Research Centers, Institutions
Associations, Networks [back to contents]
Operating Globally or Regionally:
(Placed 8 November 2024) Asociación Lationamericana y del Caribe de Derecho y Sociedad – Associação Latino-Americana e Caribenha de Direito e Sociedade (ALADES)
https://www.alades.org
Comité de recherches “Études socio-juridiques – Sociologie du droit” (CR03) da Association internationale des sociologues de langue française (AISLF)
Commission on Legal Pluralism
http://commission-on-legal-pluralism.com
Gesellschaft für Interdisziplinäre wissenschaftliche Kriminologie
http://www.giwk.de/
International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy / Internationale Vereinigung für Rechts und Sozialphilosophie (IVR)
https://ivronlineblog.wordpress.com/
International Association of Legislation
http://www.ial-online.org/
International Language and Law Association
https://illa.online
International Research Collaborative “Lay Participation in Law” (created under the auspices of the Law & Society Association
http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/research/lay_participation_in_law/index.cfm
National Associations (links updated November 2021):
Argentina
Sociedad argentina de sociología jurídica
https://www.sasju.org/
Australia / New Zeland
The Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
http://www.lsaanz.org/
Austria
Section “Law and Society” of the Austrian Sociological Association (Österreichische Gesellschaft für Soziologie – Sektion Recht und Gesellschaft): http://oegs.ac.at/recht-und-gesellschaft/
Brazil
Associação brasileira de pesquisadores em sociologia do direito
http://www.abrasd.com.br/
Rede de Pesquisa Empírica em Direito
https://reedpesquisa.org/
Canada
Canadian Law and Society Association / Association canadienne droit et société (CLSA/ACDS)
https://www.acds-clsa.com/
Canadian Network of Law and Humanities (CNLH)
https://cnlh.ubc.ca/ (placed 10 December 2021)
France
RT 13 (Thematic Network 13) Sociology of Law and Justice of the French Sociological Association: https://afs-socio.fr/rt/rt13/ and https://droitscisoc.hypotheses.org/
Germany
Berliner Arbeitskeis Rechtswirklichkeit
https://barblog.hypotheses.org
Sociology of Law Section of the German Sociological Association.
https://soziologie.de/sektionen/rechtssoziologie/kurzportrait
(contact: Thomas Scheffer)
http://www.rechtssoziologie.info/organisationen/deutschland/vereinigungen-netzwerke-gruppen/sektion-rechtssoziologie-in-der-deutschen-gesellschaft-fuer-soziologie
Vereinigung für Recht und Gesellschaft (From 1972 to 2010: Vereinigung für Rechtssoziologie; this website is a development of a website specialized in sociology of Law formerly created and maintained by Klaus F. Röhl)
http://www.rechtssoziologie.info/
Italy
Associazione di studi su diritto e società (Italy)
https://www.dirittoesocieta.org/
The Sociology of Law section of the Italian Sociological Association
https://www.ais-sociologia.it/sociologia-del-diritto/
Japan
Japanese Association of Sociology of Law
http://www.jasl.info/english/ (November 2021 under construction)
Japan Association of Gender and Law
http://jagl.jp/
Netherlands
VSR – Vereniging voor de Sociaalwetenschappelijke Bestudering van het Recht – Recht en Samenleving
http://rechtensamenleving.nl/
New Zeland / Australia
The Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand Inc.
