PHEDRA - Pour une Histoire Européenne du DRoit des Affaires

The IRN « International Research Network » PHEDRA

Led by Luisa Brunori of the Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire (Lille), the project involves eight 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.

List of Participants

In France

Name	Laboratory	Institutional affiliation (employer)
Luisa Brunori	Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire UMR 8025	Cnrs
Alain Wijffels	Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire UMR 8025	Cnrs
Victor Simon	Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire UMR 08025	Université de Lille
Renaud Limelette	Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire UMR 8025	Université de Lille
Alexis Audemar	Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire UMR 8025	Univesité de Lille – ED 74
Gilles Hebben	Centre d’Histoire Judiciaire UMR 8024	Université de Lille – ED 74
Olivier Descamps	Institut d’Histoire du Droit UMR 7184	Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas
Emanuelle 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
Xavier Prévost	IRM – Institut de recherche Monstesquieu EA 7434	Université de Bordeaux
Victor Le Breton-Blon	IRM-Institut de recherche Montesquieu EA 7434	Université de Bordeaux

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 studi giuridici « Angelo Sraffa »	Università Bocconi di Milano
Stefania Gialdroni	Dipartimento di Giurisprudenza	Università Roma Tre
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