On the occasion of the celebrations for the 100th Anniversary of the University of Trieste, the Department of Legal, Language, Interpreting and Translation Studies (IUSLIT) is organising a conference entitled Ius et natura, to enhance one of the many aspects that has characterised and continues to characterise the University of Trieste, namely that of being a bridge to the East.

The conference, which will be held at the University of Trieste from 5th to 7th September 2024, will be an embodiment of the Ninth International Conference of the Balkan Association of Roman Law and Romanistic Tradition 'Societas pro iure romano' (SIR).

The scientific meeting, which is taking place in Italy for the first time, sees the participation of over fifty scholars of Roman law from Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, Serbia, North Macedonia, but also from Spain, Portugal and Italy. 

The aim of the Conference is to investigate the relationship between nature and law, not only from a historical perspective – in particular in the period from the foundation of Rome to the death of Justinian – but also from a diachronic perspective, which allows us to draw a comparison between past and present and evaluate lines of continuity or profiles of discontinuity and, with them, the underlying reasons and causes.

The scientific committee is composed of Prof. Paolo Ferretti (University of Trieste), Prof. Malina Novkirishka (President of the Balkan Association - University of Sofia) and Dr. Giorgia Maragno (University of Trieste).

FULL PROGRAMME

Thursday 5th September 2024, Aula Magna – via Filzi 14 – 17:30 

Institutional greetings
Valter Sergo, Vice-Rector of the University of Trieste; 
Gian Paolo Dolso, Head of the IUSLIT Department (University of Trieste); 
Iole Fargnoli, Director of the Journal of Roman Law; 
Salvatore Puliatti, Director of the Journal Tesserae iuris; 
Malina Novkirishka-Stoyanova, Professor of Roman Law (University of Sofia); 
Paolo Ferretti, Professor of Roman Law (University of Trieste).

Introductory reports
Mario Fiorentini (Trieste), Nature. Naturalistic perspectives and dogmatic constructions of Roman jurists (1st-3rd century)
Gianni Santucci (Bologna), The 'institution juridique de la nature': natural law in Rome according to Yan Thomas

19:30 Welcome aperitif
 

Friday 6th September 2024

Bachelet Hall, Central Building, left wing – Piazzale Europa 1 – 09:30
Chair: Paolo Ferretti (Trieste)
Paola Lambrini (Padua), Obligations and nature
Antonio Saccoccio (Roma Sapienza), Ius naturale hominum causa constitutum

Ambrosino Hall – 10:30
Chair: Salvatore Puliatti (Parma)
Ivan Milotić (Zagreb), Springs and  servitus aquae haustus in Arid Karstic regions of Roman Dalmatia
Novak Krstić (Niš), From concept of liability for immissio in Roman law to liability for emissions in contemporary law Raquel García Díez (La Laguna, Tenerife), Immissions in Roman law and their current regulation under Spanish law Mirza Hebib (Sarajevo), The concept of ‘same accident’ in casus commorientis 
Milan Milutin (Novi Sad), The doctrinal positioning of the issue of interpellatio in terms of mora debitoris 
Stoyan Ivanov (Sofia), On the legal nature of hypotheca in ancient Rome and Greece 
Sara Mitić (Niš), Nebojša Ranđelović (Niš), Quasi-delict due to thrown or spilled things as a means of environmental protection 

Room N – 10:30 

Chair: Iole Fargnoli (Milano Statale) 

Valerius M. Ciucă (Iasi), Aurora Ciucă (Suceava), Revisiting a text of legal philosophy about Ius naturae et gentium... addendum, corrigendum and incrementum... 
Valentina Cvetković - Đorđević (Belgrade), The relationship between natural law and Roman law in the work of Jovan Sterija Popović Sanja Gligić (Belgrade), Founders of the School of Natural Law in Ancient Greece 
Anisoara Băbălău (Craiova), brief analysis of the evolution of natural law from the period of Roman antiquity to the 17th century    
Ines Matić Matešković (Rijeka), Danijela Vrbljanac (Rijeka), The principle of equity: from Roman law to contemporary private international law 
Petrut-George Bran (Iasi), The expression contra naturam in the definition of slavery by Fiorentino 
Maria Teresa Carbone (Catanzaro), Ius e natura in Tab. 8.9: the persecution of night and illegal grazing 

