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VACANCY: PhD scholarship: PhD Collective negotiations in sovereign default and corporate insolvency 1890-1920 [DEADLINE 15 APR 2026]

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PhD scholarship: PhD Collective negotiations in sovereign default and corporate insolvency   Description The Faculty of Law and Criminology , Department Interdisciplinary Study of Law (JURI) , is looking for a PhD-student with a doctoral grant. More concretely your work package, for the preparation of a doctorate, contains: Our team is looking for a doctoral student (bursary position) for the project ‘Collective negotiations in sovereign default and corporate insolvency (1890- 1920)’. At the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries, crises caused by defaulting states were discussed in committees of bondholders. These committees coordinated the negotiations and defended the interests of individual bondholders. The candidate will conduct research in archives. Based on an analysis of source material, the strategies developed to reconcile the interests of multiple bondholders will be exa...
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REMINDER: CALL FOR PAPERS: Dirigeants et dirigés [Journées de la Société d’histoire du droit et institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons] (Versailles, 15-16 MAY 2026) [DEADLINE 15 APR 2026]

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Les journées de la Société d’histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons se tiendront cette année à Versailles les 15 et 16 mai 2026, à l’invitation de Madame Catherine Lecomte, professeur émérite à l’université de Versailles-Saint Quentin et présidente honoraire de la société, sur le thème « Dirigeants et dirigés ». Si la notion de gouvernance a été, ces dernières années, souvent questionnée dans ses structures, ses moyens et ses fins, celle de gouvernant et plus largement de dirigeant mérite à nouveau une particulière attention. L’actualité contemporaine montre en effet qu’en matière de gouvernance publique, les structures institutionnelles ne suffisent pas à déterminer à elles seules les politiques qui demeurent influencées par la personnalité des dirigeants. Renouant avec une problématique classique de l’Histoire des idées politiques, un tel sujet propose une réflexion sur les gouvernements à travers la personne de ses dirigeants, ses q...
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REMINDER: CALL FOR BLOGGERS, ESCLH Blog (m/f/x) [DEADLINE 31 MAR 2026]

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(image source: ESCLH Blog ) The European Society for Comparative Legal History  has an open call for bloggers (m/f/x), ending tomorrow. More information here .
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BOOK: Dave DE RUYSSCHER & Marco IN 'T VELD (eds.), Straf in het Recht. Een Vriendenboek voor Erik-Jan Broers (Tilburg: Tilburg University, 2026), 184 p.

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(image source: Tilburg University )   Prof. Dave De ruysscher and alumnus dr. Marco in 't Veld edited a volume for the retirement of dr. Eri-Jan Broers. Abstract: Op 1 februari 2026 ging Erik-Jan Broers na een carrière van 46 jaar aan Tilburg University op pensioen. Erik-Jan Broers is legendarisch als docent van het vak ‘Europese rechtsgeschiedenis’ en deed onderzoek naar de geschiedenis van het strafrecht. Ter gelegenheid van zijn afscheid redigeerden Dave De ruysscher en Marco In ’t Veld een vriendenboek, met bijdragen die de rechtsgeschiedenis van het strafrecht betreffen. Het boek ‘Straf in het recht. Inhoudstafel: Lauran Toorians: Hertogelijke honden, een koninklijke kat en een vermeden oorlog - Dave De ruysscher: De ene eed is de andere niet - Beatrix Jacobs: De dood van een Griekse monnik in ’s- Hertogenbosch - Marco in ’t Veld: ‘‘Den valsche munter de keetel”: Valsemunterij in vroegmodern Amsterdam - Maurits den Hollander: De Amsterdamse boeien - Arnoud-Jan Bijsterveld: ...
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BOOK: Laurent DE SUTTER (ed.), Althusser ve Hukuk [Transl. Bengü BADE BAZ] (Istanbul: Pinhan, 2023), 240 p. ISBN 978-625-8393-51-4

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  (image source: Pinhan) Prof. Laurent Desutter's original collection Althusser and Law  ( Routledge 2013 ) has been translated into Turkish.  Abstract: Althusser ve Hukuk, gittikçe önem kazanan bir düşünür olarak Althusser’in hukuk üzerine görüşlerine adanan ilk kitap olarak görülür. Hukuk ve felsefe alanlarında çalışan akademisyenlerin Althusser üzerine makalelerinden, de Sutter editörlüğünde bir araya getirilerek oluşturulmuştur. Althusser’in “cinayetini” ve hukukla karşı karşıya geldiği bizzat kendi davasını göz önüne aldığımızda bu konu ve bu kişilik arasındaki ilişki de bilhassa ilginç görünmektedir. Ayrıca burada “Devletin İdeolojik Aygıtları” gibi birçok önemli hukuki/politik kavramın aydınlatıldığını, ilginç paraleller üzerinden genişletildiklerini göreceğiz. On the author: 1977 Belçika, Brüksel doğumlu yazar ve eleştirmen. Universiteit Brussel’de Hukuk Teorisi profesörlüğü yapmaktadır. Bu kitabın da ait olduğu Deleuze and Law [Deleuze ve Hukuk], Zizek and Law [Z...
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BOOK REVIEW: Frederik DHONDT on Hugo TOUSSAINT, Penser le droit constitutionnel: Pellegrino Rossi (1787-1848) [Coll. Droit public - Bibliothèque des Thèses] (Paris: Mare & Martin, 2025) (Revue historique de droit français et étranger 2025/2 [avril-juin 2025], 241-244)

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Prof. Frederik Dhondt contributed a book review to the Revue historique de droit français et étranger' s second issue of 2025, on the monograph Penser le droit constitutionnel: Pellegrino Rossi (1782-1848)  published in the Bibliothèque des thèses - Droit public  (Mare & Martin).  Read more on Dalloz's website , or in the journal on paper.
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CORE WEEKLY GATHERING: dr. Nathaniel BOYD (York) on Hegel and German Public Law (VUB: Council Room 2.07a, 21 APR 2026, 12:30-14:00)

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  (image source:  Hart/Bloomsbury ) Dr. Nathaniel Boyd will discuss his recent  Hegel and German Public Law  with dr. Raphaël Cahen . Abstract: Nathaniel Boyd's pathbreaking book argues that Hegel's political thought was shaped by German public law. This tradition of legal discourse, especially through its imperial tradition, was crucial to European modernity, influencing foundational philosophical concepts such as sovereignty, the state and the diverse legal systems that emerged from them. Hegel and German Public Law examines the impact of Johann Jacob Moser, Johann Stephan Pütter and Johann Christian von Majer on Hegel's intellectual development. It reveals how the collapse of the Holy Roman Empire informed his early speculative system and constitutional theory. In doing so, Boyd extends our understanding of Hegel's relation to European legal and political thought while offering an original interpretive framework for Hegel's absolute idealism and unfolding institu...
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