We are pleased to announce the forthcoming International Conference: Constitutions 4 Peace, to be held on 16 and 17 June 2025 at the Faculty of Law, University of Barcelona, and accessible online.

This conference will explore the critical theme: “The Role of Constitutional Changes in Promoting Coexistence and Social Reconstruction in Societies in Transition”.

The Call for Workshops and the Call for Abstracts for the 2026 World Congress of Constitutional Law, to be held at Universidad Externado de Colombia, is now open.

The Global South Network invites those interested to attend an online guest lecture on 23 May by the Right Honourable the Chief Justice of Malaysia, Tun Tengku Maimun binti Tuan Mat.

The program for an International Conference on Constitutionalism and Post-Conflict Society, to be held at the University of Sarajevo on 28 April 2025, is now available.

The IACL is delighted to share the program of the Round Table “Peace and Constitutions”, co-organized by the Greek Association of Constitutional Law, Aegean University (Greece), and Ankara University (Turkey).

Applications are now open for up to two Research Fellows and one Quantitative Research Fellow at the Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism at https://x.com/UCLLaws.

The IACL Executive Committee, and Universidad Externado de Colombia – the hosts of the 2026 World Congress of Constitutional Law, are delighted to announce that registrations for the Congress are now open.

The University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza is now accepting applications for the 2nd edition of the Jean Monnet Intensive Summer School on Participation, Lobbying and Transparency in the EU Institutions, to be held in Rome from 7-11 July 2025.

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.