VUB Contextual Research in Law

(plan de la ville, du château et du parc... de Versailles; source: Wikimedia Commons )  Sixteen speakers (among whom drs. Antoine Leclère - dr. Stefano Cattelan - prof. Frederik Dhondt ) are announced for the Journées internationales de la Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons: dirigeants et dirigés, to be held in Versailles on 15 and 16 May 2026. Invitation and registration form below: Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons  (fondée à Lille en 1929)     Journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions VersAILLES , les 15 et 16 mai 2026   À l’invitation de la présidente honoraire Catherine Lecomte, doyenne honoraire de la faculté de droit et de science politique de l’Université de Versailles Saint Quentin en Yvelines, les journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions 2026 auront lieu cette année à Versailles, les 15 et 16  mai ...

    (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 unfol...

(image source: UniMC ) Dr. Stefano Cattelan wil present at the University of Macerata on 22 April, with replies by Prof. Luigi Lacchè (Macerata) and Prof. Andrea Caligiuri (Macerata). See poster here . (source: University of Macerata )

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...