Unter der wissenschaftlichen Leitung von Professorin Soraya Amrani Mekki wird das IAPL-Kolloquium 2026 vom 28. bis 30. Oktober 2026 in Paris stattfinden.
Die Eröffnungssitzung findet am Cour de Cassation in Anwesenheit ihres Ersten Präsidenten statt. Laurent Fabius — ehemaliger Premierminister, derzeitiger Präsident des Verfassungsrats und Hauptunterhändler des Pariser Abkommens — wird ebenfalls teilnehmen, vorbehaltlich der Bestätigung.
Der Rest des Kolloquiums findet auf dem Campus Saint-Germain-des-Prés der Sciences Po Paris statt, zeitgleich mit der Paris Climate Week.
Während der zweitägigen Konferenz werden die Teilnehmer die folgenden Themen vertieft behandeln:
Ein Call for Papers wird in Kürze veröffentlicht, begleitet von einem Workshop, der einen gemeinsamen Praxisfall aus der Perspektive verschiedener Rechtssysteme behandelt.
Anlässlich des Kolloquiums wird der IAPL-Storme-Preis verliehen.
Nach der Abschlusszeremonie am 30. Oktober bietet das traditionelle Gala-Dinner eine einzigartige Gelegenheit zum Austausch, Netzwerken und Feiern.
Wir freuen uns, bekannt zu geben, dass die Bewerbungen für die 5. IAPL Postdoktoranden-Sommerschule nun geöffnet sind, die dem Thema gewidmet ist:
„Re-Shaping Civil Justice: Towards a Justice with a Human Face“.
Die IAPL Summer School bringt herausragende Postdoktoranden – sowie Promovierende in der Endphase ihrer Dissertation – aus der ganzen Welt zusammen, die im Bereich des Zivilrechts forschen.
Sie ist eine einzigartige Gelegenheit für intellektuelles Wachstum, internationalen Austausch und zur Stärkung der nächsten Generation von Wissenschaftlern in unserer Disziplin.
Bewerbungsschluss: 15. Februar 2026
Stipendien stehen zur Unterstützung ausgewählter Teilnehmer zur Verfügung.
The upcoming III International Conference IAPL - IIDP will be hosted by the University of Zagreb, Faculty of Law, and is scheduled to take place from September 11th to 13th, 2025.
The theme of the Congress is 'Judicial Efficiency Revisited'.
For more information and registration, please visit the conference webpage
The draft program is now available: click here!
Thrilling news: Registration for the Zagreb IAPL Colloquium is now open via the conference webpage
(English version or Spanish version)
Early registration is highly recommended due to a limited number of available spots.
For details, please visit: https://iaplcolloquium2025.pravo.hr/registration/registration-fees.
We look forward to welcoming you to Zagreb!
Das IAPL-Kolloquium 2024, das dem Thema „Verfahrensrecht in multikulturellen Kontexten“ gewidmet war, ist zu Ende gegangen: Drei Tage voller inspirierender Vorträge, Networking-Aktivitäten und intensiver Gedankenaustausche innerhalb der großartigen IAPL-Familie.
Vielen Dank an Professorin Laura Ervo für die hervorragende Organisation.
The 17th World Congress of the International Association of Procedural Law was held in Lima, Peru, from September 5th to 8th, 2023, with the theme "Judicial Independence in the Third Millennium". This event garnered significant attention, thanks in no small part to the magnificence of the organization by the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru (PUCP), led by Professor Giovanni Priori Posada.
For more comprehensive information, please visit the dedicated webpage (available here).
Click here for the XVII World Congress of Procedural Law Highlights.
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.
Der Assoziationsrat, der während des XVI. Weltkongresses im November in Kobe (Japan) tagte, erneuerte das Präsidium der Assoziation, das für die nächsten vier Jahre wie folgt gebildet wird: 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]. Die Vereinigung spricht dem scheidenden Präsidenten und neuen Ehrenpräsident, Prof. Dr. Loïc CADIET, seinen unermesslichen Dank aus.
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/
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