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: St. Andrews, July 10-13, 2019
- British Crime Historians Symposium: Ormskirk, August 31-September 1, 2018
- 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”
- 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): Warsaw, July 14-17, 2018, theme: Norms and legal practice: There and back again
- European Society for Comparative Legal History:
- 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:
- 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
- London, September 5-6, 2018: Ideas of poverty in the Age of Enlightenment
- Hannover, September 6-7, 2018: Jhering Global – Rudolf von Jhering (1818-1892)
- 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
- Leipzig, October 4-6, 2018: Quellen zur Geschichte der „internationalen“ Beziehungen zwischen politischen Zentren in Europa und der Mittelmeerwelt (ca. 800–1600): Briefe – Urkunden – Verträge – 15. International Congress on Diplomatics
- 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
- Lissabon, October 25-26, 2018: – Central governments and the resolution of maritime conflicts,1200-1600 – more information, e-mail Flavio Miranda
- 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)
- London, November 15-16, 2018: Criminalising violent pasts: Multiple roosts and forgotten pathways 1950s-2010s
- Orléans, November 15-16, 2018: Foucault face à la norme
- Bremen,, November 29-December 1, 2018: Spuren des Sklavenhandels im Heiligen Römischen Reich und seinen Nachfolgestaaten: Diskurse, Praktiken und Objekte, 1500-1850
- Murcia, December 12-14, 2018: Migrants and Refugees in the Law. Historic evolution, current situation and unsolved questions, call for papers, deadline September 15, 2018, send your proposal to catedrainocencio@gmail.com
- Paris, December 12-14, 2018: Diplomacy for migrants. The management and control of foreigners by diplomatic agents (16th-19th centuries)
- Brussels, December 13-15, 2018: Recht en economische performantie in de Romeinse wereld / Law and Economic Performance in the Roman World
- 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
- Bordeaux, March 7-8, 2019: La Renaissance dans la pensée juridique (XIXe-XXesiècles)
- Amiens, April 4-5, 2019: Regards croisés sur la justice fiscale (Xe-XXIe siècle)
- Montreal, May 6-7, 2019: Family and justice in the archives. Histories of intimacy in transnational perspectives
- Madrid, June 20-22, 2019: Sovereignties in Contention: Nations, Regions and Citizens in Europe
- 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
- Freiburg, November 20-23, 2019: Ruling an empire in a changing world: Studies on origin, impact and reception of the Notitia dignitatum
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, 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:
- Erice, International School of Ius Commune: October 12-16, 2018, theme: Ius, lex, and law: The Foundations and Definitions of a Distinction in the Medieval and Modern World
- CEDANT (Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi), Pavia
Single events:
- Poitiers, July 2-6, 2018: L’ordre public / Public order, summer university 2018
- Washington, D.C., July 8-21, 2018: Slavery and the Constitution
- Amsterdam, July 14-28, 2018: Summer School Laws in Antiquity: Crime and punishment in the Ancient World
- Frankfurt am Main, July 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”
- 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
- 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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