Quick update on the imports that will now cost more for the US, thanks to Trump: Denmark: Packaged medicine ($4.6B), vaccines/blood products ($590M), orthopedic appliances ($418M) Norway: Refined petroleum ($1.23B), fish fillets ($960M), raw nickel ($351M) 1/?

On X, French-speaking accounts –notably alleged «patriots»– identified by the French authorities as pro-Iranian have gone silent since the blackout imposed by the Tehran regime. A phenomenon also observed in the UK. @liberation.fr @checknews.bsky.social (in French)

Luther Museum, Amsterdam 🇳🇱

Thorbecke en Spinoza te Amsterdam 🇳🇱

« Roman law and slavery » exhibition @allardpierson.bsky.social

“Richard Painter, a professor at the University of Minnesota Law School [stated] … his observations in Minnesota and examinations of news reports, Painter said, nothing that has happened in the state so far would reasonably justify an invocation of the insurrection act.” @rwpusa.bsky.social

In het land van bitterballen en minderheidskabinetten 🇳🇱

PRESENTATION: new PhD student Hugo BRETHENOUX VON VIETINGHOFF, who will work on #commerciallaw and 17thC #cities 💰🌎 vubcore.blogspot.com/2026/01/pres...

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Apply for the always interesting postgraduate conference in comparative legal history in beautiful Valencia ! @uv.es

BOOK LAUNCH: Stefano CATTELAN, Mare Clausum: The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350–1650) @degruyterbrill.bsky.social [ @esil-sedi.bsky.social IG History of International Law] (Zoom: 22 JAN 2026) 📖📺 vubcore.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...

The open access journal Magallánica published a dossier on the external reactions to Philip V of Spain's accession to the throne. I was fortunate to contribute an article reflecting on two eighteenth-century French printed sources: Réal de Curban and abbé de Montgon. 📖 fh.mdp.edu.ar/revistas/ind...

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: Max Planck Summer Academy for Legal History 2026 (Frankfurt: @mpilhlt.bsky.social , 6-17 JUL 2026); DEADLINE 31 JAN 2026 📣 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/call...

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Venice Multidisciplinary World Conference on Republics and Republicanism (Venice: Venice International University, 26-28 JUN 2026) [DEADLINE: 16 JAN 2026] 📣 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/call...

ARTICLE: Sébastien BAUER, "Genèse et structure du Léviathan" (Revue philosophique de la France et de l'étranger CL (2025), n°3, pp. 291-309) @cairninfo.bsky.social 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/arti...

US leaves… the ILC (!) www.faz.net/aktuell/feui...

I recently had the opportunity to explore the manuscripts of Goswin Arnould de Wynants, lawyer, judge and member of the High Council for the Netherlands in Vienna under Emperor Charles VI. The contribution below focuses on #jurisdiction and #taxation. ⬇️ dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn...

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BOOK: Sylvie DAUBRESSE, Mark GREENGRASS & Marc SCHACHTER, Les procureurs généraux Jean et Jacques de La Guesle. [Documents inédits sur l'histoire de France; 85] (Paris: CTHS, 2025), 420 p. ISBN 978-2-7355-0993-5 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...

OPEN ACCESS: Handelingen/Bulletin vol. LIX (2025) oldbelgianlaw.blogspot.com/2026/01/open...

Carine Lounissi, Eric Schnakenbourg et Bertrand Van Ruymbeke - La révolution américaine et la naissance des États-Unis (1763-1800) À paraître en mars chez Armand Colin

Deadline for submitting an abstract to the Venice Republicanism conferences has been extended to January 15th. This is a very collegial and experimental gathering. Please consider applying and spread the word. 👇

BOOK: Magnus RESSEL & Emir O. FILIPOVIC, Companion to the Later Crusades (1400–1700) (Leiden/Boston: DegruyterBrill), 2026 @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/book...

JOURNAL: The Journal of Legal History XLVI (2025), No. 2 @tandfresearch.bsky.social 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/jour...

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Nordograd 🚶‍♂️#bxl

The good old days (Miloš Vec on Wolfgang Preiser‘s Institute for the History of #intlaw in Frankfurt): no time limit, no evaluation by University or Ministry 🧠

Wat zou Etienne Vermeersch gezegd hebben over de Einstein/Jonas-polemiek ? 🏛️

CONFERENCE: Minorités protestantes et droit(s) en Europe (17e-18e S.) (Le Mans: Le Mans Université, 11-12 DEC 2025) esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/conf...

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Was het maar echt de Monroe-doctrine, en bedreef Trump maar echt negentiende eeuwse balanspolitiek. Wat hij dan wel doet, en wat de Pax Americana geworden is? Lees het antwoord hier: www.historischnieuwsblad.nl/trump-maakt-...

The 18th-century Dutch Republic was a hotbed of secretive Jacobite networks producing seditious pamphlets. 🔓 Basil Bowdler’s new History Matters is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

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CALL: Positions on the Editorial Board (Comparative Legal History; DEADLINE 15 JAN 2026) @tandfresearch.bsky.social 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/call...

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History (Banff, 12-14 NOV 2026); DEADLINE 24 MAR 2026 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/call...

Far more literate than some contemporary leaders… and still a “risk for peace” (cf. title) 📖

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SYMPOSIUM: Le "Consensus". Définitions et usages d'une notion politique, juridique et diplomatique (XIVe-XVIIe siècles) (Genève: Les Délices, 21-22 JAN 2026). @snsf.ch esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/symp...

JOURNAL: The Journal of Legal History XLV (2024), No. 2 @tandfresearch.bsky.social 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/jour...

CFP: Workshop "To Write the Earth: Law, the Global, and Planetary World-Making" (Florence, Italy - Law Department, EUI, 26-27 JUN 2026); DEADLINE 15 JAN 2026 @eui-eu.bsky.social esclh.blogspot.com/2026/01/cfp-...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Section for Institutional and Legal history [59° Congres de la Fédération des Cercles d'archéologie et d'histoire de Belgique] (Brussels: Palace of the Academies, 20-23 AUG 2026); DEADLINE 6 APR 2026 📣 vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/12/call...