Category Archives: Call for Papers

CfP: 18th CEE Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists

17th Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists will take place on 3-4th September 2026 in Katowice, Poland.

The conference is aimed at students, PhD students as well as young post-docs and professors coming from all over the world (not only from Central and Eastern Europe).


The conference language is English. If you wish to participate, please send an abstract of about 300-500 words vie the link by 30 April 2026.

A detailed CfP can be found here.

CfP: IVR Croatia Student Conference in Legal Theory

The Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (CALSP/IVR Croatia) is organizing a new edition of the CALSP student conference in legal theory.


The 4th CALSP Student Conference: “Current State and Upcoming Challenges of Legal Theory and Philosophy of Law, 2026” will be held at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb on May 8, 2026.

Contributions to a wide range of legal issues, from legal philosophy and analytic legal theory to social theories of law, are welcome. Dogmatic (doctrinal) and historical, sociological, economic, etc., studies of law with strong conceptual or philosophical content are also acceptable. Applications are open to all undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students and run until March 1st, 2026.


Registration and participation in the conference are free of charge, and participants themselves bear the costs of travel and accommodation.


The preferred language of the application and oral presentation is English. The conference will be held in person.


Applications for the conference are submitted by e-mail to calspstudentconference@gmail.com. In addition to the applicant’s name, the faculty and the university at which they are enrolled, their student status (undergraduate, graduate or doctoral student) and their email address, a valid application should contain a summary of the intended presentation consisting of a maximum of 700 words and 5 keywords.

More information is available here.

CfP: King’s College London’s (KCL) Political Theory Graduate Conference, May 22nd, 2026.

King’s College London’s (KCL) second Political Theory Graduate Conference will take place on May 22nd, 2026

Interested applicants should send an anonymised abstract of no more than 350 words and a bibliography of key works (not included in the word limit) by 11.59 pm (GMT) on February 2, 2026. Successful applicants will be notified by March 2, 2026. 

Please get in touch with kclgradptcon@outlook.com for further information and submit the application via the link.

More info is available on: https://philevents.org/event/show/142670?

The Organising Committee: Callum Watts, Cheng-Chia Tung, Daniela Horta, Dulyaphab Chaturongkul, and Jana Konle 

https://forms.office.com/r/QWWWzjLqbB

CfP: 17th Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists

17th Central and Eastern European Forum of Young Legal, Political and Social Theorists will take place on 25-26th September 2025 in Split, Croatia. The conference is aimed at students, PhD students as well as young post-docs and professors coming from all over the world (not only from Central and Eastern Europe).


The conference language is English. If you wish to participate, please send an abstract of about 300-500 words at ceeforum2025@pravst.hr by 10 June 2025.

A detailed CfP can be found here.

CfP: CEENJ 2025

The 2025 (CEE)NJ (Central and Eastern European Network of Jurisprudence) Conference is to take place at the premises of the Mykolas Romeris University in VIlnius (Lithuania), Faculty of Law on September 18-20, 2025.

The topic of the the 2025 CEENJ conference is “Jurisprudence in Central and Eastern Europe: Work in Progress 2025”.

Contributions to the whole gamut of jurisprudential issues, from legal philosophy and theory to social, psychological, economic or other theories of law, are welcome. Dogmatic (doctrinal) and empirical (historical, sociological, economic, etc.) studies of law with a strong conceptual content are also acceptable. The 2025 CEENJ Conference will also be open to participants working and/or residing outside the European area.

The deadline for submitting applications is June 15, 2025.

For more detail, see please see the official Call for Papers.

3rd CALSP Student Conference, 9th May 2025

The Croatian Association for Legal and Social Philosophy and Theory of Law and State (CALSP/IVRCroatia) is organizing a new edition of a student conference in legal theory.

The Third CALSP Student Conference: “Current State and Upcoming Challenges of Legal Theory andPhilosophy of Law, 2025” will be held in person at the Faculty of Law, University of Zagreb on May 9, 2025.
Contributions to a wide range of legal issues, from legal philosophy and analytic legal theory to social theories of law, are welcome. Dogmatic (doctrinal) and historical, sociological, economic, etc., studies of law with strong conceptual, theoretical or philosophical content are also acceptable. Applications are open to all undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students and run until February 28, 2025.

Full text of the call can be found here.

CfP: CEENJ 2024 Belgrade

The 2024 (CEE)NJ (Central and Eastern European Network of Jurisprudence) Conference is to take place at the premises of the University of Belgrade (Serbia), Faculty of Law on October 11 and 12, 2024.

The topic of the the 2024 (CEE)NJ conference – as in previous editions – is very broad: “Jurisprudence in Central and Eastern Europe: Work in Progress 2024”. The deadline for submitting papers is September 5, 2024.

Conference applications should be submitted by e-mail to Tanasije Marinković (tanasije.marinkovic@ius.bg.ac.rs). In addition to the applicant’s name, affiliation and e-mail address, a valid application should include a summary of the intended presentation comprising 3,700 – 5,000 characters with spaces. The oral presentation at the conference (of 25 – 30 minutes) is to be accompanied by a projection of the full text or a power point of the presentation. 

Contributions to the whole gamut of jurisprudential issues, from legal philosophy and theory to social, psychological, economic or other theories of law, are welcome. Dogmatic (doctrinal) and empirical (historical, sociological, economic, etc.) studies of law with a strong conceptual content are also acceptable. The 2024 (CEE)NJ Conference will also be open (not for the first time) to participants working and/or residing outside the European area.

There is no conference fee. The schedule can accommodate online participants too. Conference participants are to cover all their travel and accommodation expenses. The host organisation will provide all participants with lunch and dinner. 

The call for the conference participation will be posted at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Law website as soon as possible.

CfP: 11th Annual Student Conference, Belgrade

11th Annual Student Conference in legal theory and philosophy of law takes place in Belgrade, Serbia on 11-12 November 2024. Topic of this year’s edition is “Law and Social Sciences”. Languages of the Conference are Serbian and English.

Deadline for application is August 20th 2024. Application is free of charge.

More information can be found here.