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:
- British Legal History Conference:
- British Crime Historians Symposium:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA): Krakow, September 11-15, 2018, theme: Plus ratio quam vis
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”: Bologna, May 24-27, 2018, theme: Histoire de l’enseignement du droit
- Société d’Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons: Arras, May 10-11, 2018, theme: Construction et déstruction des territoires de l’Antiquité au Brexit
- 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): Warsaw, July 14-17, 2018, theme: Norms and legal practice: There and back again
- European Society for Comparative Legal History: Paris, June 28-30, 2018: Laws across codes and laws decoded
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag: Trier, September 16-20, 2018, theme: Zentren und Peripherien in der Geschichte 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): St. Louis, MO, July 19-25, 2020
- American Society for Legal History: Houston, November 8-11, 2018
- International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo
- Irish 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:
- International Association of Papyrologists:
- Société de Législation Comparée, Journées Internationales:
- Juris Diversitas conferences:
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Paris, April 5-6, 2018: Espaces ecclésiastiques et seigneuries laïques. Définitions, modèles et conflits en zones d’interface (IXe-XIIIe siècle)
- Havana, April 5-6, 2018: Duguit et les Amériques. Historicités et circulations transatlantiques d’une pensée juridique
- Newcastle, April 12-14, 2018: Locating the ancient world in Early Modern subversive thought
- Sewanee, TN, April 13-14, 2018: Law and (Dis)Order
- Namur, April 18-19, 2018: Le pouvoir princier en ses archives. Autour du chartrier médiéval des comtes de Namur
- Leeuwarden, April 23-24, 2018: Medieval Frisia, part of the First Conference on Frisian humanities
- Wetzlar, April 25-28, 2018: Urteiler, Richter, Spruchkörper. Entscheidungsfindung und Entscheidungsmechanismen in der Europäischen Rechtskultur
- Cambridge, April 30-May 1, 2018: Languages of injury in late medieval Italy. Legal, ethical, visual and literary perspectives
- Greifswald, May 3-5, 2018: Kleine Bischöfe im Alten Reich. Strukturelle Zwänge, Handlungsspielräume und soziale Praktiken im Wandel (1250–1650)
- Paris, May 3-5, 2018: Les noces de Philologie et de Guillaume Budé
- Leiden, May 8-9, 2018: Challenging the Liberal World Order: The History of the Global South, Decolonization and the United Nations, 1955-2000
- Nice, May 14-16, 2018: The philosophy of customary law
- Paris, May 17-18, 2018: The legacies of the Romani genocide
- Toulouse, May 17-18, 2018: Pensée politique et propriëté
- Brussels, May 24-26, 2018: Third Medieval Culture and War Conference: Power, Authority, Normativity
- Évora, May 24-25, 2018: Encounters, Rights, and Sovereignty in the Iberian empires, 15th-19th centuries
- North Htaley (Quebec), May 28-30, 2018: Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Atlantic
- Louvain-la-Neuve, May 30-31, 2018: Popular Policing in Europe (18th-20th centuries)
- Melbourne, May 31-June 1, 2018: Humanitarianism and the Remaking of International Law: History, Ideology, Practice, Technology
- Poitiers, June 13-15, 2018: La formule au Moyen Âge
- Liège, June 20-22, 2018: Imago Papae
- Frankfurt am Main, June 21-22, 2018: Key Biographies in the Legal History of European Union 1950-1993
- Belfast, June 28-29, 2018: Dangerous Oral Histories: risks, responsibilities and rewards – Oral History Society annual conference
- Barbados, July 11-13, 2018: Legal History and Empires: Perspectives from the Colonized
- London, July 19-21, 2018: Movable Goods and Immovable Property. Gender, Law and Material Culture in Early Modern Europe (1450‒1850)
- Reykjavik and Reykholt, August 12-17, 2018: 17th International Saga Conference 2018, theme: Íslendinga sǫgur / 900 years Grágás Laws
- Lyon, September 5-7, 2018: Hospitalité et régulation sociale et politique dans l’Antiquité méditerranéenne
- Leuven, September 20-22, 2018: Legal and institutional translation policies: An interdisciplinary inquiry into past, present and future challenges
- Rome, August 29-September 1, 2018: Urban renewal and resilience, 14th congress of the European Association for Urban History
- Paris, September 13-14, 2018: Requérir, déliberer, (se) régler: les acteurs des normes professionelles. Les formes de réglementation des métiers dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne
- Oxford, September 17-18, 2018: Beyond truth. Fiction and (dis-)information in the Early Modern world
- Turin, October 4-8, 2018: The Documedia Revolution
- Heidelberg, October 11-13, 2018: Crisis and renewal in the history of political thought
- Brussels, October 18-19, 2018: Les professeurs allemands en Belgique : Circulation des savoirs juridiques et enseignement du droit
- Minden, November 2-3, 2018: Der Bischof im mittelalterlichen Reich. Aktuelle Forschungsansätze und Perspektiven
- Paris, November 9-10, 2018: Transmission et transformation du savoir sur l’hérésie (Antiquité tardive et haut Moyen Âge)
- Orléans, November 15-16, 2018: Foucault face à la norme
- Paris, December 12-14, 2018: Diplomacy for migrants. The management and control of foreigners by diplomatic agents (16th-19th centuries); call for papers, deadline May 14, 2018
- Brussels, December 18-19, 2018: Joseph-Marie Portalis (1778-1858): diplomate, magistrat et législateur
2019
- Heidelberg, January 15-16, 2019: Politics and the Histories of International Law
- Montreal, May 6-7, 2019: Family and justice in the archives. Histories of intimacy in transnational perspectives
- Paris, July 2019: The Paris Peace Conference and the Challenge of a New World Order
- Paris, September 18-19, 2019: Ius Gentium – Ideas and Practices of International Law
in Early Modern Law and Theology; call for papers, deadline July 30, 2018, send your proposal to Gaëlle Demelemestre
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 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, with for example the Summer Academy (July 16-27, 2018) on The World and the Village. The Global and the Local in Legal History
- Frankfurt am Main, International Graduate School for Legal Historical Research
- Charlottesville, VA: Rare Book School: in particular the following courses, at Amherst, MA, June 10-15, 2018: A History of Native American Books & Indigenous Sovereignty, with Michael Kelly and Kiara M. Vigil, and at New Haven. CT, June 10-15, 2018: Law Books: History & Connoisseurship, with Mike Widener (Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale)
- Erice, International School of Ius Commune:
- CEDANT (Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi), Pavia
Single events:
- Paris, April 5-6, 2018: Espaces ecclésiastiques et seigneuries laïques. Définitions, modèles et conflits en zones d’interface (IXe-XIIIe siècles)
- Rome, June 5-11, 2018: La place des minorités : espaces, normes et représentations (Europe et Méditerranée, XIVe-XIXesiècles), workshop for graduate students
- Poitiers, July 2-6, 2018: L’ordre public / Public order , summer university 2018
- Washington, D.C., July 8-21, 2018: Slavery and the Constitution
- Frankfurt am Main, Juky 16-19, 2018: Frankfurter Sommerkurs zur Verwaltungsgeschichte: Korruption und Patronage in der Frühen Neuzeit
- Munich, July 16-17, 2018: interdisciplinary workshop on Natur – Recht – Herrschaft, organized by the DFG-Forschergruppe “Natur in politischen Ordnungsentwürfen: Antike – Mittelalter – Frühe Neuzeit”
- Munich, July 30-August 3, 2018: Sommerakademie “Die Edition der hoch- und spätmittelalterlichen Königsurkunden”
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
- 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
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