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ARTICLE: Laurent DE SUTTER, "La edad teórica del arte" (Revista de Occidente n° 525, FEB 2025)

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- February 02, 2026

(image source: Fundación Ortega-Marañon ) Prof. Laurent De Sutter published an article in Revista de Occidente . More information here .

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ONLINE BOOK PRESENTATION: Nicholas MULDER, The Economic Weapon (Yale UP, 2022) (17 MARCH 2022)
GUEST LECTURE: Prof. Julio ARROYO VOZMEDIANO (UNED) on the Partition Treaties of the Spanish Succession (VUB Building I (i) 1.08, 19 APR 2022)
OPEN SOURCE LAUNCH: Teaching the Law of Nations in King Leopold's Foreign office: L. Arendt's course "Le droit des gens" (2 MAY 2022, 17-18:30, Faculty Council Room/MS Teams)
SEMINAR: CORE Legal Theory Seminar organised by Prof. Laurent de Sutter (APRIL 14, 28 & MAY 12)
GUEST LECTURE: dr. Michel ERPELDING (Luxemburg) on slavery and forced labour in the 19thC (17 MAY 2022)
OVR Chair Inaugural Lecture (Amsterdam: Vrije Universiteit, 18 MAY 2022)
PRIZE CEREMONY: Prix Tilsit 2020 (Institut de France) for Raphaël CAHEN (7 JUN 2022)
L&C Talk: Daniel Quiroga-Villamarin (Brussels: VUB, 10 JUNE 2022) [Hybrid]
PhD Day Legal History Lille (Lille: Université de Lille, 17 JUN 2022)
PhD DEFENCE: Marco IN 'T VELD, "Commerce and Customs in the Courts: A Comparison Between Mercantile Customs, Jurisdictions and Institutions in Amsterdam and Lyon During the Early 18th Century" (Brussels: VUB, 29 AUG 2022)
SYMPOSIUM: Mme de Staël en haar kring – Mme de Staël and her Circle [deDebatten] (Brussel: VUB, 22 SEP 2022)
SEMINAR: Legal Theory Seminars 2022-2023
L&C TALK: Miroslav ŠEDIVÝ, "The geopolitical background of the debates on international law in the mid-19th century" (Brussels: VUB, 18 OCT 2022) [Hybrid]
LAUNCH EVENT: EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History: Labour Migration: Prof. Cristiana BASTOS, "Across Empires: Plantation Labour in the Aftermath of Abolition" (TEAMS, 21 OCT 2022)
TALK: Frederik DHONDT, "La "foy des traitez" et la liberté de la mer: menaces et intimidations autour de la Compagnie impériale des Indes à Ostende (1725-1730)" (Paris: Société d'Histoire du Droit, 10 DEC 2022)
L&C Talk: Hylkje DE JONG, Het HUF-Project. Over het nut van digitale archiefontsluiting (Brussel: VUB, 15 FEB 2023)
LECTURE: Prof. Hylkje DE JONG, OVR-Wisselleerstoel inauguraal college 8 MAART 2023
PROGRAMMA OVR-Wisselleerstoel 2022-2023: Prof. mr. Hylkje de Jong (10 FEB-10 MAR 2023)
CORE Weekly Gathering: drs. João Tiago FREITAS MENDES on the Notion of Legal Sociability (14 MAR 2023)
CORE Weekly Gathering: drs. Rodrick VAN DER SMISSEN on 19th century cession des biens and roman law-cessio bonorum (28 MAR 2023)
CORE Weekly Gathering: dr. Stefano CATTELAN on Neutrality and the Nine Years' War (18 APR 2023)
SYMPOSIUM: Small Powers and Maritime Neutrality. Theory and Practice of the Law of Nations (1650-1800) (Paris: Fondation Biermans-Lapôtre, 22 APR 2023)
CORE Weekly Gathering: Prof. Frederik Dhondt on Transkribus and early modern sources (25 APR 2023)
CONFERENCE: Journées internationales de la Société d'histoire du droit et des institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons: Boire et Manger (Lille, 19-20 MAY 2023)
CEREMONY: Doctorate Honoris Causa Prof. em. dr. dr. h.c. mult. Martti KOSKENNIEMI (Brussels: VUB (Aula Q), 1 JUN 2023, 11:00) (REGISTRATION MANDATORY)
CONFERENCE: Seventh Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (Augsburg: Universität Augsburg, 21-23 JUN 2023)
CONFERENCE: 16th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Roma: Sapienza University/University of Rome "Tor Vergata", 3-7 JUL)
STUDIENAMIDDAG: Emeritaat Serge Gutwirth - Strafrecht in dialoog [deDebatten] (deBuren: 29 SEPT 2023)
SYMPOSIUM: Imagining Peace in the Long Nineteenth Century (1789-1914). In Search of New Actors and Vocabularies (Brussels: VUB, 15 SEP 2023)
