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): 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:
- International Association of Papyrologists:
- Société de Législation Comparée, Journées Internationales:
- Juris Diversitas conferences:
- Congreso de Derecho Indiano: Huelva, September 16-20, 2019
- Digital Humanities conferences (Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations):
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
- Durham, September 2-4, 2019: Roman Law and Latin Literature
- Lorsch, September 2-4, 2019: Konflikte um Wasserwirtschaft und Wasserrechte. Vom Ende der Antike bis zur Industrialisierung
- Orléans and Paris, September 2-4, 2019: The decisive decade: 1869-1879 / La décennie décisive : 1869-1879
- Vienna, September 5-6, 2019: Books of Law in The (Very) Long Tenth Century
- Helsinki, September 12-13, 2019: Law, Trade and the Sea: Discovering Maritime Trade in the Roman World
- Montauban, September 16-18, 2019: La loi de solidarité. Vers une fraternisation selon la théologie et le droit
- Lisbon, September 18-20, 2019: A Century of Internationalisms – The Promise and Legacies of the League of Nations
- 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
- Rennes, September 26-28, 2019: Nouveaux regards sur un juriste historien de la Renaissance. Bertrand d’Argentré en son demi-millénaire (1519-2019)
- 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
- Poitiers, September 27-28, 2019: Autour de l’usufruit
- Frankfurt am Main, September 30-October 1, 2019: Die Frankfurter Paulskirche: Ort der deutschen Demokratie
- Leipzig, October 1-4, 2019: Kaiser Karl V. und das Heilige Römische Reich
- Brussels, October 2-3, 2019: La naissance de l’Ecole de Bruxelles (1886-1919)
- La Rochelle, October 4-6, 2019: Les Pères de l’Eglise et les esclaves
- Philadelphia, October 4-5, 2019: Ordering the Anthropocene: Law & the Environment in the Indian Ocean World
- Frankfurt am Main, October 24-25, 2019: Resistance: Rebellion and Resistance in the Iberian Empires, 16th-19th centuries
- Helsinki, October 24-25, 2019: Liberalism – Historical and Contemporary Variations
- Brussels, October 25-26, 2019: The League of Nations and International Law during the Interbellum
- Sainte-Eulalie-de-Cernon, October 30-31, 2019: Domination et Antiquité Aspects politiques et juridiques
- 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
- 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
- Paris, November 27-28, 2019: Les actes pontificaux. Un trésor à exploiter
- 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)
2020
- Berlin, January 30-31, 2020: Disziplinieren und Strafen. Politische Repression in der DDR und anderen sozialistischen Diktaturen
- 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 – call for papers, deadline September 15, 2019, send your proposal to dlh@rg.mpg.de
- 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)
- 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.)
- 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)
- 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: 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:
- Vienna, September 5-6, 2019: Books of law in the very long tenth century, a workshop with Thom Gobbitt
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
- 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 – 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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