ESCLH BLOG TEAM: New composition (as of 26 MAR 2024) - How to reach us - How to suggest posts

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Following the most recent call for bloggers, the ESCLH Blog team has been reshuffled.

We first of all would like to express our profound gratitude to the outgoing team members:

• Dr. Piotr Alexandrowicz (postdoctoral researcher at the Poznań Society for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences): dr. Alexandrowicz has been with us since 15 november 2022 
• Arthur Barrêto de Almeida Costa (PhD candidate, University of Firenze): Arthur Barrêto has been part of our team since 2019
• Dr. Filip Batselé (postdoctoral assistant, Vrije Universiteit Brussel/voluntary researcher, Ghent Legal History Institute): dr. Batselé has been part of our team since 2018
• Dr. Priyasha Saksena (lecturer in law, University of Leeds): dr. Saksena  has been with us since 2022
• Dr. 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): dr. Staudigl-Chiecowiz has been with us since 2022

We welcome four new contributors:

• Dr. Ida Ferrero: Ida Ferrero graduated in law at the University of Turin and she has completed her PhD in legal history at the University of Milan. From 2022 she is a researcher at the Department of Law of the University of Turin. She teaches European History of law in the Global law and Transnational legal studies course. She is the author of three monographs and several articles and contributions in books.
• Shardool Kulkarni: Thesis Programme Candidate, Zvi Meitar Center for Advanced Legal Studies, Buchmann Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University. In the past, he has worked as an Academic Fellow at the National Law University Delhi, where he co-taught courses on judicial process, law and poverty, and constitutional theory. His scholarly interests lie at the intersection of legal history, constitutional law, and judicial process reform.
• Michael Reichenthaler: doctoral candidate at the Faculty of Law at the University of Regensburg, where he also studied law. He specialises in the history of administrative law in the 19th and 20th centuries. His particular focus is on the administrative courts and their legal foundation.
• Armando José Santana Bugés: PhD-Fellow awarded by the Ministry of Education (Spanish Government) at the University of Jaén. He is focus on legal history (the origin of parliamentary system, democracy and citizen´s representation). Visiting fellow in Stanford University, Harvard University and WZ Berlin

Three other team members remain on board:

• dr. Marco Castelli: postdoctoral researcher at the University of Milan and lawyer. He also collaborates with the research group in legal history at the University of Brescia. He obtained the degree of Master of Law (University of Brescia, 2019) and of Doctor in Law (University of Milan, 2023). His main field of interest is the rediscovery of Aristotle's Natural Philosophy and its effects on Medieval legal theory and political thought.
• dr. Stefano Cattelan: Research Foundation Flanders (FWO) Fundamental Research Project postdoctoral researcher at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Adjunct Professor at the Brussels School of Government
• Prof. Frederik Dhondt: associate professor of legal and political history at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Faculty of Law and Criminology/voluntary researcher at the Ghent Legal History Institute; president of the Royal Commission for the Publication of Old Laws and Ordinances of Belgium

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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 (296 000 in the past six months), from all corners of the world and most legal traditions. The blog can be followed in several ways:

• The website (https://esclh.blogspot.com);
• An RSS-feed reader, such as Feedly;
• The X account (https://www.x.com/esclh), which automatically retweets posts added to the blog
• The automated daily mail through follow it (see form on the right on this page)

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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 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. 

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.