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.
Please check with the organizers of an event about cancellations and postponements due to the COVID-19 virus!
Main congress series
- Dutch-Belgian Legal History Days: Leuven, March 30-31, 2023
- British Legal History Conference: Belfast, July 7-10, 2021, theme: Law and constitutional change – postponed to July 6-9, 2022
- British Crime Historians Symposium:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA): Brussels, September 13-16, 2022, theme: Ius et Religio. Law, Ancient Religions and Christianism in Antiquity
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”: June 2-5, 2022
- Société d’Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons:
- 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, October 12-14, 2022, theme: Liability and responsabiblity in legal history
- European Society for Comparative Legal History:
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag: Zürich, September 7-11, 2020, theme: Geltungsformen des Rechts – postponed to August 8-12, 2022, see the new website
- European Society of International Law (ESIL) – with a section History of International Law
- 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 – postponed to July 17-23, 2022
- American Society for Legal History: Chicago, November 10-12, 2022
- 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:
- Nordiska rättshistorikermötet:
- Associazione Internazionale per la Ricerca Storica-Giuridica e Comparatistica (Aristec):
- International Medieval Congress, Leeds: July 4-7, 2022
- 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):
- Asian Legal History Association (ALHA): Thamasset, July 23-24, 2022, Second Asian Legal History Conference – hybrid
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Dresden, June 8-10, 2022: Kriminalität und Strafjustiz in der frühen Neuzeit und der Moderne: Kriminalität, Recht und Räumlichkeit
- Frankfurt am Main, June 9-10, 2022: Tradition et usage politique de l’histoire constitutionnelle : un dialogue interdisciplinaire et comparatiste / Tradition und politische Verwendungen der Verfassungsgeschichtsschreibung: ein interdisziplinärer und vergleichender Dialog – hybrid
- Paris, June 22-23, 2022: Justices manifestes. L’enregistrement de la scène judiciaire (Moyen-Âge-Époque moderne)
- Bonn, June 23-24, 2022: Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies in Ottoman South Eastern Europe
- Dublin, June 24-25, 2022: New Perspectives on Conflict and Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
- Maynooth University, June 29-July 1, 2022: Third Legal Histories of Empire Conference – Beyond the Pale: Legal Histories on the Edges of Empires
- Leiden, July 11-13, 2022: Slavery Past, Present & Future
- Berlin, July 28-30, 2022: Military justice in the modern era
- Oxford, September 9-10, 2022: Decolonial Comparative Law Workshop 2022
- Weingarten, September 14-17, 2022: Hexen im Heiligen Reich: Die Hexenverfolgung in geistlichen Territorien
- Lille, September 22-25, 2022: L’idée de réforme dans les pays bourguignons et les régions voisines (XIVe-XVIe siècles)
- New Delhi, October 12-14, 2022: Timely Histories
- Frankfurt am Main, October 19-21, 2022: Change over time in the Iberian Worlds: stabilising regimes of normativity – connected with the Global Normativities project
- Verona, October 19-21, 2022: Law and Art in the Nineteenth Century: Power in Images – organized by IDiPEM – Immagini, diritto e potere in età moderna, call for papers (PDF), deadline June 30, 2022, mail: immagini.diritto@ateneo.univr.it
- Helsinki, October 26-28, 2022: The dynamics of Early Modern colonial laws and legal literature
- Prague, November 3-4, 2022: The League of Nations: The First Global Peacekeeping Organization in the Changing World – Interdependencies and Reflexions
- Teramo, November 23-25, 2022: Prevenzione e repressione del brigantaggio: teorie, norme, pratiche (secoli XVIII-XIX)
2023
- Cracow, January 12-13, 2023: Ius commune and local testamentary succession laws and customs (c. 1400-1620)
- Leuven, April 27-28, 2023: Natural law and domestic government. Transformative legal theory in Early Modern Europe; deadline call for papers June 1, 2022; send your proposal to naturallawconference@kuleuven.be
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
- 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:
- Tours, June 2-3, 2022: Marchander, transiger, échanger : le phénomène contractuel dans la première modernité (XVe-XVIe siècles)
- Rome, June 13-17, 2022: Introduction aux sources du droit romain
- New Haven, CT, June 19-24, 2022: Native Peoples, American Colonialism, and the U.S. Constitution
- Castelnau-Magnoac, June 29-July 1, 2022: PHEDRA – Pour une histoire européenne du droit des affaires – École d’été
- Osnabrück, July 16-24, 2022: “No Trespassing? Property/Theory between the Disciplines
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 und Hermann Conring-Preis, Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag
- Prix, Institut International d’Histoire du Notariat (IIHN) – four prizes
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
- 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
- Announcements, Connections, Clio Online – a service from this journal concerning the field of area, transnational, transregional, world and global histories
- 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
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