On this page you will find a calendar of upcoming congresses and similar events which focus on legal history. Maintaining actuality and creating the widest possible – and sensible – coverage of these events will not be easy, but let’s try it! Regrettably one day events will therefore not be mentioned here. Recent events will remain visible during the month of their occurrence.
Main congress series
- Dutch-Belgian Legal History Days:
- British Legal History Conference: 21st Conference, Glasgow, July 10-13, 2013, theme: Law and Authority
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA); Salzburg, September 10-15, 2013, theme: Roman law as basis of modern law; for more information contact Martina Pachler
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”: Besançon, May 30-June 2, 2013, theme: L’interprétation du droit
- Société d’Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons
- Société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire comparative des institutions
- Europäisches Forum jünger Rechtshistoriker (Young European Legal Historians)
- European Society for Comparative Legal History
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag – every two years, in 2014
- Church, Law and Society in the Middle Ages
- International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (every four years) – Paris, 2016
- American Society for Legal History: Miami, November 7-10, 2013
- International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
- South African Society of Legal Historians
- Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society
- Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Law
- Associazione Internazionale per la Ricerca Storica-Giuridica e Comparatistica (Aristec)
- Annual Meetings of the Greek Legal History Society
- International Medieval Congress, Leeds
- Internationales Wiener Kolloquium zur Antiken Rechtsgeschichte
- International Papyrological Congress: 27th Congress, Warsaw, July 29-August 3, 2013
Outside series
Here announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars will be listed.
- Lausanne, June 3-4, 2013: Diffusion, organized by Juris Diversitas
- Le Mans, June 6-7, 2013: La pratique judiciaire à l’épreuve du pouvoir. Les procès politiques sous Louis XIV
- Paris, June 6-7, 2013: Les pilliers du droit civil: famille, propriété, contrat, the first congress organized by the Association Française des Jeunes Historiens du Droit
- Nancy, June 10-14, 2013: La Renaissance en Europe dans sa diversité; organized by a number of institutions, among them the Centre Lorrain d’Histoire du Droit
- Philadelphia, June 13-14, 2013: New World(s) of Faith: Religion and Law in Historical Perspective, 1500-2000
- St. Louis, Missouri, June 17-19, 2013: First Annual Symposium on Medieval and Renaissance Studies; with papers on medieval canon law to be sponsored by the International Society for Medieval Canon Law
- London, June 20-22, 2013: Law, Lexica and Libraries
- Utrecht, June 21-22, 2013: 1713-1863-2013: The Treaty of Utrecht, the Colonial Legacy and Slavery
- Paris, June 27-29, 2013: L’étude des documents légaux: nouvelles approches de la papyrology et de la diplomatique arabes, organized by Islamic Law Materialized: Arab Legal Documents (8th to 15th c.)
- Dublin, July 7-8, 2013: Irish Legal Diaspora Conference - cancelled
- St. Andrews, July 8-9, 2013: Politics and texts in Late Carolingian Europe, c. 870-1000
- Dublin, September 4-7, 2013: Parliaments and the colonial / imperial experience
- Exeter, September 10-12, 2013: Working lives between the Deck _ teh Dock: Comparative perspectives on sailors as international labourers (16th-18th century)
- Aix-en-Provence, September 12-13, 2013: Justice et État
- London, September 13-14, 2013: Little Britain’s Memory of Slavery
- Luxembourg, September 12-14, 2013: Craftsmen and guilds in the medieval and Early Modern periods
- Warsaw, September 21-22, 2013: Splendid encounters. Diplomats and diplomacy in Europe, 1550-1750
- Albi, October 17-18, 2013: La justice dans les cités épiscopales du Moyen Âge à la fin de l’Ancien Régime
- Issoire, October 18-19, 2013: Évêques, clercs et religieux à l’époque romane : textes, monuments, images et objets
- Geneva, November 8-9, 2013: The fragments imagine the nation? Minorities in the colonial and postcolonial Middlle East
- Lille, November 14-15, 2013: Opinion et système judiciaire : Modes et pratiques d’argumentation judiciaire et extrajudiciaire, du Moyen Âge à nos jours
- Paris, November 14-16, 2013: Digital Diplomatics 2013
- Nancy, December 5-6, 2013: Conservation et réception des documents pontificaux par les ordres religieux (VIe-XVe siècle)
- Paris, December 19-20, 2013: Industrial hazards and incidents (late 17th-late 19th century)
2014
- Bath, April 4-5, 2014: Splendid encounters II: Diplomats and diplomacy in Europe, 1550-1750
Workshops, seminars and lectures – series and single events
- Workshops, seminars and working groups – an overview by the Triangle Legal History Seminar at Duke University of activities -mainly in series- in the USA
- Institut de Droit Romain – an annual lecture series on Fridays at the Centre Sainte Barbe of the Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2
- Frankfurt am Main, Max-Planck-Institut für europäische Rechtsgeschichte – a program worth checking regularly
- Charlottesville, Va.: Rare Book School - some courses are given elsewhere, for instance Law Books: History & Connaisseurship by Mike Widener at Yale University
Other calendars
It would be silly not to refer to congress calendars at other websites:
- Calenda – Calendrier des sciences sociales – a calendar for events in France; one can search here for keywords, disciplines and periods
- Institute of Historical Research, London – Upcoming Events – focusing on events in the United Kingdom and the USA
- Legal Scholarship Blog: Legal History - focusing on events in the United States
- Ius Civile, Ernst Metzger, University of Glasgow – for events concerning Roman law
- Nomodôs – the blog of the e-journal Clio@Themis very often lists upcoming events in legal history
- Reti Medievali – Calendario – the calendar for events concerning the Middle Ages
- L’agenda du médiéviste – a blog in Belgium for events concerning medieval studies
- Rivista di Diritto Romano – Calendario storico – a calendar for events in Roman law
- Compitum, recherches et actualités sur l’Antiquité latine et la latinité: Événements - a calendar at a French portal to Classical Antiquity
- Wissenschaftskalender, Informationsdienst Wissenschaft - a general calendar for scientific events in Germany and surrounding countries
- Terminkalender, H-Soz-u-Kult, Humboldt Universität, Berlin – a calendar for events in the historical disciplines for German-speaking countries
- Faculty Law Conferences Updates – a blog with calls for papers
