Under the scientific direction of Professor Soraya Amrani Mekki, the 2026 IAPL Colloquium will take place in Paris from 28 to 30 October 2026, and will be devoted to the theme of Environmental Justice.
The opening session will be held at the Cour de Cassation in the presence of its First President. Laurent Fabius —former Prime Minister, current President of the Constitutional Council, and chief negotiator of the Paris Agreement — will also attend, subject to confirmation.
The rest of the Colloquium will take place at Sciences Po Paris’s Saint-Germain-des-Prés campus, coinciding with Paris Climate Week.
Over the two-day conference, participants will explore the following topics in depth:
- The concept of “parties to the proceedings”
- Identification of the court having subject-matter jurisdiction
- The evidentiary challenge
- Alternatives to court
- Remedies
- Judicial rulings on environmental matters
A call for papers will soon be announced, along with a workshop designed to address a common practical case from the perspective of different legal systems.
On this occasion, the IAPL Storme Prize will be awarded.
Following the closing ceremony on 30 October, the traditional Gala Dinner will offer a unique opportunity for discussion, networking, and celebration.
We are thrilled to announce that applications are now open for the 5th IAPL Post-Doctoral Summer School, dedicated to the theme:
“Re-Shaping Civil Justice: Towards a Justice with a Human Face”.
The IAPL Summer School brings together outstanding post-doctoral researchers – and PhD candidates in their final stage – working in the field of civil justice from all over the world.
It is a unique opportunity for intellectual growth, international exchange, and for strengthening the next generation of scholars in our discipline.
Application deadline: 15 February 2026
Grants are available to support selected participants.
The 2024 IAPL Colloquium devoted to 'Procedural Law in Multicultural Contexts' has come to an end: it has been three days of inspiring speeches, networking activities, and exchanging ideas among the wonderful IAPL family.
Many thanks to Professor Laura Ervo for the excellent organisation.
The 4th edition of the IAPL Summer School took place in Madrid, at Complutense University, from 19 to 21 June 2023, organized by Prof. Fernando Gascón Inchausti.The academic format of the Summer School, designed by Prof. Fernando Gascón Inchausti allowed students and professors to participate in exciting debates.Here are some statistics from the 4th edition of the IAPL Summer School:
Fourteen participants from Croatia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, and Ukraine.
Nine senior professors, including Eduardo Oteiza, Richard Marcus, Marta Requejo-Isidro, Bart Krans, Elena D’Alessandro, Alan Uzelac, Anna Nylund, Burkhard Hess, and Antonio Cabral.
The overarching theme, "Challenges for procedural law," was explored through four main facets: effective consumer protection, litigation related to environmental and climate change, the digitalization of the justice system, and issues concerning vulnerability and the rule of law.
There are plans for an open-access publication of the contributions. Stay tuned!
The 2022 Colloquium of the Association took place from 6th to 8th October, organised by the University of Brescia under the direction of Prof. Dr. Luca Passanante. The topic was “Open and equal justice”. Among the issues that were addressed, “Roles of Supreme Courts”, “Alternative and appropriate dispute resolution”, “Litigation costs” or “Jurisdiction and democracy”. The final programme is available here.
The 16th World Congress of the International Association of Procedural Law took place in Kobe, Japan, on November 2 - 5, 2019. The topic of the Congress was "Challenges for Civil Justice as We Move Beyond Globalization and Technological Change". The webpage, with much more detailed information, is available here.
Il Consiglio dell'Associazione, riunito durante il XVI Congresso mondiale tenutosi a novembre a Kobe (Giappone), ha rinnovato il Presidio dell'Associazione, che sarà costituito per i prossimi quattro anni come segue: Professor Eduardo OTEIZA [President], Professor Richard L. MARCUS [Vice President (North America)], Professor Masahiko OMURA [Vice President (Asia and South Pacific)], Professor Luiz Guilherme MARINONI [Vice President (South America)], Professor Burkhard HESS [Vicepresident (Europe)], Professor Remo CAPONI [Secretary General], Professor Frédérique FERRAND [Secretary General], Professor Margaret Y.K. WOO [Secretary General] and Professor Fernando GASCÓN INCHAUSTI [Executive Secretary General]. L'Associazione esprime anche la sua immensa gratitudine al Presidente uscente e nuovo Presidente Onorario, il Prof. Dr. Loïc CADIET.
The University of Salamanca (Spain) hosted from 17 to 19 October 2018 the 2nd Joint Conference of the International Association of Procedural Law and the Instituto Iberoamericano de Derecho Procesal. The topic of the conference was Evidence. More information on the Conference is available here.
The third edition of the International Association of Procedural Law (IAPL) - Max Planck Institute Luxembourg Summer-School took place in Luxembourg from the 1st to the 4th of July 2018. The general topic was "Privatizing Dispute Resolution and its Limits".
More information is accessible in the website of the MPI Luxembourg.
You will find here the programme.
The Chair of Legal Culture of the University of Girona (Spain) organized the Evidential Legal Reasoning World Congress. The event wasattended by 18 speakers from 4 continents, all of them major international specialists in the field of evidentiary reasoning in the judicial process. The purpose of the conference was to offer, as one of its main attractions, a debate among the different perspectives of different legal traditions and cultures around the world.
All the information are available on: www.chairinlegalculture.com
The 2017 Colloquium of the IAPL took place in Tianjin (China) from 7 to 10 November. It was devoted to "Judicial Managament from Comparative Perspective".
For more information, go here to the website of the Colloquium
The Jean Monnet Module on European Civil Procedure in a Comparative and Transnational Perspective celebrated its annual Conference in Milan, on 30 October 2017. The topic was "European Courts and National Judges" (Corti europee e giudici nazionali’).
You will find the programme here.
The Faculty of Law of Prague 1 - Charles University hosted on 26 and 27 October a conference on Standards of Proof.
For more information, click here
For the first time the Conference, with the theme Communication and Fairness in Legal Settings, takes place outside China.
The Conference gives an opportunity to the participants in a global context to present, listen to and discuss in plenary sessions and workshops fundamental issues on this topic from several perspectives such as for example rhetoric, children, vulnerable groups, gender and cost and benefit analyses.
Invited speakers come except from China and Sweden also from all around the world, namely from Norway, Hong Kong, Germany, Canada, Israel, France and Italy.
Accepted papers may in accordance with presented information on the webpage (http://www.oru.se/jps/LLDconference) be invited for publication in international journals.
The Conference also includes opportunities for the participants and accompanying persons to continue their discussions during the social activities of the Conference which includes visits to historical and traditional venues of this part of Sweden.
Flyer of the event available for downloanding here: Conference Örebro University
An Internation conference is going to be held in Tyumen University, Siberia, in October 16-17, 2014 under the title “Specialization of Courts and Judges: World Practice and the Russian Experience”. This is the first Siberian legal forum, devoted to the 150 anniversary of Judicial reform of 1864.
The conference will bring together the leading researchers in the field of jurisprudence of the higher educational institutions of Europe, North and South America, Africa and Asia, who will share their experience in foreign judicial specialization. The domestic experts, in their turn, will concentrate on the features of the Russian judicial authority.
More information available at: http://www.siberiaforum.ru
The Commonwealth Lawyers Association will celebrate its XVIII Conference at Cape Town, South Africa, in 14-18 April, 2013.
The IAPL is one of the supporting organisations.
More information available at: http://www.commonwealthlaw2013.org/
3 al 5 de Junio de 2009
Toronto, Canadá
http://www.iapl2009.org
