VUB Contextual Research in Law

(image source: Routledge) Prof. Dave De ruysscher contributed a chapter on the history of the international law of responsible business to The Routledge Companion to International Law and Responsible Business , edited by Bart F. Wernaart and published by Routledge.  Read more here .

(image source: Firenze University Press) Prof. Dave De ruysscher contributed to the roundtable “Risk, Uncertainty and Bankruptcy before Modernity: Language, Experience and Historical Understanding”, published in the collective volume Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries) , edited by Angela Orlandi.  Read the contribution here in open access: DOI 10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.32.

(image source: Franz Steiner Verlag)  Prof. Dave De ruysscher contributed a chapter on the perceived dangers of legal pluralism in sixteenth-century Antwerp to the collective volume Friedlicher Handel oder umkämpfte Geschäfte? Handel und Handelsrecht in der Vormoderne zwischen Krieg und Frieden , published by Franz Steiner Verlag.  Read more here .

(image source: Firenze University Press) Prof. Dave De ruysscher contributed a chapter on the emergence of a municipal legal culture of insolvency in the Low Countries to the collective volume Gestione del rischio, insolvenza e bancarotta nel mondo premoderno (secc. XIII-XVIII) / Risk Management, Insolvency, and Bankruptcy in the Pre-Modern World (13th-18th Centuries) , edited by Angela Orlandi.  Read the chapter here in open access: DOI 10.36253/979-12-215-0963-2.09.

  (image source: Stämpfli ) dr. Léna Sylvestre contributed a chapter in the collective volume  Langues et paroles du droit. Actes des journées internationales de la Société d'histoire du droit tenues à l'Université de Lausanne du 1er au 4e juin 2023 , published in the "Collection lausannoise" of Stämpfli (edited by Denis Tappy and Anne Peroz). More information with the publisher .

  (image source: Giappichelli ) Dr. Stefano Cattelan contributed to the fifth volume of the series History & Law Encounters. Lezioni per pensare da giurista. Tomo V  (eds. Elisabetta Fusar Poli & Federica Paletti), published by Giappichelli. Read more here .

(Source:  septentrion.com ) dr. Raphaël Cahen  contributed a chapter on "Alexandre Ribot penseur et acteur des relations internationales (1890-1914)" in  Alexandre Ribot Une vie en politique , edited by Pierre ALLORANT, Jean-Marc GUISLIN, Walter BADIER & Olivier TORT. Summary:  "Personnage majeur de la IIIe République et illustre représentant du Pas-de-Calais, Alexandre Ribot (1842-1923) demeure dans l'ombre de la mémoire collective. Cent ans après sa disparition, l'examen des multiples facettes de son parcours par une vingtaine d'historiens permet de saisir toute l'importance de cet homme d'Etat. Parlementaire influent, il a pesé sur les grands débats législatifs de son temps (protectionnisme, enseignement, Séparation des Eglises et de l'Etat, accession à la petite propriété, retraites ouvrières et paysannes). Cinq fois président du Conseil, ministre des Affaires étrangères, de l'Intérieur, des Finances, de la Justice, il gouverna à des m...

  (image source: Knops Publishing ) Drs. Rodrick Van der Smissen  (research and teaching assistant) published his master thesis on the Roman Republic and the Consulate in France (2020-2021, supervisor Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt ) in the peer reviewed GPRC-volume  Juridische Meesterwerken VUB – Uitgave 2024  (eds. Elisabeth Alofs, Alain François, Stefaan Smis, Jachin Van Doninck & Guido Van Limberghen). More information here .

Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt  contributed a chapter on "De La Haye à Cambrai: Lenteur et impatience de la pacification entre métropoles et congrès (1720-1725)" in Le traité de Nystad et l’établissement de la paix en Europe dans les années 1720 , edited by Eric Schnakenbourg. Summary: At the end of the War of the Quadruple Alliance (1718-1720), a general congress was convened to secure a permanent peace treaty between the Emperor and Philip V. The Congress of Cambrai, like the Congress of Soissons, was distinctive because it was held in the countryside, at a discreet distance from any major court or metropolis. The French and British mediators were theoretically supposed to act as neutral powers and guarantors of the Treaty of London (2 August 1718). However, Spanish trade had significant leverage. Philip V attempted to circumvent the treaty by sidelining the Emperor’s mediators. Although the theatres of the Great Northern War and the grievances from the War of the Spanish Succes...

(image source: Saint Martin Bookshop )   Prof. Laurent Desutter contributed a chapter to a collective work on art and law. More information here .

(Source:  classiques garnier.com ) dr. Raphaël Cahen  contributed a chapter on "Les juristes internationalistes, les affaires étrangères et l’opinion publique (1789-1830)" in Le Pouvoir en procès. Opinion publique et légitimité politique des Lumières au Premier Empire , edited by Maximilien NOVAK and Ryan BROWN. Summary:  "Cet article étudie le rapport entre l’opinion publique et les jurisconsultes employés dans les ministères des affaires étrangères dans une perspective comparée. Il analyse le cas particulier de la France dans les années 1789-1830 et la manière dont les jurisconsultes du ministère des Affaires étrangères (Pfeffel, Rosenstiel, Rayneval, Guerard, Hauterive, Haller) ont été des acteurs, juges et censeurs de l’opinion publique." More information:  classiques garnier.

(image source: LGDJ ) Prof. Dave De ruysscher contributed a chapter to the edited volume Dynamique juridique des réseaux marchands. Hanses, nations, agences, filiales et comptoirs. Consult the table of contents here .

  (image source:  Iași University press ) Dr. Raphaël Cahen contributed a chapter to the Liber Amicorum  of Prof. Gheorge Cliveti (University of Iași). More information on the book here .

  (image source: Slovenska Matica ) Dr. Raphaël Cahen contributed a chapter on Friedrich Gentz at the Congress of Laibach in a commemorative book on the bicentenary of this important European diplomatic gathering, co-organised by our EUTopia-partners at the University of Ljubljana. More information about the book on the publisher's website .

  (image source: Anthémis ) Prof. Frederik Dhondt published a paper in the acta of a symposium held at the Belgian Constitutional Court at the occasion of the admission of president François Daout to the status of emeritus. The symposium was devoted to the concept of neutrality of the state ( laïcité ), the chapter explores the French concept from a historical perspective, from the age of Enligthenment on. More information with the publisher .