0 NOTICE: Australasian Colonial Legal History Library

The Australasian Colonial Legal History Library is now online! For more information read the article "Digitising and Searching Australasian Colonial Legal History" by G. Greenleaf, P. Chung, A. Mowbray and B. Salter.



Abstract:



Australasia has
a rich and complex legal history since the first European settlement, and our
knowledge of legal practice and precedent in the colonies of Australasia is
still developing. The Australasian Colonial Legal History Library project is an
ARC-funded project being carried out by the Australasian Legal Information
Institute (AustLII) since January 2012 with input from 18 legal historians from
Universities across Australia. Cooperation with other parties who have already
built invaluable and pioneering online resources for Australasian colonial law
is an essential part of the project.

AustLII is a free access online
service which has operated since 1995 as a joint facility provided by UNSW and
UTS Law Faculties , and now provides over 500 databases, with usage of over
700,000 page accesses per day. The Colonial Legal History Library project is
therefore being built within a large and mature research infrastructure, and
this presents challenges as well as advantages. In particular, many of the
AustLII databases cover the whole period from the formation of a colony to the
present, so the databases for this Library have to be ‘virtual’ databases
extracted from this larger corpus.

The paper explains the construction,
content and features of the first version of the Library, which as of July 2012
contains 12 databases including one case law database from each of the seven
colonies (including New Zealand), some of which are ‘recovered’ cases from
newspaper reports, the complete annual legislation to 1900 from three of the
colonies, plus legal scholarship concerning the colonial era. These databases
provide over 20,000 documents so far, and the Victorian Government Gazette
1851-1900 another 200,000. The Library also includes the LawCite citator, which
allows the subsequent citation history of any colonial case to be tracked,
including if cited by courts outside Australasia.

The medium term aim of
this part of the ARC project (which extends to 1950 in its full scope) is to
include all legislation, reported cases, and cases which can be ‘recovered’,
from the inception of each colony to 1900. Scholarship (old and new) and key
source materials are also being added, as budgets permit. We hope that the
Library will be a leader in the creation of legal history resources from the
colonial era.

0 CALL FOR PAPERS: Journal of History and Cultures

The Journal of History and Cultures (JHAC) is issuing a Call for Papers for the next issue and welcomes articles on subjects in the fields of history and cultures within a broad geographic and chronological range. We are also accepting book reviews.

JHAC is a peer-reviewed journal and an excellent new publishing opportunity both for postgraduates and established academics. Articles should be 5,000-7,000 words in length. We encourage articles that consider and engage with historical, cultural, political, social, and theoretical research in new and original ways. Reviews should be 750-1,000 words in length. Review essays should be in-depth engagements with recent books which develop an argument to complement the reading of the text. A list of books available for review will be appearing on our website; alternatively, you can contact our reviews editor directly to request a specific book to review at jhac@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

The deadline for submissions is 1st October 2012.

Full submission and formatting guidelines can be found at: http://historyandcultures.com/submissions/

Finally, we invite you to join the JHAC community on both Facebook and Twitter @UOBJHAC for regular updates.

We are offering a £50 prize for the best article.

Please email all submissions and address any enquiries to jhac@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

0 NOTICE: 39. Deutscher Rechtshistorikertag (Lucerne, 2-6 September 2012)

The Institute Lucernarius of the University of Lucerne (Switzerland) organizes the 39th Day of Legal Historians (Rechtshistorikertag). It will take place from the 2nd to the 6th of September 2012, for the fourth time in Switzerland and for the first time in Lucerne. The plenary opening session will begin on the 2nd of Sepember at 5:00 pm with an address by prof. Peter von Matt. More information about the program, which includes, as a novelty, a poster-session, are available here (papers in German and in English).

0 NOTICE: SHEAR Annual Conference (Baltimore, 19-22 July 2012)

The 2012 Society of Historians of the Early American Republic's Annual Conference starts today in Baltimore, Maryland. For more information see: http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.it/2012/07/legal-history-at-shear.html

0 NOTICE: ESCLH Second Biennial Conference: Amsterdam 2012

One week ago, the ESCLH Second Biennial Conference on "Legal History: Definitions and Challanges" took place at the VU University Amsterdam (9-10 July). More than 100 participants, coming from 29 different countries, presented their papers on many different issues. For more information about the abstracts and to read Prof. David Ibbetson's Keynote Address ("The Challanges of Comparative Legal History"), see: http://www.rechten.vu.nl/nl/onderzoek/conferenties-en-projecten/conference-esclh/index.asp. After this great occasion of confrontation and discussion, we are looking forward to the next ESCLH Conference, which will take place at the University of Macerata (Italy) in 2014!

