Originally, a number of French and German historians and legal scholars merely planned to meet in Berlin at the Centre Marc Bloch to speak - both in French and in German - about the interdisciplinary challenges that have been emerging with regard to historians working on the history of law or, legal history. Eventually, the dimensions of the envisioned meeting widened as PhD-students and fellows working at the Centre and at other institutions expressed their interest in the topic. Step by step, he initial scope was extended to grow into a full day's workshop on June 24th, 2003, attracting some twenty-five scholars of history, law and the history of art to Berlin's Schiffbauer Damm, where the Centre Marc Bloch is situated. The workshop, organized by Anne-Sophie Beau, Isabelle Deflers, Thomas Horstmann, Guillaume Mouralis and Petra Overath, convened under the title: “History and Law: a mutual approach. Assessing the Dialogue between the History of Law and the Historical Sciences”.