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. The series is organized by the Editorial Secretary of CPH, Dr. Piotr Alexandrowicz (piotr.alexandrowicz@amu.edu.pl).
THIRD LECTURE
Title: Between law and memory: the birth of the Italian Republic
Speaker: Prof. Alessia Maria Di Stefano
Date: June 13th, 4:00 pm CEST
Link to the online meeting: https://bit.ly/legalhistory3
Abstract: The years between 1943 and 1948 constitute a historical phase full of exemplary and paradigmatic events for the genesis and development of the current Italian constitutional order. The lecture will focus on the historical events and legal aspects that initiated the constitutional transition process from the Fascist regime to the Italian Republic. After the conclusion of the armistice, for about twenty months the power of government in Italy was exercised simultaneously by four distinct authorities: the Italian Social Republic and the German occupation forces in the North; the Allied military government and the Monarchy in the South. The real phase of constitutional transition began in April 1944 with the so-called “Salerno Pact”, which led to the establishment of the Lieutenancy government. The Lieutenancy government would remain in force until the referendum of 2 June 1946, when the Italian people, for the first time by universal suffrage, were called upon to choose between the Monarchy and the Republic and to elect the deputies of the Constituent Assembly whose task was to draft the new Constitution. During the lecture particular attention will be devoted to the drafting phases of the Italian Constitution, using the acts of the Constituent Assembly as the main source.
CV: Alessia Maria Di Stefano (Catania 2/09/1980) is fixed-term researcher of Legal History at Law Department of University of Catania; PhD in Legal History at University of Macerata (2010); Law Degree at University of Catania (2006). On November 3, 2020, she earned the Italian National Academic Qualification as Full Professor. She has been Visiting Researcher with scholarship at Max Planck Institute for European legal history (October 2016 – March 2017; January 2018 – March 2018) and at Robbins Collection UC Berkeley (October – November 2014). She currently teaches History of Medieval and Modern Law at the at Law Department of University of Catania.
Her research interests are mainly focused on Constitutional transition from fascism to a democratic government in Italy (Da Salò alla Repubblica. I giudici e la transizione dallo stato d’eccezione al nuovo ordine (d.lgs.lgt. 249/1944), Bologna, Pàtron 2013); history of criminal law and legal positivism in Sicily, in particular the contribution that Emerico Amari gave to the criminal legal science during 19th century (Il Corso di diritto penale di Emerico Amari, un maestro della penalistica civile tra illuminismo e positivismo, Torino, G. Giappichelli 2018); the Italian colonial experience in Libya with particular regard to the Libyan judicial system; Justice and emigration in Italy between the 19th and 20th century («Non potete impedirla, dovete regolarla». Giustizia ed emigrazione in Italia: l’esperienza delle Commissioni arbitrali provinciali per l’emigrazione (1901-1913), Roma, Historia et Ius 2020).
Website: https://www.lex.unict.it/docenti/alessia.maria.distefano#
Chair: Prof. Adriana Ciancio (University of Catania)