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07 July 2026

SYMPOSIUM: Privacy before Privacy Law: Law and Humanities in Dialogue for a Digital Age (Copenhagen: Faculty of Theology/Centre for Privacy Studies, 25-26 JUN 2026)

 


A symposium was held at Copenhagen University on 25 and 26 June. 

Day 1: Thursday 25th June

Location: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Karen Blixens Plads, 16, 2300 København S, Room: 6B.1.62

8.30 – 9.00

REGISTRATION AND WELCOME COFFEE

Centre for Privacy Studies

 

9.00 – 9.30

OPENING REMARKS

 

Introducing the Centre for Privacy Studies

Mette Birkedal Bruun, University of Copenhagen

 

Introducing the Symposium 

Paolo Astorri & Patrick O’Callaghan

 

9.30 – 11.00

SESSION I — PRIVACY IN MEDIEVAL AND REINASSANCE IMAGINATIONS

Chair: Bastian Felter Vaucanson, University of Copenhagen

Privacy as a Condition of Cognitive Liberty in Petrarch’s Writings  

Patrick O’Callaghan, University College Cork

The Private Autonomous Mind: Female Strategies of Inward Agency in Shakespeare’s Roman tale The Rape of Lucrece

Anni Haahr Henriksen, Kaberghus, Copenhagen

The Violation of Privacy in Renaissance Texts: A Prefiguration of Modern Challenges

Daniela Carpi, University of Verona (Online))

 

 

Coffee Break

11.00 – 11.15

 

11.15 -12.30

SESSION II — PRIVACY AND THE REFORMATIONS

Chair: Søren Frank Jensen, University of Copenhagen

 

The Space of Interiority and its Regulation in Thomas Bartholin’s Orationes

Lars Cyril Nørgaard, University of Copenhagen

Privacy in Anglo-American Law: From the Reformation to the Enlightenment

Peter Winn, University of Washington

 

 

Lunch

12.30 – 13.30

 

13.30 – 14.45

SESSION III — PRIVACY BETWEEN JURISDICTION AND CORRESPONDANCE

Chair: Ulrike Müssig, University of Passau

 

Arcana and Curiositas: Ahasver Fritsch and the Boundaries of Knowledge in Early Modern Germany

Paolo Astorri, University of Copenhagen

‘His Dearest Property’: Private Papers and Secrets in 18th Century Common Law

TT Arvind, University of York

 

 

Coffee Break

14.45 – 15.15

 

15.15 -16.00

 

08.15-09.00

(CDT)

SESSION IV — TEMPORAL CROSSINGS: PRIVACY IN TRANSITION

Chair: Johannes Ljungberg, University of Linköping

Lockean Liberalism, Religious Liberty, and the Foundations of Intellectual Privacy

Marc J. Blitz, Oklahoma City University (Online)

 

 

16.00 -16.45

CONCLUDING DAY 1

Group Discussion

 

 

Wine Reception

Centre for Privacy Studies

17.00 – 18.00

Day 2: 26th June

Location: Centre for Privacy Studies, University of Copenhagen, South Campus, Karen Blixens Plads, 16, 2300 København S, Room: 6B.1.62

8.30 – 9.00

ARRIVALS AND WELCOME COFFEE

 

09.00 – 10.15

SESSION V — PRIVACY AND THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY IMAGINATION

Chair: Lars Cyril Nørgaard, University of Copenhagen

 

Privacy Spaces in Dutch Nineteenth-Century Society: From Sara Burgerhart to Major Frans

Bert-Jaap Koops, Tilburg University

 

Reserve and Revelation: Modern Conceptions of Privacy in the Novels of Jane Austen

Róisín á Costello, Trinity College Dublin

 

 

Coffee Break

10.15 – 10.45

 

10.45 – 12.00

SESSION VI: PRIVACY, PERSONALITY, AND MODERN LAW

Chair: Patrick O’ Callaghan, University College Cork

The Rise of the Right to Private Life: Between Civil Liability and Droit D’Auteur

Giovanni Chiodi, University of Milan Bicocca (Online)

 

Dignity Reconsidered: An Analysis of its Inviolability’s Instrumentalization Ulrike Müssig, University of Passau

 

 

Lunch

12.00 – 13.0

 

13.00 – 15.45

SESSION VII: TAKING STOCK

Chair: Natalie P. Koerner, University of Copenhagen

 

Privacy and Utopian Thinking

Bart Van Der Sloot, Tilburg University

Privacy Between Past and Present

Tamar Herzog, Harvard University

General Discussion

Moderated By Paolo Astorri & Patrick O’Callaghan

 

 

Guided Excursion

Regensen Kollegium and Trinitatis Kirke

Store Kannikestræde, 2 Copenhagen

16.00 17.30

For more information, contact dr. Paolo Astorri.