VU University Amsterdam

Executive Council

Executive Council

David Ibbetson

From the left: Luigi Lacché, Adolfo Giuliani, Jan Hallebeek: from Amsterdam to Macerata

Eberhard van der Laan, Mayor of Amsterdam (Plenary Opening Session Address)

0 NOTICE: "Faire la preuve de la propriété"

The Ecole française de Rome has recently published a volume on property in the Mediterranean from the Roman Republic until the 19th century:



Dubouloz et A. Ingold (ed. by), "Faire la preuve de la propriété: droits et
savoirs en Méditerranée (Antiquité-Temps modernes)", École française de Rome,
2012

(Collection de l'École française de Rome n°452), 2012, 342
p., ISBN:978-2-7283-0906-1, 50€











List of contents:

• Introduction : faire la preuve de la propriété en Méditerranée.

• Catherine SALIOU, Épigraphie et rapports de voisinage: communis versus
  privatus.
  


• Lauretta MAGANZANI, L’expertise judiciaire des arpenteurs romains: ordo
  mensurarum et controversiae agrorum.
  


• Julien DUBOULOZ, Terres, territoire et juridiction dans les cités de
  l’Occident romain: le regard des arpenteurs.
  


• Étienne HUBERT, Droits sur le sol, résidence et citoyenneté dans les villes
  de l’Italie centrale et septentrionale (XIe-XIVe siècle).
  


• Jean-Pierre VAN STAËVEL, Experts en bâtiment et construction de la preuve:
  les avatars d’un cas d’espèce, entre Cordoue et Tunis (XIIe-XVe siècle).
  


• Nicolas MICHEL, Spécialistes villageois de la terre et de l’eau en Égypte
  (XIIe-XVIIe siècle)
  


• Christian MÜLLER, Les ventes de biens immobiliers au XIVe siècle: étude des
  actes du Haram al-Sharif à Jérusalem.
  


• Antonio STOPANI, La borne et l’expert: réflexions sur la fama dans
  les contentieux juridictionnels dans l’Italie d’Ancien Régime.
  


• Brigitte MARINO, Être accusé de mainmise devant les juges de Damas au XVIIIe
  siècle: le cas des terrains agricoles loués par Ismail Pacha al-’Azm.
  


• Michela BARBOT, Incertitude ou pluralité des droits? Les conflits sur les
  droits fonciers et immobiliers dans la Lombardie d’Ancien Régime.
  


• Alice INGOLD, Conflits sur les eaux courantes en France au XIXe siècle,
  entre administration et justice: de l’enchevêtrement des droits et des savoirs
  experts.

• Résumés des contributions
  


• Table des matières

For more information see: http://nomodos.blogspot.it/2012/07/j-dubouloz-et-ingold-dir-faire-la.html#more

0 NOTICE: American Journal of Legal History's July 2012 Issue

The table of contents of the July 2012 AJLH issue (vol. 52, issue 3) is now available:



Academic SAILERS: The Ford Foundation and the Efforts to Shape Legal Education in Africa, 1957-1997, by Jayanth K. Krishnan



Individualization of Punishment and the Rule of Law: Reshaping the Legality in the United States and Europe between the 19th and the 20th Century, by Michele Pifferi



Book Reviews



Judy E. Gaughan. Murder was Not a Crime: Homicide and Power in the Roman Republic, by Kevin Walker



Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore. Defying Dixie: The Radical Roots of Civil Rights, 1919-1950, by Darrell A. H. Miller



Ethan Greenberg. Dred Scott and the Dangers of a Political Court, by Gerry Leonard



Peter Charles Hoffer. A Nation of Laws: America’s Imperfect Pursuit of Justice, by William G. Merkel



Philip K. Howard. Life Without Lawyers: Restoring Responsibility in America, by Andrew Jay McClurg



