Research Committees
RC12 Sociology of Law
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 | 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 V 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
Cross Interest
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
Newsletter
Available on RC12 website.
Membership
Regular category A membership dues for a 4-year period is USD 130.
| Regular membership categories B & C | USD 65 |
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| Category A students | USD 65 |
| Category B & C students | USD 30 |
Life membership is available after 70.
| Life membership | |
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| Category A | USD 200 |
| Category B & C | USD 100 |
Students if you prefer to pay in Euro, please contact RC12 organizational secretariat at manttoni@iisj.es.
To become a member, submit a membership application from your user account: https://members.isa-sociology.org/login