The Democratic Rule of Law in World Society
ISA RC12 Annual Meeting
Diego Portales University, Santiago de Chile, Chile
August 31-September 3, 2026
Abstracts: December 29, 2025
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Research Committees
RC12 Sociology of Law
5th ISA Forum: 2025 RC12 Meeting in Rabat - Programme
Objectives
The Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL) shall act as a free association of scholars active in sociology of law or socio-legal studies all around the world, whatever their nationality, opinion and scientific or methodological tendency.
Board 2023 - 2027
| President | Pierre GUIBENTIF, ISCTE-IUL, Portugal, pierre.guibentif@iscte.pt |
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| Vice-President | Teresa PICONTO, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Dee SMYTHE, University of Cape Town, South Africa |
| Secretary | Laura Noemi LORA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina, lauranoemilora@derecho.uba.ar |
| Newsletter | Julia DAHLVIK, FH Campus Wien, Austria, julia.dahlvik@fh-campuswien.ac.at and Luisa Teresa HEDLER, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, lthf.bhl@cbs.dk |
| Board Members | Pablo CIOCCHINI, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom Stefanie LEMKE, Rule of Law Initiative, Netherlands Laura Noemi LORA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina Katrin SEIDEL, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany |
| Co-Opted Observer | Joxerramon BENGOETXEA, Universidad del País Vasco, Spain Ole HAMMERSLEV, Lund University, Sweden Susana SANTOS,ISCTE-Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal |
| Immediate Past President | Ulrike SCHULTZ, Fern University of Hagen, Germany |
Program Coordinator for 5th ISA Forum of Sociology 2025 is:
Pierre GUIBENTIF, pierre.guibentif@iscte-iul.pt
Working Groups
- Working Group on Civil Justice and Dispute Resolution
Chair: Hideaki IRIE, Institutional Affiliation, Japan, hirie@law.kyushu-u.ac.jp - Working Group on Comparative Legal Culture
Chair: Agnieszka KUBAL, University of Oxford, United Kingdom, a.kubal@ucl.ac.uk - Working Group on Comparative Studies of Legal Professions
Chair: Avrom SHERR, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, United Kingdom, avrom.sherr@gmail.com - Working Group on Digitalization, AI and Society
Chair: Julia DAHLVIK, FH Campus Wien, Austria, julia.dahlvik@fh-campuswien.ac.at and Stefan LARSSON, Lund University, Sweden, stefan.larsson@lth.lu.se - Working Group on Gender, Law and Society
Co-chairs: Barbara Giovanna BELLO, University of Milan, Italy, barbaragbello@gmail.com, and Letizia MANCINI, University of Milan, Italy, letizia.mancini@unimi.it - Working Group on Histories of the Sociology of Law
Chair: Christian BOULANGER, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory, Germany, boulanger@lhlt.mpg.de - Working Group on Human Rights
Chair: Dani RUDNICKI, Universidade La Salle, Brazil, danirud@hotmail.com - Working Group on Judicialization of Social Problems
Chair: João VELLOSO, University of Ottawa, Canada, joao.velloso@uottawa.ca - Working Group on Knowledge and Opinion about the Law – Legal Consciousness
Chair: Balazs FEKETE, ELTE University, Hungary, fekete.balazs@ajk.elte.hu - Working Group on Law and Development
Co-chairs: Pedro FORTES, Brazil, pfortes@stanfordalumni.org - Working Group on Law and Migration
Co-chairs: Rashmi JAIN, India, rashmi.jn1@gmail.com and Kyriaki TOPIDI, European Centre for Minority Issues, Germany, topidi@ecmi.de - Working Group on Law and Politics
Chair: María Angélica CUELLAR VAZQUEZ, FCPyS de la UNAM, Mexico, acuellarunam@gmail.com - Working Group on Law and Popular Culture
Chair: Stefan MACHURA, Bangor University, United Kingdom, s.machura@bangor.ac.uk - Working Group on Legal Pluralism
Chair: Martin RAMSTEDT, Germany, ramstedt108@gmail.com - Working Group on Social and Legal Systems
Co-chairs: Stine PIILGAARD PORNER NIELSEN, Aalborg University, Denmark, stineppn@law.aau.dk and Luisa HEDLER, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark, lthf.bhl@cbs.dk - Working Group on Sociology of Constitution
Chair: Jiri PRIBAN, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, priban@cardiff.ac.uk
Cross Interest
RC29 Sociology of Deviance and Social Control
RC36 Alienation Theory and Research
Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law (Spain)
The Centre for the Study of Law and Society, California, Berkeley, USA
Socio-Legal Studies Association (UK)
The Law and Society Association
Centre for Socio-Legal Studies - University of Oxford, UK
Justice Policy Research Centre - University of Newcastle, Australia
Legal Intersections Research Centre - University of Wollongong, Canada
Griffiths Socio-Legal Centre
Baldy Center for Law and Social Policy
Institute of Global Law
Canadian Law and Society Association
Centre for Law and Society
Centre for Socio-Legal Research - University of Capetown, South Africa
The Foundation for Law, Justice and Society (FLJS), Wolfson College, UK
Institute of Law and Social Sciences, Meiji University, Tokyo, Japan
The Institute for Legal Studies, University of Wisconsin, USA
Membership
| Dues for a 4-year period | |
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| Regular A | USD 100 |
| Regular B & C | USD 50 |
| Students A | USD 50 |
| Students B & C | USD 25 |
| Life | |
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| Category A | USD 150 |
| Category B & C | USD 75 |
Students if you prefer to pay in Euro, please contact RC12 organizational secretariat at manttoni@iisj.es.
Interested in joining? Start your membership by visiting: https://members.isa-sociology.org/login
Newsletter
Available on RC12 website.