VUB Contextual Research in Law

  (image source: William Rappard Centre/ WTO ) Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin, currently  visiting  our research group from Geneva, will hold an L&C Talk on  Friday 10 June.  This talk will be hybrid (on campus -  Vergaderzaal PE (3C204)   and online, on Teams). Abstract: While the intellectual trajectories of international law's "move to Institutions" in the early twentieth century has been often explored in the literature, most accounts divorce their analysis from the seemingly banal histories of "buildings, staffs, and letterheads." Conversely, in this article, I place the spatiality of the Centre William Rappard at the forefront of the history of 20th century internationalisms. Erected to serve the International Labor Organization (in 1926), this building was, among other things, repurposed to host the World Trade Organization (in 1975). In this piece, I reconstruct how struggles over claims of universality can be explored through disputes related to the mate

  « A. V. Dicey (1835-1922) : célébrer le centenaire de la mort d'un juriste, constitutionnaliste et penseur politique britannique » “A. V. Dicey (1835-1922): celebrating the centenary of the death of a British jurist, constitutionalist and political thinker”   Jeudi 2 et vendredi 3 juin 2022  (Salle des Conseils, université Paris Panthéon-Assas)   Jeudi 2 juin 2022 : accueil à partir de 14h30   14h45 : Ouverture : Olivier Beaud, Directeur adjoint de l’Institut Michel Villey, université Paris Panthéon-Assas 14h55 : Introduction : Catherine Marshall (Agora) & Céline Roynier (CPJP), Cergy Paris Université (CYU)   Session 1 : 15h-17h  Dicey : disciple ou source d’inspiration ? / Dicey: follower or source of inspiration? Président - Renaud Baumert (CYU)   -          Françoise Orazi (Université de Lyon II) : “Anti-suffragists anxieties: A. V. Dicey’s  Letters to a Friend on Votes for Wome n”  -          Gregory Bligh (Sciences Po Lyon) : “Beyond a legal concept of sovereignty. Dicey

On Thursday 22 September 2022 De Debatten (VUB and Leiden University) and   CY Cergy Paris Université will host an international conference on Mme De Staël and her circle of intellectuals. The conference will take place in Brussels.   PROGRAMMA (O.V.) 09u15 Ontvangst met koffie – registration with coffee  09u40  Inleiding ochtendgedeelte ,  door Jef Van Bellingen (professor emeritus VUB) 09u50  Corinne  en het Italiaanse nationale karakter ,   door Michel Huysseune (gastprofessor VUB) 10u20  Italië zien en dan sterven. Over  Corinne , door Paul Pelckmans (professor emeritus Universiteit Antwerpen) 10u50  Madame De Staël over zelfdoding , door Ann Van Sevenant (filosofe en auteur) 11u20 Q&A en koffiepauze  11u40  Necker, De Staël en Humboldt over de universiteit, staat en burgerlijke samenleving , door Matthias Storme (professor KU Leuven) 12u10  De Staëls opvattingen over de Franse revolutie en De Bonalds kritiek daarop , door Andreas Kinneging (professor Universiteit Leiden) 12u40

IURIS – Interdisciplinary Research Institute hosts the   6th Biennal Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History , running between the   22nd and 24th of June 2022 , at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lisbon. The conference, which will gather in Lisbon over a hundred researchers from around the world, will focus on legal professions and method, especially the methods of legal professionals across Europe and the world, picking up threads of thought from the earlier ESCLH conferences in Valencia (2010), Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018) to explore what roles Professions and Methods have played, and continue to play, within comparative legal history. See the  program and register  here .

 (source: CORE-channel, Youtube ) The recording of Monday's presentation of the transcript of Léon Arendt's Droit des gens  (law of nations)-course within the Belgian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (1904) is now online on our Youtube-channel. The transcript can be consulted, copied, downloaded... for free in open access on OSF (DOI  10.17605/OSF.IO/E7HXS ).

    (image source:  Mondadori ) Prof. Dhondt contributed a chapter on "early eighteenth-century preliminary articles and conventions in doctrine and practice" in a new collective volume,  From International Treaties to the Binding Nature of Contract. A Historical and Comparative Study , edited by Simona Tarozzi (Bologna) and Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina (Zurich). (click on image to enlarge table of contents) More information  here .

  (image: Napoleon and Czar Alexander I leave after concluding the Peace of Tilsit, source: Wikimedia Commons ) On 7 June, the Institut de France  will celebtrate the award of a subvention of the Fondation Tilsit to dr. Raphaël Cahen , postdoctoral researcher (OZR) and guest professor at our Research Group. This subvention serves as an encouragement for his current research project "Le droit international au Ministère des Affaires étrangères (1793-1870): Socio-histoire des juristes internationalistes."

Dr. Michel Erpelding ( Luxembourg ) will give a guest lecture on l ’esclavage et le travail forcé en droit international entre 1815 et 1945  within the master Course  Rechtsgeschiedenis  Tuesday 17 May at 15h. More information with Raphaël Cahen .