WCCL background
The World Congress of Constitutional Law (WCCL) is the most meaningful event in this field, organized by the International Association of Constitutional Law (IACL). It is held every four years and brings together the most esteemed constitutional law scholars from all regions around the world. The Congress provides a unique opportunity to discuss the relevant issues in constitutional law.
In 2022, the Congress took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, with the theme of constitutional transformations. The event was organized in four plenary sessions and 33 workshops about poverty, discrimination, and Constitutions; the environment, climate Justice and the rights of nature; Constitutional governance in crisis; and Constitutionalism in the era of private power ant the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
Notable constitutional law experts who participated in South Africa included Vicki Jackson, Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard Law School, USA; Anne Peters, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg, Germany, and member of the Permanent Court of Arbitration; Albie Sachs, South African lawyer, activist, writer, and former judge of the first Constitutional Court of South Africa; Francisco Javier Garcia Roca, Professor of Constitutional Law at Universidad Complutense Madrid, Spain; Akiko Ejima, Constitutional Law scholar at Meiji University, Japan; Bertrand Mathieu, Professor at the Faculty of Law, Université de Paris I, Sorbonne, France; Zaid Al Ali, Senior Adviser on Constitution Building, Iraq; George Katrougalos, Professor of Public Law at Democritus University, Greece, and former Member of the European Parliament; Sergei A. Belov, Dean of the Faculty of Law at St. Petersburg State University, Russia, among others.
Previous Congresses and places where they were held:
The WCCL has been previously held in the following cities:
- Belgrade, from August 29 to September 2, 1983
- Paris, from August 31 to September 4, 1987
- Warsaw, from September 2 to 5, 1991
- Tokyo, from September 25 to 30, 1995
- Rotterdam, from July 12 to 16, 1999
- Santiago de Chile, from January 12 to 16, 2004
- Athens, from June 11 to 15, 2007
- Mexico City, from December 6 to 10, 2010.