Call for Papers! Young Scholars Workshop! Another look at the RESHUFFLING of the institutional landscape for the protection of fundamental rights in Europe!
4.10.2024, Leuven
On 4 October 2024, the RESHUFFLE project, hosted by the Institute for European Law of KU Leuven, is inviting selected young scholars to present their work on the changing institutional landscape for the protection of fundamental rights in Europe.
The RESHUFFLE project posits that the growing engagement by the EU legislature with fundamental rights, together with the binding legal effects of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the EU, are giving an increasingly powerful voice to the EU in shaping fundamental rights law in Europe. The project explores the institutional implications of this transformation through the lens of the EU. The key outcomes of the project, which will be presented in Leuven on 3 October 2024, have focused on:
(i) outlining and modernizing our understanding of the main features of the EU legal system that may contribute to greater protection of fundamental rights,
(ii) critically examining the role and duties of EU political institutions in driving forward the process of change,
(iii) evidencing and reflecting on the growing engagement of the European Court for Human Rights with EU fundamental rights law,
(iv) exploring the challenges met by domestic judges when faced with an increasingly complex and diverse set of sources of rights to be protected, and
(v) illustrating and conceptualizing the possible forms of contestation by national authorities of the growing role of the EU in matters of fundamental rights protection.
We would particularly welcome critical views on the developments sketched out above, as well as complementary research covering for instance:
– Reflections on specific EU fundamental rights’ policies (eg. EU social policy or criminal law)
– The role of private actors in the protection of EU/European fundamental rights
– Fundamental rights in funding conditionality
– The enforcement of EU/European fundamental rights
– Fundamental rights and the rule of law
– Fundamental rights and EU values
– Fundamental rights in processes of accession to the EU
– Fundamental rights in external relations of the EU
– The interplay between the EU and the Council of Europe, or other international human rights organisations…
If interested, please send your abstract (1 page max.) as well as your biography or CV (2 pages max.) to Alexandros Lympikis ([email protected]) by 1 September 2024. Decisions on selected candidates will be communicated within 5 working days. Selected candidates will be expected to send a detailed outline/PPT slides/or – even better – draft paper by 30 September 2024. Applicants who cannot receive funding support from their host institution may, by additional letter, request funding support to cover one night accommodation and return journey from the host institution based on a second-class ticket.
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