NEW APPROCHES TO THE HISTORY  OF COMMERCIAL JUSTICE

WORKSHOP
21st – 22nd FEBRUARY 2013

Organisation
Hanna Sonkajärvi (IHA)

Program:

Thursday 21st February 2013

13.00  Participants Arrival – Lunch

Section 1 : Problems and Perspectives/Enjeux et perspectives

Chair : Laurence Fontaine (CNRS-CRH)
14.15  Hanna Sonkajärvi (IHA/Universität Duisburg-Essen), Introduction
14.45  Albrecht Cordes (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt), Countries, Problems, Sources: the Landscape of Pre-Modern Commercial Law
15.15-15.45  Discussion 15.45-16.00  Coffee break

Section 2 : Specialized Merchant Courts in France/Tribunaux commerciaux spécialisés en France
Chair : Jochen Hoock (université Paris 7)

16.00   Julie Hardwick (University of Texas, Austin), Law and Commerce in the Lyon « Merchants Court » in the Seventeenth Century
16.30  Claire Lemercier (CNRS), Were Commercial Courts Tools of  « Self-Regulation » for the Merchants? The Case of Nineteenth Century Paris

17.00-17.40  Discussion
17.40-18.00  Coffee break

Key Note Lecture/Conférence du soir

Comment/Commentaire : Laurence Fontaine (CNRS-CRH)
18.00  Mark Häberlein (Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg), South German Merchants and the Law Courts, 1500-1620

Friday 22nd February 2013

Section 3 : The Spanish Consulados/Les Consulados espagnols

Chair : Simona Cerutti (EHESS-CRH)
09.00  Tamar Herzog (Stanford University), Commercial Litigation on  Non-Mercantile Issues: the Consulados and Citizenship (Early Modern Spain and Spanish America)
09.30  Carlos Petit Calvo (Universidad de Huelva), Le tribunal de commerce de Séville (1830-1868)
10.00-10.40  Discussion
10.40-11.00  Coffee break

Section 4 : Comparative Approaches/Approches comparatives

Chair : Zacarias Moutoukias (université Paris7)
11.00  Hanna Sonkajärvi (IHA/Universität Duisburg-Essen), Conceptualizing Commercial Litigations in Bilbao and Rio de Janeiro (1750-1850)
11.30  Guillaume Calafat (Université Paris 1/ École française de Rome), Juridictions et étapes du contentieux marchand (Livourne, Pise et Florence, XVIIe-XVIIIe siècle)
12.00-12.40   Discussion

12.40-13.40  Lunch

Section 5 : Commercial Litigations before Non-Specialised Courts/ Arbitrages commerciaux devant des cours non spécialisées

Chair : Wolfgang Kaiser (université Paris 1)
13.40  James Masschaele (Rutgers University, New Jersey), Merchants and Commercial Law in the Late Medieval England
14.10  Dave De ruysscher (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), Merchants before the Antwerp City Court (1490-1550)
14.40-15.20  Discussion
15.20-15.35  Coffee break

15.35  Final discussion/Discussion finale

Entrée libre sur inscription préalable : event@dhi-paris.fr

Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
Institut historique allemand
Hôtel Duret-de-Chevry    Tel  +33 (0)1 44 54 23 80
8 rue du Parc-Royal    Fax  +33 (0)1 42 71 56 43
75003 Paris    www.dhi-paris.fr

 

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