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30/09/2026

🎙️ Risk and Fortune — the new episode of Vox Mercatoria is out!

https://youtu.be/jITgS3LqL10?si=nxNbk9JnUuey9Zyk

What did risk and fortune mean for merchants in the past? How did they face uncertainty, chance, and the dangers of trade?

In this episode, we explore these questions with Maria Fusaro, Jake Dyble and Valeria Paruzzo, bringing together the history of commerce and law.

🎲 And if you want to discover more about Fortuna, the game created by Jake Dyble, click here: https://www.instagram.com/fortuna_cards?stkn=Y3p5ejVuNWo1bmNz

🎧 Vox Mercatoria is available on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Amazon Music.

Il commercio, e forse ancora di più il commercio marittimo, nasce n...

23/09/2026

💰 The new episode of the podcast Vox Mercatoria explores the fascinating history of CAPITAL, a word at the crossroads of law, commerce and economic thought.

This time, Stefania Gialdroni discusses it with Luisa Brunori and Ana Belém Fernández Castro, travelling through the changing meanings and uses of capital across the history of transoceanic trade.

🎙️ The conversation is in Italian, but you can watch it on YouTube with English subtitles. Also available on Spotify, Amazon Music and Apple Podcasts.

https://youtu.be/eygAC4r8Fw4?si=BsKz-RoGJvOL9o07

💰 The new episode of the podcast Vox Mercatoria explores the fascinating history of CAPITAL, a word at the crossroads of law, commerce and economic thought. This time, I discuss it with Luisa Brunori and Ana Belém Fernández Castro, travelling through the changing meanings and uses of capital ac...

17/09/2026

🎉 We’ve passed 400 views of the first episode of Vox Mercatoria on YouTube!

https://youtu.be/IZlqkeCu8Ps?si=AESeF8rq4bI8tJ4h

Thank you to everyone who watched, listened, shared, and supported our podcast! ❤️

Also available on Spotify, Amazon Prime and Apple Podcast.

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

11/09/2026

📢📢📢 New publication available online by Ana Belem Fernandez Castro from the IUSTITIAM team!

Ana Belem Fernández Castro, The City, the Jurist and the Administration of Commercial Justice in Seville and Valencia, in M. Folin, S. Menzinger (eds.), “La città dei giuristi / The City of Lawyers”, AISU International, Torino, 2026, pp. 28-43

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10/09/2026

⚖️ Why is Lady Justice blindfolded?

The fourth episode of Vox Mercatoria is now out — and it is the first episode of the series entirely in English!

This week, we explore the fascinating iconography of Justice. Why is Justice represented as a woman? What do the scales, the sword and, above all, the blindfold mean? Has Lady Justice always been blindfolded?

But we also look at how Justice was represented in courtrooms, where images were not merely decorative: they conveyed ideas about law, judgment, authority and the role of those called upon to administer justice.

Stefania Gialdroni discusses the history and changing meanings of these images with Georges Martyn, legal historian, Valeria Paruzzo, art historian, and Bettina Pfotenhauer, historian.

🎙️ Vox Mercatoria – Episode 4: Justice

Available on YouTube and all major platforms.

When we think of the personification of Justice, most of us picture...

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.

29/08/2026

https://www.padova24ore.it/podcast-vox-mercatoria/

Il podcast Vox Mercatoria di Unipd racconta in sette episodi la storia di debito, fallimento, fiducia, profitto, capitale e rischio.

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.

Tutti possiamo fallire. Possiamo fallire un esame, un progetto, per...

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...