ICON•S Central and Eastern Europe Chapter

🔜 The deadline for abstract submission was recently extended to 15 February. With the exception of the submission deadline, the rest of the attached call for papers is still current. For any additional questions or concerns, feel free to contact Professor Anita Blagojevic.

⚖️ "EU of Gender Equality" is the final event of the 2023-2026 Jean Monnet Module "European Union and Gender Equality". It will take place at the Faculty of Law in Osijek, Croatia, on 24 September 2026.

💡 Scholars working on issues related to gender equality may find the following conference of interest.

🏫 The European Constitutional Law Review invites all interested early-career scholars to an annual symposium to discuss a piece of ongoing research.

To register, please submit an abstract (400 to 800 words) and a CV. More details available below! 👇

Early-career scholars in the CEE region, here is an excellent opportunity to present a piece of your work that may result in a new contribution to knowledge!

More information about the book is available here: lnkd.in/dvVnmqPP

💡 To register and receive the webinar details, please follow this link: lnkd.in/d4-rgcVC

📚 We will also be joined by Alexei Trochev (Nazarbayev University) and Kriszta Kovacs (ELTE and WZB) as discussants. A Q&A will allow participants to engage with the ideas of the book and its author.

🧐 The book comprehensively analyses how constitutional amendments serve as strategic tools for regime stability in autocracies based on both in depth case studies and a large-N analysis of amendments in autocracies since 1918.

🤓 On Wednesday, 25 February 2026, 14:00-15:30 CET, we will be discussing Anna Fruhstorfer's anticipated monograph, Constitutional Change under Autocracy, just out with Oxford University Press.

The ICON-S CEE Chapter is delighted to invite everyone to our next online roundtable about an exciting new book! 😊

Full details are available on the conference website. See www.pf.uni-lj.si/icon-s-cee-2...

Many thanks to Samo Bardutzky, Marjan Kos, Tilen Štajnpihler Božič, and the conference committee for their work on this.

The Faculty of Law at the University of Ljubljana is hosting, with an exciting programme in the works. Abstracts are welcome by 31 January 2026 for:
• individual papers
• complete panels
• book & project showcases

📣 Call for Papers

We’re delighted to share the call for papers for next year’s ICON-S CEE Chapter Annual Conference, taking place 14–15 May 2026 in Ljubljana, Slovenia 🇸🇮

The table of contents is available below. We are looking forward to the next issue of the Romanian Journal of Comparative Law and a new batch of scholarly publications!

The conference produced many valuable insights. Many of them were developed as articles and submitted to the Romanian Journal of Comparative Law. The first group of these papers is now available in the new issue of the Journal.

In April of 2024, the Chapter held its annual conference at the Faculty of Law, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu, Romania, on "Unwritten Constitutionalism and Public Law in Central and Eastern Europe".

Volume 23 Issue 2 | International Journal of Constitutional Law | Oxford Academic Published in association with the New York University School of Law, ICON is dedicated to advancing the study of international and comparative constitutional law in the broadest sense of the terms.

- Abortion and abuses of constitutional review in the trajectory of Polish constitutionalism, by Anna Śledzińska-Simon.

The introductory essay to the symposium is available below, while the rest of the articles are available at the Journal's website: academic.oup.com/icon/issue/2...

- Women, sexual orientation, gender identity, and constitutional developments in Hungary, by Lídia Balogh and Dr. Tímea Drinóczi;
- Gender roles and the family under Romania's post-socialist constitution: Between progress and restraint, by Elena Brodeală;

- Constitutional construction of reproductive rights and family in Croatia and Slovenia, by Ana Horvat Vuković and Ana Samobor;
- The non-constitutionalization and avoidant constitutionalization of gender in Czechia and Slovakia, by Barbara Havelková, Terezie Boková and Lucia Berdisova;

The Symposium provides valuable insight into the uneven terrain of gender equality in the region.

In addition to the introductory paper, the symposium contains the following contributions:

The most recent issue of the International Journal of Constitutional Law includes the symposium "Women, Gender, and Constitutionalism in Central and Eastern Europe". Co-edited by the co-chair of the Chapter, Professor Barbara Havelkova, alongside professors Mathias Moschel and Anna Sledzinska-Simon.

Each country has specific eligibility criteria and information sessions, so make sure to check the EUI website for details.

📅 Application deadline: 15 January 2026, 14:00 (CEST).

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Grants are available for nationals (and, in some cases, residents) of:
Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Estonia, Kosovo, Latvia, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine — and, soon, Croatia!

📢 The EUI’s PhD applications are now open!

If you’re a young scholar from Central, Eastern, or Southeastern Europe considering a PhD in Law, History, Political and Social Sciences, or Economics, this is a great opportunity to join a vibrant academic community in Florence.