The Law of the Future

Submission ESELS Toulouse 2025

Welcome to the submission page for our Toulouse Conference, 19-20 June 2025, hosted by the Université Toulouse Capitole. This university provides an excellent venue to showcase the importance of empirical thinking in both the history and future of the law.

Taking place in a vibrant student city with a rich historical culture, our conference hosts key notes of highly renowned empirical-legal scholars (more details to be published soon).

Our highly successful previous conferences in Warsaw and Elche attracted scholars from all across Europe and beyond working in the field of Empirical Legal Studies.

We welcome both pre-arranged panels and individual submissions, full papers and structured abstracts, employing quantitative/qualitative or mixed methods and with implications relevant for European legal scholars and the future of the law (deadline submissions: 15 February 2025).

Especially early-career scholars are warmly invited to submit and be nominated for our ESELS Annual Young Scholar Recognition 2025.

Conference registration opens early 2025.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.

– Step 1 of 3

Name conference presenter *

First

Last

University *

Country *

Email *

Field of law *

Type of submission *

• Single submission
• Pre-arranged panel

We encourage submitting panels composed of scholars from different European countries and regions. For submitting a pre-arranged panel please upload 4-5 submissions.

Empirical method employed *Archival researchCase-studyCourt file research/legal text analysisDiscourse analysisEmpirical comparative studiesEthnographyFocus groupsInterviewsLab experimentsLarge language modelsMeta-analysis/scoping reviewNatural/quasi-experimentsNetwork analysisProcess-tracingRegression analysisSurvey researchSystematic case-law analysisVignettesOther

Method *

Type of work *

• Full paper (completed or draft)
• Structured abstract

We invite empirical-legal work relevant to a European audience of legal scholars.

Do you want your full paper to be considered for our ESELS Young Scholar Recognition? (optional)

• Yes
• No
• I would like to nominate someone

For current PhDs, junior researchers and scholars who completed their PhD in or after 2020.

Name of ELS young scholar you would like to nominate *

Only a young scholar attending the conference in-person can be nominated.

Add co-authors? *

• Yes
• No

Name co-author *

First

Last

Affiliation co-author *

Name co-author 2 (optional)

First

Last

Affiliation co-author 2 (optional)

Name co-author 3 (optional)

First

Last

Affiliation co-author 3 (optional)

Name co-author 4 (optional)

First

Last

Affiliation co-author 4 (optional)

Working title structured abstract *

Background study *

Methods *

Findings (preliminary) *

Conclusions *

Please touch upon the relevance of your empirical-legal work for a European audience and the law of the future/the future of law.

Key words (3-5) *

Working title full paper *

Background study *

Methods *

Findings *

Conclusions *

Please touch upon to the relevance of your empirical-legal paper for a European audience and the law of the future/the future of law.

Key words (3-5) *

Full paper *

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Upload here your empirical-legal paper with relevance to a European audience.

Panel title *

Panel description *

Please touch upon to the relevance of your panel for legal scholars in Europe and the law of the future.

Name chair panel *

The panel chair collects the presentation slides, introduces the panel, decides on the individual presentation times (e.g. with cards) and amount of time for discussion.

Affiliation chair panel *

Country chair panel *

Do you want to assign discussants to the individual presentations? *

• Yes
• No

Name panel member 1 *

Affiliation panel member 1 *

Country panel member 1 *

Working title – Abstract 1 *

Add co-author(s)?

• Yes
• No

Names co-author(s) *

Affiliation(s) co-author(s) *

Background – Abstract 1 *

Methods – Abstract 1 *

Results – Abstract 1 *

Conclusions – Abstract 1 *

Key words (3-5) – Abstract 1 *

Name reviewer first presentation *

The amount of time available for the discussant is decided by the panel chair.

Add a second abstract? *NoYes

Please remember to upload at least four abstracts.

Name panel member 2 *

Affiliation panel member 2 *

Country panel member 2 *

Working title – Abstract 2 *

Add co-author(s) abstract 2?

• Yes
• No

Name(s) co-author(s)

Background – Abstract 2 *

Methods – Abstract 2 *

Results – Abstract 2 *

Conclusions – Abstract 2 *

Key words (3-5) – Abstract 2 *

Name reviewer second presentation *

The amount of time is decided by the panel chair.

Add a third abstract? *NoYes

Please remember to upload at least four abstracts.

Name panel member 3 *

Affiliation panel member 3 *

Add co-author(s) abstract 3?

