PHD DEFENSES SINCE 2020

(1) dr. Kaat Cappelle, De strijd om de broek. Getrouwde vrouwen en recht in het zestiende-eeuwse Antwerpen

9 September 2020, Aula Q

Supervisor: prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher

Jury:

• Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt (president)
• Prof. dr. Manon Van Der Heijden (Leiden)
• Prof. dr. Bram Van Hofstraeten (Maastricht)
• Prof. dr. Dirk Heirbaut (UGent)
• Prof. dr. Elisabeth Alofs
• Prof. dr. Heini Deneweth

(2) dr. dr. Gijs Dreijer (Joint PhD, Exeter), The Power and Pains of Polysemy: General Average, Maritime Trade and Normative Practice in the Southern Low Countries (Fifteenth-Sixteenth Centuries)

10 June 2021, D.0.02

Supervisor: prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher - Prof. dr. Maria Fusaro (Exeter)

Jury:

• Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt (president)
• Prof. dr. Oscar Gelderblom (Utrecht)
• Prof. dr. Louis Sicking (VU Amsterdam/Leiden)
• dr. Hester Schadee (Exeter)

Published version (Brill, 2023) here.

(3) dr. Maarten Colette, Het Salduzacquis in verhouding tot de Belgische ondervragingscultuur

17 December 2021 [Teams]

Supervisor: prof. dr. Paul De Hert - co-supervisor Prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher

Jury:

• Prof. dr. Serge Gutwirth (president)
• Prof. dr. Catherine Van de Heyning (Antwerp)
• dr. Laurens Lavrysen (UGent)
• dr. Pieter Tersago (Antwerp)
• Prof. dr. Sofie De Kimpe
• Prof. dr. Niels Van Dijk

Published version (Intersentia, 2022) here.

(4) dr. Marco in 't Veld, Commerce and Customs in the Courts. A Comparison of Mercantile Customs, Jurisdictions and Institutions in Amsterdam and Lyon (early 18th Century)

29 August 2022, Promotion Hall

Supervisor: Prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher

Jury:

• Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt (president)
• Prof. dr. David Deroussin (Lyon III)
• Prof. dr. Stefania Gialdroni (Padova)
• Prof. dr. Niels Van Dijk

(5) dr. dr. Niels Fieremans (Joint PhD, UGent), Law, Leverage and Litigation: Legal Strategies of Foreign Merchants before the Courts of Late Medieval Bruges

28 June 2023, Aula, UGent (Ceremoniezaal)

Supervisor: Prof. dr. Jan Dumolyn (UGent) - co-supervisors Prof. dr. Dirk Heirbaut (UGent)/Dave De ruysscher.

Jury:

• Prof. dr. René Vermeir (UGent) (president)
• Prof. dr. Albrecht Cordes (Frankfurt)
• Prof. dr. Louis Sicking (Leiden/VU Amsterdam)
• dr. Janna Coomans (Utrecht)
• Prof. dr. Frederik Buylaert (UGent)
• Prof. dr. Georges Martyn (UGent)
• Prof. dr. Bart Lambert

(6) dr. Wouter De Rycke, Justifying Utopia. A Legal History of the International Peace Movement (1815-1873)

15 September 2023, Promotion Hall

Supervisor-spokesperson: Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt - supervisor: dr. Raphaël Cahen

Jury:

• Prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher (president)
• Prof. em. dr. dr. h.c. mult. Martti Koskenniemi FBA (Helsinki)
• Prof. dr. dr. Stella Ghervas (UCLA)
• Prof. dr. Miroslav Šedivý (Pardubice)
• Prof. dr. Nel De Mûelenaere (VUB/History)
• Prof. dr. Stefaan Smis (VUB)