Kaat Cappelle (MA and LLM Ghent University, PhD) defended her doctoral dissertation on the legal agency of women in sixteenth-century Antwerp at VUB in September 2020. She is part-time visiting professor at Ghent University.

Maurits den Hollander (MA University of Leiden) defended his doctoral dissertation on insolvency practice in seventeenth-century Amsterdam in June 2021 and was awarded cum laude distinction. He is assistant lecturer at Tilburg University.

Gijs Dreijer (MA University of Leiden) defended his doctoral dissertation on maritime averages in the Low Countries (15th-16th centuries) (dual PhD University of Exeter and VUB) in June 2021. He is postdoctoral fellow at the University of Leiden.

Marco In'T Veld (MA and MPhil University of Rotterdam) will defend his doctoral dissertation on customary law in early eighteenth-century Amsterdam and Lyon at VUB in 2022.

Remko Mooi (LLM University of Groningen) will defend his doctoral dissertation on international insolvency in the eighteenth-century German territories in 2022. 

Marta Lupi (LLM University of Florence) will defend her doctoral dissertation on insolvency and security interests in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Lyon in 2022. 

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Maarten Colette (MPhil and LLM VUB) wrote a doctoral dissertation on republicanism, liberty and criminal law and defended in December 2021.

Stephanie Plasschaert (LLM Ghent University) writes a doctoral dissertation on the legal practice of maritime insurance in nineteenth-century Belgium.

Niels Fieremans (MA Ghent University) writes a doctoral dissertation (dual Phd Ghent University and VUB) on the litigation strategies of merchants in fifteenth-century Bruges. 

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