17 June 2026

SYMPOSIUM: Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective (Youtube, crimlrev.net, 24 JUN 2026)

(iamge source: MCRL)


Join us for an international workshop featuring contributors to our forthcoming Modern Criminal Law Review Special Issue on “Ancient Criminal Law: A Global Perspective,” guest edited by Clifford Ando (University of Chicago).

Participants include:

  • Clifford Ando, University of Chicago (moderator)
  • Beth Berkowitz, Columbia University
  • Ari Bryen, Vanderbilt University
  • Ernest Caldwell, St. Mary’s, London
  • Benjamin Gallant, Harvard University
  • Adriaan Lanni, Harvard University
  • Mark Letteney, University of Washington
  • Seth Richardson, University of Chicago
  • Andrew Wolpert, University of Florida

June 24, 2026 @ 12pm (ET)

► To join us for this free online event, please register here. Registration is encouraged, but not required; if you prefer to join the event directly, head over to the MCLR+ YouTube channel at the time of the event (please note the time zone). All attendees will have the opportunity to post questions and comments via YouTube live chat.

► To stay informed about upcoming MCLR+ events, publications, and projects, please sign up for the MCLR+ mailing list and check the MCLR+ website; to receive notifications about upcoming livestreams, subscribe to our YouTube channel.


(source: Legal History Blog)

23 February 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: Forum on International Legal History & Philosophy (Patna: Chanakya National University, 15 APR 2026) [DEADLINE 15 MAR 2026]

(image source: Legal History Blog)


Description:

This Call for ideas (in the form of detailed abstracts) invites scholars working in International Law, Constitutional Law, and Legal Philosophy, whether individually or through interdisciplinary approaches. The contours of the forum are outlined below in two overlapping and porous themes.


Aims
.  We intend to stimulate discourse on international legal history and theory employing regional and archival lens. We expect a rough sketch of your clearly formulated idea to make such stimulations. We aim to discuss the vitality of your research ideas for them to be transformed into future research (beyond this forum). 

Thematic Background: Legal History
.  The word 'civilization' has re-entered academic discourse, only this time it is the East which is assertive of it. India is asserting its civilizational heritage by calling itself the 'mother of democracy'. However, the evidence of it (for example, Sangha) points more towards democratic values, like public participation, than a political system of democracy. Alongside this civilizational assertion is a renewed emphasis on "decolonizing" India, including in the field of law, though both the efficacy of these efforts and the normative framework of "decolonization" itself remain contested. While these debates have gained traction in International Relations (see the March 2023 issue of International Affairs on "India as a 'civilizational state'"), their implications for international law, legal history, and legal philosophy remain underexplored.

This Call invites scholars of international law, legal history, and legal philosophy to intervene in this debate through a focused regional and archival lens. While earlier works, such as C. H. Alexandrowicz's discussion of the Mandala system situating Kautilya within the Law of Nations (1965), have addressed cognate themes, this project concentrates specifically on Bihar and Uttar Pradesh, including their pre-modern formations. Thus, Pataliputra, Azimabad, and Patna, while essentially the same site, retain their individuality and continuity across time and space. Contributions on neglected princely states and provinces such as Arah, Awadh, Benaras, Baksar, Betiyah, Champaran, Darbhanga, Sasaram, Sagauli, among others, are especially welcome. 

Many of these entities were classified as "Zemindari estates" rather than "Princely states." Colonial Bihar thus reveals how international law sustained empire not by outright denial of sovereignty, but by withholding international legal personality from polities that governed in every meaningful sense. The contemporary relevance of these discriminatory practices persists, as illustrated by the 1st and the 26th Amendment to the Indian Constitution, land reform Act of Bihar and U.P. 1950, State of Bihar v Radha Krishna Singh & Ors (1983) and The Vesting of Bettiah Raj Properties Act, 2024.

The Call also encourages works on figures such as Veer Kunwar Singh and Begum Hazrat Mahal, particularly research drawing on archives from the National Archives of India, Uttar Pradesh State Archives, and the Khuda Baksh Oriental Library (Patna). Finally, it seeks renewed readings of colonial constitutional instruments, such as the Pitt's India Act (1784) and the Government of India Act (1833), and the constitution-like document drafted during the early days of the 1857 revolt.

