ESCLH BLOG TEAM: new composition (as of 21 May 2021) - How to reach us - How to suggest posts

(Image: Charles V's coat of arms, representing the various entities of the composite Spanish/Burgundian monarchy, as well as the imperial eagle, Oudenaarde town hall (Belgium))

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Following our call for bloggers, the ESCLH is glad to announce the new composition of the Blog team, in alphabetical order:

• Arthur Barrêto de Almeida Costa, PhD candidate in Theory and History of Law at the Università degli Studi di Firenze and researches the history of 19th and 20th public law in Brazil in a comparative perspective. Master and Bachelor of law at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Member of Studium Iuris - Research Group on the History of Legal Culture (CNPq/UFMG)
• Filip Batselé, PhD-Fellow of the Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) at Ghent University and the Université Libre de Bruxelles, specializing in the history of international investment law. He is also an affiliated researcher at the research Group CORE (VUB). He studied law at Ghent University, the University of Glasgow (Erasmus+) and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy (LL.M.)
• Marco Castelli, PhD student in Legal studies at the University of Milan (Dept. 'Cesare Beccaria'). He also studies Latin Palaeography and Diplomacy at the School of Archival Studies of the State Archive in Milan and he collaborates with the research group in legal history at the University of Brescia. His main field of interest is the rediscovery of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy and its effects on Medieval legal theory and political thought.
• Stefano Cattelan, research assistant at Aalborg University (Dept. of Law). In December 2020, he defended his PhD dissertation on the historical development of the law of the sea in the Early Modern Age (Aarhus University). He previously studied at the University of Trento (Bachelor and Master of Law). His primary interests lie at the crossroad of legal history and public international law.
• Frederik Dhondt, associate professor of legal history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Research Group Contextual Research in Law) is the ESCLH's director of communications and coordinates the team. He  studied Law (Ghent), History (Ghent/Paris-Sorbonne) and International Relations (Sciences Po Paris), before obtaining his PhD in Law (Ghent, 2013) and was a visiting researcher in Frankfurt, Heidelberg, Paris and Geneva. From 2016 to 2020, he was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Antwerp.
• Gilles Hebben, PhD student at the University of Lille. His PhD directors are Luisa Brunori (University of Lille) and Guido Rossi (University of Edinburgh). He is currently writing a thesis called : “The Levant Company (1592-1825), a chartered company supervising the British merchants in law in their trade with the Levant.
• Christel Annemieke Romein holds a PhD in early modern history (2016, Rotterdam). Her focus is on early modern political-institutional and legal history. She currently works at the Huygens Institute for Dutch History.

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We reiterate our thanks to the loyal readers and followers of our blog, which attracts an impressive number of internet users. The blog can be followed in several ways:

• The website (https://esclh.blogspot.com);
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• The Twitter account (https://www.twitter.com/esclh), which automatically retweets posts added to the blog;
• The daily mailing to subscribers (see box on the right-hand side of the page)
  !!! Attention: blogger has announced that this module will be terminated as of July 2021 !!!
  => It might be useful to switch to an RSS-reader or twitter 

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Reaching us with proposals for posts is quite easy: the gmail-account of the blog (esclhblog@gmail.com) is the unique channel to suggest an announcement. We prefer this channel, rather than one-on-one e-mails to the persons listed above. 

We gently remind our readers of the instructions set out on the right-hand column of the blog. Proponents need to provide us with a file in MS Word and an image. Bloggers are volunteers, and have to organize their time efficiently. We would -of course- appreciate drafts formatted according to own bibliographical template, as some of you have already done in the past.