RCSL Meetings

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