BOOK: Miloš VEC, Wolfgang Preiser (1903–1997) und sein „Institut für Geschichte des Völkerrechts“ an der Universität Frankfurt. Denkräume und Sozialwelten eines Völkerrechtshistorikers im 20. Jahrhundert [Studien Gesch des Völkerrechts] @nomosverlag.bsky.social 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

ARTICLE: Robert SCHÜTZE, "‘Victorian’ Traditions: British International Law Scholarship, 1830–1914" (International and Comparative Law Quarterly LXXIV (2025), nr. 2, 409-435) 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/09/arti...

DATABASE: Les mots du Saint-Empire. Un glossaire (red. Falk BRETSCHNEIDER & Christophe DUHAMELLE) (Paris: EHESS) [ONLINE] @ehess.fr 💽 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/09/data...

BOOK: Virginie LEMONNIER-LESAGE (dir.), Guy Coquille, sieur de Romenay, humaniste et juriste (1523-1603) [Colloques & Essais; 220] (Paris: Institut Francophone pour la Justice et la Démocratie, 2025), 174 p. ISBN 9782370324351, € 19 📖⚖️ esclh.blogspot.com/2025/09/book...

JOURNAL: Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History 33 (2025) @mpilhlt.bsky.social 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/09/jour...

CLOSING LECTURE: Prof. dr. Jean-Louis HALPÉRIN (Paris: Ecole normale supérieure, 15 DEC 2025) esclh.blogspot.com/2025/09/clos...

Hartelijk welkom aan alle nieuwe studenten recht en criminologie! #vub ⚖️

CONFERENCE: Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians (Ghent: UGent, 17-20 SEP 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/09/conf...

VACANCIES: PhD positions on FWO Senior Fundamental Research Projects “Cities as breeding grounds: legal change in financial law (ca. 1620-ca. 1750)” and “Collective negotiations in sovereign default and corporate insolvency (1890-1920)” @vubrussel.bsky.social esclh.blogspot.com/2025/09/vaca...

VACANCIES: PHD positions on FWO Senior Fundamental Research Projects “Cities as breeding grounds: legal change in financial law (ca. 1620-ca. 1750)” and “Collective negotiations in sovereign default and corporate insolvency” (DEADLINE 15 OCT 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/09/vaca...

INTERVIEW: Frederik DHONDT on the crisis in the Bayrou-government (De Morgen, 5 SEP 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/09/inte...

CALL: @eutopiauni.bsky.social Connected Learning Community Legal History 2025-2026: The End of War #vub 🕊️🌍 vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/09/call...

EUTOPIA: Virtual Exhibition Connected Learning Community Legal History 2024-2025 (Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History) @eutopiauni.bsky.social vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/08/euto...

INTERVIEW: Laurent DE SUTTER on "L'art de l'ivresse" (LeVif, 3 AUG 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/08/inte...

BOOK REVIEW: Frederik DHONDT, "De laatste 242: Bespreking van Reszöhazy, E., Roden, D. Horvat, H. en Luyten, D. (2023). De laatste 242: de terechtstelling van collaborateurs na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Lannoo" (Panopticon XLVI (2025), nr. 3, 288-291) 📖 vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/08/book...

BOOK: Laura CULBERTSON & Susan LONGFIELD KARR (eds.), Framing Devices and Global Legal Traditions. From the Ancient World to the Modern Nation State [Routledge Studies in Comparative Legal History @tandfresearch.bsky.social] 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/08/book...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Belgisch-Nederlandse Rechtshistorische Dagen (Nijmegen: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 27-28 NOV 2025) (DEADLINE 1 OCT 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/08/call...

CONFERENCE: 5th Asian Legal History Conference (Kyoto: Doshisha University, 31 JUL-1 AUG) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/07/conf...

CHAPTER: Frederik DHONDT, "Le savoir politique contre les préjugés. Antoine II Pecquet et son Esprit des maximes politiques (1757)” [Special Issue "Diplomatie et Lumières", ed. Jean-Charles SPEECKAERT] (Études sur le XVIIIe siècle LII (2025), 37-59) 📖 vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/07/chap...

12 posts have been released as part of this year's @eutopiauni.bsky.social Connected Learning Community #LegalHistory. Students from Slovenia, France, the UK and Belgium worked around "Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History". eutopialegalhistory.blogspot.com/2025/07/euto...

BOOK: Wouter DE RYCKE, Justifying Utopia. A Legal History of the International Peace Movement (1815-1873) @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/07/book...

Happy to hold the physical copies of our beautifully illustrated volume on Small power #neutrality and the #lawofthesea in the Long Eighteenth Century @degruyterbrill.bsky.social, which I had the pleasure to co-edit with my good colleague dr. Stefano Cattelan @vubcore.bsky.social 📖.

PhD defended in September 2023 @vubcore.bsky.social

ARTICLE: Simon DE NYS-KETELS & Dave DE RUYSSCHER, "Building the law: law-making and lobbying in Belgium’s construction sector (c. 1890 – c. 1940)" (Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis #openaccess @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 📖 vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/07/arti...

Presentation of our blog’s yearly report for 2025: 89 000 views/month in the past six months, from all over the globe.

