VUB Contextual Research in Law

  (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 be held  at the VUB's Campus of Huma

(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 be held at the VUB's Campus of Humanities, Sc

James Monroe by Samuel Morse (Source:  Wikimedia Commons ) Frankfurt-am-Main, 1 and 2 December 2023 Organized by Justus-Liebig Universität Giessen and the TRACE Research Center “Transformations of Political Violence”,  an inter­disciplinary research network of five Hessian research Institutions: The Peace Research In­stitute Frankfurt (PRIF), the Goethe University Frankfurt, the Justus Liebig University Giessen, the Philipps University Marburg and the Technical University of Darmstadt. Additional support provided by the Asser Institute for International and Development Studies, The Hague, and the Peace Research Institute, Frankfurt. Call for Papers:   December 2 nd , 2023, will mark the bicentenary of President James Monroe’s famous State of the Union to the U.S. Congress. Out of the 6500 words of his full address, two sentences are remembered as the Monroe Doctrine: « no future colonization by any European power » in the American continents and « not to interfere in the internal conce