CONFERENCE: Étienne-Denis PASQUIER (1767-1862) : un parlementaire gallican sous la Restauration et la Monarchie de Juillet (Le Mans: Le Mans Université, 5-6 Octobre 2023)
CORE Weekly Gathering: The Ostend Company (1722-1727/1731) and the Law of Nations (VUB: B 4.08, 21 NOV 2023)
CONFERENCE: Tercentenary of the Imperial East India Company in Ostend (Oostende: VLIZ/RBMA, 23-24 NOV 2023)
CORE Weekly Gathering: dra. Léna SYLVESTRE (CY Paris, Joint PhD), ”Translating legal language, a complex exercise: a closer look at a constantly evolving language” (VUB: 28 NOV 2023)
CORE Weekly Gathering: Antoine LECLÈRE (FNRS/ULiège) (VUB: B 4.08, 5 DEC 2023)
CORE Seminar in Legal Theory: Liora ISRAEL (EHESS) (Brussel: VUB, Room C 2.07B, 24 NOV 2023)
CORE Seminar in Legal Theory: Olivier CORTEN (ULB) on Sociologies of Law (Brussel: VUB, room C.07A, 25 JAN 2024)
CORE Weekly Gathering: drs. João Tiago FREITAS MENDES (Brussels: VUB, room B 4.08, 30 JAN 2024)
CORE WEEKLY GATHERING: dr. Johan POUKENS (Belgian State Archives), on "ARCHIE.BEL (ARCHives for the Economic history of BELgium) project" (Brussels: VUB, 12 MAR 2024) [HYBRID]
CORE Seminar in Legal Theory: Prof. dr. Tamar HERZOG (Harvard) (25 APR 2024)
RECORDING: Dr. Piotr KULIGOWSKI on Representation and Sovereignty (United Kingdom of the Netherlands - Belgium - Poland), 1814-1847 (Brussels: VUB, 15 OCT 2024)
SAVE THE DATE: EUTopia CoLeCo Legal History 2024-2025 Opening Lecture (Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History) [25 NOV 2024; Teams, 18:00-19:30]
CORE WEEKLY GATHERING: dr. Marie-Sophie SILAN (ULiège) (VUB, 25 FEB 2025)
CORE WEEKLY GATHERING: dr. François PIERRARD (FRS-FNRS/UCLouvain) (VUB, 18 MAR 2025)
BOOK PRESENTATION: Vincenzo DE MEULENAERE, Coudenberg. Het verdwenen Versailles van België (Ghent, B&L, 2025) (KBR: Newspaper Room, 1 APR 2025)
CORE LEGAL THEORY SEMINAR: Lauréline FONTAINE (Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle), "The Constitution as Social Fetish" (VUB: room C4.09, 4 APR 2025)
CORE LEGAL THEORY SEMINAR: José Antonio MAGALHAES (ICI-Berlin) on "Speculative Legal Theory and World (Dis-)order" (Brussels: VUB, 23 APRIL 2025, 14:00-15u30) [HYBRID]
CORE LEGAL THEORY SEMINAR: Dirk HEIRBAUT (UGent/KVAB) on "Redefining Codification" (Oxford University Press, 2025) (Brussels: VUB, 6 MAY 2025, 12:30-14:00) [HYBRID]
SYMPOSIUM: The Worlds of Pre-Modern Neutrality (ca. 1400-1800): Norms, Institutions and Practices [Special Issue/Numéro spécial Clio@Thémis] (Antwerp: Conscience Heritage Library, 8-9 MAY 2025)
CORE WEEKLY GATHERING: Daniel QUIROGA-VILLAMARÍN, "Architects of the Better World: Democracy, Law, and the Construction of International Order, 1898-1998" (27 MAY 2025) [YOUTUBE RECORDED]
CONFERENCE: Grotian Law and Modernity at the dawn of a new age. 400 years of the Jure Belli Ac Pacis 1625-2025 (The Hague: Universiteit Leiden, 19-20 JUN 2025)
CONFERENCE: 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (Szeged: University of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025)
SYMPOSIUM: John Locke [DeDebatten] (Leiden: Universiteit Leiden, NAJAAR 2025)
CONFERENCE: Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians (Ghent: UGent, 17-20 SEP 2025)
CORE WEEKLY GATHERING: Rossella VIGGIANO (Napoli) on Non-Intervention in International Law (VUB: B 4.08, 16 OCT 2025, 12:00-14:00)
CONFERENCE: Édouard Laboulaye et la galaxie libérale (Paris: Sénat, 20 OCT 2025)
CORE WEEKLY GATHERING: Frederik DHONDT on Digitizing Eighteenth Century Public Law (VUB: B 4.08, 23 OCT, 12:00-14:00)
CORE SEMINAR IN LEGAL THEORY: Lorraine DASTON, "The History of Rules" (VUB: 4 C.05, 19 NOV 2025, 12:00-13:30) [HYBRID]
CORE SEMINAR IN LEGAL THEORY: Romain GRAZIANI, "The Laws and the Numbers" (VUB: 2026) [HYBRID]
SAVE THE DATE: CORE/FRC Weekly Research Gathering dr. Wiebe HOMMES (Universiteit van Amsterdam) on "The Convention and the Kingdom" (CUP 2025) (Brussels: VUB, 19 MAR 2026, 14:00)
SAVE THE DATE: CORE WEEKLY GATHERING: dr. Nathaniel BOYD (York) on Hegel and German Public Law (21 APR)

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