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: Reading, July 8-11, 2015: Challenges to authority and the recognition of rights
- British Crime Historians Symposium:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA):
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”: Rennes, May 28-31, 2015: La controverse. Études d’histoire de l’argumentation juridique
- 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): Tel Aviv, March 1-3, 2015, theme: Law in transition
- European Society for Comparative Legal History: Gdansk, 2016
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag – every two years
- 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) – Paris, 2016
- American Society for Legal History: Washington, DC, October 29-November 1, 2015
- International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo; May 14-17, 2015: Medieval Canon Law and Social Issues, a Stephan Kuttner Memorial Session, sponsored by ICMAC
- Irish Legal History Society
- South African Society of Legal Historians
- Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society
- Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Law: Copenhagen, September 9-10, 2015: Law and Language in the Middle Ages
- Associazione Internazionale per la Ricerca Storica-Giuridica e Comparatistica (Aristec)
- Annual Meetings of the Greek Legal History Society
- International Medieval Congress, Leeds: July 6-9, 2015
- Internationales Wiener Kolloquium zur Antiken Rechtsgeschichte
- International Papyrological Congress
Outside series
Here announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars will be listed.
- Boston, Mass., March 5-7, 2015: A History of Penal Regimes in Global Perspective, 1800-2014
- Belfast, March 6-7, 2015: Women, Law and Disorder
- Frankfurt am Main, March 12-13, 2015: 1414-2104: Le concile de Constance, organized by the Deutsch-Französisches Mediävistenforum at the Institut Français d’Histoire en Allemagne
- Paris-Créteil, March 12-14, 2015: Political Representation before Representative Government
- Bern, March 12-14, 2015: Elections and electoral corruption in the Early Modern Period (1500-1800)
- Manchester, May 13-14, 2015: Internment during the First World War: A Mass Gloabal Phenomenon
- Brussels, March 19-21, 2015: Networks, Practices and Dynamics of Socialization in European diplomacy from 1919 to today
- Paris, March 23-25, 2015: Sujets d’Empire : Juifs et autres minorités dans l’espace méditerranéen (XIXe-XXe siècles)
- Paris, May 6-7, 2015: Du comparatisme au droit comparé: Regard historique sur les acteurs, les objets et les enjeux
- Vienna, May 20-22, 2015: Versöhnung und Gerechtigkeit
- Berlin, May 21-22, 2015: Criminal law and emotions in European legal cultures: from the 16th century to the present
- New Haven, Conn., May 21-22, 2015: Rem non novam nec insolitam, inaugural conference of the Stephan Kuttner Institute for Medieval Canon Law at Yale University
- Dijon, May 21-22, 2015: Pensée politique et famille
- Paris, May 26-29, 2015: The Making of Law in the Ottoman Empire, 1800-1914
- Bloomington, IN, June 4-5, 2015: Globalization and the Law in Historical Perspective
- Montauban, June 9-11, 2015: La justice entre théologie et droit
- Cardiff, June 10-12, 2015: Power of the Bishop in Western Europe 1000-1300: Episcopal Personalities
- Lissabon, June 12-13, 2015: Cartularies in medieval Europe: Texts and contexts
- Wroclaw, June 17-19, 2015: Crime and Punishment in Antiquity
- Bydgoszcz, June 25-26, 2015: The Church and War. Between the Early and Late Middle Ages
- Winchester, June 25-26, 2015: 1215-2015: 800 Years of Riot and Protest
- London, June 30-July 4, 2015: Making constitutions, building parliaments: constructing representative institutions, 1000-2000 – annual conference of the International Commission for the History of Representative and Parliamentary Institutions (ICHRPI)
- Rome, June 28-30, 2015: Singles and the single life in the Roma and Later World
- Accra, July 2-4, 2015: Traditions, Borrowings, Innovations, & Impositions: Law in the Post-Colony and in Empire
- Frankfurt am Main, July 3-4, 2015: Von der Allmende zur Share Economy: Gemeinbesitz und kollektive Ressourcen in historischer und rechtlicher Perspektive
- Lincoln, July 13-15, 2015: Law, Custom and Ritual in the Medieval Mediterranean
- Bangor, September 3-5, 2015: Travel and Conflict in the Medieval and Early Modern World
- Munich, September, 9-11, 2015: 4. Kolloquium zu Kriminalität und Strafjustiz in der Neuzeit
- London,.September 10-11, 2015: Anti-Democratic Ideology and Criminal Law under Fascist, National-Socialist and Authoritarian Regimes
- London, September, 14-15, 2015: From Sodomy Laws to Same-Sex Marriage: Coupling, Questions of ‘Nature’, and the State, 1786-2015
- Bordeaux, September 15-16, 2015: L’histoire du droit entre science et politique
- College Park, MD, October 9-10, 2015: (Re)Building Networks: A Medieval and Early Modern Studies Conference
- Bolzano, October 22-24, 2015: Verfügen – Streiten – Schlichten. Aushandlungsprozesse im Spannungsfeld zwischen Geschlecht und Vermögen
- Baltimore, MD, November 12-15, 2015: Crime, justice and the law
- Rome, November 24-29, 2015: Concilium Lateranense IV: Commemorating the Octocentenary of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215
- Paris, December 2-3, 2015: Disaster, Environment and Property: historical approaches, 19th-20th centuries
- London, December 4-6, 2015: Seals and Status 800-1700
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
- Frankfurt am Main, International Graduate School for Legal Historical Research
- Munich, July 21-24, 2015: Politik der Natur – summerschool of the DFG-research project Natur in politischen Ordnungsentwürfen: Antike-Mittelalter-Moderne
- Charlottesville, Va.: Rare Book School
- Erice, International School of Ius Commune:
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, Ernst Metzger, University of Glasgow – for events concerning Roman law
- Nomodôs – the blog of the e-journal Clio@Themis 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
- Reti Medievali – Calendario – the calendar for events concerning the Middle Ages
- L’agenda du médiéviste – a blog in Belgium for events concerning medieval studies
- Rivista di Diritto Romano – Calendario storico – a calendar for events in Roman law
- 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
