CONFERENCE WEBSITE: Transitions and Transfers [9th ESCLH Biennial Conference 2027] (Lund: Lund University, 21-23 JUN 2027) [CALL DEADLINE: 31 OCT 2026]

 

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As announced in June, the call for papers for the 9th ESCLH Biennial Conference in Lund (21-23 June 2027) is open until 31 October 2026.

The conference now has its dedicated website at https://olinconferences.com.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS: 9th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History: Transition and Transfers (Lund: Lund University, 21-23 JUN 2027) [DEADLINE 31 OCT 2026]

 

The organisers and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers and posters for the upcoming European Society for Comparative Legal History 9th Biennial Conference to be held from 21 to 23 June 2027 at Lund University, Sweden.

The conference series started in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018), Lisbon (2022), Augsburg (2023), andSzeged (2025). The 2027 conference is hosted by the Olin Foundation for Legal History and supported by the Faculty of Law at Lund University.

The theme of the conference is ”Transitions and Transfers.” We are living in a time of unpredictability and changes, and this gives reason to pay attention to periods of transition in history. How and why did changes occur, who were the proponents and opponents? Changes in legal history have often had elements of transfer. Sometimes, legal needs have been met through drawing inspiration from other legal systems. On other occasions, legal rules have been imposed on other systems.

The papers, panels, and posters offered should deal with either transitions or transfers, or both. They should engage in dialogue with aspects of law across time and/or space that are of interest for comparative legal historians.

To offer a paper, please submit an abstract of up to 400 words. The abstract should include the title of your proposed paper and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 400 words). Anyone at any stage in their research career can offer a paper.

Abstracts will be assessed against: (1) the aim to have a diverse conference; (2) the novelty of the work; and (3) a professionally grounded proposal including a description ofthe methodology and most important sources, and a concise description of the expected research results.

It is also possible to submit a proposal for a complete panel. Panels normally consist of three papers. A panel proposal should – in addition to the abstracts and CVs of those who wish to present a paper in that panel – include an abstract for the entire panel, as well as a CV of the panel organizer.

Further, it is possible to submit a proposal for a poster. To offer a proposal for a poster, please submit an abstract of up to 400 words. The abstract should include the title of your project and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 400 words). 

Anyone at any stage in their research career can propose a poster. Accepted participants will be asked to submit to the organisers a PDF file in size A0 with the poster design, and the posters will be printed in Lund.

One author may only propose to give one paper or present one poster at the conference in order to allow as many people as possible to present their work.

All submissions – for papers, panels, and posters – should be in English and be sent to ESCLH2027@jur.lu.se, no later than 31 October 2026.

The list of accepted papers, panels, and posters will be announced by December 2026.

A conference website will be launched with further details of the conference in the autumn of 2026. The conference website will also contain information on the attendance fee for those not members of the ESCLH, and transport to and from Lund. The conference website will allow registration for the conference, starting early in 2027. Finally, the conference will be preceded by a PhD-workshop on 21 June 2027. Further information about the workshop will also be published in the autumn of 2026.

ESCLH CONFERENCE: 8th Biennial Conference - Back to the Past and Building the Future (Szeged: Unviversity of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025)

The eighth biennial conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History will commence in exactly one week at the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of the University of Szeged. Dr. Norbert Varga and his team will host more than thirty panels, welcome two keynote speakers, and organize a PhD workshop for early career researchers

The full schedule as well as practical guidelines can be found on the organizer's website. The organisation has dedicated a special page to travel arrangements.

ESCLH CONFERENCE: Programme of the 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (Szeged: University of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025)

 

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The full programme for our eighth biennial conference, organized by the University of Szeged (prof. Norbert Varga) is available on this link. 36 panels of speakers and two keynotes (prof. Stefan Vogenauer/Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory - Prof. Ulrike Müssig/University of Passau) are lined up!

Announcement:

The Organizing Committee is pleased to publish the final conference programme. Please click the link below to download the programme. The conference will be preceded by a PhD workshop. The conference will be held in the faculty building of the Faculty of Law and Political Sciences of University of Szeged. Our distinguished keynote speakers are Professor Ulrike Müßig (University of Passau) and Professor Stefan Vogenauer (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory). To help make your time at the 8th Biennial Conference of the ESCLH in Szeged smooth, enjoyable, and truly unforgettable, the Organizing Committee has prepared a short practical brochure with all the essential information you need! 

