prof. dr. Louis Sicking

Louis Sicking conducts research in the programme Boundaries of Law. Some of his projects:

• Grotius in The Hague. A Walking Tour in the Capital of International Law
• Risk management, interest groups and legislation. Local, regional and international dynamics in the maritime transport sector of the Low Countries, c. 1550-1650
• Information Management and Diplomatic Culture: Cornelis de Schepper (Scepperus) as Ambassador of Emperor Charles V
• Louis Sicking receives NWO grant for Maritime Conflict Management in Atlantic Europe 
• Managing Markets: Commercial Institutions in the Principalities of the Burgundian-Habsburg Low Countries, Senior Research Project VU-VUB-FWO Belgium, 2019-2024. 

Main publications

• Sicking, Louis, 'Beyond the Free Sea. The Law of the Sea in Renaissance Europe' in: R. Lesaffer ed., The Cambridge History of International Law VI International Law in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge 2025) 107-134.
• Sicking, Louis, 'European Expansion in the Indian Ocean and Pacific, 1450-1850' in David Parrott and Gábor Ágoston eds., The Cambridge History of War III War and the Early Modern World (Cambridge 2025) 231-254.
• Sicking, Louis, Neptune and the Netherlands. State, Economy and War at Sea in the Renaissance (Leiden and Boston: Brill 2004) 
• Sicking, Louis, Colonial Borderlands. France and the Netherlands in the Atlantic in the 19th century (Leiden and Boston: Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2008)
• Sicking, L.H.J., and C.H. van Rhee eds., Briève instruction en causes civiles. Filips Wielant verzameld werk II (Brussels: Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Wetenschappen van België 2009)
• Sicking, Louis, La naissance d'une thalassocratie. Les Pays-Bas et la mer à l'aube du siècle d'Or (Paris 2015)
• Sicking, Louis, 'The Pirate and the Admiral. Europeanisation and Globalisation of Maritime Conflict Management', Journal of the History of International Law 20 no. 4 (2018) 429-470.
• Sicking, Louis & Nimwegen, Olaf, van & Prud'Homme van Reine, Ronald & Vliet, Adri, van & Groen, Petra, The Eigthy Years War. From Revolt tot Regular War, 1568-1648 (Leiden 2019)
• Sicking, Louis, 'The Medieval Origin of the Factory or the Institutional Foundations of Overseas Trade: Toward a Model for Global Comparison', Journal of World History 31 no. 2 (2020) 295-326.
• Sicking, Louis and Alain Wijffels eds., Conflict Management in the Mediterranean and the Atlantic, 1000-1800. Studies in the History of International Law 15 (Leiden and Boston 2020)
• Sicking, Louis, and Maurits Ebben eds., Beyond Ambassadors. Consuls, Missionaries, and Spies in premodern Diplomacy (Leiden and Boston 2021)
• Sicking, Louis, 'History of the Hanse: Construction and Deconstruction', History Compass 22 no. 3 (2024) pp. 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12798 

Geschiedenis van het volkenrecht

History of Public International Law

• Universiteit Leiden | Leiden | Universitair docent Geschiedenis | 2013-09-01 - present

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