On Sunday 10 May 2026, dr. Maurits den Hollander was awarded the Human Solvency Prize 2024-2026 for his book Court, Credit, and Capital. Amsterdam’s Insolvency Legislation in the Dutch Golden Age (Cambridge University Press, 2025) [link]. The biennial prize was granted by the Fondazione Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica F. Datini, during the opening of…

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…