VACANCY: Lecturer in Global Law (Tilburg: Tilburg Law School, JAN 2027) [DEADLINE 29 AUG 2026]

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Department: Public Law and Governance  

On site: Tilburg

Contract size: 0-8 fte/ 1,0 fte (32 - 40 hours per week)

Full-time gross monthly salary: €3546 – €5538 

Contract duration: 72 months

Intended start date: 1st January 2027

 

Are you passionate about academic teaching and do you want to be part of a ground-breaking education programme? If so, we warmly invite you to become part of the Department of Public Law & Governance (PLG).

 

We are looking for an enthusiastic lecturer who would like to contribute to our international English-taught programmes within PLG, notably the Global Law bachelor. PLG is a dynamic and internationally oriented department that provides teaching in the Dutch-language degree programmes in Law and Public Administration, as well as in the English-taught bachelor programmes in Global Law and Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the master programmes in Public Governance and International and European Law.

 

We offer an inspiring work environment in which collaboration, international exchange, and academic curiosity are at the heart of what we do.

 

Your position

As a lecturer, you may be involved in several degree programmes within the Department of Public Law & Governance (PLG), including the bachelor's programmes in Global Law and Liberal Arts and Sciences. Primarily, however, you will deliver engaging lectures and tutorials, develop and assess assignments and examinations in courses throughout the Global Law programme, particularly in the areas of legal theory, legal history and international law. In addition, you will supervise students in their academic development and contribute to a stimulating learning environment. A broad ability and willingness to teach across a range of courses within the public-law related aspects of Global Law is appreciated.

 

Within PLG, you will work closely with course coordinators and fellow lecturers in a collegial and international environment where teamwork and the exchange of ideas are highly valued. You will have the opportunity to contribute within a team to the further development of the curriculum.

 

You will also have the opportunity to apply your talents and interests more broadly within the department, for example by organising academic and public engagement activities or by contributing to innovative educational initiatives.

 

Your profile

Tilburg University is interested in how you can contribute to our teaching and societal impact, and to the team that you will become part of. We therefore aim to gain as complete a picture as possible of your knowledge, expertise, skills, and personal qualities. Below are the qualifications we consider important for this position.

 

• You hold at least an LL.M. and have some engagement with comparative, transnational or global law during your studies
• You have an interest in and affinity for teaching. Demonstrable experience in teaching in higher education and/or at a university is an advantage.
• You have an excellent command of English (C2 level). The ability to communicate in Dutch is a plus.
• You are versatile, flexible, and able to adapt quickly when circumstances require.
• You work well as part of a team and have a collaborative, collegial approach.

 

To maintain a vibrant and engaged university community, it is important that we meet each other regularly and foster strong connections within our teams. Therefore, our starting point is that all employees carry out their work in the Netherlands and that teaching is delivered in person.

 

Our offer

Tilburg University offers excellent benefits in a pleasant working environment:

• Employment of 0,8-1,0 fte (32-40 hours per week).
• Salary between €3546 and €5538, - gross per month for full-time employment (UFO-profile docent 4, salary scale 10). Tilburg University uses a neutral remuneration system based on relevant work experience.
• This is a vacancy for a temporary position in accordance with Article 2.3 paragraph 5 CLA DU. You will be given a temporary contract for the duration of 72 months. 
• Vacation pay of 8% and a year-end bonus of 8.3%.
• Over 8 weeks of vacation leave.
• Hybrid working with home working allowance (€2 p/day) and internet allowance (€25 p/month).
• Reimbursement sustainable commuting: walking, cycling, and public transport.
• Options model for additional leave, pension, a bicycle or personal training.
• Moving allowance (subject to conditions).
• 30% rule for international employees (if applicable).
• Pension through ABP.
• Ample training offer: personal development, leadership, education, research or language courses.
• Inclusive work culture: everyone welcome, equal opportunities.
• A green, inviting campus that’s easily accessible by public transport.

 

For more information, please see our website and the CLA Dutch Universities.

 

Want to know more?

Would you like to know more before applying? Feel free to contact Prof. Morag Goodwin at m.e.a.goodwin@tilburguniversity.edu.

 

Want to apply?

We kindly invite you to apply before 29th August 2026; this can only be done online. Address your cover letter to Prof. Morag Goodwin and attach your resume. We look forward to your response.

