[H-verkko] Turku, “Learning Law by Doing: Exploring Legal Literacy in Premodern Societies”

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“Learning Law by Doing: Exploring Legal Literacy in Premodern Societies” 

Turku
14.1.2016 – 15.12.2015
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“LEARNING LAW BY DOING: EXPLORING LEGAL LITERACY IN PREMODERN SOCIETIES”

14-15 January 2016, Faculty of Law, University of Turku, Finland

PRELIMINARY PROGRAM

Thu 14 Jan. 2016 9.45-10.15

Registration 10.15-11.45

Welcome

Introduction to Premodern Legal Literacy

KEYNOTE LECTURE 1: Kitrina Bevan (University of Exeter/Independent Scholar):
Legal Education in Late Medieval England: How Did Provincial Scriveners Learn
Their Law?

11.45-13.00 Lunch

13.00-14.30

Session 1: LEGAL LITERACY IN THE PRE-MODERN EUROPEAN COUNTRYSIDE Kendra Willson
(University of Turku): The Panel of Neighbors in Early Icelandic Law Riikka
Miettinen (University of Tampere): The Laity’s Legal Knowledge and Utilization
of the ‘Insanity Defence’ in Early Modern Sweden Olli Viitaniemi (University
of Helsinki): Finnish Pietistic Peasants Coping Strategy during Conventicle Act
Trials between 1820-40s

14.30-15.00 Coffee break

15.00-16.00 SESSION 2: LEARNING BY DOING IN EUROPEAN COURTS OF APPEAL

Anette Baumann (University of Gießen): The Imperial Chamber Court as a Training
Centre Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen (University of Helsinki): Legal Learning of
Various Kinds: Swedish Court of Appeal Judges in the Seventeenth Century

16.00-16.30 Coffee break

16.30-17.30 SESSION 3: FROM LITERACY TOWARDS PROFESSIONALISM

Marianna Muravyeva (Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg): ‘Instead of
N. witnessed the deed’: Russian Legal Profession in the Seventeenth and
Eighteenth Centuries Heikki Pihlajamäki (University of Helsinki): From Legal
Literates to Professional Advocates: Legal Counsel in Helsinki Courts, 1820-1880

17.30 Wine Reception

19.00 Dinner

Fri 15 Jan. 2016 9.00-10.30

SESSION 4: LEGAL LITERACY AND AGENCY IN EARLY MODERN EUROPEAN TOWNS '

Petteri Impola (University of Jyväskylä): Agency of a Self-Educated Legal
Representative in Seventeenth-Century Finland Mia Korpiola (University of
Turku): Legal Literates in Early Modern Swedish Towns: Evidence of Book
Ownership in Estate Inventories Griet Vermeesch (Free University of Brussels):
The Legal Agency of Single Mothers. Lawsuits over Illegitimate Children and the
Uses of Legal Aid to the Poor in the Dutch Town of Leiden (1750–1810)

10.30-11.00 Coffee break

11.00-12.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE

2: Anna Kuismin (University of Helsinki): Ideal Types and Odd Men out: Legal
Literacy and Social Mobility in Nineteenth-Century Finland

12.15-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.30

SESSION 5: LEARNING THE LAW BY POPULAR LEGAL LITERATURE

Annamaria Monti (University of Bocconi, Milan): Popular Legal Manuals: Sources
and Mechanisms of Acquiring Legal Literacy (17th-19th-Centuries) Jussi Sallila
(University of Helsinki): Popular Legal Learning and Mid-Nineteenth-Century
Finnish Nationalism Laetitia Guerlain & Nader Hakim (University of Bordeaux):
Acquiring Legal Literacy: Popular Legal Literature in Nineteenth-Century France
The conference venue is the Faculty of Law, Calonia, Caloniankuja 3, Turku.

It is possible to register online for the conference through the conference
webpage:
https://www.utu.fi/en/units/law/news/events/Pages/learning-law-by-doing.aspx

For more information, please contact Mia Korpiola (mia.korpiola[at]utu.fi).

Tiedustelut: prof. Mia Korpiola (mia.korpiola at utu.fi)
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