Events and Announcements: 28 September 2025

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Call for Applications

Workshop – Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and other International Human Rights Systems: The Academy for the European Human Rights Protection (University of Cologne) is organising a workshop about “Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and other International Human Rights Systems – A Workshop for Early Career Researchers”. The workshop will take place on 15-16 December 2025. The workshop will focus on: How can researchers engage with comparative research and perspectives from other international human rights systems? How to write articles in the field of the ECHR from a critical perspective? Which types of articles on the ECHR and other human rights systems attract the interest of journal and book series editors? What do judges or members of international human rights bodies read? The workshop also aims to give Early Career Researchers an opportunity to discuss works in progress in small groups: while such work should be related to the broader theme of human rights, we very much welcome contributions from various disciplines and/or incorporating comparative or critical perspectives. The call for participants and further information can be found here. 

Call for Papers

Workshop – Informed, ignorant, or indifferent? Knowledge of international and European law since 1945: This workshop examines how knowledge of international, European, and transnational law has been produced, circulated, received, applied, and stored throughout the twentieth century, with particular attention to the post-1945 era. It takes as its starting point the uneven spread of legal knowledge and the challenges this poses for law’s authority, translation between different arenas, and the risks of ignorance or expertise in shaping justice and practice.

Participants are invited to explore a wide range of questions, including the sites and actors involved in creating and transmitting legal knowledge, the relationship between making law, practicing law, and reflecting upon it, the challenges of translating concepts from the international to the national level, and the ways authority, expertise, precedent, and epistemic communities are constructed. The workshop also seeks contributions on how new or changing international law has been learned and institutionalized, as well as on historical or contemporary instances of deliberate ignorance and of efforts to uncover what is not yet known.

We welcome papers from law, history, political science, sociology, anthropology, and related disciplines. A collective publication is planned following the workshop. Abstracts of no more than 400 words should be submitted by 1 December 2025. The workshop itself takes place on 18 and 19 June 2026 at the University of Oslo. More information here.

Event

Gandhi Research Seminar Series 2025-26, Fall Semester: Global Law at Reading (GLAR) is one of the UK’s leading centres for research and teaching in global law, with particular strengths in public international law, EU law, and human rights. Launched in 2015, the Ghandhi Research Seminar Series is named in honour of Professor Sandy Ghandhi, who taught at the School of Law from 1978 to 2013 and remains an emeritus professor at Reading. The series brings leading scholars from the UK and beyond to share cutting-edge research and foster debate on pressing global legal issues.

This semester’s programme is as follows (all times UK):

15 October, 12:00–13:00
Dr Neil W. Williams (University of Southampton)
Thinking about Rights of Nature: Values, Responsibility, and Relationships
In person in Carrington 101 or via Teams here.

29 October, 12:00–13:00
Dr David Vitale (University of Warwick) in conversation with Professors David Bilchitz and Lilian Chenwi (University of the Witwatersrand)
Can the idea of trust advance the legal framework for enforcing socio-economic rights?
In person in Palmer G03 or via Teams here.

13 November, 14:00–15:00
Dr Sarah Zarmsky (Queen’s University Belfast)
Accountability for Digital Harm Under International Criminal Law
In person in Palmer 106 or via Teams here.

26 November, 15:30–16:30
Dr Maria Varaki (King’s College London)
International Law and the Normalisation of War
In person in Palmer G04 or via Teams here.

In Semester 2 we will welcome Dr Antonio Coco (University of Essex), Dr Federica Paddeu (University of Cambridge), and Dr Andrea Maria Pelliconi (University of Southampton).