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REMINDER: L&C Talk: Tamar HERZOG, A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millenia (Brussel: VUB, 25 APRIL 2023)

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(Source:  Harvard Univeristy ) A Short History of European Law: The Last Two and a Half Millenia Prof. Dr. Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard University Introduced by Prof. Dr. Laurent de Sutter. Abstract: A Short History of European Law , Tamar Herzog’s new, best-selling, monograph, she brings to life 2,500 years of legal history, tying current norms to the circumstances of their conception. Tamar Herzog describes how successive legal systems built upon one another, from ancient times through the European Union. Roman law formed the backbone of each configuration, though the way it was used and reshaped varied dramatically from one century and place to the next. Only by considering Continental civil law and English common law together do we see how they drew from and enriched this shared tradition. An unconventional reading of European Law seen from the other side of the Atlantic,  A Short History of European Law  (Harvard University Press, 2018)

PICTURES: EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History Peak Event

The VUB's Marcom services published pictures from the EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History Peak Event on flickr. More information here .

WEKONEKT.BXL WEEK: Les rechtsgeschiedenis op verplaatsing (26 MAR 2024)

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  (image source: WeKonekt ) ULB and VUB organise the WeKonekt.BXL -week, traditionally the last week before the Spring Holidays. During this week, students and staff are abducted from Ixelles, Etterbeek or Jette, and brought to the city centre, where they are taught in significant places, or by societally relevant partners of these two open minded universities. This Tuesday's course Rechtsgeschiedenis/Legal History (taught in Dutch) takes place in the KBR's Newspaper Room  between 15:00 and 17:00. The course is open to all interested audiences and will treat the Peace of Utrecht (1713) . RSVP with Frederik dot Dhondt at vub dot be. More information on WeKonekt.BXL on the iniatiative's website .

SEMINAR: Michele SPANÒ (EHESS, Paris) on "Re-reading Pasukanis" [CORE Seminar in Legal Theory] (Brussels: VUB, 4 APR, 12:00) [HYBRID]

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(image source: University of the Underground ) Prof. Laurent De Sutter organises the CORE Seminar in Legal Theory. For the next session, Michele Spanò will be our guest. On the speaker: Michele Spano is Associate Professor of Law at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris). He is interested in the ways in which law deals with collective entities. His researches focus on class action lawsuits and consider, both historically and theoretically, how the logical and practical hegemony of individualism in private law is being reframed and contested through and by the emergence of common or collective actors, interests, goods and rights. His most recent book is Fare il molteplice. Il diritto privato alla prova del comune (Rosenberg & Sellier, 2022). Talk description: The "General Theory of Law and Marxism" (1924), the most famous work by the Soviet jurist E. B. Pašukanis, celebrates its centenary this year. I am dedicating my research seminar at EHESS and a manuscrip

SEMINAR: Stefano CATTELAN, "La question de la souveraineté sur les océans et le début de la modernité" (Cergy: CPJP, 29 MAR 2024)

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  Dr. Stefano Cattelan (currently visiting researcher at the ENS) will present at our EUTopia-Partner CY Paris (CPJP) on 29 March 2024  at 14:30 (Salle B 322, Site des Chênes I) on the topic "La question de la souveraineté sur les océans et le début de la modernité" More information with the presenter .

SCHOLARSHIPS: EUTopia Cotutelle Program (DEADLINE 20 MAY 2024)

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  (image source: EUTopia alliance ) The European University Alliance EUTopia offers PhD Scholarships  for projects in cotutelle between two partners.  The EUTopia website lists all available positions, for which the Vrije Universiteit Brussel can operate as host. 

PRIZE: Laurent DE SUTTER wins Grand prix de l'Essai (Académie Royale de langue et de littérature française de Belgique) 2023

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  (image source: ARLLFB ) Prof. Laurent De Sutter won the Grand prix de l'Essai 2023  awarded by the Académie de langue et de littérature française de Belgique  for his book Superfaible. Penser au XXIe siècle (Flammarion, 2023). Read more on the Academy's website .