On 3 November, Sara Serrano Martínez will defend her PhD dissertation ‘The Infanticide Article Under Franco, 1937-1963: ‘Leniency’, Judicial Discretion and Forensic Knowledge’. Serrano analyses how the ‘infanticide article’ in the Spanish Penal Codes from the early decades of the Franco dictatorship (1937-1963) was interpreted and applied by judges. More information: https://www.uu.nl/en/events/phd-defence-sara-serrano-martinez-francos-infanticide-legislation

On 22 June 2023, a workshop on ‘The History of Bodily Integrity’ was organized. You can find the programme here. The body has become an important category of analysis in histories of medicine, and increasingly also in cultural and political history more broadly. One new avenue of research is the theme of bodily integrity, which…

On the 9th of June 2023, Utrecht law students from student organization Sirius organized the Symposium ‘Het recht van top tot teen’. Willemijn Ruberg gave the keynote titled ‘Het recht op lichamelijke integriteit: een geschiedenis’ (‘The right to bodily integrity: a history’).