We are happy to inform you that in May 2023 the annual meeting of the Young Dutch Romanists -an event organised and coordinated by Dr. Daphne Penna, University of Groningen- will be held for the first time at the NIA. The event is organised by the Netherlands Institute in cooperation with the Legal History Department (University of Groningen) and with the Department of History and Theory of Law (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens).

Every year, young researchers of the field of Legal History from all of the Universities in the Netherlands hold a two-day meeting (Jonge Romanisten dagen) in the form of a conference in order to present and discuss their topics.

The researchers who present papers are usually researchers who are writing their doctoral thesis or have recently defended their doctoral thesis. Aim of this meeting is to give the opportunity to young researchers from the same field to meet each other and share their research with their fellow researchers and to receive feedback from other colleagues who attend. Traditionally, on the first day the lectures are held and during the second day there is an excursion or visit to a museum. Every year this meeting takes place at a different University in the Netherlands, whereas two times it has taken place at the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome (KNIR).

During this year’s Meeting at the NIA, young Dutch Researchers from the Universities of Leiden, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Groningen and VU University Amsterdam will present their papers to Greek researchers and scholars who study ancient Greek laws, Roman and Byzantine law.

You can find the program of the meeting by clicking here.