EUTopia CoLeCo Legal History: Collective and Individual Rights in Legal History

2023-2024: Connectedness in Legal History (image: Belgian Royal Library , seat of the Peak Event on 14 March 2024) The EUTopia Connected Learning Community Legal History works on the theme Connectedness in the academic year 2023-2024.  Students from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Prof. Frederik Dhondt), CY Paris University (Prof. Caroula Argyriadis-Kervégan), the University of Ljubljana (Prof. Katja Skrubej), the University of Warwick (dr. Rosie Doyle) and Nova University of Lisbon (Prof. Cristina Nogueira da Silva) will work together, both virtually and in-person (at the Peak Event, 14-15 March 2024, in Brussels ) around the theme Connectedness in legal history . We will focus on multilevel governance, legal transfers, circulation of ideas and advocacy in various legal spaces , highlighting the relativity of the Nation-State as a point of departure for legal history and the richness of the various legal traditions connected to our institutions and jurisdictions.  Confo...

   Picture from: Tamino Petelinšek/STA, obtained:  The EUTOPIA Week Diary in Ljubljana, DAY 2  During the academic year 2022-2023, students from different campuses (Paris-Cergy, Ljubljana, Nova Lisboa, Warwick, VUB  regularly met online to discuss the CoLeCo Legal History's annual theme: labour migration. In November 2022 , they were able to attend, live or asynchronously, Professor Cristiana Bastos's lecture on the historical anthropology of the racial construction of plantation labour. In March 2023 , the students met up again in Ljubljana, where they were welcomed by Prof. Katja Skrubej and her team and had the opportunity to present the initial results of their research in archives, historiographical literature and legal doctrine. This event was the pinnacle of their experience in the EUTopia community: through scientific and human exchanges, they were able to bring together different European campuses and question their methods and angles of approach....

  - By Lydia Bondarenko, VUB The purpose of my project for Eutopia was primarily to focus on the case law of the Belgian Council of State concerning the expulsions of immigrants, beginning from its establishment in 1946, but also look into the tendencies in the judicial courts before that period. For background readings, both dr Bruyère and professor Dhondt provided me with some literature suggestions I could read into. This prompted my desire to conduct a comprehensive analysis of legislation in order to understand the subsequent case law a little better. Furtherly, as I mentioned during my presentation on the Peak event in March, my original intent was to conduct the examination of the Council of State's case law by using the cases I'd find in the State Archives in Brussels and extracting the pertinent elements myself. However, I ended up using them in combination with the historical literature and legal doctrine I already read and as a tool or illustration to explain the C...