Call for abstracts

The Summer School provides a unique critical space for interdisciplinary conversations on legal institutions that structure contemporary forms of capitalism and on law’s role in creating and possibly addressing multiple overlapping ecological and social crises.

The school features thematic sessions, and sessions on critical research methods, writing workshops and a career development session on publishing.

For its fourth edition, the Summer School will focus on bridging critical legal conversation on law, political economy, sustainability and legal practice. 

It will be designed for participants to work collaboratively on transformative legal reforms which pursue emancipatory goals by incorporating critical insights. These reforms question how law maintains and legitimizes the current power distribution. 

This year we will focus in particular on the following themes:

• Care & social reproduction 
• Sustainable global finance 
• Law & technology 
• Corporate power & multinationals’ accountability

Interested in joining?

The school is open to PhD researchers & early career scholars (up to 5 years post-PhD) working on law and globalization. Several spots are also open to non-academics working on law, economy and sustainability.

We especially welcome applications from scholars from under-represented backgrounds.

The dates are from Tuesday 11 June to Thursday 13 June 2024.

If you’d like to be considered, please send us:

• your CV (one page max)
• a document (one and a half page max) describing your research project and how it connects with one of the themes above and the goals of the Summer School.
• In the same document an example of a reform that is connected to your research, that contributes to the sustainable global economic law in the context in which you are working. Tell us why you find it important, and what their/its limit(s) may be.
• Total or partial funding is available. Please let us know in your application if you need accommodation for four days, and a travel stipend. Please indicate the approximate amount.

Please email your application to sgel-fdr@uva.nl

The deadline to submit your application is 15 April. Selected participants will be notified before 19 April.

Selected participants will be expected to share a 2-page document that expands on the example of reform discussed in their application. This should be emailed two weeks before the beginning of the Summer School.

The Summer School is co-founded by the Transformative Effects of Globalization on Law research project, financed by the Dutch Ministry of Education. It is also co-funded by the Erasmus Plus Programme of the EU.