• De ruysscher, D., “L’acculturation juridique des pratiques commerciales à Anvers. L’exemple de la lettre de change (XVIe-XVIIe siècle)” in B Coppein, F. Stevens and L. Waelkens (eds.), L’acculturation juridique. Actes des Journées de la Société d’Histoire du Droit (Iuris Scripta Historica XXV), Brussels, Academy Palace, 2011, 151-160.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Reconciling old and new: imprisonment for debts and cessio bonorum, in Antwerp and Mechelen (c. 1500–c. 1530)” in J.W. Oosterhuis and E. Van Dongen (eds.), European Traditions: Integration or Disintegration?, Oisterwijk, Wolff, 2012, 35-48.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Bankruptcy, Insolvency and Debt Collection Among Merchants in Antwerp (c. 1490-c. 1540)” in Th.M. Safley (ed.), The History of Bankruptcy. Economic, social and cultural implications in early modern Europe, Abingdon, Routledge, 2013, 185-199.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Praktijkgerichtheid in de rechtbank van koophandel (19de-21ste eeuw): een uitgeholde traditie opnieuw ingevuld” in De ruysscher, D. (ed.), Lekenparticipatie en rechtspreken: noodzaak of traditie?, Antwerp, Maklu, 2013, 137-171.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Balancing Interests in Stepfamilies: Droit de Dévolution and Bijleving (Southern Low Countries, 16th-18th Centuries)” in De ruysscher, D. and Alofs, E. (eds.), Het nieuw samengesteld gezin: recht en geschiedenis. Blended families: law and history, Antwerp, Maklu, 2014, ISBN 978-90-466-0606-3, 49-62.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Bending the Code civil: married women, their capacity to engage in contracts and the partnership between spouses (Belgium, 1804-c. 1865)”, in E. Schandevyl (ed.), Women in Law and Law-making in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2014, 131-153.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Normative Hybridity in Antwerp Marine Insurance (c. 1650-c. 1700)” in Donlan, S. and Heirbaut, D. (eds.), The Law’s Many Bodies, Studies in legal hybridity and jurisdictional complexity c1600-1900, Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 2015, 145-168.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Antwerp 1490-1590: Insurance and Speculation”, in A.B Leonard (ed.), Marine Insurance: Origins and Institutions, 1300-1850, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015, 78-105.

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• De ruysscher, D., “A Business Trust for Partnerships? Early Conceptions of Company-Related Assets in Legal Literature, and Antwerp Forensic and Commercial Practice (Later Sixteenth-Early Seventeenth Century)” in B. Van Hofstraeten and W. Decock (eds.), Companies and company law in late-medieval and early modern Europe, (Iuris Scripta Historica 39), Leuven, Peeters, 2016, 9-27.

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• De ruysscher, D., “The Struggle for Voluntary Bankruptcy and Debt Adjustment in Antwerp (c. 1520-c. 1550)” in A. Cordes and M. Schulte-Beerbühl (eds.), Dealing with economic failures: between norm and practice (15th-21stcentury), Frankfurt, Peter Lang, 2016, 77-95.

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• De ruysscher, D., ‘Business Rescue, Turnaround Management and the Legal Regime of Default and Insolvency in Western History (late Middle Ages to Present Day)’ in J.I. Adriaanse and J.-P. van der Rest (eds.), Turnaround Management and Bankruptcy, London, Routledge, 2017, 22-42.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Partnerships as Flexible and Open-Purpose Entities: Legal and Commercial Practice in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp (c. 1830-c. 1850)” in De ruysscher, D., Cordes, A., Dauchy, S. and Pihlajamäki, H. (eds.), The Company in Law and Practice: Did Size Matter? (Middle Ages-Nineteenth Century), (Studies in the History of Private Law), Leiden, Brill, 2017, 158-202.

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• De ruysscher, D., “How Normative were Merchant Manuals? Of Customs, Practices, Techniques and … Good Advice (Antwerp 16th Century)” in 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, (Studies in the History of Private Law), Leiden, Brill, 2018, 144-165.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Belgium. Marine insurance” in Ph. Hellwege (ed.), A Comparative History of Insurance Law in Europe. A Research Agenda (Comparative Studies in the History of Insurance Law), Berlin, Duncker & Humblot, 2018, vol. 1, 110-132.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Antwerp Commercial Law in the Sixteenth Century: a Product of the Renaissance? The Legal Facilitating, Appropriating and Transforming of Mercantile Practices” in B. Blondé and Puttevils, J. (eds.), Antwerp in the Renaissance (Studies in European Urban History), Turnhout, Brepols, 2020, 53-86.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Crafting the Hierarchy of Debts (Antwerp, 15th-16th Centuries)” in G. Oppitz-Trotman and L. Kolb(ed.), Early Modern Debt, London, Palgrave MacMillan, 2020, 131-152.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Why We Need a History of Collateral Rights: the Example of Antwerp (15th-16th Century)” in L. Brunori, S. Dauchy, O. Descamps and X. Prévost (eds.), Le droit face à l'économie sans travail. Finance, investissement et spéculation de l'Antiquité à nos jours. Tome II: L'approche internationale, Paris, Classiques Garnier (Histoire du droit), 297-308.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Chartered Companies in Sweden, the Dutch Republic and North-West Europe (c.1600-c.1630): Experimenting in Corporate Governance” in K. Tikka (ed.), The Development of Commercial Law in Sweden and Finland (Early Modern Period-Nineteenth Century) (Studies in the History of Private Law), Leiden, Brill, 2020, 59-91.​​

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• De ruysscher, D., “Trade and Navigation in Renaissance Europe” in R. Lesaffer (ed.), The Cambridge History of International Law, vol. VI/1, Cambridge, CUP, 2024, in press.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Trade in Old Regime Europe (1660-1775)” in R. Lesaffer (ed.), The Cambridge History of International Law, vol. VI/2, Cambridge, CUP, 2024, in press.

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• De ruysscher, D., “Changes in Sovereignty Concepts of Cities of Trade and the Impact on Diplomatic Relations (Low Countries, 15th-16th Centuries)”, in L. Brunori (ed.), La dynamique juridique des réseaux marchands: hanses, nations, agences, filiales et comptoirs, Toulouse, Toulouse University Press, 2023, 83-98.

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