Book review of David Lemmings (Adelaide)'s work on the rise of Parliament and top-down intervention in the English legal system between 1688 and 1815.

Book review, work in question treats the authors Alberti, Friedlieb and Textor (Weber) and their treatment of Grotius' De iure belli ac pacis (1625).

Book review of Louis Sicking (VU Amsterdam/Leiden)'s work on the XVII Provinces and their maritime strategy, from the Burgundian period to the Eighty Year's War.

Book review of Louis Sicking, La naissance d'une thalassocratie. Les Pays-Bas et la mer à l'aube du siècle d'or. Paris: Presses de l'Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2015. 350 pp., ISBN 978-2-84050-998-1. € 26.00.

Boekbespreking van Tom Pfeil, Van tollenaar tot poortwachter. Geschiedenis van de douane, de oudste rijksdienst van Nederland (Rotterdam: Trichis Publishing, 2012, 415 pp., ISBN 978 94 906 0583 8).

Boekbespreking van Holland is een eiland. De Batavia van Hadrianus Junius (1511-1575). Inleiding en annotatie van Nico De Glas (Hilversum 2011).

Boekbespreking van Towards a new template for Dutch history, deel 4, De-urbanization and the balance between city and countryside (Zwolle 2011).

A propos de Paolo Grossi, 'L'Europe du droit'.