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Call for Positions on the Editorial Board Deadline: 15 January 2026 The European Society for Comparative Legal History (ESCLH) is seeking applications for positions on the editorial board of its flagship journal, Comparative Legal History, including at least an articles … Continue reading →

The call for papers for the British Legal History conference is now open, for submissions on the conference theme ‘Law and Governance’. Proposals are due by 15 September 2025. Further information can be found at:  https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/history-of-law-and-governance/british-legal-history-conference.aspx

The inaugural recipients of the Awards are as follows: Ian Duncanson In recognition of a significant and sustained contribution to knowledge of law’s history, particularly in the British Empire, as scholar and teacher, in founding the field in Australia with … Continue reading →

Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan on 31 July and 1 August, 2025 Doshisha University, with the support of the Centre for Comparative and Transnational Law’s Transnational Legal History Group at CUHK LAW and the Asian Legal History Association, is organizing … Continue reading →

You are invited to apply for the distinguished J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History.  This 13th biennial two-week program, devoted to supporting early-career legal historians, will take place June 15-27, 2025, at University of Wisconsin Law School in Madison, Wisconsin, … Continue reading →

The Australian and New Zealand Law and History Society is delighted to announce the winners of the Annual Prize in Legal History. In 2024, the prize has been awarded in two categories: best monograph, and best journal article or book … Continue reading →

Shaping International Law in Global Transformations: Australian Experiences, Western Sydney University, 27-28 February 2025. The conference organisers (Chris Michaelsen, Maddy Chiam, Jeremy Farrall and Jordy Silverstein) invite submissions that investigate, understand and evaluate how Australia and Australians have influenced, or failed … Continue reading →

The Politics of Royal Commissions in Australia Guest editors Margaret Hutchison, Joshua Black, Michelle Arrow Australia has held more than 140 royal commissions of inquiry since 1901, and 24 since 2000. As this figure might suggest, royal commissions have become … Continue reading →