 

The letter selection will take place by 2nd September 2026. You will be notified as soon as possible thereafter. The first selection interviews will take place on 7th September 2026 and the second on 11th September 2026.

 

The selection committee consists of:

1. Prof. dr. Morag Goodwin, Chair of Global Law and Development, Cluster manager
2. Prof. dr. Phillip Paiement, Chair of Law and the Anthropocene, programme director LL.B. Global Law

 

You will ideally start working for Tilburg University on 1st January 2027.

 

This vacancy has been published simultaneously internally and externally. In case of equal suitability, our preference is for an internal candidate.

 

Over Tilburg University 

Tilburg University is dé universiteit voor mens- en maatschappijwetenschappen. Al sinds onze oprichting in 1927 zetten we ons in voor een rechtvaardige, inclusieve en duurzame samenleving. Met toonaangevend onderzoek en inspirerend onderwijs dragen wij bij aan duiding en waar mogelijk aan oplossingen voor actuele maatschappelijke vraagstukken, van klimaatverandering tot digitalisering

Onze gemeenschap is persoonlijk, betrokken en kleinschalig. Op onze groene, compacte en levendige campus is ruimte voor ontmoeting, samenwerking én reflectie en persoonlijke groei. Lees meer over Tilburg University.

Werken bij Tilburg University doe je tegen aantrekkelijke arbeidsvoorwaarden in een inclusief team. Hier krijg je volop kansen voor het versterken van je talenten en het ontwikkelen van een loopbaan. In een warme werksfeer waarin we hechten aan de waarden: curious, connected, caring en courageous.

 

Over Tilburg Law School (TLS)

Tilburg Law School is opgericht in 1963 en is uitgegroeid tot een toonaangevende faculteit voor recht en bestuurskunde. Ons onderwijs en onderzoek hebben een duidelijk innovatief en interdisciplinair karakter. Hierbij worden we gedreven door onze missie om uitdagende maatschappelijke ontwikkelingen zoals nieuwe technologie, duurzaamheid en kwetsbaren in de rechtsstaat daadwerkelijk te beïnvloeden vanuit het perspectief van het recht en de bestuurskunde. We acteren vanuit lokale, regionale, nationale en internationale ontwikkelingen en werken samen met andere disciplines zoals economie, gedrags- en sociale wetenschappen, filosofie, geschiedenis en digital sciences. De faculteit is georganiseerd in vijf departementen: Public Law & Governance, Private, Business and Labour Law, Criminal Law, Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology & Society, en Fiscaal Recht.

 

Ons onderwijs

Tilburg Law School verzorgt de juridische bacheloropleidingen Rechtsgeleerdheid, Fiscaal Recht, Ondernemingsrecht en Global Law (Engelstalig). Van de negen juridische masteropleidingen worden er vijf hybride aangeboden en zes programma’s zijn Engelstalig. Ook biedt de faculteit een bachelor- en masteropleiding Bestuurskunde aan. In ons onderwijs hebben we bijzondere aandacht voor het kwetsbare en voor de kwetsbaren in de samenleving. Daarmee willen we bijdragen aan een rechtvaardige en duurzame samenleving. Tilburg Law School loopt voorop in onderwijsinnovatie en vindt inclusief, toegankelijk en flexibel onderwijs belangrijk. We leiden onze studenten op tot gedegen, vaardige en kritische academici, die zich kunnen bewegen in de complexe vraagstukken van de veranderende digitale samenleving.

 

Ons onderzoek

De vijf departementen van Tilburg Law School werken op onderzoeksgebied nauw samen in vier kenmerkende onderzoeksprogramma’s op het gebied van globalisering en recht, regulering van technologie, kwetsbaarheid van individuen in het strafrecht, en duurzame privaatrechtelijke relaties. Binnen de onderzoeksprogramma’s vindt zowel juridisch en bestuurskundig als interdisciplinair onderzoek plaats. Wij zetten in op team science door onderzoekers te stimuleren samen op te trekken, kennis te delen en elkaar te versterken op inhoud en methodes. Lees meer over de Tilburg Law School.

 

Sollicitatiecode
Tilburg University hanteert de NVP-sollicitatiecode van de Nederlandse Vereniging voor Personeelsmanagement & Organisatieontwikkeling.

