The 100th Anniversary of the International Academy of Comparative Law!

The article describes the formation of Comparative Law in the 19th century. and its main coordinating research body, the International Academy of Comparative Law (IACL), founded in 1924 in Geneva. The international congresses preceding this event in Paris (1900) and St. Louis (1904) marked the beginning of international scientific cooperation, which later, within the framework of the IASP, took the form of regular scientific congresses held every 4 years. The topics of these meetings are regularly updated, although some topics (primarily related to specific areas of law) may be repeated. Comparativists from Russia, headed by Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences T. Ya. Khabrieva, are also represented in the IASP. The Academy’s goals for the future are to better take into account the realities of the non-Western world in its research activities, abandoning Eurocentrism, and expand comparative legal issues through the methods of Comparative Government and Comparative Political Science.