Florenz Volkaert
@florenzvolkaert.bsky.social
Postdoc at UCLouvain
Working on the history of international economic law.
Might occasionally post on fantasy basketball and football.
Working on the history of international economic law.
Might occasionally post on fantasy basketball and football.
Reposted by Florenz Volkaert
Call for nominations: 2024 ESIL IG History of International Law Article Prize
esilhil.blogspot.com/2025/03/call...
esilhil.blogspot.com/2025/03/call...
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2024 ESIL IG History of International Law Article Prize [DEADLINE: 25 April 2025]
Call for Nominations: 2024 ESIL IG History of International Law Article Prize The ESIL IG ...
esilhil.blogspot.com
April 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Call for nominations: 2024 ESIL IG History of International Law Article Prize
esilhil.blogspot.com/2025/03/call...
esilhil.blogspot.com/2025/03/call...
The ESIL IG History of International Law has an open call for nominations for an article prize - more details on esilhil.blogspot.com/2025/03/call.... Please submit your favorite paper by 25th of April 2025! @esil-sedi.bsky.social
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: 2024 ESIL IG History of International Law Article Prize [DEADLINE: 25 April 2025]
Call for Nominations: 2024 ESIL IG History of International Law Article Prize The ESIL IG ...
esilhil.blogspot.com
April 4, 2025 at 10:33 AM
The ESIL IG History of International Law has an open call for nominations for an article prize - more details on esilhil.blogspot.com/2025/03/call.... Please submit your favorite paper by 25th of April 2025! @esil-sedi.bsky.social
Interesting discussion for folks working on history of international trade law
International lawyers: could it be that International Trade Law is the only branch of international law where no one claims that there are customary rules? (Besides those undergirding state sovereignty itself.)
January 9, 2025 at 10:03 AM
Interesting discussion for folks working on history of international trade law
Interesting sidenote: legal scholars, diplomats, and most everyone involved negotiating commercial treaties (present-day FTAs) in the late 19th/early 20th did not accept comparative advantage or economics more generally as a sufficient reason for concluding a treaty. Stark contrast with the present
Completely fascinated by this story. I've read a lot about the theory of comparative advantage when researching Amin (who disputes it in detail in Law of Worldwide Value, based ofc on Prebisch-Singer), but he (and I) didn't know that the example itself is historically tied up in colonial economies!
The 1st part shows how the celebrated model of trade in English cloth & Portuguese wine by classical economist David Ricardo - used to justify corporate globalisation in '90s & '00s - hides a brutal history of colonial conquest & slavery.
Here's a short explainer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtvY...
Here's a short explainer:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtvY...
November 28, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Interesting sidenote: legal scholars, diplomats, and most everyone involved negotiating commercial treaties (present-day FTAs) in the late 19th/early 20th did not accept comparative advantage or economics more generally as a sufficient reason for concluding a treaty. Stark contrast with the present
Interesting discussion here!
One thing that puzzles me is how this deeply integrated production is compatible with floating exchange rates. A big part of case for the euro, in my understanding, was that cross-border production can't work with wildly fluctuating relative prices. But it doesn't seem to have been an obstacle here.
A typical North American vehicle crosses the border 7-8 times during production. Parts zigzag between countries before final assembly. 3/
November 28, 2024 at 9:38 AM
Interesting discussion here!
Reposted by Florenz Volkaert
Please allow us to introduce the first article to our third issue (more on the way): @caromein.bsky.social - State of the Field: Digital Legal History. Come check it out: doi.org/10.21825/dlh.9…#OpenAccesss#DLHL#DigitalHumanitiese#methodologyg#projectsts
https://doi.org/10.21825/dlh.9…
November 21, 2024 at 1:45 PM
Please allow us to introduce the first article to our third issue (more on the way): @caromein.bsky.social - State of the Field: Digital Legal History. Come check it out: doi.org/10.21825/dlh.9…#OpenAccesss#DLHL#DigitalHumanitiese#methodologyg#projectsts
Reposted by Florenz Volkaert
International law is for me a complex system. It has #complexity and hierarchy at different levels. Many parts interact with each other, creating something new that cannot be explained by understanding the unit, and works as a dissipative structure, there is change and permanence at the same time.
November 20, 2024 at 2:44 AM
International law is for me a complex system. It has #complexity and hierarchy at different levels. Many parts interact with each other, creating something new that cannot be explained by understanding the unit, and works as a dissipative structure, there is change and permanence at the same time.
Reposted by Florenz Volkaert
November 13, 2024 at 3:30 PM