 

Disclaimer

De tekst in deze vacatureadvertentie is auteursrechtelijk beschermd eigendom van Tilburg University. Gebruik, verspreiding en verdere openbaarmaking van de advertentie zonder uitdrukkelijke toestemming van Tilburg University is niet toegestaan en dat geldt expliciet voor gebruik door werving- en selectiebureaus welke niet rechtstreeks handelen in opdracht van de Tilburg University. Reacties naar aanleiding van werving door niet-opdrachtnemers van Tilburg University worden niet in behandeling genomen.

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BOOK: Derek VAN DER MERWE, Minding Law’s Gaps. Hermann Kantorowicz, Free Law and the Science of Judicial Discretio [Studien zur Rechtstheorie; 2] (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2026), XXIV + 474 p. ISBN 9783465046752

 

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Abstract:

Hermann Kantorowicz was a formidable legal scholar in the turbulent first three decades of the 20th century, a leading participant in the ‘renaissance’ of legal philosophy in Germany. He gained an international reputation as a legal historian and legal theorist (and no small notoriety for his contrarian, combative views). He first formulated a ‘free law’ theory in Kampf um die Rechtswissenschaft in 1906, his bold strike against orthodox jurisprudence. Substantially modified over time, the theory sought to explain and to justify when and how judges employ discretion when called upon to fill gaps in the law by a process of legal discovery. This book examines the evolution of Kantorowicz’s free law thought – from contra legem adjudication to the science of method trialism; its philosophical, sociological and historical underpinnings; and why it still retains relevance for modern legal methodology.

On the series:

The first volume in the publication series edited by the Max Planck Institute and published by Vittorio Klostermann appeared in 1971. After over 340 volumes and a change of name to “Studien zur europäischen Rechtsgeschichte” in 2002, this revered series is receiving a companion in 2023: “Studien zur Rechtstheorie”. The new series reflects the research on interdisciplinary legal theory being carried out at the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory since 2021, and it will make use of the same proven concept, layout and production quality as the legal historical series. This peer-reviewed series represents an attractive, multilingual forum for excellent monographs and edited volumes from all fields of legal theory.

Read more here. 

CONFERENCE: Alcool et droit: perspectives historiques [Institut d'Histoire du Droit/Faculté de droit de l'Université de Ljubljana] (Poitiers: 26 AUG 2026)

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Program:

8h45 : Accueil des participants

9h00 : Mot d’accueil
Mme Marianne Faure-Abbad, doyenne de la Faculté de droit et des sciences sociales

9h15 : Si acetum pro vino veneat … eadem prope οὐσία est : la distinction entre l’erreur sur la substance et l’erreur sur la qualité dans la casuistique romaine
Vid Žepič, Université de Ljubljana

9h45 : Dispositions relatives aux vignobles, aux vignes et au vin dans les sources médiévales en territoire slovène – quelles histoires nous racontent-elles ?
Marko Kambič, Université de Ljubljana

10h15 : Discussion et pause

10h45 : Les boissons alcoolisées dans le Traité de la Police de Nicolas de La Mare
Elise Frêlon-Martelly, Université de Poitiers

11h15 : Ius montium in vineis en langue juridique slovène pré- et post- XVIe siècle : forgeant les règles générales entre mos iudicorum et lex scripta
Katja Škrubej, Université de Ljubljana

11h45 : Discussion

 

12h00 : Déjeuner

 

14h30 : L’alcool dans les provinces d’Ancien Régime : produit et instrument de spécificités culturelles
Donatien Le Barbier de Blignières, Université de Poitiers

15h00 : Libre Lenart : la caricature du paysan ivre et la réforme agraire dans l'Empire d'Autriche
Svit Komel, Université de Ljubljana

15h30 : Une mauvaise idée : le monopole des alcools indigènes en Indochine
Eric Gojosso, Université de Poitiers

16h00 : Discussion et pause

16h30 : Certains aspects juridiques de la viticulture sur le territoire de l’actuelle Slovénie
Janez Kranjc, Université de Ljubljana

17h00 : Une décision apparemment de salubrité publique : l’interdiction de l’absinthe par la loi du 16 mars 1915
Didier Veillon, Université de Poitiers

17h30 : Discussion

18h00 : Fin du colloque

More information here.

