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