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NEW CORE members: João FREITAS MENDES

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  Our research group welcomes  three  new researchers. Today we present  João Freitas Mendes , who pursues a PhD in legal theory. More on João's  page .

LAUNCH EVENT: EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History: Labour Migration: Prof. Cristiana BASTOS, "Across Empires: Plantation Labour in the Aftermath of Abolition" (TEAMS, 21 OCT 2022)

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(image source: Prof. Bastos )   Prof. Cristiana Bastos (Lisboa, ERC Advanced Grantee) will hold this year's opening lecture for the EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History:Labour Migration. The topic is "Across empires: plantation labour in the aftermath of abolition". Background reading can be found on Prof. Bastos' project website , and will be shared at registration. The Connected Learning Community Legal History:Labour Migration brings together the VUB, UPF Barcelona, Ljubljana, Warwick, Nova Lisboa and CY Paris. Five to eight students per institution work together on the common theme of Labour Migration .  The event will take place on Friday 21 October at 15:30 Brussels Time . Registration is mandatory with dr. Elisabeth Bruyère  (Elisabeth dot bruyère at vub dot be).

SPECIAL JOURNAL SECTION: Raphaël CAHEN, Frederik DHONDT & Elisabetta FIOCCHI MALASPINA (eds.), Entangled National and International Legal Orders in the Long Nineteenth Century (Forum Historiae Iuris, OCT-NOV 2022) OPEN ACCESS

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  (Image: prof. Fiocchi Malaspina, Zurich, 3 March 2020) Dr. Raphaël Cahen and prof. Frederik Dhondt  co-edited with prof. Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina (Zurich) the special section “Entangled National and International Legal Orders in the Long Nineteenth Century” for the open access journal Forum Historiae Iuris. This section contains the papers presented at a conference hosted by the University of Zurich (Chair prof. Thier) in March 2020. The introduction and the first article (by prof. em. Pietro Costa (Firenze)) are already available. The contributions by prof. Lisa Ford (UNSW), prof. Inge Van Hulle (KU Leuven/Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Frankfurt) and the three co-editors will be released in batches in the coming weeks. Read the introduction to discover more!

NEW CORE Member: Rodrick VAN DER SMISSEN

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    Our research group welcomes  three  new researchers. Today's colleague in the spotlight is  Rodrick Van der Smissen , who works on 19th century bankrupcy in the framework of an FWO Fundamental Research Project . More on Rodrick's  page .

PODCAST: Frederik DHONDT over de Spaanse Successieoorlog (Universiteit van Vlaanderen)

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(image source: Universiteit van Vlaanderen )   Prof. Frederik Dhondt was te gast bij de Universiteit van Vlaanderen over de Spaanse Successieoorlog, of "waarom oorlog geen zin heeft". Meer informatie hier , op  Spotify of op iTunes .

CONFERENCE: Paper by drs. Wouter DE RYCKE at the Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians (Istanbul: İstanbul Üniversitesi, 12-14 OCT 2022)

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  (image source:  İstanbul Üniversitesi ) drs. Wouter De Rycke ( Researcher on the FWO-Project The Legal Construction of Peace ) will give a paper at the XXVIth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians in Istanbul next week. Find out more about the program here .

CALL FOR PAPERS: "Boire et Manger" [Journées internationales de la Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons] (Lille: Université de Lille, 19-20 MAY 2023); DEADLINE 31 JAN 2023

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  (image:  De Koning Drinkt  (Jacob Jordaens); bron:  Google Art Project/Wikimedia Commons ) Les Journées d’Histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons se tiendront à Lille les  19 et 20 mai 2023  à Lille, à l’invitation de la section française de la société.  Le thème retenu cette année est  « Boire et Manger » .  « Boire et manger » constitue un enjeu permanent de la vie humaine. Se nourrir est en effet un besoin vital, biologique mais aussi une pratique sociale, culturelle, parfois même identitaire. Cette activité fait alors l’objet de normes sociales mais aussi juridiques : coutumes, règlements et lois. La nourriture donne aussi lieu à des contentieux tant sur le plan communautaire, local, étatique ou international.  Toutefois si sa réglementation peut apparaitre comme un invariant historique, elle prend des dimensions différentes selon les sociétés envisagées, tant dans le temps que dans l’espace. Le ...