ESCLH CONFERENCE 2020 (Lisbon): Message from Society President Prof. Matt Dyson (Oxford)

(image: Lisbon: source: Wikimedia Commons)

Dear Members of the ESCLH and speakers and attendees of our conferences (with apologies if you receive this message more than once), 

I send renewed greetings from the ESCLH and hopes for your health and wellbeing despite the difficulties we face because of the Covid 19 pandemic. I write with the sad news that we feel we must postpone the Lisbon ESCLH conference for a second time. Having had a wonderful and fascinating event organised by the Lisbon team for 2020, with outstanding papers from around the world, we had to postpone because of Covid 19, with the hope of hosting in 2021. 

Events have overtaken us and to plan effectively we are postponing the Lisbon conference with the intention to host it from 29 June to 1 July 2022. Everyone already confirmed as offering a paper would have their slot for the next conference, with the possibility of negotiating a changed title and content, given the intervening two years. We will see if we can enlarge the conference at all, to offer new spaces for new work. 

The Executive Council is very grateful to the Lisbon organisers for their continued zeal for organising the conference, and to you all for your patience. 

In addition, the Executive Council, in particular two of its Vice-Presidents, Mia Korpiola and Annamaria Monti, have organised a seminar series as a way to engage on core issues of comparative legal history with all of you as our Covid winter hopefully turns to a freer Spring and Summer. The details of those fascinating events are below, with the first being on 12 March 2021. 

A zoom link for that event is provided below, and links for later events will be publicised separately. After that seminar series we will host an event with our Lisbon colleagues on 29 June 2021, details of which will be shared in due course. 

 With all very best wishes, 

 Matt Dyson 

 President of the ESCLH, on behalf of the ESCLH Executive Council and Lisbon organisers