PHEDRA - Pour une Histoire Européenne du DRoit des Affaires

The IRN « International Research Network » PHEDRA

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