VUB Contextual Research in Law

  The Revue Belge de Droit International  (Bruylant) published an article by alumnus and voluntary collaborator Maximilien Storme, "Edouard Descamps - Belgisch apostel van vrede door het recht" (pp. 499-536, Issue 2022/1-2). This opportunity was offered by the Belgian Society of International Law . Mr. Storme won the 2022 Thesis Prize organised by the Society with his MA Thesis in Law. His work (2020-2022) was supervised by prof. Dhondt and graded by dr. Cahen (assessor). Read the article on Stradalex  (login required). Contact the author at maximilien dot storme at vub dot be.

  (Source:  PUF.com ) Décevoir est un plaisir  « Tu m’as déçu ! » Qui, aujourd’hui, pourrait se relever d’une telle accusation ? Et qui, aussi, n’y a jamais recouru ? Nous sommes les êtres de la déception, car nous ne cessons de décevoir et d’être déçu. Pourtant, les moralistes l’ont martelé : être déçu, c’est avant tout être la victime d’attentes qui n’existaient que dans notre tête.  Mais si ce n’était pas tout ? Et si, derrière la fable morale, se dissimulait toute une politique, une théologie et même une métaphysique ? Et si, derrière la danse de l’espoir et de la déception, des attentes et de leur frustration, se déployait un véritable ordre du monde, décidant, pour nous, de ce que nous pouvons et ne pouvons pas ? Et si décevoir était avant tout une manière de s’y soustraire ?  Poursuivant son travail de décadrage des grands concepts issus de la modernité, Laurent de Sutter ajoute un chapitre jouissif au chantier de ses Propositions.    Plus d'inf...

(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 Unive...

    (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. 

  The Library of the Faculty of Law and Criminological Sciences at KU Leuven has undertaken the digitization of the Recueils de la Société Jean Bodin pour l’Histoire Comparative des Institutions in open access. This significant collection of legal history owes a lot to the activity of its secretary-general (and ULB/VUB professor of legal history) Prof. John Gilissen (1969-1987), who authored several comprehensive synthesis reports. Consult all volumes   here .

(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 Unive...

  (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 manusc...