See brochure here. 

ESCLH CONFERENCE 2025: Registration open [DEADLINE 15 MAR 2025]

 

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The registration module for the Biennial ESCLH Conference in Szeged is now open.

More information here.

See also conference website here.

ESCLH 8TH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE: Back to the Past and Building the Future (Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025): conference website available (accommodation, travelling, membership fee and registration fee)

 

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The organising committee of the 8th ESCLH Biennial Conference, "Back to the Past and Building the Future" (Szeged, 2-3 JUL 2025) has launched a website containing information on accommodation, travelling, membership fee and registration fee.

A full programme is expected soon. Keynote speakers will be prof. Ulrike Müßig (University of Passau) and prof. Stefan Vogenauer (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory).

 

More information here.

REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ESCLH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, "Back to the Past and Building the Future" (Szeged: University of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025; DEADLINE 31 OCT 2024)

   

The Organising Committee and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming Society’s 8^th Biennial Conference to be held from 2 to 4 July 2025 at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

The conference series started in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018), and Lisbon (2022). In 2023, we had a successful conference in Augsburg.

The theme of the conference is to call attention to the development of legal institutions that are related to and serve as the foundation of modern/contemporary state and law. We mainly expect papers based on the examination of primary sources, since the main aim of the conference is to draw attention to the importance and analysis of primary sources (e.g. archival sources, judgements, parliamentary materials) in legal historical research, across legal systems.

The organizers wish to offer the opportunity to all participants who intend to present their legal historical and comparative research based mainly on primary sources, regardless of the historical era and geographical areas.

Back to the past and analysis of primary sources, new findings can be presented which can be used for the development of law in the contemporary period. Building the future can only be based on thorough historical and legal research, which can be achieved by connecting the past to the present. Through the complex and comparative assessment of the different branches of law, we can work towards a more general picture of legal development.

To offer a paper, please submit an abstract of up to 400 words, in English, by 31 October 2024. The abstract should include the title of your proposed paper and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 4 pages). Anyone at any stage in their research career can offer a paper. The submissions should be sent to vargan@juris.u-szeged.hu. Abstracts will be assessed against: (1) the aim to have a diverse conference; (2) the novelty of the work; (3) a professionally grounded presentation proposal including a description of the sources and methodology involved and a concise description of the research results. One author may only give one paper at the conference in order to allow as many people as possible to deliver papers.

It is also possible to submit a proposal for a complete panel. Panels normally consist of three papers. A panel proposal should – in addition to the abstracts and CVs of those who wish to present a paper in that panel – include an abstract for the entire panel, as well as a CV of the panel organizer. The list of accepted papers will be announced by December 2024.

A conference website will be launched with further details of the conference in December 2024.

The conference website will also contain information on the attendance fee for those not members of the ESCLH, transport to and from Szeged, and accommodation in Szeged. The conference website will allow registration for the conference, starting in February 2025. Finally, the conference will be preceded by an additional PhD-workshop on 2 July 2025. Further information about the workshop will also be published in December 2024.

Norbert Varga
organizer

University of Szeged

Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

Department of Hungarian Legal History

REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ESCLH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, "Back to the Past and Building the Future" (Szeged: University of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025; DEADLINE 31 OCT 2024)

   

The Organising Committee and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming Society’s 8^th Biennial Conference to be held from 2 to 4 July 2025 at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

The conference series started in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018), and Lisbon (2022). In 2023, we had a successful conference in Augsburg.

The theme of the conference is to call attention to the development of legal institutions that are related to and serve as the foundation of modern/contemporary state and law. We mainly expect papers based on the examination of primary sources, since the main aim of the conference is to draw attention to the importance and analysis of primary sources (e.g. archival sources, judgements, parliamentary materials) in legal historical research, across legal systems.

The organizers wish to offer the opportunity to all participants who intend to present their legal historical and comparative research based mainly on primary sources, regardless of the historical era and geographical areas.

