Today marks the publication of the eagerly awaited new translation into English of the Codex of Justinian by Bruce Frier et al. This new edition, the first since the rather flawed translation into English by Scott, consists of the Latin and Greek texts with the English facing. It is loosely based on the translation by Fred Blume. Although the price is horrific, it will no doubt be a welcome addition to many libraries:
This blogger is delighted to share the following two calls for application:
EARLY MODERN ENGLISH LEGAL HISTORY
Applications are invited for a scholarship leading to the degree of PhD in the School of Law, University of Adelaide
The scholarship is supported by the Australian Research Council under Discovery Project DP160100265: ‘A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689 – 1760’ (Chief Investigators: Em. Prof Wilfrid Prest and Prof David Lemmings, University of Adelaide, and Dr Mike Macnair, University of Oxford).
The successful candidate will pursue research leading to a PhD on some aspect of the English legal order, c.1689-1760. Prof. Prest is particularly interested in supervising research on case notes and law reporting or another aspect of legal literature during the later seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However candidates are encouraged to outline (in no more than 250 words) any proposal they may have for a thesis topic related to the overall field of study.
Applicants must be acceptable as candidates for a PhD degree at the University of Adelaide. International candidates are welcome, as are Australian citizens and permanent residents.
The scholarship will be for three years full-time study, with a stipend of $31,288 per annum. It is likely to be tax exempt, subject to Taxation Office approval. Applications close on 31 October 2016.
Enquiries: Prof. Em. Wilfrid Prest, Adelaide Law School Tel +61 (08) 8313 5883
Fax +61(08) 8313 4344
Email: wilfrid.prest@adelaide.edu.au
Application for Admission by domestic students must be submitted using the Online Application Form available at: https://hdrapp.adelaide.edu.au/auth/login
International students should use the Online Application Form available at: https://international-hdr.adelaide.edu.au/login
Please email a summary of your application for admission to Dr. Helen Payne with “Application for Legal History PhD Scholarship” in the subject heading.
You can request a copy of your application summary by emailing scholarships@adelaide.edu.au with the subject heading ‘Request for application summary’.
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Judges and English Law Scholarship
Applications are invited for the following scholarship leading to the degree of PhD in the School of Humanities (History)
The scholarship is supported by the Faculty of Arts (Divisional Scholarship), and is part of an Australian Research Council Discovery Project, DP160100265: ‘A New History of Law in Post-Revolutionary England, 1689 1760’ (Chief Investigators: Em. Prof Wilfrid Prest and Prof. David Lemmings, University of Adelaide, and Dr Mike Macnair, University of Oxford). The appointee will also be affiliated with the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions.
Field of Study: Prof. David Lemmings, who will supervise the successful candidate’s research, is interested in the social and cultural history of law and lawyers, 1690-1780, with a special emphasis on the history of emotions. The student may wish to undertake a comparative study of a group of judges from the period, with the aim of testing, further refining and extending both some of the generalizations advanced in previous research on the early Hanoverian judiciary, and of considering the representation of judges in the emerging print media. Candidates are encouraged to outline (in no more than 250 words) any proposal they may have for a specific thesis topic related to the overall field of study. Stipend: The scholarship will be for three years’ full-time study, with a stipend of $26,288 per annum (2016 rate) tax free for up to three years (indexed annually). It is likely to be tax exempt, subject to Taxation Office approval. The successful candidate will be eligible to apply for a top-up scholarship from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions to the value of $5,000 p.a. stipend and $4,500 p.a. to assist with travel and research expenses. Fax (08) 8313 3443 or Email david.lemmings@adelaide.edu.au
Please email a summary of your application for admission to Dr. Helen Payne (helen.payne@adelaide.edu.au) with ‘Application for Judges and English Law. PhD Scholarship’ in the subject heading. You can request a copy of your application summary by emailing scholarships@adelaide.edu.au with the subject heading ‘Request for application summary’. |
The call for papers for the Edinburgh Postgraduate Law Conference 2017, is now open. To be eligible for consideration, abstracts must be submitted by 14 October 2016. The conference will be held at the University of Edinburgh, in January 2017.
