Monday 12th
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)
Wednesday 14th
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)