Very proud to be part of this new project funded by the FWO (Fonds voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen / Research Foundation – Flanders).

Title: Cities as breeding grounds: Legal change in financial law (c. 1620-c. 1750)

Senior research projects fundamental research – G0ACT25N

FIN-code:7010

All credit, however, goes to Luisa Brunori and Dave De ruysscher, who also wrote the following lines:

A new milestone for the legal history of commercial cities! Dave De ruysscher (Tilburg-VUB), Luisa Brunori (CNRS-ENS) and Stefania Gialdroni (Università di Padova) have received FWO funding for a project on bills and notes and the municipal law of financial hubs in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. This project emerged out of the PHEDRA-network, a European research platform for economic and legal historians working on the history of commercial law. The funding mentioned will allow to study the building blocks of our present-day financial law. Standing on the shoulders of giants such as Giovanni Cassandro, Federigo Melis and Raymond De Roover, this project will for the first time analyze the legal-historical components of financial practices in cities such as London, Amsterdam and Hamburg from the angle of these cities’ law and legal practices. A PhD candidate will analyze bylaws, compilations of local law and comments thereon, as well as judgments of the municipal courts.