Wim Decock
Biographic Data
| ID | 5201378 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wim Decock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wim |
| FAMILY NAME | Decock |
| SIGNATURE | DECOCK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2168-9471 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Le jésuite qui réconcilia l’Église et le marché
Par la loi du 20 novembre 2023, le législateur avait donné pour mission au Conseil supérieur de la magistrature (CSM) de rédiger une charte de déontologie dont la dernière version avait été rédigée en 2019. La Charte de déontologie des magistrats de l’ordre judiciaire a ainsi été publiée le 12 décembre 2025. Ce document illustre avec pragmatisme l’adaptation de la déontologie à la modernité et en actualise les principes à la lumière des questions…
Droit au coeur de la science politique
This article serves as a prolegomenon to further studies on the political and legal thought of Jean de Chokier (1571–1656). Trained in Roman law and canon law at the University of Orléans, he became one of the most prominent canon lawyers, political thinkers and humanist scholar of the Principality of Liège, an Imperial State situated in the Western part of the Holy Roman Empire. Author of major works in canon law, history and political science, …
Theme
Book review, M. Koskenniemi, To the Uttermost Parts of the World
‘Mercatores isti regulandi’
Compared to the writings of other teólogos-juristas belonging to the so-called School of Salamanca, Pedro de Oñate’s (1567-1646) De contractibus has met with little if almost no interest in the literature. It nevertheless marks an epochal achievement in the history of juridical and economic thought. Published between 1646 and 1654, Oñate’s De contractibus epitomizes five centuries of scholastic thinking about the moral regulation of the market. I…
Max Weber, Monopole und der Geist der europäischen Rechtsgeschichte
»Not all monopolies are against nature.« With this brief opening statement of a short passage on monopolia in De iure belli ac pacis, Hugo Grotius neatly summarized his compelling but succinct exposition on the legitimacy and illegitimacy of different types of concentration of market power. While rejecting cartel behavior and the artificial creation of market barriers, he considered that state monopolies at fair prices and dominant positions acqu…
Konfliktlösung in der Frühen Neuzeit
Latent defect or excessive price? Exploring early modern legal approach to remedying defects in goods exchanged for money, written by C.J. de Bruijn, 2018
The Uses of the Dead
peer reviewed
The interplay between official and unofficial laws in rotating savings and credit associations (Eqqub) in Tigray, Ethiopia
This article investigates how unofficial and official laws interact in regulating rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCA) in the Tigray Regional State in northern Ethiopia. ROSCAs are informal institutions that provide saving and lending facilities in traditional communities and societies across the world. In Ethiopia, they are known by the name “Eqqub.” First, essential background information on ROSCA will be provided, including referen…
The Idea of a Moral Economy
Armstrong, Lawrin. The Idea of a Moral Economy: Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution, and Prescription. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017, pp. 7-238), on Érudit
Law, Religion, and Debt Relief
Debt forgiveness is at the heart of the Gospel message. The Lord sent his Son to redeem the debts of the world as created by Adam and Eve and transmitted to the subsequent generations of man. The New Testament restored older Biblical ideas of debt relief such as the Jubilee. In the Lord's prayer God is begged to forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors (Mt 6:12). Yet, what, if anything, does that mean for legal practice? Is there a Ch…
Recht und Moral in der Scholastik der Frühen Neuzeit 1500-1750
Studies of early modern scholasticism are experiencing a boom today. Legal scholars, philosopher, theologians, and economists are approaching the texts of the “Spanish late scholastics” and “Catholic natural law theorists” from their own perspectives. Both beginners and experts will find the tools in this volume for conducting independent research on the sources and cross-disciplinary insight regarding the state of research.
