Changes

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.

Reuna Program

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

Rome, papers

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

Some abstracts

Stefania Gialdroni’s abstract