Partners Involved

All partners

General Objectives

From the start the decision was taken to publish the IAP research results as much as possible in two single and as such recognisable series,

• one with the State Archives (Brussels), Justice and Society
• and another with Die Keure/La Charte (Bruges), Justice, Police, Law and Society in History (1795-2005).

The IAP coordinator, Xavier Rousseaux (UCL) and his team CHDJ have also launched their own book series, ‘Histoire, Justice, Sociétés’, with the Presses Universitaires the Louvain, thanks to the support of the IAP program. In this series, results of the research conducted by the UCL team in the field of criminal justice history are being published.

Workprogramme

Within the scope of the latter series, all IAP teams wrote jointly a new synthesis of the history of Belgian justice (Encyclopedia of Belgian Justice History, 1795-2005, eds. Dirk Heirbaut, Xavier Rousseaux & Margo De Koster). The project for the book and the different chapters were intensively discussed during several meetings. It will be an entirely revised edition of the collective volume that lay at the basis of the current IAP program, Politieke en sociale geschiedenis van justitie in België van 1830 tot heden / Histoire socio-politique de la justice en Belgique de 1830 à nos jours (eds. D. Heirbaut, X. Rousseaux, K. Velle, Die Keure/La Charte, 2004). It will integrate contributions by all the doctoral students recruited on the project. The book is planned for the end of the year 2015.

Further, collective results of the IAP project were published in collectively edited special issues of scholarly reviews.