Thursday, June 18th 2015
13.30 – 14.00
Wolfgang Kaiser (Paris 1 & EHESS, IHMC, ConfigMed), Welcome
14.00 – 18.00
FIRST SECTION: ACCESS TO JUSTICE
Chair: Wolfgang Kaiser
Introduction : Johann Petitjean (Poitiers/CRIHAM, IHMC, ConfigMed)
Michael Talbot (ConfigMed), When no proof is good enough: An Algerian merchant in British and Dutch courts, 1760s-1770s
Angela Falcetta (Padova), The protean use of justice: Ottoman merchants before the Neapolitan courts, eighteenth-early nineteenth centuries
Mahjouba Bijaoui (EHESS), Litiges commerciaux et naufrages : comment résoudre cet imbroglio ? Le cas du consul espagnol Manuel de la Heras dans la Régence d’Alger à la fin du XVIIIe siècle
Hassan Khalilieh (Haifa), Legal pluralism and judicial sovereignty in Islamic Mediterranean
Friday, June 19th 2015
9.30 – 12.30
Chair: Jessica Goldberg (UCLA)
Andrea Addobbati (Pisa, ConfigMed), The Pareri «pro veritate» at the Pisan Consoli del Mare
Ana Belem Fernández Castro (ConfigMed), Showing the Truth to the Judge: A Study of Judicial Evidence in Sevillian Commercial Courts during the Sixteenth Century
Tommaso Stefini (Yale), The role of written evidence in trade-related disputes between Ottoman and Venetian subjects: a preliminary enquiry
Mafalda Ade Winter (ConfigMed), Le pluralisme juridique en Syrie ottomane : analyse d’un « inventaire de verdicts et de preuves » du Tribunal de commerce de Damas de 1889
Lunch break
14.00 – 18.00
SECOND SECTION: BEYOND THE ORAL/WRITTEN DIVIDE
Chair: Baudouin Dupret (Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat)
Introduction : Francisco Apellániz (ConfigMed)
Francisco Apellániz, ‘You cannot produce a Muslim witness’: Handling Systems of Proof Across Religious Boundaries (15th-16th centuries)
Evelyne Oliel Grausz (Paris 1, IHMC, ConfigMed), Oaths, testimonies and elements of proof in Jewish disputes in early modern Livorno.
Jessica Marglin (USC, Los Angeles), Extraterritoriality meets Islamic Law: Commercial litigation and legal proof in the International Mixed Court of Morocco, 1871-1872
Nandini Chatterjee (Exeter), A Comment from the Mughal Indian perspective
Saturday, June 20th 2015
9.30 – 12.30
Chair: Maria Fusaro (Exeter, ConfigMed)
Joshua White (Virginia), Litigating Ownership Disputes over Ships and Cargo in Ottoman Courts (17th Century)
Yavuz Aykan (ConfigMed), La preuve dans les litiges commerciaux devant le Divan impérial ottoman à l’époque moderne
Ivelina Masheva (Sofia), Oral Testimonies and Written Documents in Commercial Litigations in the Danube Provinces of the Ottoman Empire in the Tanzimat