The Call, therefore, asks: How does colonial legal invisibility structure postcolonial international law? What legal techniques differentiated Zemindari estates and Princely states? How do colonial legal categories shape postcolonial constitutional disputes? What do colonial legislations tell us about the constitutional origins of international law? How did British colonial rule transform indigenous sovereignty into quasi-sovereign authority without formal annexation (of places like Betiyah-Raj and Darbhanga-Raj)? 
           
Thematic Background: Indian Legal Philosophy.  A related interest of this call is Indian (legal) philosophy. While no Indian philosophical school explicitly identifies itself as "legal", the Nyaya tradition, through its sustained engagement with Pramana, Prameya, Tarka, Nirnaya, Sabda, Artha etc., offers a systematic framework grounded in logic and epistemology.

This project is interested in works exploring the connections between the Nyaya school and decolonization and retains the regional focus. Gotama (or Aksapada Gautama) who composed Nyaya Sutras, Panini (composer of Astadhyayi), Gangesa (pioneer of Navya-Nyaya branch), Udayanacarya (defended Nyaya school against Buddhist critiques), Vachaspati Misra (Critique of Nyaya school), Kautilya (whose thoughts on Anviksiki was used by Gotama for Nyaya school) were all either based in the Bihar region or wrote their works here. 

We, therefore, encourage scholars to explore the fields of Nyaya, Vaisesika, Navya- Nyaya (through works of Gangesa), and of Panini's Astadhyay1. While Panini tells us how reasoning works Nyaya explains why reasoning works. Scholars working exclusively in the field of philosophy, and those working on legal philosophy are welcome to respond to this call.





Practical:


Participation details.  If your research aligns with either of these themes or questions, we invite you to participate in this Forum, as:


1.    Presenters.  If you would like to present your research, you are requested to submit a 500-word abstract, clearly setting out

  • the central theme(s) of your research, 
  • your core research question(s),  
  • three to five literatures you are engaging with,
  • your name, position and affiliation. 

We will select abstracts based upon the novelty, strength and coherence. The selected participants will then be required to submit a preliminary draft of not more than 1500 words one week before the Forum, i.e. on 8th April 2026 for thorough academic engagement with your research. Participants will have ten minutes to present their work at the forum. 

There will be no sections or panels at the forum. Each participant will be expected to attend all the presentations. This is aimed at breaking departmental barriers and fostering interdisciplinary engagements from which both lawyers, historians and philosophers can gain.

2.    Engaged Listeners.  Scholars from the field of law, history and philosophy (including teachers, PhD Scholars) and students (including graduate and post graduate students) who are interested in understanding and potentially developing future work on these themes with us are invited to join the forum as Engaged Listeners. Engaged listeners will have access to all presentations at the forum and will have chance to interact with the presenters within and outside the forum, providing an opportunity to refine their research interests and to contribute to the project in the future.

For participating as engaged listeners, individuals are requested to submit a 200-word statement outlining their reasons and motivations for participating, and their primary areas of interest (identifying two to three such areas), and their name, position and affiliation. 

Presenters and Engaged Listeners should send their abstracts to ilhilpf@gmail.com.

Date and Venue.  10 AM to 5 PM, 15 April 2026 at Chanakya National Law University, Patna, Bihar, India.

Key dates:
15 March 2026.  Submission of abstracts (by presenters) & interests (by engaged listeners)   
25 March 2026   Communication of selection (for presenters & listeners)   
5 April 2026       Registration   
8 April 2026       Research outline submission (by presenters)  
 

Registration details:  
For presenters:

  • For undergraduate, postgraduate students and PhD scholars: Rs. 500/- 
  • For teachers and practitioners: Rs. 1000/- 

There is no participation fee for the engaged listeners.

The Project is being led by Aman Kumar, PhD Candidate at the Australian National University, Canberra. The Forum is convened by Dr Swati Singh Parmar (DNLU, Jabalpur) and Dr Aditya Roy (CNLU, Patna).

(source: Legal History Blog

19 February 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: Crossing Intellectual Boundaries in English Legal History (Oxford: Christ Church, 10-11 SEP 2026) [DEADLINE 26 MAR 2026]

 

(image: Sir Francis Bason; Source: Wikimedia Commons)

A workshop in English Legal History will take place in Christ Church, Oxford on 10 and 11 September 2026. The organisers, Ciara Kennefick and Ian Williams, invite proposals for papers which address in whole or in part the theme of Crossing Intellectual Boundaries in English Legal History. The organisers aim to advance the interdisciplinary study of English legal history by exploring this theme in detail with colleagues in law and those from other disciplines who study the impact of other learning on English law.

