CoCoLaw Launch Seminar on Tuesday 22 March 2022
Both present and digital participants are welcome. The Seminar will also be streamed online via Zoom. Keynote speakers: Annemieke Romein, Mariana Dias Paes. [Register here.]
PROGRAMME
11.00 Welcoming words - Jaakko Husa, University of Helsinki Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Law Professor of Law and Globalization
11.15 Project Launch - Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki Academy Professor, Professor of Comparative Legal History
11.30 Global Legal History on the Ground: a perspective from African Archives
Mariana Dias Paes, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
12:30 Lunch
14:00 Legal History and Early Modern Dutch Colonial Empire: Historiographical and Methodological Questions
Henri Hannula, University of Helsinki
14:30 Dealing with colonial complexity: the relevance of 'Policey' law to the emergence of modern law
Nathaly Mancilla-Órdenes, University of Helsinki
15:00 Coffee break
15:30 Early Modern Ordinances meet Digital Humanities: An Exploration of the Use of Taxonomies and Automatic Metadating
Annemieke Romein, Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands
16:30 Global circulation of legal books within the Iberian Empires: sources and materials
Airton Ribeiro da Silva Jr., University of Helsinki
17:00 Law and Police in the Early Modern Overseas Empires of Spain, Portugal, and the Dutch Republic: A Comparative Framework
Heikki Pihlajamäki, University of Helsinki
17:30 Concluding discussion
