VUB Contextual Research in Law (CORE)

CONFERENCE: 5th Asian Legal History Conference (Kyoto: Doshisha University, 31 JUL-1 AUG) (image source: Asian Legal History Conference ) Dr. Stefano Cattelan will present at the 5th Asian Legal History Conference  in Kyoto (Jap...

CONFERENCE: 5th Asian Legal History Conference (Kyoto: Doshisha University, 31 JUL-1 AUG)

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VUB CASE: Fundamental Rights vs. Conscientious Objections; Belgian Feminism, the Mini-Royal Question, and the Struggle for Abortion 1. Introduction 1.1. Context: Abortion, Feminism, and the Belgian Constitution of 1831 Belgium adopted one of the most liberal constitutio...

Blue Vercauteren Trompet on Fundamental Rights vs. Conscientious Objections; Belgian Feminism, the Mini-Royal Question, and the Struggle for Abortion

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CY CASE: Le Droit des Animaux: histoire d'une reconnaissance difficile à travers le XIX ème siècle This contribution examines animal rights in 19th-century France, beginning with the period of the Second Republic (1848–1850) and the enactm...

Lisa Goueillain on Le Droit des Animaux: histoire d'une reconnaissance difficile à travers le XIX ème siècle

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VUB CASE: The Belgian 1857 Charity Bill Persecution in Belgium. (1857).  Punch, Or The London Charivari , 235, Europeana.eu.  Introduction  The Charity bill, through Belgian eyes i...

Emma Wittens on The Belgian 1857 Charity Bill

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LJUBLJANA CASE: The development of the Carniola Bar Association​: the Rights of Attorneys and the Legal Profession during the Time of National Awakening Introduction  To continue this journey through legal history with a truly legal topic, this study shall concern itself with the development ...

Benjamin Marenče on The development of the Carniola Bar Association​: the Rights of Attorneys and the Legal Profession during the Time of National Awakening

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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]... (image source: ULB ) Abstract: This contribution discusses Antoine II Pecquet's 1757 Esprit des Maximes Politiques pour servir de suite à ...

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)

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LJUBLJANA CASE: The 1892 Jerez uprising: the struggle for ancient rights through revolt Le Progrés Illustré , Lyon, 1892 Introduction We now move on to warmer regions as we move our focus to Spain. Unlike Slovenia, Spain is a mo...

Luka Drzič on The 1892 Jerez uprising: the struggle for ancient rights through revolt

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LJUBLJANA CASE: The Sokol Association in Ljubljana, the capital of Carniola: Physical Education as a Means of Political Engagement in the 19th century? Picture 1: Comparison between the Turnvereins and Sokols establishment  The gymnastics association Južni Sokol (Southern Falcon), founded i...

Teja Benčič on the Sokol association in Ljubljana

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Riaz Ali Hulston, Lilly Furssedonn, Emily Hearn and Arushi Singhai on abortion in Socialist

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CY CASE: Freedom of Expression and Literary Censorship in France: The Pre-Revolution Era and the XXth Century By Philippine Ortiz

Philippine Ortiz on Censorship and Freedom of Expression in France

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LJUBLJANA CASE: The diversity of the tabori rallies movement in Slovene lands: Reactions to the (non)radicality of collective rights at massive assemblies Figure 1: One of the documents (Archive of the district administration of Postojna. AS 136. P/14 – P/28) I have been lucky enough to stumble...

Nives Košnjek on the tabori rallies movement in Slovene lands

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Kristjan Krapez on the Loški Potok Parish Appeals, 1790-1817

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Ferdaousse Abdeljelil and Aude Froese on the Anzin Miners' Strike

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CY CASE: Children's Rights in the 19th Century: A Struggle for Protection By Emma Cornette

Emma Cornette on Children's Rights in 19th Century France

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Domen Bogdan on the Sokol association in Ljutomer

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VUB CASE: Freedom and Resistance: The Impact of Collective Action in the Belgian Struggle for Universal Suffrage. As a university from Brussels, the capital of both Belgium and the European Union, we at the VUB know all too well what protesting means.  W...

August Vanschoubroek on Collective Action and the Struggle for Universal Suffrage in Belgium

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WARWICK CASE: Printing, Property and Protection: A Venetian Appropriation of Social Rights through Patronage in the Renaissance. Referred to in Italian as La Serenissima, the ‘Most Serene Republic of Venice’ was outwardly portrayed by the state through a variety of dif...

Ash Fowkes-Gajan on Venetian Social Rights through Patronage

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VUB CASE: Men of influence, women of change: the evolution of women’s suffrage in Belgium (1830 - 1948) and its (male) advocates The theme of this year’s EUTOPIA Connected Learning Community in Legal History, Collective and Individual Rights , offers an excellent oppor...

Améline Verhelst on female suffrage in 19th and 20th century Belgium and "male allies" of women

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Ajra Šišernik on the University of Graz as a Slovene Cultural Centre

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EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History: Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History 2024-2025 (Part I) (image: Fords Hospital - Alms house of old ladies of Coventry) 12 posts have been released as part of this year's EUTopia Connected Learni...

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".

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BOOK: Wouter DE RYCKE, Justifying Utopia. A Legal History of the International Peace Movement (1815-1873) [Legal History Library, eds. Dirk HEIRBAUT, Matthew C. MIROW, Michelle McKINLEY & C.H. VAN RHE... (image source: Brill ) Abstract: When and why did international law begin to oppose war? For centuries, sovereignty implied the right to w...

BOOK: Wouter DE RYCKE, Justifying Utopia. A Legal History of the International Peace Movement (1815-1873) @degruyterbrill.bsky.social 📖

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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/Revue d'histoire... Prof. dr. Dave De ruysscher co-authored an article in the most recent issue of the Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis/Revue d'histoire du ...

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 📖

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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) (image source: University of Szeged ) CORE-members dr. Raphaël Cahen , dr. Stefano Cattelan , prof. Dave De ruysscher , prof. Frederik Dho...

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)

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ESCLH CONFERENCE: 8th Biennial Conference - Back to the Past and Building the Future (Szeged: Unviversity of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025) The eighth biennial conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History will commence in exactly one week at the Faculty of L...

ESCLH CONFERENCE: 8th Biennial Conference - Back to the Past and Building the Future (Szeged: Unviversity of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025)

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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) (image source: PHEDRA ) Prof. Dave De ruysscher and Prof. Frederik Dhondt will present at the Phedra Encounters organised at the Ecole N...

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)

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ARTICLE: Dave DE RUYSSCHER & PIETER DE REU, "Onderhandelen over betalingsproblemen in de handelsrechtbank. Het concordat préventif in Antwerpen (circa 1880-1914)" (Pro Memorie. Bijdragen tot de Rechts... (image source: Amsterdam University Press ) Abstract: This article explores the dynamics of court practice with regard to mercantile pre-i...

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

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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 Ha... (image source: Grotiana ) dr. Stefano Cattelan , Prof. Dave De ruysscher and Prof. Frederik Dhondt will present papers at the conference  ...

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)

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