OPENING REMARKS: XXVth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians, "Identity, Citizenship and Legal History" (Brussels: Academy Palace, 5 JUN 2019)

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I had the honour to address the plenary assembly of the XXVth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians, organised by the VUB (CORE), ULB (CHDAJ) and the Université Saint-Louis (CRHiDI), with the generous support of the VUB's Hoover Fund and Doctoral School of Humanities, the VUB's Faculty of Law and Crimninology (Emeriti Fund), the FWO, the FNRS, the Committee for Legal History of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for the Arts and Sciences and the Young Academy and the CRHiDI. The opening remarks introduced the keynote lectures by Prof. dr. Thomas Duve (Co-Director of the MPI for European Legal History), Prof. dr. Lauren Benton (President-Elect of the American Society for Legal History) and Prof. dr. Simona Cerutti (EHESS, Paris).

We are proud of our CORE PhD-students C.M. in 't Veld, Stephanie Plasschaert and Wouter De Rycke, who took the initiative to attract this established event in the world of legal history to Brussels.

The text of my opening remarks can be read here.