Jointly hosted by the University Institute of Lisbon and Lisbon University

Date: Wednesday to Saturday, September 9-12, 2026

IIPPE 16th Annual Conference in Political Economy

The Political Economy and Law working group invites submissions of proposals for individual papers and thematic panels on all aspects of the interaction between law and political economy, across all sectors and geographical contexts. We are particularly interested in both theoretical and empirical papers pertinent to this year’s conference theme on “Capitalism Moving Beyond Neoliberalism: Crises, Changes, and What Comes Next”. 

Our perspective stems from a critique of both a view of the economy and markets as spontaneously emerging orders that operate through naturally occurring forces, and a view of law as a neutral and impartial institution that operates independently of material processes and their concomitant relations of domination and power. Law has played an integral role in the historical configuration of capitalism and it also plays an important role in the configuration of variegated and actually existing manifestations of contemporary capitalist processes across national and local contexts. Indeed, economic and legal decisions do not happen in a social or political vacuum; on the contrary they are the product of historically and intersectionally constituted relations of power, hegemony, contestation and resistance, and they play an active role shaping them in return. 

We welcome perspectives from critical political economy, critical legal studies, law and society, the anthropology of law, institutional economics, Marxist critique of law, cultural studies and other pertinent fields and traditions.

The deadline for submissions is February 15, 2026.

To submit a proposal click the link below to go to the IIPPE Front Page, and then use the link there to go to the instructions for submitting a proposal. Please read and follow these carefully to avoid spoiling your proposal. Then use the link that is embedded at the bottom of the instructions to go to the WHOVA proposal submission platform..

The IIPPE Front Page is at: https://iippe.org/ 

IMPORTANT: In your submission please indicate clearly that you are submitting to this call by selecting the offered Political Economy and Law Working Group option.

For further inquiries, contact the WG co-ordinators: 

Mnqobi Ngubane ngubanemnqobi@gmail.com

Angela Daly angelacdaly@gmail.com

João Telésforo mf.telesforo@gmail.com

Christina Sakali christina.sakali@gmail.com