BLOG TEAM: New Composition as of 4 May 2026

Pursuant to our most recent call for bloggers, the ESCLH Blog Team has been extended.

We are happy to welcome as new bloggers:

• Fuad-Meša Čičić: graduated in law (LL.B.) summa cum laude and is currently completing his LL.M. in Civil law (legal-historical focus) at the University of Pristina (Kosovo). His master's thesis examines the transfer of risk in the contract of sale in classical Roman law (periculum rei venditae), approaching from legal-historical and legal-theoretical perspectives. His research interests include ancient legal history, the historical development of private law (partic. the law of obligations), as well as customary law in the Balkan context. Professionally, he serves as a Judicial Clerk at the Constitutional Court of Kosovo. He is also a member of several scholarly associations dedicated to legal history and related fields (incl. ASLH, ESHL, and the AIP)
• Paweł Kaźmierski, LL.M.: doctoral candidate at the Doctoral School in the Social Sciences of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków and at the Faculty of Law of the University of Jena (cotutelle). He holds MA in Polish law and LL.M. in German law. His research interests focus on the comparative legal history, history of Socialist law, history of Family law and law and religion.
• Benedict Vanlanduyt: doctoral researcher affiliated with KU Leuven and KU Leuven Campus Kortrijk (Belgium). She holds degrees in Medieval and Ancient Philosophy and in Law from KU Leuven, where she completed the Research Master Programme in Law, graduating magna cum laude. Her master’s dissertation examined the role of auxiliary states in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740–1748) within the broader history of public and international law. She currently investigates the restitution of private property seized or confiscated in the Low Countries between 1550 and 1750 during times of war. The project focusses on the relation between legal doctrine and practice, by conducting archival research, analyzing treaties and investigating negotiation history. 

The other members of the current team remain on board, save for Marco Castelli, who has decided to focus on the peer reviewed journal Comparative Legal History. We are grateful for Marco’s loyal service and commitment to the blog. Over the past five years, he contributed over 340 posts (ergo 1,44 a week, if one discounts the Winter and Summer blogging breaks).

We kindly remind our readership that proposals for contributions can be submitted to esclhblog@gmail.com. We only publish suggestions in MS Word or RTF format, with an image. PDFs or formatted documents will be returned to the sender. Please be patient: blog posts are usually scheduled well in advance, only calls for paper or vacancies with a fixed term limit have priority. Publications of books or journals are spread out across time.