VUB Contextual Research in Law

  (image source: openaire ) Prof. Frederik Dhondt published the dataset "Goswin Arnould de Wynants' Mémoires contenant des notions générales de tout ce qui concerne le Gouvernement des Païs Bas (Vienna, 1730)" on Zenodo. Description: Transcription (generated with Transkribus, manually corrected and tagged) of an undated copy of Goswin Arnould de Wynants' Mémoires contenant des notions générales de tout ce qui concerne le Gouvernement des Païs Bas, initially written in Vienna in 1730 (239 images). Wynants was a member (since 1717) of the High Council for the Austrian Netherlands, an advisory organ to Emperor Charles VI (1711-1740). Trained as a lawyer in Leuven, he had been an attorney and councillor (judge) at the Council of Brabant before. Wynants describes the institutional and constitutional, but also commercial and judicial organisation of the provinces of the Spanish (from 1713 on, Austrian) Netherlands, from the late Middle Ages on. The work is written in an in...

  (image source: Fundación Ortega-Marañon ) Prof. Laurent De Sutter published an article in Revista de Occidente . More information here .

  (image source: Les Éditions de Minuit ) Prof. Laurent De Sutter published two articles in the journal Critique : Philosophie du vin ou philosophie de l’ivresse ? (DOI  10.3917/criti.934.0006 ) On a assez dégusté : pour une postcritique du vin (DOI 10.3917/criti.934.0031 ) Read more on cairn.info .

Hugo A. Brethenoux von Vietinghoff joins CORE as PhD student under the supervision of Prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher. He will work on FWO Senior Fundamental Research Project G0ACT25N,  Cities as Breeding Grounds: Legal Change in Financial Law (c. 1620–c. 1750). Hugo presents himself as follows: Trained in legal theory and analysis (ENS, EHESS, Paris Nanterre) and completing an intensive B.A. in Art History at the Sorbonne, I work at the intersection of law, culture, and historical research. My academic and professional path leads me to study how legal norms change through social and institutional interactions, particularly in European transnational settings. I focus on the development of financial and commercial law and judicial practices from the seventeenth to the twentieth century, with regular engagement in archival research. Speaking French, English, German and Russian, experienced in archival work, I bring an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective that aligns closely ...

(image source: ESIL IGHIL ) dr. Stefano Cattelan will present his recent monograph online for the ESIL Interest Group History of International Law , with replies by Guillaume Calafat (Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), Monica García Salmones-Rovira (Maastricht) and Sze Hong Lam (NUS). More information here .

  (image source: magallánica ) Prof. Frederik Dhondt published an article in the special issue "El acceso de Felipe V al trono español. Reacciones ante una reformulación en las relaciones de poder" (edited by María Luz González Mezquita and Christopher Storrs) of the journal Magallánica . Abstract: This article examines two French printed sources that reflect on the Spanish monarchy under Philip V (1700–1746): Gaspard Réal de Curban’s  La Science du Gouvernement  (1760–1764) and the  Mémoires  of the abbé de Montgon (1748–1753). The former seeks to label and classify Philip V’s realm through a broad comparative approach encompassing public law, the law of nations, and what would today be described as political science. The latter, by contrast, offers a detailed (subjective and lively)  ex post  narrative of court intrigues and secret diplomacy between Versailles and San Ildefonso. While the former situates well-known episodes -such as Ripperda’s extra...