Arts & Culture

Law & History Research Network

 

The Law & History Research Network was established in 2021 and provides a venue for interdisciplinary research and joint projects and events in the overlapping fields of law, history and legal history. We bring together researchers from the Faculties of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) and Law (FoL) at Maastricht University.

The Law & History Research Network focuses on understanding the origins of modern law and today’s multipolar rules-based global order. Its researchers combine, amongst other fields,  institutional history, comparative legal history, legal biographies, and an anthropological reading of archives (against and along the grain).

Researchers interested to join the Law & History Research Network as members (UM colleagues) or associated members (non-UM colleagues) are welcome to contact Karin van Leeuwen and/or Agustín Parise.

News

Panel Historicidagen 2024: Undisciplining Legal History

For the 2024 Historicidagen, hosted in Maastricht on 22-24 August 2024, and focusing on the theme of ‘Undisciplined History’, core members of the Law and History network participated with a panel titled ‘Undisciplining Legal History: In Search of Synergies’. 

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Karin van Leeuwen visiting researcher at the MPILHLT

Karin van Leeuwen currently is a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory in Frankfurt am Main until the end of March.

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Once upon a law: the Grimm Brothers’ stories, language, and legal culture - exhibition

What is the link between the Grimm Brothers’ collection of stories, their work on language, and law? This exhibition proposes to explore how the Grimm Brothers depicted the legal culture of their time through storytelling and the study of language.

Once upon a law

Events

Publications

Author(s)Title 
Pablo del HierroWriting a transnational (Global?) history of extradition law in the short twentieth century: Beyond western-centric approachesLink to article
Haakon A. Ikonomou, Karin van Leeuwen and Morten Rasmussen"Calculate the limits of the Possible": Scandinavian Legal Diplomacy, Diplomatic Arenas and the Establishment of the Permanent Court of International JusticeLink to article
Agustín Parise“Codifications”, in the book: The Cambridge History of Latin American Law in Global Perspective (T .Duve & T. Herzog eds.) pp. 321-344 (UK, 2024). Link to article
Koenig, M.Indisch Tijdschrift van het Recht, 1915–1947: A Critical Reassessment of Dutch Colonial Legal Sources. Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde, (1), 62-94.Link to article
Nunes Chaib, AInternational Organisation as Government: Rereading Georges Scelle’s Theory of International Government. German Yearbook of International Law, 65(1), 225-254. Link to article
Chapters by Agustín Parise and C.H. van Rhee, in A. Masferrer, C.H. van Rhee, Sean Donlan and C Heesters (eds.)A Companion to Western Legal Traditions: From Antiquity to the Twentieth Century (A. Masferrer et al eds.) pp. 451-536 (The Netherlands, 2024)Link to article
van Leeuwen, K.Ordering through competition? Pieter VerLoren van Themaat and social-democratic thinking about competition in the early postwar Netherlands, 1940s–1960s. In B. Shaev, & S. M. Ramírez Pérez (Eds.), The Development of European Competition Policy: Social Democracy and Regulation (1st ed., pp. 124-145). Taylor and Francis.Link to article