vepsä: Law in the late 18th Century Sweden
16.45 – 17.15 Stefania Gialdroni: Was the English East India Company (EIC) a “democratic” association? Some observations on the majority principle in 17th century England.
17.15 – 17.45 Mats Kumlien: The emergence of administrative law scholarship in Sweden.
20.00 Roman Dinner hosted by Emanuele Conte, La Trattoria PERILLI a Testaccio (Via Marmorata 39; metro line B, station PIRAMIDE).
Tuesday 2.12.
Villa Lante, Institutum Romanum Finlandiae (Passeggiata del Gianicolo 10)
9.00 – 9.15 Welcoming words by director Kaj Sandberg
9.15-11.15 Discussion panel: The relevance of legal history
Chair Kaius Tuori
Mario Ascheri, Emanuele Conte, Mats Kumlien, Pia Letto-Vanamo, Marju Luts-Sootak, Heikki Pihlajamäki, Ditlev Tamm
11.15-11.30 Coffee break
Session V (Chair Emanuele Conte)
11.30 – 12.30 Jussi Sallila: “Historical perspectives on the relationship between law and economy in recent German scholarship”
12.00 – 12.30 Merike Ristikivi: Legal terms in Estonian legal journalism in 1920-1940: rhetoric of power structures or jurisprudence
12.30 –13.00 Raija-Liisa Komulainen: Book review – Alan Watson: Comparative Law. Law, Reality and Society
Lunch
Visit to the libraries of the Italian Parliament and the ancient Bibliotheca Casanatense
20.00 Dinner – Ristorante “Le Bain” (Via delle Botteghe Oscure 33, Piazza Venezia e da Largo Argentina.)
Wednesday 3.12.
Session IV (Chair Mats Kumlien)
9.00 – 9.30 Marju Luts-Sootak: The Baltic private law code of 1864 – a triumphal arch or gravestone of Roman law in the Baltic area?
9.30 – 10.00 Eirik Holmøyvik: Using the term “constitution” to trace legal change
10.00 – 10.30 Hesi Siimets-Gross: Ausdrücke status libertatis, civitatis, familiae. Savigny’s berechtigte Kritik der neueren Juristen?
10.30 – 10.45 Coffee break
Session IV (Chair Marju Luts-Sootak)
10.45 – 11.15 Johan Strömgren: The Finnmark Act, some reflections about it compared with the 1873 Avvittringsstadga
11.15 – 11.45 Marianne Dahlén: A nice pair? Fashion and piracy in a historical intellectual property perspective (1945-2008)
11.45 The ending of the seminar
Here are some of the papers and abstracts of the 9th Reuna workshop. More will be added later on.
Mariavittoria Catanzariti: About secrets: arcana imperii. Historical perspectives.
Marianne Dahlén: Copies, Competition and the Conditions of Creativity. The Role of Intellectual Property Law in the European Fashion Industry (1950-2008)
Eirik Holmøyvik: Using the term “constitution” to trace legal change
Marju Luts-Sootak: The Baltic private law act from 1864/1865 – a triumphal arch or tomb for Roman law in the Baltics?
Raija-Liisa Komulainen: Book review: Alan Watson’s Comparative Law
Mats Kumlien: The Emergence of administrative law scholarship in Sweden.
Hesi Siimets-Gross: Ausdrücke status libertatis, civitatis und familiae. Savigny’s berechtigte Kritik der neueren Juristen?
Martin Sunnqvist: Judicial ethics and judicial oaths
Kaius Tuori: The Magic of Mancipatio
Helle Vogt: Danish Penal Law in the Middle Ages – Cases of Homicide and Woundings
The ninth and last workshop of the Reuna-network will take place in Rome, Italy (30.11.-3.12.2008). The Call for papers will be sent out during the second week of September.
