vrijdag, maart 01, 2024

PRE-ORDER: Georges MARTYN & Arno DAL RI JR (eds.), Métodos da historiografia do direito contemporânea. Olhares cruzados entre a Bélgica e o Brasil (Belo Horizonte/São Paolo: Editora D'Plácido, 2024), 430 p. ISBN 9786555897456

 


Abstract:

Fruto de projeto de pesquisa internacional desenvolvido entre o Ghent Legal History Institute, na Bélgica, e o Ius Commune – Grupo de História da Cultura Jurídica da UFSC, a presente coletânea é composta por artigos focados nas metodologias da historiografia jurídica atualmente aplicadas entre Bélgica e Brasil, por meio do estudo comparado de fontes arquivísticas, doutrinárias, diplomáticas e iconográficas. Apresenta os múltiplos caminhos da história do direito contextual, salientando que o direito compõe uma cultura mais ampla, com suas idossincrasias, mas sobretudo muito “direito comum”, não no estrito senso do ius commune medieval. São inúmeros os transplantes, enriquecidos por uma historiografia moldada por uma cultura sem fronteiras. É nesse sentido que espera se tornar um catalizador para futuros intercâmbios de ideias e de perspectivas, de conhecimento e de métodos.

The work contains a translation and comment by dr. Airton Ribeiro da Silva jr. (Helsinki) of an article published by your humble servant in 2013 (with the gracious permission of the editor). 

See publisher's website for a 20% rebate.

donderdag, december 21, 2023

CHAPTER: "Whose History ? Some Reflexions on the History of Rigts and Freedoms", in: Gloria GONZÁLEZ FUSTER & Niels VAN DIJK (eds.), Liber Amicorum Serge Gutwirth. Uncommon Explorations into Law, Science & Technology (Brussel: ASP, 2023), 191-200 [OPEN ACCESS]


It was my pleasure to contribute to the Liber Amicorum of Prof. em. Serge Gutwirth. Starting with Serge's reference to the Magna Carta, I produce some reflexions on sources of law and actors of justice throughout history. My text and those of the other contributors can be downloaded for free or read in the book.

 

vrijdag, december 15, 2023

BLOG: Koninklijke Commissie voor de Uitgave van Oude Wetten en Verordeningen van België/Commission Royale pour la Publication des Anciennes Lois et Ordonnances de Belgique

 

(bron afbeelding: KCOWV/CRALO)

De Koninklijke Commissie voor de Uitgave van Oude Wetten en Verordeningen van België (opgericht bij KB in 1846) heeft vanaf heden ook een blog, waarop de vroegere leden en hun aanzienlijke patrimonium van uitgegeven bronnen worden voorgesteld. 

Meer informatie hier.

dinsdag, december 12, 2023

OPEN ACCESS: Op Zoek naar Glorie in Vlaanderen. De Zonnekoning en de Spaanse Successie (1707-1708) [[Standen en Landen - Anciens Pays et Assemblées d'États - vol. 108], 520 p., ISBN 9789089772428

 


Mijn in 2011 verschenen boek Op Zoek naar Glorie in Vlaanderen. De Zonnekoning en de Spaanse Successie (1707-1708), vol. CVIII in de reeks Standen & Landen/Anciens Pays et Assémblées d'Etats, staat met toestemming van de uitgever in open access online op het institutionele repository van de Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

maandag, december 11, 2023

CHAPTER: "The Historiography of International Law on the European Continent", in: R. LESAFFER & A. PETERS (eds.), Volume 1: The Historiography of International Law [The Cambridge History of International Law, ed. R. LESAFFER] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, May 2024, forthcoming), pp. 244-272

(image source: CUP)

Cambridge University Press will publish thirteen volumes in the series The Cambridge History of International Law. The first volume (The Historiography of International Law, eds. Randall Lesaffer & Anne Peters) is announced for May 2024. Your humble servant authored the chapter "The Historiography of International Law on the European Continent".

Abstract:

Volume I of The Cambridge History of International Law introduces the historiography of international law as a field of scholarship. After a general introduction to the purposes and design of the series, Part 1 of this volume highlights the diversity of the field in terms of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and perspectives that have informed both older and newer historiographies in the recent three decades of its rapid expansion. Part 2 surveys the history of international legal history writing from different regions of the world, spanning roughly the past two centuries. The book therefore offers the most complete treatment of the historical development and current state of international law history writing, using both a global and an interdisciplinary perspective.

Contributors: 

Randall Lesaffer, Anne Peters, Nehal Bhuta, Mark Somos, Giovanni Mantilla, Carsten-Andreas Schulz, Christopher Casey, Keun-Gwan Lee, Inge Van Hulle, Frederik Dhondt, Lauri Mälksoo, David Armitage, Ignacio de la Rasilla, John Fabian Witt, Arnulf Becker Lorca

More information with the publisher.
Coordinates for vol. 1: ISBN 9781108767651, DOI 10.1017/9781108767651.

woensdag, november 22, 2023

CHAPTER: “Les Intérêts présens des puissances de l'Europe de Jean Rousset de Missy (1733): Territoires, souveraineté et argumentation juridique pratique”, in Pascal HEPNER, Tanguy LE MARC’HADOUR & Christian PFISTER-LANGANAY (dir.), Construire et déconstuire les territoires de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Actes des journées internationales tenues à Arras les 11 et 12 mai 2018 [Société d’Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des Pays Flamands, Picards et Wallons] (Lille: CHJ Éditeur, 2023), 85-116, OPEN ACCESS


Abstract:

Known as a journalist or 'compiler', Jean Rousset de Missy (1682-1762) contributed on the to the world's first treaty collections, the Corps Universel Diplomatique du Droit des Gens (1726-1731, edited by Jean Dumont). This contribution focuses on Les Intérêts présens des puissances de l'Europe (1733), a two-volume work published to serve as a practical alternative to the 8 volumes in-f° of the Corps Universel. Rousset discusses treaty obligations undertaken by sovereign entities, and links them up with an analysis of their long-term geopolitical interests. I sketch the impact of the Peace Treaties of Utrecht (1713) on Rousset's work, and argue that his treatment of the matter gives a unique insight into argumentative strategies. Parties in a quarrel use arguments drawn from the law of nature, Roman law, canon law, customary law, feudal law or domestic law, and only seldom refer to law of nations doctrine. Rousset's synthesis at the end of every section is representative of diplomatic practice in his time. Treaties contained political compromises. In order to be effective, they needed precedence over domestic norms. In a final section, I examine Rousset's treatment of Savoy and Spain after 1713.

Read the chapter (as well as those by Cyril Clerbout, Sébastien Evrard, Maki Fukuda, Pascal Hepner, Felipe Hernandez, Caroline Laske, Tanguy Le Marc’hadour, Paul Van Peteghem and Christian Pfister-Langanay) here: DOI 10.34847/nkl.8cde5896 or below. 


donderdag, september 28, 2023

BOOK REVIEW: Commentary on Julia Martinez-Ariño's Urban Secularism (Secular Studies V (2023), nr. 2, 147-151)

 

(image source: Brill)

I wrote a commentary on Julia Martinez-Ariño's interesting study on the bottom-up reinterpretation and appropriation of laïcité in various French urban contexts below the threshold of the metropoles.

My and other commentaries, as well as the author's response, can be retrieved in the second issue of the fifth volume of Secular Studies (DOI 10.1163/25892525-bja10053).

My thanks to the author and journal editor Niels De Nutte (VUB/SSAB) for the opportunity and invitation.