On Tuesday 28 October 2025, dr. Maurits den Hollander was invited for a lecture by Forum Romanum, the legal historical society co-hosted by the VU and UvA universities in Amsterdam. He talked about his recently published book Court, Credit, and Capital (CUP 2025), discussing how important innovations in seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s insolvency legislation could contribute to…

On 16 October 2025, Cambridge University Press published a monograph by dr. Maurits den Hollander. 📘 𝘊𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘵, 𝘊𝘳𝘦𝘥𝘪𝘵, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘢𝘱𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭: 𝘈𝘮𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘥𝘢𝘮’𝘴 𝘐𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘭𝘷𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘺 𝘓𝘦𝘨𝘪𝘴𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘶𝘵𝘤𝘩 𝘎𝘰𝘭𝘥𝘦𝘯 𝘈𝘨𝘦 explores how important innovations in insolvency legislation contributed to seventeenth-century Amsterdam’s economic success. Moving beyond the traditional moral condemnation of insolvents, the city’s specialized insolvency court introduced…