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The Université de Rennes and Université Paris Descartes have the following call for papers:
(Source: Université Paris Descartes) Cycle de deux journées d’étude organisé par l’Institut d’Histoire du Droit (EA 2515) de l’Université Paris Descartes et l’IODE – Institut de l’Ouest : Droit et Europe (UMR CNRS 6262) de l’Université de Rennes 1Acte I : Université de Rennes 1, 4 avril 2018Acte II : Université Paris Descartes, 9 octobre 2018
À l’origine d’une comparaison, d’une concurrence, d’un jeu de miroirs.
Depuis une trentaine d’années, de nombreux juristes français s’émeuvent devant l’expansion des systèmes de common law. Ils constatent que celui-ci est à la mode dans les grands cabinets d’avocats, dans les think tank économiques et commerciaux ou dans certaines institutions internationales. Ils observent, par contraste, que le modèle de civil law est souvent maltraité par les économistes et les universitaires anglo-américains. Ils craignent que la diversité juridique ne plie devant l’impérialisme du common law et que de vastes espaces de tradition civiliste ne basculent irrémédiablement du côté non codifié du droit.
Historiquement – cela est bien connu –, ces deux systèmes juridiques ont suivi des voies distinctes et ont adopté, chemin faisant, des doctrines et des pratiques qui les ont rendu progressivement étrangers l’un à l’autre. Etrangers ? Le terme doit être nuancé si l’on considère la mixité juridique à Québec, en Louisiane, à Sainte-Lucie ou à Maurice. Il n’en reste pas moins qu’au XIXe siècle, la doctrine de part et d’autre de la Manche traite des deux systèmes juridiques comme de « modèles concurrents », d’« opposite systems » ou de « rival systems », en exacerbant les particularismes respectifs.
Ce cycle de journées d’étude vise à examiner ce processus :
1. Faire connaître les œuvres doctrinales et les discours politiques qui ont participé à la concurrence entre modèles juridiques / Examiner les domaines dans lesquels les juristes promeuvent les qualités de l’un et l’autre modèles.
2. Observer comment la comparaison, l’admiration ou le rejet réciproque ont accusé les spécificités entre les systèmes. Ces systèmes étaient certes différents à l’origine, mais en quoi la prise de conscience de cette différence et le travail de comparaison ont-ils accentué, voire créé des opposite systems ?
3. Constater l’écho de ces débats aux XXe et XXIe siècles dans l’actualité du droit comparé, dans l’activité des cabinets d’avocats et des institutions internationales.
Nous invitons à faire parvenir des propositions de communication (300 mots maximum), en français ou en anglais, aux organisateurs du colloque, pour l’une ou l’autre des dates suivantes :– Première journée d’étude, Rennes 1, mercredi 4 avril 2018 : « French Law v. Common Law au XIXe siècle. Acte I ».– Deuxième journée d’étude, Paris V – Descartes, mardi 9 octobre 2018 : « French Law v. Common Law au XIXe siècle. Acte II ».La participation et l’inscription aux journées d’étude sont gratuites. Les organisateurs financent l’hôtel et les repas des conférenciers, mais ne peuvent pas financer les déplacements du Canada, d’Australie, du Royaume-Uni, des États-Unis vers la France.
Contacts des organisateurs :
M. Gwenaël Guyon : gwenael.guyon@parisdescartes.frPr Sylvain Soleil : sylvain.soleil@univ-rennes1.frPr Arnaud Vergne : arnaud.vergne@parisdescartes.fr
Comité scientifique:
Pr David Gilles (Sherbrooke University – Law School)Pr Eric Descheemaker (University of Melbourne – Melbourne Law School)Pr Peter Johnstone (University of North Texas – Denton)Pr Michael Lobban (London School of Economics and Political Sciences)Pr Sylvain Soleil (Université Rennes 1)M. Gwenaël Guyon (Université Paris V – Descartes)Pr Arnaud Vergne (Université Paris V – Descartes)

