ESELS Annual Conference

Call for submissions ESELS Ljubljana 2026 (18-19 June)

Welcome to the submission page of the ESELS Annual Conference, 18-19 June 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia.

Our conference is fully on-site (no hybrid option) and welcomes working papers, extended abstracts, poster presentations and reflective submissions on Empirical Legal Studies in Europe.

Presenters are provided with the opportunity for valuable feedback and scholars submitting a full paper can be nominated for our Early Career Recognition 2026 (optional).

The call for submissions opens on 15 December 2025 and closes on 15 February 2026. Notifications of acceptance are communicated on 7 March 2026.

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Name conference presenter *

Please note that we expect all presenters to attend our conference in-person for the full two days (18-19 June 2026) of the conference.

University *

Country *

Email *

Are you currently a PhD student? *

• Yes
• No

Please describe the relevance of your submission for the law or legal order *

Please explain how your (expected) findings contribute to legal doctrine, legal practice, institutional design, the rule of law or the functioning of the legal system or legal order.

Please describe the empirical data on which your submission is based *

Please refer in your description to: data sources (e.g. surveys, corpus of judicial decisions, verbatim transcripts, etc), key variables of interest, sample (or population) size, representativeness of your sample. For qualitative work: please discuss the meaningfulness of your empirical data. For reflective submissions on ELS: please enter ‘no data’ here.

Is your work about a European country (or more European countries)? *

• Yes
• No

Please describe the relevance of your submission for a European audience *

Please clearly indicate the general (or comparative) insights it offers to a European audience or to European institutions/jurisdictions or how your research may have implications for a European country.

Type of submission *

• Working paper
• Extended abstract
• Poster presentation
• Reflection on ELS in Europe

Working title *

If you submission is part of a pre-arranged panel, please write the full title of your panel in brackets here.

Theoretical or legal background *

Research question or hypothesis *

Empirical method *

Empirical data *

Results (preliminary) *

Discussion and (preliminary) conclusions *

Poster or PhD

Do you want us to assign a discussant to your paper presentation? *

• Yes
• No
• Own preference

Name discussant *

Would you like to nominate your working paper for our Early Career Recognition?

• Yes
• No

Names / affiliation(s) of co-author(s)?

File Upload *

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Working title *

Theoretical/legal background *

Research question / hypothesis *

Empirical method *

Empirical data (to be) collected *

Discussion relevance (expected) findings for ELS in Europe *

Name(s) / affiliation(s) of co-author(s)?

Title poster presentation *

Theoretical/legal background poster *

Research question / hypothesis poster *

Empirical method poster *

Empirical data (to be) collected *

Discussion relevance (expected) findings poster for ELS in Europe *

Name(s) / affiliation(s) of co-author(s) poster?

Would you like your poster to be nominated for our ESELS Poster Recognition? *

• Yes
• No

What is the type of your reflective submission? *

• Working paper
• Extended abstract
• Poster presentation (extended abstract to be presented as poster)

In case of an extended abstract or poster presentation: please submit a file with at minimum a title/literature/method/findings and conclusions (expected), max 300 words in total.

Title reflective submission *

Brief literature discussion *

Contributions (expected) to current debate on ELS in Europe? *

Conclusions (expected) and relevance for ELS audience *

File Upload *

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