[Call for Participants] Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and other International Human Rights Systems – A Workshop for Early Career Researchers

15 – 16 December 2025 (Hybrid) Academy for European Human Rights Safety, Kerpener Str. 30, 50937 Köln

Background and Scope of the Workshop

Lately, the pressures on human rights regulation and its related establishments have intensified. Challenges posed by democratic and rule of regulation backsliding, digitalisation, migration and planetary environmental crises have pressured worldwide human rights courts and tribunals to develop strategic responses. In the meantime, states have pushed for the reform of human rights treaties and, in sure situations, have withdrawn from these treaties altogether. Recognising the importance of this discourse, Early Profession Human Rights Researchers have discovered themselves on the forefront of analysis on these phenomena, centring their analysis tasks on human rights courts and tribunals, both in isolation or comparatively, and their respective responses. The Academy for European Human Rights Safety (College of Cologne) is worked up to announce an upcoming workshop focussed on the method of writing and publishing within the context of the ECHR and different worldwide human rights treaties, particularly the institutional responses to those challenges, with the overarching purpose of enabling these Researchers to extend the visibility and influence of their work of their respective fields. 

The workshop has a number of aims. It goals to handle a variety of questions central to efficient publishing methods within the regulation of the ECHR and different worldwide human rights techniques. The theoretical element of the workshop will notably deal with the next challenges: How can researchers have interaction with comparative analysis and views from different worldwide human rights techniques? Learn how to write articles within the subject of the ECHR from a essential perspective? Which forms of articles on the ECHR and different human rights techniques entice the curiosity of journal and e book collection editors? What do judges or members of worldwide human rights our bodies learn?

It additionally goals to provide Early Profession Researchers a possibility to debate works in progress in small teams: whereas such work ought to be associated to the broader theme of human rights, we very a lot welcome contributions from varied disciplines and/or incorporating comparative or essential views. Lastly, and following the inaugural workshop in February 2024, this yr’s workshop seeks to develop the community of students working in that subject, thereby establishing a daily discussion board for trade of concepts and finest publishing practices.

Name for Submissions

We invite submissions from Early Profession Researchers (broadly understood), engaged on human rights regulation and basic rights in addition to different disciplines, together with philosophy, historical past, political science, sociology and anthropology, addressing the varied challenges worldwide human rights techniques are going through. Submissions could have a deal with a selected human rights system and/or undertake a comparative method of their analysis. Alongside educational benefit, the Choice Committee can even think about components equivalent to variety and geographical illustration within the choice course of. Submissions ought to be in a single Phrase or PDF doc and embody the next: 

CV (together with an inventory of publications, if relevant; max. 2 pages);

Letter of motivation (max. 300 phrases) explaining how the workshop may assist enhance their method to writing and publishing and advance their scholarly profession;

Indication of whether or not the applicant is planning to attend in individual or on-line;

Optionally, summary of the work to be mentioned in small teams (e. g., e book challenge proposal, article, funding utility, coverage temporary) on which the candidates want to obtain suggestions (max. 500 phrases). This isn’t a obligatory aspect of the applying course of, and its omission is not going to in any means influence on choice. We very a lot welcome purposes additionally from individuals who don’t want to participate within the group periods.

Purposes ought to be submitted by way of e-mail to publishing-humanrightsuni-koeln.de. The deadline is 12 October 2025 (Consideration – deadline prolonged!).”

Extra informations could be discovered on https://academy-humanrights.uni-koeln.de/en/information/writing-and-publishing-in-the-law-of-the-echr-and-other-international-human-rights-systems-a-workshop-for-early-career-researchers