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: Liège, June 14-15, 2019 – callf for papers, deadline April 14, 2019; send your proposals to Jean-François Gerkens
- British Legal History Conference: St. Andrews, July 10-13, 2019
- British Crime Historians Symposium:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA):
- 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):
- European Society for Comparative Legal History:
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag:
- 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: July 1-4, 2019, call for papers for a session on The materiality of law manuscripts – deadline September 1, 2018
- International Association of Papyrologists:
- Société de Législation Comparée, Journées Internationales:
- Juris Diversitas conferences:
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Minden, November 2-3, 2018: Der Bischof im mittelalterlichen Reich. Aktuelle Forschungsansätze und Perspektiven
- Rome, November, 5-7, 2018: Emperors and imperial discourse in Italy, 1300-1500. New perspectives
- Pau, November 7-9, 2018: Gouverner et administrer les principautés en France méridionale à la fin du Moyen Âge (fin XIIIe – début XVe siècle)
- Nanterre, November 8-9, 2018: Le corps en droit. Approches historique, philosophique et anthropologique
- 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
- 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
- Paris, December 18-19, 2018: Joseph-Marie Portalis (1778-1858): diplomate, magistrat et législateur
2019
- Creteil, January 24-25, 2019: Archives urbaines. Congrès de la Société Française d’Histoire Urbaine
- Heidelberg, February 15-16, 2019: Politics and the histories of international law
- Bordeaux, March 7-8, 2019: La Renaissance dans la pensée juridique (XIXe-XXesiècles)
- Turku, March 18-19, 2019: The history of legal aid in the premodern and modern world
- Zürich, March 23-24, 2019: Captivity in war. A global perspective
- Amiens, April 4-5, 2019: Regards croisés sur la justice fiscale (Xe-XXIe siècle). Égalité ou statuts particuliers?
- Copenhagen, April 9-10, 2019: Early Modern Privacy Notions, Spaces, Implications
- Montreal, May 6-7, 2019: Family and justice in the archives. Histories of intimacy in transnational perspectives
- Paris, May 23-25 2019: The Paris Peace Conference and the Challenge of a New World Order
- Amsterdam and Leiden, May 24-25, 2019: Conflict Management in the Atlantic, the North Sea and the Baltic, 1200-1600: Actors, Institutions and Practices of Dispute Settlement
- Madrid, June 20-22, 2019: Sovereignties in Contention: Nations, Regions and Citizens in Europe
- Augusburg, June 27-29, 2019: Second Postgraduate Conference in Comparative Legal History – organized by the ESCLH
- Melbourne, July 18-19, 2019: The League of Nations Decentred: Law, Crises and Legacies
- Kew, June 27-28, 2019: Peace making after the First World War 1919-1923
- Paris, September 18-19, 2019: Ius Gentium – Ideas and Practices of International Law in Early Modern Law and Theology; call for papers
- 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, for instance for the summer academy Law and Contexts (August 5-16, 2019)
- 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:
- Lyon, March 28-29, 2019: La réforme grégorienne: une révolution “totale”? État comparatif de la recherche dans les régions franco-allemands
- 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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