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Paper presentations

De ruysscher, D., “ERC Starting Grant CLLS: Analysing Coherence in Law Through Legal Scholarship, Amsterdam (17th Century)”, expert meeting Law in Amsterdam and the Dutch Republic (17th Century), Tilburg University, 11 May 2017.

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De ruysscher, D., “Financial Instruments at the Antwerp Bourse (16th Century): General Collateral”, workshop History of the workless economy, Florence, 8 June 2017.

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De ruysscher, D., “Reception of French commercial law literature in the Low Countries”, Historiography of commercial law, past, present & future, Helsinki, 26 September 2017.

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De ruysscher, D., "Lex Mercatoria Traditions", i-Hilt lecture, Tilburg University, 6 March 2018.

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De ruysscher, D., “The Many Shades of Pre-Insolvency Proceedings in France, Belgium and the Netherlands, 1807-c. 1910”, PER-Department Erelunch 5 April 2018.

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Kotlyar, I., "Public auctions and collectivization of execution proceedings in Holland, 1550-1700", meeting workgroup Law in Amsterdam and the Dutch Republic (17th Century), Maastricht University, 16 May 2018.

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Kotlyar, I., "Bankruptcy and the “Praetorian Pledge”: the Law of the Books and the Law in Action in the Early Modern Netherlands", International Forum of Young Legal Historians, Warsaw, 14-17 June 2018.

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De ruysscher, D., "Security Interests and Consistency in Commercial Law: the Example of Roman-Dutch Scholarship (17th c.)", Jour fixe Max-Planck Institut for europäische Rechtsgeschichte, 10 September 2018.

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De ruysscher, D. and De Reu, P., "Averting Bankruptcy in Belgium 1884-1914. Who Made Use of Pre-Insolvency Compositions?", workshop "Mercantile and Corporate Insolvency and Pre-Insolvency in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century: Law and Economy", Tilburg, 7 December 2018.

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De ruysscher, D. and M. In't Veld, "The Bankruptcy of Rembrandt: the Artist as Legal Actor", workshop Law and Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic, The Hague, 10 April 2019. 

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Mooi, R. and den Hollander, M., "A Late Seventeenth-Century International Bankruptcy: the Case of Gasparo Schellekens", workshop Law and Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic, The Hague, 10 April 2019.

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De ruysscher, D., “ERC Starting Grant: Collateral Rights in Early Modern Europe”, Annual Meeting of the Young Academy of Europe, Barcelona, 23 October 2019.

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den Hollander, M., 'Insolvency and economic misfortune in 17th century Amsterdam', i-Hilt-lecture Tilburg University 27 February 2020.

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den Hollander, M., 'Insolvents’ identities: Economic failure and social policy in late 17th century Amsterdam', European Social Science History Conference, 26 March 2021.

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den Hollander, M., 'Cessie van Goede and the Desolate Boedelskamer in 17th-century Amsterdam', Younger Academics Network of Insolvency Law13 October 2021.

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den Hollander, M., 'Uitstel van executie. Juridische strategieën van Amsterdamse insolventen in de 17e eeuw', Belgian-Dutch Legal History Conference (online), 17 December 2021.

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De ruysscher, D., “The Code de commerce (1807): shedding light on the crafting of commercial law in early nineteenth-century France”, online lecture VUB-CORE, 29 April 2022.

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M. den Hollander, “From Expertise to Experience? The Legal Treatment of Insolvency in Seventeenth-Century Amsterdam”, AveTransRisk Workshop Pisa, 5 November 2022

 

M. den Hollander, “Debt and Insolvency in Early Modern Amsterdam: Religious Influences on the Desolate Boedelskamer?”, conference Debt or Sin? The Moral Roots of European Legal and Economic Thought, Louvain-la-Neuve, 28 October 2022

  

Seminars 

De ruysscher, D., "Bankruptcy and Insolvency in History, Law, and Theory", PhD Training Seminars, Ecole doctorale des Sciences Juridiques, Politiques et de Gestion, Université de Lille-II, 5-7 June 2018.

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Seminar 1: Paradigms and Trends in Bankruptcy Theory and History, 5 June 2018.

 

Seminar 2: Insolvency, Restructuring, and Fresh Start: Comparative Legal History, 6 June 2018.

 

Seminar 3: Legal Reforms: Insolvency Law Today and Tomorrow, 7 June 2018. 

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Panels 

"Corporate Insolvency and Restructuring Proceedings: Legal Borrowing, National Tradition and Globalization (Nineteenth-Twentieth Centuries)", World Economic History Congress, Boston, 29 July-3 August 2018.

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"The Identity of Amsterdam and its Mercantile Citizens", XXVth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians, Brussels, 5 June 2019.

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"Damaged Identity: Bankruptcy and Reputation", XXVth Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians, Brussels, 7 June 2019. 

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"History of Insolvency", Belgian-Dutch Legal History Conference, Liège, 14 and 15 June 2019.

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"Law as Resource. Commerce and legal change in the early modern city", World Economic History Congress, Paris  25-29 July 2022.

Workshops

"Mercantile and Corporate Bankruptcy and Pre-Insolvency in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries: Law and Economy", Tilburg University, 7 December 2018.

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"Commerce, Identity, and Citizenship in Legal History", Brussels, 7-8 November 2019

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"Law and Governance of a Global City: 17th-c. Amsterdam", Amsterdam, 28-29 October 2021.

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PhD defenses

M. den Hollander, Stay of Execution. Institutions and Insolvency Legislation in Amsterdam (1578-1700), cum laude, public defence 22 June 2021 (Tilburg University)

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R. Mooi, Without Regard to Foreignness. The Emergence of Equal Treatment in Early Modern German Insolvency, 1648-1806, cum laude, public defence 25 January 2023 (Tilburg University)

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M. Lupi, Insolvent merchants and royal jurisdictions in Early Modern Lyon (1600-1660): the role of royal notaries and the Conservation des privilèges royaux des foires, 29 November 2023 (Tilburg University) 

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