Room M – 10:30
Chair: Marija Ignjatović (Niš)
Malina Novkirishka-Stoyanova (Sofia), Mare, et per hoc litora maris
Zrinka Erent-Sunko (Zagreb), Nature in the legal thought and law of ancient Greece as a model of sustainable development of the modern legal order 
Vlado Buckovski (Skopje), An overview of the Roman legal rules for the protection of nature 
Maria Vittoria Bramante (Pegaso), Roman precedents of environmental health protection 
Esin Kranli Bajram (Skopje), Romans and their environment: the care of the air, water and the forests in the sources of Roman law 
Maria Albu (Alba Iulia), Sarmizegetusa regia between history, administration and legal protection 
Giorgio Brandi Cordasco (Teologica Pistoia), Si quadrupes pauperiem fecisse: naturalness and unnaturalness of animal behaviour for the purposes of the actio de pauperie 

13:00 Light lunch

Ambrosino Hall – 14.30
Presiede Malina Novkirishka-Stoyanova (Sofia)
Maria Pia Baccari (Roma LUMSA), Natural law from marriage:  the union of man and woman, procreation, education
Ivana Jaramaz Reskušić (Zagreb), Homosexuality in Roman law:  contra naturam?
Raquel Escutia Romero (Autónoma Madrid), Natura et ius of women
Pino Salvador Ruiz (Comillas Madrid), Hygiene and public health as a concretion of utilitas publica in the urban environments in Rome
Vladimir Vuletić (Belgrade), Hexagon of Natural Law – Periculum emptoris as a natural law element of a sale contract 
Ionela Cuciureanu (Bucharest), The influence of the principles of ius naturae in the development of the procedure formulare
Tihomir Rachev (Sofia), Roman legal tradition and naturalis possessio          
Luka Nalis (Rijeka), Sacred Grounds: The legal status of cemeteries from ancient Rome to modern Croatia

Room N – 14:30
Chair: Valerius M. Ciucă (Iasi)
Anamari Petranović (Rijeka), Term(s) '… natura… '  in Roman legal perception
Emilija Stanković (Kragujevac), natural law, roman law and the codification
Mirjana Miškić (Banja Luka), Actiones adiecticiae qualitatis and aequitas
Andrea Trisciuoglio (Turin), In search of Romanistic substrata in the Encyclical Laudato si' (de communi domo colenda) of Pope Francis
Diego Díez Palacios (Autónoma Madrid), Publicus iuris gentium: depth and extension of a legal construction
Methody Todorov (Sofia), The concept of ‘nature’ in the imperial constitutions of the Theodosian Code and in other postclassical sources
Željko Bartulović (Rijeka), Legal Ideals in the Preambles of Kvarner Statutes from 13th to the 17th Century

Room M – 14.30
Chair: Vlado Buckovski (Skopje)
Marija Ignjatović (Niš), The water supply of Niš in the age of Emperor Constantine      
Gabriel M. Gerez Kraemer (CEU San Pablo Madrid), The irrigation regulation in late Roman and Visigothic law
Giorgia Maragno (Trieste), ‘Pollution' caused by horses or by men?  An interpretative question in C.Th. 7,1,13      
Marelja Miran (Zagreb), Between mare clausum and mare nostrum: Roman views on litus maris in the context of naturalistic perceptions on sovereignty of sea
Alvise Schiavon (Bologna), Vis fluminis, interdicta and cautio
Lorenzo Lanti (Milano Statale), Giuliano Ascalonita. Law and practice in late ancient Palestine
Ognjen Vujović (Belgrade), Stoic Ideology and natural law in the affirmation of optimism in private law

20:00 Closingdinner

Saturday 7th September 2024 at 9:30 – guided tour of the city of Trieste