COST ACTION A 36 TRIBUTARY EMPIRES COMPARED
Empires and Law: principles, practices
Utrecht, 7-9 November 2008
FRIDAY 7 NOVEMBER 2008
Location: Sweelinckzaal, Drift 21 Utrecht
09.00 Registration and coffee/tea
09.30
Welcome Jeroen Duindam (local organizer)
Opening Maarten Prak (director Utrecht Research Institute for
History and Culture)
SECTION I: EMPIRES AND LAW: TYPOLOGIES
Chair: MAARTEN PRAK OR JEROEN DUINDAM
10.00
Jill Harries (University of St. Andrews, UK)
Going outside the Order: Roman law from city-state to empire
11.00
R. Kent Guy (University of Washington, US)
Why do empires kill? (Qing China)
11.45 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
12.05
Engin Akarli (Brown University, US)
The ruler and law making in the Ottoman-Islamic legal practice
12.50 LUNCH BREAK
PROLONGATION SECTION I: EMPIRES AND LAW: TYPOLOGIES
Chair: PETER BANG
13.45
Karl Härter (Frankfurt, MPI für europäische Rechtsgeschichte)
The 'Peculiar Legal Framework ’ of the Holy Roman Empire:
Imperial Law, Political Communication and Legal Procedure
14.30
Nancy Kollmann (Stanford University, US)
Punishment in Early Modern Russia: Branding and the Exile System
15.15 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
16.45
Justyna Olko (Warsaw University, Poland)
Aztec imperial law and the conduct of war
17.30 RECAPITULATION AND GENERAL DISCUSSION:
Chair: Dariusz Kolodziejczyk
18.00-19.00 RECEPTION
SATURDAY 8 NOVEMBER 2008
SECTION 2: RULERS AS LAWGIVERS: LAW AND JUSTICE IN DYNASTIC LEGITIMATION
Chair: Metin Kunt
9.30
Mayke de Jong (Utrecht University, Nl)
Carolingian capitularies: symbols of royal authority and signs of judicial
practice.
10.15
Nimrod Hurvitz (Ben Gurion University, Israel)
The Contribution of Early Islamic Rulers to Adjudication and Legislation
11.00 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
SECTION 3: RELIGION AND LAW; LAW AND RELIGIONS
Chair: Björn Forsen
11.20
Ruth Macrides (University of Birmingham, UK)
Trial by Ordeal in Byzantium
12.05
Barend Ter Haar (Leiden University, NL)
Divine violence in order to support human values: the casebook
of an Emperor Guan temple in Hunan province in 1851-1852
12.50 LUNCH BREAK (AND WALK THROUGH MEDIEVAL UTRECHT)
14.45
Carine van Rhijn (Utrecht University, Nl)
How to rule an empire: the episcopal perspective (Carolingian)
15.30
Antonios Anastasopoulos (University of Crete, Greece)
Non-Muslims and Ottoman justice(-s?)
16.15 COFFEE/TEA BREAK
SECTION 4: LOCAL INITIATIVE: LITIGATION AND CONFLICT RESOLUTION
Chair: SURAIYA FAROQHI
16.35
Caroline Humfress, (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)
“Forum shopping ” in the Later Roman and Byzantine Empires
17.20
Karen Turner (Holycross College, US)
Resistance to State Law in Early Imperial China
18.05 General discussion
SUNDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2008
SECTION 5: VARITIES OF LAW: THEMES AND TRADITIONS,
Chair: Adam Ziolkowksi
09.00
Sophia Papaioannou (University of Athens, Greece)
The Augustan Family Legislation and its Impact on Popularizing the Idea
of the Empire as Family and vice versa
09.45
Natalia Krolikowska (Warsaw University, Poland)
Islamic and Mongol legal traditions in the Crimean Khanate
10.30 COFFEE BREAK
CLOSING SESSION: A RETURN TO TYPOLOGIES
Chair: Giovanni Salmeri
10.50
Vincent Gabrielsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
The Athenian Empire on Trial: Law and the Administration of
Justice, 478-404 BCE
11.35
Peter Halden (University of Stockholm, Sweden)
The Vienna Controlling and Shaping Territorial Powers: A
Comparison of Imperial, International and EU Law
12.20
Recapitulation, final discussion.
13.00- 14.00 LUNCH BREAK