BOOK: Mathias SIEMS, Legal Transplants. An Interdisciplinary Approach (Oxford: Oxford university Press, 2026), 320 p., ISBN 9780198884125, 105 GBP

 

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Abstract:

Fifty years after Alan Watson's Legal Transplants: An Approach to Comparative Law, the concept of legal transplants remains central to comparative legal scholarship. Over time, the literature has expanded to explore how laws are drafted, interpreted, and understood across jurisdictions-revealing legal transplants as a complex and multifaceted phenomenon. This book offers a nuanced and balanced analysis of the evolution of legal transplants, engaging with both foundational texts and recent developments. It goes beyond traditional legal discourse to incorporate insights from other disciplines, including policy studies, cultural transfer, entangled history, and the diffusion of ideas. By doing so, it broadens the scope of the debate and encourages a more interdisciplinary approach to understanding how legal norms travel and take root. Importantly, the book makes a strong case for the continued relevance and effectiveness of legal transplants in modern lawmaking. While acknowledging valid criticisms, it challenges the notion that such concerns should lead to legal isolationism. Instead, it argues that legal transplants are not only common but often successful-and should remain a key tool for lawmakers seeking to innovate and reform.

Table of contents:

Chapter 1:Introduction
Chapter 2:A Bibliometric Assessment of the Use of the Term 'Legal Transplants'
Chapter 3:An Anatomy of Legal Transplants
Chapter 4:Why Do Legal Transplants Take Place?
Chapter 5:Do Legal Transplants 'Work'?
Chapter 6:Is it Desirable to Use Legal Transplants?
Chapter 7:How Should the Design of Transplants be Pursued?
Chapter 8:Conclusion

 On the author:

Mathias Siems is Professor of Private Law and Market Regulation at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence, Italy. He previously taught at Durham University, the University of East Anglia, the University of Edinburgh and the Riga Graduate School of Law. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at Harvard Law School and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the EUI. He is a graduate of the universities of Munich, London, and Edinburgh.

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SUMMER BREAK (17 JUL-15 AUG 2026)

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The ESCLH Blog wil interrupt its publications from 17 July to 15 August. We hope our readers find the occasion to relax outside with a book in the Summer Sun. 

ARTICLE: Kathleen CLAUSSEN, Timothy MEYER, "The Foreign Commerce Power" (California Law Review CXIV (2026), April)

 

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Abstract:

This Article is the first to scrutinize presidential trade authority under the Constitution. The Constitution grants the President no independent power to regulate foreign commerce. That conclusion, while apparent from a straightforward reading of Articles I and II, stands in stark contrast to executive conduct of U.S. trade policy in recent years. This Article traces the roots of this constitutional distortion to a confluence of doctrinal drift and academic oversight. Courts and commentators have increasingly relied on an expansive conception of executive power grounded in a perceived general foreign affairs authority. In doing so, they have blurred the line between diplomacy and commerce and used this confluence to justify unilateral economic actions by a “trader in chief” that circumvent the Constitution’s allocation of power. These matters have reached a tipping point over the last decade, prompting a series of high-profile cases in which the government has argued that this general foreign affairs power includes some portion of the foreign commerce power. To correct this misapprehension, this Article undertakes a novel examination of Founding-era materials, including the distribution of commercial authority between the king and parliament in eighteenth-century Britain, the correspondence and deliberations of the Framers, and the Founding Generation’s implementation of the commerce power in matters of national security during the early years of the Republic. These sources reveal a consistent and deliberate understanding both that Congress’s control over foreign commerce is exclusive and that Congress’s control over commerce trumps the President’s general foreign affairs powers when the two intersect. This Article further argues that this allocation was not accidental or ancillary but central to the constitutional design.

Read the article in open access here. 

(source: Legal History Blog)

BOOK: Quentin LOHOU, Marc BONINCHI, Katia BARRAGAN & Stève DESGRÉ (dir.), Quelles histoires du droit social ? [Histoire, ed. Noëlline CASTAGNEZ, Frédéric CHAUVAUD, Philippe HAMON, Florian MAZEL & Francis PROST] (Rennes: Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2026), 324 p. ISBN 9791041304660, €25

 

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Abstract:

