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New monograph by dr. Stefano Cattelan !

BOOK: 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 📖 🌊

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BOOK: Stefano CATTELAN, Mare Clausum: The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-Modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350–1650) [Legal History Library, eds. Dirk HEIRBAUT, Michelle McKINLEY, ...
(image source:  Brill ) Abstract: Who owns the sea? This book explores this timeless question by tracing the development of claims over th...
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CONFERENCE: Territoire(s). Notion, limites et extensions (Lille: Université de Lille, Salle Guy Debeyre, 14-15 NOV 2025)

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CONFERENCE: Territoire(s). Notion, limites et extensions (Lille: Université de Lille, Salle Guy Debeyre, 14-15 NOV 2025)
(Image source: Univ-droit ) Abstract Understood as part of the earth’s surface in the usual sense, described by Sextus Pomponius in the Dige...
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November 10, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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TALK: Dave DE RUYSSCHER, "Dynamics in the creation and consolidation of Commercial Law in Western Europe: Examples from Italy and the Low Countries (15th-17th centuries)" [Frankfurter Rechtshistorische Abendgespräche] (12 NOV 2025)

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TALK: Dave DE RUYSSCHER, "Dynamics in the creation and consolidation of Commercial Law in Western Europe: Examples from Italy and the Low Countries (15th-17th centuries)" [Frankfurter Rechtshistorisch...
(image source: MPILHLT ) Prof.  Dave De ruysscher  presents tomorrow at the prestigious Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal T...
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November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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November 7, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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New monograph by dr. Stefano Cattelan !

BOOK: 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 📖 🌊

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BOOK: Stefano CATTELAN, Mare Clausum: The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-Modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350–1650) [Legal History Library, eds. Dirk HEIRBAUT, Michelle McKINLEY, ...
(image source:  Brill ) Abstract: Who owns the sea? This book explores this timeless question by tracing the development of claims over th...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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BOOK: Stefano CATTELAN, Mare Clausum: The Formation of the Law of the Sea in Pre-Modern State Practice and Legal Doctrine (c. 1350–1650) [Legal History Library, 77; Studies in the History of International Law, 28]

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SEMINAR: Xavier PRÉVOST, L’humanisme juridique entre nationalismes et histoire transnationale (Louvain-la-Neuve/Ottignies: UCLouvain, 10 NOV 2025)

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SEMINAR: Xavier PRÉVOST, L’humanisme juridique entre nationalismes et histoire transnationale (Louvain-la-Neuve/Ottignies: UCLouvain, 10 NOV 2025)
(image source: UCLouvain ) ERC Grantee Prof. dr. Xavier Prévost (Bordeaux) will present his project "ISTHisFrench" at UCLouvain on 10 Novemb...
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October 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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CONFERENCE: Belgisch-Nederlandse Rechtshistorische Dagen (Nijmegen: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 27-28 NOV 2025)

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CONFERENCE: Belgisch-Nederlandse Rechtshistorische Dagen (Nijmegen: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, 27-28 NOV 2025)
(Image source: Radboud University ) Nederlands-Belgische Rechtshistorische Dagen (donderdag 27 en vrijdag 28 nov 2025)   Alle onderdelen...
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November 4, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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VACANCY: Postdoctoral researcher in legal history on Labour Evolution: Forging Individual Rights in the Transformation of Early Modern European Empires (Helsinki: University of Helsinki; DEADLINE 15 NOV 2025)

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VACANCY: Postdoctoral researcher in legal history on Labour Evolution: Forging Individual Rights in the Transformation of Early Modern European Empires (Helsinki: University of Helsinki; DEADLINE 15 ...
(image source: Wikimedia Commons )  Description: The Faculty of Law invites applications for a fixed term employment as a postdoctoral resea...
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November 4, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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@eutopiauni.bsky.social CONNECTED LEARNING COMMUNITY LEGAL HISTORY 25-26 OPENING LECTURE: Prof. dr. Miloš VEC, uni. Wien), "After 1919 and after 1945: How two World Wars shaped German Thinking on International Law" (ONLINE, 14 NOV 2025, 15:00 Brussels Time)

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EUTOPIA CONNECTED LEARNING COMMUNITY LEGAL HISTORY 25-26 OPENING LECTURE: Prof. dr. Miloš VEC (Universität Wien/Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen), "After 1919 and after 1945: How two World...
The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History is delighted to welcome Prof. dr. Miloš Vec (Universität Wien) for its annual ope...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:17 AM
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ARTICLE: Antoine LECLÈRE, "S’opposer pour exister : les contestations juridiques et diplomatiques de François-Antoine de Méan face à l’annexion de la principauté de Liège (1794-1801)", Revue d'Histoire liégeoise V (2025)

