European Society for Comparative Legal History

The volume Vidas por el derecho (ed. by Esteban Conde Naranjo,  Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 2012), which contains essays on the biography of important European lawyers of the 18th and 19th century, is the result of the common effort of some of the most well known experts in the field: Clara Álvarez Alonso, Frédéric Audren, Esteban Conde Naranjo, Catherine Fillon, Sebastián Martín, Aldo Mazzacane, Cristina Nogueira da Silva, Carlos Petit, María Nieves Saldaña, José Subtil, Jesús Vallejo, Cristina Vano.
The book is available both on paper and online as it can be freely downloaded clicking here 
It has also to be underlined that information about the biography of law professors in Spain (1847-1943) are available online in the Diccionario de catedráticos españoles de Derecho. It is the result of a project led by prof. Carlos Petit in collaboration with different universities: Huelva, Sevilla, Carlos III de Madrid, Autónoma de Madrid, Complutense, La Coruña, Valencia, Pablo de Olavide, Cádiz y Autónoma de Barcelona. 
http://www.uc3m.es/portal/page/portal/instituto_figuerola/programas/phu/diccionariodecatedraticos


Index (list of essays) of Vidas por el derecho


1. Dilemas metodológicos y percepción histórico-jurídica de la biografía del jurista moderno: Sebastián Martín 
2. La génesis del Mercado de las Ideas: la Areopagítica de John Milton. Su recepción en la tradición jurídica norteamericana: Oliver W. Holmes y la Primera Enmienda: María Nieves Saldaña 
3. Miguel de Manuel y Rodríguez (1741-1798), “el malogrado”: Esteban Conde Naranjo 
4. La vida de los desembargadores durante la crisis, las reformas y la Revolución liberal en Portugal (1750-1820): José Subtil 
5. Libertad, derechos naturales y “multiculturalismo” en el pensamiento de Silvestre Pinheiro Ferreira (1769-1846): Cristina Nogueira da Silva 
6. Las Novelas y la escuela. Vidas de textos y biografía (colectiva) de la Historische Rechtsschule: Cristina Vano 
7. En los orígenes de la comparación jurídica: la correspondencia de Carl Joseph Anton Mittermaier: Aldo Mazzacane 
8. Perfil del jurista romántico español (1834-1855 ca.): Clara Álvarez Alonso 
9. Biblioteca, archivo, escribanía. Portrait del abogado Manuel Cortina: Carlos Petit 
10. Biografía intermitente de Miguel Ayllón Altolaguirre: Jesús Vallejo 
11. La grandeza de Louis Josserand. Fuerzas y flaquezas de un civilista de provincias en la IIIa República francesa: Frédéric Audren/ Catherine Fillon 

What: Legal history seminar on Del Statute of Conspirators a las Combination Acts. Genealogía del delito de conspiración en la tradición de common law (1293-1800), by  Víctor Saucedo (University of Sevilla)
Where: Facultad de Derecho, Universidad Autònoma de Madrid, C/Kelsen 1, Seminario IV
When: March 20th 2013, 4:30 pm

More information here

The provisional programme of the British Legal History Conference, organized in Glasgow to celebrate the tercentenary of the Regius Chair of Legal History, is now available. This year's theme is "Law and Authority". Keynote speakers include dr. John Ford (Cambridge), professor sir John Baker (Cambridge), professor John Hudson (St Andrews) and professor Alain Wijffels (UCLouvain/Leiden).

Registration is open until 1 May 2013. Further information: www.britishlegalhistory.com.

The ERC Starting Grant -financed research project ”Reinventing the Foundations of European Legal Culture 1934-1964” (foundlaw.org) is looking for one post doc and two doctoral students for a period of four years. The project studies the cultural reception of Roman law and the uses of the classical past by Roman law scholars and as such the positions are amply suited for Romanists and historians. 


