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Call for Applications or Nominations as Scientific Director

26 Mar 2021

The IISL is issuing a call through the Research Committee for the Sociology of Law of the International Sociological Association for nominations for the position of Scientific Director of IISL. The 2-year term of the present Scientific Director (SD) at the IISL will end in August 2022 for a...

Poster of Bill Felstiner's talk.

Bill Felstiner will offer a personal account: "Our man in Chad: Reflections of a fieldworker"

01 Mar 2021

Bill Felstiner, former Scientific Director of the IISL (1989-2000), will give the next talk in the IISL Institutional Memory talk series: a personal account titled "Our man in Chad: Reflections of a fieldworker...

Oñati Socio-Legal Series 11(1) - Climate Justice in the Anthropocene

04 Feb 2021

The first issue of the year of Oñati Socio-Legal Series, the IISL's indexed socio-legal journal, is out. Issue 1 is entitled Climate Justice in the Anthropocene and has been edited by Sam Adelman (Warwick University) and Louis Kotzé (North-West University/University of Lincoln), who chaired a...

Open talk: "The changing role of judiciary in a modern democracy" (9 February)

28 Jan 2021

The IISL will host a talk under the title The changing role of judiciary in a modern democracy. It will be given by Nina Betetto, President of the Council of Europe's Consultative Council of European Judges (CCJE) and Judge of the Slovenian Supreme Court, on 9 February at 01:30...

Book launch: "Transformations on the Ground: Space and the Power of the Land in Botswana"

21 Jan 2021

The official, on-line presentation of the book "Transformations on the Ground: Space and the Power of the Land in Botswana" will take place on 26 January, by Profs. Anne Griffiths and Winifred Kamau. If you want to attend, please contact Ainhoa Baños (a.banos@iisj.es), who will provide you with...

Table of contents of OSLS 10(6)

New issue of Oñati Socio-Legal Series: "Governing the Political: Law and the Politics of Resistance"

02 Dec 2020

Our international, indexed online journal, Oñati Socio-Legal Series, has just launched a new issue. It is titled "Governing the Political: Law and the Politics of Resistance" and it has been edited by York University professors Carmela Murdocca and Laura J. Kwak. It is the result of a 2018...

Table of Contents of OSLS 10(5)

New issue of Oñati Socio-Legal Series: Historical and Comparative Macrosociology of Middle Eastern Legal Systems

01 Oct 2020

Oñati Socio-Legal Series is out with issue number 5 of the year: Historical and Comparative Macrosociology of Middle Eastern Legal Systems. The issue, edited by Nathan J. Brown and Saïd A. Arjomand, is a collection of articles by top scholars in the field, who attended a specialized...

Our Library is open again

07 Sep 2020

The IISL library is open again, fully adapted to the situation brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic and having implemented all security measures. Its opening hours are: from 08:30 to 05:30 from Monday to Thursday, and from 08:30 to 02:00 on Fridays.

The IISL will be closed for summer break

30 Jul 2020

The IISL staff will begin their summer break on 31 July, and all IISL services will be resumed on 1 September. On that day, we will be again based at the Sancti Spiritus university building, which has been properly conditioned to be a safe environment for both staff and users.

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