Submission and Participation Resources

Keywords & CRNs

Primary and Secondary Keywords help the Program Committee organize your paper with others into sessions. Please click here to view our current list of CRNs!

Interested in a particular CRN? Email organizers to describe how your research interest relates to the subject matter.

2026 Keywords:

Abolition
Access to Justice, Adjudication, and Dispute Resolution (including Negotiation and Arbitration)
Aging
Asian Law and Society, East Asia, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Authoritarianism, Autocracy, and Populism
Citizenship
Constitutional Law and Constitutionalism
Corporate Law, Securities, and Transactions
Courts, Trials, Litigation, and Civil Procedure
Crime, Victimization, and Violence
Criminal Justice and Criminal Procedure
Democracy, Elections, Governance, State Theory
Discrimination and Segregation
Economy, International Trade, Global Economy and Law
Education, Schools, Higher Education
Emotions
Environment, Natural Resources, Energy, Sustainability, Water, and Climate Change
Ethics, Bioethics, and the Law
Ethnography
Family, Youth, and Children
Femicide & Gender Violence
Gender and Sexuality
Geographies and Law
Health and Medicine
Human Rights and International Human Rights
Intellectual Property, Culture, and Cultural Heritage
International Law, International Organizations, International and Regional Courts
Labor and Employment
Land, Housing, and Property
Language, Linguistics
Latin American and Caribbean Law and Society
Law and Development
Law and Justice
Legal Actors: Judges & Judging
Legal Actors: Lawyers, Law Firms, and other Legal Actors
Legal Consciousness
Legal Culture
Legal History
Legal Pluralism
Mass Atrocity, Disasters, Pandemics
Migration and Refugees
Police and Policing
Prisons
Psychology and Law
Punishment and Sentencing
Race, Ethnicity, and Critical Race Research
Regulation and Administration
Religion and the Law
Rights, Representation and Identities
Social Movements, Legal Mobilization, and Solidarity
Social or Political Theory and the Law
Technology, Innovation, Artificial Intelligence, Robots, Science, and the Law
War, Conflict, Terrorism, Civil Strife