ASCL News

Paris Congress at 125: Comparative Law’s Entanglement with Power from Paris to Today

October 16-18, 2025

McGill Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada

The American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is pleased to invite submissions for papers to be presented at the 2025 ASCL Annual Meeting, to be held at the McGill Faculty of Law, Montreal, Canada, from Thursday, October 16 to Saturday, October 18, 2025.

The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is pleased to invite submissions for its Sixth Workshop on Comparative Business and Financial Law, which will be held on May 9-10, 2025, at the National Taiwan University College of Law in Taipei, Taiwan.

May 1-3, 2025

Announcement and Call for Papers

Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by

Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law)

Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University)

Jacques deLisle (University of Pennsylvania Law School), and

And co-sponsored by The American Society of Comparative Law

Hosting institution this year:  University of Illinois College of Law

We invite all interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, which will be hosted by University of Illinois College of Law and held in-person in Champaign-Urbana, from May 1-3, 2025.

The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is pleased to announce an online panel on “Constitutional Court Resilience and Resistance Vis-à-vis De-democratization.” The panel will be held on 21 October 2024 from 4:45-6:15 P.M. CEST.

The schedule is as follows:

Constitutional Court Resilience and Resistance Vis-à-vis De-democratization

Chair: Ágnes Kovács (Eötvös Loránd University)

Sanjit Dias (Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law): Strategic Considerations in the Sri Lankan Supreme Court’s Constitutional Amendment Jurisprudence on Fourth-Branch Institutions

Rosa Ristawati (Airlangga University): The Frustration of Indonesian Democracy with the Aid of the Constitutional Court?

Innovation and Sustainability: Comparative Law for a Better World

October 17-19, 2024

Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas

The American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL), the leading organization in the United States promoting the comparative study of law, and Texas A&M University School of Law invite all interested scholars, practitioners, and advanced degree students to submit a proposal for a paper presentation or a concurrent panel for the upcoming Annual Meeting of the American Society of Comparative Law.

The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) invites nominations, including self-nominations, for the annual Richard M. Buxbaum Prize for Teaching in Comparative Law. The YCC created the Buxbaum Prize in the summer of 2014 in honor of Professor Richard M.

The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is pleased to invite submissions for its Thirteenth Annual Conference, to be held in-person in conjunction with the ASCL Annual Meeting from Thursday, October 17 to Saturday, October 19, 2024, at Texas A&M University School of Law, Fort Worth, Texas.

January 18-20, 2024

Announcement and Call for Papers

Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by

Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University)

Jacques deLisle (University of Pennsylvania Law School), and

Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law)

And The American Society of Comparative Law

Hosting institution this year:  Princeton University Center for Human Values

Co-sponsored by University of Pennsylvania Carey School of Law, University of Illinois College of Law, and the American Society of Comparative Law

We invite all interested comparative law scholars to consider submitting a paper to the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, which will be hosted by Princeton University and held in-person in Princeton, New Jersey from January 18-20, 2024 .