Back to the past and analysis of primary sources, new findings can be presented which can be used for the development of law in the contemporary period. Building the future can only be based on thorough historical and legal research, which can be achieved by connecting the past to the present. Through the complex and comparative assessment of the different branches of law, we can work towards a more general picture of legal development.

To offer a paper, please submit an abstract of up to 400 words, in English, by 31 October 2024. The abstract should include the title of your proposed paper and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 4 pages). Anyone at any stage in their research career can offer a paper. The submissions should be sent to vargan@juris.u-szeged.hu. Abstracts will be assessed against: (1) the aim to have a diverse conference; (2) the novelty of the work; (3) a professionally grounded presentation proposal including a description of the sources and methodology involved and a concise description of the research results. One author may only give one paper at the conference in order to allow as many people as possible to deliver papers.

It is also possible to submit a proposal for a complete panel. Panels normally consist of three papers. A panel proposal should – in addition to the abstracts and CVs of those who wish to present a paper in that panel – include an abstract for the entire panel, as well as a CV of the panel organizer. The list of accepted papers will be announced by December 2024.

A conference website will be launched with further details of the conference in December 2024.

The conference website will also contain information on the attendance fee for those not members of the ESCLH, transport to and from Szeged, and accommodation in Szeged. The conference website will allow registration for the conference, starting in February 2025. Finally, the conference will be preceded by an additional PhD-workshop on 2 July 2025. Further information about the workshop will also be published in December 2024.

Norbert Varga
organizer

University of Szeged

Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

Department of Hungarian Legal History

REMINDER CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ESCLH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE, "Back to the Past and Building the Future" (Szeged: University of Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025; DEADLINE 31 OCT 2024)

  

The Organising Committee and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming Society’s 8^th Biennial Conference to be held from 2 to 4 July 2025 at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

The conference series started in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018), and Lisbon (2022). In 2023, we had a successful conference in Augsburg.

The theme of the conference is to call attention to the development of legal institutions that are related to and serve as the foundation of modern/contemporary state and law. We mainly expect papers based on the examination of primary sources, since the main aim of the conference is to draw attention to the importance and analysis of primary sources (e.g. archival sources, judgements, parliamentary materials) in legal historical research, across legal systems.

The organizers wish to offer the opportunity to all participants who intend to present their legal historical and comparative research based mainly on primary sources, regardless of the historical era and geographical areas.

Back to the past and analysis of primary sources, new findings can be presented which can be used for the development of law in the contemporary period. Building the future can only be based on thorough historical and legal research, which can be achieved by connecting the past to the present. Through the complex and comparative assessment of the different branches of law, we can work towards a more general picture of legal development.

To offer a paper, please submit an abstract of up to 400 words, in English, by 31 October 2024. The abstract should include the title of your proposed paper and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 4 pages). Anyone at any stage in their research career can offer a paper. The submissions should be sent to vargan@juris.u-szeged.hu. Abstracts will be assessed against: (1) the aim to have a diverse conference; (2) the novelty of the work; (3) a professionally grounded presentation proposal including a description of the sources and methodology involved and a concise description of the research results. One author may only give one paper at the conference in order to allow as many people as possible to deliver papers.

It is also possible to submit a proposal for a complete panel. Panels normally consist of three papers. A panel proposal should – in addition to the abstracts and CVs of those who wish to present a paper in that panel – include an abstract for the entire panel, as well as a CV of the panel organizer. The list of accepted papers will be announced by December 2024.

A conference website will be launched with further details of the conference in December 2024.

The conference website will also contain information on the attendance fee for those not members of the ESCLH, transport to and from Szeged, and accommodation in Szeged. The conference website will allow registration for the conference, starting in February 2025. Finally, the conference will be preceded by an additional PhD-workshop on 2 July 2025. Further information about the workshop will also be published in December 2024.

Norbert Varga
organizer

University of Szeged

Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

Department of Hungarian Legal History

CALL FOR PAPERS: 8th ESCLH BIENNIAL CONFERENCE (Szeged, 2-4 JUL 2025; DEADLINE 31 OCT 2024)

 

The Organising Committee and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming Society’s 8^th Biennial Conference to be held from 2 to 4 July 2025 at the University of Szeged, Hungary.

