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Cambridge
The Refugee-Migrant Distinction: Toward a Global History
The aim of this international conference is to more fully elucidate the relational nature of the distinction between refugees and migrants, its function in the wider field of migration, and its genealogy. While chiefly historical in focus, the conference will also foster interdisciplinary approaches and reflections.
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Paris
We welcome submissions from historians who engage with any approach related to the use of flags at sea. Applications from Ph.D. candidates, postdoctoral students, and early career researchers are warmly encouraged.
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Madrid
Conference, symposium - Religion
The Juridical-Political Thought of Alfonso de Castro (1495-1558)
The Construction of Orthodoxy in the Age of the Reformation
Conference dedicated to Alfonso de Castro's heresiographical treatrise “Adversus omnes haereses” (1534, 1546, 1547, 1556), an important milestone in Catholic heresiography that emerged from the interconfesional controversy with Protestantism.
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Turin
This panel explores the interaction between legal norms, sovereignty formation, and geopolitical dynamics in nineteenth-century Latin America. During this period, new republics faced the simultaneous challenges of consolidating internal authority and projecting it outward in a rapidly shifting international environment. Legal norms—constitutional, civil, penal, administrative, and consular—became key instruments through which states defined their international position and negotiated their place within an emerging hemispheric order.
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Paris
Conference, symposium - History
Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750–2000)
This interdisciplinary conference invites graduate students and early career researchers to consider the genealogy of international law since 1750. It aims to identify new or unrecognised actors – including individuals, groups, and institutions as well as non-human agents – and their contributions to the practices, interpretations, and applications of international law. How did they establish or challenge norms, customs, and institutions? How were their practices, actions, and ideas shaped into law? The event aims to historicise the making of international law by bringing together junior scholars of history and law and to provide a forum for the exploration of new ideas and alternative perspectives, combining and building upon historical and social scientific approaches.
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Call for papers - Political studies
Constitutionalism Under Scrutiny: New Critical Voices
Workshop at the University of Oxford, Spring 2026
We invite scholars to contribute to a Special Issue or Symposium aimed at a top-ranking journal on the topic of opposition to constitutionalism. Constitutionalism is a global phenomenon, yet our understanding of its opposition outside North America is limited. Who if anyone is mobilising against it, and on what grounds? And is it confined to legal and academic circles? Is the opposition unified or fragmented? What precisely is contested, how (e.g. through legal mobilization, advocacy), and to what end and with what impact? We seek contributors who can innovate the theory and empirics of these consequential issues. Of special interest are contributions on opposition to constitutionalism in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Russia, as well as in Europe and the USA.
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Paris 05 Panthéon
This two-day conference will bring public and private international lawyers together with political and legal philosophers to discuss the complex issues raised by property in outer space, including its relations to the notions of territory, jurisdiction and sovereignty, but also the international legal status of scientific research, data and samples.
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Naples
Violence and Empire. From the Early 1800s to the End of the Great War
From the early 1800s, the formation, consolidation, and maintenance of empires were increasingly bound to new logics of state power, technological advancements, and legal rationalisation and justification. Despite narratives of civilising missions and administrative modernisation, violence remained a central practice of imperial rule, both as an instrument of conquest and a mechanism for governing already established colonial regimes. This conference invites historians and scholars of related disciplines to consider the various ways in which violence operated within imperial systems, how it was implemented, codified and justified legally and culturally, along with its contemporary perception in the imperial metropolis and its remembrance and subsequent legacies that continuously remain influential until the present day.
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Paris
Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750–2000)
This interdisciplinary conference invites graduate students and early career researchers to consider the genealogy of international law since 1750. It aims to identify new or unrecognised actors – including individuals, groups, and institutions as well as non-human agents – and their contributions to the practices, interpretations, and applications of international law. How did they establish or challenge norms, customs, and institutions? How were their practices, actions, and ideas shaped into law? The event aims to historicise the making of international law by bringing together junior scholars of history and law and to provide a forum for the exploration of new ideas and alternative perspectives, combining and building upon historical and social scientific approaches.
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Vilnius
Imperial experiences in family violence: crimes and criminology in 19th–20th centuries
The University of Helsinki and the Lithuanian Institute of History are pleased to announce the international conference "Imperial Experiences in Family Violence: Crimes and Criminology in 19th–20th centuries." The event will take place at the Martynas Mažvydas National Library’s which serves as a partner in hosting the conference. This gathering aims to examine the historical dimensions of family violence within imperial contexts.By exploring legal practices, social perceptions, and criminological approaches across different empires, the conference seeks to analyze how state policies, legal transformations, and cultural norms shaped responses to violence in the family. Bringing together scholars from diverse disciplines, the event fosters a comparative discussion on the intersection of law, crime, history, and family dynamics in imperial settings.
