Bajo la dirección científica de la Profesora Soraya Amrani Mekki, el Coloquio IAPL 2026 se celebrará en París del 28 al 30 de octubre de 2026.
La sesión inaugural se llevará a cabo en la Cour de Cassation en presencia de su Primer Presidente. Laurent Fabius —ex Primer Ministro, actual Presidente del Consejo Constitucional y negociador principal del Acuerdo de París— también asistirá, sujeto a confirmación.
El resto del Coloquio se desarrollará en el campus Saint-Germain-des-Prés de Sciences Po París, coincidiendo con la Paris Climate Week.
Durante la conferencia de dos días, los participantes explorarán en profundidad los siguientes temas:
Próximamente se anunciará un call for papers, junto con un taller diseñado para abordar un caso práctico común desde la perspectiva de diferentes sistemas jurídicos.
Con ocasión del Coloquio se otorgará el Premio Storme de la IAPL.
Tras la ceremonia de clausura el 30 de octubre, la tradicional Cena de Gala ofrecerá una oportunidad única para la discusión, el networking y la celebración.
2026 IAPL PARIS COLLOQUIUM MARCEL STORME PRIZE
Sciences Po Law School | Paris, 28-30 October 2026
Judicial Dialogue and the Role of Precedent in Environmental Justice: National and Supranational Perspectives
I. PROFILE AND SUMMARY
Participants in the 2026 IAPL Colloquium Call for Papers are also invited to indicate whether they also wish to be considered for the IAPL Marcel Storme Prize.
The Prize amounts to €1,000.
Those wishing to participate in the Prize competition must expressly state their intention when submitting their paper.
Submissions intended for the Prize must comply fully with the Storme Prize Guidelines detailed below. Full adherence to these requirements is necessary for eligibility.
The three Marcel Storme Prize finalists selected by the Jury will be invited to attend the 2026 IAPL Colloquium in Paris, where they will publicly present and discuss their papers. Finalists will be exempted from paying the Conference registration fees.
II. MARCEL STORME PRIZE GUIDELINES
1.CRITERIA
The jury will evaluate submissions based on:
•scholarly quality
•originality
•importance for the development of the subject
2.ELIGIBILITY
Candidates must not have reached their 40th birthday before the submission deadline (June 30, 2026).
3.SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Essays must be:
•unpublished
•written in English
•strictly aligned with the theme of the Colloquium Call for papers ( “Judicial Dialogue and the Role of Precedent in Environmental Justice: National and Supranational Perspectives”).
4.DOCUMENTS TO BE SUBMITTED
Candidates must submit:
•a PDF copy of the essay
•a curriculum vitae
•a list of publications
5.AUTHORSHIP AND DECLARATIONS
Only single-authored essays are eligible.
Each submission must include:
•a signed declaration by the candidate attesting that the essay complies with the word limit and constitutes their personal work, written without assistance from any other person;
•a signed endorsement from a Member of the IAPL Council confirming their belief in the accuracy of the candidate's declaration.
The IAPL reserves the right to employ anti-plagiarism software and to undertake any further inquiries deemed appropriate to verify authenticity.
III. EVALUATION COMMITTEE
Submissions will be examined by a dedicated Prize Jury, composed of:
•Professor Eduardo Oteiza (IAPL President)
•Professor Frédérique Ferrand
•Professor Remco van Rhee
2026 IAPL PARIS COLLOQUIUM - CALL FOR PAPERS
Sciences Po Law School | Paris, 28-30 October 2026
Judicial Dialogue and the Role of Precedent in Environmental Justice: National and Supranational Perspectives
I. PROFILE AND SUMMARY
All interested academics are invited to submit a document including their profile and a brief summary of the topic they wish to address (no more than 10,000 characters, including spaces), by June 30, 2026. Proposals must be written in English or French and must focus on issues related to the Colloquium theme.
II. REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
Interested persons should send the relevant document in PDF format to the Call for Papers coordinators:
- Frédérique Ferrand: frederique.ferrand@univ-lyon3.fr
- Remco van Rhee: remco.vanrhee@maastrichtuniversity.nl.
III. EVALUATION COMMITTEES
To ensure transparency and objectivity in the evaluation and selection process, two evaluation committees will be constituted, comprising representatives from different continents. No evaluator may assess a proposal submitted by an author from their own country.