More information can be found on the websiteof the Université Paris Descartes 

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Abstract:
A survey of diplomatic conferences and congresses convened worldwide from 1642 to 1919 with extensive references to their published documents. Includes additionally a synopsis of the resulting acts, agreements, conventions, declarations and other instruments adopted by the states participating in each conference or congress.
The meetings of the conferences and congresses are arranged thematically in 111 groups starting at Münster and Osnabrück to prepare the Peace of Westphalia. In total 280 conferences and congresses are recorded. Over one third of the conferences and congresses were held from 1827 to 1919 at London and Paris. Other leading cities in order of diminishing frequency were Brussels, Bern, The Hague, Berlin, Istanbul, Washington and Vienna. The compendium closes with the peace of Brest-Litovsk (1917) and the Inter-Allied Conference of the Powers held in Paris and environs from 1919 to 1920. The Latin American and Pan American congresses are well represented, for example at Buenos Aires, Guatemala, Lima, Managua, Mexico, Montevideo, Panama, Rio de Janeiro, San José, San Salvador, Santiago and Tegucigalpa. Annexes supply further information on the Versailles treaty with Germany and the Covenant of the League of Nations.On the authors:


Joachim Schwietzke Library Director emeritus at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany. Peter Macalister-Smith is known internationally as the assistant general editor of the consolidated library edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law (1992–2003) and as the principal editor at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, Heidelberg, Germany, of the Journal of the History of International Law (2004–2015). Peter is a member of the editorial board of JUS GENTIUM, Journal of International Legal History, Talbot Publishing, Lawbook Exchange, Clark NJ, United States of America.
Table of contents here.

More information with the publisher.

(source: Legal History Blog)

Religious Marriages in the Mediterranean
Venue and date: Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta, 20-21 March 2018 Within Mediterranean settings, religious marriage has functioned for centuries, together with conversion, as a means both of formal social incorporation and of exclusion of outsiders in relation to religiously-defined officially-recognised ethnic communities. Such an approach was an integral part of the Ottoman constitution; aspects of the millet system continue to have some posthumous existence in states like Lebanon and Cyprus. Over the last century or so, the development of secular or ‘quasi-secular’ nation-states throughout the region has generally meant the replacement of religious by civil marriage within state legal systems. Whether this has occurred via silent absorption or principled exclusion of religious unions, or even by the creation of dualist systems giving civil marriage pride of place, the juridical implications have been profound and range from the complete legal marginalisation of previously dominant religious traditions to the creation of ‘protected zones’ within secular jurisdictions within which religious law can operate. Everywhere religious courts have been
side-lined and have either been completely eliminated from the formal state’s radar, or compelled to accept a subordinate position within the state judicial hierarchy. At the same time, formally secular forms of marriage with religious conceptual roots have had to serve as important gate-keepers in granting or withholding access to citizenship and legal residence in states like Greece, Malta or Spain, which have been at the forefront of Mediterranean migrant flows.

More recently unregistered religious marriages have gone through a revival, proving also to be a useful vehicle for addressing mismatches between state legislation and the matrimonial strategies of couples. Thus the Mediterranean, a point of both intersection and mixing where ideas about the ‘West’ and its ‘other’, are re-produced and transformed, has witnessed how these transitions resulted in either a tense relationship between marriages regulated by formal, state laws and religious marriages celebrated according to informal, religious norms, or on the other end of the spectrum, civil marriages and (certain) religious marriages living harmoniously side-by-side and at times also being considered synonymous.

This multidisciplinary conference seeks to bring together researchers who have engaged in research on religious marriages in the Mediterranean. Papers may focus on, but are not limited to, one or more of the following themes:
1. Exploring the legal and social interaction between religious and civil marriages in the Mediterranean, whether contemporary or historical perspective (colonial and postcolonial).
2. Investigating the non-apparent connections between different religions within and without marriage legislation (Sunni, Shia, Catholic, Orthodox, Coptic, Jewish, Hindu…), including papers on mixed marriages.
3. How human/civil rights discourses blend and/or conflict with other forms of theological, moral and/or customary discourses on religious marriages.
4. Diverse ways of concluding and/or celebrating religious marriages in the Mediterranean.
5. Problematization and politicization of religious marriages in the Mediterranean.

Organizers:
Ibtisam Sadegh (University of Amsterdam)
David Zammit (University of Malta)
Susan Hirsch (George Mason University)

Papers (7,000-8,000 words), will be considered for publication in a special issue of the international, peer-reviewed Journal of Mediterranean Studies (ISSN: 1016-3476), published by the Mediterranean Institute, University of Malta and available electronically through Project Muse.