The conference is open to both postgraduate students and early career researchers. This year, with the support of the University of Edinburgh’s Centre for Legal History, we are particularly seeking contributions that relate to the field of Legal History.
The call for papers can be found here: http://eplc.org.uk/call-for-abstracts/
General information about the conference can be found here: http://eplc.org.uk/
Many of us in the legal history field will by now have heard the sad news of the passing of Peter Stein this past week.
The Squire Law Library at Cambridge recorded a number of conversations with him about his life and career in the context of their Eminent Scholars Archive.
These may be accessed here:
http://www.squire.law.cam.ac.uk/eminent-scholars-archive/professor-peter-stein
An entry by our guest blogger, Peter Candy.
This year’s summer academy at the Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte in Frankfurt was held on the special theme of ‘multinormativity’. The central idea underpinning this concept is that legal historians should be sensitive to other normative orders besides that of the state when investigating the operation of past legal systems. Multinormativity forms part of the wider methodological framework of ‘global legal history’, which advocates an appreciation of ‘legal spaces’, the different ways of resolving conflict, and processes of ‘translation’ between legal cultures.
The academy was attended by students of a range of disciplines with representatives from Asia, the Americas, and Europe. The teaching consisted of lectures from leading legal historians: among them, Thomas Duve (University of Frankfurt and MPI Director), Wim Decock (KU Leuven), and Michael Stolleis (University of Frankfurt and former MPI Director). Talks on European Union law were also given by two former Jurisconsults of the European Parliament: Gregorio Garzón Clariana and Christian Pennera. Between lectures the students of the academy were invited to present the progress of their own research, with time left each afternoon to access the institute’s library.
Aside from teaching the institute organised excursions, such as a tour of the Campus Westend (now the site of Goethe-Universität). The Campus, which avoided destruction during WWII, was formerly the headquarters of IG Farben – once the fourth largest company in the world and long-time sponsor of the Nazi Party. After the war the buildings were used as a military and administrative base by General Eisenhower and the American armed forces. Students were free to travel at the weekend: Mainz provided a main attraction, including visits to St. Martinus-Dom, the Gutenberg Museum, and the Museum of Ancient Seafaring. In Frankfurt itself there were opportunities to visit the house of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, as well as the castle at Höchst and the many museums in the city.
Special thanks are to be extended to Dr. Stefanie Rüther and Nicole Pasakarnis for their organisation of the academy, as well as to the Max Planck Institute for its generosity in funding. Students contemplating applications in the future should be encouraged by the opportunity to learn at the leading research institute dedicated to European – and indeed global – legal history.
Interpretatio Prudentium is a biannual scientific journal with double-blind peer review published by Legal Theory and History – Research Center of the University of Lisbon (THD-ULisboa) promoting scholarly excellence research and a profound knowledge of Roman Jurisprudence and the Roman Legal Tradition while aiming at a critical understanding of contemporary legal phenomena..
The Executive Committee of Interpretatio Prudentium invites the academic community to submit papers (monographs or reviews of recent publications) to be included in its next issue, to be released in December 2016.
The Journal publishes in any neolatine language, english or german. Articles, under 70.000 characters (spaces included), should be submitted for publication along with a summary (c.550 characters) and keywords (3-5), written in the original language of the article and in an additional language. Reviews should be up to 15.000 characters.
Articles should be submitted in Word format to the e-mail interpretatio@fd.ulisboa.pt with carbon copy to the editorial secretary (claudiaeliasduarte@fd.ulisboa.pt). The deadline for the submission of papers is October 7, 2016.
The submitted articles should be sent in Word format to the e-mail interpretatio@fd.ulisboa.pt with carbon copy to the editorial secretary (claudiaeliasduarte@fd.ulisboa.pt). The deadline for the submission of papers is October 7, 2016.
