H-Law has posted a job listing on
the research staff of a project at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Quite apart from its value as a job announcement, the notice is interesting for the research it describes:
The candidate will conduct research within the framework of the FWO-funded research project “Bringing creditors to the negotiating table. Reconsidering the law on indebtedness and economic failure in early nineteenth-century Belgium (1808-1850)”. The project purports to analyse the negotiation strategies between failed/insolvent traders and their creditors, on the basis of archives of the commercial courts . . . .
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