VACANCY: Part-time position (15%) as a professor at the Research Unit of Roman Law and Legal History, KU Leuven (Brussels Campus) [Dutch required] [DEADLINE 14/3/2024]

(Source: KU Leuven)

The Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Humanities and Social Sciences Group of KU Leuven has a vacancy for a part-time position (15%) as a professor at the Research Unit of Roman Law and Legal History. The position involves teaching at an academic level, scientific research and additional tasks of an academic nature, including service tasks. 

As a professor, you will develop a broad research programme with a focus on Roman private law and/or private law in the tradition of ius commune, partly in collaboration with professors and staff with extensive expertise in neighbouring research areas. The teaching assignment to be performed involves primarily teaching the course 'Romeins Recht' (in Dutch) to 1st year students at the campus of KU Leuven in Brussels, taught in parallel with the course 'Geschiedenis van het Publiekrecht'. Because the successful candidate will have to take up different teaching assignments in Dutch soon after appointment, he/she is required to have mastery of Dutch at CEFR level C1 at the time of appointment. 

The full vacancy announcement can be found via: https://www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jobsite/jobs/60303182?lang=en.

Deadline: 14/3/2024

Should you have questions about the position, you can contact:

- Prof. Dr. Wouter Devroe, Dean Faculty of Law and Criminology, wouter.devroe@kuleuven.be 

- Prof. Dr. Wouter Druwé, Chair a.i. of the Roman Law and Legal History Research Unit, wouter.druwe@kuleuven.be

CONFERENCE: 'Natural Law and Domestic Government' - KU Leuven, 27-28 April 2023 - Speakers’ conference programme

KU Leuven will host a two-day conference on the interaction between natural law-thinking and domestic government in early modern Europe on 27 and 28 April, where academics both junior and senior will be presenting their research. Anyone interested in attending one or more sessions is kindly requested to register their attendance by sending an e-mail to naturallawconference@kuleuven.be.

Speakers’ conference programme

[All conference talks will take place in the Irish College – Iers College, Janseniusstraat 1, 3000 Leuven]

This conference is organised by the KU Leuven Research Unit Roman Law and Legal History (Faculty of Law and Criminology). It is co-funded by the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO), project nr. G0C4421N.

Thursday 27 April 2023

9u Reception with coffee in the Irish College.

9u30 Opening session.

- 9u30: Word of welcome by the conference organisers.

- 9u45: Keynote speech by prof. dr. Annabel Brett (University of Cambridge) on “Natural law and human difference: The possibility condition in later scholastic thought.”

11u Coffee break. 

11u15

- 11u15: Ms. Rosalind Acland (University of Cambridge) on “Edward Coke’s Ciceronian Common Law (1552-1634).”

- 11u45: Dr. Signy Gutnick Allen (University of Zurich) on “Locke’s Theory of Economic Citizenship: Natural Law, Property and Charity.” 

- 12u15: discussion.

13u Lunch.

14u  

- 14u: Mr. Geert Sluijs (KU Leuven) on “Stewardship and statesmanship. Justus Lipsius and Diodorus Tuldenus on the natural law of government in the Early Modern Low Countries.”

- 14u30: Dr. Paolo Astorri and prof. dr. Lars Nørgaard (University of Copenhagen) on “The notion of potestas in the works of Henning Arnisaeus (1570-1636).”

- 15u: discussion.

15u45 Coffee break.

16u  

- 16u: Ms. Sarah Papa (Goethe University Frankfurt) on “Between the People and the Priest: a case of expropriation of land for the ‘common good’ in eighteenth- century Portuguese America.”

- 16u30: Mr. Rafael Mateus (Federal University of Ceará, Fortaleza) on “Mutability of Lex et Ius Naturale in Domingo de Soto’s De Iustitia et Iure.” 

- 17u00: discussion.

18u Conclusion of the day’s sessions.

Friday 28 April 2023

9u Coffee in the Irish College.