The conference series started in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018), and Lisbon (2022). In 2023, we had a successful conference in Augsburg.

The theme of the conference is to call attention to the development of legal institutions that are related to and serve as the foundation of modern/contemporary state and law. We mainly expect papers based on the examination of primary sources, since the main aim of the conference is to draw attention to the importance and analysis of primary sources (e.g. archival sources, judgements, parliamentary materials) in legal historical research, across legal systems.

The organizers wish to offer the opportunity to all participants who intend to present their legal historical and comparative research based mainly on primary sources, regardless of the historical era and geographical areas.

Back to the past and analysis of primary sources, new findings can be presented which can be used for the development of law in the contemporary period. Building the future can only be based on thorough historical and legal research, which can be achieved by connecting the past to the present. Through the complex and comparative assessment of the different branches of law, we can work towards a more general picture of legal development.

To offer a paper, please submit an abstract of up to 400 words, in English, by 31 October 2024. The abstract should include the title of your proposed paper and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 4 pages). Anyone at any stage in their research career can offer a paper. The submissions should be sent to vargan@juris.u-szeged.hu. Abstracts will be assessed against: (1) the aim to have a diverse conference; (2) the novelty of the work; (3) a professionally grounded presentation proposal including a description of the sources and methodology involved and a concise description of the research results. One author may only give one paper at the conference in order to allow as many people as possible to deliver papers.

It is also possible to submit a proposal for a complete panel. Panels normally consist of three papers. A panel proposal should – in addition to the abstracts and CVs of those who wish to present a paper in that panel – include an abstract for the entire panel, as well as a CV of the panel organizer. The list of accepted papers will be announced by December 2024.

A conference website will be launched with further details of the conference in December 2024.

The conference website will also contain information on the attendance fee for those not members of the ESCLH, transport to and from Szeged, and accommodation in Szeged. The conference website will allow registration for the conference, starting in February 2025. Finally, the conference will be preceded by an additional PhD-workshop on 2 July 2025. Further information about the workshop will also be published in December 2024.

Norbert Varga
organizer

University of Szeged

Faculty of Law and Political Sciences

Department of Hungarian Legal History

CONFERENCE: 8th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History in 2025: Back to the Past and Build the Future (Szeged: University of Szeged, JUL 2025)

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The Organising Committee and Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to announce that the eighth biennial conference of the Society will be held at the University of Szeged, Hungary in 2025.

The conference series started in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdansk (2016), Paris (2018), Lisbon (2022). In 2023 we had a successful conference in Augsburg.

The theme of the conference is to present legal institutions that influenced the development of legal orders of different legal systems and serve as evidence that contemporary legal reforms are related to the foundation of the modern state and law based on the examination of primary sources. The main aim of the conference is to draw attention to the importance and analysis of primary sources in legal historical research, across multiple legal systems. 

The organisers wish to offer the opportunity to all participants who intend to present legal historical and comparative research based mainly on primary sources, regardless of the historical era and territorial areas. 

Building the future can only be based on thorough historical and legal research, which can be achieved by connecting the past to the present. Through the complex and comparative assessment of the different branches of law, we can work towards a more general picture on legal development.

The conference will be held in July 2025; more information will be available in due course and the official call for papers will be published by the end of May 2024.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: 7th Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (Augsburg: Universität Augsburg, 21-23 JUNE 2023)

The European Society for Comparative Legal History convenes its seventh biennial conference in Augsburg, where the Chair of Prof. Phillip Hellwege welcomes an impressive array of speakers in 36 panels.

Keynote lectures will be held by Prof. Dr. Rebecca Scott (Ann Arbor) on "Habeas corpus turned inside out: the dynamics of peremptory enslavement in the nineteenth century Americas" and Prof. Dr. Kentaro Matsubara (Tokyo) on "Comparison, confrontation, and co-optation: a history of improvising legal systems in a global context?".

In the morning of 21 June, a PhD workshop with Prof. Dr. Matthew Dyson (Oxford), Prof. dr. Agustín Parise (Maastricht), Prof. Dr. Emanuel van Dongen (Utrecht), Dr. Lorren Elridge (Edinburgh), Prof. Dr. Phillip Hellwege (Augsburg) and Prof. Dr. Aniceto Masferrer (Valencia) will address themes relevant to young researchers. 

