AIDA World Water Law Congress

Over its nearly six decades, the International Association for Water Law has held periodic World Water Law Congresses around the globe. These events are intended to create space for professionals from various disciplines—-from law to economics to hydrology who work at the intersection of water law, governance, and policy--to convene, share experiences, promote discussion, and present new knowledge, research results, and developments from around the world. AIDA World Water Law Congresses have been held:

AIDA has also held or cooperated on other water law conferences:

Congress proceedings were collated and published in Annales Juris Aquarum for the 1976 Venezuela, 1975 Spain, and 1989 Spain congresses.

Between 2011 and 2025, AIDA collaborated on six occasions with the International Water Resources Association to organize a water law track within IWRA World Water Congress program, effectively creating a smaller edition of the AIDA World Water Law Congresses. This occurred:

Select papers from the 2011 Brazil, 2015 Scotland, and 2017 Mexico events were collated and published in special issues of the international Journal, Water International. Select papers from the 2021 South Korea and 2023 China events will soon be published in an upcoming special issue of Water International.

In June 2026, AIDA again organized a World Water Law Congress that attracted nearly 200 attendees and featured 3 keynote presentations, 4 plenary sessions, 88 individual oral presentations, 8 special sessions, and 8 poster presentations. Held at the University of Oslo Faculty of Law in Oslo, Norway, the event was organized in collaboration with the University of Oslo, the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, and the Norwegian Institute of Water Research. A Congress Proceedings as well as a special journal issue featuring select papers presented at the Congress will be made available later in 2026.