7th International LADR Workshop
UpcomingReston, United States
The 7th International LADR Workshop will be held at ASCE Headquarters in Reston, Virginia, from 8 to 10 June 2027, with a welcome reception on 7 June. Abstracts are due 3 November 2026.
International LADR Workshop
Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Construction
An ASCE journal and an international workshop where construction lawyers, engineers, and scholars bring legal questions from real projects into peer-reviewed print.
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What LADR is
Journal, workshop, and publication
The journal
The Journal of Legal Affairs and Dispute Resolution in Engineering and Constructionis a peer-reviewed ASCE journal on the legal dimensions of engineering and construction practice: contracts, claims, liability, procurement, and dispute resolution.
About the journal →The workshop
The International LADR Workshop brings the journal's authors, editors, and readers together each cycle, hosted by a partner university and co-sponsored by ASCE's Construction Institute. Papers presented at the workshop are published in a collection of the journal.
Past and upcoming workshops →Publishing with us
Submit a 200-word abstract here. If accepted, you are invited to submit a full manuscript through ASCE's Editorial Manager for peer review and publication in the workshop's special collection of the journal.
How submission works →Editorial team
Abstracts are read by the journal's editors.
Editor-in-Chief
Lance P. VanDemarkP.E., Ph.D., F.ASCE, MSCE
VanDemark Engineering and Consulting
Deputy Editor-in-Chief
Mohamed-Asem U. Abdul-MalakPh.D.
American University of Beirut
Affiliation
An ASCE journal, co-sponsored by the Construction Institute
LADR is published by the American Society of Civil Engineers and is indexed in Scopus and included in the Web of Science. The workshop series is co-sponsored by ASCE's Construction Institute.