Thursday, 1st February 2024
15:30−16:45 Keynote, Randall Lesaffer, University of Tilburg: The Hanse, the law of nations and the contractual state in Old Regime Europe
17:15-18:15 Session I: Hanse and Governance Dimensions
Ulla Kypta, University of Hamburg:
Pluralistic Governance and its Limits
Johann Ruben Leiss, University of Oslo:
Polycentric Jurisdictions in the Hanse and in contemporary international law
Friday, 02nd February 2024
9:30-11:00 Session II: The Role of Cities in Governance
Helmut Aust, Freie Universität Berlin:
Hanseatic Implications for the Urban Turn in International Law?
Marju Luts-Sootak, University of Tartu, Merike Ristikivi, University of Tartu:
Plague and Restrictions in the Hanse: Case of the 15-Century Merchant and Ratsherr Family in Reval
Stefan Oeter, University of Hamburg:
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg – Implications of the Dual Status as Free Imperial City and Hanse Member in Hamburg´s Late Medieval Constitutional History
11:30−13:00 Session III: Organizing Joint Governance
Søren Koch, University of Bergen: Ratio sit Anima Legis – pluralistic governance and conflict management at the Hanse Kontor in Bergen
Dave De ruysscher, Tilburg University: The Hansa kontor of Bruges in Antwerp: Armwrestling over Jurisdiction (c. 1530-c. 1580)
Lars Regula, University of Hamburg: Back in business? – Governance structures in the Hanseatic Orient policy of the 19th century
14:30−15:30 Session IV: Governing Conflict Management
Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz, University of Amsterdam: The ‘correct procedure’ of conflict management in the Hanse: policies and practices
Freya Baetens, Oxford University: Nil novi sub sole: Unilateral economic pressure as conflict management
Saturday, 3rd February 2024
10:00−11:30 Session V: Governing Security
Philipp Höhn, University of Halle-Wittenberg: Of herring and cod. What the “Bernburg herring war” can tell us about gradual membership and premodern conflict regulation in pluralistic governance structures
Gregor Rohmann, University of Rostock: The Language of Violence in a Pluralist Legal Regime. Contested Semantics of Maritime Predation in Late Medieval Northern Europe