The conference received the generous support of Duncker & Humblot, Brill, Erich Schmidt Verlag, C.H. Beck, LIT Verlag, Nomos, Springer and the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory. These sponsors will present a book table at the conference. 

Download the full programme booklet here.

REMINDER: Register for the Seventh Biennial conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History (DEADLINE 21 MAY 2023)

 

The Organising Committee and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History would like to remind all who are interested in attending the upcoming Society’s Seventh Biennial Conference to be held from 21 to 23 June 2023 at the University of Augsburg, Germany, that registration for the conference is necessary.

The registration will close on 21 May 2023.

The details of the conference including the conference programme can be found on the conference website:

https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/jura/lehrende/hellwege/seventh_esclh_conference_2023/

Please register online:

https://anmeldung.jura.uni-augsburg.de/7th-esclh/

ESCLH CONFERENCE: Registration open + PhD Workshop applications welcome until 15 FEB 2023

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Complementary to the divulgation of the provisional programme, the Organisation Committee of the 7th Biennial Conference of the ESCLH announce that:

(1) The registration has now opened. All are of course invited to attend the conference (it is not mandatory to be a presenter).

(2) Applications for the PhD-workshop are open as well (deadline 15 February 2023).

More information on the conference website.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME: 7th ESCLH Biennial Conference (Augsburg: Universität Augsburg, 21-23 JUNE 2023)

 

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The Chair of Prof. Phillip Helwege has announced the provisional programme for the Seventh Biennial Conference of the European Society for Comparative Legal History, which will be held in Augsburg (21-23 June 2023, see call earlier on our blog). 

The Organizing Committee is pleased to publish the provisional conference programme. Please click the link below to download the programme. The conference will be preceded by a PhD workshop (see below). The programme includes 36 panels with 112 presentation delivered by 120 scholars from around the world as well as two keynote speeches, the one delivered by Prof. Dr. Rebecca Scott of Michigan Law School and the other delivered by Prof. Dr. Kentaro Matsubara of Tokyo University. The programme will be updated on a regular basis.

The full set of 36 panels can be consulted here. 

We have an exciting line of  papers being presented, and all are welcome to take part in the  discussion. Everyone who has applied to  present a paper at the conference should have received an email in  December 2022, accepted or declining the paper.

REMINDER CFP: The European Society for Comparative Legal History's Seventh Biennial Conference (Augsburg: University of Augsburg, 21 – 23 JUN 2023); DEADLINE 15 NOV 2022

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The Organising Committee and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming Society’s Seventh Biennial Conference to be held from 21 to 23 June 2023 at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

A conference in 2023 will be a change to our normal timing. We began in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdańsk (2016), Paris (2018), and most recently, after a delay caused by Covid, we enjoyed the event in Lisboa (2022). However, not only does that mean we did not have a conference for four years. Covid has also moved some other large international conferences now to even-numbered years. To avoid collision with these other conferences, the ESCHL conferences would after 2023 continue at two-year intervals moving them to uneven-numbered years. The offer from Augsburg was made some years ago, but kindly deferred and the Executive Council is delighted to be able to take it up now.

For the Augsburg event in 2023, there is no general conference theme. Rather, the organisers hope that the sessions will reflect – in terms of covered topics, time periods, and regions – the full breadth of international research in comparative legal history. The Organising Committee does so in the believe that the Society’s Biennial Conference should foremost be a platform for researchers to present their most recent research in comparative legal. Papers should address and explore doctrinal, theoretical, cultural, or methodological aspects of comparative legal history. Papers should also be comparative, covering at least two legal systems, as well as historical.

To offer a paper, please send an abstract of up to 400 words by 15 November 2022. Papers, and abstracts, should be in English. The abstract should give the title of your paper and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 4 pages). Everyone, at whatever stage in their research career can offer a paper. The application should be sent to: phillip.hellwege@jura.uni-augsburg.de. Abstracts will be assessed against: (1) the aim to have a diverse conference; (2) the novelty of the work; (3) the evidence of scholarly rigour and promise of a fully researched and referenced paper; (4) in order to allow as many people as possible to speak at the conference, a person may normally offer only one paper.

