EUTopia CoLeCo Legal History: The End(s) of War

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...

   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....