Sous la direction scientifique de la Professeure Soraya Amrani Mekki, le Colloque IAPL 2026 se tiendra à Paris du 28 au 30 octobre 2026.
La séance d’ouverture aura lieu à la Cour de cassation en présence de son Premier Président. Laurent Fabius — ancien Premier ministre, actuel président du Conseil constitutionnel et négociateur principal de l’Accord de Paris — devrait également y assister, sous réserve de confirmation.
Le reste du Colloque se déroulera sur le campus Saint-Germain-des-Prés de Sciences Po Paris, en coïncidence avec la Semaine du Climat à Paris.
Au cours de cette conférence de deux jours, les participants exploreront en profondeur les sujets suivants :
Un appel à communications sera prochainement lancé, accompagné d’un atelier visant à traiter un cas pratique commun sous la perspective de différents systèmes juridiques.
À cette occasion, le Prix Storme de l’IAPL sera décerné.
Après la cérémonie de clôture le 30 octobre, le traditionnel dîner de gala offrira une occasion unique de discussion, de réseautage et de célébration.
Nous sommes ravis d’annoncer que les candidatures sont désormais ouvertes pour la 5ᵉ École d’été postdoctorale de l’IAPL, dédiée au thème :
« Re-Shaping Civil Justice : Vers une justice à visage humain ».
L’École d’été de l’IAPL réunit des chercheurs postdoctoraux exceptionnels – ainsi que des doctorants en dernière phase – travaillant dans le domaine de la justice civile, venus du monde entier.
C’est une occasion unique de développement intellectuel, d’échanges internationaux et de renforcement de la prochaine génération de chercheurs dans notre discipline.
Date limite de candidature : 15 février 2026
Des bourses sont disponibles pour soutenir les participants sélectionnés.

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!
Le Colloque 2024 de l’IAPL, consacré au thème « Le droit procédural dans des contextes multiculturels », s’est achevé : trois jours de conférences inspirantes, d’activités de réseautage et d’échanges d’idées au sein de la merveilleuse famille de l’IAPL.
Un grand merci à la Professeure Laura Ervo pour l’excellente organisation.
Le 17ᵉ Congrès mondial de l’Association internationale de droit procédural s’est tenu à Lima, au Pérou, du 5 au 8 septembre 2023, sur le thème « L’indépendance judiciaire au troisième millénaire ». Cet événement a suscité un vif intérêt, en grande partie grâce à l’excellence de l’organisation assurée par l’Université pontificale catholique du Pérou (PUCP), sous la direction du professeur Giovanni Priori Posada.
Pour des informations plus détaillées, veuillez consulter la page web dédiée (disponible ici).
Cliquez ici pour accéder aux points forts du XVIIe Congrès mondial de droit procédural.
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.
Le Conseil de l'Association, réuni lors du XVIe Congrès mondial qui s'est tenu en novembre à Kobe (Japon), a renouvelé le Présidium de l'Association, qui sera constitué pour les quatre prochaines années comme suit: 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'Association exprime également son immense gratitude au Président sortant et nouveau Président Honoraire, le 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
Del 5 al 7 de octubre de 2016 se llevará a cabo en la ciudad de Bogotá, Colombia, el Coloquio sobre Reconciliación y Derecho Procesal que se enmarca en las actividades científicas que año tras año impulsa la Asociación Internacional de Derecho Procesal. En esta oportunidad la Universidad Externado de Colombia será la anfitriona de tan importante evento.
La elección de la "Reconciliación y el Derecho Procesal" como argumento central del Coloquio obedece a la importancia que la academia está obligada a prestar a un tema fundamental para la construcción de la paz social. Durante los tres días del encuentro se discutirán temas que buscan desarrollar la problemática que enfrenta la relación entre la reconciliación y el derecho procesal civil y penal.
Toda la información disponible aquí: http://coloquioderechoprocesal2016.uexternado.edu.co/
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