VUB Contextual Research in Law

  (Source: Die Keure )  De nutteloze noodzaak van het recht Over het strafproces wordt vaak nagedacht in functie van een bevangenheid door snelheid, maar in de praktijk gaat het er veelal traag aan toe. Ook onze veiligheidscultuur is door en door gesteld op efficiëntie. En waarom ook niet? We willen immers dat criminaliteit kordaat en efficiënt wordt aangepakt. Echter, het is de vraag welke tijdsbeleving daarmee op de achtergrond verdwijnt en wat dat doet met mensen die met het strafrecht in aanraking komen. De nutteloze noodzaak van het recht neemt de lezer mee op een avontuurlijke reis door het denken over veiligheid, terrorisme en mensenrechten. Het is een striemende kritiek op nutsdenken en breekt een lans voor vertraging en voor de institutionele diepgang van het strafproces. Link & meer informatie: Uitgeverij   Die Keure

(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 Introduced by Prof. Dr. Laurent de Sutter. Abstract: 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,  A Short History of European Law  (Harvard University Press, 2018)

The VUB's Marcom services published pictures from the EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History Peak Event on flickr. More information here .

  (image source: WeKonekt ) ULB and VUB organise the WeKonekt.BXL -week, traditionally the last week before the Spring Holidays. During this week, students and staff are abducted from Ixelles, Etterbeek or Jette, and brought to the city centre, where they are taught in significant places, or by societally relevant partners of these two open minded universities. This Tuesday's course Rechtsgeschiedenis/Legal History (taught in Dutch) takes place in the KBR's Newspaper Room  between 15:00 and 17:00. The course is open to all interested audiences and will treat the Peace of Utrecht (1713) . RSVP with Frederik dot Dhondt at vub dot be. More information on WeKonekt.BXL on the iniatiative's website .

(image source: University of the Underground ) Prof. Laurent De Sutter organises the CORE Seminar in Legal Theory. For the next session, Michele Spanò will be our guest. On the speaker: Michele Spano is Associate Professor of Law at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He is interested in the ways in which law deals with collective entities. His researches focus on class action lawsuits and consider, both historically and theoretically, how the logical and practical hegemony of individualism in private law is being reframed and contested through and by the emergence of common or collective actors, interests, goods and rights. His most recent book is Fare il molteplice. Il diritto privato alla prova del comune (Rosenberg & Sellier, 2022). Talk description: The "General Theory of Law and Marxism" (1924), the most famous work by the Soviet jurist E. B. Pašukanis, celebrates its centenary this year. I am dedicating my research seminar at EHESS and a manuscrip

  Dr. Stefano Cattelan (currently visiting researcher at the ENS) will present at our EUTopia-Partner CY Paris (CPJP) on 29 March 2024  at 14:30 (Salle B 322, Site des Chênes I) on the topic "La question de la souveraineté sur les océans et le début de la modernité" More information with the presenter .

  (image source: EUTopia alliance ) The European University Alliance EUTopia offers PhD Scholarships  for projects in cotutelle between two partners.  The EUTopia website lists all available positions, for which the Vrije Universiteit Brussel can operate as host. 

  (image source: ARLLFB ) Prof. Laurent De Sutter won the Grand prix de l'Essai 2023  awarded by the Académie de langue et de littérature française de Belgique  for his book Superfaible. Penser au XXIe siècle (Flammarion, 2023). Read more on the Academy's website .

  (click on images to enlarge; credits dr. Elisabeth Bruyère) Passive online participation is possible. Contact the organisers to obtain the MS Teams link. 

  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.

  (image source: DeGruyter ) Our guest lecturer dr. Raphaël Cahen published a monograph in 2017 on Friedrich Gentz, secretary of the Congress of Vienna, with DeGruyter in the series Pariser Historische Studien . The chapters of his volume can be consulted in open access here .