Dave De Ruysscher
Biographic Data
| ID | 3445635 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dave De Ruysscher |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dave |
| FAMILY NAME | De Ruysscher |
| SIGNATURE | DE RUYSSCHER D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tilburg University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7675-5475 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Building the law
This article zooms in on the legal activities of the Société Centrale d’Architecture en Belgique in the Belle Époque and Interbellum, analyzing the ways in which professional interest groups without a legal background could impact processes of law-making. scab developed publications for professionals and invested in strategic networking and in-house legal expertise. As a result, it not only became an important centre of information on constructio…
Historia jurídica en los Países Bajos y Bélgica en torno a 1924
En la década de 1920, la historia jurídica en Bélgica y los Países Bajos experimentó cambios relacionados con los planes de estudio de las universidades y la disciplina científica. Hay buenas razones para tratar a ambos países de forma combinada. De hecho, las historias jurídicas de Bélgica y los Países Bajos comparten muchas características. Ambos países habían sido uno solo hasta finales del siglo XVI. En 1648, las fronteras entre los Países Ba…
The Rule of Law in Cities of the Medieval Low Countries
Urban communities were established in the twelfth and thirteenth century with the aid of legal concepts that comprised early notions of the rule of law. Cities were envisaged as “communes”, which referred to popular sovereignty. In a first period, urban citizenship was flexible and closely related to place of residence. From around 1220 this model came under increasing pressure. In order to safeguard the interests of the most affluent citizens, l…
The merchant on stage
Customs and Municipal Law
Over the past decades, legal historians have become more cautious when it comes to rules that in the Middle Ages and the early modern period were defined as ‘(old) customs’. Earlier optimistic appraisals as to the age of such rules have been challenged. This article argues that efforts of debunking should be combined with a more thorough analysis of the legal consciousness of past societies. It proposes to look at old municipal private law, not a…
Colonial Adventures
Maxims, Principles and Legal Change
In the course of the sixteenth century, in the Low Countries maritime law was changing. At first, damages caused during maritime transport (“averages”) were compensated on the basis of customs of limited scope and calculation, starting from “facts and figures”. From the 1550s onwards, legal scholars developed new views; they revised norms, some of which came from below, while others were imposed by the sovereign. Both in legislation and in jurisp…
Colonial adventures
"Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime trade. Illustrated by experiences in Ancient Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia, the book examines how colonial powers consciously or not resh…
Entity shielding y los inicios del patrimonio de las sociedades (Amberes, siglos XVI-XVII)
En 2006, Hansmann, Kraakman y Squire acuñaron el término «blindaje de una entidad» (entity shielding). En su opinión, el blindaje fuerte de una sociedad, que impide a los acreedores personales de los socios reclamar los activos de la empresa, se desarrolló en respuesta a las presiones de los comerciantes. Además, esta norma habría sido reconocida legalmente una vez que las condiciones de supervisión del comportamiento de los comerciantes permitie…
Colonial Adventures
International audience
Local traditions v. academic law
In the County of Holland, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the rules regarding security interests in movables changed fundamentally. Rules of doctrine came to be combined with rules found in local law, that is the bylaws of cities and regions. This went together with the re-interpreting of fragments of older bylaws. In 1631 Grotius’ Inleidinghe categorized the lien of the unpaid seller after delivery of the merchandise sold as entailing…
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law examines the connections that existed between merchants' journeys, the languages they used and the development of commercial law in the context of late medieval and early modern trade. The book, edited by Stefania Gialdroni, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher and Heikki Pihlajamäki, takes advantage of the expertise of leading scholars in different fields of study, in particular his…
Guido Rossi, Insurance in Elizabethan England. The London Code
This monograph details the development of rules of maritime and life insurance in England and London in the second half of the sixteenth century. In extensive appendices, the author provides transcripts of the manuscripts of the London Code, which was a compilation of rules concerning insurance to be applied in London, and comparative tables of the sections of the Bruges Hordenanzas of 1569. Transcripts of 47 insurance policies dating between 152…
A. Amend-Traut, Wechselverbindlichkeiten vor dem Reichskammergericht, Praktiziertes Zivilrecht in der Frühen Neuzeit. [Quellen und Forschungen zur höchsten Gerichtsbarkeit im Alten Reich, 54]. Böhlau,…
From Usages of Merchants to Default Rules
In sixteenth-century Antwerp, commercial contracts were supported with refined government-made rules that brought techniques, usages and customs practised by merchants to the level of sophisticated law. Because no body of unwritten substantive law on commerce existed and because commercial practices were often too rudimentary from a legal perspective, in the 1500s detailed and balanced normative precepts on contracts of trade came to be crafted. …
Antwerp commercial legislation in Amsterdam in the 17th century
The 1582 Antwerp costuymen influenced Amsterdam law during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the Antwerp law has often been considered as an applicable law in the Amstel city, its role was more limited. At the end of the sixteenth century and during the first half of the seventeenth century, it was used as a common and subsidiary applicable law for certain mercantile issues. Later on, as the Amsterdam legislator issued ordinances…
Designing the limits of creditworthiness Insolvency in Antwerp bankruptcy legislation and practice (16th–17th centuries)
In 1516 and 1518, the Antwerp City Council introduced a collective system of debt recovery, which broke with the tradition of priority for the first seizing claimant. This view resulted in a legal framework, which was based on the concept of publicly known insolvency. Because of the vague legal definitions in the 1582 and 1608 customary law compilations, the position of pursuing creditors was strengthened. Although these rules weren't successful,…
