Dave de ruysscher

Dave De ruysscher (1978) (MA, LLM, PhD) is a professor of legal history. He researches themes of the history of commercial and private law until the present day. De ruysscher has analyzed bills of exchange, partnership, and bankruptcy, as well as contract law. He has written five substantial books, and several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters in English, French, Dutch and Spanish. Dave De ruysscher is currently working at the Department of Public Law, Jurisprudence and Legal History at Tilburg University and at the Department of Interdisciplinary Legal Studies of the Vrije Universiteit Brussels. He is a former member of the Jonge Academie (Young Academy of Flanders) and a member of the Young Academy of Europe. In 2016, Dave De ruysscher was awarded an ERC Starting Grant. In 2022, he obtained an ERC Consolidator Grant. Dave De ruysscher teaches Global Legal History, Legal Research Methods and History of Private Law.

About

International trade in a polarized world - lessons from history (5): the Supreme Court’s take on tariffs and taxes

International trade in a polarized world – lessons from history (4): War Risk and Marine Insurance: From Florence to the Strait of Hormuz

International trade in a polarized world – lessons from history (3): concessions and public debt

My Books

edited volumes

De ruysscher, D., A. Cordes, S. Dauchy, S. Gialdroni, and H. Pihlajamäki (ed.), Commerce, Citizenship, and Identity in Legal History, Leiden, Brill, 2021, (ISBN 978-90-04-47285-3).

Dauchy, S., Pihlajamäki, H., Cordes, A. and De ruysscher, D. (eds.), Colonial Adventures : Commercial Law and Practice in the Making, (Studies in the History of Private Law), Leiden, Brill, 2020, (ISBN 978-90-04-44307-5).

Gialdroni, S., Cordes, A., Dauchy, S., De ruysscher, D., and Pihlajamäki, H (eds.) Migrating words, migrating merchants: migrating law. Trading routes and the development of commercial law, (Studies in the History of Private Law), Leiden, Brill, 2019, (ISBN 978-90-04-41664-2).
Pihlajamäki, H., Cordes, A., Dauchy, S. and De ruysscher, D. (eds.), Understanding the Sources of Early Modern and Modern Commercial Law: Courts, Statutes, Contracts and Legal Scholarship, Leiden, Brill, 2018 (ISBN 978-90-04-36045-7).

De ruysscher, D., Cordes, A., Dauchy, S. and Pihlajamäki, H. (eds.), The Company in Law and Practice: Did Size Matter? (Middle Ages-Nineteenth Century), Leiden, Brill, 2017, 223 p (ISBN 978-90-04-34849-3).

Reviews

General reviews of my work can be found in:

A. Wijffels, "Low Countries", in L. Brunori, O. Descamps and X. Prévost (eds.), Pour une histoire européenne du droit des affaires: comparaisons méthodologiques et bilans historiographies, Toulouse, Presses universitaires, 2021, 127-175.

W. Druwé, "Belgische rechtshistorische Literatur seit 2004. Ein Überblick", Zeitschrift für neuere Rechtsgeschichte 41 (2019), 121-134, at 125.

My Books