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PODCAST: Frederik DHONDT, "Un ami sincère et utile" : dépasser les différends franco-britanniques sous la Régence" (La Forge de l'Histoire (Mulhouse), 8 FEB 2023)

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(image: the former Mulhouse Town Hall, currently museum of the Republic of Mulhouse ) Prof. Dhondt gave a lecture at La Forge de L'Histoire , a history popularisation initiative animated by professors, lecturers and students of the Université de Haute Alsace (Mulhouse) on 8 February 2023, organised on the campus "La Fonderie". Read more on the initiative on its website . The student team edited and published a podcast of the recording, which can be consulted on Spotify .

PEAK EVENT: EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History: Labour Migration (Ljubljana: University of Ljubljana (Faculty of Law), 9-12 MARCH 2023)

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(Source: EUTopia Legal History Blog ) EUTopia Peak Event March 2023 From 9 to 12 March 2023 , students from the five partner universities will gather in Ljubljana for the EUTopia Peak Event on labour migration. More information and the full programme are available on:  EUTopia CoLeCo Blog  and EUTopia website (Source: EUTopia Legal History Blog )

BOOK: Gijs DREIJER, The Power and Pains of Polysemy: Maritime Trade, Averages, and Institutional Development in the Low Countries (15th–16th Centuries) [Brill's Studies in Maritime History, ed. Gelina HARLAFTIS, vol. 15] (Leiden/Boston: Martinus Nijhoff/Brill, 2023), ISBN 978-90-04-54035-4, € 156,09

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(image source: Brill ) Dr. dr. Gijs Dreijer, who defended his PhD at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in June 2021 (supervisor: Prof. Dave De ruysscher ), has just published his monograph. Warmest congratulations! This dissertation was written in the framework of a Joint PhD (Law - History) with the University of Exeter (supervisor: Prof. Maria Fusaro), funded through the ERC Consolidator Grant "Average - Transaction Costs and Risk Management during the First Globalization (Sixteenth-Eighteenth Centuries)".  Abstract: As the fall-out of the Ever Given Suez canal blockage shows, an ancient instrument like General Average (GA) is still highly relevant in redistributing risks and costs in maritime trade. However, bar marine insurance, not much is known about the development of tools of maritime risk management like GA, which redistributes extraordinary costs incurred for the common safety of maritime ventures. This book investigates the development of General Average and other so...

REMINDER: CORE Seminar in Legal Theory under the auspices of Prof. Dr. Laurent DE SUTTER: Jean d'Aspremont on "After Meaning" (Brussels: VUB, 16 FEB 2023 [HYBRID EVENT])

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After Meaning Introduction Jean d'Aspremont's presentation will draw on his latest book entitled ‘ After Meaning. The Sovereignty of Forms in International Law ’. In this book, d’Aspremont argues that the lawyer always arrives after meaning has already slipped away from the form. It is not that the lawyer should have come earlier to have a chance to catch meaning. Meaning, as this presentation argues, never stays in the form, for it is always deferred. It is one of the main claims of this presentation that meaning is perpetually absent from the forms of the legal discourse. In the absence of meaning, the lawyer is left with forms, only forms that point away to other forms. Biographical note Jean d'Aspremont is Professor of International Law at Sciences-Po Law School and Chair of Public International Law at the University of Manchester. Practical information Thursday 16 February 2023, 12 am   Vrije Universiteit Brussel Room: 4C409 / (contact laurent at de sutter at vub dot b...

INAUGURAAL COLLEGE OVR-Wisselleerstoel: Hylkje DE JONG, "Motieven in het archief van de (Soevereine) Raad van Brabant" (RSVP tegen 22 FEB 2023)

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  Geachte collega, Namens de decaan van de Faculteit Recht en Criminologie, Prof. dr. Miguel De Jonckheere, hebben de vakgroep Interdisciplinaire Studie van het Recht en de Onderzoeksgroep Contextual Research in Law het genoegen u uit te nodigen voor het Inauguraal college van de Wisselleerstoel van de Stichting tot Uitgaaf der Bronnen van het Oud-Vaderlands Recht 2022-2023 Op woensdag 8 maart 2023 spreekt prof. mr. Hylkje de Jong (hoogleraar rechtsgeschiedenis, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), die deze leerstoel aan onze Faculteit bekleedt, een rede uit met als onderwerp: Motieven in het archief van de (Soevereine) Raad van Brabant Het publiek wordt verwacht in de Promotiezaal van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Gebouw D, tweede verdieping) om 14:00 . Na een inleiding door de decaan stellen de proximi van de leerstoel, Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt (CORE), prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher (CORE) en Prof. dr. Klaas Van Gelder, de leerstoelhouder voor. Het inauguraal colleg...

PROGRAMMA OVR-Wisselleerstoel 2022-2023: Prof. mr. Hylkje de Jong (10 FEB-10 MAR 2023)

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     (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...

REVIEW ARTICLE: Stefano CATTELAN, "Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815 (eds. J.D. Davies & A. James & . Rommelse) (The Mariner's Mirror. The International Quarterly Journal of The Society for Nautical Research CIX (2023), nr. 1, 104-107)

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  (image source: Routledge ) Dr. Stefano Cattelan published a review article on J.D. Davies, A. James & G. Rommelse (eds.), Ideologies of Western Naval Power, c. 1500-1815  in the journal The Mariner's Mirror. The International Quarterly Journal of The Society for Nautical Research  CIX (2023), nr. 1, 104-107. The book review can be consulted  on Routledge's website (DOI 10.1080/00253359.2022.2124721 ).