Social Histories of Civil Justice, 19-20th Centuries
7-8 March 2024
International Workshop in the framework of the FWF Project
“Uses of Civil Justice and Social Policy in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1873 - 1914”
Organizers:
Walter Fuchs (Berlin School of Economy and Law),
Mátyás Erdélyi and Borbála Zsuzsanna Török (University of Vienna)
University of Vienna
Oskar-Morgenstern-Platz 1, 1090 Vienna
2nd floor, Seminar Room 13
7. March
9:45
Greeting and introduction on behalf of the organizers
10:00-11:30
Chair and Discussant: Prof. Peter Becker
Prof. Vaso Serinidou (University of Athens), “The War of Lawsuits”: Interpersonal Conflicts, Litigation and State Formation in Revolutionary Greece, 1821-1827
MPhil. Svit Komel (University of Ljubljana), Administration of Property Rights and Peasant Resistance: the Redemption and Regulation of "Easements" (1853-1914)
11:45-14:00
Chair: Dr. Mátyás Erdélyi
Discussants: PD Dr. Peter Collin (WF), Prof. Stefan Machura (SN, MM)
Prof. Walter Fuchs (Berlin School of Economy and Law), Between Anomie and Strategic Use of Justice – Common Roots of Crime and Litigation in the Habsburg Monarchy
Dr. Sergei Nezhurbida (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory), Eugen Ehrlich as a Multicultural Bukovinian
Prof. Mirjana Miškić, (University of Banja Luka), Judicial Decisions of the Court of Appeal in Banja Luka during the Austro-Hungarian Rule (1907-1914)
Lunch break
15:30-17:00
Chair and Discussant: Prof. Jana Osterkamp
MA Ninja Bumann (University of Vienna), Reforming Islamic Legal Practices: Proceduralization and Law Enforcement in Habsburg Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1878-1918
MA Isabelle Avakumovic-Pointon (University of British Columbia, CA), Josef Prkna Goes to Court: Sick, Injured, and Disabled Workers Seeking Civil Justice in Habsburg-Occupied Bosnia
17:30-18:30
Keynote Lecture
Chair: PD Dr. Zsuzsanna Török
Prof. Yvonne Kleinmann (University of Halle), Overlapping Areas of Law or Should Historians Really Separate Civil from Public Law?
19:30 Dinner
Porzellan. cafelounge - restaurant – bar (Servitengasse 2, 1090 Vienna)
8 March
9:00-10:00
Chair: Prof. Walter Fuchs
Keynote Lecture
Prof. Zoltán Fleck (ELTE University, Budapest), Justice and Injustices in Times of Crises
10:15-12:30
Chair: Prof. Stefan Machura
Discussants: PD Dr. Peter Collin (KW, ME), Prof. Stefan Machura (KP)
Dr. Kateryna Pasichnyk (University of Halle), Jewish Healers in Lawsuits in the Provincial Courts of Imperial Podolia during the long 19th century
Dr. Katja Wezel (University of Göttingen), The Riga Trade Court and Conflicts between Riga’s Merchants and Traders in Times of Change (1850s)
Dr. Mátyás Erdélyi (University of Vienna), Credit, Financial Distress and Litigation in the Late Habsburg Monarchy
Lunch break
13:30-15:00
Chair: Prof. Anna Echterhölter
Discussant: Prof. Susan Zimmermann
Dr. Róbert Balogh (Ludovika University of Public Service, Budapest), The Interaction between the Legal Tradition of Common Pastures and New Incentives for Profit: Cases from two Districts of Transylvania, 1853-1880
PD Dr. Borbála Zsuzsanna Török (University of Vienna), “A Battle for Property by Legal Means”: Procedural Reform and Social Politics in the Habsburg Monarchy
15-15:30
Concluding discussion
Chairs and Discussants:
Prof. Peter Becker (University of Vienna)
PD Dr. Peter Collin (Max-Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt a. M.)
Prof. Anna Echterhölter (University of Vienna)
Prof. Stefan Machura (Bangor University, GB)
Prof. Jana Osterkamp (University of Augsburg)
Prof. Susan Zimmermann (Central European University, Vienna)
