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The European Research Council funded project MICOLL (ERC-2020-COG 101002084) aims at analyzing the development of commercial law by means of a tool almost ignored in this field: historical linguistics. The Host Institution of this project is the University of Padua (Italy), Department of Private Law and Critique of Law.

A few wonderful days in Copenhagen for the conference “Past Privacy Today: Negotiating Boundaries – Navigating Challenge...
05/09/2026

A few wonderful days in Copenhagen for the conference “Past Privacy Today: Negotiating Boundaries – Navigating Challenges”, held on 3–4 September at the Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Many thanks to Paolo Astorri for the invitation and warm hospitality, and for the opportunity to discuss my research in such a stimulating setting.

It was also a special pleasure to spend these days in beautiful Copenhagen with old friends Luisa Brunori, Giovanni Chiodi and Guido Rossi, sharing ideas, dinners, walks, and plenty of conversations along the way.

🎙️ The second episode of Vox Mercatoria is now online!This time, our starting point is bankruptcy — a word with a long a...
27/08/2026

🎙️ The second episode of Vox Mercatoria is now online!

This time, our starting point is bankruptcy — a word with a long and fascinating linguistic and legal history.

Stefania Gialdroni discusses it with Matthias Heinz, linguist, and David De Concilio, legal historian, exploring how the language of bankruptcy developed alongside changing attitudes towards commercial failure, from misfortune and insolvency to fraud and culpability.

🎧 Vox Mercatoria is the MICOLL podcast dedicated to the words that have shaped the history of commerce and commercial law.

The new episode is available on all major podcast platforms.



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Here we are! The first episode of the podcast Vox Mercatoria is now available on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple podcast...
19/08/2026

Here we are! The first episode of the podcast Vox Mercatoria is now available on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple podcast. And on YouTube with English subtitles. In this first episode we discuss about debt and credit with prof. Nicoletta Maraschio and prof. Francesca Fusco in the extraordinary location of the historical library of the island of San Servolo 🤩. Enjoy!

Debito e credito: sono parole che troviamo nei contratti e nei bila...

📢📢📢 New article by Bettina Pfotenhauer now online!B. Pfotenhauer Caniato, “ ‘hat banqueRotta gemacht’ – Europäische Kauf...
21/07/2026

📢📢📢 New article by Bettina Pfotenhauer now online!

B. Pfotenhauer Caniato, “ ‘hat banqueRotta gemacht’ – Europäische Kaufmannskultur(en) und die sprachgeschichtliche Bedeutung der Tucher-Briefe”, in “MVGN” 112 (2025), pp. 141-153.

All publications are available in open access on our official website: https://micoll-erc.eu/publications/

We are delighted to announce that the entire conference "Have the Gods Fallen? An Interdisciplinary Reconsideration of L...
10/07/2026

We are delighted to announce that the entire conference "Have the Gods Fallen? An Interdisciplinary Reconsideration of Lex Mercatoria and Commercial Revolution", held at San Servolo in Venice on 17–19 June 2026, was recorded and is now available on the MICOLL Project YouTube channel.

The recordings include all conference sessions and offer the opportunity to revisit three days of interdisciplinary discussion.

Watch the full conference on our YouTube channel and subscribe to follow the latest MICOLL content.



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