La condition ouvrière, les formes de solidarités à travers le syndicalisme et le mutualisme, la période de l’entre deux-guerres et le régime de l’État français entre 1940 et 1944, les territoires anciennement colonisés par la France, tels sont les thèmes traités ici et constitutifs du droit social et de son histoire. La diversité des contributions témoigne des multiples façons dont le droit et ses acteurs peuvent être appréhendés, tout particulièrement en matière de relations du travail et de protection sociale. Avec des approches différentes, des formes et supports variés, juristes, historiens et sociologues explorent des thématiques qui ont constamment retenu l’attention de Jean-Pierre Le Crom, historien du droit, directeur de recherche émérite au Centre national de la recherche scientifique et membre du laboratoire Droit et changement social de Nantes Université (Unité mixte de recherche CNRS 6297). Publié avec le soutien de Nantes Université

Indicative table of contents:

L'Entre-deux-guerres et le régime de Vichy Le droit des colonies L'histoire du droit social La condition ouvrière Le syndicalisme et le mutualisme 

See publisher's website for Table of Contents and free excerpt.

CLH ARTICLE: Ann MUMFORD, Re-enacting the judicial philosophy of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.: Saunders v Vautier and Claflin v Claflin compared (Comparative Legal History, XIV (2026), nr. 1, pp. 97-125) [OPEN ACCESS]

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Abstract: 

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. sat on the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts in 1889, when, in the case of Claflin v Claflin, he joined the decision that a trust may not be modified if the intention of the testator would be undermined. Claflin rejected Lord Cottenham’s reasoning in Saunders v Vautier that, under certain circumstances, beneficiaries may compel the termination of the trust and transfer the property to them. Claflin v Claflin and Saunders v Vautier are perhaps the two most famous cases in Anglo-American Equity. Through a detailed examination of manuscripts, this article offers a comparative expansion of the US and English histories, and particularly considers the role played by Holmes. Re-enactment theory offers the possibility of creating, or reliving, the intellectual process that led to Claflin, thus revealing a significant moment in the history of US federalism.

To read the article, please click here. The article is available in open access; the full issue is freely accessible online to members of the European Society for Comparative Legal History.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/2049677X.2026.2671607

BOOK: Vincent PEILLON, Laïcité, sécularisation et modernité. Essai sur l'exception française (Paris: Odile Jacob, 2026), 272 p. ISBN 9782415015435, € 24,9

 

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Abstract:

La laïcité donne lieu aujourd’hui à de nombreux débats, à de vigoureuses polémiques et à bien des contresens. Dans ce livre érudit et exigeant, où il noue un dialogue serré avec les fondateurs ainsi qu’avec de nombreux interprètes contemporains, Vincent Peillon montre comment la laïcité française propose une version absolument singulière de la sécularisation. Ni rejet et éviction du religieux, ni réinvestissement à l’identique du religieux dans le séculier, pas davantage bricolage individuel qui permettrait à chacun de se forger ses propres croyances, la laïcité française met en œuvre un modèle de sécularisation jusqu’ici curieusement peu étudié. Ce modèle, qui définit au plus près l’exception française, est inséparablement religieux et politique, rationnel et mystique. La laïcité française ne peut se résumer à un dispositif juridique de neutralité et de séparation des Églises et de l’État. Pensée comme nécessaire pour fonder le lien civique, garantir la démocratie, émanciper l’individu et réaliser la justice sociale, elle est une religion civile qui engage une compréhension nouvelle de la modernité. Celle-ci serait le produit d’une longue histoire, celle des hérésies.

On the author:

Philosophe et homme politique, Vincent Peillon a consacré de nombreux ouvrages à Maurice Merleau-Ponty, au républicanisme, à la laïcité et à la philosophie juive française. Comme ministre de l’éducation nationale, il a mis en place la Charte de la laïcité et relancé l’enseignement moral et civique. 

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OPEN ACCESS: Sébastien DUBOIS, Bruno DEMOULIN, & Jean-Louis KUPPER (Eds.). Les institutions publiques de la principauté de Liège (980-1794). [Studia, 133] (Brussels: State Archives of Belgium, 2012), 2 vol.

