The Younger Belgian Affiliation for European Union Legislation (Younger BEDER) invitations early-career EU regulation students and practitioners to submit abstracts for a presentation on the upcoming workshop ‘A European Union of Values: Quo Vadis?’, which is able to happen on 27 November 2025 at Ghent College. The keynote audio system might be prof. dr. Geert de Baere (decide of the Basic Court docket of the EU) and prof. dr. Paul Nihoul (decide of the Basic Court docket of the EU).
This domain-specific workshop will present a platform for essential reflection on how the European Union (EU) protects and enforces its values throughout the EU authorized order. The workshop will present a discussion board for younger researchers to current their analysis and to obtain suggestions from senior researchers and professors.
The EU is based on the values of respect for human dignity, freedom, democracy, equality, the rule of regulation and respect for human rights as enshrined in Article 2 TEU. Doubts have arisen regarding respect of those values, frequent to the Member States, in a number of of them, which represents a ‘check’ for these values. This raises quite a few and tough questions regarding the normative ‘worth’ of these values, how and to what extent they’re cognizable earlier than nationwide and EU courts, and the way they will contribute to shaping the EU authorized order and its constitutional framework.
The PhD workshop invitations submissions that critically replicate on these values throughout the EU, and their enforcement in numerous areas of EU regulation. Early-career students and practitioners might be invited to organize contributions addressing the position that EU values would possibly play of their areas of experience. Contributors will study how EU values form and affect particular coverage areas.
Publication and prize(s)
Chosen taking part authors can have the chance to publish their papers in a peer-reviewed journal or edited e book following the workshop.
A number of prizes might be awarded to the perfect paper(s). The winner(s) might be provided the chance to undertake a examine go to within the cupboard of one of many Belgian members of the Court docket of Justice of the EU (Court docket or Basic Court docket).
Throughout this examine go to, he/she may also have the chance to use for a traineeship in these cupboards in accordance with the relevant choice process. The winner(s) may also be provided the likelihood to undertake a traineeship on the Constitutional Court docket of Belgium.
The winner(s) might be invited to current the award-winning paper(s) on the annual occasion of the Belgian Affiliation for European Legislation (BEDER) the next day (28 November 2025, in Brussels).
Tips for submission
Contributions ought to embrace:
A title and summary (max 500 phrases) together with at the very least the issue definition and envisaged technique;
The creator’s title and affiliation;
Whether or not you want to be thought of for publication following the convention.
Contributions could be submitted and offered in English, French or Dutch, and ought to be despatched to [email protected] by 15 Could 2025, together with the creator’s CV.
The scientific committee will inform the chosen candidates within the weeks following their submission whether or not their summary is chosen. These whose abstracts are chosen for the convention might be required to submit a full paper of 8.000 to 10.000 phrases by 15 September 2025.
There isn’t any registration price to attend the PhD Workshop. Topic to out there funding and upon request, Younger BEDER might be able to cowl journey bills and, the place obligatory, one night time of lodging in Ghent for chosen audio system who would not have different sources of funding.
For additional particulars concerning the workshop, please go to our web site: https://www.beder.be/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/FINAL-CORRECTED-Younger-BEDER-A-European-Union-of-Values-Quo-Vadis-1.pdf
