CONFERENCE: ”The History of Legal Aid in the Premodern and Modern World”
18–19 March 2019, University of Turku, Finland
Faculty of Law, Calonia, room Cal2107, Caloniankuja 3, Turku
Programme:
Monday 18 March 2019
14.00 Opening of the conference
14.15 Keynote lecture: Hiroki Kawamura (University of Frankfurt): Legal advice for workers and economically disadvantaged people in the early 20th century in Germany
15.30 Coffee
15.45-16.45 Session 1
-István Szászdi (University of Valladolid): The Protectores de Indios in Spanish America during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries
-William Pomeranz (Kennan Institute, Wilson Center): The Persistent Question of Legal Aid in the Professional Development of Russian Lawyers
19.00 Dinner: Restaurant Panini
Tuesday 19 March 2019
9.45 Keynote lecture: Bruno Debaenst (University of Uppsala): From Pro Deo to Pro Pecunia. A Short History of Legal Aid in Belgium
11.00 Break
11.15-12.15 Session 2
-Anna Kuismin (University of Helsinki): Lay Scribes and Advocates in Finnish Newspapers from the 1840s to the 1920s
-Marianne Vasara-Aaltonen (University of Turku): The Beginning of Legal Aid in Finland in the Late Nineteenth Century
12.30 Lunch: Restaurant Hus Lindman
13.45 Session 3
-Mia Korpiola (University of Turku): ): Legal Advice in Newspapers in the Early 1900s: Professor K.J. Ståhlberg and Legal Aid in Print
-Willem van Boom (University of Leiden): Insuring vs investing in litigation – a comparative legal history of litigation insurance and litigation investment
14.45 Coffee
15.15 Keynote lecture: Felice Batlan (Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology): Synthesizing Legal Aid: A Transnational Perspective
16.30-16.45 Closing of the conference
19.00 Dinner: Restaurant Blanko