History of International Law @World

The Faculty of Law of the KU Leuven, invites scholars to apply for a full‐time research professorship in the Research Unit for Roman Law and Legal History.

The KU Leuven is looking for motivated and internationally oriented candidates with an excellent research record and with educational competence in the field of modern legal history. The appointment is expected to start on October 1, 2022. During the first 10 years, the teaching obligations as a research professor will be limited. Afterwards, the position will be transformed into a regular professorship.

Applications have to be submitted before 17 September 2021. The full vacancy can be found here.

On 17-19 February 2022, the ESCLH and Augsburg University will organize the Third Postgraduate Conference in Comparative Legal History. The ESCLH invites PhD-students (beyond their first year) and post-doctoral researchers who work in the field of comparative legal history to participate in the conference. 

The conference language is English and abstracts must be submitted in English. The closing date for receipt of abstracts is 15 September 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.