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2012 marks the 450th anniversary of the marriage in Vilnius of Catherine
Jagiellon (1526–1583), the sister of the King of Poland and the Grand Duke of
Lithuania Sigismund Augustus, to the Duke of Finland John Vasa
(1537–1592). This
international conference will commemorate the 450th anniversary of this
dynastic union. It will be devoted to the European dynasties of the late
Medieval and early Modern eras: the ties between them, their impact on state
politics, social and cultural development.
On 4 and 5
October, 2012 the University of Latvia Faculty of Law will hold an
international scientific conference “The Quality of Legal Acts and its
Importance in Contemporary Legal Space”. The Conference will focus upon both
the drafting of legal acts and analysis of the quality of their content.
information, please visit http://www.lawconference.lu.lv/
(Re)construction of Nations in the Space of Grand Duchy of Lithuania
First Lithuanian – Polish Seminar, devoted to
students and PhDs from Poland and Lithuania will take place between 21 – 28
October 2012 in Kaunas. The aim of the LPS is to conduct a debate on relations
between Poland and Lithuania and about history and present of Central and
information, please visit organizers website www.kew.org.pl and www.lpseminar.org Contact person
European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) President and Executive Council are pleased to announce the
Art. 1 The Van Caenegem prize, named in
honour of Raoul Charles Van Caenegem, a pioneering author in the field of
comparative legal history, is awarded to the young legal historian(s) who wrote
the best article published in the Society's journal, Comparative Legal History, in the two years preceding the Society's
Conference at which the prize is to be awarded.
Art. 2 The Society awards the prize on
the recommendation of the Van Caenegem Prize Committee. The committee consists
of a president and four members. The president of the Society's Advisory Board
serves as president of the Committee. The Society's Executive Council appoints
members in the year before the award ceremony to serve until the prize is
awarded. Two members must belong to the Society's Advisory Board. Two members will
be chosen from the organisers of the Young Legal Historians Forum which took
place within two years of the appointment of the Prize Committee. All members must
have a different nationality. The Society's president can, by appointment, fill
a vacancy on the Prize Committee. The
Executive Council must announce the Prize Committee’s nominations in the
Society's blog and journal, before the Committee recommends a winner to the
Art. 3 After reviewing the articles and
consulting the editor and articles editor of Comparative Legal History, a majority of votes determines the
winner. If articles receive the same number of votes, the Chairman may call for
a second vote; if the votes remain equal on the second vote, the prize is
shared by all the authors. A member cannot vote if the vote concerns a relative
within the fifth degree, a co-author of a publication or co-applicant of a
project or the author is or has been an employee or grantholder at the same
Art. 4 To be eligible for the prize each
author must not have reached the age of 38 on 1 January of the year of the
award ceremony and must not have previously received it.
Art. 6 The prize is awarded by the
Society's president at the Society's Conference where the author will be given
the chance to introduce the paper. The
award of the prize will be announced in the Society's blog and in the call for
papers for the Conference.
Art. 7 The prize consists of a sum to
be determined by the Executive Council and a certificate. The Prize Committee will
write a one page report, detailing the academic qualities and importance of the
article, for publication in the Society's Journal after the Conference. The
president and the members of the Committee cannot communicate with those
outside the Committee in any other way about their decision.
Art. 8 The first van Caenegem prize
will be awarded at the Society's conference in 2014. Exceptionally, manuscripts
accepted for publication in Comparative
Legal History, but not yet published in 2013 will also be considered. Any
manuscript submitted for the prize to be awarded in 2014 will not be considered
for the prize to be awarded in 2016.
Art. 9 Any dispute in respect of a Van
Caenegem Prize must be submitted to the president of the Society whose
authors should consult the submission information on the ESCLH blog and on the Comparative Legal History site.
"Rechtseinheit und Subsidiarität" What: ARISTEC international seminar
E-Mail: kesslerm@uni-trier.de
ruefner@uni-trier.de To read the program, click here Posted by
Contributors interested in being in the early issues of Comparative Legal
History (CLH) should contact the editors as soon as possible! REMINDER:
The Department of Law of the University of Cagliari (Italy) will host, on the 5th and 6th October 2012, an international seminar entitled "Civitas, iura, arma. Organizzazioni militari, istituzioni giuridiche e strutture sociali alle origini dell'Europa (sec. III-VIII)". The seminar will take place in the Aula Arcari of the Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza according to the follwing schedule:
Friday 5 October 2012: 4:00 pm: Chairman: Francesco Sitzia
En torno a Lex Visigothorum 9,2: De his, qui ad bellum non vadunt aut de bello refugiunt (Esperanza Osaba Garcia)
Consortium of Belarusian and Lithuanian organisations under the auspices of the
Vytautas Magnus University (Lithuania) and "Political Sphere"
Institute (Belarus) is organising the 2nd International Congress of Belarusian
Studies, that will be held on September 28-30, 2012 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
Around 200 scholars from around the world, engaged
in studying Belarus and East-Central Europe region, are expected to
participate. The Congress will bring together researches of social sciences and
humanities, and offer the discussion of regional development issues, Belarus
relations with other countries, and other topical problems. For more information,
SCIENTIARUM BALTICA – 2012
25th International Baltic Conference on the History of Science will be
held in Vilnius, October 4-6, 2012. For more information,
please visit here To download the program, click here
