About this Journal

Legal history is traditional in its methods and techniques of research. This is not necessarily a problem, but researchers applying digital tools to legal sources need a place to go. The Journal for Digital Legal History ("DLH") wants to showcase both new methods and the application thereof, by including elaborate graphics, datasets, links, Jupyter Notebooks, metadata and tutorials. As such, the DLH does not limit itself to traditional formats and offers a platform for innovative research, to reach out to colleagues interested in novel approaches and methodologies.

We have a continuous call for contributions, please head to the 'News' page for more information. In addition, for each issue, one or multiple specific calls for contributions will be sent out, also to be found under the 'News' page.

Volume 4 • Issue 1 • 2025 • Journal for Digital Legal History | 2025

Latest News Posts

Call for Contributions: The Trial and Errors of Grant Applications in Digital Legal History
Posted by Florenz Volkaert on 2024-04-29

Call for Contributions: The Trial and Errors of Grant Applications in Digital Legal HistoryWe are pleased to announce a special call for papers for an upcoming thematic section in the Journal for Digital Legal History. As part of our ongoing commitment to fostering innovation and interdisciplinary dialogue in the field of digital legal history, we invite scholars to submit their successful or [...]

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Call for Contributions - Dedicated Focus-section for Early Career Digital Legal Historians: Introducing and Experimenting with Novel Methodologies for the History of Law
Posted by Florenz Volkaert on 2024-04-29

Call for Contributions: Dedicated "Focus-section: Early Career Digital Legal Historians: Legal History Upside-Down: Novel Methodologies for the History of Law".  We are pleased to invite proposals from researchers and others working with digital legal history in the early stages of their careers for a special section of the Journal for Digital Legal History, which will be published in [...]

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2024 Call for Contributions
Posted by Florenz Volkaert on 2024-04-29

2024 Call for Contributions The Journal for Digital Legal History (DLH) is a diamond Open-Access, peer-reviewed international journal hosted by the Open UGent platform. For our second issue, which will be published in November 2024, we are pleased to invite contributions from researchers working on legal history with digital, empirical and computational approaches. The journal welcomes all [...]

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