Public lecture by Finnish professor Heikki Pihlajamäki on the Law in the 17th Centry Tartu
Professor of Comparative Legal History at the University of Helsinki Heikki Pihlajamäki will hold a public lecture on „The High Court of Dorpat in the Context of Seventeenth-Century Swedish and European Law“ on the 19th of March at 14.15 at Näituse 13A-101.
The lecture will introduce his recent monograph "Conquest and the Law in Swedish Livonia (ca. 1630–1710): A Case of Legal Pluralism in Early Modern Europe".
The lecture will be held in the framework of Granö lectures. Lecture is in English. Everybody is welcome to attend!
Immediately after Sweden conquered Livonia in the 1620s, the reorganization of the province’s judiciary began. It became largely modelled after the Swedish law, which differed in important aspects from Livonian law. While Livonian legal tradition was firmly anchored in the European ius commune, the conquerors’ law was not founded in legal learning. The lectures demonstrates how the differences in legal traditions decisively affected the way Livonian judicial and procedural systems were shaped.
Granö lecture series was named after the geography professor Johannes Gabriel Granö, who was a professor at Tartu University from 1919-1923. The aim of Granö lectures is to create new ties between Estonian and Finnish scientists. Lectures and seminars are organized by the Finnish Institute in cooperation with the University of Turku, the University of Tartu and the Granö Center.