Dr Rosie DoyleLink opens in a new window hosted this year’s EUTOPIA Legal History Connected Learning CommunityLink opens in a new window Peak Event at Warwick. Warwick is a founding partner of this Connected Learning Community, which is led by Prof Frederik Dhondt from Vrije Universiteit Brussel. This is the 4th peak event, and the first time Warwick is hosting, as it rotates between the participating universities each year.

On Friday 14 March 2025, four academics and 28 students from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, the University of Ljubljana, Cergy Paris Université, and the University of Warwick gathered in the Climb for the EUTOPIA Legal History CLCLink opens in a new window Peak Event. This event is the culmination of the students’ work throughout the academic year, as they get to share their research with peers from other institutions and members of the CLC.

After a warm welcome by two of Warwick’s EUTOPIA YLAsLink opens in a new window, Dr Georgiana Mihut (Centre for Education) and Dr Christopher Strelluf (Centre for Applied Linguistics), the group enjoyed a full day of Legal History presentations.

Our friends from Brussels opened the event, with five VUB students presenting their individual research on collective and individual rights in Belgian history. The next panel looked at the rights of association and assembly in the nineteenth and twentieth century, with 6 students from Ljubljana exploring collective rights in Slovenia and Spain. After lunch and a well-deserved break, five students from Cergy Paris Université presented their work, which ranged from censorship to children and animal rights in France. Finally, 11 Warwick students shared their research on legal rights in Latin America, inspired by the modules ‘Latin America: Themes and Problems (EUTOPIA)’Link opens in a new window and A History of Modern Mexico (EUTOPIA) taught by Dr Rosie Doyle, and with a detour by South Asia and Italy.

On Saturday, the group had the chance to partake in a tour of Coventry Cathedral, followed by a Legal History Tour of Coventry City Centre designed by one of the Warwick students!

Students will have until the end of March to write a blog contribution to share their experience of the Peak Event, which will be published on the CLC’s blogLink opens in a new window.

If you want to hear more about Warwick students’ experience, you can listen to a podcast episode of the Warwick History Hour on SpotifyLink opens in a new window in which Ash, Nia, Tom and Mayukha share their experience of the 2024 Peak Event in Brussels.