VUB Contextual Research in Law

(image source: Wikimedia Commons )   Alumnus Maximilien Storme (Master of Law, 2022) won the 2022 MA Thesis award of the Belgian Society of International Law for his work on Edouard Descamps ( Edouard Descamps – Belgisch apostel van vrede door het recht;  supervisor: Prof. Frederik Dhondt; jury: dr. Raphaël Cahen, 80 + 50 p.). This work obtained a score of 18/20 in August 2022 and was read for the prize by an external jury of Belgian academics active at Flemish, French-speaking and foreign universities.  We congratulate Maximilien for this external academic recognition of his outstanding work!

  (image source: Classiques Garnier ) Prof. Frederik Dhondt published a chapter in the collective volume Les Forces armées, gardiennes des institutions et des libertés  (eds. Oscar Ferreira & Fabrice Hoarau), with the assistance of student-researchers Max Van Den Bosch and Senne De Kerpel . Abstract: The Belgian Revolution of 1830 associates the people to regime change. The Civic Guard, created at this juncture, further evolves within a bourgeois context, with furthermore unequal capacity in local government across the country. We study the genesis of the triad "army - gendarmerie - civic guard" and its evolution in the Belle Époque. The civic guard's end after World War One and the effective introduction of conscription create a new relationship between citizens and soldiers. The book can either be read on paper, or electronically, chapter by chapter (DOI 10.48611/isbn.978-2-406-15064-0.p.0137 ).

  (image source: Brill ) dr. Stefano Cattelan published a research note in Grotiana  on the FWO-project "In the Shadow of the Great Powers: Freedom of the Sea and Neutrality in the Long Eighteenth Century" (2024-2026). Read the note on Brill's site: DOI 10.1163/18760759-20230005 .