It is also possible to submit a proposal for a complete panel. Panels normally consist of three papers. A panel proposal should – in addition to the abstracts and CVs of those who wish to present a paper in that panel – include an abstract for the entire panel as well as a CV of the panel organizer.

Applicants will be informed by 15 December 2022 whether their paper has been accepted. The conference programme will be published on 31 December 2022 on the conference website:

https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/jura/lehrende/hellwege/seventh_esclh_conference_2023/

(image: Augsburg, in Swabenland, aan de Leck, boven den Donau; behoorende onder het Duitsche rÿk; Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk, 1700; source: Europeana/Central Library of Florence)

The conference website will also contain information on the attendance fee for those who are not members of the ESCLH, on transport to and from Augsburg, on accommodation in Augsburg. Finally, the conference website will allow, starting 15 December 2022, registration for the conference.

Finally, the conference will be preceded by an additional PhD-workshop on 21 June 2023. Further information about the workshop will also be published on 15 December 2022.

REMINDER CFP: The European Society for Comparative Legal History's Seventh Biennial Conference (Augsburg: University of Augsburg, 21 – 23 JUN 2023); DEADLINE 15 NOV 2022

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The Organising Committee and the Executive Council of the European Society for Comparative Legal History are pleased to call for papers for the upcoming Society’s Seventh Biennial Conference to be held from 21 to 23 June 2023 at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

A conference in 2023 will be a change to our normal timing. We began in Valencia (2010), followed by Amsterdam (2012), Macerata (2014), Gdańsk (2016), Paris (2018), and most recently, after a delay caused by Covid, we enjoyed the event in Lisboa (2022). However, not only does that mean we did not have a conference for four years. Covid has also moved some other large international conferences now to even-numbered years. To avoid collision with these other conferences, the ESCHL conferences would after 2023 continue at two-year intervals moving them to uneven-numbered years. The offer from Augsburg was made some years ago, but kindly deferred and the Executive Council is delighted to be able to take it up now.

For the Augsburg event in 2023, there is no general conference theme. Rather, the organisers hope that the sessions will reflect – in terms of covered topics, time periods, and regions – the full breadth of international research in comparative legal history. The Organising Committee does so in the believe that the Society’s Biennial Conference should foremost be a platform for researchers to present their most recent research in comparative legal. Papers should address and explore doctrinal, theoretical, cultural, or methodological aspects of comparative legal history. Papers should also be comparative, covering at least two legal systems, as well as historical.

To offer a paper, please send an abstract of up to 400 words by 15 November 2022. Papers, and abstracts, should be in English. The abstract should give the title of your paper and your personal data (full name, email address, work affiliation). Please also send a short CV (no more than 4 pages). Everyone, at whatever stage in their research career can offer a paper. The application should be sent to: phillip.hellwege@jura.uni-augsburg.de. Abstracts will be assessed against: (1) the aim to have a diverse conference; (2) the novelty of the work; (3) the evidence of scholarly rigour and promise of a fully researched and referenced paper; (4) in order to allow as many people as possible to speak at the conference, a person may normally offer only one paper.

It is also possible to submit a proposal for a complete panel. Panels normally consist of three papers. A panel proposal should – in addition to the abstracts and CVs of those who wish to present a paper in that panel – include an abstract for the entire panel as well as a CV of the panel organizer.

Applicants will be informed by 15 December 2022 whether their paper has been accepted. The conference programme will be published on 31 December 2022 on the conference website:

https://www.uni-augsburg.de/de/fakultaet/jura/lehrende/hellwege/seventh_esclh_conference_2023/

(image: Augsburg, in Swabenland, aan de Leck, boven den Donau; behoorende onder het Duitsche rÿk; Amsterdam: Pieter Schenk, 1700; source: Europeana/Central Library of Florence)

The conference website will also contain information on the attendance fee for those who are not members of the ESCLH, on transport to and from Augsburg, on accommodation in Augsburg. Finally, the conference website will allow, starting 15 December 2022, registration for the conference.

Finally, the conference will be preceded by an additional PhD-workshop on 21 June 2023. Further information about the workshop will also be published on 15 December 2022.