Pro Memorie - Volume 22, Issue 2, 2020

Summary From the fourteenth till the seventeenth centuries, European societies have been confronted with regular outbreaks of pestilence.fn1Dit onderzoek kwam tot stand dankzij de financiële ondersteuning van KU Leuven – Interne Fondsen. De auteur dankt de reviewers en redactieleden voor hun opmerkingen. In these times of crisis, jurists have had to respond to a variety of new and often unexpected legal questions. In Read More

Summary In times of past crises, the term world law served both as rhetorical tool (to give people hope), and as key term in academic and political blueprints for a post-crisis world order. This article describes how world law was used in Dutch (wereldrecht), German (Weltrecht) and French (droit mondial) popular, political and academic debates. What did those terms mean in the past? And what is their actual and potential relevan Read More

Summary This article examines the role of medical expertise in the forensic investigation of infanticide in early modern Flanders. Drawing on a collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century post-mortem reports, conserved in the archives of three Flemish criminal courts (the Raad van Vlaanderen, the bench of aldermen of Ghent, and the feudal court of the Land van Waas), this study explains how medical practitioners Read More

Summary Defending the King’s rights and affirming the sovereign authority was the important part of the activity of Ladislas de Baralle.fn1Dit artikel is vertaald en waar nodig bewerkt door prof.mr. Paul Nève. He worked tirelessly to manage the administration of the new territories of the French Crown and ensured their conservation. It intervened judicially and politically thanks to his conclusions given in trials affecting king Read More

Summary This article compares the litigation of the Feudal Court of Brabant and the Council of Brabant between the early fifteenth and the end of the eightteenth century.fn1Met dank aan Xavier Rousseaux, Griet Vermeesch, Ton Kappelhof en twee anonieme referenten van dit tijdschrift voor hun opmerkingen en suggesties. After a quantitative assessment of the volume of litigation of both institutions, it is argued that from the Read More

Summary This article is a biographical portrait of Anna Maria Louiza Lange, who acted as the first female judge in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Lange studied and graduated in Leiden, after which she worked as a magistrate for many years in various courts in the Dutch EastIndies. In 1921 Lange substituted for a male judge and acted as a full member of the court in Padang, on the West Coast of Sumatra. This led to a signif Read More