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Designing the limits of creditworthiness Insolvency in Antwerp bankruptcy legislation and practice (16th–17th centuries)
In 1516 and 1518, the Antwerp City Council introduced a collective system of debt recovery, which broke with the tradition of priority for the first seizing claimant. This view resulted in a legal framework, which was based on the concept of publicly known insolvency. Because of the vague legal definitions in the 1582 and 1608 customary law compilations, the position of pursuing creditors was strengthened. Although these rules weren't successful,…
Antwerp commercial legislation in Amsterdam in the 17th century
The 1582 Antwerp costuymen influenced Amsterdam law during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Although the Antwerp law has often been considered as an applicable law in the Amstel city, its role was more limited. At the end of the sixteenth century and during the first half of the seventeenth century, it was used as a common and subsidiary applicable law for certain mercantile issues. Later on, as the Amsterdam legislator issued ordinances…
From Usages of Merchants to Default Rules
In sixteenth-century Antwerp, commercial contracts were supported with refined government-made rules that brought techniques, usages and customs practised by merchants to the level of sophisticated law. Because no body of unwritten substantive law on commerce existed and because commercial practices were often too rudimentary from a legal perspective, in the 1500s detailed and balanced normative precepts on contracts of trade came to be crafted. …
A. Amend-Traut, Wechselverbindlichkeiten vor dem Reichskammergericht, Praktiziertes Zivilrecht in der Frühen Neuzeit. [Quellen und Forschungen zur höchsten Gerichtsbarkeit im Alten Reich, 54]. Böhlau,…
Guido Rossi, Insurance in Elizabethan England. The London Code
This monograph details the development of rules of maritime and life insurance in England and London in the second half of the sixteenth century. In extensive appendices, the author provides transcripts of the manuscripts of the London Code, which was a compilation of rules concerning insurance to be applied in London, and comparative tables of the sections of the Bruges Hordenanzas of 1569. Transcripts of 47 insurance policies dating between 152…
Local traditions v. academic law
In the County of Holland, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the rules regarding security interests in movables changed fundamentally. Rules of doctrine came to be combined with rules found in local law, that is the bylaws of cities and regions. This went together with the re-interpreting of fragments of older bylaws. In 1631 Grotius’ Inleidinghe categorized the lien of the unpaid seller after delivery of the merchandise sold as entailing…
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law
Migrating Words, Migrating Merchants, Migrating Law examines the connections that existed between merchants' journeys, the languages they used and the development of commercial law in the context of late medieval and early modern trade. The book, edited by Stefania Gialdroni, Albrecht Cordes, Serge Dauchy, Dave De ruysscher and Heikki Pihlajamäki, takes advantage of the expertise of leading scholars in different fields of study, in particular his…
Entity shielding y los inicios del patrimonio de las sociedades (Amberes, siglos XVI-XVII)
En 2006, Hansmann, Kraakman y Squire acuñaron el término «blindaje de una entidad» (entity shielding). En su opinión, el blindaje fuerte de una sociedad, que impide a los acreedores personales de los socios reclamar los activos de la empresa, se desarrolló en respuesta a las presiones de los comerciantes. Además, esta norma habría sido reconocida legalmente una vez que las condiciones de supervisión del comportamiento de los comerciantes permitie…
Colonial Adventures
International audience
Colonial Adventures
Maxims, Principles and Legal Change
In the course of the sixteenth century, in the Low Countries maritime law was changing. At first, damages caused during maritime transport (“averages”) were compensated on the basis of customs of limited scope and calculation, starting from “facts and figures”. From the 1550s onwards, legal scholars developed new views; they revised norms, some of which came from below, while others were imposed by the sovereign. Both in legislation and in jurisp…
Colonial adventures
"Colonial Adventures: Commercial Law and Practice in the Making addresses the question how and to what extend the development of commercial law and practice, from Ancient Greece to the colonial empires of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, were indebted to colonial expansion and maritime trade. Illustrated by experiences in Ancient Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and Australia, the book examines how colonial powers consciously or not resh…
Customs and Municipal Law
Over the past decades, legal historians have become more cautious when it comes to rules that in the Middle Ages and the early modern period were defined as ‘(old) customs’. Earlier optimistic appraisals as to the age of such rules have been challenged. This article argues that efforts of debunking should be combined with a more thorough analysis of the legal consciousness of past societies. It proposes to look at old municipal private law, not a…
The Rule of Law in Cities of the Medieval Low Countries
Urban communities were established in the twelfth and thirteenth century with the aid of legal concepts that comprised early notions of the rule of law. Cities were envisaged as “communes”, which referred to popular sovereignty. In a first period, urban citizenship was flexible and closely related to place of residence. From around 1220 this model came under increasing pressure. In order to safeguard the interests of the most affluent citizens, l…
The merchant on stage
Historia jurídica en los Países Bajos y Bélgica en torno a 1924
En la década de 1920, la historia jurídica en Bélgica y los Países Bajos experimentó cambios relacionados con los planes de estudio de las universidades y la disciplina científica. Hay buenas razones para tratar a ambos países de forma combinada. De hecho, las historias jurídicas de Bélgica y los Países Bajos comparten muchas características. Ambos países habían sido uno solo hasta finales del siglo XVI. En 1648, las fronteras entre los Países Ba…
Building the law
This article zooms in on the legal activities of the Société Centrale d’Architecture en Belgique in the Belle Époque and Interbellum, analyzing the ways in which professional interest groups without a legal background could impact processes of law-making. scab developed publications for professionals and invested in strategic networking and in-house legal expertise. As a result, it not only became an important centre of information on constructio…
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