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: Rotterdam, December 17-18, 2020; call for papers, deadline September 30, 2020; send your proposal to Tammo Wallinga – postponed
- British Legal History Conference: Belfast, July 7-10, 2021, theme: Law and constitutional change – postponed to July 6-9, 2022
- British Crime Historians Symposium:
- Société Internationale Fernand Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité (SIHDA): Santiago de Chile, January 5-9, 2021, theme: Mundus et commercium
- Société d’Histoire du Droit, “Journées”: Paris, May 28-29, 2020 – postponed
- Société d’Histoire du Droit et des Institutions des pays flamands, picards et wallons: Middelburg, May 22-23, 2020, theme: L’art et le droit – postponed to May 14-15, 2021
- Standen en Landen / Anciens Pays et Assemblées d’États: March 25-26, 2021: Penser l’ancien droit public. Regards croisés sur les méthodes des juristes (III) – online
- Société Jean Bodin pour l’histoire comparative des institutions
- Europäisches Forum jünger Rechtshistoriker (Young European Legal Historians): Istanbul, June 10-13, 2020, theme: Liability and Responsibility in Legal History – postponed to June 2021
- European Society for Comparative Legal History: Lisbon, July 1-3, 2020: Professions and Methods in Comparative Legal History – postponed to June 30-July 2, 2021
- Deutsche Rechtshistorikertag: Zürich, September 7-11, 2020, theme: Geltungsformen des Rechts – postponed to August 8-12, 2022, see the new website
- European Society of International Law (ESIL) – with a section History of International Law
- 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 – postponed to July 18-24, 2021
- American Society for Legal History:
- International Congress of Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo– cancelled
- Irish Legal History Society:
- Greek Legal History Society:
- South African Society of Legal Historians:
- Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society:
- Carlsberg Academy Conference on Medieval Law:
- 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):
Outside series
Announcements of other congresses, symposia and seminars:
2021
- Frankfurt am Main, March 1-5, 2021: Digital Methods and Resources in Legal History – online
- London, March 11-12, 2021: The independence of Peru and the Americas in Global Perspective
- Lisbon, March 14-15, 2021: Experiencing Prison – 7th Global Inclusive Interdisciplinary Conference
- Belgrade, March 25-26, 2021: Second Iustoria Conference: Law and Religion
- March 25-26, 2021: Penser l’ancien droit public. Regards croisés sur les méthodes des juristes (III), organized by Standen en Landen / Ancien Pays et Assemblées d’État – online
- Catania, April 15-16, 2021: ESIL Research Forum, theme: Solidarity – The Quest for Founding Utopias of International Law
- Rome, April 29-30, 2021: Sanctions spirituelles et politique dans la catholicité, des origines à l’époque contemporain – originally planned for October 2020
- Regensburg, May 6-7, 2021: Die Rechtsordnung Elsass-Lothringens / Le système juridique de l’Alsace-Lorraine
- Paris, May 20-21, 2021: Le crime de sorcellerie en débat : définitions, réceptions et réalités (XIVe-XVIe siècles) / Questioning the Crime of Witchcraft, Definitions, Receptions and Realities (14th-16th Centuries)
- Aarhus, June 10-11, 2021: Global inequality. An intellectual history
- Versailles, June 10-11, 2021: The spatial implications of trade regulations (Middle Ages and Early Modern Times)
- Lausanne, June 24-25, 2021: Tax Evasion or Avoidance and Tax Havens, from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day
- Bern, September 3-9, 2021: Formen des Grundeigentums. Konzepte und Praktiken in ökonomischer, sozialer und ökologischer Perspektive / La propriété foncière et immobilière. Modèles, pratiques, enjeux économiques, sociaux et écologiques
- Rome, September 20, 2021 – Before the state. International law and politico-legal pluralism in Europe, 12th-17th century – sequel in Lille/Kortrijk, May 18-19, 2022 – deadline call for papers, January 31, 2021
- Burgos, September 22-24, 2021: Building the Medieval Diocese. Strategies, agents and instruments
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:
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
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 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