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ARTICLE: Antoine LECLÈRE, "S’opposer pour exister : les contestations juridiques et diplomatiques de François-Antoine de Méan face à l’annexion de la principauté de Liège (1794-1801)", Revue d'Histoir...
(image source: Belgian State Archives ) drs. Antoine Leclère (Joint PhD Candidate VUB/ULiège-FNRS PhD Fellow) published an article in the...
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October 31, 2025 at 10:16 AM
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EUTOPIA CONNECTED LEARNING COMMUNITY LEGAL HISTORY 25-26 OPENING LECTURE: Prof. dr. Miloš VEC (Universität Wien), "After 1919 and after 1945: How two World Wars shaped German Thinking on International Law" (ONLINE, 14 NOV 2025, 15:00 Brussels Time)

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EUTOPIA CONNECTED LEARNING COMMUNITY LEGAL HISTORY 25-26 OPENING LECTURE: Prof. dr. Miloš VEC (Universität Wien), "After 1919 and after 1945: How two World Wars shaped German Thinking on International...
(image source:  University of Vienna ) The  EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History  is delighted to welcome Prof. dr. Miloš Ve...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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ARTICLE: Arno DAL RI Jr., "The Circulation of Italian Legal Models of International Law in Brazil between the Empire and the “Estado Novo” (1822-1945)" (La Comunità Internazionale LXXX (2025), nr. 3)

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ARTICLE: Arno DAL RI Jr., "The Circulation of Italian Legal Models of International Law in Brazil between the Empire and the “Estado Novo” (1822-1945)" (La Comunità Internazionale LXXX (2025), nr. 3)
(image source: comunitainternazionale )   Abstract: The legal models developed within Italian international law doctrines began arriving in ...
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October 24, 2025 at 7:27 AM
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PRIZE LECTURE: Sarton Medal for Legal History 2025 to Prof. em. dr. Lucien BÉLY (Sorbonne-Université/Institut de France-Académie des sciences morales et politiques), "Les femmes dans la diplomatie aux temps modernes" (Ghent: UGent, 13 NOV 2025)

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PRIZE LECTURE: Sarton Medal for Legal History 2025 to Prof. em. dr. Lucien BÉLY (Sorbonne-Université/Institut de France-Académie des sciences morales et politiques), "Les femmes dans la diplomatie aux...
Sarton Medal 2025 – Sartonmedaille 2025 on Thursday, November 13 th at 4 pm   in Auditorium Leon De Meyer of the University Forum...
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October 24, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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BOOK: Xavier PRÉVOST & Luigi-Alberto SANCHI (dir.), Introduction à l'humanisme juridique. Auteurs, œuvres, idées, formes, destinées [Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance; 212] (Genève: Droz, 2025), 600 p. ISBN 9782600066495

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BOOK: Xavier PRÉVOST & Luigi-Alberto SANCHI (dir.), Introduction à l'humanisme juridique. Auteurs, œuvres, idées, formes, destinées [Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance; 212] (Genève: Droz, 2025), 600 ...
(image source: Droz ) Abstract: Dans l’Europe de la Renaissance, les humanistes ont investi le domaine du droit, notamment les textes romain...
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October 27, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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CORE SEMINAR IN LEGAL THEORY: Lorraine DASTON, "The History of Rules" (VUB: 4 C.05, 19 NOV 2025, 12:00-13:30) [HYBRID]

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CORE SEMINAR IN LEGAL THEORY: Lorraine DASTON, "The History of Rules" (VUB: 4 C.05, 19 NOV 2025, 12:00-13:30) [HYBRID]
(image source:  Wikimedia Commons ) Abstract: Rules shape nearly every aspect of our lives—from how we work and drive to how we greet ...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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JOURNAL: LUMI. Rivista di Studii Nantu à l'Età di i Lumi à di e Rivoluzioni VI (2025): Le "Droit au bonheur", une idée toujours neuve ? [OPEN ACCESS]

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JOURNAL: LUMI. Rivista di Studii Nantu à l'Età di i Lumi à di e Rivoluzioni VI (2025): Le "Droit au bonheur", une idée toujours neuve ? [OPEN ACCESS]
(image source: Lumi/Università di Corsica ) Conférence inaugurale (Antonio Trampus) À propos de la felicità pubblica des révolutionnaires ...
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October 23, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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WORKING PAPER: Stefano CATTELAN, "Visualising, Exploring, and Claiming the Oceans: Cartography and Nautical Technology in an Age of Transition (c. 15th -16th Centuries)" [OPEN ACCESS

