2026 RCSL Meeting will take place in Santiago de Chile, devoted to the theme The Democratic Rule of Law in World Society. Its official website, offering a comprehensive information about the event, has just been launched. Pay attention to this important deadline: 29 December 2025 for abstract as well as session submissions.
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Workshop on Legal Cultures and Legal Consciousness
RCSL Working Group on Comparative Legal Culture and RCSL Working Group on Knowledge and Opinion about Law – Legal Consciousness jointly organize a workshop on 8 December 2025 in Budapest, at Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law. Extended abstracts should be submitted by 15 September. For details, consult the Call for Papers to be presented at the Workshop on Legal Cultures and Legal Consciousness issued by the Organizers.
RCSL at the V ISA Forum of Sociology
From 6 to 11 July, RCSL holds its 2025 annual meeting in the form of a set of sessions organized within the framework of the V ISA Forum of Sociology, Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene. The full programme of these sessions is to be found on this website, as well as practical information about the rooms where the sessions take place. Also available on this website for download (2,4 MB): the RCSL Sessions Final Programme and Abstracts Book with index of participants. For additional information, see the V ISA Forum Section of the ISA Official Website, as well as the Official Forum Programme Website.
Hoping to see you in Rabat!
International Master in Sociology of Law – Last Pre-Enrolment Period
The 3rd and last pre-enrolment period for the International Master in Sociology of Law of the University of the Basque Country, organized at the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, is open from 2 to 4 July 2025. For details about the enrolment procedure, see the website of the University of the Basque Country. For details about the 2025-2026 Programme, see the website of the IISL, as well as the information published by the University of the Basque Country. For more information, do not hesitate to contact master@iisj.es.
5th ISA Forum of Sociology – RCSL Student Travel Grants
ISA has now published the complete official programme of the 5th ISA Forum of Sociology ( https://isaconf.confex.com/isaconf/forum2025/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0 ; also published on this site). This allows us all to settle our travel and accommodation arrangements.
As in other years, RCSL will support the travel costs of some of the students and post-docs participating in its sessions at Rabat. About four grants should be awarded depending on the effective travel costs to be funded.
Interested persons should send their application by next Friday 23 May 24:00 UTC.
Continue reading 5th ISA Forum of Sociology – RCSL Student Travel Grants2025 Podgórecki Prize – Call now open
2025 RCSL Podgórecki, to be awarded to a senior socio-legal scholar for distinguished and outstanding lifetime achievements, has just been opened and will close on 31 May 2025.
Continue reading 2025 Podgórecki Prize – Call now openCall for the IISL Scientific Directorship 2025-27
A call for the Scientific Directorship of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL), term September 2025-July 2027, renewable one time, has been issued. Applications should be submitted by 30 April 2025. Download here the complete text of the call. Please consider also the announcement issued by the Nominating Committee on 6 April, as well as the summary description of the IISL SD’s tasks.
Call also published on the official website of Ikerbasque – Basque Foundation for Science, as well as on the official IISL website.
March 2025: Two deadlines
Important reminder: presenters at the V ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat have to register until 22 March 2025. The complete time schedule of the RCSL Sessions has now been published on this site.
An additional information and an additional deadline: The call for pre-registration for the International Master in Sociology of Law of the University of the Basque Country, organized by the International Institute for the Sociology of Law, is open until 26 March 2025. For details about the enrolment procedure, see the website of the University of the Basque Country. For detail about the 2025-2026 Programme, see the website of the IISL.
For other new contents placed on this website, see page New on this Site (section About this Site).
Webinar on Access to Justice & Mediation, next 11 March 2025
RCSL invites you to its upcoming webinar on Access to Justice & Mediation, which takes place on 11 March 2025, 12.00-12.45 p.m. (CET).
Continue reading Webinar on Access to Justice & Mediation, next 11 March 2025IISL Call for Workshops 2026
The International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL) recently issued its annual Call for Workshops. Applications for workshops to be held from April 2026 to July 2026 should be submitted by next 28 February 2025. Detailed guidelines are available on the IISL official website (see Regulation for 2026 Workshops). We hope very much that IISL will receive many applications emanating from RCSL Working Groups. However, the call is open to all researchers or networks active in the socio-legal field. Interested people might have a glance at the IISL Workshops programme of recent years (for example years 2023 and 2024) or of the coming Workshop season 2025, also accessible on the IISL Website.
For other new contents placed on this website, see page New on this Site (section About this Site).
V ISA Forum Registration Grants – Call for Applications
Preparing the V ISA Forum of Sociology, ISA offers grants covering the registration costs. Research Committees are in charge of organizing the allocation of these grants. This is why RCSL opens the present call for applications:
RCSL Members who also are ISA members, and who are active participants in the V ISA Forum (see on this website the provisional complete programme of the RCSL Sessions at this ISA Forum), are invited to send their application for an ISA Registration Grant to pierre.guibentif@iscte-iul.pt, with rcsl@iisj.es in copy, by 31 January 2025.
Continue reading V ISA Forum Registration Grants – Call for ApplicationsRCSL celebrates the Human Rights Day 2024
As part of its Webinar Series, RCSL organizes on 11 December 2024, 4.00-4.45 PM (CET), the day after the Human Rights Day, a webinar held by Ravi Malhotra (University of Ottawa),
The Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and Crip Time: How Can Law Instantiate the Lived Experiences of Disabled Workers?
It will debate how to better enforce and protect the rights of disabled workers under the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. Discussant: João Velloso (University of Ottawa), Chair of the RCSL Working Group on ‘Judicialization of Social Problems’.
Registration is free and now open here
Podgórecki Prize 2024 awarded
As announced at the occasion of the RCSL 2024 Bangor Annual Meeting, the Podgórecki Prize 2024 was awarded ex aequo to Julia Dahlvik (Viena) and Edvaldo Moita (Brasília). Our warm congratulations to both laureates! Details will be published soon in the RCSL Newsletter and on the present website.
And don’t forget: the Call for Abstracts for the V ISA Forum, Rabat, 6-11 July 2025, Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene. is now open, and will close on 15 October 2024.
2024 Bangor Updated Programme – 2025 Rabat Call for Abstracts Now Open
While RCSL is busy preparing its 2024 Meeting, which soon will take place in Bangor, 3-6 September, Representing Law – Draft Programme updated 29 August, available on this site -, we also started to work on the 2025 Meeting, which will be the participation of RCSL to the V ISA Forum, Rabat, 6-11 July 2025, Knowing Justice in the Anthropocene. The Call for Abstracts for that meeting is now open, and will close on 15 October 2024.
Podgórecki Prize 2024 Nominations – Deadline Postponed
The deadline for nominations for the Podgórecki Prize 2024 has been postponed to Monday 12 August 2024.