Comparative Legal Futures Network

Approved as a working group of the International Association for Comparative Legal Studies (IACLS) at the Board meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, 12 March 2025.

About the Network

The Comparative Legal Futures Network (CLFN) brings together scholars researching how legal systems anticipate, absorb, and respond to social change. It was approved as a working group of the International Association for Comparative Legal Studies (IACLS) at the Board meeting in Tallinn, Estonia, on 12 March 2025.

Board meeting presentation · Roundtable minutes

Contact

Chair: Ada Adler, Institute for Legal History
ada.adler@example.edu

Membership & mailing list

To join the mailing list, send a blank email to the list's subscribe address, or use the listinfo page.

Meetings

See the Events page (linked in the navigation above) for the full meeting history and the next planned gathering.

News

2026-09-04Network approved as an official IACLS working group
2026-07-15About, Contact, and Membership details now online
2026-05-02Call for participation: Oral History Archive project

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Events

2026-11-12Next network meeting, VancouverUpcoming
2025-07-02Second network meeting (online)
2025-03-12Working group approved at IACLS Board meeting, Tallinn, Estonia

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Latest Publications

Okoro, Chidi E. 2026. “Customary Law and Colonial Courts: Rethinking Legal Pluralism in West Africa.” African Journal of Socio-Legal Studies 8 (1): 44–70. https://doi.org/10.5555/ajsls.2026.08.01.44.
Adler, Ada. 2025. Archives of Legal Imagination: Comparative Futures in Historical Perspective. Example University Press. https://doi.org/10.5555/clfn.2025.001.
Sundström, Erik. 2025. “Legal Realism Revisited: The Uppsala School and Its Critics.” Scandinavian Studies in Law and Society 41 (March): 1–29. https://doi.org/10.5555/ssls.2025.41.1.

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