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WORKING PAPER: Stefano CATTELAN, "Visualising, Exploring, and Claiming the Oceans: Cartography and Nautical Technology in an Age of Transition (c. 15th -16th Centuries)", in Technological change and i...
(image source: ESIL ) Dr. Stefano Cattelan contributed to the ESIL Proceedings  volume on  Technological change and international law: pre-...
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October 23, 2025 at 8:29 AM
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JOURNAL: Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international XXVII (2025), nr. 3 (Oct)

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JOURNAL: Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international XXVII (2025), nr. 3 (Oct)
(image source: Brill ) 'The Right of Existence of Peoples as Independent Nations’ Raphael Lemkin, the Tokyo Tribunal, and Aggression (Juli...
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October 21, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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CONFERENCE PAPER: Raphaël CAHEN, "Romanité et littoral dans la pensée juridique d’Eugène Cauchy" [Romanité et littoral] (La Rochelle: Université de La Rochelle, Amphi Rivero, 9-10 OCT 2025)

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CONFERENCE PAPER: Raphaël CAHEN, "Romanité et littoral dans la pensée juridique d’Eugène Cauchy" [Romanité et littoral] (La Rochelle: Université de La Rochelle, Amphi Rivero, 9-10 OCT 2025)
(image source: Université de La Rochelle ) dr. Raphaël Cahen contributed a paper to the colloquium Romanité et littoral , held at La Roch...
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October 22, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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ADVANCE ARTICLE: Stefano CATTELAN & Louis SICKING, “The Coastal Seas in International Law: Contextualising Grotius’s De Iure Belli ac Pacis” (Grotiana)

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ADVANCE ARTICLE: Stefano CATTELAN & Louis SICKING, “The Coastal Seas in International Law: Contextualising Grotius’s De Iure Belli ac Pacis” (Grotiana)
(Image source: Brill ) Abstract: Our understanding of the politics of necessity and of necessities of human beings determines how peaceful...
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October 17, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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CONFERENCE: Autour du Trésor historique de l'État en France - Pierre Legendre (Nantes: Université de Nantes, 17 OCT 2025) [HYBRID]

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CONFERENCE: Autour du Trésor historique de l'État en France - Pierre Legendre (Nantes: Université de Nantes, 17 OCT 2025) [HYBRID]
Announcement: Pierre Legendre, né le 15 juin 1930, est décédé le 2 mars 2023, à quelques mois de la réédition augmentée d’un de ces « maît...
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October 14, 2025 at 7:40 AM
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VIDEO: Michel TROPER, "J'ai fait très peu de droit à Sciences Po" (En Chair(e)) [YOUTUBE]

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VIDEO: Michel TROPER, "J'ai fait très peu de droit à Sciences Po" (En Chair(e)) [YOUTUBE]
The Youtube-channel "EnChair(e)" publishes a long video interview with renowned French legal theorist and specialist of constitutional law M...
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October 15, 2025 at 7:29 AM
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CALL FOR PAPERS: Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe [2nd COMLAWEU conference] (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, 5-6 MAY 2026) [DEADLINE 31 OCT 2025]

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CALL FOR PAPERS: Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe [2nd COMLAWEU conference] (St Andrews: University of St Andrews, 5-6 MAY 2026) [DEADLINE 31 OCT 2025]
Call for Papers Proclaiming, Affixing, Distributing: Disseminating the Law in Early Modern Europe The 2 nd COMLAWEU conference, 5-6 M...
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October 15, 2025 at 1:57 PM
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CORE SEMINAR IN LEGAL THEORY: Romain GRAZIANI, "The Laws and the Numbers" (VUB: 4 C.05, 20 OCT 2025, 12:00-13:30) [HYBRID]

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CORE SEMINAR IN LEGAL THEORY: Romain GRAZIANI, "The Laws and the Numbers" (VUB: 4 C.05, 20 OCT 2025, 12:00-13:30) [HYBRID]
(image source: ENS Lyon ) Abstract: Long associated with Confucian ideology advocating personal example and government by virtue, Chinese ...
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October 15, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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CONFERENCE: Laboulaye et la galaxie libérale (Paris: Senate, 20 OCT 2025)

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CONFERENCE: Laboulaye et la galaxie libérale (Paris: Senate, 20 OCT 2025)
(image source: ESCLH Blog ) The French Senate hosts an international colloquium on Edouard Laboulaye on 20 october 2025. Dr. Raphaël Cahen...
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October 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM