Applications are now open for three PhD Scholarships at UNSW Law to work with Professor Melissa Crouch as part of the ARC Future Fellowship Project on ‘Defending Constitutional Democracy: The Military and the Constitution in Asia’. Applications are open until 4 April 2025 or until all positions are filled.

It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of Professor Rainer Arnold on January 9, 2025, in Regensburg, Germany.

The IACL is delighted to share the program for a one-day conference to mark the 25th anniversary of the Venice Commission. The conference will be held in Venice on 12 March 2025.

Applications are now open for the Fellowship Program at the soon-to-be-opened Humboldt University Center of Advanced Studies on Reflexive Globalization and the Law: Colonial Legacies and their Impact in the 21st Century. Deadline is 15 February 2025.

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.