Legal history in Belgium

This article deals with the situation of legal history in Belgium. However, it is neither a survey of the research done by Belgian legal historians nor a bibliography of Belgian legal history. For that, the reader can be referred to John Gilissen’s 1971 bibliography and later articles about legal history in the Low Countries by Paul Nève and Laurens Winkel in the Zeitschrift für neuere Rechtsgeschichte and most of all Xavier Rousseaux’s Crime, justice et droit, of which a new and expanded ver.