3-4 SEPTEMBER 2024 I MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR LEGAL HISTORY AND
LEGAL THEORY, FRANKFURT AM MAIN I JOHANNA WOLF, REBECCA ZAHN

Following a successful conference in 2023, the Labour Law History from a Global Perspective network will meet for the second time, this year focusing on the law of labour from a biographical
perspective. The focus will be on well-known labour lawyers, but also on people who have had an influence on labour law or the regulation of the world of work in other contexts. We are interested in what influence they had in their respective national contexts, as well as beyond – may that be transnational, transregional or translocal. The conference is co-organised by Johanna Wolf (MPILHLT) and Rebecca Zahn (Strathclyde University).

The conference will be hybrid. If you are interested in participating (in person or online), please send an email to wolf@lhlt.mpg.de

Programme:

Tuesdays, 03.09.2024:
09:30–10:00 Arrival and Registration

INTRODUCTION
10:00–10:30 Thesis Paper on the State of the Art
Johanna Wolf (MPILHLT) / Rebecca Zahn (Strathclyde University)
Comment: Christian G. De Vito (University of Vienna)

PANEL I | THE AMERICAS
Chair: Raquel R. Sirotti (MPILHLT)

10:30–12:00 Bora Laskin and the Shaping of Canadian Labour Law - Eric Tucker (Osgoode Hall Law School)
Slavery and Free Labour Under the Same Quill: Joze Thomaz Nabuco de Araujo and the Making of the Law of Labour in Nineteenth-Century Brazil - Marjorie Carvalho de Souza (Università del Salento)
Labour Lawyers and Radical Trade Unions - Catherine Fisk (University of California)

12:00–13:00 Lunch break

PANEL II | AUSTRALIASIA
Chair: Prakhar Ganguly (MPILHLT)

13:00–14:30 The Eight Hour Day Movement and the Development of Australian Labour Law - John Howe (Melbourne Law School)
Mediating Justice: Jurisprudence in India - Megha Sharma (Shiv Nadar Institution of Eminence)

14:30–15:00 Coffee break

PANEL III | LAWYERS IN EXILE
Chair: Magdalena Gebhart (MPILHLT)

15:00–16:30 German Labour Lawyers in the British Exile - Rebecca Zahn (Strathclyde University)
Hugo Sinzheimer’s Influence in the Netherlands -Robert Knegt (University of Amsterdam, Hugo Sinzheimer Institute Amsterdam)
The Impact of German Exiles on Labour Law in Argentina: The Case of Ernesto Karz and Ernesto Krotoschin - Leticia Vita and Julieta Lobato (University of Buenos Aires)

17:00–18:00 Dinner

FIRESIDE CHAT: HOW DO WE REMEMBER LABOUR LAWYERS. THE ARCHIVING
OF LEGACIES
Chair: Rebecca Zahn

18:00–19:00 Pascal Annerfelt (Hugo Sinzheimer Institute) - Anja Kruke (Archive of Social Democracy) - Paul Smith (Wedderburn Legacy)

Wednesday, 04.09.2024

PANEL IV | EUROPEAN NATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Nina Cozzi (MPILHLT)

10:00–11:30 Paal Berg and Norwegian Labour Law

Alexander Sønderland Skjønberg (BI Norwegian Business School)
Gino Giugni - Irene Stolzi (University of Florence)
Eugenia Pragier and the Quest for Women's Labour Protection in Poland - Natalia Jarzka (Czech Academy of Sciences)

PODCAST ON AFRICAN LEGAL HISTORY – HISTORY OF THE INVISIBLE
Chair: Johanna Wolf (MPILHLT)

11:30–12:15 Raquel R. Sirotti (MPILHLT)

12:15–13:15 Lunch break

PANEL V | EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Manfred Weiss (Goethe University)

13:15–14:45 Eliane Vogel-Polsky - Anna Quadflieg (MPILHLT)
Between Paris, Geneva and Beyond: Albert Thomas, From National to International Labour Legislation - Adeline Blaskiewicz (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Paul Pic and the Others. The Transnational Insight of European Legal Culture on Labour at the Turn of the 19th and 20th Centuries - Virginia Amorosi (University of Naples “Frederico II”)

14:45–15:00 Coffee break

FINAL COMMENT
15:00–15:45 Thorsten Keiser (Justus Liebig University)
Stefan Berger (Institute for Social Movements)