Association of Young Legal Historians

The Association of Young Legal Historians (AYLH) is an academic organization. It organises the annual conference "Forum of Young Legal Historians", and publishes the "Yearbook of Young Legal History".[1] The "Association of Young Legal Historians" emerged from the "Forum of Young European Legal Historians", which met for the first time in Frankfurt in 1992.

History

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The "European Forum of Young Legal Historians" had grown into the leading conference for up-and-coming legal historians. Its origins were two international meetings in Frankfurt am Main in the early 1990s. It was Michael Stolleis who, with the funds of the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, invited young legal historians from East and West to a first meeting in Frankfurt in 1992 at the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History. His intention was to bring the discipline together in the wake of the fall of the Berlin Wall. The initiative soon became an institution: the so-called "Forum junger Rechtshistoriker", which met for the first time in Halle in 1995, took place in Berlin in 1996 and called itself the "Europäisches Forum junger Rechtshistorikerinnen und Rechtshistoriker" in Graz in 1997.[2] The 1999 Zürich meeting marked the break-through towards a truly European event. More than a hundred participants from Europe and beyond came together to attend presentations in the German, English, French and Italian languages. Since then, young researchers from countries which had not been reached before visited the conference in increasing numbers.[3] Again a few years later, the addition "Europäisches" was dropped. In the meantime the Forum has become a meeting place for young legal historians from all over the world.[4]

The notion of "young" legal historians is understood in a broad sense. The "Forum of Young Legal Historians" is primarily designed to give all those a chance to present the results of their studies who would not otherwise have the opportunity to do so. As the academic hierarchies tend to affect the free expression of younger researchers, professors holding a chair in legal history are, as a general rule, excluded from participation to the conference. Similarly, professors and organisations who wish to support the objectives of the society may not vote in the general assembly of the AYLH.

Another special feature of the AYLH is the avoiding of any competing for positions within the association. The executive committee simply consists of the organizers of the last, and the next Fora.

Annual fora

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Year Conference Location Theme
2023 27th FYHL Sarajevo "Meeting of Legal Cultures"
2022 26th FYHL Istanbul "Liability and Responsibility in Legal History"
2019 25th FYHL Brussels "Identity, Citizenship and Legal History"
2018 24th FYHL Warsaw "Norms and Legal Practice: There and Back again"
2017 23rd FYHL Naples "History of law and other humanities: views of the legal culture across the time"
2016 22nd FYHL Belgrade "History of Legal Sources: The Changing Structure of Law"
2015 21st FYHL Tel-Aviv "Law in transition"
2014 20th FYHL Cambridge "Common Laws"
2013 19th FYHL Lille-Ghent "(Wo)men in Legal History"
2012 18th FYHL Vienna "Making things legal"
2011 17th FYHL Maastricht "European Traditions: Integration or Disintegration?"
2010 16th FYHL Frankfurt "Law on Stage"
2009 15th FYHL Florence "Inter-, Trans-, Supra-? Legal Relations and Power Structures in History"
2008 14th FYHL Pécs "Turning Points and Breaklines"
2007 13th FYHL Seville "Crossing Legal Cultures"
2006 12th FYHL Frankfurt "Remembering and Forgetting"
2005 11th FYHL Lucerne "Legal Transfer in History"
2004 10th FYHL Warsaw "The European Legal Community: Between Tradition and Perspectives"
2003 9th FYHL Budapest "The New Europe and its Traditions"
2002 8th FYHL Osnabrück "Europe and its Regions"
2001 7th FYHL Vienna "Ad Fontes"
2000 6th FYHL Leipzig "Ius commune propriumque: Saxonia in the Mirror of the Law"
1999 5th FYHL Zurich "Legal (hi)stories?"
1998 4th FYHL Munich "Kontinuitäten und Zäsuren in der Europäischen Rechtsgeschichte"
1997 3rd FYHL Graz "Recht ohne Grenzen — Grenzen des Rechts"
1996 2nd FYHL Berlin
1995 1st FYHL Halle/Saale
1992 Frankfurt First meeting of young legal historians at the invitation of the Max Planck Institute for European Legal History.

References

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  1. ^ Tilmann J. Röder, Crossing Academic Cultures. Report to H.Law, 2007, "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2011-06-11. Retrieved 2008-09-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ Duve, Thomas (2021). "Editorial". Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History. 2021 (29): 007–008. doi:10.12946/rg29/007-008. ISSN 1619-4993. S2CID 244874744.
  3. ^ See, e.g., Kaius Tuori, Get a haircut and get a real job! In: Rechtsgeschichte (Rg) 9 (2006), p. 228
  4. ^ Rycke, Wouter De; Jottrand, Maxime; Landmeters, Romain; Plasschaert, Stephanie; Veld, Cornelis Marinus in ’t (2021). "25th Annual Forum of Young Legal Historians: Introduction". Rechtsgeschichte - Legal History (in German). 2021 (29): 198–199. doi:10.12946/rg29/198-199. ISSN 1619-4993. S2CID 244887181.
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