19.00 Dinner at Lille Escalon
Tuesday 13th
The Faculty of Law, the University in Bergen
09.00 – 11.00 Keynote speaker (4th floor room no. 2) Thomas Duve (Buenos Aires): The emergence of modern contract law and the New World
11.15 – 1300 Parallel sessions
1. Session (4th floor room no. 2) chaired by P. Andersen:
S. Olaffson: Immoral and illegal: the combination of theology and law in the St�rid�mur of 1564 in Iceland
M. Vasara: Finnish law students in Europe from the 17th to 19th centuries
2. Session (4th floor room no. 3) chaired by H. Pihlajamäki:
M. Arvidsson: Searching and researching archives
M- Luts-Sootak: Überlegungen zu einer forschungspraktischen Rezeptionstheorie für Rechtsgeschichte
3. Session (4th floor room no. 5) chaired by H.F. Marthinussen
M. Dahlèn: Trade mark legislation in a globalised world around the turn of the century 1900 and 2000
H. Siimets-Gross: The specification theory in Baltic Private Law Act – the mirror of the legal science in Baltic Sea Provinces?
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.30 Parallel sessions
1. Session (4th floor room no. 2) chaired by D. Michalsen:
A. Aure: Acquisition of rights over the sea according to Hugo Grotius’ natural law theory
J. Strömgren: The democratic legislator’s initial regulations regarding Sámi issues
2. Session (4th floor room no. 1) chaired by M. Kumlien:
A. Ch. Petersson Hjelm: Compulsory care of children: Is Sweden’s pragmatic way to implement parts of the English legal system a historical inheritance?
P. Praet: The expansion of the Rechtsstaat
16.00-17.00 Final session (4th floor room no. 2) chaired by P. Letto-Vanamo
Matilda Arvidsson (Lund): Introduction to debate on legal history on the schedule at faculties of law in Scandinavia
20.00 Dinner at Fl�yen (Meet at the Funicular station at 19.35)
Bergen science centre, the University in Bergen
09.00 – 11.00 Keynote speaker (room B) Angelo Forte (Aberdeen): Comparative Aspects of the Duel in Early Medieval Gaelic Scotland and Ireland, and Scandinavia
11.15 – 12.45 Parallel sessions
1. Session (room B) chaired by A. Forte:
J. Sallila: The relationship between bankruptcy legislation and economic policy in late 18th century Sweden
R-L. Komulainen: Americanization of Finnish Contract Law
2. Session (room C) chaired by D. Tamm:
L.M. Bergh: Constitutional practice: Practice as source of constitutional law in Norwegian and Danish constitutional theory
R. Nordquist: Preparatory works as a source of law: a strange phenomenon in the development of legal methodology in the Nordic countries
12.45 – 14.00 Lunch
14.00 – 14.45 Final session (room B) chaired by T. Duve:
M. Ristikivi: Latin legal terms as a reflection of terminological turn
14.45 – 15.00 Closing remarks (room B)
1. How to get to the hotel:
To get to the city centre take the airport coach from the airport. You will find the bus just outside the terminal building. You pay your ticket at the buss, and there are cash points inside the terminal building. The ticket costs 80 NOK. The coach leaves about every 15 minutes, and the trip to the city centre takes about 30-40 minutes, depending on the traffic. You should leave the coach at Festplassen, and from there you walk about 5-10 minutes to Grand Hotel Terminus, situated next to the railway station. At this link you will find a map: http://www.gulesider.no/kart/map.c?q=zander+kaaes+gate&imgt=MAP&id=a_1972009
The hotel should be easy to find, the easiest walking route is to walk along the small lake (lille LungegÅrdsvann) on the right hand side until you reach the end, walk left and cross the street. You will see the railway station, and the hotel is at the left hand side of the station building.
We have made reservations at Grand Hotel Terminus in the participants’ names, so you can check in when you get there.
