Although Member States have to embed the Pact into their own national legislation and practice by June 2026, this workshop critically aims to explore the issues that the EU Pact does not address, but which the EU legislator promised to solve in the Pact. Think of themes like human trafficking, responsibility sharing at the global level, international partnerships, integration, legal migration and more.
We welcome researchers at all career stages -from doctoral researchers to senior academics–to examine these topics and encourage PhD candidates to submit abstracts. If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please send your abstract by 9 January 2026 by email to Karin Zwaan with the subject ‘Pact workshop 2026’. Abstracts should be no longer than 400 words and set out the topic, main argument and methodology of the paper.
This workshop is funded by the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research.
