The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism at UCL will hold the next session in the Public Law Seminar Series on Thursday 11 December 2025. Prof Adam Tomkins will present his book ‘On the Law of Speaking Freely’.

Date & Time: 11 December 2025, 13:00–14:30 (UK time)

Location: Hybrid (in-person and online participation)

The RefLex Centre for Advanced Studies based at Humboldt University’s Faculty of Law  invites applications for fellowships for the duration of either three or six months, with  possible starting dates 1 October 2026, 1 January 2027, 1 April 2027 and 1 July 2027. 

To apply, please send all documents as one PDF file to reflex.info@hu-berlin.de by 31 January 2026

The 6th edition of the Digital Constitutionalism Academy is here! The DigiCon Academy is a two day event that will be held between 9-10 April 2026 in Florence, Italy and will focus on the topic of “Digital Regulation and Governance: The Role of Public Law and Private Law”.

The application period ends on 30 January 2026.

The GCDC Sidney Distinguished Fellow, and NYU Law School Professor, Andrew Weissmann will speak on December 4, 2025 about the rule of law in America through the lens of U.S. immigration litigation and policy. Professor Weissmann will address the unique pressures this has placed on government lawyers and on judges, as well as on the continued vitality and validity of legal doctrines such as the “presumption of regularity” that adheres to government action.

The Centre for Constitutions in Context at Warwick Law School will be holding a first-of-its kind roundtable on Contextual Approaches to Constitutional Law in Academic Publishing. This online event will bring together representatives from six leading comparative constitutional law journals.

The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism at UCL holds its next instalment in the Public Law Seminar Series on Thursday 13 November 2025. Prof Alon Harel will present on ‘The Public Constitution’ with comments from Prof Oliver Gerstenberg and Natalia Morales Cerda.

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From November 2025, the IACL-AIDC Blog will be sharing its posts, announcements, new publications and updates from the global constitutional law community on a new LinkedIn page, which can be followed here.

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The Global South Network (GSN) invites you to the online guest lecture titled "Limited Precedent System and the Impact of Common Law on Adjudication: Evidence from the Curia of Hungary" to be delivered by the Chief Justice/President of Curia (Supreme Court) of Hungary Honourable Prof. Dr. András Zs. Varga.

The Global Centre for Democratic Constitution (GCDC) based at University College London (UCL) is pleased to invite you to the next seminar in its Public Law Seminar Series.

Constitutional Studies is starting Meet the Editors meetings this fall. These informal meetings hosted by Constitutional Studies editors provide an opportunity for prospective authors to hear directly from the editors.

The Institute for Comparative Federalism of Eurac Research, Bolzano/Bozen, the Faculty of Law and the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Innsbruck announce the 17th edition of their joint programme, the “WINTER SCHOOL ON FEDERALISM AND GOVERNANCE 2026”.

The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism and the Socio-economic Inequalities and Poverty Discrimination Working Group welcome you to join online to the conference “Rising Socio-economic Inequalities: The Potential and Limits of Law”, where we will bring together diverse voices from the legal community to address critical issues on poverty discrimination.

On 9 and 10 October 2024, the University of Bordeaux (Victoire Campus, Gintrac Lecture Theatre) will host the international symposium ‘Drafting a Constitution in the Twenty-First Century – Lessons from Chile’, organised by Hubert Alcaraz, Carolina Cerda-Guzman, Rym Fassi-Fihri, Maxime Millon and Yaodia Senou-Dumartin.

We invite submissions from Early Career Researchers working on human rights law and fundamental rights as well as other disciplines, including philosophy, history, political science, sociology and anthropology, addressing the various challenges international human rights systems are facing.

We are delighted to invite you to the most significant global gathering in the field of Constitutional Law, taking place at Externado de Colombia University from 6–10 July 2026.

Constitutional Studies is convening authors from its June 2025 State of the Field issue to discuss their findings.

The Global South Network (GSN) invites you to its second North-South Judicial Dialogue. Honourable Justice Michail Pikramenos, President of the Hellenic Council of State (Supreme Administrative Court) of Greece  will deliver the lecture title “The Hellenic Council of State and Its Position in the European Legal Order” during the GSN Judges Guest Lecture Series on Monday 15 September 2025, 14:30 Greece time (12:30 UK time).

The newly established Centre for Constitutions in Context (CCC) at Warwick Law School (WLS) invites you to join us for our Inaugural Lecture, delivered by the renowned and influential scholar and practitioner of constitutional law, Jill Cottrell Ghai.

The next IACL World Congress in Constitutional Law (WCCL 2026) will be held in Bogotá, Colombia, from July 6 to July 10, 2026.

The IACL Blog will be taking its annual summer hiatus from 26 June to 26 August. Thank you, as always, for your engagement with the Blog!