If you are an early career researcher (PhD student or Postdoc up to five years after award of PhD) in family law and interested in getting to know other young family lawyers and presenting the main theses of your current research, we encourage you to submit an abstract for our Family Law Early Career Colloquium, to be held on 3 and 4 June 2026 in Copenhagen/Denmark.
The aim of this Colloquium is to bring together early career scholars from different legal backgrounds and traditions in family law and to build networks across jurisdictions to promote future collaboration and research.
For the purpose of the Colloquium, ‘family law’ is understood widely and includes all topics relating to families and law from a comparative, transnational or theoretical perspective, including (but not limited to) papers on
- methods and theory of family law
- culture, religion, history and family law
- notions of family
- parenthood and parental responsibility
- families in cross-border situations
- legal status in family law
- family property and family finances
- family law and tax law, succession law, social security law, etc.
We offer two modes of active participation, either presenting a paper of 30 minutes with subsequent comment (‘long paper’) and discussion, or presenting your research in 7 minutes in the ‘academic speed dating format’ (‘short paper’). If you are interested in
- presenting a ‘long paper’ of 30 minutes and/or
- participating in the academic speed dating by presenting your research in 7 minutes (‘short paper’).