CONFERENCE: 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History: Back to the Past and Building the Future (Szeged: University of Szeged, 1-4 JUL 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/06/conf...

ESCLH CONFERENCE: 8th Biennial Conference - Back to the Past and Building the Future (Szeged: Unviversity of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025) esclh.blogspot.com/2025/06/escl...

CONFERENCE: Does a ‘European Model’ Exist? For a History of Business Law from the Black Sea to the Atlantic [PHEDRA] (Paris: ENS, 25-27 JUN 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/06/conf...

ARTICLE: Dave DE RUYSSCHER & PIETER DE REU, "Onderhandelen over betalingsproblemen in de handelsrechtbank. Het concordat préventif in Antwerpen (circa 1880-1914)" (Pro Memorie XXVII (2025), nr. 1 (Jun), 88-133) @amsterdamupress.bsky.social vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/06/arti...

CONFERENCE: Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age. 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625 (The Hague: Leiden University Campus Den Haag, 19-20 JUN 2025) @grotiuscentre.bsky.social 🎙️ vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/06/conf...

CALL FOR PAPERS: Law and Governance [27th British Legal History Conference] (Nottingham: University of Nottingham, 1-4 JUL 2026) [DEADLINE 15 SEP 2025] 📣 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/06/call...

VACANCY: Five 4-year doctoral scholarships available a.y. 2025-2026 (Napoli: Scuola Superiore Meridionale; DEADLINE 27 AUG 2025) 💼 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/06/vaca...

CONFERENCE: @raphaelcahen.bsky.social "Pacifism – A “Western“ International Perspective: Peace Societies and Networks from 1848 to 1914" (Friedrichsruh: Otto-von-Bismarck Stiftung, 5-6 JUN 2025) 🕊️ vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/06/conf...

PROJECT: EOS "Construction History" activities (MAY-SEP 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/06/proj...

ESCLH CONFERENCE: Programme of the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (Szeged: University of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025) 36 panels - 2 keynote speakers 🎙️ esclh.blogspot.com/2025/05/escl...

CONFERENCE: L’Extraterritorialité et le Droit [Journées internationales d'histoire du droit et des institutions] (Tilburg: TextielMuseum, 30-31 MAY 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/05/conf...

TALK: Léna SYLVESTRE on multilingualism and the United Nations and its consequences for international law (Neuville-sur-Oise: CY Cergy Université/CY Advanced Studies, 4 JUN 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/05/talk...

We had the pleasure of hosting dr. @drqv.bsky.social for a very rich talk on #architecture and the #leagueofnations, focusing inter alia on the role of famous Belgian architect Victor #Horta. The lecture can be watched on our Youtube Channel: youtu.be/_YciFJO6-4U?... 📺

Fresh arrival @vubcore.bsky.social 📚

BOOK: Dan EDELSTEIN & Jennifer PITTS, The Cambridge History of Rights, vol. IV: The Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries [The Cambridge History of Rights, eds. Nehal BHUTA, Anthony PAGDEN & Mira L. SIEGELBERG] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2025) 📖 esclh.blogspot.com/2025/05/book...

CORE guest lecture on "Architects of the Better World: Democracy, Law, and the Construction of International Order, 1898-1998" by Dr. @drqv.bsky.social (SNSF/Vienna) - 27 MAY 2025 [ONLINE EVENT] 🎙️ vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/05/core...

Postdocs having obtained their PhD dissertation abroad, or who -in general- have been working a substantial periode of time abroad, can apply for a MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship. NCP Flanders organises an intensive training on this matter in two weeks time: 📆 vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/05/webi...

CONFERENCE: 'Learning about the Law: Historical Perspectives on Public Legal Education for Laypersons and Underprivileged Groups" (Helsinki: @helsinki.fi 20-21 MAY 2025) vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/05/conf...

CONFERENCE: Global Histories of Violence (c.1800-2025) (Warwick: University of Warwick, 29-30 MAY 2025) @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social esclh.blogspot.com/2025/05/conf...

SYMPOSIUM: Symposium in Errinerung an Prof. Marcel Senn. Zwischen Rechtsgeschichte und Rechtsphilosophie (Zürich: Universität Zürich, 16 JUN 2025) @uzh-zrf.bsky.social esclh.blogspot.com/2025/05/symp...

LECTURE: Raphaël CAHEN on “sociohistoire des internationalistes et des comparatistes” (Cergy-Pontoise: CY Cergy Paris Université, 15 MAY 2025) @cy-univ.bsky.social vubcore.blogspot.com/2025/05/lect...

De #vub zoekt een nieuwe voltijds coördinator bij de universitaire en vrijzinnige archieven 🧳 jobs.vub.be/job/Elsene-C...

SSRN: Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Series @drqv.bsky.social @edjonesc.bsky.social @mpil.de @ssrn.bsky.social esclh.blogspot.com/2025/05/ssrn...

BLOG: Thomas ANDREU, "La théorie du "lit de justice" est-elle désuète ?" (Jus Politicum Blog, 8 MAY 2025) esclh.blogspot.com/2025/05/blog...