VUB Contextual Research in Law

    Corporate and mercantile bankruptcy, insolvency and debt: approaches from legal and economic history Venice, 29-31 October 2024 Call for applications In October 2024, the PHEDRA network will organize a workshop on the history of insolvency and bankruptcy (Middle Ages-19 th century). This workshop has the aim to delve into these themes and to explore the combined legal and economic aspects of phenomena connected to insolvency and bankruptcy. From the vantage point of economic history, insolvency is linked to credit, private and public ordering. Legal historians have emphasized the cultural aspects of insolvency regulations and the transplanting of remedies and proceedings.  The hybridity of the problem of insolvency, which touches upon both economic and legal questions, also in their combination, invites further reflection. The workshop consists of a series of lectures by specialists on the topic and presentations by doctoral candidates on their research .  PhD...

  (image source: PHEDRA ) Prof. Dave De ruysscher is a member of the panel of the PHEDRA Summer School organised in Spain this Summer. Call: The International Research Network I.R.N. PHEDRA organizes its second summer school in La Rábida (Palos de la Frontera, Spain) on 25-28 June 2024. Following the basis of the first summer school, the purpose of the event is to provide an exceptional opportunity to the participants to present their ongoing research before a group of specialists in commercial legal history matters, in order to generate fruitful discussions resulting in valuable feedback that will enrich and improve their work. PHEDRA project concerns the  history of business law, from Antiquity to the present day, focusing on norms and practices that developed around Europe  to support commerce and business exchange which led to the transformation of societies and gave commercial law its features. The project is particularly interested on the sources we use to trace an...

(Hugo Grotius by Van Mierevelt; source: dmy.info ) dr. Stefano Cattelan ( The Laws of War on Land in Historical Perspective) and drs. Wouter De Rycke ( The Impact of the Nineteenth Century Peace Movement on the Establishment of the Contemporary Ius Contra Bellum  teach at the ELSA Brussels Summer School (23, 26 July 2023)  on the Laws of War.  More information at ELSA’s internet channels .