TEACHING: WeKonekt.Bxl Legal History course in KBR (29 March)

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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 Company in Ostend and on the succession of Emperor Charles VI of the Holy Roman Empire.



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