Registrations are now open for the Advanced Training in Creative Socio-Legal Methods and Methodologies, taking place at the City Campus of the University of Antwerp from 15 to 17 September 2025. Click here for the brochure.
This three-day training offers early-career legal scholars a unique opportunity to engage with advanced socio-legal research methods and methodologies. In recent years, legal scholarship has increasingly embraced methods and methodologies drawn from the humanities and social sciences. Socio-legal methods enable researchers to approach law as a social phenomenon, exploring its interaction with cultural, economic, historical, political, and social contexts. This marks a turn to interdisciplinary perspectives that go beyond traditional doctrinal legal methods. Participants will explore innovative methodological approaches—including participatory and creative methods—through expert-led keynotes and interactive workshops. Particular attention will be given to research practices in diverse socio-legal contexts, including those in the Global South.
· The training is open to (prospective) PhD and postdoctoral researchers in law from Flemish universities and YUFE partner institutions.
· 30 places are available (15 places reserved for University of Antwerp researchers)
· Participation is free of charge and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.
· Please apply only if you can commit to attending the full training.
Acknowledgement
This event is made possible through the generous support of the OJO grant from the Flemish Government, the Global Engagement Fund of the University of Antwerp, and the dedicated commitment of our speakers.
Programme
| 15 September 2025 | 16 September 2025 | 17 September 2025 |
| 9.30 Keynote: Reflections on positionality Luis Eslava, La Trobe Law School (online) | 9.30 Workshop V: Participatory action research in the Global South Adriana Moreno Cely, Free University of Brussels (VUB) | |
| 10.30 Coffee break | 11.00 Coffee break | |
| 11.00 Workshop II: Creative interview methods Giselle Corradi, Ghent University | 11.30 Plenary debate: Marxist feminist & Third World Approaches to International Law Suzana Rahde Gerchmann, SOAS TBC | |
| 12.30 Kick-off lunch | 12.30 Lunch | 12.30 Networking lunch |
| 13.15 Welcoming speech + Roundtable discussion: Disciplinary turn to socio-legal methods | 13.30 Workshop III: Participatory legal design Siddharth Peter de Souza, University of Warwick | 14.00 Closing |
| 15.00 Coffee break | 15.00 Coffee break |
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| 15.30 Workshop I: How to choose the right method? TBC | 15.30 Workshop IV: Coding and analysis TBC |
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| 17.00 End of day 1 | 18.30 Networking dinner |
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Register here or follow the QR Code:
For questions and other information you can contact:
Arinç Onat Kiliç arinconat.kilic@uantwerpen.be
Camilla Domenighini camilla.domenighini@uantwerpen.be