Upon request, limited travel and accommodation funds (two nights) may be available for short-listed candidates who cannot apply for funding from their own universities. Please submit your request for funding with your paper proposal.

Key note speaker:
Annelies Moors, Professor of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam

Deadline for abstract submission: 31 January 2018
Abstracts of 200-300 words are to be submitted via e-mail: i.sadegh@uva.nl with ‘abstract’
and your last name in the subject heading.

Timeline:
31 January 2018: Deadline for abstract submission
10 February 2018: Notification of acceptance
1 March 2018: Deadline for complete draft of paper between 5000 – 8000 words or a PowerPoint presentation.
20-21 March 2018: Conference hosted by the Mediterranean Institute
1 April 2018: Select participants will be invited to submit papers for consideration for publication in 2018 in the Journal of Mediterranean Studies

This two-day conference is organized by the University of Malta through the Department of Civil Law and the Mediterranean Institute research group on Belief, Identity and Exchange in conjunction with the ERC-funded research project on ‘Problematizing “Muslim Marriages”: Ambiguities and Contestations’ hosted by the University of Amsterdam.

See http://religionresearch.org/musmar2014/ 

(Source: Max Planck Institute for European Legal History)
The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History has just announced a new book on the Historische Rechtsschule (published by Klostermann).
CONTENT
Enough books have been written about the German Historical School to fill entire libraries. Nevertheless, it is still difficult to determine who should be counted as a member of this school and who should not. One reason is that the traditional historical method, which dominated German legal historiography in the 20th century for quite some time, left marks that are still visible today. Eras have been interpreted through leading figures that supposedly matched the respective zeitgeist. The German Historical School has been identified with Friedrich Carl v. Savigny ever since. As a result, the research was focused on Savigny almost to the complete exclusion of his pupils.As a group phenomenon, the German Historical School remains an amazing terra incognita to this day. This work attempts to reconstruct the German Historical School for the first time as an academic school and thereby as a context of communication for a great number of legal scholars. Three fields of legal activity within which the German Historical School presented itself as a unified whole will be examined: the jurist as a teacher, as a legal scholar and as a judge.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Vorwort | IXA Einleitung | 1
I. Gans’ Frage | 1
II. Ausgangsüberlegungen | 16
III. Sondierung des Feldes | 18
B Von den Römern lernen | 31 | 1
I. Hugos Reformmodell von 1789 | 31
II. Didaktische Aufbruchsstimmung 1790–1803: Hugo, Haubold, Savigny | 51
III. Das Civilistische Magazin als erster Sammlungsort | 60
IV. Warum tote Rechte lehren? Die Geltungskrise des Jahres 1806 | 62
V. Der Aufstieg der Pandektenvorlesung | 77
VI. Eckpunkte eines gemeinsamen Lehrkonzepts | 95
C Das Recht im Römischen Recht | 111
I. Wissenschaftliche Konturen der Schule bis in die 1820er Jahre | 112
II. Krisendebatten seit den 1820er Jahren | 139
III. Methodologische Selbstvergewisserungen seit den 1830er Jahren | 171
IV. Die »christlich-historische Schule« – Ergebnisse | 264
D Der Gelehrte auf dem Richterstuhl | 269
I. Justizkritik um 1800 | 269
II. Erziehungsfragen in preußischer Perspektive | 272
III. Anhänger der Historischen Rechtsschule als Richter | 280
IV. Verwissenschaftlichung des Gerichtsgebrauchs | 284
V. Der Richter im wissenschaftlichen Kommunikationsprozess | 299
VI. Rechtspolitische Grenzgänge: Die Justiz als Garant bürgerlicher Freiheit? | 305
VII. Ein gemeinsames Justizkonzept? – Ergebnisse | 310
E Wendepunkte | 313
I. Das Ende einer Ära | 313
II. Zusammenbruch der Leitsätze der Schule | 315
III. Das Ende des Ausbildungsideals | 322
F Die Historische Rechtsschule als Schule | 325
Abkürzungen | 331
Literatur | 335
Personenregister | 387
Abbildungsnachweise | 393

For more information, see the website of the publisher.

