EUTopia CoLeCo Legal History: Connectedness in Legal History

(image: Koningsplein/Place Royale, Brussels; September 2023)   Day 1 (14 March) Working Sessions 09:00 Welcoming on behalf of EUTopia, the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the Faculty of Law and Criminology Prof. em. dr. Rosette S’Jegers (EUTopia) Prof. dr. Karin Vanderkerken (VUB, Vice-Rector Internationalisation) Prof. dr. Frederik Dhondt (VUB, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Law) 09:30 Working Session 1 (Warwick) Nia Belcher : Penal Transportation in the Nineteenth-Century: Britain and Australia Ash Fowkes-Gajan: The Risorgimento as a Fragmented Paradigm: Was Italy, by 1871, any more than a 'mere geographical expression'? Tom Posnic-Boyce: Afro-Latin American Legacies Mayukha Rodrigo: Indian Indenture and its Effect on Modern Demographics and Politics 10:45 Coffee Break 11:00 Working Session 2 (Ljubljana),  The (right of) association before and after 1848/1867 in the Habsburg monarchy: the genesis of modern organizational forms of politic

(event poster; credits: dr. Elisabeth Bruyère) The European University EUTopia brings together universities across the European continent, as well as partners from the whole world. Students, academics and supporting staff live and work in a vibrant super-diverse microcosm every day. Logically, norms and practices are influenced by various layers of normativity. University research is increasingly targeted at the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). Funding is provided by the European Union, national, regional and sometimes even local governmental authorities, but also by multinational corporations. Universities have to abide by laws, regulations, legal principles and judicial decisions emanating from multiple jurisdictions, often not situated in the country wherein they are incorporated. (Image: 'The Egg', building of the European Council; source: EUDebates.tv ) Nowhere is this ad hoc diversity so visible as in Brussels, capital of the European Union , th