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University of Helsinki - Faculty of LawProject
The making of commercial law:
common practices and national legal rules
from the early modern period to the modern period
1st Conference of commercial law
Historiography and sources of commercial law
Helsinki
1-3 septembre 2014
(màj 14, juil. 2014)
(màj 14, juil. 2014)
Organisation committee:
- Helkki Pihlajamäki
- Albrecht Cordes
- Serge Dauchy
- Dave de Ruysscher
The conference will be the first in the serie of five conference on history of commercial law, organized during the 2014-2017 period in Helsinki, Brussels, Frankfurt. The conferences will be organized in the framework of the project “The making of commercial law: common practices and national legal rules from the early modern period tu the modern period”.
Preliminary Programme
(subject to changes)
Sunday, 31 August 2014
19.30 Meeting at hotel lobby: City walking tour and welcome drink
Monday, 1 September 2014
Session 1: Sources and Commercial Law
9.30-12.00, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3
- Eberhard Isenmann: Legal, moral-theological and genuinely economic opinions on questions of trade and economy in 15th and early 16th century Germany.
- Dave De Ruysscher: Merchant manuals as sources.
- Heikki Pihlajamäki: Constructing a field of law: sources of commercial law in Scandinavia.
Lunch, 12.00-13.30, venue TBA
Session 2: Commercial Legal Conflict Resolution in the Baltic Sea Region
13.30-15.00, venue: Lecture room P545 (Faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3
- Justina Wubs-Mrozewicz: Mercantile conflict resolution in practice: connecting diplomatic and legal sources from Danzig c. 1460-1580.
- Marko Lamberg: Commercial law according to the protocols from the Stockholm Town Court, c. 1475-1650: preliminary reflections.
Coffee Break, 15.00-15.30
Session 3: Superior Courts as Fora for Commercial Legal Conflicts 1
15.30-17.45, venue: Lecture room P545 (Faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3
- Alain Wijffels: Records and sources of commercial litigation before the Great Council of Mechelen (15th-16th centuries).
- Peter Oestmann: Court records as sources for the history of commercial law: The Oberappellationsgericht Lübeck as commercial court.
- Mia Korpiola: Svea Court of Appeal records as a source of commercial law.
Dinner, 19.00, venue TBA
Tuesday, 2 September 2014
Session 4: Superior Courts as Fora for Commercial Legal Conflicts 2
9.00-10.30, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3
- Anja Amend-Traut: The high imperial courts (the Aulic Council and the Imperial Chamber Court) and commerce.
- Boudewijn Sirks: The High Council of Holland and Zealand (to be confirmed).
Coffee Break, 10.30-11.00
Session 5: Comparing English and Continental Commercial Law
11.00-12.30, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3
- Guido Rossi: Comparing the sources of English and continental commercial law - with the example of maritime insurance law.
- Margrit Schulte Beerbühl: Bankruptcies, speculation bubbles and the law: bankruptcy law vs. bankruptcy management in late eighteenth-century Hamburg and London.
Lunch, 12.30-14.00, venue TBA
Session 6: Custom and Codification in French and Italian Commercial Law
14.00-16.15, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3
- Richard Court: Genoese merchants and the consuetudine
- Edouard Richard: Rise of usages in French commercial law and jurisprudence (17th-19th centuries)
- Olivier Descamps: On origins of the French Commercial Code: vicissitudes of the Gorneau Draft.
Session 7: Expanding Horizons: Universal and Non-European Commercial Law
16.30-17.15, venue: Lecture room P545 (faculty meeting room), Faculty of Law, Porthania, Yliopistonkatu 3
- Albrecht Cordes: Levin Goldschmidt and the concept of universal commercial law.
Wednesday, 3 September 2014
Steering group meeting
Contact:
- Jussi Sallila, Faculty of Law, Legal History, P.O. Box 4, FI-00014 University of Helsinki, Finland - jussi.sallila@helsinki.fi
Site Internet de la Faculty of Law, University of Helsinki: http://www.helsinki.fi/law/