http://www.lsaanz.org/
Portugal
Secção Temática Sociologia do Direito e da Justiça da Associação Portuguesa de Sociologia: http://aps.pt/pt/seccao-tematica-sociologia-do-direito-e-da-justica/
Spain
Red Derecho y Sociedad
http://derechoysociedad.unizar.es/red-derecho-y-sociedad
Switzerland
Research committee on sociology of law of the Swiss Sociological Association (Forschungskomittee Rechtssoziologie und Rechtswirklichkeitsforschung)
https://www.sgs-sss.ch/forschungskomitees/rechtssoziologie-und-rechtswirklichkeitsforschung/
United Kingdom:
Socio-Legal Studies Association
http://www.slsa.ac.uk/
United States of America:
Law and Society Association
http://www.lawandsociety.org/
Association for the Study of Law, Culture and the Humanities
http://lawculturehumanities.com/
Sociology of Law Section of the American Sociological Association
http://www.asanet.org/asa-communities/sections/law
Other International Groupings: [back to contents]
Dutch and Flemish Association for the social scientific study of law
http://vsr.ruhosting.nl/page1/page1.html
(currently unaccessible: October 2014)
Réseau européen Droit et Société
http://www.reds.msh-paris.fr/francais/accueil.htm
Ancilla Iuris – Lagen des Rechts – Constellations of Law – Constellations du droit – Costellazioni del diritto – Constelaciones del derecho – Constelações do Direito (Switzerland, 2006)
https://www.anci.ch/
Annual Review of Law and Social Science (since 2005)
http://www.annualreviews.org/loi/lawsocsci
Archiv für Rechts- und Sozialphilosophie / Archives for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy
https://www.steiner-verlag.de/brand/Archiv-fuer-Rechts-und-Sozialphilosophie
Canadian Journal of Law and Society / Revue Canadienne Droit et Société / (since 1985)
http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=CLS (ISSN: 0829-3201)
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law (since 1985)
http://www.utpjournals.com/cjwl/cjwl.html
Confluência – Revista interdisciplinar de sociologia e direito (Brazil, since 2003)
https://periodicos.uff.br/confluencias
Droit et Société (Paris, France, since 1985; ISSN: 0769-3362)
http://www.cairn.info/revue-droit-et-societe.htm
Older issues (1985-2000): http://www.persee.fr/collection/dreso
See also the journal’s blog: http://ds.hypotheses.org/
(Placed 29 September 2024) Gender and Justice (Bristol University Press, since 2024; ISSN Online: 3033-3660)
https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/journals/gender-and-justice
International Journal of Law in Context (since 2005; ISSN: 1744-5523) http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=IJC
International Journal of the Legal Profession (since 1994)
http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cijl20
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law – Revue internationale de sémiotique juridique (since 1987)
http://www.springer.com/law/journal/11196
International Journal of the Sociology of Law (1978-2007)
Past issues available on http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/01946595 (access limited)
Journal of Contemporary Legal Issues (University of San Diego Law School, since 1990)
https://www.sandiego.edu/law/academics/journals/jcli/
Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (2004)
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1740-1461/issues
Journal of Law and Social Sciences (University of Zambia – UNZA)(2012)
https://journals.unza.zm/index.php/JLSS/index
Journal of Law and Society (formerly British Journal of Law and Society; since 1974)
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0263-323X
Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law (formerly – until 1980 – African Law Studies; since 1969) (ISSN 0732-9113)
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rjlp20/current
Journal of the Oxford Center for Socio-Legal Studies (journal published in e-format by the graduate students of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies of the University of Oxford, 2012-2019)
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/centres-institutes/centre-socio-legal-studies/oxford-socio-legal-review
Issues published available under
https://web.archive.org/web/20200711013215/https://joxcsls.com/publications/
Law and Contemporary Problems (Duke University, Denver, since 1933)
http://scholarship.law.duke.edu/lcp/
Law & Society Review (Law and Society Association, since 1966)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15405893
Laws – Open access journal of legal systems, theory, and institutions, published quarterly online by MDPI since 2012
http://www.mdpi.com/journal/laws
Minnesota Journal of Law and Inequality (Since 1981; up to 2020 titled Law and Inequality – A Journal of Theory and Practice )
http://scholarship.law.umn.edu/lawineq/
Oñati Socio-Legal Series (IISL, 2011) http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/index
Quaestio Iuris (Brazil, 2005)
http://www.e-publicacoes.uerj.br/index.php/quaestioiuris/index
Recht der Werkelijkheid (Netherlands, 1986)
Archive: http://rechtensamenleving.nl/archief-rdw/
https://www.bjutijdschriften.nl/tijdschrift/rechtderwerkelijkheid/detail
Retfærd – Nordic Journal of Law and Justice (Denmark, 1976)
http://www.retfaerd.se/
Revista Braslieira de Sociologia do Direito
http://revista.abrasd.com.br/index.php/rbsd
(Placed 8 November 2024) Revista Latinoamericana de Sociología Jurídica (Buenos Aires, published by the Sociedad Argentina de Sociología Jurídica, since 2020)
https://www.sasju.org/revista-latinoamericana/
Revista de Estudos Empíricos em Direito (São Paulo, since 2014) (ISSN 2319-0817)
https://reedrevista.org/reed/index
