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: Maastricht, December 16-17, 2016
- British Legal History Conference: London, July 5-8, 2017, theme: Networks and Connections
- British Crime Historians Symposium: Edinburgh, October 7-8, 2016
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA): Paris, September 13-17, 2016, theme: Ius et Periculum. Law as confronted to risk in the Antiquity period
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”:
- 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 – Saarbrücken, September 11-16, 2016
- 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)
- American Society for Legal History: Toronto, October 27-30, 2016
- International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo;
- Irish Legal History Society: Dublin, November 25-26, 2016: 800 Years of Magna Carta in Ireland
- South African Society of Legal Historians:
- Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society: Perth, December 5-7, 2016, theme: Echoes on the Perifery. The transformation of British Law in Africa and the Asia-Pacific
- Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Law:
- Associazione Internazionale per la Ricerca Storica-Giuridica e Comparatistica (Aristec): Rome, October 27-29, 2016: Unjust enrichment, condictio and in integrum restitutio
- Annual Meetings of the Greek Legal History Society
- International Medieval Congress, Leeds:
- International Papyrological Congress:
- Société de Législation Comparée, Journées Internationales:
- Juris Diversitas Conference:
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Twickenham, September 5-6, 2016: Invisibility – Law and Culture Conference 2016
- Berne, September 7-10, 2016: The World of Prisons. The History of Confinement in Global Perspective, Late Eighteenth to Early Twentieth Century
- Erfurt, September 15-16, 2016: Das Problem der Gründung: Aporien der Konstitutionalisierung in politischer Theorie, historischem Vergleich und politikwissenschaftlicher Analyse
- Ghent, September 15-16, 2016: More than Mere Spectacle: Inaugurations and Coronations in the Habsburg Monarchy, 1700-1848
- Liège, September 15-16, 2016: De Vrede van Fexhe (1316) en de volksopstanden in Luik en West-Europa / La paix de Fexhe (1316) et les révoltes à Liège et en Europe occidentale
- Leeuwarden, September 22-23, 2016: Law and Ritual in the Middle Ages
- Helsinki, September 22-24, 2016: Conceptual Change in History
- Nice, September 22-24, 2016: Retour aux sources – fourth colloquium of the network Réseaux et Histoire
- Leipzig, September 28-October 1, 2016: Theatrum naturae et artis – Leibniz und die Schauplätze der Aufklärung
- Cambridge, September 29-30, 2016: From Mothers to Citizens: Italian Women from Unification to the Republic
- Rome, September 29-30, 2016: Les services consulaires italiens et le long Risorgimento (fin XVIIIe – XXe siècle)
- Helsinki, October 3-5, 2016: Law between Global and Colonial: Techniques of Empire
- Paris-Nanterre, October 5-7, 2016: Le prince chrétien (IVe-VIIe siècle) / The Christian Prince (4th-7th centuries)
- Nancy, October 6-7, 2016: L’acte original, entre conceptions médiévales et concepte diplomatique
- Uppsala, October 6-8,2016: Historicizing International (Humanitarian) Law? Could We? Should We?
- Warsaw, October 6-8, 2016: Rituels du Pouvoir. Les cérémonies des tribunaux et des États / Rituals of Power. The Ceremonies of Courts and States
- Paris, October 7-8, 2016: Copyright and the Circulation of Knowledge
- Todi, October 9-12, 2016: Il Lateranense IV. Le ragioni di un concilio
- Tours, October 13-14, 2016: Neutrality
- Nantes, October 20-21, 2016: L’engagisme dans les colonies européennes.
Résistances et mémoire(s), XIXe – XXIe siècles - Poitiers, October 21-22, 2016: Le sacré et la parole: le serment au Moyen-Âge
- Budapest, November 10-12, 2016: Sacred Polities, Natural Law and the Law of Nations in the 16th-17th Centuries
- Wetzlar, November 10-12, 2016: Unter dem Linden und vor dem Kaiser. Neue Perspektive auf Gerichtsvielfalt und Gerichtslandschaften im Heiligen Römischen Reich
- Ghent and Bruges, November 24-25, 2016: Les évêques dans le « Siècle de Fer ». Autorités épiscopales en France et en Lotharingie, 900-1050 / Bishops in the ‘Century of Iron’. Episcopal Authorities in France and in Lotharingia, 900-1050
- Maastricht, November 24-25, 2016: Comparative Legal History – 21st Ius Commune Conference
- Nice, December 1-3, 2016: The production of environmental norms and the codification of rural law in southern Europe – France and Italy – in the 18th and 19th centuries
- Paris, December 5-6, 2016: Diocèses en intérim. Le temps de la vacance épiscopale (France et Allemagne, Xe–XIIIe siècle) / Bistümer im Übergang. Vom Ende einer Bischofsherrschaft zur Nachfolge (Frankreich und Deutschland, 10.–13. Jahrhundert)
- Graz, December 9-10, 2016: Hans Gross – ein ‘Vater’ der Kriminalwissenschaft. Zur 100. Wiederkehr seines Todestages. Hans Gross – a ‘father’ of criminology. The centenary of his obit
- Vienna, December 11-12, 2016: Gerichtsvielfalt in Wien. Forschung zum modernen Rechtsbegriff
2017
- Bruges, January 16-18, 2017: The Art of Law. Artistic Representations and Iconography of Law & Justice in Context from the Middle Ages to the First World War
- Pessac, February 8-10, 2017: (Re)lecture archéologique de la justice en Europe médiévale et moderne; deadline call for papers September 15, 2016
- Granada, March 30-31, 2017: The neutrality of International Law: myth or reality? – ESIL Workshop 2017, organized by the European Society of International Law
- Copenhagen, April 24-26, 2017: Tredje nordiska rättshistorikermötet [Third Meeting of Nordic Legal Historians]
- New York, May 25-28, 2017: Singularity, Generality and Exemplarity in Legal Discourse
- Mexico City, June 20-23, 2017: Comparative Legal History, organized by the Law & Society Association
- Ghent, June 21-24, 2017: The impact of “justice” on the Roman empire
- Vienna, August 28-September 1, 2017: XV Internationaler Kongress für Griechische und Lateinische Epigraphik
- Bamberg, September 21-22, 2017: Early Modern debts. Obligation and cancellation in European culture, 1550-1700; deadline call for papers November 1, 2016
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 – 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
- Frankfurt am Main, International Graduate School for Legal Historical Research
- Charlottesville, VA: Rare Book School:
- Erice, International School of Ius Commune: October, 7-11, 2016: Repression and Tolerance in Medieval and Modern Europe
- Madison, Wisc., June 4-17: The Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, led by Mitra Sharafi; apply before December 1, 2016
- CEDANT (Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi), Pavia
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
- Institute of Historical Research, London – Upcoming Events – focusing on events in the United Kingdom and the USA
- Ius Civile, Ernest 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, and new publications, too; since December 2015 Nomodôs is 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
- 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 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
