As announced earlier in the year, the IACL Executive Committee is delighted that the IACL 2026 World Congress of Constitutional Law (WCCL) will be held at the Externado University, Colombia, on 6-10 July 2026.

The Global South Network (GSN) is honoured to have President of the UK Supreme Court/the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, Robert Reed, Lord Reed of Allermuir as a guest speaker during the GSN judges guest lecture series on Monday 20 January 2025 at the University of Leicester, UK.

Applications for the 16th Winter School on Federalism and Governance, to be held from 3-14 February 2025, are now open and close 13 October.

McGill University’s Faculty of Law and the Peter MacKell Chair in Federalism are proud to announce that the Baxter Family Competition on Federalism has returned. Participants are invited to submit an original essay by 7 February 2025. See post for more details.

The Program for the IACL-AIDC Roundtable: “Current Challenges to Constitutional Democracy” is now available! Join us in Rome, Italy, 3-4 October 2024.

The Global South Network would like to invite interested persons to a guest lecture by Judge Dr Vitaliy Urkevych, Secretary of the Grand Chamber of the Supreme Court of Ukraine, on 6 September 2024.

We are seeking expressions of interest to join our team as Assistant Editor. We are looking for doctoral students or early career researchers with excellent command of English and Spanish or French, and interested in all things constitutional and building networks with scholars.

Scholarship Opportunity for the Jean Monnet Intensive Summer School PLAT-EU, to be held July 1-5, 2024, at Sapienza University of Rome. The deadline to apply is April 30, 2024.

A book launch to discuss the book “Constitutionalizing Transitional Justice: How Constitutions and Constitutional Courts Deal with Past Atrocity”, edited by Cheng-Yi Huang, will be held on 1 March.

The IACL-AIDC Executive Committee is delighted to announce that the IACL 2026 World Congress will be held at the Externado University, Colombia, on 6-10 July 2026.

We are delighted to announce that the inaugural Volume 1, Issue 1 of the Comparative Constitutional Studies (CCS) is now available in print and online…

Revista Derecho del Estado presents its First English Issue: 57 September-December 2023.

Applications for the 15th Winter School on Federalism and Governance, to be held from 5-16 February 2024, are now open and close 15 October.

The Tenth Stellenbosch Annual Seminar on Constitutionalism in Africa (SASCA 2023) will take place in Stellenbosch (South Africa) from Wednesday 20 to Friday 22 September 2023.

A hybrid symposium on Biodiversity and Animal Law Challenges and Synergies, co-organized by the IACL Research Group on Rights of Nature and Animals and the Helsinki Animal Law Centre, will be held on 9 October.

The sixth Indonesian Constitutional Court International Symposium (the 6th ICCIS), will be hosted by the Constitutional Court of the Republic of Indonesia in Jakarta, Indonesia, from 9 to 11 August 2023.

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law invites constitutional scholars and practitioners everywhere to contact their Managing Editor if they are interested in contributing to the Encyclopedia.

Former Mexican Supreme Court Justice José Ramón Cossío will give a lecture entitled "Mexican Supreme Court of Justice: current goals and challenges" on Thursday 29 June 2023 from 15:00-16:30 UK time. This is the third guest lecture of the Global South Network (GSN).

Honourable Dr Azmiralda Zahir of the Justice Supreme Court of Maldives will deliver her online talk titled "Reinforcing Democratic Values Through Online Hearings – the Maldives Experience" on Monday 5th of June 2023.

Join the IACL at the University of Siena 15-16 June 2023 for the Roundtable on ‘The Principle of Equality: New and Old Challenges’. Registration now open, link in post for details.