GUEST LECTURE: Prof. Julio ARROYO VOZMEDIANO (UNED) on the Partition Treaties of the Spanish Succession (VUB Building I (i) 1.08, 19 APR 2022)

Prof. Dr. Julio Luis Arroyo Vozmediano (UNED Madrid) will give a guest lecture in the master course Legal History (prof. Dhondt/dr. Cahen) on Tuesday 19 April at 15:00. Prof. Arroyo contributed to a collective work in Spanish on the partition treaties in 2016 and published on the matter in Historical Research (Oxford University press). More on the speaker on the UNED’s website.

 

The course will take place physically on campus, but is also accessible through Teams. RSVP here.


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