(Source: Legal History Blog)

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The path from the European law of nations to a universal system of international law has attracted wide scholarly attention in the past decade. A variety of approaches have challenged the narrative of a European system that simply expands and covers most of the planet in the late 19th century. For example, scholars identifying with the TWAIL movement (Third world approaches to international law) have criticized modern international law as a product of western imperialism and colonialism. Building from this critique, other scholars have begun to ask how non-European conceptions and influences shaped and re-formed the European law of nations on its path towards becoming a global system. How can we read non-European jurists, lawyers, state leaders and peoples as producers, not just consumers, of international law?
Politicians, lawyers and activists from non-European countries are now seen as more than mere vessels through which the tradition of the European law of nations was stamped into new contexts. Rather, scholars now explore the impact of local elites in shaping the way international law was received into their regions. But to what extent were they successful in shaping international law as a whole? We need a stronger analytical framework to explore the broader picture and a more precise understanding of how each region’s or nation’s encounter with international law shaped both their own experience and aspects of the international system. 
The Interest Group for the History of International Law wants to support this emerging interest in contrasting and comparing regional experiences and invites scholars at every stage of their career to share insights on any angle of these developments, without geographic or temporal limitation.
Possible questions include:

• What were the legacies of those regions and civilisations that had their own systems and traditions of law prior to the imperial encounter with Europe and its law of nations? Are there common patterns in how regional or imperial systems responded to their encounter with European international law, perhaps shaped by shared history, culture or religion, or was each experience specific and unique?
•  If elements of Roman law or the European feudal order are recognized as precursors to features of modern international law, should extra-European legal systems be looked at in a similar way?
• Can we detect a difference between international legal doctrine and state practice in analyzing these encounters?
• What were the roles of specific fields of law, be it the acquisition or transfer of territory, the settlement of international disputes, the norms and expectations regarding the conduct of war and the conclusion of peace agreements, the legal status and experiences of foreign merchants, officials or travelers or the process of entering the emerging universal system of public and secret diplomacy?

Abstracts must be submitted no later than 15 March 2018 to esilighil@gmail.com on behalf of the Steering Committee of the Interest Group, which shall collectively supervise the blind peer-review process of the abstracts. Applicants will be notified on the outcome of the selection process by 30 March 2018.

(Source: Palgrave Macmillan)
Palgrave Macmillan has recently published a book on the influence of Magna Charta on the legal history of New Zealand.
ABOUT THE BOOKThis volume is the first to explore the vibrant history of Magna Carta in Aotearoa New Zealand’s legal, political and popular culture. Readers will benefit from in-depth analyses of the Charter’s reception along with explorations of its roles in regard to larger constitutional themes. The common thread that binds the collection together is its exploration of what the adoption of a medieval charter as part of New Zealand’s constitutional arrangements has meant – and might mean – for a Pacific nation whose identity remains in flux. The contributions to this volume are grouped around three topics: remembrance and memorialization of Magna Carta; the reception of the Charter by both Māori and non-Māori between 1840 and 2015; and reflection on the roles that the Charter may yet play in future constitutional debate. This collection provides evidence of the enduring attraction of Magna Carta, and its importance as a platform of constitutional aspiration.TABLE OF CONTENTS
“… a Document of Our Times.” Magna Carta in Aotearoa New Zealand, Jones, Chris (et al.), 3-20Magna Carta and Memorialization: The Perils of Historical Anniversaries, Diggelmann, Lindsay, 23-44Myths and History: The Treaty of Waitangi as “The Magna Charta of New Zealand”, Williams, David V, 45-64Magna Carta and a Paradox of Authority, Sharp, Andrew, 67-88Symbol and Myth: Magna Carta in Legal and Public Discourse About Law and Rights in New Zealand, 1840−1940, Finn, Jeremy, 89-109The Politics of Magna Carta and the Ancient Constitution in New Zealand, 1642–c.1860, Kemp, Geoff, 111-131The Myth of the “Māori Magna Carta”, Tau, Te Maire (et al.), 133-152Mekana Tata: Magna Carta and the Political Thought of Aperahama Taonui, Kamau, Laura, 153-159The Utility of a Medieval Charter in New Zealand Litigation: The Case of the Magna Carta, Breach, Lindsay, 161-180Magna Carta and the Righteous Underdog in Modern Popular Culture, Milne-Tavendale, Anna, 181-203Magna Carta’s Promise: Strengthening the Declaration of Rights-Inconsistency, Winter, Stephen, 207-227Mana and Magna Carta: Locating New Legacies for a Medieval Charter in Post-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand Jones, Chris, 229-251Tear it up? Challenging the Charter, Winter, Stephen (et al.), 255-263
For more information, see the website of the publisher 

