La SEDI s’engage à favoriser la collaboration et les opportunités de mentorat pour les chercheurs et professionnels émergents dans l’ensemble de ses activités. Nous nous efforçons de veiller à ce que les événements et activités clés de la SEDI soient organisés de manière inclusive, afin de refléter l’engagement de la SEDI à promouvoir la coopération universitaire et l’excellence au plus haut niveau, tout en restant ouvert à tous et en garantissant un environnement respectueux et accueillant.
À cette fin, la SEDI a intégré des opportunités pour les chercheurs émergents dans toutes ses activités. La conférence annuelle de la SEDI voit régulièrement des universitaires en début de carrière présenter lors de la conférence principale ainsi que des événements parallèles, et il existe plusieurs événements spécifiques (réseautage, soutien à la carrière et mentorat) développés pour les universitaires en début de carrière. De plus, le premier événement de début de carrière de la SEDI, le Forum de recherche de la SEDI, est un petit événement scientifique intensif destiné spécifiquement aux universitaires émergents, afin qu’ils puissent présenter et discuter de leurs recherches et recevoir des commentaires des membres établis de la SEDI et de leurs pairs dans un cadre solide et constructif et dans un environnement solidaire.
La SEDI a récemment lancé une annonce pour le Early-Career Network, un comité de début de carrière. Le comité assurera la liaison directe avec le conseil d’administration pour promouvoir l’engagement actif des chercheurs et praticiens émergents dans les activités et événements de la SEDI et dirigera également un certain nombre d’initiatives d’intérêt spécifique pour ce dernier avec le soutien de la Société. Celles-ci peuvent inclure l’organisation d’événements parallèles lors de la conférence annuelle de l’ESIL, l’organisation de sessions axées sur le développement des compétences professionnelles et la facilitation des opportunités de mentorat pour les avocats internationaux en début de carrière.
La SEDI encourage chaleureusement tous les professionnels émergents intéressés par la recherche juridique internationale à participer à nos activités, qu’il s’agisse des conférences annuelles et/ou des forums de recherche, des événements de nos groupes de réflexion et des divers événements conjoints de la SEDI et des événements soutenus par la SEDI qui se tiennent tout au long de l’année universitaire.
Les groupes de réflexion SEDI sont bien conçus pour une participation active, de nombreux chercheurs en début de carrière étant élus organisateurs. Les groupes de réflexion organisent des événements dans des domaines spécialisés du droit international, souvent en conjonction avec les principaux événements de la SEDI, et souvent en collaboration avec d’autres partenaires. Nous encourageons les chercheurs en début de carrière à approcher les organisateurs des groupes de réflexion SEDI avec des idées ou des propositions.
Outre les événements universitaires, l’ESIL propose également une gamme d’initiatives pour soutenir les universitaires en début de carrière. Vous trouverez des liens pertinents sur cette page.
REDUCED MEMBERSHIP FEES
Student Membership rates, at substantial reductions, are available for members who are enrolled full-time at a recognised institution of higher education, whether at the undergraduate, postgraduate or doctoral level. Student members can benefit from the student membership at a discounted rate, and will be entitled to the full benefits of Society membership.
Further information is available on the individual membership page.
EARLY-CAREER SCHOLAR PRIZE
In line with ESIL’s goals of encouraging high-level scholarship, developing a greater awareness and understanding of international law, and promoting early career researchers, the ESIL Board awards the ESIL Early-Career Scholar Prize (previously known as Young Scholar Prize) at each ESIL Annual Conference for an outstanding paper submitted and presented by an early-career scholar. The Prize was first awarded in 2015.
The Prize consists of two years’ free membership of the Society, plus a contribution towards the costs of travel and accommodation at the conference.
The winner of the ESIL Early-Career Scholar Prize is announced in the Conference Programme and the Prize certificate is awarded during the Conference Dinner. The Prize-winning paper is invited to submit their paper for publication (subject to successful peer review) in the European Journal of International Law.
TEACHING CORNER
The Teaching Corner is an online resource exclusively for ESIL members to share syllabi, module outlines, reading lists, and other international law teaching materials and tools. Our idea is to encourage the dissemination of sample materials and good practice amongst ESIL members, and especially to provide support for early-career researchers who may be designing a course for the first time. By seeing the innovations and ideas of others, we hope to nurture and inspire innovative teaching both in Europe and beyond, and support each other in teaching preparations.
