ASCL News

The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is pleased to invite submissions for its Seventh Workshop on Comparative Business and Financial Law, which will be held on August 27–28, 2026, at Nanyang Business School (NBS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore).

The International Academy of Comparative Law recently concluded its election of new members. We are delighted to announce that a number of our colleagues have been elected into membership.

On behalf of the American Society of Comparative Law, we extend our warmest congratulations to the following individuals:

Elected to Titular Membership:

• Jacques de Lisle
• Tim Sellers
• William Butler

Elected to Associate Membership:

• Ioanna Tourkochoriti
• Margaret Woo
• Shitong Qiao
• Virginia Harper Ho
• Yvonne Tew

These elections reflect the outstanding contributions each of these scholars has made to the field of comparative law.

Announcement and Call for Papers

Co-Organized and Co-Hosted by

Kim Lane Scheppele (Princeton University)

Jacques deLisle (University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School)

Jacqueline Ross (University of Illinois College of Law)

and

Co-Sponsored by the American Society of Comparative Law

Hosting institution for 2026: Princeton University

We invite all interested comparative law scholars to submit a paper for the next annual Comparative Law Work-in-Progress Workshop, which will be hosted by Princeton University held in-person in Princeton, May 7-9, 2026.

The Younger Comparativists Committee (YCC) of the American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) is pleased to invite submissions for the YCC Program to be held in-person in conjunction with the ASCL Annual Meeting from Thursday, October 16th to Saturday, October 18th at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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?