VUB Contextual Research in Law

(image source: NAM ) Dr. Stefano Cattelan wrote an article on Christian IV of Denmark for the Nuova Antologia Militaire. Abstract: During the reign of Christian IV Oldenburg (1588-1648), the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway reached the height of its influence in Northern Europe. Thanks to an impressive fleet, in the first part of the reign, the king reaffirmed Danish supremacy over the Baltic Sea (dominium maris Baltici) and supported Norwegian claims on the waters between the Scandinavian Peninsula and Iceland. However, by intervening in the Thirty Years’ War in 1625, the ambitious ruler fell prey to erroneous diplomatic and geopolitical choices, which jeopardized the very existence of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway. Although Christian IV remains arguably the most iconic Danish monarch, his legacy is open to conflicting assessments: on the one hand, he brought the Dane-Norwegian state to the pinnacle of its prestige; on the other, his actions triggered the subsequent decline of Denmark and th...

  (image source: Riksarkivet ) Some of the best papers written in the elective course Rechtsgsechiedenis/Legal History  under the direction of Prof. Dhondt and prof. Cahen are rewarded with the publication of a summary in Dutch on the CORE website. The transfer from our old website to this blog is at present complete. 2020-2021 : Jihane Lamhiyek: Kleen (1841-1923) en Wheaton (1785-1848) over de verplichtingen van de neutrale staten: ingezoomd op de onpartijdigheids- en onthoudingsplicht Leslie Kassongo Tambu, Somerset v. Stewart and the pursuit of justice (?) Pieter Cooreman, Het Barrièreverdrag van 29 oktober 1709 tussen Koningin Anna van Groot-Brittannië en de Hoogmogende Heren Staten-Generaal 2019-2020: Rodrick Van der Smissen, Privileges voor slavenhandelaars ? Joni Van Laeken: James Lorimer en zijn controversiële visie op oorlog en neutraliteit Joran Gielens:  Het internationale regime van spoorwegen in oorlogstijd Xavier Van Belleghem: Chrisine de Pisan en de gerec...

(image source: EPO ) Prof. Laurent De Sutter 's work on Narcocapitalism  has now been translated to Dutch with EPO.  The independent news site Apache interviewed him at this occasion (read the interview here ). Prof. De Sutter teaches the optional course  Legal Theory (Master of Law) and organises the CORE Seminars on Legal Theory . He has authored countless books and articles and edits the series Perspectives critiques  at the Presses universitaires de France. His work Après la loi  ( PUF, 2018 ) has been widely acclaimed. Read more with EPO .

 (image source: ESCLH Blog ) Four CORE members (Prof. Dhondt , dr. Cahen , dr. Cattelan , drs. Volkaert ) presented at the 6th Biennal Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History, originally scheduled for May 2020.  The book of abstracts is available for download here. For more information, click on the poster below.

  (image source: NAM ) Prof. Frederik Dhondt published an article (pp. 535-642) in the peer reviewed open access journal Nuova Antologia Militare with the title "Bringing the divided Powers of Europe nearer one another: The Congress of Soissons, 1728-1730". Abstract: This contribution reconstructs the Congress of Soissons (1728-1730), a consequence of the Parisian Preliminaries (31 May 1727), an agreement that prevented the eruption of a general war in Europe between the League of Hanover (France, Britain-Hanover, Dutch Republic) and the League of Vienna (Emperor, Spain, Brandenburg-Prussia). The ‘sleeping’ congress did not generate a final peace agreement. Soissons was a congress of peacekeeping (Burkhardt), and in part contributed to the European culture of peace engineering (Ghervas). Besides the central commercial claims that opposed the Maritime Powers to Spain, the delegations reflected on geopolitical questions from the East Indies to Scandinavia, the Baltic and the M...

  (1) Several  research vacancies  have been published at the to work with Prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher: PhD Scholarship Legal History and Construction History. More information  here  ( Deadline 4 July 2022) . Doctoraatsbeurs 'Onderzoeker faillissement in de negentiende eeuw'. More information  here  ( Deadline 14 July 2022)  . Postdoc position in Legal History and Construction History (4 years, at the ULB, with prof. De ruysscher as co-supervisor). More information  here  ( Deadline 30 June 2022) . (2) A part-time position as teaching assistant for "Historische en Vergelijkende Inleiding tot het Publiekrecht" (Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt) is vacant as well ( Deadline 9 June 2022) . Warning: this latter position is only open to candidates  fluent in Dutch . 

dr. Raphaël Cahen published a paper in the special issue of the open access peer reviewed journal  Clio@Thémis on " Les juristes en voyageurs. Ce que les circulations humaines font aux savoirs juridiques ( xvi e - xx e  siècle) " on " Laboulaye et Kachenovsky et la fabrique du droit international : voyages, réseaux, circulation des savoirs juridiques ".  Abstract:   Laboulaye (1811-1883) and Kachenovsky (1827-1872) both travelled around Europe as travelling lawyers in the years 1840-1870. They forged networks and participated in the circulation of knowledges by playing the role of intermediary between international lawyers during the making of “global” international law in the years preceding the founding of the  Institut de Droit International.  Through unpublished archives, this article sheds light on the geography of the travels of international lawyers as well as the particular role of Laboulaye as a Parisian hub for traveling lawyers. More ...

  (image source: univ-reims ) After covid, the tradition of an annual PhD-Day in Legal History with the universities of Lille, Ghent, UCLouvain, Saint-Louis Bruxelles and the VUB resumes. Dante Fedele, Luisa Brunori and Tanguy Le Marc'hadour ( Centre d'Histoire Judiciaire ) welcome us on  Friday 17 June 12:00-17:30. Niels Fieremans  (Joint PhD UGent-VUB) and  Léna Sylvestre  (Joint PhD CY Paris-VUB) will intervene from our side.