The first lecture series in legal history includes three lectures on selected issues. The first will discuss the last two hundred years of developments in judicial independence in Austria. The second will provide new insights into the history of Polish partitions from the perspective of international law. The third will delve into the details of the drafting of the Italian constitution after World War II. All these lectures cover topics from modern European legal history and are directly related to current legal challenges. This combination of various times, areas, actors, and processes from the past and their repercussions today will offer the audience interesting and inspiring questions and hypotheses.
The editor-in-chief of CPH, Dr. Hab. Maksymilian Stanulewicz, a professor at AMU, warmly invites all interested scholars and students to participate in our online lectures and to submit papers to CPH.
For more information on the series, please visit the website.
FIRST LECTURE
Title: Judicial independence in Austria from Pre-March to the 21st century
Speaker: prof. Gerald Kohl
Date: April 25th, 4:30 pm CEST
Link to the online meeting: https://bit.ly/legalhistory1
Abstract: Judicial independence in Austria was achieved step-by-step. The development did not proceed in the sense of a straightforward, continuous “progress”, but was characterized by several setbacks. And even today, judicial independence has to be fought for anew every day. The presentation will give an overview of two centuries of legal development and highlight current challenges.
CV: Born 1965; 1993 Dr. iuris; 2005 “Habilitation“ for the subjects “Austrian and European Legal History, including Constitutional History of the Modern Age“ and “European Private Law Development“ (“Privatdozent”); 2006 Associate Professor (public servant, tenured); 2009 appointed Deputy Head, Department of Legal and Constitutional History (Univ. Vienna). 2015 elected Treasurer of the „International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions“; 2018 appointed member of the „Kommission für Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs“ [Commission for Austrian Legal History] of the Austrian Academy of Sciences; various other functions and memberships. Co-editor and co-author of the leading Austrian textbook “Manual Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte” (6th edition 2022). Main areas of work: Austrian constitutional history, esp. 19th and 20th cent.; History of private law, esp. property law, land registry, agrarian communities, housing laws; History of justice (collected volumes on judges, state attorneys, laypersons); Popular legal literature; Law and Language.
Website: https://homepage.univie.ac.at/gerald.kohl/
Chair: Prof. Wojciech Piątek (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań)
Organizer: Dr. Piotr Alexandrowicz (piotr.alexandrowicz@amu.edu.pl)