History of International Law @World

On November 25-26, 2021, the 26th Ius Commune Conference will take place at Maastricht University. The workshops will focus on the theme Ius Commune in the Making: Great Debates in the History of Law. 

Senior researchers and PhD candidates are invited to submit an abstract of a paper related to the above-mentioned theme. Abstracts (max. 400 words) should be sent to Agustín Parise no later than July 15, 2021. Shortly after that, the authors will be informed whether their papers are selected for a presentation during the Workshop. All contributions should be in English. Co-authored papers will be also considered. The organizing committee will give preference to early-career researchers when facing submissions of similar high quality.

The full call can be found here.

From July 6-9 , 2022, the 25th British Legal History Conference 2022 will be organized in association with the Irish Legal History Society at Queen’s University, Belfast. The conference theme is 'Law and Constitutional Change'. The deadline for submission of abstracts is Monday August 30, 2021. The full call can be found here.

From June 29 - July 1, 2022, Maynooth University will organize the 3rd Legal Histories of Empires Conference. 

Empires. Plural. Across time and across the globe, interconnected, mutually constitutive. We invite papers which consider the interconnections and the legal relations between empires. The conference will particularly focus on the role played by law (broadly defined) in facilitating, constituting, and enabling these connections; on the people of law who moved between these places; and the institutions which bound them together. How might we map Empires through these connections? How do we now conceptualize such movement, and are there new ways in which we could envisage legal interchange across time and place? Of particular interest are the connections between places with very different legal systems and traditions. How can we better bring together the efforts of historians working in different legal traditions? In this third Legal Histories of Empires conference we hope to more deeply uncover the legal threads that bound different empires, places, laws and legal traditions across the globe.

Abstracts (both individual and panels) have to be submitted before October 31, 2021. The full call can be found here.

The British Academy Global Professorship and the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and Private International Law have joint forces to organize a second workshop around the theme 'Decolonial comparative legal history: indigenous and global South law prior to colonialism', which will take place on 9-10 September 2022 at the University of Oxford. 

Interested scholars are invited to submit papers (max. 5000 words) that destabilize coloniality by engaging with how indigenous and global South societies defined or practiced law prior to colonialism. Papers should be based on original research, ideally relying on primary or indigenous sources from prior to the colonial era (broadly defined). Papers should identify “law” in a specific tradition or place, with particular attention to indigenous or pre-colonial epistemologies and practices. Since colonial legal notions continue to distort historiography, we welcome papers that decolonize (i.e., identify and replace) coloniality in the legal historiography of the precolonial global South and indigenous communities.

Papers have to be submitted by February 9, 2022. More information can be found here.

Starting on December 16, 2020, the T.M.C. Asser Institute will organize a (digital) lecture series on Method, Methodology and Critique in International Law. The aim of the program is to explore the many methodological "turns" the discipline of international law has taken and to think together about the theoretical commitments these entail, the crafts they demand and the modes of critique they enable.

You can read the description and program of the initiative. If you would like to receive details on future workshops in this series, you can register for the workshop.