Lex mercatoria

“Have the Gods Fallen?” now on YouTube

We are delighted to announce that the entire conference “Have the Gods Fallen? An Interdisciplinary Reconsideration of Lex Mercatoria and Commercial Revolution”, held at San Servolo in Venice on 17–19 June 2026, was recorded and is now available on the MICOLL Project YouTube channel. The recordings include all conference sessions and offer the opportunity to…

Merchants’ Routes 2.0: From Archives to the Web – 4th MICOLL Workshop

What: 4th International Workshop of the ERC CoG MICOLL: “Merchants’ Routes 2.0. From Archives to the Web”. Where: Genoa State Archives (Piazza Santa Maria in Via Lata, 7) and Società Ligure di Storia Patria (Palazzo Ducale, Piazza Giacomo Matteotti, 5, Genoa) When: 22 and 23 January 2026   We are thrilled to announce the upcoming 4th…

Stefania Gialdroni and Matteo Moro in Erice

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…

PHEDRA Conference in Paris

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…

Stefania Gialdroni in Salzburg

Our PI will soon give a lecture within the framework of the Seminar Storia dell’italiano nelle regioni directed by prof. Matthias Heinz at the Paris Lodron Universität Salzburg, entitled Gli italianismi nei termini del diritto e del commercio del Veneto e Venezia. The lecture will take place on June 4th at 3:15pm, at the Unipark, SR…

Stefania Gialdroni in Messina

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,…

Gialdroni and Tinterri in Catania

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…

Micoll’s 3rd Workshop: Rome, 23-24 January 2025

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.

New Project: “Cities as Breeding Grounds”

Very proud to be part of this new project funded by the FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen / Research Foundation – Flanders). Title: Cities as breeding grounds: Legal change in financial law (c. 1620-c. 1750) Senior research projects fundamental research – G0ACT25N FIN-code:7010 All credit, however, goes to Luisa Brunori and Dave De ruysscher, who…

Carlos Petit in Padua

It is with great pleasure that next week we will host Prof. Carlos Petit from the Universidad de Huelva as part of the Università degli Studi di Padova ‘s ‘Shaping a word class university’ initiative. We will discuss codifications with the students of the History of Law (Storia del diritto) course and commercial law in…