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RCSL at the 2027 ISA World Congress: Call for Sessions

While finalizing the preparations for its 2026 Meeting in Santiago de Chile, RCSL is pleased to begin preparations for its participation in the XXI ISA World Congress of Sociology, which will take place in Gwangju, Korea, from 4 to 10 July 2027, under the theme “Global Sociology in Turbulent Times.”

As a first step, we invite RCSL WG Chairs and other interested RCSL Members to submit session proposals by 25 June 2026.

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2026 Santiago de Chile RCSL Meeting – Travel Grants

The preparation of the 2026 Santiago de Chile RCSL Meeting ( https://rcsl2026.udp.cl/) is well on the way and its complete programme should be published in the next weeks. It is now time for potential participants to deal with their travel and accommodation arrangements.

As in other years, RCSL will support the travel costs of some of the students and post-docs participating in the 2026 Meeting.

Interested persons should send their application by next May 25th 24:00 UTC.

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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

Final Programme

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).

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 LawDraft 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.