MILHIS – Milan Legal History

Legal tradition, historical research, global perspectives

MILHIS meets: Antonio Padoa-Schioppa

What happens when historical tradition meets innovation, digital methods, and global perspectives?

MILHIS emerges: an open laboratory, a collective voice, a window onto the world of legal-historical research.

To begin, we return to the foundations:

MILHIS meets: Antonio Padoa-Schioppa, Professor Emeritus of Legal History at the University of Milan

Video interview coming soon

📍 University of Milan

📅 January 2026

In the meantime, Professor Padoa-Schioppa has shared a set of thoughtful remarks — reflections that trace both the roots and the routes of MILHIS as it begins to define its voice and its place within the global landscape of legal history

News

I problemi fondamentali del diritto commerciale” A cento anni dalla prolusione pisana di Lorenzo Mossa.

Prof. Monti will participate in the conference “I problemi fondamentali del diritto commerciale”. A cento anni dalla prolusione pisana di Lorenzo Mossa” organised by the University of Pisa on 20 January 2026, with a contribution entitled ’Mossa e Sraffa: formazione, legami,
distacco”.

New publication “Per i 150 anni degli ordini forensi. Dialogo tra universitĂ  e avvocatura su indipendenza della professione e tutela dei diritti”

Celebrating 150 years of Bar Associations, the volume brings together academic and professional perspectives to explore the independence of the legal profession. It traces the historical evolution of Bar Associations and addresses key issues such as gender equality, legal training, ethics, and the profession’s contemporary challenges.

Conference of the SociĂ©tĂ© d’histoire du droit

Within the series of conferences organised by the SociĂ©tĂ© d’histoire du droit during the academic year 2025/2026, Prof. Angela Santangelo will address at the conference on 17 January 2026 at the UniversitĂ© Paris-PanthĂ©on-Assas.

Winter school. Il diritto sulla via della seta. Tradizione romanistica, linguaggio, economia

Prof. Annamaria Monti and Prof. Angela Santangelo will take part in the Winter School entitled ‘Il diritto sulla via della seta. Tradizione romanistica, linguaggio, economia’, which will be held at the University of Milan from 12 to 14 January 2026.

Lectures de… n° 20 : C. Jamin et F. Melleray, Droit civil et droit administratif, Dialogue(s) sur un modĂšle doctrinal, Dalloz, 2018.

Lectures de
 No. 20 is an academic event dedicated to the book Droit civil et droit administratif. Dialogue(s) sur un modùle doctrinal by Christophe Jamin and Fabrice Melleray (Dalloz, 2018).
Held in the presence of the authors, the event brings together five scholars to discuss the points of convergence and divergence between civil law and administrative law doctrines within different institutional frameworks.
Annamaria Monti has been invited to take part in the discussion, offering a historical and comparative perspective on the doctrinal model under examination, alongside recent developments and future directions of French legal doctrine.

New publication “Soggetti, diritto e disuguaglianze tra passato e presente. Un’analisi interdisciplinare” (aprile–maggio 2025)

The volume brings together the proceedings of the doctoral course “Soggetti, diritto e disuguaglianze tra passato e presente. Un’analisi interdisciplinare” (aprile–maggio 2025), devoted to examining the historical, socio-cultural factors and the strategies—legal and otherwise—through which differentiation and inequality among individuals, categories, and groups are constructed and maintained.

Addressed to students, doctoral candidates, faculty members, and scholars, the volume adopts an innovative and multi-perspective approach to a wide range of issues spanning legal history and positive law (including legal philosophy, labour law, and criminal procedure), while also opening up to contributions from psychology and psychiatry.

Conference L’industrie des assurances terrestres, un secteur nouveau confrontĂ© Ă  des rĂ©ticences XVIII -XX siĂšcles

On Wednesday, 10 December 2025, the study day â€œThe Terrestrial Insurance Industry: A New Sector Facing Resistance (18th–20th Centuries)” will take place.

Invited Lecture “La storia sul banco degli imputati”

On Tuesday, 2 December 2025, at 6 p.m., as part of a series of discussions organised at the University of Turin by Professors Valerio Gigliotti and Mario Riberi, Prof. Sara Parini will give a lecture “La storia sul banco degli imputati”.