Roundtable Conference on the Natural Resources and Their Regulation inthe Historical and Contemporary Legal Systems

As part of the Clavis aurea initiative, the UNWE Inter-University Research Center for Study of Roman Law and the Romanist Tradition held a Roundtable Conference on the Natural Resources and Their Regulation in the Historical and Contemporary Legal Systems. The Conference programme included 12 presentations by leading Bulgarian and European scholars and researchers, covering various aspects of the topic. The event e was held in a hybrid format with both online and in-person participation. It forms part of the project History and Continuity in the Practices of Administration and Management of Land Resources in Italy and the Roman Provinces /Research Project NID NI–14/2024/A/.

The moderator was Assoc. Prof. Dr. Konstantin Tanev /in the picture below/, Director of the UNWE Inter-University Research Centre for the Study of Roman Law and the Romanist Tradition and Vice-Dean for Quality and International Cooperation of the UNWE Law Faculty.

Assoc. Prof. Tanev introduced the project and the Roundtable Conference program to the first-year students from the Law Faculty attending the event in person. He noted that the resource management is a subject that cuts across all areas of law, both public and private. He also introduced the speakers present in the room: Dr. Mihail Radev, researcher in Medieval History, and Chief Assist. Prof. Dr. Genka Mozhukhina, Scientific Secretary of the UNWE International and EU Law Department and a lecturer in Roman Private Law, both of whom are members of the project team, and Yuliana Radoykova, prosecutor at Sofia Regional Prosecutor’s Office and PhD student at UNWE Law Faculty.

Yuliana Radoykova, Chief Assist. Prof. Dr. Genka Mozhukhina, and Dr. Mihail Radev (from left to right)

As part of the Conference programme, Dr. Mihail Radev examined the development of the iron and copper trade between Bulgaria and Byzantium /Iron and Copper Trade with Bulgaria and Its Eastern Roman Regulation between the Eighth and the Tenth Centuries/. In her study Disposition of Property Assets: Peculiarities of the Legal Status of the Vestal Virgins, the prosecutor Yuliana Radoykova focused on the legal capacity and the legal status of women.

Valerio Milane, Professor of Roman Law and Foundations of European Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Naples Federico II, Prof. Maria Teresa Carbone, long-standing lecturer in Roman Private Law at the University of Catanzaro, Italy, Chief Assist. Dr. Francesco Dall’Aglio, Italian historian and researcher at the Institute of Historical Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Dr. Anna Tarwacka, Polish legal scholar specializing in Roman Law, and Prof. Dr. Zuzanna Benincasa, Head of the Roman Law and the Law of Antiquity Department at the University of Warsaw also presented their research.

As part of the programme, Assoc. Prof. Konstantin Tanev examined possession and management in the allocation of land under Roman law (Il possesso e la gestione della distribuzione fondiaria nel diritto romano). “The Legal Regulation of Property Boundaries under the Property, Ownership and Servitudes Act of 1904 was the topic presented by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nely Radeva, Vice-Dean for Research of the UNWE Law Faculty and lecturer at the UNWE Public Legal Studies Department. Chief Assist. Prof. Dr. Lyuba Radulova, lecturer at the Classical Philology Department of St. Climet Ohridsky University of Sofia introduced the audience to her research Note sulla condizione giuridica delle terre e le leges locationis publici portori.

The Roundtable Conference ended with the presentation of the book Mitteleuropa und das römische Recht, edited by Prof. Wojciech Dajczak.