Law and Legal History

In connection with the publication of History, Politics, Law: Thinking through the International (Cambridge University Press, 2021), the editors (Annabel Brett (Cambridge), Martti Koskenniemi (Helsinki) and

The deadline for receiving abstracts for the 'Timely Histories' Conference to be held at CSDS, New Delhi between 12th and 14th October 2022 is now extended till June 1, 2022.

The Zoryan Institute is thrilled to be hosting its first ever Genocide and Human Rights University Program (GHRUP) Alumni Virtual Panel Discussion on

CALL FOR PAPERS - Louis-Hippolyte La Fontaine (1808-1864): political and judicial struggles
Montreal, April 14, 2023
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This is the first of two symposia on the advent of responsible government and the birth of modern Canada (1841-1851), organized by the Foundation LaFontaine-Cormier and the Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History. A second symposium on Robert Baldwin (1804-1858), will be held in Toronto on May 5, 2023.

Event in German

May 10, 2022, 5-6 pm CEST

This discussion series, jointly organized by the German Society of East European Studies, the SFB/TRR 138 "Dynamics of Security" and the Association of East European Historians, aims to discuss conceptual issues of historical security studies against the background of the Russian war of aggression on Ukraine. Through this, an attempt will be made to interpret current events and the development of the conflict in a historicizing perspective.

Silence (tacere or Schweigen) has been considered by Franz Rosenzweig among others as a subversive act or defiant stance of the tragic hero against overwhelming power mechanisms of necessity, i.e., totalization and universality. It has also, however, been regarded as an epiphenomenon (or a result) of marginalization and oppression by postcolonial theorists. The latters’ understanding marks silence as an end, a potential violent effect of the logics of exclusion and marginalization by “signifying machines”.

The association The European Society for History of Law is the publisher of the Journal on European History of Law which is published 2x per year. It is assigned for law-historians and Romanists that want to share with their colleagues the results of their research in this field.

At the same time, reviews of books with historical themes are being published. You can also find there information about the happenings in the field of law-history.

The University Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is excited to announce a call for proposals for research fellows interested in using products from the project On the Books: Jim Crow and Algorithms of Resistance (OTB), which has created a textual data set of all NC Session laws between 1866-1967 and used machine learning to identify Jim Crow laws.