On 8-9 May 2025, the Strasbourg Observers Blog will be celebrating its 15th anniversary with a symposium in Ghent, Belgium. For this special occasion, researchers are invited to submit a contribution and reflect on important developments at the Court and/or in the scholarship in the past 15 years. A Call for Papers for the symposium has just been launched. This is the description of the call:
'We welcome abstracts (and panels proposals) that analyse and reflect on important developments in the ECtHR case law and/or scholarship over these past 15 years. When we take a few steps back, and look at this decade-and-a-half, what patterns do we see, and what novelties? What are promising developments, and what are rather discouraging?
We are particularly interested in abstracts that focus on the Court’s ways of reasoning across various thematic areas as well as in abstracts that take a step outside of the Court’s case law and delve into questions about how it operates as an institution. We also welcome abstracts discussing novel approaches and methods (both quantitative and qualitative) in ECtHR scholarship.
We do not encourage abstracts that merely describe the evolution of a particular line of case law.
Please send your abstract of around 300 words to strasbourgobservers@gmail.com by December 2, 2024 and include your name, affiliation and a short bio. If you wish to submit a collection of abstracts as a complete panel proposal, please indicate the panel convenor and panel title on top of the information requested for individual abstract submission.
We aim to send out the results of the selection process before the end of the year. Paper presenters will be requested to send in a position paper of 1,500 to 2,500 words by the 1st of May 2025. Selected position papers will be published as a collection on the Strasbourg Observers blog in the weeks following the Anniversary Symposium.'
