Notes on Contributors
Stefano Cattelan
is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Research Group core) and an Adjunct Professor at the Brussels School of Governance. His research focuses on the history of international law and the law of the sea between the 15th and 18th centuries and has been funded by the Carlsberg Foundation and the Research Foundation Flanders (fwo).
Frederik Dhondt
is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Law and Criminology of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Research Group core), voluntary postdoctoral researcher at the Ghent Legal History Institute and the Gustave Rolin Jaequemyns Institute of International Law and President of the Royal Commission for the Publication of Old Laws and Ordinances of Belgium. He publishes on the history of legal argumentation and diplomacy from the eighteenth century onwards, e.g. Balance of Power and Norm Hierarchy. Franco-British Diplomacy after the Peace of Utrecht (Brill, 2015).
John Freeman
is an Assistant Professor for the Warsaw Centre for Global History at the University of Warsaw. He has previously worked as a visiting fellow at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Research at the University of Greifswald. He is an early modern historian of the Duchy of Courlandâs colonial expansion in the 17th century. He completed his PhD thesis at the University of Cambridge on this topic, where he also worked as a research assistant at the Centre for Geopolitics. Â
Leos Müller
is a Professor of History and the Head of the Centre for Maritime Studies at Stockholm University. In his current research project, he studies Swedish prize cases in Prize Papers (hca na) and perceptions of Scandinavian maritime neutrality. He is the author, among others, of Neutrality in World History (2019).
Nora Naguib Leerberg
is a Doctoral Research Fellow at the Department of Public and International Law at the University of Oslo. She is the author of The Legal Politics of Neutrality in the Age of Privateering. Martin Hübnerâs Law of Neutrality and Prize (2015).
Stephen C. Neff
is a Professor of War and Peace at Edinburgh University. His primary research interest is the history of public international law, and his current focus is the history of the law of neutrality. Another major interest is international human rights law, from both the academic and the practical standpoints. He is the author, among others, of Justice among Nations. A History of International Law (2014).
Christian Pfister-Langanay
is an Emeritus Lecturer (Maître de conferences habilité) in early modern history at the Université du Littoral-Côte-dâOpale, specialist of French maritime history and the North Sea port of Dunkirk in particular.
Victor Wilson
is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of History at à bo Akademi University. He is currently part of the project âSlavery, Abolition and Archipelagic Connections in the Swedish Caribbeanâ (saintbarth), funded by the European Research Council.