Meetings Planned
2027: RCSL will participate in the 8th Global Meeting on Law & Society, to be organized in partnership with the Law & Society Association, which will take place in Hong Kong, 22-25 June, University of Hong Kong.
2027: RCSL will also participate in the XXI ISA World Congress, Gwangju, Korea, 4-10 July.
2026: Santiago de Chile
Former Meetings
2025: Rabat
2024: Bangor
2023: Lund 30 August-1 September
2022: 7th Global Meeting on Law and Society Lisbon, 13-16 July.
2021: 20-22 September RCSL Annual Meeting, virtual. See our special page.
2021: Porto Alegre (virtual ISA-Forum)
2020: Lund, 24-26 August (RCSL Annual Meeting – Postponed initially to autumn 2021 due to the Covid-19 outbreak, and to a later date, in the face of the persisting pandemic conditions. See the information of the organizers at the Lund Sociology of Law Department).
2020: Porto Alegre, 14-18 July (ISA-Forum- Postponed to 2021 due to the Covid-19 outbreak)
2019: Oñati, 19-21 June (30 years of IISL)
2018: Toronto, 15-21 July (ISA World Congress, “Power, Violence and Justice: Reflections, Responses and Responsibilities”)
2018: Lisbon (RCSL Annual Meeting), 10-13 September. See its Official Website.
2017: Mexico City, 20-23 June (6th Global Meeting on Law and Society joining Meeting L&SA, RCSL and others)
2016: Vienna, 10-14 July
2015: Canoas, 5-8 May
2014 (July): Yokohama
2014 (May): Oñati (25 years of IISL)
2013: Toulouse
2012 (October): Warsaw (RCSL Jubilee)
2012 (August): Buenos Aires (RCSL Contribution to ISA-Forum)
2012 (June): Honolulu (5th Joint Meeting LSA-RCSL)
2011: Dharamshala
2010: Göteborg, 11-17 July (ISA World Congress)
2009: Oñati (20 Years of IISL):
2008: Barcelona (RCSL Contribution to ISA-Forum)
2008: Milan – Como (RCSL Meeting)
2007: Berlin (4th Joint Meeting LSA-RCSL)
2006: Durban (ISA W.C.)
2005: Paris
2004: Puerto Rico
2003: Oxford
2002: Brisbane (ISA World Congress)
2001: Budapest (jointly with LSA)
2000: Oñati
1999: Warsaw – Krakow
1998: Montréal (ISA W.C.)
1997: Antwerp
1996: Glasgow (jointly with LSA)
1995: Tokyo and post-congress Kobe
1994: Bielefeld (13th ISA World Congress)
1993: Oñati
1992: Mexico City
1991: Amsterdam (jointly with LSA) and post-congress Oñati
1990: Madrid (11th ISA World Congress) and post-congress Oñati
1989: Caracas
1988: Bologna – Ravenna
1987: Sofia
1986: New Delhi (11th ISA World Congress)
1985: Aix en Provence
1984: Boston (jointly with LSA)
1983: Antwerp
1982: Mexico City (10th ISA World Congress)
1981: Oxford
1980: Madison (jointly with LSA)
1979: Cagliari
1978: Uppsala (9th ISA World Congress)
1977: Saarbrücken
1976: Balatonszéplak
1975: Hakone
1974: Toronto (8th ISA World Congress)
1973: Cambridge
1972: Leiden-Noordwijk aan Zee
1971: Varese
1970: Varna (7th ISA World Congress)
1969 Brussels
1968: Varese
1966: Evian (6th ISA World Congress)
1965: Warsaw
1964: Châtillon-Saint Vincent: held jointly with conference organized by the Centro Nazionale di Prevenzione e Difesa Sociale (CNPDS)
1962 Washington D.C.: 5th ISA World Congress; informal sessions on the topic “Scope and Methods of Sociology of Law (see 30 Years for the Sociology of Law, IISL, 1991, p. 8); creation of RCSL decided by ISA governing bodies (see Transactions of the Fifth World Congress of Sociology Vol IV, 1964, p. 6).
Sources:
– About the meetings 1962 up to 1986, see Jonassohn, Kurt (1987) “History of RC12 – Sociology of Law“, originally published ISA Bulletin number 44, year 1987
– Many thanks to Vincenzo Ferrari for the many fascinating original documents !
This page last updated 18 October 2025