(Source: Portail universitaire du droit)

(Source: Cambridge University Press)
Cambridge University Press has recently published a book on the legal history of protection across empires
DESCRIPTION:
For five centuries protection has provided a basic currency for organising relations between polities. Protection underpinned sprawling tributary systems, permeated networks of long-distance trade, reinforced claims of royal authority in distant colonies and structured treaties. Empires made routine use of protection as they extended their influence, projecting authority over old and new subjects, forcing weaker parties to pay them for safe conduct and, sometimes, paying for it themselves. The result was a fluid politics that absorbed both the powerful and the weak while giving rise to institutions and jurisdictional arrangements with broad geographic scope and influence. This volume brings together leading scholars to trace the long history of protection across empires in Asia, Africa, Australasia, Europe and the Americas. Employing a global lens, it offers an innovative way of understanding the formation and growth of empires and uncovers new dimensions of the relation of empires to regional and global order.
ABOUT THE EDITORS:
Lauren Benton, Vanderbilt University, TennesseeLauren Benton is Nelson Tyrone Jr Professor of History and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. She is a comparative and world historian whose research focuses on law in European empires, the history of international law, and Atlantic world history.Adam Clulow, Monash University, VictoriaAdam Clulow is a Senior Lecturer at Monash University, Victoria. He is a global historian whose work focuses especially on European interaction with Tokugawa Japan and the maritime history of early modern Asia.Bain Attwood, Monash University, VictoriaBain Attwood is Professor of History at Monash University, Victoria. He has published extensively on the history of settler colonialism.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Introduction
Part I. Protecting Subjects, Projecting Power:1. Protection and the chanelling of movement on the margins of the Holy Roman Empire Luca Scholz2. Containing law within the walls: the protection of customary law in Santiago Del Cercado, Peru Karen B. Graubart
Part II. Conquest Reconsidered:3 Webs of protection and interpolity zones in the Early Modern World Lauren Benton and Adam Clulow4. Plunder and profit in the name of protection: royal Iberian armadas in the early Atlantic Gabriel De Avilez Rocha
Part III. Protection and Languages of Political Authority:5. Protection as a political concept in English political thought, 1603–1651 Annabel Brett6. Limited liabilities: the corporation and the political economy of protection in the British Empire Philip J. Stern7. From nurturing to protection in nineteenth-century Japan David L. HowellPart IV. Protection and Colonial Governance:8. Protection claims: the British, Maori and the islands of New Zealand, 1800–1840 Bain Attwood9. Protecting the peace on the edges of empire: commissioners of crown lands in New South Wales Lisa Ford10. British protection, extraterritoriality and protectorates in West Africa, 1807–1880 Inge Van HullePart V. Protection in an Inter-Imperial World:11. Between imperial subjects and political partners: Bedouin borders and protection in Ottoman Palestine, 1900–1917 Ahmad Amara12. Protection by proxy: the Hausa-Fulani as agents of British Colonial rule in Northern Nigeria Moses E. Ochono13. The problem of protectorates in an age of decolonisation: Britain and West Africa, 1955–60 Barnaby Crowcroft.

For more information, see the website of Cambridge University Press. 
(Source: International Law Reporter)

(Source: University of Vienna)
The Legal History Blog has reported the following job opening
University Assistant (prae doc) at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History (Closing on January 23)
The University of Vienna (15 faculties, 4 centres, about 174 fields of study, approx. 9.500 members of staff, more than 94.000 students) seeks to fill the position as soon as possible of aUniversity Assistant (prae doc) at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History.
The department is part of the Vienna Law School. The function of the department is research and academic teaching in the scope of Legal- and Constitutional history (focusing on history of private and constitutional law.). The department services about 1.500 students each year.

