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Legal Orders under Pressure: Non-Western Experiences of Legal Transformations in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
24. November 2022
Symposium of the research group Translations & Transitions, organised by the Chair for Globalisation and Legal Pluralism at the Department of Legal and Constitutional History, University of Vienna, together with the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Theory.
Date: 7 - 9 December 2022
Place: Online
Deadline for registration: 1 December 2022
From
the mid-19th century onwards, many regions underwent fundamental legal
changes by following Western models. Countries such as the Ottoman
Empire, Japan, China, Siam and Ethiopia were subject to
extraterritoriality as the most prominent form of pressure, but also in
other non-colonized countries, internal and external diplomatic or
economic pressures led to legal reforms.
The symposium offers a
platform for gaining a better understanding of the characteristics of
the legal translations and transformations that took place in these
spaces under pressure from the Western European powers. Considering a
broad scope of different countries and settings allows us to rethink the
alleged universalisation of Western European law in the 19th and early
20th centuries. By looking at the different experiences of translation
and invention, radical transition and complex continuities, resistance
and internal conflicts, the symposium aims to contribute to a broader
framework of current research that reassesses what legal ‘modernity’ and
‘the West’ meant. By connecting legal histories that have mostly been
studied in isolation from one another, and by analysing them against the
backdrop of global imperialism and colonialism, the symposium offers
the opportunity to reconsider historiographical narratives.
Wednesday, 7th December 2022 (CET time zone)
12:00–12:30 Welcome
12:30–13:45 Opening Keynote & Discussion
13:45–14:00 Break
14:00–15:30 PANEL 1: NEGOTIATING SOVEREIGNTIES
15:30–15:45 Break
15:45–17:15 PANEL 2: ENCOUNTERS OF IDEAS
Thursday, 8th December 2022 (CET time zone)
12:00–13:15 Keynote & Discussion
13:15–13:30 Break
13:30–15:00 PANEL 3: RECONFIGURING PUNISHMENT
15:00–15:15 Break
15:15–16:45 PANEL 4: USING INTERNATIONAL LAW
Friday, 9th December 2022 (CET time zone)
12:00–13:30 PANEL 5: LAW, SOCIETY, AND RESISTANCE
13:30–13:45 Break
13:45–15:15 PANEL 6: RULING THE PERIPHERY AND THE ROLE OF VIOLENCE
15:15–15:30 Break
15:30–17:00 CONCLUDING SESSION
Contact
hk-translations-transitions@lhlt.mpg.de
Source: Legal Orders under Pressure: Non-Western Experiences of Legal Transformations in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries.
In: H-Soz-Kult, 14.11.2022, <www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-131399>.