9u15 Keynote speech by prof. dr. Marie Seong-Hak Kim (St. Cloud State University) on “Bodin, Natural Law, and the Crisis of the French Renaissance Monarchy.”

10u30 Coffee break.

11u  

- 11u: Dr. Ki-Won Hong (Yonsei University) on “Leibniz’s Critique of Pufendorf’s Concepts of Sovereignty and German Federation.”

- 11u30: Mr. Carlos Eduardo Perez Crespo (University of Hamburg) on “Emer de Vattel’s Monarchical Theory of Constituent Power.”

- 12u: discussion.

12u45 Lunch. 

13u45  

- 13u45: Mr. Pedro Ricardo da Silva Santos (KU Leuven) on “Fides and the nature of Feudum in the legal thought of Petrus Gudelinus (1550-1619).”

- 14u15: Dr. Jeffrey Dymond (University of Zurich) on “Association and Corporation in Humanist Jurisprudence.”

- 14u45 discussion.

15u30 Closing remarks by prof. dr. Alain Wijffels (KU Leuven).

16u Conference end. 

JOB : Research Professor in Canon Law (KU Leuven) (DEADLINE: 15 September 2022)

 

(Source: KU Leuven) 

The KU Leuven has a vacancy for a research professor in canon law.

The Faculty of Canon Law has a strong national and international reputation in teaching, research, and scientific services in the field of Canon Law and aims for leadership in each of these activities at the national, European, international and ecclesiastical levels in each of these activities. The Faculty of Canon Law currently has more than 130 students from the five continents. Based on its extensive research expertise, teaching is offered in Dutch and English, both at master's and advanced master's level. The Faculty’s aim is to distinguish itself through the academic character of its initiatives, and by emphasizing the social role of law, and the ecclesiastical and church-political role of Canon Law. This requires sufficient levels of abstraction and originality in research and teaching, as well as attention to values and to the theological and philosophical foundations of Canon Law. In this context, the function requires academic teaching, research and service which necessarily transcends purely descriptive work, by fostering awareness of the interdependence and dynamics of legal rules.

Website unit

Duties

Research

As research professor you will develop a broad nationally and internationally oriented research programme with a focus on specific areas in this field. You must correspond to a strong methodological profile. The candidate is expected to have a multidisciplinary attitude and a willingness to cooperate intensively with other researchers and research units, in the Faculty of Canon Law and beyond, in particular in Law and in Theology.

• You strengthen existing research lines and you offer new and complementary expertise.
• You develop your own research programme with a focus on areas in Canon Law.
  
  
• You develop your own research group.
  
  
• You attempt to acquire competitive research funding with national and/or international agencies and you submit research proposals to funding bodies in order to reach this goal.
  
  
• You set up international cooperation in the context of your research programme.
  
  
• You set up cooperation inside and outside the Faculty on the level of the research of the Research Unit.
• You strive for excellence in your research and in this way you offer a contribution to the international character of the research unit and the Faculty.
• You publish at the highest academic level, among others by publishing monographs in leading series and by contributing articles to various leading internationally reviewed journals in your field.
• You attract national and international doctoral students and you supervise doctoral research in your research field.
• You pay the necessary attention to the valorisation of your research.

Education

As stipulated in the BOF Decree, you will be expected to participate in limited teaching.

The candidate should possess excellent teaching skills, enabling him/her to contribute to the high quality of his/her research unit and the research based and research oriented educational programmes to which he/she will contribute both in the Faculty of Canon Law and in other faculties. Commitment to the quality of the programme as a whole is taken for granted.

Service

KU Leuven expects its academic staff to contribute to institutional management in the Faculty and the University and to engage in societal outreach initiatives.

Requirements

The candidate should hold a PhD in Canon Law (JCD), and if not: a PhD in Law or Theology (STD) and a Canonical degree Iuris Canonici Licentiatus (JCL).

