International workshop on the History of Commercial Law
On the 24th and 25th of august the research group for Legal Culture, Legal History and Comparative Law is organising an international workshop at the Faculty of Law.
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The workshop’s main purpose is to create a consciousness for a field of research that is heavily neglected in Norway: the history of commercial law. Leading international experts will provide a wide range of substantive and methodological approaches opening for new and exciting perspectives and addressing especially students and young researchers who are looking for interesting topics for their master- or phd-thesis.
View the full programe here.
Registration is done by contacting Søren Koch.
Program overview
Thursday August 23d
17.00 Guided tour through the city of Bergen with Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde (Duration app.
2 hours). Meeting point main entrance of the Faculty of Law
19.00: Informal dinner at Enhjorningen (Ejørningsgården 29, 5003 Bergen)
Friday August 24th
| Opening the workshop: | Søren Koch - University of Bergen | |
| Keynote: | Economic Progress: From Canon Law to Protestant Reformation. | Matthias Schmoeckel – University of Bonn |
| Contribution: | Commercial rules in the laws of the Norwegian Middelages. | Brage Hatløy – University of Bergen |
| Contribution: | Trade, property and security in Norwegian legal practice in the High and Late Middle Ages | Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde - University of Bergen |
| Contribution: | Religion and the History of Economic Law: Sources and Methods. | Wim Decock – KU Leuven |
| Contribution: | The impact of hanseatic law on credit-security law in Norway. | Søren Koch - University of Bergen |
| Contribution: | Death by neglect: the fate of the Belgian commercial code from Napoleon until its abolition in 2018 | Dirk Heirbaut – University of Gent |
| Contribution: | Policing capital: Levin Goldschmitt, Oscar Platou and the stock market | Sverre Flatten - University of Oslo |
| Contribution: | Roman law as commercial law? Oscar Platou and the new tort law 1870-1900 | Dag Michalsen – University of Oslo |
| Contribution: | 'Each should be liable for what he subscribes, and no farther': Limited Liability in Eighteenth-Century Scottish Companies? | Andrew Simpson – University of Aberdeen |
Dinner at Litteraturhuset. (Østre Skostredet 5-7)
Saturday August 25th
| Contribution: | The common lawyer, the civilian and the merchant. Or, the challenge of studying the history of commerce in a comparative dimension: some examples from maritime trade. | Guido Rossi – University of Edinburgh |
| Contribution: | The Birth of Early Modern Swedish Commercial Law: the Comparative Context. | Heikki Pihlajamaki – University of Helsinki |
| Contribution: | Research on commercial law on the Polish territories in 19th century – methodological challenges | Anna Klimaszewska – University of Gdańsk |
| Cocluding remarks: | Sören Koch and Jørn Øyrehagen Sunde - Discussion |
