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
There is also a small section on legal history prizes.
Main congress series
- Dutch-Belgian Legal History Days: Rotterdam, December 17-18, 2020
- British Legal History Conference:
- British Crime Historians Symposium:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA): Santiago de Chile, January 5-9, 2021, theme: Mundus et commercium
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”:
- Société d’Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons: Middelburg, May 22-23, 2020, theme: L’art et le droit
- 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): Istanbul, June 10-13, 2020, theme: Liability and Responsibility in Legal History
- European Society for Comparative Legal History: Lisbon, July 1-3, 2020: Professions and Methods in 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
- American Society for Legal History: Chicago, November 4-11, 2020
- 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 6-9, 2020
- International Association of Papyrologists:
- Société de Législation Comparée, Journées Internationales:
- Juris Diversitas conferences:
- Congreso de Derecho Indiano:
- Digital Humanities conferences (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations):
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Bristol, January 31-February 1, 2020: Follow the Leader: Medieval Leaders and Leadership
- Florence, February 19-21, 2020: L’emersione delle scritture volgari – L’émergence des écrits en langue vulgaire – The rise of vernacular writing: La prospettiva paleografica – Le point de vue paléographique – The palaeographical perspective, XXIst congress of the Comité international de paléographie latine
- Göttingen, February 27-29, 2020: Bischof und Diözese im Früh- und Hochmittelalter. Die ‚Episkopalisierung der Kirche‘ im europäischen Vergleich, organized by Germania Sacra
- Luxembourg, February 28-29, 2020: 100 Jahre allgemeines Wahlrecht in Luxemburg und Europa / 100 years of universal suffrage in Luxembourg and Europe / 100 ans de suffrage universel au Luxembourg et en Europe
- Zürich, March 2-3, 2020: Entangled international and national legal orders in the long 19th century
- Ghent, March 4-5, 2020: Blasphemy and Violence. Interdependencies since 1760
- Paris-Creteil, March 9-10, 2020: Les intellectuels face à l’idée impériale au Moyen Âge (IXe-XVIe siècle) / Die Intellektuellen und die Idee des Kaisertums im Mittelalter (9.-16. Jahrhundert)
- Berlin, March 19-20, 2020: Recht im transnationalen Raum: Grenzüberschreitende Biographien in der Rechtsgeschichte im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
- Frankfurt am Main, March 19-20, 2020: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History (“DLH2020”)
- Regensburg, March 19-20, 2020: Juristische Zeitgeschichte der 1980er Jahre
- Chicago, March 19-22, 2020: Staging Justice: Trials and Tribunals in Literature, Theater, and Film (ACLA 2020)
- Regensburg. March 23-24, 2020: Commercial Law in South-eastern Europe: Legislation and Jurisdiction from Tanzimat Times until the Eve of the Great War
- Belgrade, March 25-26: Iustoria 2020, First Student Conference on Legal History, theme: Law Codes and Women
- Vienna, March 25-27, 2020: Der kaiserliche Reichshofrat. Wirkungsbereiche und Wandlungsprozesse eines herrschernahen Ratskollegiums in der Frühen Neuzeit
- Toulouse, March 26-27, 2020: Penser l’ancien droit public. Regards croisés sur les méthodes des juristes (III)
- Bordeaux, April 1-3, 2020: Les espaces carcéraux au Moyen Âge : approche interdisciplinaire des territoires et des matérialités de l’incarcération médiévale
- Dijon, April 2-3, 2020: Krausisme juridique et politique en Europe
- Vienna, April 2-4, 2020: Territoriality and Non-territoriality in Accommodating National Diversity within States, 1789-1989
- Celle, April 3-4, 2020: Justiz und Strafvollzug im Nationalsozialismus
- Rome, April 3-4, 2020: Space and Governance: Towards a New Topography of Roman Administration
- Oxford, AprIl 20-21, 2020: Constituting Boundaries; Identities, Polities, and Colonial and Postcolonial Constitution-Making, 1776-2019
- Catania, April 23-24. 2020: Solidarity: The Quest for Founding Utopias of International Law – ESIL Research Forum 2020
- Regensburg, April 23-24, 2020: Commercial Law in South-eastern Europe: Legislation and Jurisdiction from Tanzimat Times until the Eve of the Great War
- Luxembourg, April 23-24, 2020: Mixed Arbitral Tribunals, 1919–1930: An Experiment in the International Adjudication of Private Rights
- New York, April 23-24, 2020: Women, Peace and Security 2020 Conference
- Osnabrück, March 25-27, 2020: Islamisches Recht und Theologie in Kontext. Die Traktat-Literatur (rasāʾil) als Dokumentation gesellschaftsrelevanter Debatten in vormodernen muslimischen Gesellschaften (13.–19. Jh.)
