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.

Conformably to the European University EUTopia's strategic orientation, we highlight student-driven connected learning communities, with the involvement of external experts, wherein multilingualism is an important aspect: the primary legal sources from the past (legislation, doctrine, case law, potentially also other archival sources) presented by our students are embedded in their own legal tradition and culture, involving national and regional languages.

This blog contains the contributions of the teams of the first and second year of our CoLeCo's activities. In 2021-2022, our students worked on the theme "Minority Rights" (at that time, with the students of prof. Alfons Aragoneses/UPF Barcelona), with a peak event hosted by CY Paris. Last year, "Labour Migration" was our common topic, and the peak event was organised in Ljubljana. The virtual exhibitions of 2021-2022 (curated by Mrs. Ilse Coopman, TA/VUB) and 2022-2023 (curated by dr. Elisabeth Bruyère, TA/VUB) can equally be retrieved.

We will start updating the blog soon for this year's activities.

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