(image: Joseph Clement of Bavaria, Prince-Bishop of Liège; source: Wikimedia Commons)

 Abstract:

Bonne nouvelle ! Le guide 𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘪𝘯𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘲𝘶𝘦𝘴 𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘶𝘵é 𝘥𝘦 𝘓𝘪è𝘨𝘦 (980-1794) est désormais consultable en ligne et téléchargeable gratuitement ! Les Archives de l’État à Liège conservent de riches fonds d’archives de la principauté de Liège, mais pour y accéder, il faut connaître l’histoire, l’organisation, les compétences et les activités des institutions de l’un des États les plus singuliers de l’Europe d’Ancien Régime. L’organisation politique et administrative liégeoise (où pouvoirs temporel et spirituel s’entrecroisent) est complexe et différente des autres états d’Ancien Régime et, bien sûr, des institutions contemporaines. L’ouvrage offre une synthèse complète et structurée des institutions liégeoises -administratives, judiciaires, financières et militaires ; tant centrales (Conseil privé, États, Chambre des comptes, Cour allodiale, Cour féodale, etc.) que régionales (duché de Bouillon, comté de Looz, condominium de Maastricht, etc.) et locales (villes, métiers, échevinages, etc.). Chaque ville fait l’objet d’une notice spécifique. Chaque notice suit un cadre clair : histoire, organisation, compétences, activités, principaux textes normatifs, listes de fonctionnaires, sources archivistiques et éditions, bibliographie.

Read more here. 

(source: Celida [Centre liégeois de documentation archivistique)

BOOK: Maria Adèle CARRAI & Surabhi RANGANATHAN (eds.), The Cambridge History of International Law, vol. II: International Law in Asia [The Cambridge History of International Law, ed. Randall LESAFFER] (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), ISBN 9781009121972, € 163,39

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Abstract:

Volume II of The Cambridge History of International Law breaks the mould of Eurocentric histories in the field by exploring international law in Asia from antiquity to decolonisation. Its twenty-six chapters span a vast geography, covering both the landmass and the oceans; offering accounts of statecraft and diplomacy, war and trade; marriage and gift-giving; treaty-making and dispute settlement; ideas of the human and 'the other'; and entanglements of political authority with mercantile, corporate and religious orders. The chapters introduce readers to a diverse cast of characters, from scholars, scientists, geographers, mapmakers; to traders, merchants, shipowners and entrepreneurs; and to women, revolutionaries, pirates, labourers, and monks. The volume explains leading historiographical trends, ponders the challenges of writing Asian histories of international law, highlights available materials and methods, and showcases the conceptual purchase of Asian histories for thinking about international law.

Read more here: DOI  10.1017/9781009121972.

 

BOOK: Haakon A. IKONOMOU, Karin VAN LEEUWEN & Morten RASMUSSEN (eds.), The Cambridge Handbook of the League of Nations and International Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2026), 558 p. ISBN 9781009655187

 

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Abstract:

Established in the wake of the First World War, the League of Nations fundamentally transformed international politics, global governance and multilateral cooperation in a multitude of fields from the economy, labour and social affairs to colonial, minority and security questions. This Handbook analyses the central role of law in the construction of a new international order under the League of Nations. Drawing from innovative research of recent years that analyses the League of Nations through the prism of ultimate success and failure, it offers twenty-one rich chapters that showcase an interdisciplinary, contextual and archive-based approach with brand new and unexplored case studies that address key topics of the legal history of the League, the International Labour Organization and the Permanent Court of International Justice. Finally, it offers a new historical synthesis of how to understand the role of international law in international organizations during the interwar period.

Read more here: DOI 10.1017/9781009655149. 

JOURNAL: Clio@Themis, No. 30 (2026), “Le(s) temps de la justice (XVe–XXe siècle)” [OPEN ACCESS]

(image: The clock of the Palais de Justice, Paris, c. 1890. Photograph by Hippolyte Blancard. Source: Paris Musées / Musée Carnavalet (CC0)

The French legal history journal Clio@Themis has published its latest issue, devoted to “Le(s) temps de la justice (XVe–XXe siècle)”.

Contents/Articles:

Alice Bonzom, Simon Castanié, Nicolas Picard, Benoît Saint-Cast and Verónica Vallejo Flores
Introduction

Bernard Dauven
L’usage du temps par les justiciables à la fin du Moyen Âge. Les délais des compositions pour homicide dans les Pays-Bas bourguignons (sources, méthode et difficultés critiques)

Dylan Beccaria
Temps procédural et usages de la justice au XVIIe siècle. Étude de la vérification des lettres de grâce par les juridictions provençales

Louis Georges

De jour et de nuit : le Châtelet de Paris, une justice temporalisée ? Mesure, réformes, et pratiques du temps horaire dans les procédures criminelles parisiennes (XVIIe–XVIIIe siècles)

Fanny Lalande
Graffitis des prisons d’État de Crest et de Beauregard : mise en récit du temps de l’emprisonnement chez les prisonniers pour religion au XVIIIe siècle