Here is the hotels website: http://www.grand-hotel-terminus.no/CDA/homepg.aspx
2. Program on Monday 12th
As you’ll know from the program the first point on the agenda is dinner at Lille Escalon at 19.00. It’s about 15 minutes to walk from the hotel. We’ll meet you in the reception at the hotel at 18.40, and walk to the restaurant with you. For those who would like meet up in the restaurant you’ll get map and directions in the reception.
3. Program on Tuesday 13th
The seminar starts at 9.00 and we are spending the day at the Faculty of Law. The Faculty is about 15 minutes to walk from the hotel, and we’ll meet you in the reception at 08.30 to walk you there. However, Bergen has a quite small city centre, so it will be easy to find your own way. As you can see from the programme, the seminar lasts until 17.30 at Tuesday, and we’ll have lunch at the Faculty of Law.
Dinner will be held at Fløien, which is a restaurant on the top of one of the seven mountains surrounding Bergen. To get there we need to take a cable car, Fløibanen, which is one of Bergen’s, and Norway’s, most famous tourist attractions. We hope for nice weather so you can see the view from the mountain. we’ve included a link to Fl
øibanen here: http://www.floibanen.com/default.asp
Fløibanen’s lower station is located in the centre of Bergen, about 10-15 minutes walk from the hotel. We’ll meet you in the reception at the hotel at 19.15 to walk you there, and show you some of old town on the way. For those who would like to get there on their own, meet at the funicular station at 19.35 to catch the cable car.
Dinner will be at Fløien Folkerestaurant. http://www.bellevue-restauranter.no/comweb.asp?ID=10&segment=4&session.
4. Wednesday 14th
The seminar will start at 9.00 at Vil Vite-senteret, which is a conference centre and museum owned by the University of Bergen. We’ll meet you in the reception at 08.30. Lunch will be at Spisestedet PÅ Høyden, a close-by restaurant specialising on food from the western part of Norway.
The seminar will end at 15.00. You can leave your bags at the hotel, as you can catch the airport coach close to the hotel.
5. Weather and clothes
Bergen is well-known to be a rainy city, but May is usually the sunniest month of the year. However, we will advise you to bring an umbrella. Temperatures are likely to be somewhere between 5-15 C. To check put the weather forecast before you go use www.yr.no.
At the places we are going to during the meeting people will tend to dress quite informal, except at the restaurant at Fløien where people usually dress up a bit.
6. Contact information and sights
If you have any questions or problems before or during your stay in Bergen, please contact us:
Jørn
Øyrehagen Sunde: + 47 90544137 or Hilde Ruus: + 47 984 07 660. (hilde.ruus@jur.uib.no)
At the hotel you will get maps and information on sights in Bergen, but for those of you that would like to have a look at Bergen before you get here we’ve included a few links:
Information for tourists: http://www.visitbergen.com/
The fjords of western Norway: http://www.fjords.com/gowest1.htm
Bergen museum: http://bergenmuseum.uib.no/index.php
Webcam of Bergen: http://www.bt.no/kamera/
All the links we’ve included in this mail have versions in English.
Call for Papers
Europe overseas: Civil and common law receptions, 12-14 May 2008 in Bergen, Norway
The emphasis of the meeting will be on the presentation of the participants’ papers in a series of workshops, and we hope to see as many as possible presenting a paper in the workshop. Paper proposals for the workshop sessions are invited on the ongoing research projects of the network participants, including both dissertations and post-doc research. This is a splendid opportunity to get feedback and to discuss aspects of the research that are especially interesting, challenging or right out troublesome.
The plenary sessions will be devoted to presentations given by the keynote speakers. In this regard, we are very happy to announce the participation of Professor Thomas Duve (Buenos Aires) and Professor Angelo Forte (Aberdeen).
In order to simplify the planning of the workshop sessions, we wish for short synopses of proposed workshop contributions, not exceeding 200 words, to be sent to the organizers upon registration the 3rd of March. The final versions of papers should be app. 4-7 pages and be sent to the organizers by the 1st of May, after which they will be available to the participants on the REUNA-site (http://www.helsinki.fi/project/reuna/).