• Yes
• No

Name(s) co-author(s) *

Affiliation(s) co-author(s) *

Country panel member 3 *

Working title – Abstract 3 *

Background – Abstract 3 *

Methods – Abstract 3 *

Results – Abstract 3 *

Conclusions – Abstract 3 *

Key words (3-5) – Abstract 3 *

Name reviewer third presentation *

The amount of time is decided by the panel chair.

Add a fourth abstract?NoYes

Please remember to upload at least four abstracts.

Name panel member 4

Affiliation panel member 4

Country panel member 4

Working title – Abstract 4

Add co-author(s) abstract 4

• Yes
• No

Name(s) co-author(s) abstract 4 *

Affiliation(s) co-author(s) abstract 4 *

Background – Abstract 4

Methods – Abstract 4

Results – Abstract 4

Conclusions – Abstract 4

Key words (3-5) – Abstract 4

Name reviewer fourth presentation *

The amount of time is decided by the panel chair.

Add a fifth abstract?NoYes

Please remember to upload at least four abstracts.

Name panel member 5

Affiliation panel member 5

Country panel member 5

Add co-author(s) abstract 5?

• Yes
• No

Name(s) co-author(s) abstract 5 *

Affiliation(s) co-author(s) abstract 5 *

Background – Abstract 5

Methods – Abstract 5

Results – Abstract 5

Conclusions – Abstract 5

Key words (3-5) – Abstract 5

Name reviewer fifth presentation *

The amount of time is decided by the panel chair.

Panel title *

Panel description *

Please touch upon the relevance of your panel for legal scholars in Europe and the law of the future.

Do you want to assign discussants to individual papers? *

• Yes
• No

Name chair panel *

The panel chair collects the presentation slides, introduces the panel, decides on the individual presentation times (e.g. with cards) and amount of time for discussion.

Affiliation chair panel *

Country chair panel *

Name panel member 1 *

Affiliation panel member 1 *

Country panel member 1 *

Working title paper 1 *

Background paper 1 *

Methods paper 1 *

Results paper 1 *

Conclusions paper 1 *

Key words (3-5) paper 1 *

Empirical-legal research paper 1 *

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Upload here your empirical-legal paper with relevance to a European audience of legal scholars.

Name reviewer paper 1 *

The amount of time available is decided by the panel chair.

Add a second empirical-legal paper?

• Yes
• No

Please remember to upload at least four papers.

Name panel member 2 *

Affiliation panel member 2 *

Country panel member 2 *

Working title paper 2 *

Background paper 2 *

Methods paper 2 *

Results paper 2 *

Conclusions paper 2 *

Key words (3-5) paper 2 *

Empirical-legal research paper 2 *

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Upload here your empirical-legal paper with relevance to a European audience of legal scholars.

Name reviewer paper 2 *

The amount of time available is decided by the panel chair.

Add a third empirical-legal paper?

• Yes
• No

Please remember to upload at least four papers.

Name panel member 3 *

Affiliation panel member 3 *

Country panel member 3 *

Working title paper 3 *

Background paper 3 *

Methods paper 3 *

Results paper 3 *

Conclusions paper 3 *

Key words (3-5) paper 3 *

Empirical-legal research paper 3 *

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Upload here your empirical-legal paper with relevance to a European audience of legal scholars.

Name reviewer paper 3 *

The amount of time available is decided by the panel chair.

Add a fourth empirical-legal paper?

• Yes
• No

Please remember to upload at least four papers.

Name panel member 4 *

Affiliation panel member 4 *

Country panel member 4 *

Working title paper 4 *

Background paper 4 *

Methods paper 4 *

Results paper 4 *

Conclusions paper 4 *

Key words (3-5) paper 4 *

Empirical-legal research paper 4 *

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Upload here your empirical-legal paper with relevance to a European audience of legal scholars.

Name reviewer 4 *

The amount of time available is decided by the panel chair.

Add a fifth empirical-legal paper?

• Yes
• No

Name panel member 5 *

Affiliation panel member 5 *

Country panel member 5 *

Working title paper 5 *

Background paper 5 *

Methods paper 5 *

Results paper 5 *

Conclusions paper 5 *

Key words (3-5) paper 5 *

Empirical-legal research paper 5 *

Click or drag a file to this area to upload.

Upload here your empirical-legal paper with relevance to a European audience of legal scholars.

Name reviewer 5 *

The amount of time available is decided by the panel chair.

Next

Updating preview…

This is a preview of your submission. It has not been submitted yet!
Please take a moment to verify your information. You can also go back to make changes.

PreviousNext

Previous

Upload