ESCLH BLOG TEAM: New composition (as of 15 November 2022) - 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))

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

• Piotr Alexandrowicz, postdoctoral researcher at the Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, received his PhD in law in 2019 at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He holds MA in law, theology, and canon law. His research interest focuses on the influences of canon law on civil law in the late medieval and early modern periods.

• Arthur Barrêto de Almeida Costa, PhD fellow 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 Contextual Research in Law (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 candidate in Legal Studies / History of Law at the University of Milan (Department 'Cesare Beccaria') and lawyer. He also 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, postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Research Group Contextual Research in Law). His current project “In the Shadow of the Great Powers: Freedom of the Sea and Neutrality in the 18th Century” is funded by a Carlsberg Foundation Internationalisation Fellowship (2022-2023). He obtained the degree of Master of Law (University of Trento, 2017) and of Doctor in Law (Aarhus University, 2020). His main field of interest is the history of public international law between the 16th and 18th centuries, with a focus on its maritime dimension.

• Frederik Dhondt, associate professor of legal history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Research Group Contextual Research in Law/Head of the Department of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies) 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 as well as a visiting professor in Amsterdam (VU). From 2016 to 2020, he was also a visiting lecturer at the University of Antwerp. His research focuses on the use of legal arguments in diplomatic correspondence and in constitutional debates (18th and 19th centuries). 

• Priyasha Saksena, lecturer in law at the University of Leeds. She is a graduate of Harvard University (SJD) and National Law School of India University (BA LLB). Prior to joining the University of Leeds, she was a visiting researcher at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. Her work focuses on the historical development of legal concepts and institutions within the British Empire. Her monograph, The Many Meanings of Sovereignty: International Law and the Princely States of Colonial South Asia, is forthcoming with Oxford University Press in 2023. 

• Kamila Staudigl-Ciechowicz, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Vienna (Department of Legal and Constitutional History) and lecturer and research fellow at the University of Regensburg (Chair of Private Law, German and European Legal History and Canon Law). She studied Law (Vienna) and Canon Law (LL.M., Vienna), received her doctorate in Law (Vienna, 2017, thesis on legal history of the Viennese University) and is currently writing her habilitation in private law history. She specialises in European legal and constitutional history, with a focus on the 19th and 20th centuries, in particular the interwar period. 

2) 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);
• An RSS-feed reader, such as Feedly;
• The Twitter account (https://www.twitter.com/esclh), which automatically retweets posts added to the blog

3) 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 in 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 our own bibliographical template, as some of you have already done in the past.