Fabien Salducci
Célérité judiciaire et refonte du modèle de justice de proximité : l’exemple tropézien (1773–1803)

Federico Del Giudice
Del procedimiento sumario a los tribunales laborales. El tiempo de la justicia en los conflictos de trabajo en la Argentina en la primera mitad del siglo XX

Fabien Lostec
Les temps de la justice : un enjeu central de l’épuration en France à la Libération

Varia

Éric Seizelet
Les coutumiers japonais de la première moitié de l’ère Meiji et la codification du droit civil

Frédéric Blasi
La fabrique française du droit d’auteur et le rapport Reda, étude d’une controverse

The full issue is available in open access here: https://journals.openedition.org/cliothemis/6543

BOOK: Jesse JAMES, Laws of All the Greeks. International Law as Social Reality in Ancient Greece [The History and Theory of International Law, eds. Nehal BHUTA, Francesca IURLARO, Anthony PAGDEN & Benjamin STRAUMANN] (Oxford: OUP, 2026), 456 p. ISBN 9780197838525, 130 GBP

 

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Abstract:

The ancient Greek world was permeated with international law, the binding rules of behavior that Greeks across the Mediterranean followed and enforced for centuries. But why was international law effective in this world? Laws of All the Greeks offers an original answer rooted in contemporary social theory, presenting a definitive account of ancient Greek international law while delving into the social and psychological foundations that made it potent and durable. Challenging recent claims that international law did not exist in the Greek world, Laws of All the Greeks makes a robust case not only for its existence, but for the importance of taking ancient Greek international law as an historical subject in the first place. It provides an updated history of select elements of that law, including the right to private self-help; judicial treaties known as symbola; and piracy. Combining the findings of recent scholarship on Greek history, identity, and social networks, novel readings of documentary and literary sources, and the lessons of sociology and psychology, Jesse James demonstrates how the webs of identity binding the Greek world together affected both the rules of international law and their effectiveness at guiding legal and economic behavior. This study thus complicates and enriches prevailing approaches that emphasize formal institutions, structural features, or economic rationalism, offering instead a model for applying legal sociology to the historical study of international law.

Table of contents:

Part I. Background and Framework
1:Introducing Greek International Law
2:The Reality of Greek International Law
3:Psychology, States, and International Legal Socialization
4:International Identity and Socialization in Ancient Greece
Part II. Syla and Symbola: International Law and Commerce
5:Syla: Approaching Legal Self-Help in the Greek World
6:Syla as Self-Help in Greek International Law
7:Symbola: Social Origins of a Legal Institution
8:Symbola from the Athenian Empire to the Hegemony of Rome
Postscript
Part III. Expanding the View
9:Piracy
10:Oaths
11:The Thessalian Koinon as an International Legal Structure

12:Conclusion

On the author:

Jesse James is a historian, lawyer, and Classicist. He earned his J.D. at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and practiced law for several years in Manhattan, litigating disputes at state, federal, and international levels. He then earned his Ph.D. in Classics at Columbia University. He has held fellowships at Harvard Law School, the American School for Classical Studies at Athens, the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris, and the Kommission für Alte Geschichte in Munich.

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BOOK: Luigi LACCHÈ (ed.), Dal diritto della salute al diritto alla salute Storia, istituzioni, problemi della sanità in Italia tra Otto e Novecento (Roma: Viella Editrice, 2026). ISBN: 9791257012168, pp. 580, 9791257012168

 

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Abstract:

Il volume offre in maniera organica e coordinata un’immagine complessiva e interdisciplinare del diritto sanitario tra Otto e Novecento. Il diritto alla salute si compone anche del diritto della salute, ovvero di quel vastissimo insieme di principî, norme di rango diverso, prassi e procedure che reggono e conformano l’ordinamento sanitario. La ricerca ha inteso indagare perché e come il diritto sanitario ha svolto quello che si potrebbe definire un ruolo “costituente” in grado di disciplinare, organizzare e tutelare il bene salute dal periodo di formazione e di sviluppo dello Stato italiano sino all’età contemporanea. È una storia che – di fronte ad una sanità pubblica che rischia da tempo di essere depotenziata – ci ricorda quanto lungo e difficile sia stato il cammino per edificare e consolidare un’idea di sanità pubblica democratica e solidale.

