Call for Papers: ESIL Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law, 11 September 2025
ESIL Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law in partnership with REF-FIN and CoSME presents:
Pre-conference ESIL Interest Group Workshop
“De/Re-Constructing Asylum: New Actors, Processes and Spaces”
Berlin (Germany), 11 September 2025 (9:00–12:00 CET)
The Interest Group (IG) on Migration and Refugee Law (MigRefLaw) of the European Society of International Law (ESIL), in partnership with REF-FIN (Refugee Finance: Histories, Frameworks, Practices) and CoSME (Community Sponsorship for Migrants in Europe), is organising a Workshop on 11 September 2025 in Berlin (Germany) as a side event of this year’s ESIL Annual Conference. The theme of the Conference is reconstructing international law, which the IG MigRefLaw workshop will address in the context of migration and refugee law.
The IG MigRefLaw, REF-FIN and CoSME invite submissions of abstracts, written in English, of no more than 300 words. The candidates are invited to make clear methodologies and approaches/perspectives. Abstracts should be submitted to the IG conveners at [email protected] by 11 April 2025 and should also include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, contact information (e-mail) and whether the applicant is a member of ESIL (these details are excluded from the word count).
Selected speakers will be notified by 24 April via e-mail. After the selection process, we are aiming for extended abstracts of 3000- 3500 words from the selected speakers. The extended abstracts should be sent to the IG conveners by 31 July. Selected speakers will be expected to bear the costs of their own travel and accommodation. Some ESIL travel grants and ESIL carers grants will be available to offer partial financial support to speakers who have exhausted other potential sources of funding. Please check the ESIL website for all relevant information about the conference. Selected speakers should indicate their interest in being considered for the ESIL Early-Career Scholar Prize, if they meet the eligibility conditions as stated on the ESIL website. The ESIL Secretariat must be informed of all selected speakers who wish to be considered for the Prize before 30 April 2025.
All participants at ESIL IG workshops are required to register for the Annual Conference. There will be an option to register just to attend the IG workshops; however, all participants are warmly invited to attend the entire event.
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