VUB Contextual Research in Law

Abstract: On Tuesday 12 March 2024 (12.30-14.00, Room B4.08), Dr. Johan Poukens, who currently holds a FED-tWIN position at the University of Antwerp and the Belgian State Archives, will be presenting the ARCHIE.BEL (ARCHives for the Economic history of BELgium) project. The ARCHIE.BEL aims to forward financial and business history by cataloging the archives of Belgian stock exchanges and companies and use these archives for research. The presentation can be followed in person or via Teams. RSVP with Rodrick dot Van dot der dot Smissen at vub dot be.

(Source: Harvard Univeristy )   A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millenia Prof. Dr. Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard University Organised by the Interdisciplinary Studies of Law Department. Introduced by Prof. Dr. Laurent de Sutter. A Short History of European Law , Tamar Herzog’s new, best-selling, monograph, she brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was used and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and place to the next. Only by considering Continental civil law and English common law together do we see how they drew from and enriched this shared tradition. An unconventional reading of European Law seen from the other side of the Atlantic,...

  (bron: ifese.be ) Op woensdag 20 maart 2024 organiseert het Instituut voor Filosofische en Sociaalwetenschappelijke Educatie (Ifese) i.s.m. Historia een lezing met prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt (VUB) over de constitutionele identiteit van de Oostenrijkse Nederlanden in de 18e eeuw. De activiteit behoort tot de lezingenreeks over constitutionalisme in de Nederlanden. Ze zal te Leuven plaatsvinden in aula 01.16 van het Mgr. Sencie-Instituut (Erasmusplein 2 , 3000 Leuven), starten om 19.30 uur en eindigen om 21.00 uur. Nadien is er de gelegenheid om na te praten op café. Tijdens deze lezing zal professor Frederik Dhondt aan de hand van de werken van Goswin Arnould de Wynants (1661-1732) een dieper inzicht verschaffen op de institutionele organisatie van de Oostenrijkse Nederlanden toen destijds onder gezag staand van keizer Karel VI van Habsburg. Hiervoor levert het werk van Wynants getiteld als “Mémoires contenant des notions générales de tout ce qui concerne le Gouvernement des ...

  (images: Eroberung von Dinant door Sébastien Le Clerc (1683/1687) - Albertina, Austria - Public Domain;  https://www.europeana.eu/item/15508/11763 )  Our voluntary associate prof. Stanislas Horvat (Royal Military Academy) organises this year's edition of the  Journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons , as president of the Belgian branch of this society. Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons   (fondée à Lille en  1929)   Journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions DINANT  (Belgique), les 10 et 11 mai 2024             Appel à contributions   Les journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions 2024, co-organisées par l’Université de Namur, l’Ecole Royale Militaire belge, l’Université catholique de Louvain (Saint-Louis) et la Vrije Universiteit B...

  (poster: credits dr. Elisabeth Bruyère) On 14 and 15 March 2024 , the EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History convenes in Brussels for its annual Peak Event. Students and staff from CY Paris, Ljubljana, Nova Lisboa and Warwick will present and discuss on work-in-progress around the annual theme connectnedness in legal history . A presentation of the theme can be found on the EUTopia CoLeCo Legal History's blog . The final program will be announced soon. This event is hybrid, a Teams-link can be provided upon request.