The project is located at the University of Helsinki and offers a decent salary with full benefits. The persons selected are expected to begin work within the end of the year. 
Here are links to the full adverts: http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=64815 (post doc)  http://www.helsinki.fi/recruitment/index.html?id=64817 (doctoral students) 

All materials related to the Seminar "Citizenship and Power between Middle Ages and Modern Era" (RomaTre University, Law Faculty, March-December 2013), are now available on Academia.edu: http://uniroma3.academia.edu/SeminarioCittadinanzeUniversitàdegliStudiRomaTre
See also: http://seminariocittadinanze.blogspot.it/
You can find the program on the ESCLH blog: http://esclh.blogspot.it/2013/02/seminars-citizenship-and-power-between.html

What: Giacomo Todeschini (Univ. of Trieste) on "Giuda e le reti del credito informale in Italia alla fine del Medioevo”.
Where: Aula grande de seminarios (1ª planta) de la IMF-CSIC (c/ Egipcíaques, 15, Barcelona) When: March 18th 2013, 12:00
The conference is organized by the Departamento de Ciencias Históricas – Estudios Medievales de la Institución Milá y Fontanals (CSIC, Barcelona)

What: First Annual American Society for Legal History Workshop on "Latin American Legal History"

Where: Miami/Fort Lauderdale

When: Immediately before the ASLH annual meeting in Miami/Fort Lauderdale (Nov. 7-10, 2013)

Deadline: April 1st 2013

Papers in Spanish or other languages will be considered if an abstract (one to two pages) is included in English.

Source: Legal History Blog 
"The American Society for Legal History (ASLH) invites paper submissions for its first annual ASLH Workshop, which will be held immediately preceding the ASLH annual meeting in Miami/Fort Lauderdale (Nov. 7-10, 2013).  The workshop is sponsored by ASLH to promote scholarship in areas of legal history that have been traditionally underrepresented at ASLH meetings and in the Law and History Review.  This year’s workshop topic is Latin American Legal History.  (Workshop topics will rotate on an annual basis.)  The ASLH Legal History Workshop will bring together authors and noted scholars in the field in order to work collaboratively toward refining scholarly writing.  An important objective of the workshop is encouraging scholarly conversations among historians of legal systems from a broad range of historical periods and places".
All information on the Legal History Blog  

Articles are being sought for publication in Comparative Legal History (CLH), an international and comparative review of law and history. 

CLH is the official journal of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) and is published by Hart Publishing (UK). 
The journal is published, both online and in print, twice a year, appearing in the spring and the autumn. The first issue will appear in Spring 2013:
Articles will explore both 'internal' legal history (doctrinal and disciplinary developments in the law) and 'external' legal history (legal ideas and institutions in wider contexts). Rooted in the complexity of the various Western legal traditions worldwide, the journal will also investigate other laws and customs from around the globe. Comparisons may be either temporal or geographical and both legal and other law-like normative traditions will be considered. Scholarship on comparative and trans-national historiography, including trans-disciplinary approaches, is particularly welcome.
The Editors welcome scholarly submissions in the English language:
To submit an article please contact Articles Editor Heikki Pihlajamäki (heikki.pihlajamaki@helsinki.fi). The optimal length for articles is between 7500 to 15000 words, including footnotes. All articles are submitted to double blind peer review.
To propose a review, please contact Reviews Editor Agustin Parise (agustin.parise@maastrichtuniversity.nl). Book reviews will generally range from 1500 to 2500 words. Review articles will also be considered.
The Hart website also has information on the Editors (both the Editorial Staff and International Editorial Board), an Email alert service of the 'Table of Contents', and subscription information. 
Note that a special arrangement between the ESCLH and Hart has been made to ensure that ESCLH membership fees include a subscription to CLH.
Potential contributors should pay special attention to the ‘Notes for Contributors’ on the website. In particular, contributors whose first language is not English are strongly advised to have their papers edited by native Anglophone scholars in advance of their submission to ensure a clear presentation of their ideas and an accurate appraisal of their work.

