International Conference on Law and Society ICLS on November 04-05, 2026 in Cape Town, South Africa

Courts and litigation, including the recent flourishing of new kinds of judicial mechanisms (e.g. constitutional and administrative courts) and the importation of others (e.g. juries and lay judges)
The training of a highly qualified, independent, and incorruptible judiciary
Gender issues in law and society
Legal education and the legal profession, the careers of lawyers, and recent trends aimed at reform or transformation of training and credentialing
Indigenous peoples, including their connection to such issues as human rights, natural resources, migration, self-government, children, adoption, and identity
Religion and law; new theories of secularism; religious and secular law
Regulation, including new forms of non-governmental and trans-national regulatory approaches and their relationship to traditional national regulatory mechanisms
Health, including HIV-AIDS, healthcare policy, aging
Financial markets, trade, foreign investment, and the global impact of the financial crisis in a broad range of areas that are of interest to sociolegal scholars
Immigration and the unprecedented flows of workers across national boundaries throughout the world
Human security, violence, war, dispossession, refugees
Security, technologies of security, governmentality, counter-terrorism
East-West dialogue concerning different legal orders and models of law; impact of globalization on different legal traditions
New concepts of legal pluralism and legal culture in relation to new forms of legal ordering
Colonialism, globalization, and recolonization
The United Nations and other transnational bodies, especially in relation to global governance, international conflict, and peacekeeping