Adrian of Utrecht (1459–1523) at the crossroads of law and morality
This paper investigates the interconnection between moral theology and legal thought in the work of Adrian of Utrecht (1459–1523). It is shown that early modern Catholic theology as it was practised at the University of Louvain cannot be properly understood without reference to the scholarly disputes in the law faculties. The legal character of practical theology draws on a long tradition that reaches back at least to the late medieval manuals fo…
A. Massironi, Nell’officina dell’interprete, La qualificazione del contratto nel diritto comune (secoli XIV–XVI). [Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Facoltà di giurisprudenza, 69]. Giuffrè, [M…
Pre-contractual duties to inform in Early Modern Scholasticism
This paper seeks to highlight the early modern scholastic contribution to dealing with the issue of pre-contractual duties to inform. Bringing together different strands of thought, ranging from Aristotelian philosophy to Roman law, the 16th and 17th century scholastics developed adequate analytical tools to solve legal and moral problems arising from information disparities between contracting parties. While first looking at the different classi…
Jesuit freedom of contract
This paper describes and explains the central role of the principle of contractual liberty with the Jesuits of the early modern period. Designed as a diptych, it intends to clarify how the legal and the moral philosophical tradition mutually enriched each other at the threshold of modernity. The 'ius commune' helped the Jesuits in formulating the idea of negative freedom, only for that 'ius commune' to undergo a transformation itself under the in…
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Jesuit freedom of contract
This paper describes and explains the central role of the principle of contractual liberty with the Jesuits of the early modern period. Designed as a diptych, it intends to clarify how the legal and the moral philosophical tradition mutually enriched each other at the threshold of modernity. The 'ius commune' helped the Jesuits in formulating the idea of negative freedom, only for that 'ius commune' to undergo a transformation itself under the in…
Pre-contractual duties to inform in Early Modern Scholasticism
This paper seeks to highlight the early modern scholastic contribution to dealing with the issue of pre-contractual duties to inform. Bringing together different strands of thought, ranging from Aristotelian philosophy to Roman law, the 16th and 17th century scholastics developed adequate analytical tools to solve legal and moral problems arising from information disparities between contracting parties. While first looking at the different classi…
Adrian of Utrecht (1459–1523) at the crossroads of law and morality
This paper investigates the interconnection between moral theology and legal thought in the work of Adrian of Utrecht (1459–1523). It is shown that early modern Catholic theology as it was practised at the University of Louvain cannot be properly understood without reference to the scholarly disputes in the law faculties. The legal character of practical theology draws on a long tradition that reaches back at least to the late medieval manuals fo…
A. Massironi, Nell’officina dell’interprete, La qualificazione del contratto nel diritto comune (secoli XIV–XVI). [Università degli studi di Milano Bicocca, Facoltà di giurisprudenza, 69]. Giuffrè, [M…
Recht und Moral in der Scholastik der Frühen Neuzeit 1500-1750
Studies of early modern scholasticism are experiencing a boom today. Legal scholars, philosopher, theologians, and economists are approaching the texts of the “Spanish late scholastics” and “Catholic natural law theorists” from their own perspectives. Both beginners and experts will find the tools in this volume for conducting independent research on the sources and cross-disciplinary insight regarding the state of research.
The Idea of a Moral Economy
Armstrong, Lawrin. The Idea of a Moral Economy: Gerard of Siena on Usury, Restitution, and Prescription. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 40, Number 2, Spring 2017, pp. 7-238), on Érudit
Law, Religion, and Debt Relief
Debt forgiveness is at the heart of the Gospel message. The Lord sent his Son to redeem the debts of the world as created by Adam and Eve and transmitted to the subsequent generations of man. The New Testament restored older Biblical ideas of debt relief such as the Jubilee. In the Lord's prayer God is begged to forgive us our debts, as we also forgive our debtors (Mt 6:12). Yet, what, if anything, does that mean for legal practice? Is there a Ch…
The interplay between official and unofficial laws in rotating savings and credit associations (Eqqub) in Tigray, Ethiopia
This article investigates how unofficial and official laws interact in regulating rotating savings and credit associations (ROSCA) in the Tigray Regional State in northern Ethiopia. ROSCAs are informal institutions that provide saving and lending facilities in traditional communities and societies across the world. In Ethiopia, they are known by the name “Eqqub.” First, essential background information on ROSCA will be provided, including referen…
Latent defect or excessive price? Exploring early modern legal approach to remedying defects in goods exchanged for money, written by C.J. de Bruijn, 2018
The Uses of the Dead
peer reviewed
Max Weber, Monopole und der Geist der europäischen Rechtsgeschichte
»Not all monopolies are against nature.« With this brief opening statement of a short passage on monopolia in De iure belli ac pacis, Hugo Grotius neatly summarized his compelling but succinct exposition on the legitimacy and illegitimacy of different types of concentration of market power. While rejecting cartel behavior and the artificial creation of market barriers, he considered that state monopolies at fair prices and dominant positions acqu…
Konfliktlösung in der Frühen Neuzeit
‘Mercatores isti regulandi’
Compared to the writings of other teólogos-juristas belonging to the so-called School of Salamanca, Pedro de Oñate’s (1567-1646) De contractibus has met with little if almost no interest in the literature. It nevertheless marks an epochal achievement in the history of juridical and economic thought. Published between 1646 and 1654, Oñate’s De contractibus epitomizes five centuries of scholastic thinking about the moral regulation of the market. I…
Theme
Book review, M. Koskenniemi, To the Uttermost Parts of the World
Droit au coeur de la science politique
This article serves as a prolegomenon to further studies on the political and legal thought of Jean de Chokier (1571–1656). Trained in Roman law and canon law at the University of Orléans, he became one of the most prominent canon lawyers, political thinkers and humanist scholar of the Principality of Liège, an Imperial State situated in the Western part of the Holy Roman Empire. Author of major works in canon law, history and political science, …
Le jésuite qui réconcilia l’Église et le marché
Par la loi du 20 novembre 2023, le législateur avait donné pour mission au Conseil supérieur de la magistrature (CSM) de rédiger une charte de déontologie dont la dernière version avait été rédigée en 2019. La Charte de déontologie des magistrats de l’ordre judiciaire a ainsi été publiée le 12 décembre 2025. Ce document illustre avec pragmatisme l’adaptation de la déontologie à la modernité et en actualise les principes à la lumière des questions…
Philosophy (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Historical Economic and Legal Thought (8 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Humanities (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works)