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 – deadline for proposals January 31, 2023, rechtshistorischedagen@kuleuven.be
- British Legal History Conference
- British Crime Historians Symposium:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA: Helsinki, August 22-26, 2023, theme: Materiality and immateriality of ancient law
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”:
- Société d’Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons: Lille, May 19-20, 2023, theme: Boire et manger; deadline call for papers January 31`, 2023; send proposals to Tanguy Le March’adour, tanguy.lemarchadour@univ-artois.fr
- 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):
- Iustoria Conference: Belgrade, March 23-25, 2023: Iustoria 2023
- European Society for Comparative Legal History: Augsburg, June 21-23, 2023, Seventh ESCLH Conference
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag: Frankfurt am Main, 2024
- 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):
- American Society for Legal History: Philadelphia, October 26-28, 2023
- 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: Toowoomba, 30 November-2 December 2023
- Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Law:
- Nordiska rättshistorikermötet:
- Associazione Internazionale per la Ricerca Storica-Giuridica e Comparatistica (Aristec):
- International Medieval Congress, Leeds:
- 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):
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Cracow, January 12-13, 2023: Ius commune and local testamentary succession laws and customs (c. 1400-1620)
- Hamburg, February 6-7, 2023: Colonized Manuscripts: Appropriation, Dislocation and (Post-)Colonial Epistemics since the Age of Empire
- February 20-22, 2023: Navigating Nigerian Archives: Experiences, Opportunities, and Advancements – virtual conference, African Humanities Research and Dvelopment Conference
- Stuttgart, February 22-25, 2023: Demonology revisited. Dämonologie in interdisziplinärer Perspektive
- San Juan, Puerto Rico, March 9-11, 2023: Crime and violence in the Early Modern world – call for papers for sponsored panels, organized by the Renaissance Society of America
- Cologne, March 23-24, 2023: Rechtshandschriften des 8. und 9. Jahrhunderts – in connection to the project Capitularia. Edition der främkischen Herrschererlasse
- Leuven, April 27-28, 2023: Natural law and domestic government. Transformative legal theory in Early Modern Europe
- Nancy, May 24-25, 2023: Les évêques en leur monde : réseaux, communautés, influences (Xe-XIIIe siècle
- Ghent, May 31-June 2, 2023: Letters and Politics in Late Antiquity
- Brussels-Ghent, June 8-10, 2023: Standardisation and Localism in the Legal and Economic World of the Romans
- Regensburg, June 15-17, 2023: Städtische Rechtskulturen in der Vormoderne
- York, July 4-5, 2023: Violence and its Control in Early Modern Europe
- Wolfenbüttel, July, 12-14, 2023: Kommentieren als Kulturtechnik. Relationalität – Medialität – Resonanz
- Lund, August 16-19, 2023: Heraldry and the law
- Würzburg, September 28-29, 2023: Freiheit und Unfreiheit in Mitteleuropa (vom Frühmittelalter bis 1989)
- Hamburg, November 2-3, 2023: Des fonctions judiciaires des consuls aux tribunaux consulaires (XIIe – XXe siècle) – Die Konsulargerichtsbarkeit – zur Geschichte der gerichtlichen Funktionen von Konsulaten (12.-20. Jahrhundert)
- Vienna, October 9-10, 2023: The 1952 German-Jewish Settlement and beyond. New Perspectives on Reparations During and After the Cold War
- Oostende, November 21-24, 2023: 300 years Ostend Company
- Ghent, December 7-8, 2023: Wine and institutions in the ancient world
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; there is also a yearly summer academy
- Frankfurt am Main, International Graduate School for Legal Historical Research
- Charlottesville, VA: Rare Book School: June 4-9, 2023, Law books: history and connaisseurship, taught by Mike Widener and Kathryn James (Yale Law School); apply before February 20, 2023
- Erice, International School of Ius Commune:
- CEDANT (Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi), Pavia:
Single events:
- Paris, February 7-10, 2023: Le droit médiéval. Sources et méthodes – organised by the FONTES network
- Vienna/Jerusalem or online, February 12-23, 2023: Quellenkompetenz in jüdischer, allgemeiner und Rechtsgeschichte – organised by the Forschungcluster Jüdisches Heiliges Römisches Reich (JHRR, Vienna)
- Hamburg, June 4-8, 2023: Decolonial Law Summer School
- Valencia, June 4-9, 2023: The making of law: its creation and application – fourth postgraduate workshop the ESCLH
- Rome, June 12-16, 2023: Introduction aux sources du droit romain
- Frankfurt am Main, June 26-28, 2023: Konflikte um Wahrheit: Nachwuchstagung Rechtsgeschichte
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 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
- 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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