VUB Contextual Research in Law

  (image: VUB GIF-wishes; source: Marcom ) The Winter Holidays  at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel start on the afternoon of 23 December, and run until 8 January 2023. We wish you a happy 2023, and hope the Winter Break can bring long walks, moments with friends and family as well as some happy memories of the past year.

  (image: Georg Friedrich von Martens; source: Wikimedia Commons ) Prof. Frederik Dhondt 's inaugural lecture for the OVR Exchange Chair 2020-2021 , held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on 18 May 2022, has been published in the second issue of Pro Memorie 's XXIVth volume. Abstract: The law of neutrality evolved from 1776 to 1870, but not in a linear way. Enlightenment saw neutrality as an autonomous choice of a sovereign polity. The First League of Armed Neutrality (1780) and the Declaration of Paris (1856) can be seen as landmarks in the rise of the free ships/free goods-principle and the promotion of free trade. The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars brought a regression. The British restrictive position before 1856 was starkly criticized. Even in the late 1880s, the lack of codification and unity in the law of neutrality was striking: national case law, criminal law and ad hoc neutrality declarations remained essential sources for individuals and states alike to i

  (bron afbeelding: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam ) Prof. mr. Hylkje de Jong  zal een maand doorbrengen in Brussel in het kader van de Wisselleerstoel 2022-2023 van de Stichting tot Uitgaaf der Bronnen van het Oud-Vaderlands Recht, op uitnodiging van Prof. Dhondt , Prof. De ruysscher en Prof. Van Gelder (VUB-HOST). In het kader van dit verblijf zal zij zowel onderwijs- als onderzoeksactiviteiten verzorgen. I. Onderzoek - lezing bij het Algemeen Rijksarchief (Brussel) over "Social Hotspots. Procesdossiers als bronnen voor de geschiedenis van de vroegmoderne tijd" (Brussel, 16 september 2022) - lezing bij de Vlaams-Nederlandse Vereniging voor Nieuwe Geschiedenis  (Antwerpen, 16 september 2022) - lezing bij de OE Romeins Recht en Rechtsgeschiedenis van de KU Leuven (Prof. Inge Van Hulle, Prof. Randall Lesaffer, Prof. Wouter Druwé, maandag 13 februari 2023 ) - law & criminology talk aan de Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculteit Recht en Criminologie, woensdag 15 februari 202

  (image: the Religious Peace of Augsburg, 1555; source: Wikimedia Commons ) Prof. Dave De ruysscher , Prof. Frederik Dhondt , dr. Stefano Cattelan and drs. Wouter De Rycke will present at the Seventh Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History  in Augsburg (21-23 June 2023). (source: ESCLH )

(image source: Forum Historiae Iuris/UZH )   The peer reviewed open access journal Forum Historiae Iuris  has presently published all papers presented at the conference Entangled National and International Legal Orders in the Long Nineteenth Century in a Debate Section edited by dr. Raphaël Cahen , Prof. Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina (Zurich) and Prof. Frederik Dhondt . Two papers were published ahead of the others (see earlier on our site ): Introduction (Raphaël Cahen, Frederik Dhondt & Elisabetta Fiocchi Malaspina): here Nation-building e State-building nel ‘lungo’ Ottocento: miti identitari e strategie di dominio (Prof. em. Pietro Costa/Firenze): here The five papers presently added are: African Lawyers and the Strategic Uses of Legal Entanglements: the Case of the Gold Coast and Lagos (1880-1920) (Prof. Inge Van Hulle/KU Leuven-Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory): see here Sovereignty and the Problem of Order in Belize, 1763-1821  (Prof. Lisa Ford/UNSW): s

  (image source: SHD ) Prof. Frederik Dhondt will intervene at the Société d'Histoire du Droit  in Paris on 10 December at 14:30 on the topic "La "foy des traitez"  et la liberté de la mer: menaces et intimidations autour de la Compagnie impériale des Indes à Ostende (1725-1730)". "/ More information on the SHD website .