Vicki Hsueh. Hybrid Constitutions: Challenging Legacies of Law, Privilege, and Culture in Colonial America, by Lauren Benton



Calvin H. Johnson. Righteous Anger at the Wicked States: The Meaning of the Founders’ Constitution, by Douglas G. Smith



Bernie D. Jones. Fathers of Conscience: Mixed-Race Inheritance in the Antebellum South, by Kevin Noble Maillard



J. M. Kaye. Medieval English Conveyances, by Robert C. Palmer

Bruce A. Kimball. The Inception of Modern Professional Education, by Steve Sheppard



Christine L. Krueger. Reading for the Law: British Literary History and Gender Advocacy, by Teresa Godwin Phelps

Roberta Rosenthal Kwall. The Soul of Creativity: Forging a Moral Rights Law for the United States, by Robert C. Bird



Alison L. LaCroix. The Ideological Origins of American Federalism, by David J. Bederman



Mona Lynch. Sunbelt Justice: Arizona and the Transformation of American Punishment, by Marie L. Griffin



Earl M. Maltz. Slavery and the Supreme Court, 1825-1861, by Jason A. Gillmer



Edward F. Mannino. Shaping America: The Supreme Court and American Society, by Hunter R. Clark

Mark C. Miller. The View of the Courts from the Hill: Interactions Between Congress and the Federal Judiciary, by Bruce Peabody



Francis J. Mootz III (ed.). On Philosophy in American Law, by James R. Beattie, Jr.   



See: http://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.it/

        http://www.temple.edu/law/ajlh/issues_upcoming.html 

0 NOTICE: Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law Special Issue

"The Maastricht Journal of European and Comparative Law provides literature which enables both the European professional and academic lawyer to grapple with the special difficulties presented by the concept of Ius commune Europaeum": http://www.maastrichtjournal.eu/content_page.aspx?contentId=150.

The current issue (2012-2), guest-edited by Janwillem Oosterhuis and Emanuel van Dongen, is focused on

"European Traditions – Integration or Disintegration?":

Articles:

Second-Rate Citizens: Junian Latins and the Constitutio Antoniniana

E. Koops, p. 223

The Booke of Orders of Assurances: A Civil Law Code in 16th Century London

G. Rossi, p. 240

The Revival of Romanistic Scholarship between the 19th and 20th Centuries as a ‘Centralizing Force’ in European Legal History – The Masterpieces of German Pandectist Literature Revised by Italian Translators

F. Furfaro, p. 262

New Imperialism (1870–1914) and the European Legal Traditions: A (Dis)Integrative Episode

M. Van Der Linden, p. 281

The Path of the Former Yugoslav Countries to the European Union: From Integration to Disintegration and Back

S. Fabijanić Gagro, B. Vukas Jr, p. 300

The Enigma of Civil Justice in Imperial China: A Legal Historical Enquiry

P. C.h. Chan, p. 317

http://www.maastrichtjournal.eu/table_of_content.aspx

0 NOTICE: International School of Ius Commune (Erice, Sicily), 5-11 October 2012

Ettore Majorana
Foundation and Centre

for Scientific Culture

 

International School
of Ius Commune

Directors of the
School:

M. Bellomo – K. Pennington – O. Condorelli

 

XXXII Course, Erice, 5-11
October 2012

The Legal Status of Jews and Muslims in the Ius Commune

La condizione giuridica di
Ebrei e Musulmani nel diritto comune

Director of the XXXII Course

John Tolan (University
of Nantes)

Sponsored by: The
Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research – Sicilian Regional
Government – The European
Research Council programme RELMIN: “The Legal Status of Religious Minorities in
the Euro-Mediterranean World” – Catholic University of America, Washington D.C. –
University of Catania –Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Imola

Purpose

Utrum ritus infidelium
sint tolerandi, asks
Thomas Aquinas in the Summa theologica, “should
the rites of infidels be tolerated?” He concludes that there are limited
grounds for the Church’s tolerating the existence of non-Christian cults. First
and foremost, Judaism: the rites of Jews prefigure those of Christianity and
should hence be allowed to continue as a confirmation of Christian truth. As
for other faiths, they may be tolerated for reasons of expediency: if it would
prove difficult or impossible to prohibit those rites without provoking social
or political unrest (in particular where these infidels are numerous).

