Events and Announcements: 27 April 2025

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Call for Papers

Climate Law in Europe – Taking Stock, Looking Forward: The European Association of Climate Law (EACL) invites submissions for its first conference – a platform to discuss current developments, future challenges, and intergenerational justice in climate law. The conference features two separate calls for abstracts: one for the Early Career Researcher Workshop on the first day and one for the general session on the second day. All abstracts must have a maximum of 300 words and should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and key findings or arguments. Submissions should align with the conference theme and topics of interest. The submission deadline is 31 May 2025. The selection of abstracts will be completed by 30 June 2025. More information can be found here.

Disarmament from the Margins: The Scottish Disarmament Project invites submissions for a conference due to take place on 7 and 8 October 2025 exploring how disarmament is envisioned, contested, and enacted beyond traditional state-centred frameworks. The organisers seek to highlight the contributions of marginalised actors, places, and ideas in shaping disarmament discourse and practice. The conference will take place at the Pearce Institute, Govan, Glasgow (in-person & online participation). The organisers welcome diverse contributions, including academic papers, panel discussions, visual and performance art, and other innovative formats. Early career researchers, activists, and practitioners—particularly from the Global South—are strongly encouraged to apply. Limited funding is available to support participation.

To apply, please send a description of your proposed contribution (around 300 words or so) and a two line bio to scottishdisarmamentproject@gmail.com by 15 May 2025. For further information, see here.

Reviving multilateralism – what role for the EU?: The rules-based international order appears to be crumbling, marked by fragmentation in both trade and defence. This situation poses a significant challenge to the EU, an international organisation of 27 sovereign states, whose founding treaties require it to ‘promote multilateral solutions to common problems, particularly in the framework of the United Nations’. In a world with fewer like-minded partners, can the EU play a role in reviving or reconstructing multilateralism without US leadership? Can the EU’s embrace of a ‘strategic autonomy’ agenda be reconciled with a principled commitment to multilateralism? Could the EU’s bilateral and plurilateral agenda lay the foundations for a new multilateral system, potentially with a diminished US
role? What would the EU’s role be in such a system, and how can it ensure alignment with its founding values of rule of law and democracy? Likewise, how can the EU avoid centralized, executive-led decision-making that sidelines courts and parliaments while constructing this new order?

The T.M.C. Asser Instituuut, the Centre for the Law of EU External Relations, Utrecht University, and the University of Groningen are pleased to announce a two-day workshop for PhD and early-career scholars on the theme of the legal dimensions of the EU’s role in reviving multilateralism. The workshop will be held at the T.M.C. Asser Instituut in The Hague on 4 and 5 December 2025. More information can be found here.

Social Rights and Constitutional Justice: The European Yearbook of Constitutional Law is pleased to announce a call for papers for its eighth volume on the theme of Social Rights and Constitutional Justice. The aim of this volume is to critically assess how constitutional frameworks support or constrain the protection and implementation of social rights in theory and practice. The deadline for paper proposals is 1 June 2025. Proposals of 350 to 500 words should be submitted to eycl@tilburguniversity.edu. For more information on the Yearbook, see here.

Call for Applications

EU-IndoPac Jean Monnet Teaching Module: The EU-IndoPac Jean Monnet Teaching Module provides a unique opportunity to gain insight into the EU’s policy and legal developments shaping the Indo-Pacific region. This course examines EU-India investment relations and the legal landscape, focusing on the potential for Bilateral Investment Treaties in the context of the European Green Deal and digital market regulations. It explores how these factors can shape future investment strategies and economic partnerships. Additionally, this crash course is designed to equip the next generation of law and policy students with the knowledge and skills to understand the complexities of the EU’s evolving global role and its impact on the Indo-Pacific. The programme is jointly organized by UCLouvain, IEE St Louis Belgium, and the Department of Studies in Law, University of Mysore, India. It is open to students (Bachelor of Laws, Master of Laws, PhD scholars), as well as practitioners and experts from the Indo-Pacific region, offering a unique opportunity to participate with no tuition or registration fees. The course will be held online from 2 June to 4 June 2025, with an essay-type examination scheduled on 5 June 2025. Upon successful completion, participants will receive a certificate of participation issued by UCLouvain, IEE St Louis.