What: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE: The Antonine Constitution after 1800 years. Citizenship and empire in Europe, 200-1900
Where: Rome:British School, Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut, American Academy PROGRAM
THE CONFERENCE IS SPONSORED BY the Hellen Kellogg Institute for International Studies and Nanovic
Institute, University of Notre Dame; the Center for the Study of Ancient Religions and Division of
(amcginne@nd.edu) To download the program, click here
Ulrike Müßig (Passau):
Der Kampf um die gerichtliche Selbstverwaltung in der Entstehungsgeschichte des GVG Matthias Kradolfer (Zürich):
Die „Freiherren von Regensberg“: Eine Komödie über Justiz und Politik Bruno Debaenst (Gent):
Laborers in the courtroom: from a rock to a hard place? Christian Thomas Huber (Neustadt):
Der Schutz feindstaatangehöriger Zivilisten durch deutsche Militärgerichte 1939 - 1945 Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Bergen):
Dissenting votes in the Norwegian Supreme Court 1965-2009: A legal cultural analysis Katharina Theobaldy/Fabian Meyer (Regensburg):
Überwachen und Strafen in einem bayerischen Zuchthaus des 19. Jahrhunderts Sánchez de Andrés (Michuacan):
Die Beratungsorgane der spanischen ​Kolonialverwaltung 1863-1899 Jan Dirk Harke (Würzburg):
Rapport de synthèse Marcel Senn (Zürich):
More information on edition-rechtskultur.de. Posted by
NOTICE: Law, Lawyers and Texts "Law, Lawyers and Texts. Studies in Medieval Legal History in Honour of Paul Brand", Ed. by Susanne Jenks, Jonathan Rose and Christopher Whittick, BRILL, 2012. The essays in this volume in honour of Paul Brand, Senior Research Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford, match his career and interests in the world of legal history as well as medieval social and economic history and textual studies. The topics explored include the Angevin reforms, legal literature, the legal profession and judiciary, land law, the relation between the crown and the Jews, the interaction of the Common Law with Canon and Civil Law, as well as procedural and testamentary procedures, the management of both ecclesiastical and lay estates and the afterlife of medieval learning.… read more Like Brand’s own work, all the essays are grounded on detailed studies of primary sources. The result is a high quality scholarly book that will be of interest and use to medieval scholars, students and non-specialists with wide-ranging and varied interests.
Francqui Professor Chair 2011-2012: Heikki Pihlajamäki What: Inaugural
Lecture ﻿"Lay Judges in Criminal Trials:
Historical Remnants or Living Law? Comparative Remarks on Western Legal History"
24 October, 2012 - 18:00
Where: Vrije
Universiteit Brussel, Etterbeek (Brussels, Belgium)
Aula QD T﻿﻿he Francqui Foundation invites
scientists from abroad to stay and work at Belgian universities. Two or more of
those universities may propose an exceptional scientist, for the International
Francqui Professor Chair. The holder stays six months at the hosting
universities, where he participates in scientific life. He will work with
experts in his field, and with doctoral students. The stay culminates in a
conference. Professor Heikki Pihlajamäki was granted the chair 2011-12,
on the proposal of the Faculties of Law of Ghent University and of the Vrije
Professor Pihlajamäki is professor of comparative legal history at the
Faculty of Law of the University of Helsinki, and he is one of the leading
legal historians and comparative lawyers in Northern Europe. He has published
many books, peer-reviewed articles and contributions on legal-historical themes
of the early modern period, but also on other subjects and other eras. Professor
Pihlajamäki is member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the
Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt, and of the
editorial board of four international legal history journals.
• 18.00 : Welcome by
Prof. Paul Van Cauwenberge (Rector Ghent University)
• 18.10 : Prof. Dave De ruysscher
(Vrije Universiteit Brussel) ‘Comparative Legal History: A Revival’
• 18.20 : Prof. Pierre van
Moerbeke (Francqui Foundation) ‘Introduction of Prof. Heikki Pihlajamäki and
handing over of the Francqui Medal’
• 18.30 : Prof. Heikki
Pihlajamäki (University of Helsinki) ‘Lay Judges in Criminal Trials: Historical
Remnants or Living Law? Comparative Remarks on Western Legal History’
• 19.30 : Closing remarks by
Prof. Piet Taelman (Dean of the Faculty of Law of Ghent University)
The Ghent Legal History Institute (www.rechtsgeschiedenis.be), which
is part of the Department of Legal Theory and Legal History, continues the
high-level research that was initiated in Ghent by famous legal historians like
the late François-Louis Ganshof and by Raoul C. baron van Caenegem. It has
taken a leading role in the research on such themes as feudal law,
codifications, legal iconography and the history of the legal profession. The
Institute hosts three full-time legal history professors, Prof. Dirk Heirbaut,
Prof. Georges Martyn and Prof. Rik Opsommer. The Brussels Department of
Interdisciplinary Studies of Law (www.vub.ac.be/metajuridica)
houses among others the disciplines of legal history and comparative law. It
has a strong tradition in comparative legal history, which was initiated there
by the late John Gilissen, and in the history of public law (social and social
security law, constitutional law), under the wings of Michel Magits. Currently,
the Department has two full-time legal history professors, Prof. Machteld De
Metsenaere and Prof. Dave De ruysscher. Please
confirm your attendance via email to activiteiten.rc@vub.ac.be
before 17 October 2012.
more information, please click here Posted by
Call for Papers: 'Preparing for Death in Medieval and Early Modern Europe' Picture: Giacomo Borlone de Buschis, "Danza macabra", Oratorio dei discipini in Clusone, Italy (1485)
When: 14-15 March 2013 "The conference 'Preparing for Death in Medieval and Early Modern Europe' will investigate and explore the various ways and strategies medieval and early modern people used in attempting to prepare themselves and others - body, soul, property and memory - for the inevitable and omnipresent death. Although the timeframe is historical in order to achieve certain consistency, the conference aims at interdisciplinarity. Papers dealing with religious, legal, visual, cultural, political, and philosophical perspectives on preparing for death are welcome.
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