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Frankfurt
The Mixed Courts of Egypt, 1876-1949
Between imperial internationalism and shared legal knowledge
How did the Mixed Courts of Egypt impact legal knowledge and societies on both sides of the Mediterranean? 150 years after these once highly influential institutions heard their first cases, the Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory will dedicate a workshop to this question.
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Lisbon
Crime, Surveillance and Mobilities in the Atlantic, 19th and 20th centuries
As part of the project International collaborations: crime and police cooperation in the Ibero-American Atlantic, 1870-1940, financed by the of the Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation of Portugal and hosted by CIES-Iscte, this international meeting aims to bring together researchers working in the study of criminal behaviours of a transnational nature, transnational mobilities and the development of forms of international and transnational political and cross-border surveillance, involving the Atlantic and connecting Europe, the Americas and Africa, during the 19th and 20th centuries. This congress aims to contribute to the expansion and deepening of the historiographical debate surrounding the transnational movement of people and the surveillance of international crime in the Atlantic axis.
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Frankfurt
Conference, symposium - History
Normative Knowledge and the Emergence of New Spain
The participants in the Conference Normative Knowledge and the Emergence of New Spain will explore the important role that normative knowledge (in particular, law, theology and philology, closely interconnected) played in a long and delicate process of creating institutions and normativities.
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Naples
Among Empires. Transimperial circulation of political models and scientific knowledge
The case of four “latecomers” (Germany, Italy, Belgium and Japan), 1880s-1940s
We seek original contributions that, through the lens of the politics of comparison, focus on four “latecomer empires,” namely Germany, Italy, Belgium, and Japan that started their colonial expansion at the end of the nineteenth century. In these countries and their colonies and protectorates, heated debates took place around the search for (historical or current foreign) models, and politicians, activists, and intellectuals often demanded the transimperial circulation of colonial knowledge, be it legal, political, or scientific. In particular, we are interested in two distinct yet bordering fields: models of colonial policies from a global perspective and transimperial circulation of colonial knowledge in scientific fields such as medicine, agronomy, anthropology, legal culture, etc.
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Aubervilliers
Extreme right and democracy in Europe after the Second World War
Coexistences, contrasts, contradictions
It seems urgent to reflect on how democracies have responded to the presence of extreme right-wing movements, both in terms of political practices and rhetoric. Have democracies actively opposed the extreme right, or have they opted for strategies of containment and coexistence? Equally important is to examine the perspective of the extreme right: how has it interpreted and narrated the (supposed) coexistence with the democratic system? How has it dealt with the legacy of fascism and to what extent has it adapted to the culture of democracy?
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Madrid
We invite submissions to the second conference of the HIRECOM Project, “Meeting Business Commitments and Obligations: Practices, Networks, and Institutions”. The Conference will take place from July 9th to 11th, 2025, both in-person and online at Casa de Velázquez (Madrid). This Second Conference will address the diversity of institutions and normative structures, both legally sanctioned and culturally accepted, that enabled, encouraged, or reinforced the meeting of economic obligations undertaken by social actors through exchanges.
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Oran
“Journal of Law, Society, and Authority” - varia
Volume 14, Issue 1 (March 2025)
The Journal of Law, Society, and Authority is calling for papers for its upcoming Volume 14, Issue 1, to be published in March 2025. We welcome research articles and theoretical essays in law, political science, and international relations.
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Bayreuth
Symposium on Intellectual History and Legal History (INTELLEX)
The conference aims to gather scholars working on legal history or other aspects related to the teaching of legal disciplines in a historical context in order to contribute to an intellectual history of this discipline. Although the conference focuses on identifying the intellectual contexts in which legal history developed, social aspects are also considered, since ideas do not exist independently of people. The social aspects could be, for instance, teachers and students at universities, royal academies, or other institutions disseminating knowledge.
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“Journal of Legal and Social Sciences” - Varia
Volume 9 Issue 4 (2024)
The Journal of Legal and Social Sciences is a scientific, international, refereed journal. It is published by University of Djelfa, Algeria. It is affiliated to the Faculty of Law and Political Science. It is a periodical, quarterly review published every three months and free of charge.
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Paris
Miscellaneous information - Law
Artistic Censorship and the Creation of Israel (1948-1967)
This article discusses the artistic censorship of German and Germany in Israel between 1948-1967. During these years, with various fluctuations, the Israeli Film and Theatre Review Board, the agency in charge of artistic censorship, actively censored films, plays and concerts in German. Relying on previously undiscussed archival data, the article tracks the contours of this censorship, from its adoption upon the establishment of the state, to its eventual demise after full diplomatic relations were established between Israel and West Germany.
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