Access to the Teaching Corner (for ESIL members only)
How to access the Teaching Corner: If you have been a member of ESIL for some time, you should have received a login username and password in the monthly ESIL Updates. If you have lost the credentials or are a new member and do not know the password yet, please contact esil.secretariat@eui.eu.
EARLY-CAREER CO-ORDINATORS
The ESIL Board member responsible for liaising between the ESIL Board and the ESIL Early-Career Network Coordinating Committee, and facilitating their activities, are Edouard Fromageau and Patryk Labuda.
CO-ORDINATING COMMITTEE
In January 2022, an announcement was shared with all ESIL members about the creation of a “Young ESIL Network”. Read the full announcement here. After a call for interested candidates, which received a range of excellent applications from across the Society, the ESIL Early-Career Network Co-ordinating Committee was formed. The current members of the ESIL Early-Career Network Co-ordinating Committee are
- Antoine De Spiegeleir
- Stefania Di Stefano
- Rita Guerreiro Teixeira
- Matina Papadaki
- Alexander Wentker
The Board is grateful to the five appointees and looks forward to working with them; and wishes to convey its thanks to all members who expressed interest in joining the Early-Career Network Co-ordinating Committee. Should you wish to get in touch with the committee, please write to esil.ecr@gmail.com.
MENTORING EVENTS AND RECORDINGS
In occasion of the 2022 ESIL Research Forum in Glasgow, a special session dedicated to early-career researchers took place on Thursday 31 March.
- Special Session on Engagement and Mentoring: A Conversation with Early Career Researchers.Informal discussion convened by Neha Jain, Gleider Hernández, Pierre d’Argent, Evelyne Schmid, Silvia Steininger, Gail Lythgoe and Jessica Schechinger.
Please read the full programme here.
The ESIL Early-Career Network Co-ordinating Committee also organised informal networking events on the occasion of the 2022 ESIL annual conference in Utrecht and the 2023 ESIL Annual Conference in Aix-en-Provence. During the 2023 ESIL General Assembly the group also presented the results of a survey carried out among ESIL members. The full report is available here.
The ESIL Early-Career Network Coordinating Committee also participated in the 2024 ESIL Research Forum in Nicosia. First, the Committee hosted an online Pre-meet for the Research Forum participants on Friday, 12 April 2024. The event was well attended and served as an icebreaker connecting participants and local organisers. On the first day of the in-person conference, on 18 April, the Committee facilitated a World Café discussion on: “Engagement and Mentoring: A Conversation with Early-Career Researchers”. This format allowed ECRs to approach, discuss and ask advice from members of the ESIL Board on the topics of teaching, work-life balance, time-management, publishing and securing funding.
2023/2024 Mentoring Programme
In September 2023 the Committee launched the first edition of the ESIL Early-Career Mentoring Programme. The year-long program aims at building a close-knit network inside the broader ESIL community, which will facilitate closer engagement between early-career and established ESIL members as well as complement existing activities for early-career ESIL members. The Programme is run by the ESIL Early-Career Network Co-ordinating Committee with the support of the ESIL Board. It consists of four online group meetings.
The ESIL Early-Career Mentoring Programme aims to provide additional support in two crucial stages:
- starting-out phase: mentees typically in the first year(s) of their PhD (mentors are advanced PhD candidates (final years) and postdoctoral scholars
- building-on phase: mentees typically in the final year of their PhD/first year after submission (mentors that are established academics or international law professionals)
The ESIL ECR Network Co-ordinating Committee was incredibly touched by the outpouring of interest in the programme with 125 applications.
TRAVEL GRANTS AND CARERS' GRANTS
Though not exclusively for early-career scholars, ESIL offers a range of supportive Travel and Carers’ Grants to facilitate attendance to ESIL Annual Conferences, ESIL Research Fora and other events, with a particular regard for those whose circumstances make it challenging to attend.
HOW-TO SERIES
Next how-to event (20 June 2025)
We are happy to announce that our next how-to event will take place on June 20, from 2 pm to 4 pm. The theme is “How to use Generative AI responsibly” and the speaker is Helga Molbæk-Steensig (EUI). The event will be fully online and open only to ESIL members. Further details will follow.[/vc_toggle