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: London, July 5-8, 2017, theme: Networks and Connections
- British Crime Historians Symposium:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA): Bologna and Ravenna, September 12-16, 2017: La liberté et les interdictions dans les droits de l’antiquité
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”:
- Société d’Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons:
- Société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire comparative des institutions
- Europäisches Forum jünger Rechtshistoriker (Young European Legal Historians): Naples, June 30-July 1, 2017, theme: History of Law and other Humanities: Views of the Legal Culture Across the Time
- European Society for Comparative Legal History: Paris, June 28-30, 2018: Laws across codes and laws decoded
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag: Trier, September 16-20, 2018
- 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: Las Vegas, October 26-29, 2017
- 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 Papyrological Congress:
- Société de Législation Comparée, Journées Internationales:
- Juris Diversitas Conference:
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Oxford, June 29-July 1, 2017: A Violent World? Changes and Limits to Large-Scale Violence in Early Modernity
- Paris, June 29-July 1, 2017: Evil in the Middle Ages, 14th Annual Congress of the International Medieval Society
- London, June 30-July 1, 2017: Chaucer and the Law
- Reading, July 10-11, 2017: Complaints and Grievances, 1500-1750
- Regensburg, July 10-11, 2017: Supreme Courts under Nazi Occupation
- Calgary, July 17-18, 2017: Canada’s Legal Past: Future Directions in Canadian Legal History
- Berlin, August 21-20, 2017: Redistribution and the Law in an Antagonistic World
- Vienna, August 28-September 1, 2017: XV Internationaler Kongress für Griechische und Lateinische Epigraphik
- Oxford, August 31-September 1, 2017: Rethinking the World Order. International Law and International Relations at the End of the First World War, a graduate conference
- Washington, D.C., September 14-16, 2017: Inheritance Practices in the Twentieth Century
- Sheffield, September 12-13, 2017: Cato Street and the Revolutionary Tradition in Britain and Ireland
- Liverpool, September 13-15, 2017: Tracing London convicts in Britain and Australia, 1780-1925, Digital Panopticon Conferenre
- Munich-Gauting, September 14-16, 2017: Kulturelle und ethnische Diversität in der Geschichte von Kriminalität und Strafjustiz
- Washington, D.C., September 14-16, 2017: Inheritance Practices in the 20th Century
- Liège and Ghent, September 20-21, 2017: Tweehonderd jaar rechtsfaculteiten Gent en Luik / Deux-centième anniversaire des Facultés de droit de Gand et Liège
- Bamberg, September 21-22, 2017: Early Modern debts. Obligation and cancellation in European culture, 1550-1700
- Helsinki, September 26-28, 2017: The Making of Commercial Law. Historiography of Commercial Law: Past, Present, and Future
- Vancouver, September 29-30, 2017: Power, Politics, and the State in Canadian History: Confederation and Beyond
- Rome-Naples, October 4-8, 2017: La Corona d’Aragona e l’Italia
- Leuven, October 8-10, 2017: Neo-Thomism in action. Law and society reshaped by neo-scholastic philosophy, 1880-1960
- Glasgow, October 20-21, 2017: The communities and margins of Early Modern Scotland
- London, November 8-10, 2017: Shaping the Officer. Communities and Practices of Accountability in Premodern Europe
- Paris, November 13-14, 2017: Ausnahmezustand – Eine Bestandsaufnahme
- Nancy, November 22-23, 2017: Le droit talmudique saisi par le droit comparé
- Salzburg, November 23-24, 2017: Governance and Rights. Law, Religion, and Sexuality in Caribbean Literature and Culture
- Utrecht, November 23-24, 2017: Ius Commune in the Making: The Role of Local Laws in the History of Private Law, Ius Commune Research School. Comparative Legal History Workshop 2017
- Bruges, November 24-25, 2017: The legal and political thought of Francisco Suárez
- Murcia, November 29-December 1, 2017: Justice and judicial process. Evolution and development in the History of the law
- Brussels, December 7-8, 2017: Territorial Governance and State Representatives in the Long 19th Century. Circulation of Knowledge, Models and Men
- Ghent, December 14-15, 2017: (Dis)Claiming Pasts: Ownership, Responsibility and Contestation, a conference concerning the ownership of and rights to cultural heritage
- Helsinki, December 14-15, 2017: Inclusion and exclusion in the histrioy of ideas
- Paris, December 14-15, 2017: Le siècle de Dupont de Nemours (1739-1817)
2018
- Cairo, January 11-13, 2018: L’émergence du ḥadīṯ comme autorité du savoir
- Cambridge, January 12-13, 2018: Law and Legal Agreements 600-1250 – organized by Voices of Law
- Rennes, January 18-19, 2018: L’Empire, figure(s) du pouvoir
- Brussels, March 22-23, 2018: La mobilisation du droit par les mouvements sociaux et la société civile
- Sewanee, TN, April 13-14, 2018: Law and (Dis)Order
- 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
- Rome, August 29-September 1, 2018: Urban renewal and resilience, 14th congress of the European Association for Urban History
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 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 for Legal History (July 25-August 4, 2017), theme: Conflict regulation
- Frankfurt am Main, International Graduate School for Legal Historical Research
- Charlottesville, VA: Rare Book School:
- Erice, International School of Ius Commune: October 12-16, 2017, theme: Migrations, Law and Religions in Medieval and Modern Ages
- CEDANT (Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi), Pavia: January 8-26, 2018: The Theodosian Code: Complilation, Transmission, Reception; deadline for registration October 20, 2017
Single events:
- Amsterdam, July 8-22, 2017: Summer course on Laws in antiquity: Law and Legal Systems from Mesopotamia, Egypt, Rome and Byzantium
- Lisbon, July 31-August 11, 2017: Les manuscrits universitaires enluminés dans l’Europe médiévale (XIIIe – XIVe siècles) : production et circulation, with Maria Alessandra Bilotta
- Munich, July 31-August 5, 2017: Servus servorum Dei – Die Papsturkunde des Mittelalters
- Łękuk, August 19-27, 2017: Memory and law: Legal perspectives in historical assessments
- Rome, September 4-8, 2017: Urkunden, Regesten, Digitalisierung – Sommerschule der Regesta Imperii, held at the Deutsches Historisches Institut
- Wetzlar, September 22-23, 2017: An die Gerichtsakten, fertig, los!, workshop of the Netzwerk Reichsgerichtsbarkeit
- Las Vegas, October 25-26, 2017: Student Research Colloquium, part of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History; deadline for application, July 15, 2017, mail to srcproposals@aslh.net
- Dresden, November 16-17, 2017: Zensurgeschichte im 20. und 21. jahrhundert, a Nachwuchsworkshop
- Paris, April 5-6, 2018: Espaces ecclésiastiques et seigneuries laïques. Définitions, modèles et conflits en zones d’interface (IXe-XIIIe siècles)
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 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
