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
Vice-President Teresa PICONTO, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain
Dee SMYTHE, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Secretary tbc
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

Membership

Dues for a 4-year period
Regular A USD 100
Regular B & C USD 50
Students A USD 50
Students B & C USD 25
Life
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.

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Newsletter

Available on RC12 website.