You have an excellent research profile which is proven by among others the publication of monographs in leading series and articles in various leading international, peer-reviewed journals. 

You have demonstrable qualities related to university- level teaching and didactic skills. Experience in acquiring research funding is an asset.

Proficiency in English is required.

The official administrative language used at KU Leuven is Dutch. If the candidate does not speak Dutch (or does not speak it well) at the start of employment, KU Leuven will provide language training to enable him/her to take part in administrative meetings. Prior to teaching Dutch and/or English courses, the candidate will be given the opportunity to acquire or improve necessary language skills.

Before teaching courses in Dutch or English, you will be given the opportunity to acquire or improve the language skills, if necessary.

Other languages are an added value.

Offer

The Humanities and Social Sciences Group has decided to encourage and strengthen the (inter)disciplinary research in Canon Law by recruiting a research professor in that specific domain.

The successful candidate will be hired in the rank of Assistant Professor, Associate Professor or (Full) Professor depending on his/her qualifications and academic experience. Junior researchers will be appointed as assistant professor in tenure track for a period of 5 years, which in case of a positive evaluation is followed by an appointment as a tenured associate professor.

Your assignment includes tasks of research, education and service provision, but during the period of the BOF status will mainly consist of research in (sub-domains of) Canon Law.

The KU Leuven pursues a policy of equal opportunity and diversity and explicitly encourages underrepresented groups at the university to apply.

KU Leuven is well set to welcome foreign professors and their family and provides practical support with regard to immigration & administration, housing, childcare, learning Dutch, partner career coaching.

To facilitate scientific onboarding and accelerate research in the first phase a starting grant of 100.000 euro is offered to new professors without substantial other funding, appointed for at least 50%.

More information

full application and selection procedure research professorships (BOFZAP)

Interested?

More information on the content of the job can be obtained from the academic contact person Prof. dr. Rik Torfs, Dean of the Faculty of Canon Law, (rik.torfs@kuleuven.be, tel. +32 16 32 51 58). 

More information on the guidelines, regulations and application file [see footnote 1] is available from Ms. Kristin Vermeylen (kristin.vermeylen@kuleuven.be , tel. +32 16 32 09 07) or Ms. Christelle Maeyaert (christelle.maeyaert@kuleuven.be , tel. +32 16 31 41 94).

You are expected to add to the application file: a motivation letter; a text on the vision of academic research ; a text about the vision on academic education; and all teaching evaluations of the past five years in your possession.

 

You can apply for this job no later than September 15, 2022 via the online application tool

KU Leuven seeks to foster an environment where all talents can flourish, regardless of gender, age, cultural background, nationality or impairments. If you have any questions relating to accessibility or support, please contact us at diversiteit.HR@kuleuven.be.

 

More info here.

 

CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: FLOF-bursaal romeins recht en rechtsgeschiedenis aan de subfaculteit rechten, KULAK (DEADLINE: 7 Juni 2020)

(Source: KU Leuven)

The KU Leuven – Campus Kortrijk has an application for a PhD position (knowledge of Dutch is necessary). Here the call:

De Subfaculteit Rechtsgeleerdheid aan de KU Leuven campus Kortrijk is een dynamische eenheid die het onderwijs in de rechten voor de eerste twee jaar van de bachelor verzorgt. Het wetenschappelijk onderzoek van het team spitst zich vooral toe op het privaatrecht. Het team bestaat uit vijf professoren en enkele tientallen voltijdse en deeltijdse medewerkers die in Kortrijk werken. Op het gebied van de rechtsgeschiedenis worden in Kortrijk de vakken Romeins Recht en Geschiedenis van het Publiekrecht in het eerste jaar, en Geschiedenis van het Privaatrecht in het tweede jaar gedoceerd. Het onderzoek van de leden van de Onderzoekseenheid Romeins Recht en Rechtsgeschiedenis in Leuven en Kortrijk spitst zich toe op drie themata: de intellectuele ontwikkeling van de continentale rechtstraditie met nadruk op het geleerde Romeins en kerkelijk recht, de historische ontwikkeling van het internationaal recht en de historische ontwikkeling van het economisch en financieel recht, dit telkens in de periode 1500-heden.  (https://www.law.kuleuven.be/romrecht)