About the editor:

Luigi Lacchè is Full Professor of Legal History at the Department of Law of the University of Macerata. 

Table of contents:

Luigi Lacchè, Introduzione

• I. La formazione del diritto sanitario tra Otto e Novecento
• Stefano Villamena, I regolamenti comunali di igiene: dalla legge sulla unificazione del Regno agli sviluppi successivi
• Roberta Braccia, Maura Fortunati, I “codici” senza un codice. L’apporto della dottrina alla sistemazione della normativa in ambito sanitario a fine Ottocento
• Floriana Colao, Una scienza per la «sanità pubblica». Dagli scritti di diritto amministrativo di Vittorio Emanuele Orlando al «trattato» di Federico Cammeo e Cino Vitta
• Luigi Lacchè , Silvio Lessona e lo sviluppo del diritto sanitario «da un punto di vista scientifico e sistematico»
• Raffaella Bianchi Riva, Il medico condotto nella giurisprudenza dall’età liberale al fascismo. L’assistenza sanitaria territoriale tra interesse generale e interessi professionali
• Daniele Colonna, Alle radici dello Stato sociale: la fondazione dell’infortunistica e il contributo di Lorenzo Borri
• II. Istituzioni, saperi e spazi della sanità tra Otto e Novecento
• Lorenzo Sinisi, Da Genova all’Italia: il contributo ligure al riordinamento del servizio sanitario marittimo nel Regno di Sardegna dalla Restaurazione all’Unità
• Giuseppe Mecca, L’assistenza ospedaliera da Crispi al fascismo, tra beneficenza e intervento pubblico
• Ronald Car, Salvare l’individuo o la nazione? Influenza istituzionale, professionale e ideologica della scienza medica tedesca sulle politiche sanitario-epidemiologiche di Crispi
• Davide Rossi, Come un giano bifronte. I primi passi della Croce Rossa Italiana tra sanità civile e sanità militare
• Filippo Rossi, Tra abusi e silenzi. Casi e dibattiti sulla professione ostetrica tra età liberale e fascismo
• Marco Castelli, “I due rami essenziali”: la collocazione del servizio pubblico veterinario tra tutela della salute pubblica e sostegno della produzione
• Monica Stronati, Un’altra idea di salute? Le società di mutuo soccorso tra Otto e Novecento
• Ninfa Contigiani, La “salute” della città: le trasformazioni degli spazi urbani. Tra soluzioni tecnico-giuridiche di riparazione e progettazioni ideali nell’Italia liberale
• Gabriel Faustino Santos , La riforma del 1904 tra diritti e autorità: alle basi di un nuovo modello di amministrazione sanitaria nel Brasile repubblicano
• III. Il diritto alla salute e la sanità in età repubblicana
• Claudia Storti, La salute nei lavori del Ministero per la Costituente
• Donatella Morana, Giulio Enea Vigevani, La tutela della salute nell’ordinamento repubblicano: le scelte innovative della Costituente e il laborioso percorso della loro attuazione
• Enrico Daly, Le riforme mancate delle casse mutue nell’immediato dopoguerra e il neocorporativismo repubblicano
• Riccardo Ferrante, Legislazione di lotta e di riforma. Dibattito politico e cultura giuridica dalla “legge manicomiale” (n. 36 del 1904) alla “legge Basaglia” (n. 180 del 1978) e oltre
• Marco Cecili, Il concetto di sanità pubblica nel diritto italiano: una lettura diacronica del bene “salute”
• IV. Sanità, istituzioni e tutela penale della salute
• Elio Romano Belfiore , Responsabilità del sanitario e delitti contro la sanità pubblica nei codici penali del 1859 e del 1889
• Andrea Raffaele Amato, L’incubo della malattia incurabile: repressione della prostituzione e governo igienico-sanitario della sifilide nell’Italia dell’Ottocento
• Loredana Garlati, Un manicomio, un alienista, le sue perizie. L’attività di Giuseppe Antonini: prime note
• Marco Nicola Miletti, Tra salute e sicurezza: un profilo storico della sanità carceraria nell’Italia contemporanea
• Paolo Rondini, La tutela dell’igiene degli alimenti e dei farmaci nell’Italia liberale e fascista
• Andrea Di Landro, La colpa penale nel settore sanitario: un’analisi comparata col mondo anglosassone
• Carlo Ruga Riva, La nascita del diritto penale ambientale
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