Submissions are now open for the 2027 Global Meeting on Law and Society, which will be from June 22 through June 25 in Hong Kong, with a day of virtual sessions on June 26.
The deadline for submissions is October 27, 2026, at 12 pm ET. The full call, including options for virtual participation, below the fold.
SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN for the 2027 Global Meeting on Law and Society in Hong Kong from June 22 to 26, 2027!
The main conference programming will take place in-person Tuesday, June 22 through Friday, June 25. All participants scheduled for those days must be present at The University of Hong Kong.
The last day of programming, Saturday, June 26, will be entirely virtual. Participants and registrants on that day will be able to join from anywhere in the world.
We encourage all sociolegal scholars to consider submitting an individual paper or a session proposal. You will need to select whether you intend to present in person or virtually.
Interested in proposing a session with a creative format? Consult with the LSA Executive Office (melissa.king@lawandsociety.org) before submitting!
Deadline: October 27, 2026 (12pm ET)
Call for Papers: https://www.lawandsociety.org/2026/09/10/call-for-papers-2027-global-meeting-on-law-and-society/
Conference Link: https://www.lawandsociety.org/hong-kong-2027-homepage
Submissions Link: https://ww3.aievolution.com/lsa2701
LSA 2027 Theme: Law in Motion: Reimagining Mobility, Boundaries, and Belonging
Penny Andrews, Sida Liu, and Lynette Chua, Program Chairs, 2027 Global Meeting on Law and Society
We live in a paradoxical era. On the one hand, the world has become unprecedentedly mobile. Capital, data, goods, and ideas flow across the globe with increasing velocity, while human beings are on the move as never before—as tourists, students, laborers, digital nomads, and, most urgently, as refugees and asylum seekers displaced by conflict, climate change, and economic precarity.
On the other hand, this hyper-mobility encounters an equally powerful counterforce: the hardening of boundaries. Around the world, wall-building has resurged, border surveillance has expanded, and complex legal architectures have proliferated to filter, channel, and restrict movement. In this struggle, law occupies a central position, often invisibly. It draws the lines, creates the categories, and ultimately determines who can move, where they can go, and on what terms.
The conference theme, Law in Motion: Reimagining Mobility, Boundaries, and Belonging, directly confronts this tension. Emblematic of law and society scholarship, the conference urges researchers to examine law as a dynamic force that is both constituted by and constitutive of movement and to question the concepts that underpin our legal world. What constitutes a “boundary” in the 21st century, when digital borders and biometric databases are as formidable as physical walls? How is “mobility” itself stratified, creating hierarchies of travelers and migrants? And how does law construct “belonging”—not just through formal citizenship, but in the interstitial spaces of temporary visas, precarious statuses, and transnational communities?
We invite scholars from law, sociology, anthropology, political science, geography, history, and beyond to investigate the intricate interplays among official law, social norms, and the mobile human experience. At the same time, we welcome submissions that do not speak to the conference theme but nevertheless forge interdisciplinary dialogues about law from all corners of the world. We look forward to welcoming you to Hong Kong!
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