On this page you will find a calendar of upcoming congresses and similar scholarly 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. Events are shown in the following order:
- Main congress series
- Outside series
- Workshops, seminars and lectures
- Other calendars
Main congress series
- Dutch-Belgian Legal History Days: Liège, June 14-15, 2019
- British Legal History Conference: St. Andrews, July 10-13, 2019
- British Crime Historians Symposium:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA): Edinburgh, September 2-7, 2019, theme: Le droit et sa place dans le monde antique
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”: Clermont-Ferrand, May 23-26, 2019, theme: La culture juridique européenne, entre mythes et réalités
- Société d’Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons: Oudenaarde, May 31-June 1, 2019, theme: Vie et mort / Life and death
- Standen en Landen / Anciens Pays et Assemblées d’États:
- Société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire comparative des institutions
- Europäisches Forum jünger Rechtshistoriker (Young European Legal Historians): Brussels, June 5-8, 2019, theme: Identity, Citizenship and Legal History
- European Society for Comparative Legal History:
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag: Zürich, September 7-11, 2020, theme: Geltungsformen des Rechts
- Church, Law and Society in the Middle Ages (CLASMA)
- International Congress of Medieval Canon Law, organized every four years by the International Society of Medieval Canon Law (ICMAC): XVIth Congress, St. Louis, MO, July 19-25, 2020 – call for papers, deadline August 15, 2019
- American Society for Legal History: Boston, November 21-24, 2019
- International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
- Irish Legal History Society:
- Greek Legal History Society:
- 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: July 1-4, 2019
- International Association of Papyrologists:
- Société de Législation Comparée, Journées Internationales:
- Juris Diversitas conferences:
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Montreal, May 6-7, 2019: Family and justice in the archives. Histories of intimacy in transnational perspectives
- Barcelona, May 8-11, 2019: Judici i Justícia. Art sacre i profà medieval i modern
- Brussels, May 9-11, 2019: La Belgique et les traités de paix de Versailles à Sèvres 1919-1920
- Ciudad de Mexico, May 23-24, 2019: Disputationes juridicae selectae : controverses doctrinales mexicaines et françaises autour de la codification, du constitutionalisme et de la justice. XVIIe-XXe siècles
- Paris, May 23-25 2019: The Paris Peace Conference and the Challenge of a New World Order
- Amsterdam and Leiden, May 24-25, 2019: Conflict Management in the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 1200-1600: Actors, Institutions and Practices of Dispute Settlement
- Salisbury, May 30-31, 2019: Power of the bishop IV: The bishop as patron
- Reims, June 3-4, 2019: Doyens de chrétienté et archiprêtres, des temps carolingiens à l’époque moderne. Les « moyens » de la juridiction ecclésiastique
- Bonn, June 4-6, 2019: Das Siegel als Medium der Kommunikation und des Transfers im europäischen Mittelalter
- Aix-en-Provence, June 13-14, 2019: La voix des assemblées: Quelle démocratie urbaine au travers des registres de délibérations ?(Méditerranée-Europe, XIIIe-XVIIIe s.)
- Madrid, June 20-22, 2019: Sovereignties in Contention: Nations, Regions and Citizens in Europe
- Canterbury, June 21-22, 2019: Rebellion in medieval Europe
- Frankfurt am Main, June 21-22, 2019: Key Biographies in the Legal History of European Union, 1950-1993
- Kew, June 27-28, 2019: Peace making after the First World War 1919-1923
- Augsburg, June 27-29, 2019: Second Postgraduate Conference in Comparative Legal History – organized by the ESCLH
- London, July 1-3, 2019: Citizenship in classical antiquity: current perspectives and challenges
- Melbourne, July 18-19, 2019: The League of Nations Decentred: Law, Crises and Legacies
- Vienna, September 5-6, 2019: Books of Law in The (Very) Longh Tenth Century
- Helsinki, September 12-13, 2019: Law, Trade and the Sea: Discovering Maritime Trade in the Roman World
- Paris, September 18-19, 2019: Ius Gentium – Ideas and Practices of International Law in Early Modern Law and Theology; call for papers
- Aix-en-Provence, September 19-20, 2019: Of citizens and rulers and their education. Éducation des citoyens, éducation des gouvernants
- Heppenheim, September 23-25, 2019: Kriminalität, Justiz und Eliten
- Weingarten, September 25-29, 2019: Tiere und Hexen. Animal Turn in der Hexenforschung? – Animals and Witches. The Animal Turn in Witchcraft Studies?
- Wuppertal, September 25-27, 2019: Quod solus Romanus pontifex iure dicatur universalis: Der päpstliche Universalepiskopat in der longue durée vom frühen bis ins hohe Mittelalter. Norm und Umsetzung
- Helsinki, September 26-28, 2019: Spaces of Roman constitutionalism
- Oxford, September 27-28, 2019: Women and violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500
- Philadelphia, October 4-5, 2019: Ordering the Anthropocene: Law & the Environment in the Indian Ocean World
- Paris-Marne La Vallée, November 14-15, 2019: Les formes de réglementation des métiers dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne
- Vienna, November 14-15, 2019: Fürst und Pfand. Die Verpfändung von Herrschaftsrechten als Finanzierungs- und Herrschaftsinstrument im Mittelalter
- Freiburg, November 20-23, 2019: Ruling an empire in a changing world: Studies on origin, impact and reception of the Notitia dignitatum
- Liège, December 5-6, 2019: Printing and disseminating the Law in the Habsburg Netherlands, the Dutch Republic and the Prince-Bishopric of Liege in the early modern period (16th-18th century); call for papers, deadline June 30, 2019, send your proposals to Renaud Adam and Nicholas Simon
- Louvain, December 11-13, 2019: True Warriors? Negotiating Dissent in het Intellectual Debate (c. 1100–1700)
2020
- Aberdeen, May 22-24, 2020: Legal History in Modern Practice Conference 2020
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, Paris – the annual Friday lecture series organized by the Institut de Droit Romain 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, for instance for the summer academy Law and Contexts (August 5-16, 2019), thema: Law and texts in contexts
- Frankfurt am Main, International Graduate School for Legal Historical Research
- Charlottesville, VA: Rare Book School:
- Erice, International School of Ius Commune:
- CEDANT (Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi), Pavia
Single events:
- Paris, May 21-24, 2019: Perceptions et représentations des frontières et des espaces frontaliers au Moyen Âge et à l’époque moderne (IXe–XVIIIe siècles); registration closed
- Toulouse, May 16-17, 2019: Séminaire doctoral Martin de Azpilcueta
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
- European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) – announcements of scholarly events and alerts to new publications
- Ius Civile, Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow – for events concerning Roman law
- Histoire du droit – formerly known as Nomôdos, the blog of the e-journal Clio@Themis which very often lists upcoming events in legal history, and new publications, too; since December 2015 part of Univ Droit
- Rechtshistorische Courant, Vakgroep Rechtsgeschiedenis, Universiteit Gent – scholarly events and new publications in Belgium and the Netherlands
- Reti Medievali – Calendario – the calendar for events concerning the Middle Ages
- L’agenda du médiéviste – a blog in Belgium for events concerning medieval studies
- Compitum, recherches et actualités sur l’Antiquité latine et la latinité: Événements – a calendar at a French portal for 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
- Events, Royal Historical Society – the Institute for Historical Research had to abandon their events calendar at the end of 2018, here at least some information
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