The submitted articles are reviewed by members of the Scientific Committee of Interpretatio Prudentium, the identities of both reviewer and author remaining anonymous throughout the review process.
For those of us interested in the provincial application of Roman law, the discovery and recent publication of the Bloomberg tablets from Roman London provide a veritable treasure trove of new information (Roger Tomlin, Roman London’s First Voices. (MOLA 2016)). Since examples of legal practice are complex and should be weighed against existing doctrinal information, the following is but a brief survey of texts from this collection that, in my view, have implications for our understanding of the provincial application of Roman law. The texts in question are:
• WT 27: a chirograph received by a freedman from a slave;
• WT 29: a letter from a slave to a master about cattle as investment;
• WT 30: a letter about a loan that has seemingly affected someone’s financial reputation;
• WT 35: a note of a deposit (!) using the term arra of 200 denarii.
• WT 44: a written acknowledgement of a debt incurred as a consequence of a sale of goods;
• WT 45: a lex locationis for the transport of goods from St. Albans to London;
• WT 50: a receipt for rent collected by a slave in relation to two farms;
• WT 51: a praeiudicium together with the source of the jurisdictional competence (the Emperor)
• WT 55: some sort of promise (maybe a stipulation?)
• WT 57: a procuratio (with some aspects of legal representation?)
• WT 62: some sort of act that required seven witnesses (maybe a mancipatio?)
• WT 70: an account listing amounts of money lent to slaves.
Exciting work remains to be done on these tablets, most of which are only fragmentary, since they will reveal much more about the provincial application of Roman law prior to 212 AD. I hope that scholars will take up the call to look at these tablets with great care.
Our colleagues in Vienna have just released details of this very interesting workshop.
PROGRAM
Thursday, July 14, 2016
9:00
Bernhard Palme (Universität Wien, Wiener Papyrussammlung)
Welcome and Introduction: FWF Project on Roman Court Proceedings in Papyri
9:15-10:00
Anna Dolganov (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften)
Court Proceedings in Papyri: an Overview of the Roman-Period Material
10:00-10:45
Dennis Kehoe (Tulane University)
Access to Legal Institutions and the Rule of Law in the Roman Empire
10:45-11:15
coffee
11:15-12:00
Claudia Kreuzsaler (Österreichische Nationalbibliothek)
Ad fontes! Textkritisches zum Rechtsstreit des Satabus vs. Nestnephis
12:00-12:45
Project Presentation 1 (Anna Dolganov, ÖAW)
Acta and Archives: the Making, Storage and Retrieval of Records
12:45-14:30
lunch
14:30-15:15
Project Presentation 2 (Anna Dolganov, ÖAW)
Acta and the Legal Profession: Different Types of “Lawyers” and their Activity
15:15-16:00
Dario Mantovani (Università di Pavia, ERC Project: REDHIS)
Il Progetto REDHIS e un Testimone Inedito dei Manualia di Paolo (P. Vindob. 124)
16:00-16:30
coffee
16:30-17:15
Marco Fressura (Università di Pavia, REDHIS)
Per una Tipologia dei Marginalia nei Papiri Giurisprudenziali
17:15-18:00
Clifford Ando (University of Chicago)
Proceedings in Church Councils
18:00
Concluding Discussion
Friday, July 15, 2016
9:00-9:45
Éva Jakab (Szeged University)
Ius proprium: the Choice of Law in Roman Egypt
9:45-10:30
Project Presentation 3 (Anna Dolganov, ÖAW)
Acta and the Development of the Law: Judicial Precedents
10:30-11:00
coffee
11:00-11:45
Georgy Kantor (Oxford University)
Acta of Polycarp and Pionios
11:45-12:30
Ari Bryen (Vanderbilt University)
Monologues and Dialogues: Some Considerations on “Reading” Criminal Trials
12:30-13:00
Source Discussion:
Court Proceedings as a Literary Genre: Acta Martyrum, Acta Alexandrinorum and other Paraliterary Texts
13:00-14:30
lunch
14:30-15:15
Project Presentation 4 (Anna Dolganov, ÖAW)
Imperial Pronouncements and Proceedings Before the Emperor
15:15-16:00
Serena Ammirati (Università di Pavia, REDHIS)
Un Frammento Inedito di Costituzioni Imperiali da Vienna (P. Vindob. L 128)