IV. EVALUATION AND SELECTION PROCEDURE
The IAPL evaluation committees will establish the list of selected candidates by July 31, 2026, and results will be communicated by email.
Each evaluator will assess proposals according to the following criteria:
(i) multidisciplinary approach to the main theme of the Colloquium;
(ii) innovation and creativity in the proposed solution to the legal problem identified;
(iii) reasoning and originality;
(iv) argumentation, clarity, and coherence of the content;
(v) clarity and coherence of the conclusion.
The Call for Papers coordinators will collect the evaluation sheets and average the scores. Proposals must reach a minimum of 70 points out of 100 to be selected.
Selected authors will be invited to submit a full text of their contribution (maximum 50,000 characters, including spaces and footnotes) by September 5, 2026.
Selected authors must register for the event and will benefit from a promotional registration fee of €150.
V. OPTIONAL PARTICIPATION IN THE MARCEL STORME PRIZE
Participants in the Call for Papers are invited to indicate, at the time of submission, whether they also wish to be considered for the IAPL Marcel Storme Prize.
The 2nd Ibero-American Congress of Civil Procedural Law — in memory of Piero Calamandrei and Eduardo Couture on the 70th anniversary of their passing — will take place in Santa Margherita Ligure and Genoa on 23–24 April. For more information, please visit the official Congress website at www.encuentrogenova.it
Nos complace anunciar que ya están abiertas las solicitudes para la 5ª Escuela de Verano Postdoctoral de la IAPL, dedicada al tema:
“Re-Shaping Civil Justice: Towards a Justice with a Human Face”.
La Summer School de la IAPL reúne a investigadores postdoctorales destacados – y a candidatos a doctorado en su etapa final – que trabajan en el campo de la justicia civil de todo el mundo.
Es una oportunidad única para el crecimiento intelectual, el intercambio internacional y para fortalecer a la próxima generación de académicos en nuestra disciplina.
Fecha límite de solicitud: 15 de febrero de 2026
Se ofrecen becas para apoyar a los participantes seleccionados.
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!
El Coloquio IAPL 2024, dedicado a «El derecho procesal en contextos multiculturales», ha llegado a su fin: tres días de conferencias inspiradoras, actividades de networking e intercambio de ideas entre la maravillosa familia IAPL.
Muchas gracias a la Profesora Laura Ervo por la excelente organización.
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.
El Consejo de la Asociación, reunido durante el XVI Congreso Mundial celebrado en noviembre en Kobe (Japón), renovó su órgano de dirección (Presidium) que quedará constituido para los cuatro años siguientes en estos términos: 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]. La Asociación expresa asimismo su inmensa gratitud al Presidente saliente y nuevo Presidente Honorario, el Prof. Dr. Loïc CADIET.
Del 17 al 19 de octubre de 2018 se desarrolló en la Universidad de Salamanca (España) la "II Conferencia Internacional IIDP - IAPL" junto con la "XXVI Jornada Iberoamericana de Derecho Procesal", dedicada a la Prueba. Más información sobre el congreso aquí.
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
Del 10 al 13 de Julio de 2016 se desarrollará en la ciudad de Luxemburgo la segunda IAPL-MPI Escuela de Verano Post Doctoral sobre Derecho Procesal Europeo y Comparado, organizada por la Asociación Internacional de Derecho Procesal (IAPL) y el Instituto Max Planck de Luxemburgo para el Derecho Internacional, Regulatorio y Procesal (MPI).
Están disponibles 20 plazas para interesados que tengan el derecho procesal y/o los mecanismos de resolución de disputas como su principal campo de interés académico.
Fecha límite para enviar las aplicaciones: 31 de Enero de 2016.
Nota: se requiere un buen manejo del idioma inglés, tanto oral como escrito.
Más información disponible aquí: http://www.mpi.lu/news-and-events/iapl-mpi-summer-school/2016/call-for-applications/
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
El XV congreso mundial de derecho procesal se celebrará en Estambul, del 25 al 28 de mayo de 2015, sobre el tema “Tutela judicial efectiva en tiempos de austeridad”.
Más información disponible aquí: http://www.iapl2015.org
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
El Coloquio anual de la Asociación Internacional de Derecho Procesal se celebrará del 1 al 4 de octubre de 2014, en Seúl, Corea.
