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!

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.