VUB Contextual Research in Law

(image: the plenary assembly room of the French Conseil d'Etat ) In the Academic Year 2021-22, the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel launched a scheme whereby talented Master students are offered the opportunity to work for two consecutive academic years  within a research group, under the guidance of a supervisor. The Faculty's Research Director, Prof. Dave De ruysscher , coordinates the scheme. In 2022-2023, Senne De Kerpel and Max Van den Bosch  were selected on Prof. Frederik Dhondt 's project " Belgian Constitutional Law in the Belle Époque (1870-1914) ". Student-researchers can develop their own independent research profile, and are closely associated to the "backoffice" of research (data collection, data management, debate on sources, editorial choices in academic writing, peer review cycle, networking, conferences...), with a regular, weekly activity. More information on both students can be found on their pages.  ...

Description: In October 2022, the ACCA team of the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) organised the eleventh edition of the Assistentenconferentie/Conférence des assistant.es (ACCA 2022), with “Shaping Utopia Through Law – How the law does (not) provide an answer to societal challenges” as central research theme. The issues facing society today are vast and diverse, ranging from health, democracy, equal rights, migration, peace and civic participation to climate, sustainability, digitisation and innovation. These challenges make us long for the idea of an ideal society or "utopia"; an image already put forward by Thomas More and others. With its slogan “The world needs you” the VUB encourages everyone to contribute to an “ideal society”. Lawyers and criminologists undoubtedly play a central role therein, although this role raises various (research) questions. What answers can legal studies and the criminological sciences provide to the afor...

(image: the Threatre of Lille, sketch around 1800; source: Gallica/BnF)   The Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons organises its Journées internationales: boire et manger  (cf. earlier on our site ) on 19 and 20 May in the Hospice Comtesse in Lille. CORE-members prof. Frederik Dhondt  and dr. Stefano Cattelan  will present papers. More information here .

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    (bron afbeelding:  Wikimedia Commons ) Aan de vakgroep Metajuridica van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel zijn  twee  vacatures gepubliceerd (startdatum 1 oktober 2023): Voltijds mandaatassistent politieke geschiedenis/rechtsgeschiedenis (zie  hier ) Voltijds mandaatassistent rechtsmethodologie (zie  hier )   Meer informatie in de vacatureberichten, deadline  19 mei 2023 .

(image source: VUB - Marcom) The Vrije Universiteit Brussels will award a doctorate honoris causa to Prof. em. dr. dr. h.c. mult. Martti KOSKENNIEMI (University of Helsinki), at the proposal of the Faculty of Law and Criminology (initiated by prof. Frederik Dhondt ). Prof. Koskenniemi is incontourable   as scholar in public international law in the last two decades, specifically for its history and theory. His magnum opus   From Apology to Utopia. The Structure of International Legal Argument  (Lakimiesliiton Kustannus, 1989, 2nd ed. Cambridge university Press, 2006), the subsequent The Gentle Civilizer of Nations, The Rise and Fall of International Law 1870-1960   (Cambridge university Press, 2001) and the recent To The Uttermost Parts of the Earth. Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300-1870  (Cambridge university Press, 2021) are mandatory reading for anybody in the field of international legal history.     The ceremony will ...

  (image source: Slovenska Matica ) Dr. Raphaël Cahen contributed a chapter on Friedrich Gentz at the Congress of Laibach in a commemorative book on the bicentenary of this important European diplomatic gathering, co-organised by our EUTopia-partners at the University of Ljubljana. More information about the book on the publisher's website .

  (Image source: Facultas ) Prof. Frederik Dhondt contributed to the Festschrift for prof. Gilbert Gornig (Marburg).  Abstract: This contribution to the Festschrift of Prof. G. Gornig sheds light on a famous 18th century manuscript on the institutional structure of the Austrian Low Countries. I first illustrate the author's unique position (I), before delving into the issues of allegiance, taxation and consent (II). This contribution is part of the ongoing engagement of our research group with the Transkribus HTR technology. Special thanks go to teaching assistant Vincenzo de Meulenaere ,  student-researchers Max Van den Bosch and Senne De Kerpel , as well as to former research student Leen Elewaut . This chapter is in open access:  10.5771/9783748941095-749 .

  (image: the Brussels Grand Place in the seventeenth century; source: Wikimedia Commons ) Prof. Dave De ruysscher advertises a vacancy for a PhD-Fellow (four years) on " Legal History and Construction History ". Deadline 15 July 2023 . For more details see academia.edu .