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:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA): Edinburgh, September 2-7, 2019, theme: Le droit et sa place dans le monde antique
- 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: Lisbon, July 1-3, 2020: Professions and Methods in Comparative Legal History
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag: Zürich, September 7-11, 2020, theme: Geltungsformen 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): XVIth Congress, St. Louis, MO, July 19-25, 2020 – call for papers, deadline August 15, 2019
- American Society for Legal History: Boston, November 21-24, 2019
- 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: Melbourne, December 11-14, 2019, theme: Does Law’s History Matter? The Politics of our Disciplinary Practices
- 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
- International Association of Papyrologists:
- Société de Législation Comparée, Journées Internationales:
- Juris Diversitas conferences:
- Digital Humanities conferences (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations): Utrecht, July 9-12, 2019: DH2019
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- London, July 1-3, 2019: Citizenship in classical antiquity: current perspectives and challenges
- Melbourne, July 17-19, 2019: The League of Nations Decentred: Law, Crises and Legacies
- Vienna, September 5-6, 2019: Books of Law in The (Very) Longh Tenth Century
- Helsinki, September 12-13, 2019: Law, Trade and the Sea: Discovering Maritime Trade in the Roman World
- Paris, September 18-19, 2019: Ius Gentium – Ideas and Practices of International Law in Early Modern Law and Theology; call for papers
- Aix-en-Provence, September 19-20, 2019: Of citizens and rulers and their education. Éducation des citoyens, éducation des gouvernants
- Mühlhausen, September 19-21, 2019: Feder und Recht. Schriftlichkeit und Gerichtswesen in der Vormoderne
- Heppenheim, September 23-25, 2019: Kriminalität, Justiz und Eliten
- Weingarten, September 25-29, 2019: Tiere und Hexen. Animal Turn in der Hexenforschung? – Animals and Witches. The Animal Turn in Witchcraft Studies?
- Wuppertal, September 25-27, 2019: Quod solus Romanus pontifex iure dicatur universalis: Der päpstliche Universalepiskopat in der longue durée vom frühen bis ins hohe Mittelalter. Norm und Umsetzung
- Helsinki, September 26-28, 2019: Spaces of Roman constitutionalism
- Vienna, September 26-28, 2019: Open Kinship? Social and Legal Practices from Gender Perspectives (1450–1900)
- Oxford, September 27-28, 2019: Women and violence in the Late Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 1100-1500
- Philadelphia, October 4-5, 2019: Ordering the Anthropocene: Law & the Environment in the Indian Ocean World
- Madrid, November 13-15, 2019: Weimar Moments. Constitutionalising Mass Democracy in Germany, Italy, Spain and Beyond
- Paris-Marne La Vallée, November 14-15, 2019: Les formes de réglementation des métiers dans l’Europe médiévale et moderne
- Vienna, November 14-15, 2019: Fürst und Pfand. Die Verpfändung von Herrschaftsrechten als Finanzierungs- und Herrschaftsinstrument im Mittelalter
- Freiburg, November 20-23, 2019: Ruling an empire in a changing world: Studies on origin, impact and reception of the Notitia dignitatum
- Liège, December 5-6, 2019: Printing and disseminating the Law in the Habsburg Netherlands, the Dutch Republic and the Prince-Bishopric of Liege in the early modern period (16th-18th century)
- Louvain, December 11-13, 2019: True Warriors? Negotiating Dissent in het Intellectual Debate (c. 1100–1700)
2020
- Berlin, January 30-31, 2020: Disziplinieren und Strafen. Politische Repression in der DDR und anderen sozialistischen Diktaturen
- Frankfurt am Main, March 19-20, 2020: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History – call for papers, deadline September 15, 2019, send your proposal to dlh@rg.mpg.de
- Luxembourg, April 23-24, 2020: Mixed Arbitral Tribunals, 1919–1930: An Experiment in the International Adjudication of Private Rights
- Aberdeen, May 22-24, 2020: Legal History in Modern Practice Conference 2020
- Bielefeld, June 13-14, 2020: Entrechtete Körper – Vergleichen, Normieren, Urteilen, Leben: 1450-1850
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), thema: Law and texts in contexts
- Frankfurt am Main, International Graduate School for Legal Historical Research
- Charlottesville, VA: Rare Book School:
- Erice, International School of Ius Commune: October 7-11, 2019, theme: The city, the country, lordship and power: Jurisprudence and Law from the Middle Ages
- CEDANT (Centro di studi e ricerche sui Diritti Antichi), Pavia
Single events:
- Frankfurt am Main, July 2-3, 2019: Legal biography workshop
- Barcelona, July 15-26, 2019: Summer school Law and Memory: Legal history of the 20th century
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
- 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
- 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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