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CHAPTER: Léna SYLVESTRE, "Le multilinguisme et les divergences linguistiques dans les affaires de la Cour internationale de justice - L'usage de plusieurs langues, avantage ou inconvénient pour l'application du droit international?", in: Denis TAPPY & Anne PEROZ (dir.)/Lionel HORT, Aldina MEHMEDOVIC, Laura MORIGGIA & Romina RUTTA (coll.), Langues et paroles du droit. Actes des journées internationales de la Société d'histoire du droit tenues à l'Université de Lausanne du 1er au 4e juin 2023 [Collection lausannoise] (Stämpfli Éditions, 2026), 669-687

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  (image source: Stämpfli ) dr. Léna Sylvestre contributed a chapter in the collective volume  Langues et paroles du droit. Actes des journées internationales de la Société d'histoire du droit tenues à l'Université de Lausanne du 1er au 4e juin 2023 , published in the "Collection lausannoise" of Stämpfli (edited by Denis Tappy and Anne Peroz). More information with the publisher .
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EUTOPIA: Publication of student contributions on CoLeCo Legal History blog

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The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History worked in 2025-2026 on the theme " The End(s) of War" . Students from UPF Barcelona (prof. Alfons Aragoneses), CY Cergy Paris Université (Prof. Caroula Argyriadis-Kervégan), Univerza v Ljubljani (Prof. Katja Škrubej) and VUB (Prof. Frederik Dhondt ) worked hybridly, online and in-person. Following the peak event (February/March, this year in Barcelona ), students finalised their research. Every individual or collective contribution appears on the CoLeCo's blog from 9 June on. More information here .
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CONFERENCE: Section for Institutional and Legal history [Congrès des cercles francophones d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de Belgique] (Brussels: Palace of the Academies, 20-23 AUG 2026)

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(image source ( ACFHAB )  The Conference of Historical and Archaeological Societies of Belgium will return to Brussels for its next edition. The event will take place at the Palace of the Academies from 20 to 23 August 2026 , with the support of the French-Speaking Community of Belgium, the Académie Royale de Belgique, urban.brussels, and the City of Brussels.  The section devoted to Institutional and Legal History , chaired by Prof. em. Jean-Marie Cauchies with dr. Marc Ronvaux and Prof. Frederik Dhondt as vice-presidents and dr. Nicolas Simon as secretary, will bring together a series of academic presentations. Prof. Frederik Dhondt   will present on “ The little-known memoir of the Count of Calenberg on the Ostend Company (1725) ”, as detailed in the official programme.  Learn more about the program and details here .
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REMINDER: VACANCIES: Three PhD Students (m/f/x), ERC Consolidator Grant TREATYLAB (DEADLINE 8 JUL 2026)

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  (image source: TREATYLAB )  Three full-time PhD vacancies for the ERC Consolidator Grant TREATYLAB ("The Labyrinth of Treaties, 1712-1763. International Law Behind the Scenes of Early Enlightenment Diplomacy") have been published.  More information on the project's website .
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PRIZE: IV. Premio Bartolo da Sassoferrato for dr. Stefano CATTELAN (Sassoferato, 13 JUN 2026)

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  (image source: Premio Bartolo da Sassoferrato ) Next Saturday ( 13 June at 16:30 ), dr. Stefano Cattelan (JURI/CORE) is due to receive the prestigious Premio Bartolo da Sassoferrato per le scienze giuridiche e politico-sociali for his monograph Mare Clausum. The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-Modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350–1650) (Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, Legal History Library, eds. Dirk Heirbaut, Michelle McKinley, Matthew C. Mirow & Remco Van Rhee, vol. 77/ Studies in the History of International Law, ed. Randall Lesaffer, vol. 28, 2025).  This prestigious legal award is named after Bartolus of Sassoferrato (1313-1357), the renowned fourteenth century postglossator or commentator, who continues to live on in the adagium “ nemo bonus jurista nisi bartolista” (no one can be truly called a lawyer if he or she is not familiar with Bartolus’ work). Among the other laureates this year: Sabino Cassese, president of the Corte Costituzionale (the It...
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PICTURES: PhD Defense Léna SYLVESTRE (Cergy: CY Cergy Paris Université, 23 MAY 2026)

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(Léna Sylvestre reading out the French Ministry for Higher Education and Research's oath as doctor, ' serment d'intégrité scientifique ') On Saturday 23 May, dr. Léna Sylvestre became the 7th doctor of our research group since 2020 , after succesfully defending at the Maison de la Recherche Annie Ernaux , Auditorium (Cergy-Pontoise), 23 May 2026. We congratulate her on this achievement. Dissertation title:  L'influence de la pluralité linguistique dans l'élaboration et l'application de normes juridiques internationales : Étude de cas historique du régime multilingue de l'Organisation des Nations Unies )  (539 p., incl. annexes)   Supervisors: prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt - prof. dr. Caroula Argyriadis-Kervégan (Cergy Paris Université) Jury: Prof. dr. Dirk Heirbaut (UGent/KVAB) Prof. dr. Sylvie Monjean-Decaudin (Sorbonne Université) Prof. dr. Paul De Hert (VUB) Dr. Gesa Dannenberg (CY) Prof. dr. Renaud Baumert (CY) (president)
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INTERVIEW: Frederik DHONDT on the abolition of the Code Noir (VRT Radio 1: De Wereld Vandaag, 28 MAY 2026)

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  (Louis XIV by Le Brun; source: Wikimedia Commons ) On Thusrday 28 May, prof. Frederik Dhondt was interviewed by Gert Geens (VRT Radio 1/De Wereld Vandaag) on the abolition of the Code Noir  enacted by Louis XIV. More information here .
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