English law has been marked by the reception or rejection of different bodies of learning in different periods, as lawyers and judges moved beyond their core legal learning or resisted the influence of ideas and techniques from other fields. These intellectual boundaries could be legal, such as between the common law, the civil law and equity. But English law has also engaged with learning beyond law; medicine, theology, economics and mathematics are just four examples. What were the reasons for these engagements with other learning? What were the consequences? Was English law more open to other learning in certain periods and if so, why was that the case?

Proposals for papers should be no more than 400 words and should be sent to ciara.kennefick@law.ox.ac.uk and ian.williams@law.ox.ac.uk by 5pm on 23 March 2026. The aim is to assign a commentator to each paper. Full papers will therefore be due by 5pm on 28 August 2026. Colleagues who are interested in attending the workshop in the capacity of commentator only are invited to write to this effect to Ciara Kennefick and Ian Williams by 5pm on 23 March 2026. The authors of the papers which are selected will be offered accommodation in Oxford on 10 and 11 September. Funding to support the travel of graduate students within the UK is available.

Depending on the extent to which the papers selected cohere with each other, it may be possible to produce an edited volume or a special edition of a journal. Participants are welcome to submit proposals for papers which they intend to publish elsewhere.

13 February 2026

CALL FOR PAPERS: The Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums (DEADLINE 28 FEB, 31 MAR, 30 APR 2026)


(image source: Four Nations Law)

 We are excited to announce the calls for papers for Four Nations Law and the Humanities Forums 2026!

Located around the country during 2026, the forums will provide an important space to develop research excellence at the intersections of law and the humanities, and foster intellectual community, supporting early-career scholars. Hosted at the University of Glasgow, Queen’s University Belfast, University of Warwick, and Cardiff University, these workshops are a series held across the four UK nations, in collaboration with the Law and the Humanities Hub (LHub) at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies.

The forums will workshop ECRs’ work in progress and offer a rigorous context addressing the nature of interdisciplinary research in law and the humanities and its paths of development.

Criteria for Selection

Contributions developed by early-career scholars will be selected based on their:

  • Demonstration of excellence in scholarship and practice. Proposed participation may be written papers or creative work (in visual, sonic, film, etc. form), at any intersection within Law and the Humanities, including research that connects law with history, philosophy, literature, art, performance, linguistics, cultural and media studies, creative practice, and other humanistically-informed fields and methods.
     
  • Eligibility: The forums are open to individuals currently pursuing a PhD or DPhil, or who are within seven years of having completed their PhD, with due accommodation for career breaks, who are actively carrying out research in Law and the Humanities.

Forums Dates

The dates of the workshops are as follows:

  • 21st May - University of Glasgow
  • 25th June - Queen’s University Belfast
  • 2nd  July - Cardiff University
  • 17th July - University of Warwick 

The workshops will bring law and humanities scholarship to wider audiences through the engagement of legal scholars as well as humanities scholars, ensuring that the research is not confined to law or the humanities.

Forums Format

A limited number of works in progress will be selected for each forum. Each forum will be based on pre-reading of all papers and works by all attendees, and will include:

  • A friendly opening session;
     
  • Workshop sessions of 45 minutes dedicated to the submitted papers/works. Each session will include an invited senior commentator and an open discussion addressing subject matter, method, interdisciplinarity, and creativity. The authors/creators will not be expected to present.  The discussion will include all participants in conversational style (not as a Q&A).

The scholarship, creative practice, and networking will be fostered and supported through the participating institutions and LHub, via the Four Nations website, a concluding online plenary, and associated networks such as Legal Humanities Association and the Art/Law Network.

Submissions

Please submit a CV; statement of interest in the forum, including an explanation of your eligibility (up to 250 words); and a 500-1,200-word proposal for a paper, or in the case of an artwork submission, the work and a 300-word description. Please also indicate which location you wish to attend.  
If accepted, submission of the completed paper will be expected a month prior to the chosen workshop, and should be up to 6000 words, or the completed artwork if non-text.

Proposal Submission Deadlines

Dates for the submission are as below.  

  • 28th February - University of Glasgow
  • 31st March - Queen’s University Belfast
  • 30th April - Cardiff University and University of Warwick

NB: Location preferences may not always be possible.
Please send the above to Lucy.FinchettMaddock@gold.ac.uk and LHub@sas.ac.uk.

Completed Works Deadlines for Accepted Proposals

  • 21st May - University of Glasgow
  • 25th May - Queen’s University Belfast
  • 2nd June - Cardiff University
  • 17th June - University of Warwick

For further information, please do contact Lucy.FinchettMaddock@gold.ac.uk and LHub@sas.ac.uk.

With thanks to funding from IALS LHub, Learned Society Wales, and University of Dundee, for their additional funding and support.

Read more here.

(source: Legal History Blog)