Revue interdisciplinaire d’études juridiques (Brussels, Belgium, since 1978)
http://www.cairn.info/revue-interdisciplinaire-d-etudes-juridiques.htm
Social & Legal Studies (London, United Kingdom, since 1992) (ISSN 0964-6639)
https://journals.sagepub.com/home/sls
Sociologia del Diritto (Milan, Italy, since 1974 ) (ISSN 0390-0851)
http://www.francoangeli.it/riviste/sommario.asp?IDRivista=51
Sortuz – Oñati Journal of Emergent Socio-Legal Studies (IISL, 2007)
http://opo.iisj.net/index.php/sortuz/index
Studies in Law, Politics and Society (Book Series; 71 volumes published in 2017)
https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/1059-4337
Zeitschrift für Rechtssoziologie (Berlin, De Gruyter, Germany, journal published since 1980) (ISSN 2366-0392)
http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/zfrs
Blog of the journal: https://zfrsoz.hypotheses.org/
Berliner Arbeitskeis Rechtswirklichkeit
https://barblog.hypotheses.org
Droit et sciences sociales: a website linked to the RT13 Sociologie du droit et de la justice of the French Sociological Association
https://droitscisoc.hypotheses.org/476
Droit & Société – Théorie et sciences sociales du droit (blog of the journal Droit & Société)
http://ds.hypotheses.org/
Frontiers of Socio-Legal Studies (continues in a new format the work started with the launching of the Journal of the Oxford Center for Socio-Legal Studies)
http://frontiers.csls.ox.ac.uk/
Law & Anthropology / Droit & Anthropologie
Blog d’actualité de l’anthropologie juridique:
https://leggy.hypotheses.org/
Tecnopolítica – Redes, Poder y Acción Colectiva:
https://www.tecnopoliticas.org/
Research Centers, Institutions [back to contents]
American Bar Foundation
http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/index.html
(see in particular the research activity of the Fondation – http://www.americanbarfoundation.org/research/index.html –
including, among others, the Research Group on Legal Diversity,
and the World Justice Project)
Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
http://www.buffalo.edu/baldycenter.html
Centre d’étude, de technique et d’évaluation législatives Université de Genève
http://www.unige.ch/droit/cetel/
Centre for Conflict Resolution, Cape Town South Africa
https://www.africaportal.org/content-partners/centre-conflict-resolution-ccr/
Centre for Empirical Legal Studies University College of London
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/empirical-legal-studies
Centre for Law, Ethics and Society of the Research Institute for Social Sciences, Keele University
https://www.keele.ac.uk/study/postgraduateresearch/researchareas/ethics/
Centre for Law and Society – University of Cape Town, South Africa
http://www.cls.uct.ac.za/
Center for Socio-Legal Studies – University of Oxford
http://www.csls.ox.ac.uk/
Centre for the Study of Emotion and Law, London
http://pc.rhul.ac.uk/sites/csel/
Centre for the Study of Law and Society, California, Berkeley, USA
http://www.law.berkeley.edu/csls.htm
Department of Criminology and Sociology of Law, University of Oslo
http://www.jus.uio.no/ikrs/english/
Department of Sociology of Law at Lund University
https://www.soclaw.lu.se/en/
Empirical Legal Research Network, University of Edinburgh
https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-networks/empirical-legal-research-network
Foundation for Law, Justice and Society, Wolfson College, Oxford
https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/affiliations/foundation-law-justice-and-society
Institut des Hautes Études sur la Justice, Paris
http://www.ihej.org/
Institut für interdisziplinäre Rechtsforschung – Law & Society Institute Berlin (LSI)
https://www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/oe/lsi
https://www.rewi.hu-berlin.de/de/lf/ls/bae/lsainternationalmeeting2007
Institut für Rechts- und Kriminalsoziologie (Wien)
https://www.irks.at/
Institute of Law and Social Sciences, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
http://www.meiji.ac.jp/dai_in/law/support/html/english/e_index.html
Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, USA
http://www.law.wisc.edu/ils/
Instituto de Estudos Comparados em Administração de Conflitos
http://www.ineac.uff.br/
Instituto internacional de Derecho y Sociedad, Lima, Perú
http://derechoysociedad.org/
International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Oñati
http://www.iisj.net/ (see also on this website the page about IISL)
Laboratoire de sociologie juridique (Paris 2)
https://laboratoiredesociologiejuridique.u-paris2.fr/fr/laboratoire-sociologie-juridique
Laboratorio de sociología jurídica de la Universidad de Zaragoza (LSJUZ)
https://sociologiajuridica.unizar.es/presentacion
Law Reform and Social Justice: teaching, research, and social justice initiatives programme at Autralian National University, Canberra, Australia
https://law.anu.edu.au/research/lrsj
Legal Intersections Research Centre – University of Wollongong, Canada
https://www.uow.edu.au/business-law/schools-entities/law/research/lirc/
Observatório Permanente da Justiça Portuguesa (Coimbra)
https://opj.ces.uc.pt/
Web Resources [back to contents]
The Avalon Project – Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy,
of the Yale Law School – Lillian Goldmann Law Library:
http://avalon.law.yale.edu/default.asp
CAIRN : French Socio-Legal Journals available on the Website of CAIRN – a site set up by a consortium of French publishers for the promotion of French academic journals on the Net:
http://www.cairn.info/disc-droit.htm
Life of the Law
Publishes “investigative reports, in-studio discussions about all things law, and live storytelling”.
