Law and Crisis: Exploring Legal Scholarship in Times of Global Disruption

Call for Papers: “Law and Crisis: Exploring Legal Scholarship in Times of Global Disruption” (University of Geneva, 21 April 2026)

Date and Venue of the Conference

The conference will take place on 21 April 2026, at the University of Geneva’s Espace Colladon (Rue Jean-Daniel Colladon 2).

This conference is organized by the University of Geneva in collaboration with the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale (CUSO).

The aim of this workshop is to bring PhD candidates in law together to reflect on recent developments, and what they mean for our discipline. It invites critical and interdisciplinary legal scholarship that examines crisis as a moment of rupture, continuity, acceleration, or normalization within legal frameworks. How do we put words on what is happening to the rule of law at the moment, and how do we project ourselves and our research onto the future in light of these events?

Conference format

The one-day conference will be divided into four thematic sessions. In each session, a specialist in the field will deliver a short presentation, followed by presentations of papers by doctoral students. Each student will receive individual feedback from the specialist on their work and presentation.

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Actualités

We invite submissions of abstracts of no more than 400 words along with a one-page curriculum vitae to Ms Margaux Germanier (margaux.germanier(at)unige.ch) by 22 February 2026. The following information should be included with your abstract: your name, affiliation, email address.

Successful applicants will be notified by email by 1 March 2026.

Speakers at the conference will later be asked to submit a complete draft of 1’500 to 4’000 (footnotes excluded; OSCOLA citation style) of the paper they will present at the conference by 7 April 2026.

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