History of International Law @World

In October 2019, the interdisciplinary research project "Innovation through Education: Pioneering Change in Law and Theology in Louvain’s Golden Age" will be launched.

The project is led by a team of KU Leuven Professors consisting of LECTIO members Wim Decock (Roman Law and Legal History, spokesperson), Wouter Druwé (RLLH), Randall Lesaffer (RLLH), An Smets (KU Leuven Libraries) and Violet Soen (Early Modern History), with the support of Mark Depauw (Ancient History/Digital Humanities), Wim François (History of Church and Theology) and Jan Papy (Latin Literature).

The team is now opening a call for 5 PhD positions within the project, funded by the Research Fund of the University of Leuven. A full version of the job description can be found here.

Deadline for applications is 15 August 2019.

For more information, feel free to contact the spokesperson (wim.decock@kuleuven.be) or one of the team members.

The Organising Committee of the 6th Biennal Conference and the Executive Council of the ESCLH are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming conference to be held at Lisbon between 1-3 July 2020. The main theme picks up threads of thought from the earlier ESCLH conferences in Valencia (2010), Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018) to explore what roles Professions and Methods have played, and continue to play, within comparative legal history. Offers of papers should be submitted by 15 November 2019. More information can be found here.

On 28 and 29 November 2019, the University of Cantabria will organize a conference in the city of Nájera on the theme of Law and Authority in the Medieval Atlantic city (and beyond). Historians, PhD researchers and Graduate students are encouraged to submit abstracts for research presentations or posters related to this topic before 1 September 2019. More information can be found here.

On 23-24 April 2020, the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg will organize a conference titled 'Mixed Arbitral Tribunals, 1919–1930: An Experiment in the International Adjudication of Private Rights'. From a methodological point of view, the call welcomes papers based on archival sources and/or on doctrinal writings and the case law of MATs. More information can be found here.

Interested scholars are invited to submit an abstract in English or French of no more than 600 words before 1 October 2019.

From 24-26 June 2020, the Research Network on the History of the Idea of Europe will organize its 11th conference, titled 'Waging war and making peace: European ways of inciting and containing armed conflict, 1648-2020'. 

Scholars of history, international law, legal history, philosophy, political science, literature and any other discipline related to the topic are invited to send their proposals (max. 300 words, with a title and a short biography) to m.dauria@uea.ac.uk and bellipacisque@libero.it  by 2 December 2019. Please note that the working language will be English. There will be no fees for participating. More information can be found here.

As from this month, the Leuven Centre for the Transmission of Texts and Ideas in Antiquity, the Middle Ages and the Renaissance has started releasing a monthly e-newsletter. It aims to foster communication internally and externally about the publications, activities and achievements of researchers in the LECTIO network. It also provides a platform for sharing information about opportunities for awards, scholarships and academic positions. Finally, LECTIO e-News wants to nurture an increasingly large community of scholars in the Low Countries and beyond who are passionate about pre-modern intellectual history and the science of text editing. If you consider submitting a news item about your work or an event organized by your research team, please feel free to contact lectio@kuleuven.be.