Website van de eenheid

Project

De doctoraatsbursaal heeft twee hoofdtaken. U werkt in eerste instantie aan een eigen onderzoeksproject, dit onder begeleiding van Professor Wouter Druwé en Professor Randall Lesaffer. U kan, in samenspraak met de promotores, zelf een onderzoeksproject ontwikkelen. Dit bevindt zich bij voorkeur binnen één van de bestaande onderzoeksassen van de afdeling, maar heeft een privaatrechtelijk karakter. Daarnaast staat u ook in voor het verzorgen van monitoraatsoefeningen voor de 1ste-jaar studenten in Kortrijk, op het gebied van het Romeins Recht en mogelijk ook de Geschiedenis van het Publiekrecht. U werkt verder ook mee aan de activiteiten van de Kortrijkse subfaculteit.

Profiel

U bent afgestudeerd als master in de rechten en behaalde tijdens uw studies goede tot zeer goede studieresultaten. Naast het Nederlands beheerst u ook het Engels en Frans op hoog niveau; andere talen strekken tot aanbeveling. U hebt sterke interesse in wetenschappelijk onderzoek, hebt een brede maatschappelijke en historische interesse, bent veel belezen en hebt goede mondelinge en schriftelijke uitdrukkingsvaardigheden. U bent collegiaal, kan goed samenwerken maar bent ook in staat om zelfstandig en planmatig te werken.

Aanbod

U wordt aangesteld als doctoraatsbursaal, met als beoogde startdatum 1 september 2020. De aanstellingsperiode bedraagt één jaar, bij positieve evaluatie verlengbaar met één jaar, en dan opnieuw met twee jaar.

Interesse?

Solliciteren kan tot en met 7 juni via onze online sollicitatietoepassing.

Gelieve bij uw sollicitatie een curriculum vitae en een motivatiebrief toe te voegen, evenals een paper die u naar aanleiding van een academische opdracht geschreven heeft (bv. masterscriptie).

Meer informatie is te verkrijgen bij prof. dr. Randall Lesaffer, tel.: +32 16 32 53 32 of 0477 31 64 61, mail: randall.lesaffer@kuleuven.be.

Solliciteren voor deze vacature kan tot en met 07/06/2020 via onze online sollicitatietoepassing

KU Leuven wil een omgeving creëren waarin alle talenten maximaal tot ontplooiing kunnen komen, ongeacht gender, leeftijd, culturele herkomst, nationaliteit of functiebeperking. Hebt u vragen in verband met toegankelijkheid of ondersteuningsmogelijkheden, dan kan u ons contacteren via diversiteit.HR@kuleuven.be.

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WORKSHOP: Ius Commune Conference 2019 – Workshop: Ius Commune in the Making – Networks in the History of Private Law (28 November 2019, Leuven)

(Source: Iuscommune.eu)

The Ius Commune Research School (a cooperation between the law schools of the Universiteit Maastricht, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, the Universiteit Utrecht and the Universiteit van Amsterdam) is organizing its Workshop on ‘Comparative Legal History–Ius Commune in the Making’ coming November.

