VUB Contextual Research in Law

  Prof. Laurent De Sutter intervenes in Valencia this week to present the Spanish translation of “Décevoir est un plaisir”.  More information on the QR-code. 

On Thursday 25 June, dr. Raphaël Cahen chaired the panel „Multinormativität“ at the symposium organised by the Institut für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte“ at the University of Vienna.  The gathering was organised by his pupils dr. Sebastian Spitra (Vienna), dr. Nina Keller-Kemmerer (Gießen), dr. Hendrik Simon (Frankfurt) and dr. Anastasia Hanmerschmied (Vienna) to celebrate the 60th. birthday of prof. Miloš Vec. Prof. Luigi Nuzzo (Salento) presented a celebratory address.  Dean, institute President and thirteen panelists from legal history, intellectual property law, criminology, public international law, journalism, contemporary history, comparative law and legal theory (with an appearance of a film director) presented perspectives on multinormativity, history of science, international law and science communication.  

  The MICOLL ERC project organised the international conference entitled “Have the Gods Fallen? An Interdisciplinary Reconsideration of Lex Mercatoria and Commercial Revolution”, which took place in Venice from 17 to 20 June 2026, between the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani (DSCV) and Venice International University (VIU – Isola di San Servolo).  The event, held under the direction of Prof. Stefania Gialdroni (University of Padua), formed part of the final-stage activities of the ERC Consolidator Grant MICOLL (2021–2027), dedicated to the historical development of commercial law and language between the eleventh and seventeenth centuries. The discussions focused on the plurality of legal practices, the circulation of commercial vocabularies, and the role of linguistic and institutional fragmentation in shaping medieval and early modern commerce.  Within this framework, the Venice meeting contributed to the broader MICOLL research agenda on the mobility of legal concep...

(image source: British Legal History Conference 2026 ) Prof. Dave De ruysscher will speak at the British Legal History Conference  in Nottingham next week. More information on the programme here .

  (image source: VIU ) dr. Stefano Cattelan will present at the 5th edition of The Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism held at the Venice International University on 26-28 June 2026. More information on the conference website .

  (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 .