From 17 to 20 June 2026, scholars from across Europe gathered in Venice for the MICOLL final conference, “Have the Gods Fallen? An Interdisciplinary Reconsideration of Lex Mercatoria and Commercial Revolution”. Hosted at the Venice International University on the island of San Servolo, with the opening keynote held at the German Center for Venetian Studies…
On 21 May 2026, Stefania Gialdroni will take part in the presentation of Elena Maccioni’s volume I tribunali mercantili nei comuni italiani. Giustizia, politica, economia (secoli XII-XV) (Viella, 2024), hosted by the Università degli Studi di Genova. The event is funded by the ERC project PatriFem, led by prof. Denise Bezzina, who was previously a…
Our PI Stefania Gialdroni and one of MICOLL’s postdocs, Matteo Moro, will join the prestigious International School of Ius Commune in Erice (Italy). INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF IUS COMMUNE Directors of the School: M. Bellomo – K. Pennington – O. Condorelli – W. Decock 44th Course: Legal, cultural and religious pluralism: aspects and problems in the…
It is with great pleasure that we announce that Nick Foster will be in Padua for the second time to give a lecture entitled “Another Legal History: An Overview of Islamic Law, its Past and its Present” within the framework of Stefania Gialdroni’s course in Legal history on October 15th at 4:30pm, at the University…
Our postdoc Francesca Fusco has just given a series of lectures within the framework of the PÁZMÁNY SUMMER SCHOOL on LAW AND LANGUAGE in Budapest. It is a very ancient university, founded in 1635. She was the only Italian scholar: well done Francesca! This international Summer School, open also to undergraduate students, deals with the…
Our PI, together with part of the teams of MICOLL and IUSTITIAM, will join one of the biggest events on commercial law history of the last years: the conference of the project PHEDRA led by prof. Luisa Brunori. What: PHEDRA Conference – Existe-t-il un « modèle européen »? Pour une histoire du droit des affaires…
Our PI Stefania Gialdroni will be soon at the University of Messina for an interdisciplinary debate about a HUGE question: WHAT IS MONEY? with a a paper entitled: “The legal dimension of the Commercial Revolution. A history of the bill of exchange between law, language, literature, and iconography” What: International Conference “What is Money. Theory,…
The “Sicilian tour” is about to begin! First stop: Catania. What: International Conference “The Migration and Transformation of Institutional Forms” Where: University of Catania, Palazzo Pedagaggi, Aula 21 Marzo When: 8-9 May 2025 Our PI prof. Stefania Gialdroni, together with Dr. Daniele Tinterri, will present a paper entitled: Follow the Words! Investigating the Mobility of…
We are very pleased to announce that our postdoc Daniele Tinterri will present a paper within the framework of the huge Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America which will take place in Boston on March 20-22, 2025. He will talk about the “Liber Gazarie”, one of the main sources of medieval maritime law,…
What: 3rd Workshop of the ERC Project Micoll: “The Merchants’ ‘Code’. Mercantile Contracts and Letters (11th-17th Centuries)” Where: Rome, Casanatense Library and Senate Library When: 23-24 January 2025 And here we go, finally! The program of our 3rd Workshop is now ready. If you want to participate, please send an email to stefania.gialdroni@unipd.it.