https://www.lifeofthelaw.org/
Recht und Gender (Law and Gender): thematic website hosted by the FernUniversität in Hagen
http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/rechtundgender/
Red de Sociología Jurídica en América Latina y el Caribe
https://www.facebook.com/pages/category/Education/Sociolog%C3%ADa-Jur%C3%ADdica-en-Am%C3%A9rica-Latina-y-el-Caribe-1391195751115428/
Other relevant Links [back to contents]
Please note: The inclusion of the following links derives solely from their relevance for current debates in sociology of law and does not reflect any opinion of RCSL as regards the policy orientation of the initiatives and researches here at stake.
African network of legal information institutes – AfricanLii
https://africanlii.org/
AHRC Legal Materiality Research Network
https://lawtextmaterial.wordpress.com/
Association internationale de droit économique
http://www.aide-ride.org/
Civic Sociology (University of California Press journal launched 2019)
https://online.ucpress.edu/cs
Clarity – An International Association Promoting Plain Legal Language
http://www.clarity-international.net/
Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE)
(consultative body to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe)
https://www.coe.int/en/web/ccje
Consultative Council of European Prosecutors (CCPE)
(consultative body to the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe)
https://www.coe.int/en/web/ccpe
EU European Commission, DG Justice – Justice Programme (2016)
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/grants1/programmes-2014-2020/justice/index_en.htm
EU European Commission, DG Justice – Rights, Equality and Citizenship Programme (2016)
http://ec.europa.eu/justice/grants1/programmes-2014-2020/rec/index_en.htm
EU Justice Scoreboard
https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights/upholding-rule-law/eu-justice-scoreboard_en
European Commission for the Efficiency of Justice (CEPEJ) (Council of Europe)
http://www.coe.int/T/dghl/cooperation/cepej/default_en.asp
European Network for Better Regulation: A network of institutions supported by the European Commission
(project carried out 2006-2008 ; summary under https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/28604 )
Global Access to Justice Project
http://globalaccesstojustice.com/
International Political Science Association – Research Committee 09 – Comparative Judicial Studies (other IPSA RC also may be of interest for socio-legal studies)
https://www.ipsa.org/page/rc09-comparative-judicial-studies
http://rc09.ipsa.org/
(Placed 29 September 2024) LEX Research Network Law, Gender and Sexuality
https://www.lexnetwork.org/
Magistrats européens pour la démocratie et les libertés (MEDEL)
http://medelnet.eu/index.php?lang=en
OECD’s Regulatory Reform Programme (OCDE on regulatory quality, regulation and social objectives)
Regulatory Reform Topic on the OCDE official website:
http://www.oecd.org/regreform/
(Placed 26 April 2023, updated 29 September 2024) Oñati Community: Blog of the Oñati Community, aims at strengthening “the bonds between the many people that have come to Oñati IISL to carry on activities related to the sociology of law”.
https://onatiblog.hypotheses.org/
Robert Schumann Center for Advanced Studies – European University Institute:
http://www.eui.eu/DepartmentsAndCentres/RobertSchumanCentre/Research/Index.aspx
Sur – International Journal on Human Rights: biannual journal published in English, Portuguese and Spanish by Conectas Human Rights
http://www.surjournal.org/eng/
World Society of Victimology
http://www.worldsocietyofvictimology.org/
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