The Workshops on ‘Comparative Legal History–Ius Commune in the Making’ aim to reveal and understand the nature and effects of various legal formants in the development of law. Indeed, forces of legal formants are too often lost or hidden beneath a superficies of commonalities. In the past, we have explored the role of legal actors (Edinburgh 2014), legal sources (Maastricht 2016), force of local laws (Utrecht 2017) and and methods and dynamics of law (Amsterdam 2018). The current Workshop aims now to explore our contemporary emerging concept of ‘networks’ in a comparative-historical perspective. These networks shape and challenge boundaries of traditional legal categories (e.g., persons, things, contracts, torts, actions) as semi-autonomous social fields (Sally Falk Moore 1973), and thus have always grown and waned, and have had an impact on law and society. Networks are a form of social arrangement, and grow and nurture in that sfumato and agonal human environment–these days even electronically. History shows that at all times these social arrangements have taken shape; actors tend to group themselves in clusters to survive, attain synergy, to strengthen their positions to serve common interests. Networks have different origins, objectives, and attain different effects. Some networks interact for a common goal, while others act in isolation. Networks can have a temporary presence or even attain a more permanent and even formal place in society, contributing to its resilience or decline. In legal terms: they may have influence in, on the one hand, persons reaching consensus and (legally) acting in the private life (e.g., persons, things, obligations, torts, actions) or, on the other hand, the public life (e.g., legislation, administration, judicial decisions). Networks–or social arrangements–may be found all over. Different time-periods in the order of law, including Roman law, the learned ius commune, nineteenth-century codification, and the more recent efforts towards a European private law harmonization will offer us insights on the role of networks. Law in the making can be better explained by a look into the role of networks at different times and places. Organisers: Harry Dondorp, Wouter Druwé, Michael Milo, Pim Oosterhuis, and Agustín Parise

14.00 – 14.10 Wouter Druwé (KU Leuven)

Introductory Remarks

Panel 1: Academics

Chair: Michael Milo (Utrecht University)

14.10 – 14.25 David Magalhães (University of Coimbra)

Far-Reaching Connections arising from ‘Universitas Magistrorum et Scholarium’. The

Example of Peter the Chanter, Innocent III, and the End of Ordeals

14.25 – 14.40 Jan Biemans (Utrecht University)

The Development of Private Law Theory in the United States and the Netherlands and their

Interrelations. On Roscoe Pound, Oliver Wendell Holmes jr. and Paul Scholten

14.40 – 14.55 Agustín Parise (Maastricht University)

The Committee on Legal History of the Association of American Law Schools and a

Transatlantic Endeavor to Develop Comparative Legal History (1905-1928)

14.55 – 15.15 Plenary Discussion

15.15 – 15.30 Coffee / Tea

Panel 2: Judges and Merchants

Chair: Agustin Parise (Maastricht University)

15.30 – 15.45 Willem Theus (KU Leuven)

Consular Courts

15.45 – 16.00 Johannes W. Flume (Free University of Berlin)

A Spatial History of Exchanges or Bourses: On the Rise and Fall of an Iconic Place of

Capitalism

16.15 – 16.35 Plenary Discussion

16.35 – 16.45 Coffee / Tea

Panel 3: Change

Chair: Harry Dondorp (VU)

16.45 – 17.00 Pim Oosterhuis (Maastricht University)

The New 19th Century Dutch Codes' Greatest Protagonist: Abraham de Pinto's Lifelong Plea

for the New Codes within the Dutch Legal Community

17.00 – 17.15 Anna Klimaszewska (University of Gdańsk)

Debtors and Creditors – The Grey Zone of Practice in Meeting Obligations in the Polish

Territories in the First Decades of the Nineteenth Century

17.15 – 17.30 Laura Macgregor (University of Edinburgh)

Partnerships and Attributes of Legal Personality

17.30 – 17.45 Plenary Discussion

17.50 – 18.00 Pim Oosterhuis (Maastricht University)

Concluding Remarks

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LECTURE: Leuven Legal History Talks – Dr. Carrai on “China, Sovereignty and International Law” (Leuven, 19 November 2019)

(Source: KU Leuven)

The department of Roman law and legal history at the KU Leuven is hosting its next speaker in the Leuven Legal History Talks coming November.

NEXT LECTURE

CHINA, SOVEREIGNTY AND INTERNATIONAL LAW

DR. MARIA ADELE CARRAI

When?

19th November 2019
4PM-5PM

Where?

DE VALK-03, room 01.25

More info here