6th PIL Early Career Researchers’ Conference: Call for Papers

On 9 and 10 April 2027, the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich will host the 6^th PIL Early Career Researchers’ Conference on “Crises in PIL – Crises of PIL”.

The organisers of the conference (Nina Benz, Biset Sena Günes, Torsten Kindt, Peter Moser, Christopher Reibetanz, Alix Schulz, Bianca Scraback, Antonia Sommerfeld and Charlotte Wendland) describe the topic of the conference as follows:

We are living in an age of polycrisis: war and environmental destruction are forcing thousands upon thousands to flee; growing social inequality and the concentration of economic power are undermining social cohesion; political polarization and the rise of renationalization threaten the project of European integration and international cooperation. At our conference, we aim to explore the implications of these crises for private international law (PIL). What new questions do the political, social, economic, and ecological crises of our time raise for PIL? How does PIL contribute to crisis management, or, conversely, to the exacerbation of crises? And might the discipline of PIL itself be in crisis?

Interested young scholars (postgraduates, PhD students, assistant professors) are welcome to apply for either plenary presentations (max. 20 minutes) or short presentations (max. 10 minutes). Only the written versions of plenary presentations will be published in an edited volume following the conference.

The conference language is German. However, the organisers warmly welcome also presentations in English.

Those interested in applying shall send an abstract of maximum 800 words, footnotes included, to IPR-nachwuchstagung@jura.uni-muenchen.de by 27 September 2026. In the accompanying email, applicants should indicate their name, address and institutional affiliation and the preferred presentation format (plenary presentation and/or short presentation).

Selected speakers will be notified by the end of October 2026.

The call for papers, together with a list of potential topics, is available on this page.