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 Protection, Kerpener Str. 30, 50937 Köln
The Academy for European Human Rights Protection (University of Cologne) is excited to announce an upcoming workshop focussed on the process of writing and publishing in the context of the ECHR and other international human rights treaties, in particular the institutional responses to these challenges, with the overarching aim of enabling these researchers to increase the visibility and impact of their work in their respective fields.
The workshop aims to address a range of questions central to effective publishing strategies in the law of the ECHR and other international human rights systems. The theoretical component of the workshop will particularly focus on the following challenges: How can researchers engage with comparative research and perspectives from other international human rights systems? How to write articles in the field of the ECHR from a critical perspective? Which types of articles on the ECHR and other human rights systems attract the interest of journal and book series editors? What do judges or members of international human rights bodies read?
Call for Submissions
We invite submissions from Early Career Researchers working on human rights law and fundamental rights as well as other disciplines, including philosophy, history, political science, sociology and anthropology, addressing the various challenges international human rights systems are facing.
Submissions may have a focus on a particular human rights system and/or adopt a comparative approach in their research.
Alongside academic merit, the Selection Committee will also consider factors such as diversity and geographical representation in the selection process.
Submissions should be in a single Word or PDF document and include the following:
CV (including a list of publications, if applicable; max. 2 pages);
Letter of motivation (max. 300 words) explaining how the workshop could help improve their approach to writing and publishing and advance their scholarly career;
Indication of whether the applicant is planning to attend in person or online;
Optionally, abstract of the work to be discussed in small groups (e. g., book project proposal, article, funding application, policy brief) on which the applicants wish to receive feedback (max. 500 words). This is not a compulsory element of the application process, and its omission will not in any way impact on selection. We very much welcome applications also from participants who do not wish to take part in the group sessions.
Applications should be submitted via email to publishing-humanrights@uni-koeln.de. The deadline is 12 October 2025.
The call for participants and further information can be found here.