LECTURE AND MEDAL: Sarton Medal for Legal History to Prof. dr. Paul BRAND (Oxford) (Ghent: Ghent University, 22 NOV 2018): 'The beginning of the English common law (to c. 1350)'

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Prof. Dr. Paul Brand (Emeritus Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford) will receive the George Sarton Medal for the History of Sciences for the History of Law at Ghent University. Collega Proximus is Prof. dr. Dirk Heirbaut (Ghent Legal History Institute). Previous laureates include Serge Dauchy (Lille/St-Louis), Jos Monballyu (KULeuven), Raoul Van Caenegem (UGent), Anne Lefèbvre-Teillard (Paris II), Jean-Louis Halpérin (Ecole Normale Supérieure), Ignacio Czeghun (FU Berlin), Jürgen Weitzel (Würzburg), Emanuele Conte (Roma III).

Professor Brand will pronounce an oration entitled 'The beginning of the English common law (to c. 1350)'.

The event will take place at 4PM in auditorium NBIII. See Google itinerary below:


Please notify your presence with Mrs. Karin Pensaert.