16:00-16:30
coffee
16:30-17:15
Bernhard Palme (Universität Wien, Wiener Papyrussammlung)
Bilingual Court Proceedings in Papyri: an Overview of the Late-Roman Material
17:15-18:00
Wolfgang Kaiser (Universität Freiburg am Breisgau)
Zur Intitulatio und Invocatio in der Spätantike
18:00-18:30
Project Presentation 5 (Bernhard Palme)
The Courts are No More? The Disappearance of Proceedings from the Papyrological Record
18:30
Concluding Discussion
Saturday, July 16, 2016
9:30-10:30
Plenary Discussion:
The Development of a Network for the Study of Law and Legal Culture in the Roman Empire
10:30-11:00
coffee
11:00-12:30
Anna Dolganov (ÖAW), Bernhard Palme (Universität Wien, Wiener Papyrussammlung)
Presentation of Unpublished Material
Conclusion
This just in from our Canadian colleagues. Notice that the work can be done REMOTELY…
Research Assistant sought for approximately 120-150 hours of remote work on Roman Legal thought. Some familiarity with Roman law, particularly in the Eastern provinces, is desirable. Compensation is $21.33-$26.67 CAD depending on highest degree achieved.
Research is for a project that engages ancient Jewish legal thought in its Roman context from a Law & Humanities perspective.
Work can be done from anywhere in the world as long as the researcher has access to library materials. Work must be completed before April 30, 2017. If the hours are completed before October 1, 2016, there is the possibility of applying for a top-up grant for an extra 50 or so hours. Checks can be issued in Canadian or US dollars.
Please contact me at chaya.halberstam@uwo.ca if you are interested!
This just in from our colleagues in Maastricht:
Ius Commune in the Making: The Place of Legal Sources in the History of Private Law
Dear Colleagues,
The 21st Ius Commune Conference will take place in Maastricht (November 24-25, 2016), and a panel will be devoted to the role of legal sources in the history of Private Law.
Legal changes can be often explained by attending the interaction of legal actors, legal sources, and legal institutions. Legal sources indeed play an important role and occupy a paramount place in the shaping of private law. They offer the necessary building blocks for private law, together with a playfield for legal actors and legal institutions. The current Workshop builds on a previous Workshop on Comparative Legal History held during the 19th Ius Commune Conference and that explored the role of legal actors.
The current Workshop aims now to explore the place of legal sources promoting or hindering changes in private law. Perspectives will be extracted from different time periods, including Roman law, Ius commune, nineteenth-century codification, and the more recent efforts towards an European private law harmonization. The praetorian Edict, medieval glosses and commentaries, early modern handbooks on natural or customary law, collections of judicial decisions since the end of the early modern period, the modern codifications all related differently to legal and societal changes. The question is whether these sources promoted private law to be in harmony (Einklang) with society and societal changes.
Senior researchers and PhD candidates are invited to submit an abstract of a paper related to the above mentioned theme. Abstracts (aprox. 400 words) should be sent to Agustin Parise (agustin.parise@maastrichtuniversity.nl) no later than July 20, 2016. Shortly after that, the authors will be informed whether their papers are selected for a presentation during the Workshop. All contributions should be in English. Co-authored papers will be also considered.
Researchers from within and outside the Ius Commune Research School will be eligible to present abstracts.
Please also forward this call to colleagues who might be interested.
Should you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact a member of the organizing committee,
Harry Dondorp (j.h.dondorp@vu.nl)
Michael Milo (j.m.milo@uu.nl)
Pim Oosterhuis (janwillem.oosterhuis@maastrichtuniversity.nl)
Agustin Parise (agustin.parise@maastrichtuniversity.nl)
