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 Stefanie LEMKE, Netherlands, contact@stefanie-lemke.com
Newsletter Pablo CIOCCHINI, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom, ciocchini@gmail.com
Board Members Julia DAHLVIK, FH Campus Wien, Austria   
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, Institutional Affiliation, Country 
  • 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 Gender and Law
    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 Human Rights
    Chair: Dani RUDNICKI, Universidade La Salle,  Brazil, danirud@hotmail.com
  • Working Group on Law and Politics
    Chair: María Angélica CUELLAR VAZQUEZ, 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 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 Social and Legal Systems
    Co-chairs: Stine PORNER Institutional Affiliation, Country  and Teresa HEDLER, Institutional Affiliation, Country  
  • Working Group on Sociology of Constitution
    Chair: Jiri PRIBAN, Cardiff University, United Kingdom, priban@cardiff.ac.uk
  • Working Group on Legal Pluralism 
    Chair: Martin RAMSTEDT, Germany, ramstedt108@gmail.com
  • Working Group on Judicialization of Social Problems
    Chair: João VELLOSO, University of Ottawa, Canada, joao.velloso@uottawa.ca
  • Working Group on Law and Development
    Co-chairs: David RESTREPO AMARILES, HEC Paris, France, restrepo-amariles@hec.fr and Pedro FORTES, Brazil, pfortes@stanfordalumni.org
  • Working Group on Knowledge and Opinion about the Law – Legal Consciousness
    Chair: Balazs FEKETE, ELTE University, Hungary, fekete.balazs@ajk.elte.hu

     

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.