Led by Luisa Brunori of the Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit (Paris), the project involves nine teams based in France, Germany, Holland, Italy, Morocco, Spain and the United Kingdom and individual researchers based also in Finland, Belgium and Turkey.
The IRN PHEDRA project aims at developing a concerted approach to European research on the history of business law, from antiquity to the present day, apprehended in its « European ecosystem ». This theme remains little explored by historiography, which nevertheless underlines the extent to which commercial norms and practices constitute a fundamental element in the study of issues related to the historical transformation of our societies.
To meet these objectives, the project – going beyond the traditional national approaches – mobilises several European teams around a collective reflection aiming at identifying the European characteristics of the evolution of business law, through a pooling of knowledge, expertise and sources.
The project relies on solid previous collaborations that highlighted the specific need for collective inter-team scientific work and identified the most appropriate collaborative instruments for this purpose.
The choice of partners follows a logic of strong complementarity : each team is a specialist in the history of business law in its own country, and at the same time each has its own specificities which make them indispensable to the project.
The organization of the network PHEDRA will allow for a collective work on sources and scientific discussions through face-to-face meetings. The mobility of teams is therefore at the heart of the proposed new methodology. For these reasons, regular working meetings are planned, as well as annual methodological and practical workshops, regular thematic seminars, a thematic school, one-day study sessions, and international conferences.
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List of Participants
In France
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
Luisa Brunori Centre de Théorie et Analyse du Droit UMR 7074 Cnrs/ENS/Université Paris Nanterre
Alain Wijffels Cnrs/Louvain Cnrs
Florent Garnier Centre Toulousain d’Histoire du Droit et des Idées Politiques – EA 789 Université de Toulouse Capitole
Olivier Descamps Institut d’Histoire du Droit UMR 7184 Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
Xavier Prévost IRM – Institut de recherche Monstesquieu EA 7434 Université de Bordeaux
Victor Le Breton-Blon Faculte DEGS Université Bretagne du Sud
Emmanuelle Chevreau Institut d’Histoire du Droit UMR 7184 Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
Laurent Pfister Institut d’Histoire du Droit UMR 7184 Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
Vincent Gobin Institut d’Histoire du Droit UMR 7184 Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
Alexis Audemar ED 74 Université de Lille
Gilles Hebben ED 74 Université de Lille
Hélène Hu ED 74 Université de Lille
Renaud Limelette Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire Université de Lille
Carine Jallamion Institut d’histoire du droit Edmond Meynial Université de Montpellier
Nicolas Laurent-Bonne MIL – Marchés, Institutions, Libertés Université Paris-Est Créteil Val de Marne
Alexis Mages CID – Centre Innovation et Droit Université de Bourgogne
Olivier Serra IODE – Institut de l’Ouest : Droit et Euro Université de Rennes
In Germany
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
Anja Amend-Traut Lehrstuhl für Deutsche und Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Kirchenrecht und Bürgerliches Recht – Juristische Fakultät Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg
Johannes Romanski Lehrstuhl für Deutsche und Europäische Rechtsgeschichte, Kirchenrecht und Bürgerliches Recht – Juristische Fakultät Julius-Maximilians-Universität (JMU) Würzburg
Albrecht Cordes Institut für Rechtsgeschichte Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
In Spain
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
Carlos Manuel Petit Calvo Departamento Theodor Mommsen Universidad de Huelva
Aurora Maria Lopez Medina Departamento Theodor Mommsen Universidad de Huelva
In Holland
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
Dave de Ruysscher Tilburg Law School, Public Law & Governance Tilburg University
Nikolas Rajkovic Tilburg Law School, Public Law & Governance Tilburg University
Maurits den Hollander Tilburg Law School, Public Law & Governance Tilburg University
Marta Lupi Tilburg Law School, Public Law & Governance Tilburg University
Remko Mooi Tilburg Law School, Public Law & Governance Tilburg University
In Italy
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
Annamaria Monti Dipartimento di Diritto Privato e Storia del Diritto Università Statale di Milano
Ferdinando Mazzarella Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza Università di Palermo
Stefania Gialdroni Dipartimento di Diritto Privato e di Critica del Diritto – DPCD Università di Padova
Gabriella Gimigliano Dipartimento di Studi Aziendali e Giuridici Università di Siena
In Morocco
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
Fouzi Rherrousse Faculté des Sciences Juridiques, Économiques et Sociales Université Mohammed Premier Oujda
In Great Britain
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
Guido Rossi Center for Legal History Edimbourgh Law School – Edimbourgh University
Paul De Plessis Center for Legal History Edimbourgh Law School – Edimbourgh University
In Belgium
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
David Kusman SociAMM Université Libre de Bruxelles
In Turkey
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
Onur Yıldırım Department of Economics – Faculty of Economic and Administrative Sciences Middle East Technical University
In Finland
Name Laboratory Institutional affiliation (employer)
Pihlajamäki Heikki Faculty of Law University of Helsinki