TRANSFORMATION OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND THE FORMATION OF NORTHERN EUROPE 1789-1815

The last seminar of the project "The transformation of international Law and Norwegian Sovereignty in 1814", led by professors Ola Mestad and Dag Michalsen (both University of Oslo), will take place on the 3.-4. October in Oslo.

PROGRAM:


DAY 1: 3 October 2013

I. INTRODUCTION

08.45-09.00 Ola Mestad: Welcome and brief introduction to the workshop
09.00-09.50 Dag Michalsen: The Norwegian Constitution of 1814 as an international legal act: A methodological reflection

II. DEVELOPMENT IN THE THEORY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW

10.00-10.50 Martti Koskenniemi: Natural Law and the Rights of Man in Paris and Saint-Domingue 1789-1804

10.50-11.10 Tea/Coffee

11.10-12.00 Christoph Vedder: The international law system of G. F. von Martens and the German background
12.10-13.00 Miloš Vec: Contemporary international law theory at the Congress of Vienna

LUNCH 13.00-14.00

III PRACTISE I: PRIVATEERING AND PRIVATE PROPERTY IN THE LAW OF WAR

14.00-14.50 Ivar Alvik:The dual foundation of private property in the law of nations - between sovereignty and natural rights
15.00-15.50 Koen Stapelbroek: The neutrality of trade: Privateering, commercial treaties and the interstate system

15.50-16.10 Tea/Coffee

16.10-17.00 Atle Wold: Neutrality and Privateering in the North Sea, 1793-1807
17.10-18.00 Per Nilsén: An effect of the new Swedish-Norwegian Union. Sorting out the results of the Swedish blockade and privateering against Norway in 1814

DAY 2: 4 October 2013

IV. PRACTISE II: INTERNATIONAL LEGAL STRUCTURES AND CONSTITUTIONAL IMPACTS


09.00-09.50 Ola Mestad: Norway as an object of treaties from St. Petersburg 1812 via Stockholm 1813 to Kiel 1814 and beyond
10.00-10.50 Ruth Hemstad: International law, parliamentary debates and the pamphlet war in Britain regarding the cession of Norway 1813–1814

10.50-11.10 Tea/Coffee

11.10-12.00 Lars Björne: The New Grand Duchy of Finland in 1809 - the International Identity of a Territory: Newborn State or Conquered Province?

LUNCH 12.00-13.00

13.00- 13.50 Eirik Holmøyvik: The constitutionalization of war and international relations in 1814 Norway
14.00-14.50 Brigitte Mazohl: Restore the Holy Roman Empire? The Austrian Policyand the "German question" at the Congress of Vienna

14.50-15.10 Tea/Coffee

15.10-16.00 Dag Michalsen: The Treaty of Kiel in the Congress System ca. 1814-1818

16.00 END OF WORKSHOP

 

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