VUB Contextual Research in Law

  (image: "Belseburs" offer ter Hulding des Eersten Paus van Rome; source: Europeana/Rijksmuseum ) dr. Stefano Cattelan and Prof. Frederik Dhondt  will present papers at the 16th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies in Rome.  Consult the conference website for further information .

  Prof. Frederik Dhondt  contributed a chapter to the edited volumes Les Forces armées, gardiennes des institutions et des libertés  (dir. Oscar Ferreira & Fabrice Hoarau, Classiques Garnier). The book is scheduled to appear early in August, but can already be ordered (cf. image above).

(Hugo Grotius by Van Mierevelt; source: dmy.info ) dr. Stefano Cattelan ( The Laws of War on Land in Historical Perspective) and drs. Wouter De Rycke ( The Impact of the Nineteenth Century Peace Movement on the Establishment of the Contemporary Ius Contra Bellum  teach at the ELSA Brussels Summer School (23, 26 July 2023)  on the Laws of War.  More information at ELSA’s internet channels . 

    (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). Dr.  Raphaël Cahen  will preside several panels. Drs.  Rodrick Van der Smissen  will participate in the PhD-workshop. The programme can be consulted on the conference  website . (source:  ESCLH )

  (image source: EUTopia website ) EUTopia, the European University uniting the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and nine other partners, offers a partnering tool  for postdoc fellowships under the European Commission's MSCA actions. Prospective candidates can construct an application with a supervisor from another EUTopia-institution, or with one in our group .  CORE has welcomed dr. Raphaël Cahen (2017-2019) as MSCA incoming Pegasus² fellow (co-fund programme with the FWO), as well as dr. Stefano Cattelan (2022-2023) as incoming Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Grantee. Besides the applications for FWO Junior and Senior Postdoctoral Fellows, the MSCA Fellowships are an important channel to attract PhD graduates for fundamental research purposes. Eligibility: Supported fellows must be postdoctoral researchers at the date of the call deadline, i.e. in a possession of a doctoral degree before 13 September 2023, defined as a successfully defended doctoral thesis, even ...

(image source: OUP ) The European Journal of International Law publishes an advance article by voluntary associate drs. Filip Batselé (PhD-Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO), under supervision of Prof. Dirk Heirbaut (UGent) and prof. Frederik Dhondt , and Joint PhD candidate at the Université libre de Bruxelles, under supervision of Prof. Nicolas Angelet). Abstract: This article studies lobbying efforts by the actors that investment treaties protect – namely, foreign investors. It uses a legal-historical approach to analyse the activities of the International Association for the Promotion and Protection of Private Foreign Investments (Association internationale pour la promotion et la protection des investissements privés en territoires étrangers or APPI), a transnational business interest association that lobbied for better protection of private foreign investment under international law. The article considers the role of this group in lobbying for three multilateral in...

  (image source: VUB ) Last week, Martti Koskenniemi received an honorary doctorate  from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, at the proposal of the Faculty of Law and Criminology, as a recognition of his outstanding scholarship in international law, legal theory and legal history. Pictures of the event can be found here . 

  (image source: NAM ) Dr. Stefano Cattelan published two book reviews in the Nuova Antologia Militare  (nr. 15/2023): - Svante Norrhem & Eric Thomson, Subsidies, Diplomacy, and State Formation in Europe, 1494-1789. Economies of Allegiance - Alexandre Joubelin, Par le fer et par le feu. Combattre dans l'Atlantique (XVIe-XVIIe siècles) The full issue can be read in open access here .

  Our member drs. Niels Fieremans (researcher, FWO Fundamental Research Project) will defend his Joint PhD  in history and law with prof. dr. Jan Dumolyn (UGent), Prof. dr. Dirk Heirbaut (UGent/KVAB) and Prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher (VUB) as supervisors on Wednesday 28 June  at 16:00  in the Aula Academica in Ghent. More information on the image above (click enlarge).

  dra. Léna Sylvestre participates in the Journées internationales  of the Société d'histoire du droit , held in Lausanne this year. She presents in the PhD seminar on the following topic: Le multilinguisme et les divergences linguistiques dans les affaires de la CIJ : réel désavantage pour l’application du droit international ? Consult the full program here .