Donnerstag, 7. Mai – Freitag, 8. Mai 2026
Ort:
Käte Hamburger Kolleg (Iduna-Hochhaus)
Raum 7011 (7. OG)
Servatiiplatz 9
48143 Münster
Organisation:
Dr. Ana Belem Fernández Castro
Käte Hamburger Kolleg
ana.fernandez@eui.eu
Veranstaltungsplakat (PDF)
Plural laws, hard choices. Which forums did merchants choose, why, and with what effects on trade and business relations? Join us to explore how merchants used different jurisdictional options to resolve disputes across early modern Europe, and to examine when forum shopping was a useful tool supporting long-distance trade or, conversely, an obstacle to economic development.
Donnerstag, 7. Mai 2026
14.45–15.00 Welcome
15.00–16.00 Andrea Slemian (São Paulo) | (Un)Restless Seas: Maritime Average Losses in Knowledge about Insurance in the Portuguese Empire (Early Modern Period).
16.00–17.00 Guido Rossi (Edinburgh/Palermo) | Forum Shopping and Procedural Pluralism in Pre-Modern Commerce.
17.00–17.30 Tea and coffee break
17.30–18.30 Anja Amend-Traut (Würzburg) | "Old wine in new bottles"? – Forum shopping in the Early Modern Period using the example of German merchants.
19.30 Workshop dinner
Freitag, 8. Mai 2026
09.00–10.00 Niels Fieremans (Ghent) | Forum Shoppers. Foreign merchants adapting the legal framework in fifteenth-century Bruges
10.00–11.00 David Carvajal de la Vega (Valladolid) | Under the rule of the Royal Justice: how foreign merchants solved their disputes in late Medieval and Early Modern Castile.
11.00–11.30 Tea and coffee break
11.30–12.30 Dave de Ruysscher (Tilburg) | Comparing Mercantile Forum Shopping in France and the Low Countries (16th-17th Centuries).
12.30–13.00 General conclusions
13.00–14.30 Lunch at the Kolleg