The languages of the meeting are English and German.
The meeting venue is at the Faculty of Law, at the University in Bergen. The workshop starts on Monday 12th of May at 19.00 with dinner at Lille Escalon and ends on Wednesday 14th at app. 16.00. The REUNA-network will cover and arrange the flights to and from Bergen and accommodation. We have booked rooms for the participants in the Grand Hotel Terminus right next to the train and bus station. Travel arrangements ought to be made by the organisers upon registration via a travel agency.
Registration for the workshop ends on the 3rd of March.
Please send your questions, queries, registration form and other correspondence to the workshop organiser Iisa Vepsä (iisa.vepsa@helsinki.fi) or to Hilde Ruus (hilde.ruus@jur.uib.no).
You are most whole heartily welcome to the eight Workshop of the Reuna-network!
Hilde Ruus Eirik Holm�yvik J�rn �yrehagen Sunde
The sessions will take place at Udvalgsv�relse III, N
�rregade 10, 1st floor (and NOT at N�rregade 20).
18.40: Departure from the hotel.
8.45: Departure from the hotel
11-11.30: Coffee break
Iisa Vepsä, Helsinki, “To decide and reason” – The argumentation in the decisions of the Vaasa Hovrätt (1780-1800).
Martin Sunnqvist, Lund, Four timelines: Discussions about judicial review
1809-1930.
13-14: Lunch
Mia Korpiola, Helsinki, Kerstin Oxenstierna’s lost maidenhead: Honour, sin and matrimonial law in late sixteenth-century Sweden
Skúli S. Ólafsson, Reykjav�k, All the king’s men: The role of secular officials in 17th and 18th century’s synodal courts in Iceland.
15.30-15.45:Coffee
Lára Magnúsardóttir, Reykjavik: Medieval sin in modern law
18-19: Guided tour at The Royal Library Grethe Jacobsen
19.00: Dinner at The Royal Library
11-11.15 Coffee
Már Jónsson, Reykjavik: Islamic law in sixteenth century Spain.
Matilda Arvidsson, Lund: Shari�ah from behind the bench: Court culture, judicial culture and a judge-made discourse on Shari�ah at a Swedish district court.
12.45-13.45:Lunch
Merike Ristikivi, Tartu: Iurisconsulti grammaticis soluti sunt?
Farewell speech and next meeting
The following information was sent to the mailing list by Helle and Frederik. This message contains important information for all participating in the workshop “Legal History beyond the Edge of Europe” – including information about your hotel and an attached workshop programme.
You will stay at the Hotel 27, L�ngangstr�de 27, 1468 Copenhagen K. The hotel is placed in the middle of Copenhagen near the University. Please see more about the hotel on: http://www.hotel27.dk/home.html
There is a subway (Metro) from the Airport Terminal 3 to the underground station of “N�rreport” – the nearest station to the hotel. Take the train M2 from the airport. Buy your ticket on the Metro station at the airport. We recommend this solution instead of the taxis, since it is both efficient and relatively cheap. If you intend on using public transport more than just to and from the airport, buying a blue 2-zone “klippekort”; a discount travel card with 10 trips (115 Dkr) – to be stamped in the yellow machines on entering buses and before boarding – is a good idea. Going to and from the airport the card should be stamped twice, otherwise one stamp is enough for travelling within the city zone.
You will find the taxis outside terminal 3 – just let the driver know where you are going. A trip to the city centre will normally cost around 200-250 Dkr. All major cards are accepted. If in doubt, ask the driver.
A link to a Copenhagen map with directions was originally sent by the organisers to the mailing list. Because of problems related to long web addresses, the link has been left out here. To get a map with directions, you can use Google Maps and search for directions from “N�rreport station” to “L�ngangstr�de 27, 1468 Copenhagen”.
The 8th meeting of the REUNA network will take place in Bergen, Norway, on the 13th and 14th of May 2008.