Name: 8th Biennial Conference of the ESCLH: Back to the Past and Building the Future
Start: Wed Jul 02 2025 08:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
End: Fri Jul 04 2025 19:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Location: Tisza Lajos krt. 54

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. 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.
The lecturers are going to arrive to the conference from all over the world (32 countries), number of the participants with lectures will be around 150. The first day starts with a workshop for PhD students, invited speakers of this part of conference are Prof. Dr. Aniceto Masferrer from University of Valencia, former president of the ESCLH, Prof. Dr. Maciej Mikuła, head of Department of Church Law and the Law of Religious Denominations in Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Dr. Jan Halberda, associate professor in Jagiellonian University in Kraków and Dr. Agustin Parise, associate professor in Maastricht University, editor of the journal Comparative Legal History. The keynote speaker on 2 July is Prof. Dr. Ulrike Müßig, head of department at Department of Private Law, German and European Legal History in University of Passau, that will hold a lecture entitled The challenge of reading primary sources. Learning from humanist sociability alongside the network of Konrad Celtis. Prof. Dr. Stefan Vogenauer, director of Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory and head of Department of European and Comparative Legal History also accepted our invitation to hold keynote speech on the second day, the title of her lecture is Back to European legal past in building the future of Asian contract laws. The participants of the conference are going to present their researches grouped into 36 panels during the three days. The detailed conference programme will be available soon on the website of conference.

8th Biennial Conference of the ESCLH: Back to the Past and Building the Future

University of Szeged and the European Society for Comparative Legal History organise the 8th Biennial Conference between 2-4 July 2025 in Szeged.

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No registration fee and no participation in dinner organised for conference guests.

Registration Ticket for ESCLH Members without Dinner

ESCLH member ticket, including a dinner organised for conference participants.

Registration Ticket for ESCLH Members, including Dinner

Full participation in the the three-day conference, except for the conference participants' dinner.

Ticket for Non-members of the ESCLH without Dinner

Full participation in the the three-day conference, including the conference participants' dinner.