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:
- 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: 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
- 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:
- 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):
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Lexington, VA, November 1-3, 2019: Status and justice in law, religion and society
- Helsinki, November 4-5, 2019: Law, Tradition and Conservatism: Legal Responses to Neoliberal Governance – Development of Russian Law XII
- Angers, November 7-8, 2019: L’Exil au Moyen Âge, entre tourment et plénitude / Exile in the Middle Ages: from Torment to Plenitude
- Rome, November, 7-8, 2019: Observance et Société : entre normalisation et répression (Europe, XVe-XVIe siècle)
- 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
- Prague, November 19-20, 2019: Citizenship until further notice? Refugees and revocation of nationality in the 20th century
- F reiburg, November 20-23, 2019: Ruling an empire in a changing world: Studies on origin, impact and reception of the Notitia dignitatum
- Bologna, November 21-22, 2019: Diritto e politica fra XI e XII secolo: Irnerio e l’Europa
- Paris, November 21-22, 2019: Reformatio? Dire la réforme au Moyen Âge (XIIIe-XVe siècle
- Erfurt, November 21-23, 2019: Early-Modern Natural Law in Eastern Europe
- Paris, November 27-28, 2019: Les actes pontificaux. Un trésor à exploiter
- Brandenburg an der Havel, November 28-29, 2019: Das Magdeburger Recht zwischen Elbe und Oder vom 12. bis zum 17. Jahrhundert: Rechtstransfer – Rechtslandschaften – Rechtswirklichkeiten
- Esch-Belval, November 28-29, 2019: Naturalisierung und Legitimation der Macht (1300–1800). Versuch einer vergleichenden Geschichte
- Aix-en-Provence, December 5-6, 2019: La participation à la chose publique de l’Antiquité à la fin de la IIIème République
- 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)
- Namur, December 12-13, 2019: Les miroirs aux princes aux frontières des genres : approches fonctionnelles d’une réalité hybride
2020
- Berlin, January 30-31, 2020: Disziplinieren und Strafen. Politische Repression in der DDR und anderen sozialistischen Diktaturen
- Luxembourg, February 28-29, 2020: 100 Jahre allgemeines Wahlrecht in Luxemburg und Europa / 100 years of universal suffrage in Luxembourg and Europe / 100 ans de suffrage universel au Luxembourg et en Europe
- Ghent, Macrh 4-5, 2020: Blasphemy and Violence. Interdependencies since 1760
- Paris-Creteil, March 9-10, 2020: Les intellectuels face à l’idée impériale au Moyen Âge (IXe-XVIe siècle) / Die Intellektuellen und die Idee des Kaisertums im Mittelalter (9.-16. Jahrhundert)
- Frankfurt am Main, March 19-20, 2020: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History (“DLH2020”)
- Regensburg, March 19-20, 2020: Juristische Zeitgeschichte der 1980er Jahre
- Chicago, March 19-22, 2020: Staging Justice: Trials and Tribunals in Literature, Theater, and Film (ACLA 2020)
- Rome, April 3-4, 2020: Space and Governance: Towards a New Topography of Roman Administration
- Oxford, AprIl 20-21, 2020: Constituting Boundaries; Identities, Polities, and Colonial and Postcolonial Constitution-Making, 1776-2019
- Luxembourg, April 23-24, 2020: Mixed Arbitral Tribunals, 1919–1930: An Experiment in the International Adjudication of Private Rights
- New York, April 23-24, 2020: Women, Peace and Security 2020 Conference
- Osnabrück, March 25-27, 2020: Islamisches Recht und Theologie in Kontext. Die Traktat-Literatur (rasāʾil) als Dokumentation gesellschaftsrelevanter Debatten in vormodernen muslimischen Gesellschaften (13.–19. Jh.)
- Oxford, April 20-21, 2020: Constituting Boundaries. Identities, Polities, and Colonial and Postcolonial Constitution-Making, 1776-2019
- Frankfurt am Main, April 27-28, 2020: Colonial Legal Biography
- Aberdeen, May 22-24, 2020: Legal History in Modern Practice Conference 2020
- Catania, April 23-24. 2020: Solidarity: The Quest for Founding Utopias of International Law – ESIL Research Forum 2020
- Arras, May 27-28, 2020: Infanticide from Antiquity to the mid 19th century (Europe, colonial and postcolonial Americas)
- Frankfurt am Main, June 9-10, 2020: Law and Policy in European Integration (1960s-1990s)
- Nijmegen, June 11-12, 2020: “The Hope of Ages is in the Process of Realization” – Establishing a World Court, 1920-1922
- Bielefeld, June 13-14, 2020: Entrechtete Körper – Vergleichen, Normieren, Urteilen, Leben: 1450-1850
- Nottingham. June 21-23, 2020: After ‘Emancipation’: The legacies, afterlives and continuation of slavery
- Venice, June 24-26, 2020: Waging war and making peace: European ways of inciting and containing armed conflict, 1648-2020
- Konstanz, September 24-26, 2020: Female Regency and Other Figures of Representation (5th to 15th Centuries) / Weibliche Regentschaft und andere Stellvertreterfiguren (5. bis 15. Jahrhundert)
- Jena, October 15-16, 2020: The Struggle for Social Control in the Soviet Union, 1929 to 1956
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
- 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:
- Brussels, November 7-8, 2019: Identity, Citizenship and Commerce
- Louvain, November 28-29, 2019: Ius commune in the making: Networks in the history of private law
- St. Andrews, May 22-23, 2020: Law in transmission: The movement of practices, texts and concept across time and space, c. 400-1500
- Los Angeles, June 7-8, 2020: Law and Humanities Junior Scholars Workshop
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 and Hermann Conring-Preis, Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag
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
- Event Calendar, Institute of Medieval Studies, Leeds
- 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 Droitf, ormerly 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
- 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