Bajo el tema general “Constitución y Proceso” se tratarán los siguientes subtemas: (1) Trasfondo ideológico de la Constitución, normas constitucionales y proceso civil; (2) Constitución, Poder Judicial y estructura de los poderes públicos; (3) Acceso efectivo a la Justicia; (4) Constitución, derechos fundamentales y régimen jurídico de la ejecución.
El programa ha sido diseñado para ofrecer a los asistentes al Coloquio la oportunidad de entrar en contacto con el rico patrimonio cultural de Seúl y Corea, así como de participar en enriquecedores debates académicos.
La Universidad de Warsaw (Departamento de Derecho Procesal Civil), la Suprema Corte de la República de Polonia y el Consejo Nacional de la Judicatura, con el auspicio de la Asociación Internacional de Derecho Procesal, han organizado una conferencia internacional sobre el tema "Las funciones de la suprema corte - Cuestiones procesales y de administración de justicia".
Dicha conferencia comenzará el día Miércoles 11 de Junio (alrededor de las 18.00 hs.) y finalizará el día Viernes 13 de Junio de 2014 (alrededor de las 17.00 hs).
Más información y requisitos para registro disponibles aquí: http://colloquium2014.uw.edu.pl
La primera escuela de verano post-doctoral sobre derecho procesal europeo y comparado, organizada por la Asociación Internacional de Derecho Procesal y el Max Planck Institute de Luxemburgo para Derecho Internacional, Europeo y Procesal Regulatorio, se desarrollará en Luxemburgo entre el 20 y el 23 de Julio de 2014 bajo la dirección de los Profesores Loïc Cadiet (Universidad París I - Sorbona) y Burkhard Hess (MPI Luxemburgo).
El objetivo de la misma es proveer a jóvenes investigadores post-doctorales que trabajen sobre derecho procesal europeo y comparado una oportunidad para discutir sus proyectos de investigación con algunos colegas, así como también con profesores y abogados con mayor experiencia. Mayor información al respecto puede consultarse aquí: IAPL-MPI Summer School Poster (enlace a PDF)
Los interesados en participar deberán remitir sus aplicaciones hasta el día 15 de Marzo de 2014 a la siguiente dirección de correo electrónico: summer-school@mpi.lu
Las aplicaciones deben contener un breve trabajo escrito en inglés acerca del perfil de investigador del candidato, junto con una breve presentación de su tema actual de investigación, un CV y una carta de recomendación de su supervisor o institución.
Por cualquier duda o pregunta que puedan tener los candidatos por favor contactarse con summer-school@mpi.lu
La Facultad de Derecho de Vilnius, en cooperación con la Academia de Ciencias de Lituania y con el apoyo de la AIDP, ha organizado una conferencia internacional con motivo del décimo aniversario del Código Procesal Civil de Lituania y a efectos de discutir desafíos recientes y futuros que enfrenta el proceso civil en diferentes países. El tema de la Conferencia es: "Tendencias Recientes en Economía y Eficiencia del Proceso Civil".
La Asociación Internacional de Derecho Procesal celebró en Atenas, del 11 al 14 de septiembre de 2013, un coloquio sobre el tema “Litigios en materia mercantil: casos y procedimientos especiales”.
El programa está disponible para descargar aquí: Athens Programme
Para más información pueden visitar el sitio web oficial de la Conferencia: http://www.idme.gr/congress_eng.cfm?id=25
Una nueva edición del Foro Legal Interncional de San Petersburgo será llevada a cabo del 15 al 18 de Mayo de 2013 en San Petersburgo (Rusia)
Para esta edición del 2013 se organizó un panel especial en cooperación con la AIDP. El tema de dicho panel es "Competencia por disputas comerciales: ¿Mito o realidad?" Los moderadores serán Janet Walker, miembro del Presidium de la AIDP, y Dmitry Maleshin, miembro del Concejo de la AIDP.
Más información disponible en: http://www.spblegalforum.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/
18 al 21 de Septiembre de 2012
Moscú, Rusia
6 al 9 de Junio de 2012
Buenos Aires, Argentina
25 al 30 de Julio de 2011
Heidelberg, Alemania
Web site: http://iapl-2011-congress.com
23 al 25 de Septiembre de 2010
Pécs, Hungría
3 al 5 de Junio de 2009
Toronto, Canadá
http://www.iapl2009.org
5 al 8 de Noviembre de 2008
Valencia y Gandía, España
http://www.uv.es/coloquio
