Membres en début de carrière

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.