PERS: "Bloquons tout" (Knack.be, 10 SEP 2025)

 Ik sprak met Elisa Hulstaert (Knack) over de Franse actualiteit. Meer informatie hier.

PERS: de val van Bayrou (De Morgen, VRT Radio 1)

Ik sprak met Dimitri Thijskens (5 september) en Maarten Rabaey (10 september) voor de krant De Morgen.

Op Radio 1 werd ik op zondag 7 september geïnterviewd door Jan Van Delm en op woensdag 10 september door Ruth Joos (beiden 'de Ochtend'). 

BOEKBESPREKING: "De laatste 242: Bespreking van Reszöhazy, E., Roden, D. Horvat, H. en Luyten, D. (2023). De laatste 242: de terechtstelling van collaborateurs na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. Lannoo" (Panopticon XLVI (2025), nr. 3, 288-291)

 

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Ik besprak voor Panopticon het boek van Elise Reszöhazy, Dimitri Roden, Stanislas Horvat en Dirk Luyten over De laatste 242: de terechtstelling van collaborateurs na de Tweede Wereldoorlog. 

Meer informatie hier.

PERS: Buiten- en binnenland in de perceptie van president Macron (Knack, 19 JUL 2025)

Ik sprak met Han Renard van Knack over de beeldvorming rond de Franse president, naar aanleiding van een longread van schrijver Emmanuel Carrère voor The Guardian, zie hier.

ARTICLE: "Le savoir politique contre les préjugés Antoine II Pecquet et son Esprit des maximes politiques (1757)" [Diplomatie et Lumières, dir. Jean-Charles SPEECKAERT] (Études sur le XVIIIe siècle n° 52 (2025), 37-59

 

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This contribution discusses Antoine II Pecquet's 1757 Esprit des Maximes Politiques pour servir de suite à l'Esprit des Loix du Président de Montesquieu, from the point of view of eighteenth-century in-house foreign office legal advice. It was presented in draft at the 7th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (Augsburg, June 2023) and at the 16th Congress of the International Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (Rome, July 2023). 

Pecquet notably refers to Montesquieu, but even more to Grotius. 

More information here. The journal also appears in open access on openedition.

CONFERENCE: 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (Szeged: University of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025)

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I was happy to participate in the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History, where I presented the activity report of the ESCLH Blog, presided a panel and spoke in a panel with dr. Stefano Cattelan and dr. Raphaël Cahen (both VUB/CORE), wherein all contributions focused on the law of nations prior to professionalisation in the 1870s.

See here for more information.

CONFERENCE: PHEDRA Encounters (Paris: Ecole Normale Supérieure, 25-27 JUN 2025)

 

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I presented at the PHEDRA encounters organised in the Ecole Normale Supérieure in Paris by Dr. Luisa Brunori (CNRS) around the question of a common European model for business law and its legal history.

More information here.

CONFERENCE: Grotian Law and Modernity at the Dawn of a New Age: 400th anniversary of the first publication of De jure belli ac pacis by Hugo Grotius in 1625 (The Hague: Leiden University, 20 JUN 2025)

 

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I presented at the conference organised by Leiden University, the Grotiana Foundation and many other partners at Leiden University's campus in The Hague, commemorating 400 years of De Iure Belli ac Paris Libri Tres.

More information here.