Reforming Empire: Curial Reform and the Legal Ordering of Empires in the Nineteenth Century

13 octobre 2022

10:00 Welcome and Introductions – Remco van Rhee and Shaunnagh Dorsett

10:15 – 11:00 – Nick Efthymiou: Judicial Organization in Indonesia in the Latter Part of the Colonial Era

11:00 – 11:45 – Heikki Pihlajamaki: Civil Procedure in the Dutch East Indies (19^th c.)

11:45 – 12:30 – Remco van Rhee: Courts and Indigenous Property in the Dutch East Indies (19^th c.)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch

14:00 – 14:45 – Shaunnagh Dorsett: Civil Justice and Curial Reform in the ‘Settled Colonies’: 1823-1841

14:45 – 15:30 – Maxwell Bonnell: Common Lawyers, Civil Law: Legal Institutions in British Guiana, 1828-1852

15:30 - 16:00 – afternoon tea break

16:00 – 16:45 – Lyndsay Campbell: The Writ of Attachment and the Importance of Beginnings in Massachusetts and Nova Scotia

16:45 – 17:30 – Inge van Hulle: Belgian Congo (title tbc)

14 octobre 2022

10:15 – 11:00 – Hugo Luz dos Santos (by Zoom): Macau: A Tale of a Hybrid Jurisdiction

11:00 – 11:45 – Matthew Mirow: Courts in Imperial Transition: Spanish Law and Institutions in U.S. Territorial Florida

11:45 – 12: 30 – Ray Cocks: Debating the Provision of Civil Justice in British India: The Power of Colonial Lawyers

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch

13:30 – 14:15 ­ – Serge Dauchy and Sandra Gerard: The transplantation of the Justices of the Peace in the French colonies of North Africa

14:15 – 15:00 – David Gilles: Common Law Courts in Early British Quebec 1760-1774 : «The Empire which bends in the wind is stronger» 

15:00 - 15:30 – afternoon tea break

15:30 – 16:15 –: Theo Broodryk – (by Zoom) on Courts at the Cape (title tbc)

16:15 – 17:00 – Agustín Parise: Spanish Reales Audiencias in the Americas: A Comparative-Legal Historical study of their Survival during the First Half of the Nineteenth Century

17:00 – 17:15 – Final Remarks