More information can be found at the websiteof the University. 

(Source: Classiques Garnier)
Classiques Garnier has published a book on the juridical conception of facts by Pierre Thévenin
SUMMARY:
En étudiant la conception juridique des faits au prisme des interprétations scolastiques puis romantiques du droit romain de la possession, cette étude croise l’histoire du droit savant et la philosophie contemporaine, au gré d’une critique de l’idéalisme allemand.-With a focus on the Romantic and scholastic interpretations of the Roman law of possession, this study inquires into the juridical conception of facts. Offering a critique of German idealism, it explores the history of legal thought as a resource for contemporary philosophy.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Liste des abréviations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .    9Introduction. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   11
ACCOSTER LA JURISPRUDENCEPenser par lots. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   39La règle et l’idée. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   65Toucher l’histoire. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .   99Deux Royaumes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  127Dépaysements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  159
HABILLER LES FAITSLa possession. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  173La baignade au même fleuve. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  201Emprises. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  223Fictum Factum. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  247Attester la puissance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  269
Conclusion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  315Principaux juristes médiévaux cités. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  321Bibliographie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  323Index des notions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  349Index des noms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  351

For more information, see the websiteof the publisher 

(Source: Harvard University Press)
Harvard University Press has published a new book on the general history of European legal systems.
Summary:
To many observers, European law seems like the endpoint of a mostly random walk through history. Certainly the trajectory of legal systems in the West over the past 2,500 years is far from self-evident. In A Short History of European Law, Tamar Herzog offers a new road map that reveals underlying patterns and unexpected connections. By identifying what European law was, where its iterations could be found, who was allowed to make and implement it, and what the results were, she ties legal norms to their historical circumstances, and allows readers to grasp their malleability and fragility.Herzog describes how successive European legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the establishment and growth of the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was understood, used, and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and place to the next. Only by considering Continental civil law and English common law together do we see how they drew from and enriched this shared tradition.
Expanding the definition of Europe to include its colonial domains, Herzog explains that British and Spanish empires in the New World were not only recipients of European legal traditions but also incubators of new ideas. Their experiences, as well as the constant tension between overreaching ideas and naive localism, explain how European law refashioned itself as the epitome of reason and as a system with potentially global applications.
About the author:
Tamar Herzog is Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and Radcliffe Alumnae Professor in the History Department at Harvard University, and Affiliated Faculty Member at Harvard Law School.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: The Making of Law in Europe
Part One: Ancient Times
1. Roman Law: Now You See It, Now You Don’t2. The Creation of Latin ChristendomPart Two: The Early Middle Ages3. An Age with No Jurists?4. Lords, Emperors, and Popes around the Year 1000
Part Three: The Later Middle Ages
5. The Birth of a European Ius Commune6. The Birth of an English Common Law
Part Four: The Early Modern Period
7. Crisis and Reaffirmation of Ius Commune8. Crisis and Reinvention of Common Law9. From Ius Gentium to Natural Law: Making European Law Universal I
Part Five: Modernity
10. North American Developments11. The French Revolution
Part Six: The Nineteenth Century
12. Codifying the Laws of Europe: Making European Law Universal II13. Codifying Common Law
Epilogue: A Market, a Community, and a Union
NotesFurther ReadingAcknowledgmentsIndex

