postdoctoral researcher
Faculty of Law, Department of legal history
Passau University / Free University Brussels
Lecturer at Leiden University Lecturer at Leuven University Post-doctoral researcher at Leiden University
Onhoudbaar verleden. Geschiedenis als politiek instrument tijdens de Franse periode in België (Leuven: Leuven University press, 2014)
‘The slow death of the ancient constitution. On the Old Regime origins of the Belgian Constitution (1831)’, Journal for Constitutional History, forthcoming.
'The Faces of Power. History and the Legitimation of Napoleonic Rule in Belgium’, French Historical Studies (2016), forthcoming.
‘La représentation du pouvoir français en Belgique (1792-1799): entre révolution et tradition’, Annales Historiques de la Révolution française (2016/2), 109-130.
Dave De ruysscher, Maarten Colette, Brecht Deseure, Kaat Capelle and Gorik Van Assche (eds.), Rechtsgeschiedenis op nieuwe wegen (Antwerp: Maklu, 2015).
Marnix Beyen and Brecht Deseure (Eds.), Local Memories in a Nationalizing and Globalizing World (1750-present) (New York: Palgrave Mcmillan, 2015).
Brecht Deseure, Guido Marnef and Gerrit Verhoeven (eds.), Stad en stroom: Antwerpse identiteit(en) en vijf eeuwen discours rond de sluiting van de Schelde (Assen: Van Gorcum, 2010).
https://uni-passau.academia.edu/BrechtDeseure
revolutionary periode; French Revolution; Napoleonic era; political history; history of representation; historical consciousness; constitutional history