IG Workshops at 2025 ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin | Programmes

 

 

The annual meeting of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) will convene its 20th ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin. The theme for 2025 is "Reconstructing International Law."

For the last decade, international law has gone through a period of turbulence. In response, it is time to move beyond crisis narratives and adopt a forward-looking approach. For such an undertaking, the year 2025 offers an appropriate context. It will mark the 80th birthday of the United Nations, the institutional centre of the international legal order. At the same time, 2025 is just five years away from 2030 when the future direction of the current blueprint for global social order, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), will need to be decided.

ESIL Interest Groups are holding pre-conference workshops on Wednesday 10 and Thursday 11 September 2025. All IG workshops will take place at the Law Faculty building of the Freie Universität (Boltzmannstr. 3, 14195 Berlin).

Please find the available programmes below:

 

Wednesday 10 September – 15:00-18:00 CEST

• IG on the History of International Law: (De-/re-)constructions of International Law over Time and Space
• IG on International Environmental Law: Reconstructing International Environmental Law Through Adjudication
• IG on Energy and International Law: Reconstructing International Energy Law in Times of Crisis
• IG on International Health Law: Global Health Law Under Pressure: Facing Acute and Chronic Challenge
• IG on the Law of the Sea: Reconstructing International Law of the Sea
• IG on Feminism and International Law: Feminist Visions for Reconstructing International Law
• IG on International Economic Law: Reconstructing International Economic Law
• IG on Social Sciences and International Law: Interdisciplinarity and the (re)construction of international law
• IG on International Law and Technology: Forensic and Counter-Forensic Approaches to Reconstructing International Law – A Cartography and Anatomy of Genocide 

Thursday 11 September – 9:00-12:00 CEST

• IG on Migration and Refugee Law: De/Re-Constructing Asylum: New Actors, Processes and Spaces
• IG on International Criminal Justice: Reconstructing International Criminal Justice as It Unfolds
• IG on International Human Rights Law: The Reconstruction of Victimhood in International Human Rights Law
• IG on the International Law of Culture: The Future and Past of ‘Progress’ in Cultural Heritage Law
• IG on International Courts and Tribunals: Reconstructing the Advisory Function of International Courts and Tribunals?
• IG on International Organizations: (Re-)constructing International Organizations in the Work of the United Nations International Law Commission
• IG on the EU as a Global Actor: Regional Legal Craftsmanship: The EU’s Aspirations in (Re)Constructing International Law?
• IG on International Business and Human Rights: Reconstructing International Law: Structural Shifts Under the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights
• IG on Peace and Security: Reconstructing Peace: (Mis)Uses of International Law
• IG on International Legal Theory and Philosophy: On What Basis Should International Law be Reconstructed? 
• IG on Critical Approaches to International Law: Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing International Law: Rethinking Legitimacy, Authority, and Inclusion
• IG on the European and International Rule of Law: Reevaluating the Rule of Law in an Era of Geopolitical Tensions: Necessity and Prospects for Reform 

NB: All attendees must register via the conference registration platform