More information to be found on the siteof the publisher 

(Source: Oxford University Press)
Oxford University Press is publishing a book dealing i.a. with the legal history of maritime blockade this month.
Description:
Although appearing to be a relatively benign method of warfare when viewed from a distance, a close examination of maritime blockade unveils a sinister character that can, in cases where countries are highly reliant on imports of foodstuffs to feed their populations, prove incredibly deadly, particularly for the young and elderly. This book is unique in that it is the only contemporary book that is dedicated to the study of the law of maritime blockade in the context of modern humanitarian law.
Reviewing the development of blockade law over the past four centuries, The Law of Maritime Blockade provides a historical analysis of the law as it emerged, tracing its evolution through armed conflicts between 1684 and the present. Referring to the starvation caused by the blockade of Germany during World War I and the humanitarian crisis caused by the sanctions regime against Iraq (1991-2003), this book demonstrates that blockade can have extremely deleterious effects for vulnerable civilian populations. In this context the current law of blockade is examined, and found to be deficient in terms of its protection for civilians. Recognizing and advocating that blockade should remain as a valid and effective method of warfare, the book offers a template for a modern law of blockade maritime blockade that incorporates many of the traditional aspects of the law, while reducing the possibilities that blockades can cause or exacerbate humanitarian disasters.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction2. Maritime Neutrality Law3. The Law of Contraband4. The Historical Practice of Blockade5. Blockade Law6. Blockade and the Civilian Population7. International Humanitarian Law and Blockade8. Blockade in Non-International Armed Conflict9. International Human Rights Law and Blockade10. Conclusions and RecommendationsAppendix: Model Law of Blockade
For more information, please visit the siteof the publisher. 

(Source: University of Chicago Press)
The University of Chicago Press has published a new book on the history of the United States’ trade policy
Content:
Should the United States be open to commerce with other countries, or should it protect domestic industries from foreign competition? This question has been the source of bitter political conflict throughout American history. Such conflict was inevitable, James Madison argued in The Federalist Papers, because trade policy involves clashing economic interests. The struggle between the winners and losers from trade has always been fierce because dollars and jobs are at stake: depending on what policy is chosen, some industries, farmers, and workers will prosper, while others will suffer.
          
Douglas A. Irwin’s Clashing over Commerce is the most authoritative and comprehensive history of US trade policy to date, offering a clear picture of the various economic and political forces that have shaped it. From the start, trade policy divided the nation—first when Thomas Jefferson declared an embargo on all foreign trade and then when South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union over excessive taxes on imports. The Civil War saw a shift toward protectionism, which then came under constant political attack. Then, controversy over the Smoot-Hawley tariff during the Great Depression led to a policy shift toward freer trade, involving trade agreements that eventually produced the World Trade Organization. Irwin makes sense of this turbulent history by showing how different economic interests tend to be grouped geographically, meaning that every proposed policy change found ready champions and opponents in Congress.

As the Trump administration considers making major changes to US trade policy, Irwin’s sweeping historical perspective helps illuminate the current debate. Deeply researched and rich with insight and detail, Clashing over Commerce provides valuable and enduring insights into US trade policy past and present.
Table of Contents:
-        Revenue. The struggle for Independence, 1763-1789 ; -        Trade policy for the new nation, 1789-1816 ; -        Sectional conflict and crisis, 1816-1833 ; -        Tariff peace and Civil War, 1833-1865;-        Restriction. The failure of tariff reform, 1865-1890 ;-        Protectionism entrenched, 1890-1912 ; -        Policy reversals and drift, 1912-1928 ;-        The Hawley-Smoot tariff and the Great Depression, 1928-1932;-        Reciprocity. The New Deal and reciprocal trade agreements, 1932-1943 ; -        Creating a multilateral trading system, 1943-1950 ; -        New Order and new stresses, 1950-1979 ; -        Trade shocks and response, 1979-1992 ; -        From globalization to polarization, 1992-2017-        Conclusion.
 
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Grotiana (Brill) published the first issue of its 38th volume.
Table of contents:
Acceptilatio. Hugo Grotius on SatisfactionJohannes Magliano-Tromp      Having Made Peace through the Blood of the CrossEltjo Schrage      Too Subtle to Satisfy Many: Was Grotius’s Teleology of Punishment Predestined to Fail?Jeremy Seth Geddert      Punishment and Sovereignty in De Indis and De iure belli ac pacisBrad Hinshelwood      Grotius and Kant on Original Community of Goods and PropertySylvie Loriaux      Grotius, Necessity and the Sixteenth-Century Scholastic TraditionBart Wauters      Hugo Grotius in Dialogue with His ColleaguesLydia Janssen      Pirating Mare liberum (1609)Mark Somos and Dániel Margócsy       Adam Smith’s Unfinished Grotius Business, Grotius’s Novel Turn to Ancient Law, and the Genealogical Fallacy Benjamin Straumann      Christian Wolff’s Lectures on Grotius’s De Iure Belli ac Pacis from 1739–1740 Frank Grunert and Béla Kapossy

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