VUB Contextual Research in Law

(image source: CHJ ) Our colleagues from the CHJ  in Lille uploaded the recordings of the roundtable held on 15 November to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their research centre. More information here .

  (image source:  Warwick ) The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History announces this year's opening keynote lecture (26 November, 18:00 Brussels Time, Teams).  More information  here .

  (image source:  CUP ) Cambridge University Press will publish thirteen volumes in the series  The Cambridge History of International Law . The first volume ( The Historiography of International Law , eds. Randall Lesaffer & Anne Peters) will roll off the press this month (November 2024). Prof. Frederik Dhondt contributed a chapter on "The Historiography of International Law on the European Continent". Several chapters in volumes VI (International Law in Early Modern Europe, ed. Randall Lesaffer) and VII (Western International Law, ed. Miloš Vec) are authored by CORE members (Prof. Dave De ruysscher , Prof. Frederik Dhondt, dr. Stefano Cattelan ). More information with the publisher .

  Abstract: This volume by both younger and more established specialists of legal, maritime, diplomatic, and political history covers the nuanced interplay of neutrality and the law of the sea within Western, Central, and Eastern Europe, emphasising the opening up of the world in the early modern period (i.e. Africa, North America, and the Caribbean). The various faces of neutrality, both in law and politics, appear through commercial, administrative, and geopolitical practical cases and in the writings of famous legal writers. By linking up different sets of knowledge, a kaleidoscope of power configurations and arguments guides the reader through the labyrinth of trade, sea power, and negotiations. Contributors are: Stefano Cattelan, Frederik Dhondt, John Freeman, Nora Naguib Leerberg, Christian Pfister-Langanay, Leos Müller, Stephen C. Neff, and Victor Wilson On the editors: Stefano Cattelan is Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universitei...

    The Worlds of Pre-Modern Neutrality (ca. 1400-1800): Norms, Institutions and Practices   Antwerp, Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library - 8-9 May 2025   Convened by Stefano Cattelan & Frederik Dhondt (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)   Supported by FWO Junior Fundamental Research Project G016122N, In the Shadow of the Great Powers: Freedom of the Sea and Neutrality in the Long Eighteenth Century (2024-2026)  _____________________________________________________ (image source: Conscience Heritage Library ) DAY 1 (May 8) Hendrik Conscienceplein 4, 2000 ANTWERP (Nottebohm Room) 9:30 – 9:45 - Welcoming               Stefano Cattelan & Frederik Dhondt   9:45 – 10:45 - Keynote n.1 :               Silvia Marzagalli (Université Côte d’Azur) 10:45 – 11:00: Coffee break   ...

  (image source: CHJ ) The Centre d'Histoire Judiciaire  (Université de Lille/CNRS), established in 1984, celebrates its fortieth anniversary. PhD-candidates Louis Debersaques, Antoine Leclère and Rodrick Van der Smissen will participate in a workshop for doctoral researchers on 14 November . Prof. Frederik Dhondt will take part in a panel debate on 15 November .

(image source: Warwick ) The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History announces this year's opening keynote lecture (26 November, 18:00 Brussels Time, Teams).  More information here .