Centre de Recherches en histoire du droit et des institutions
Abstract
Looking for the origins of Belgian legal journals before 1830, Sebastiaan Vandenbogaerde offers a chronological exploration of potential influences. The origins may be tracked to seventeenth and eighteenth centuries learned journals, but the foreign occupation periods, French (1789-1815) and Dutch (1815-1830) proved to be crucial. The legacy of Enlightenment identifies with the Journal de Jurisprudence. After the French Revolution, the new judicial system imposes judges to motivate their rulings. This rule resulted in a rise of case law compendia, affordable and accessible to practitioners. The Napoleonic period sets up the training of jurists at the École spéciale de législation. At that time, practitioners dominated in editorial boards. A first collection of specific titles appears in the 1820s, as milestones of what is produced in universities and courts on the Belgian territory
