Deutsches Historisches Institut Paris
Institut historique allemand, 8 rue du Parc-Royal, 75003 Paris, www.dhi-paris.fr
NEW APPROCHES TO THE HISTORY OF COMMERCIAL JUSTICE
LITIGES COMMERCIAUX DANS
L’HISTOIRE : NOUVELLES APPROCHES
WORKSHOP
21 st -22 nd FEBRUARY 2013
Organisation
Hanna Sonkajärvi (IHA)
Programme: New Approaches to the History of Commercial Justice
Thursday 21
stFebruary 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 22
ndFebruary 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 Ana Belem Fernández Castro (European University Institute, Florence), The Jurisdiction of the Sevilian Commercial Courts by the End of the Sixteenth Century
10.00-10.40 Discussion 10.40-11.00 Coffee break
Section 4 : Comparative Approaches/Approches comparatives Chair : Zacarias Moutoukias (université Paris 7)
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)
Programme: New Approaches to the History of Commercial Justice
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
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