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

Uniting VUB, CY Paris, the University of Ljubljana, Nova University Lisbon and the University of Warwick this year the EUTOPIA Connected Learning Community Legal History has focused on the Connectedness in Legal History. Just as EUTopia connects students across Europe this year's theme, announced on November 30, looks back in history to see how connections are made through the law. This the VUB graciously held our Peak Event on  March 14 and 15  which allowed our students from each institute to meet each other in person. After touring Brussels and working on their presentations this has led to this year's blog posts. These have ranged from  Cheyenne Larivière's  look into the Constitution and governing of the Austrian Low Countries during the eighteenth-century to   Maéva Le Bot's  look at women's fight for feminism and labour equality with the unions. Below we have made a world map linking to each blog post and presentation spanning the globe from Slovenia...

(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 politi...

(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...

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...