Units

Center for Legal History and Legal Anthropology

Research in legal history (included roman law) and sociolegal studies.

Projetcs

The Origins of the Faculty of Law of the Free University of Brussels and of Law Teaching in Belgium.

This research examines the evolution of basic ideas in the teaching of law during the crucial periode which covers the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th Centuries and then deals with the history of the School, later the Faculty, of law of Brussels ( 1806-1817), the direct ancester of the Faculty of Law of the Free University of Brussels.

The boulevards of the center of Brussels ( XIXth - XXIst century )

Recherche entreprise par Yvon Leblicq basée, entre autres, sur des archives judiciaires et policières et devant déboucher sur la parution d'un important volume prévu pour la fin 2007.  L'ouvrage sera publié par la Maison Bruylant et est subventionné par le Secrétaire d'Etat Emir Kir.

The Utility of Judicial Archives as a source of Urban History.

The exploitation of a unpublished judicial source, namely the ''Vues de lieux'' ('' Survey of Parcels''), drawn up by property experts as required by the First Instance Tribunal of Brussels, allows us to revise our knowledge of the 19th Century city in a thouroug-going way. These documents give us first-hand information concerning topographical details about the properties expropriated as well as information about economic activity and social class of their occupants.

A distingo between the scene investigations and the judicial expertises

Recherche d'Yvon Leblicq basée sur les archives conservées au Palais de Justice et celles déjà transférées antérieurement aux Archives de l'État.

Legislation on expropriation for the public benefit in Belgium and France and its application in the urban setting (1789-1918).

The objective is not only a comparative study of legislation and the tendancy towards expropriation by zones but also and perhaps even more its practical application. This research is based on a collecting and studying archives of a great number of French provincial towns and on examining all the judgments of the First Instance Tribunal of Brussels.