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
Karin van Leeuwen awarded NWO Open Competition SSH XS grant
€50,000 for the project ‘Judicialization and democracy: towards an historicized approach’.
(Neo)fascist metropolis
Pablo del Hierro’s work on transnational fascism in his native Madrid has led to a book, a documentary, the FASoS Valo
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 Hi
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
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?
Events
Members
Pablo del Hierro
Karin van Leeuwen
Agustín Parise
Moritz Koenig
Remco van Rhee
Mariken Lenaerts
Yoram Carboex
Publications
| Author(s) | Title | |
|---|---|---|
| Karin van Leeuwen | The Hague Academy as a Space of Encounter: How Scelle’s 1933 Teachings on National Courts Landed in the Netherlands,European Journal of International Law, Volume 35, Issue 3, August 2024, Pages 805–812 | Link to article |
| Koenig, M | Turkey, the Hague Academy and International Law in the Interwar Period: The Transnational Thinking of Ahmed Reşid, European Journal of International Law, Volume 35, Issue 3, August 2024, Pages 787–796 | Link to article |
| Pablo del Hierro | Writing a transnational (Global?) history of extradition law in the short twentieth century: Beyond western-centric approaches | Link 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 Justice | Link 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, A | International 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 |
Blogs by members of the network
The Ethnographic Turn in International Law: Vernacularisation as a Path towards Reform?
It has often been argued that international law and international legal scholarship are incapable of reforming themselves.
Moritz Koenig
Overcoming the pitfalls of anachronisms – and why this matters to all of us
Every now and again, and especially when redesigning a curriculum, the question regarding the role and place of legal history in said curriculum is brought up.
M.F. Lenaerts
Roaming across the X and Y axes: A plea for comparative legal history
Comparative legal history offers opportunities to roam across time and space.
Agustín Parise
Rights for others, furing back?
Colonialism and decolonization have importantly shaped the constitutional trajectories of not only the colonized states, but also those of the colonizers.
Karin van Leeuwen
