Call for Papers: Constitutional Moments, Conference series on Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives

Paper proposals are invited for the Sixth Illinois-Bologna conference on Constitutional History: Comparative Perspectives. The conference will be held in Champaign, Illinois, at the College of Law of the University of Illinois on March 8-9,2027.

Jindal Global Law School and the Centre for Asian Legal Studies at the Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore will co-host the second Asian Law Schools Association (ALSA) Public Law Conference. The conference will take place on 26-27 February 2027 at the O.P. Jindal Global University campus in Sonipat, Haryana, India, and the submission deadline for the conference is 15 September 2026.

Ruhr University Bochum invites submissions for an interdisciplinary workshop, taking place between 9-10 December 2026, examining the impact of neutrality on research and knowledge production in legal scholarship.

The deadline for submissions is 30 June 2026.

The Call for Papers for the IACL Warsaw Roundtable on Parliamentarism and Electoral Systems in the 21st Century (23-24 November 2026) is open until 20 August 2026.

New Call for Papers: submissions close on 31 May 2026 for the IPSA Comparative Judicial Studies Research Committee’s workshop on Court Roles in the Current Authoritarian Moment

The Comparative Constitutional Studies journal has launched a special Call for Papers to be submitted for its next issue, volume 5.1 (2027).

The deadline for submissions is 1 September 2026.

The European Yearbook of Constitutional Law (EYCL) invites submissions for its ninth volume (2027), which will focus on the theme “Reimagining Constitutional Identity in Europe”.

Prospective contributors are invited to submit abstracts of 350–500 words, outlining their proposed paper.

Deadline for abstract submissions: 1 June 2026

Applications are now open for the Federal Scholar in Residence Programme 2027, organised by the Eurac Research Institute for Comparative Federalism (Bolzano/Bozen, Italy).

This programme offers scholars the opportunity to spend up to three weeks in residence at Eurac Research, in the heart of the Alps, engaging with an international community of experts working on comparative federalism and related fields.

Applications must be submitted by 1 July 2026.

Applications are now open for the Jean Monnet Intensive Summer School 2026 on Participation, Lobbying and Transparency in the EU Institutions (PLAT-EU), organised by the University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza.

The Summer School will take place in person in Rome from 20 to 24 July 2026.

Applications must be submitted by 10 May 2026.

The Global Centre for Democratic Constitutionalism (GCDC) at UCL invites expressions of interest from scholars proposing country case studies on the problem of authoritarian holdover appointments during processes of democratic or constitutional recovery.

Expression of interest deadline: 10 April 2026

UCD Sutherland School of Law, University College Dublin: 22 April 2026

Deadline for Abstracts: 13 March 2026.

Within the general framework of the Conference, papers are particularly welcome on the relationship between militant democracy and the rule of law.

Interested scholars are invited to submit: an abstract of no more than 500 words, and a short CV, by 20 April 2026

This special issue builds on the research project Constitutions4Peace which explores the role of constitutional design in sustaining peace and preventing future atrocities.

Submission deadline: July 1, 2026.

The “Stefan cel Mare” University of Suceava (Romania) and the CARPATHICA Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies are pleased to invite you to the,

INTERNATIONAL FORUM ON DEMOCRACY AND PUBLIC DECISION-MAKING

organized on the 4th – 6th of June 2026, in Suceava and online.

●      Abstract Submission : 15th March, 2026

●      Notification of Acceptance: 23rd March, 2026

●      Final Paper Submission for Publication: 20th of October, 2026.

The IACL-AIDC invites submissions for its roundtable ‘Constitutionalism in the Age of Ecological Challenges’ on 5-6 June 2026 in Istanbul, hosted by the Istanbul Bar Association and the Ankara University Faculty of Law. Submissions are due by 2 March 2026.

The Call for Papers for the IACL Roundtable ‘Today’s Emergencies and Wars - A Challenge to International Law and Constitutional Frameworks’ closes on 1 Feb 2026.The Roundtable will be held at Uppsala University on 4-5 May 2026.

Applications are now open for the upcoming workshop titled The Science of Democracy Beyond Disciplines endorsed by the Research Network The Sciences of the Democracies as part of the ECPR Joint Sessions of Workshops, held in person at the University of Innsbruck, 7-10 April 2026.

The deadline to apply is midnight GMT on 10 December 2025.

The GSLR welcomes submissions of articles, book reviews, case notes and legislative comments offering comparative perspectives and interdisciplinary approaches to India’s evolving legal landscape. Submissions are welcomed from students, academicians, legal scholars and practitioners.

The last date for contributing to Volume VII of the GSLR is Thursday, 25 December 2025.

The University of Lausanne invites applications from early career scholars to participate in a research workshop on open constitutional democracy, which will take place on Wednesday, 26 August, and Thursday, 27 August 2026.

Applications should be sent to: chiara.valsangiacomo-balmelli@unil.ch
Deadline for submission: 19 December 2025

The University of Lille will host a conference from 21st to the 22nd May 2026 as part of the Cross Disciplinary Project entitled Decision-making Processes under Extreme Radical Uncertainties (DePeru).