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What: Presentation of "L'histoire à parts égales" by Romain Bertrand,  with Stefania Gialdroni (Università Roma Tre) and Arthur Weststeijn (Koninklijk Nederlands Instituut Rome), coordinated by Guillaume Calafat (École française de Rome) and François Dumasy (École française de Rome)
Where: École française de Rome, Piazza Navona 62, Rome 
When: March 8 2013, 5:30 pm 

The presentation will take place in English 

What: Conference "Regimi giuridici delle transizioni" Where: Università degli Studi di Catania, Dipartimento Seminario Giuridico, Villa Cerami, Aula Magna When: 11 March 2013, 9:00 am
SPEAKERS: 
Jacopo Torrisi (Univ. Catania)  Il Tribunale Speciale per la Difesa dello Stato
Camilla Poesio (Univ. Ca' Foscari Venezia) Misura di prevenzione? Misura di sicurezza? Misura alternativa all’azione giudiziaria? Il confino fascista e la questione della pericolosità
Lutz Klinkhammer (Deutsches Historisches Institut in Rom - Istituto Storico Germanico di Roma) I tribunali speciali nella Germania nazista
Jörg Luther (Univ. Piemonte Orientale “A. Avogadro”) Le piccole costituzioni italiane tra il 1943 e il 1948
Alessia Di Stefano (Univ. Catania) Gli esiti dei provvedimenti della Repubblica Sociale Italiana nella nuova Repubblica Italiana
Cecilia Nubola (Istituto Storico Italo Germanico, Trento) Giustizia di transizione: il caso dei provvedimenti di grazia nei confronti dei “collaborazionisti” (1945-1955)
Michela Ponzani (Univ. Firenze) Giustizia di transizione e processi di ricostruzione identitaria nazionale, nel passaggio dalla Monarchia alla Repubblica
Roundtable with:  Paolo Cappellini (Univ. Firenze) and Giuseppe Speciale (Univ. Catania)

The new issue of the Journal of Constitutional History (Giornale di Storia Costituzionale), 24.2 (2012) is now available. This issue is devoted to: "The Commonwealth of Australia: Themes and Traditions in Australian Constitutional Law and History".  
CONTENTS: Introduction: The Commonwealth of Australia / Introduzione. Il Commonwealth australiano, 5 Augusto Zimmermann
Foundations ‘Una società di società’: Why Australia is a Federation / ‘Una società di società’: perché l’Australia è una federazione, 23 Nicholas Aroney
Why Australia Does Not Have, and Does Not Need, a National Bill of Rights / Perché l’Australia non ha, e non ha bisogno di avere, un Bill of Rights nazionale, 35 James Allan
Directions The External Affairs Power in Australia and in Germany: Different Solutions, Similar Outcome? / Il potere degli Affari esteri in Australia e in Germania: diverse soluzioni, analogo risultato?, 49 Jürgen Bröhmer
Engineers: The Case that Changed Australian Constitutional History / Engineers: il caso che cambiò la storia costituzionale australiana, 65 Michelle Evans
The Power of the Purse: An Examination of Fiscal Federalism in Australia / Il potere della borsa: un esame del federalismo fiscale in Australia, 81 Lorraine Finlay
The Australian Constitution and Expressive Reform / La Costituzione Australiana e la qualità espressiva della riforma, 95 Eric Ghosh
Interpreting the Australian Constitution: Express Provisions and Unexpressed General Principles / Interpretare la Costituzione Australiana: provvedimenti espressi e principi generali inespressi, 117 Jeffrey Goldsworthy
The Validity of Henry VIII Clauses in Australian Federal Legislation / La validità delle Clausole di Enrico VIII nella legislazione federale australiana, 133 Gabriël A. Moens, John Trone
Australian State Courts and Chapter III of the Commonwealth Constitution – Interpretation and Re-Interpretation and the Creation of Australian Constitutional “Orthodoxy” / I Tribunali di Stato australiani e il Capitolo III della Costituzione del Commonwealth – Interpretazione e re-interpretazione e la creazione della “Ortodossia” costituzionale australiana, 145 Sarah Murray
Authors / Autori, 159
Abstracts, 161

At the occasion of the International Francqui Chair held by Prof. H. Pihlajamäki (Helsinki), Ghent University organizes an international colloquium on the theme "Laymen as Judges in European Courts".

Prof. dr. Paul Van Cauwenberghe (rector, Ghent University) will hand over the University's medal on the first day of the event.

A complete list of speakers, as well as the time schedule, is available on the Ghent Legal History Institute's website. Prior registration with Mrs. Karin Pensaert is compulsory (Karin.Pensaert@UGent.be)