Christian legislators and lawyers from the
fifth century on created laws that regulated, protected, or in some cases
prohibited, the practice of other religions. In this course, we will look at
these legists attitudes towards Judaism and Islam. In order to prove that the
Church should indeed allow Jews to practice their religion, Aquinas cites Pope
Gregory I, via Gratian’s Decretum. This
in itself gives an important glimpse at how authority and precedent are
constructed in legal discourse. Yet the question of toleration and protection
of Jewish communities is found in legal sources well before Gregory the Great,
in particular in a number of fourth- and fifth-century imperial constitutions
preserved in the Theodosian code. Popes,
bishops, kings, counts, and city councils issued a bewildering array of laws
authorizing Jews to live in certain areas, build synagogues, trade with
Christians, etc.; other laws prohibited or discouraged certain kinds of
interactions between Jews and Christians; in other cases, Jews were expelled
from cities, counties or kingdoms. In parts of Mediterranean Europe, jurists
posed the same questions concerning Muslims living within Christian polities.

By studying medieval legal discourse on Jews
and Muslims, this course aims not only to contribute to the understanding of
the history of those minority communities within Christian Europe, but also to
reflect on an important dimension of the development of legal thought in
Europe. The existence of non-Christians poses questions about the universality
of Christianity and Christian law. Just as in the early modern period, European
colonization of non-Christian areas provoked debates on the universality of
legal principles (in the works of Las Casas, Grotius and others), in the Middle
Ages the existence of non-Christians both within and outside of Roman
Christendom affected the development of the Ius commune. We will play close
attention to the interplay between theoretical discourse on the legality (or
not) of infidel law and practice and the practical application of law in daily
interactions between Jews, Christians and Muslims.

Lecturers and topics

1. Paul Brand (University of Oxford, UK): Jews and the Law in England, 1190-1290






2. Dwayne Carpenter (Boston College, USA): Separate, but not equal: Jews and
   Muslims in the legislation of Alfonso X, the Learned






3. Claude Denjean (Université de Toulouse, F): Les juifs et la définition de l’usure
   dans le jus commune catalan (XIIIe-XIVe siècles)






4. Johannes Heil (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien,
   Heidelberg, D): “Sicut
   Iudaeis” in the 11th century? On the origins of papal protection for Jews






5. Emma Montanos Ferrín (Universidad de La Coruña, E): Moros y moriscos en los fueros
   municipales de Hispania






6. Capucine Nemo-Pekelman (RELMIN, Université de Nantes,
   F) - Youna Masset (RELMIN, Université de Nantes): Le ius commune traitant de la capacité judiciaire des juifs dans
   les tribunaux chrétiens et sa réception dans la Catalogne des XIIIe et
   XIVe siècles




7. Andrea
   Padovani (Università di Bologna, I): Diritto
   canonico, diritto veneto, diritto islamico. Incontri e scontri (secoli
   XIV-XV)




8. Kenneth Pennington (Catholic University of
   America, Washington D.C., USA): Jews in the Medieval and Early
   Modern Courts




9. Diego Quaglioni
   (Università di Trento, I): Ebrei e
   cristiani nel tardo diritto comune: il “judicium” di Johann Jacob Frey
   (1701)




10. Jessie Sherwood (RELMIN,
    Université de Nantes, F): How canon law created religious
    boundaries between Christians and Jews




11. Fernando Suárez Bilbao (Universidad Rey
    Juan Carlos, Madrid, E): El
    fuero judiego en los reinos de Castilla y Aragón (siglos XII-XV)




12. John Tolan (Université de Nantes, F): Muslims as pagans, heretics, or Jews? The
    quandary of classification for medieval jurists




13. Ragnhild Johnsrud Zorgati (University of Oslo, N):
    Intercommunal bathing in the ius
    commune and in the ius proprium of medieval and early modern Iberia

Persons
wishing to attend the School are requested to write to:

Professor
Dr. Orazio Condorelli

Facoltà
Giuridica – Via Gallo, 24 – 95124 CATANIA, Italy

Tel
+39.095.230417

e-mail: ocondorelli@lex.unict.it