VUB Contextual Research in Law

The CORE seminar in Legal Theory will serve as a bridge between the different units of the department. It will bring forth the new trends in legal thinking burgeoning around the world, through presentations made by CORE members, or through the invitation of some of their key actors. The idea of the seminar is to provide for doctoral and post-doctoral researchers, as well as for permanent staff members, an opportunity to get updates on a rapidly evolving scene, whose mapping still remains elusive. The program of the seminar will be set up according to suggestions from CORE members and will be managed by Prof. Laurent de Sutter . Ideally, each session will be preceded by the circulation of a core (pun absolutely intended) text, allowing for a more fruitful discussion – with or without guest. Topics may include new developments in Critical Legal Studies, Critical Race Theory, Feminist Jurisprudence, Law & Literature, Critique of Rights, Law & Economics (Critical or not), Empirical

In the WeKonekt.Bxl-week, organised by VUB and ULB to emphasise their link with the city, the MA course Rechtsgeschiedenis/Legal History  moves to the KBR (the Belgian Royal Library) in the heart of Brussels on 29 March (15:00-17:00). This course is devoted to the history of international law. The session of 29 March 2022 will treat the Declaration of War by Emperor Charles VI  in the War of the Polish Succession (1733-1735), a conflict that turned around the legal status of the Italian principalities of Parma, Piacenza and Tuscany , with theatres of war in Germany, Italy, Poland and -surprisingly- no fighting in the Austrian Low Countries due to a neutralisation convention concluded between France and the Dutch Republic. This comes on top of the annual visit to the Precious Old Works  of the library, which took place on 8 March this year: students could gaze at Suarez, Gentili, Grotius, Vattel, the Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens , pamphlets on the Imperial East India C

Prof. Dr. Julio Luis Arroyo Vozmediano (UNED Madrid) will give a guest lecture in the master course   Legal History   (prof. Dhondt/dr. Cahen) on   Tuesday 19 April  at   15:00 . Prof. Arroyo contributed to a collective work in Spanish on the partition treaties in   2016   and published on the matter in   t he International History Review   ( Routledge ). More on the speaker on the UNED’s   website .   The course will take place physically on campus, but is also accessible through Teams. RSVP here . (source:  Casa del libro )

(image: Middelburg by Blaeu (1652) source: Wikimedia Commons ) The Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons  (a Belgian-French-Dutch society established in Lille in 1929) convenes after two years of pandemic-induced interruption, in Middelburg, where the 2020 congress ought to have been held. This year's theme is Art and Law . Proposals (in French, English or Dutch) are welcome until 20 April 2022 . Young scholars are traditionally encouraged to contribute. More information here .

    (image source:  Yale UP ) CORE and GRILI (UGent) co-organise an  online book launch  on dr. Nicholas Mulder's  The Economic Weapon , recently published by  Yale . Dr. Alexandra Hofer (Utrecht) will comment on the work after a presentation by the author.  The event takes place on  Thursday 17 March, 12:30-14:00 CEST . Details on registration can be found  here .

The 43rd volume of the C@hiers du CRHiDI (the open access peer reviewed journal of our colleagues at USL-B) is online. Theme: Life and Death in Legal History (Early Modern Period and 19th Century). Proceedings of the Journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions  held in Oudenaarde, May 31 and June 1, 2019. With contributions by Prof. Dr. Frederik Dhondt, Wouter De Rycke, Pieter De Reu and Prof. dr. Stanislas Horvat. More information here .

(image source: ASP )   Abstract: Cet ouvrage collectif résulte d’une coopération entre historiens, philosophes et juristes belges, français et allemands menée à l’occasion d’une journée d’études organisé par le centre de recherches Contextual Research in Law de la Vrije Universiteit Brussel et le Centre d’Histoire du Droit et d’Anthropologie Juridique de l’Université Libre de Bruxelles. Il vise à combler un vide historiographique relatif à l’étude du phénomène de la migration des professeurs allemands de droit dans les universités belges au XIXème siècle. Il apporte également un éclairage sur les circulations des savoirs juridiques ainsi que sur l’enseignement du droit dans une perspective transnationale et comparatiste. Il présente à la fois quelques figures typiques (Warnkönig, Ahrens) de la circulation académique, mais aussi l’importance des séjours d’études dans la formation des juristes. Il livre une réflexion plus large sur les circulations transnationales à travers les époques e

  (image source: EUTopia CoLeCo) The students in the EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History report on the Peak Event  held in Cergy and Paris on 18 and 19 February 2022. From 7 to 13 March 2022, every delegation will convey its impressions. The first up is UPF Barcelona. Read more on the EUTopia CoLeCo Legal History Blog . 

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