- Frankfurt am Main, April 27-28, 2020: Colonial Legal Biography
- Vienna, May 15-16, 2020: Separated Beds – Interwoven Property: Divorce in Context – 1600-1900
- Aberdeen, May 22-24, 2020: Legal History in Modern Practice Conference 2020
- Duisburg, May 23-25, 2020: Polizei und Demokratie seit dem 19. Jahrhundert – 30. Kolloquium zur Polizeigeschichte
- Sao Paulo, May 25-29, 2020: Nas trilhas de Ascarelli / On Ascarelli’s trails
- Arras, May 27-28, 2020: Infanticide from Antiquity to the mid 19th century (Europe, colonial and postcolonial Americas)
- Utrecht, June 2-3, 2020: Market Revolutionaries: an Interdisciplinary Workshop on Neoliberal Development and the Global South (1900-2020)
- Dornburg, June 4-5, 2020: Historicization of International Law and its Limits: Preconditions, Modes and Legacies
- Frankfurt am Main, June 9-10, 2020: Law and Policy in European Integration (1960s-1990s)
- Nijmegen, June 11-12, 2020: “The Hope of Ages is in the Process of Realization” – Establishing a World Court, 1920-1922
- Bielefeld, June 13-14, 2020: Entrechtete Körper – Vergleichen, Normieren, Urteilen, Leben: 1450-1850
- Padua, June 18-19, 2020: Policies and Practices of Gun Control and the Redefinition of State Prerogatives on the Global Stage, 1890s-1940s
- Nottingham. June 21-23, 2020: After ‘Emancipation’: The legacies, afterlives and continuation of slavery
- Venice, June 24-26, 2020: Waging war and making peace: European ways of inciting and containing armed conflict, 1648-2020
- Evora, June 30-July 2, 2020: Labour Transformations: From Liberalism to Corporatism (1850-1945)
- Budapest, September 16-20, 2020: Reconceptualising Wage Labour
- Bolzano, September 17-19, 2020: Kinship and Business. Law, Gender and Generational Perspectives (16th–20th Centuries)
- Córdoba, September 17-19, 2020: Civil Wars and Postwars in the Contemporary Era, 1776-2020. A transnational and global approach
- Konstanz, September 24-26, 2020: Female Regency and Other Figures of Representation (5th to 15th Centuries) / Weibliche Regentschaft und andere Stellvertreterfiguren (5. bis 15. Jahrhundert)
- Jena, October 15-16, 2020: The Struggle for Social Control in the Soviet Union, 1929 to 1956
- St. Andrews, October 22-24, 2020: The Papacy and the Periphery, c.1050-c.1215; call for papers, deadline March 6, 2020
- Baltimore, MD, October 29-November 1, 2020: Early Modern English Law and Culture
- Stockholm, November 7-9, 2020: The Stockholm Bloodbath 1520 – context and commemoration
2021
- Frankfurt am Main, January 14-16, 2021: The Crisis of Freedom. Hegel’s Elements of the Philosophy of Right after 200 Years
- Vancouver, February 20-23, 2021: Interactions, Exchanges, and Transformations: European Legal Traditions and their impact on the Construction of Gender in a Global Context
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 example for the summer academy (August 17-28, 2020)
- Frankfurt am Main, International Graduate School for Legal Historical Research
- Charlottesville, VA: Rare Book School: June 7-12, 2020, Law Books: History & Connoiseurship, with Mike Widener and Ryan Greenwoord, to be taught at New Haven, CT
- Erice, International School of Ius Commune
- CEDANT (Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi), Pavia
Single events:
- Bogotà and Buenos Aires, March 30-April 2, 2020: Forum Latin American Workshop MPIeR
- St. Andrews, May 22-23, 2020: Law in transmission: The movement of practices, texts and concept across time and space, c. 400-1500
- Los Angeles, June 7-8, 2020: Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop
- Luxembourg, June 22-26, 2020: Oral History Meets European Integration Studies. Testing new tools and methods in digital history
Legal history prizes
- Legal History Prizes, Legal History on the Web, Law School, Duke University – an overview
- Premio Gérard Boulvert, Università degli Studi di Napoli – not just one international prize
- Premio Galileo Galilei: Storia di Diritto Italiano
- Premio in memoria di Tullio Ascarelli e Domenico Maffei
- Prizes, American Society for Legal History – with prizes for American and European legal history, for example the Peter Gonville Stein Book Award
- The Van Caenegem Prize, European Society for Comparative Legal History
- Grants and prizes, Selden Society
- Morris L. Cohen Student Essay Competition, American Association of Law Libraries, Legal History and Rare Books SIS
- Preis des deutschen Rechtshistorikertages and Hermann Conring-Preis, Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag
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
- Event Calendar, Institute of Medieval Studies, Leeds
- Reti Medievali – Calendario – the calendar for events concerning the Middle Ages
- L’agenda du médiéviste – a blog in Belgium for events concerning medieval studies
- H-Net: Law and Legal History – announcements of events, scholarships and publications
- Ius Civile, Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow – for events concerning Roman law
- Histoire du droit – a part of Univ Droitf, ormerly known as Nomôdos, the blog of the e-journal Clio@Themis which very often lists upcoming events in legal history, and new publications, too
- Rechtshistorische Courant, Vakgroep Rechtsgeschiedenis, Universiteit Gent – scholarly events and new publications in Belgium and the Netherlands
- 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 its events calendar at the end of 2018, here at least some information
