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.
Announcement on the Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Law website
Call 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 2025Podgórecki 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.
Reza Banakar Memorial Seminar
Susan S. Silbey, Pragmatic Regulation: Governing Inside the House of Science
14 December 2022, 16:00–18:00 (UTC+1) online via Zoom
Continue reading Reza Banakar Memorial SeminarLisbon 2022 – Deadline Extended
The deadline for submitting paper and session proposals for the Lisbon 2022 Global Meeting on Law and Society has been extended to 22 November. See the official website of the meeting.
PS – New on this website: RCSL Newsletter 2021 (2) and a refreshed Links Page
RCSL 2021 Virtual Meeting – Complete Programme Available
Complete programme and abstracts of the papers are now available on this website. Registration for attending the meeting is still open. More details >>>
RCSL 2021 Virtual Meeting – Deadline postponed
The deadline for abstract submissions for the RCSL 2021 Virtual Meeting has been postponed to 12th of August 2021. Please use the form placed on this site.
A Penologist in the Basque Country: Reminiscences by Johannes Feest
Lecture organized by the IISL, given on Zoom on 19th May, 05:30 to 07:00 pm (CET).
Continue reading A Penologist in the Basque Country: Reminiscences by Johannes FeestEnseñanza del Derecho
The Argentinian Sociology of Law Association organizes the II JORNADA NACIONAL SOBRE LA ENSEÑANZA DEL DERECHO “Realidades en la formación legal: demandas y respuestas multifocales”.
Continue reading Enseñanza del DerechoCall for the IISL Scientific Directorship
A call for the Scientific Directorship of the International Institute for the Sociology of Law (IISL), term September 2022-August 2024, has been issued. Applications should be submitted by 15 April 2021. (Call closed)
Continue reading Call for the IISL Scientific DirectorshipRCSL at the Virtual IV ISA Forum Porto Alegre
Here is an updated information on the online ISA meeting which starts on Tuesday 23rd of February).
Continue reading RCSL at the Virtual IV ISA Forum Porto Alegre