It’s Official!


AMHERST, Mass. – The Law and Society Association will head to Lisbon, Portugal, for its 2022 Global Meeting from Wednesday, July 13, to Saturday, July 16. The conference will be held at ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon. It will be LSA’s 7th Global Meeting on Law and Society, which is held approximately every 5 years.

The theme of #LSA2022 will be Rage, Reckoning, & Remedy. Click here to learn more about the theme.

The conference is organized in partnership between LSA and other sociolegal associations around the world, including the Research Committee on Sociology of Law (RCSL), the Asian Law and Society Association, the African Law and Society Network, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the Canadian Law and Society Association, the Japanese Association of the Sociology of Law, the Law and Society Association of Australia and New Zealand, the Brazilian Network on Empirical Legal Studies (REED), the Brazilian Association for the Sociology of Law (ABraSD) and the Sociology of Law and Justice Section of the Portuguese Association of Sociology.

#LSA2022’s Program Chairs are Michele Goodwin (University of California-Irvine), Dee Smythe (University of Cape Town) and Pierre Guibentif (ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon).

Past international Annual Meetings have been held in Amsterdam (1991), Glasgow (1996), Budapest (2001), Berlin (2007), Honolulu (2012) and Mexico City (2017).

We hope to see you there and look forward to conferencing in-person again, while also offering hybrid, as well as fully virtual options for scholars who will be unable to make the trip! We will continue to announce further details on lawandsociety.org as more information becomes available. Follow our News and Announcements for the latest LSA updates!

Cheers! #HelloLisboa


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