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April 10, 2026 10:30

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April 10, 2026 15:45

Wageningen University, Omnia

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On 10 April 2026, the ELS Academy Mid-Season Event comes to Wageningen! Join us for an interactive day of panels, discussions, and breakout sessions exploring how law and other disciplines can meaningfully work together. Learn, share, and exchange practical insights on interdisciplinarity collaboration, including research framing, teaching, and funding strategies in interdisciplinary legal research.

The programme will run from approximately 10.30-15.45. The programme can be found below and here in pdf.

  • 0:30 – 11:00: Participant registration & welcome coffee
  • 11:00: Welcome by Edwin Alblas, Assistant Professor Environmental law, WUR
  • 11:05 – 12:00: Panel discussion: Law & Interdisciplinarity: The Art of Collaboration.
    • Moderated by: Vincent Latjes, PhD Candidate Law & Strategic Communication, WUR
    • Lisette Velema, Lecturer and Assisting Coordinator ELS Academy, Leiden University
    • Louis Kotzé, Professor and Chair of the LAW group, WUR
    • Wendy Yan, Assistant Professor Constitutional Law, Utrecht University
    • Sonja Bekker, Professor European Social Policy, Utrecht University 12:00 – 13:00: Lunch & Networking
  • 13:00 – 14:00 Presentations & discussion: Law & Interdisciplinarity in research & publishing.
    • Chair: Anja Eleveld, Professor Social-Legal Studies in Precarious Work and Poverty, Vrije Universiteit Law & Interdisciplinarity: An Editor’s perspective
    • Nadia Bernaz, Professor in Law & Corporate Justice, WUR; Editor in Chief Business & Human Rights Journal Publishing interdisciplinary legal scholarship: challenges and opportunities
    • Marin Coerts, Assistant Professor Constitutional & Administrative Law, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Researching and publishing across borders
    • Carolien Jacobs, Assistant Professor Law, Governance & International Development, Leiden University
  • 14:00 – 14:30 Break
  • 14:30 – 15:45 Presentations & discussion: Law & Interdisciplinarity for impact.
    • Chair: Hanna Schebesta, Associate Professor in Food law, WUR Community-Engaged Research for Advancing Human Rights and Gender Justice
    • Ashly Jossy, PhD Candidate, PERIODS Project
    • Erica Selznick, PhD Candidate, EUmetriosis project
    • Inga Winkler, Associate Professor in Human Rights Navigating calls for practitioner recommendations
    • Ben Grama, Postdoctoral Fellow Future Proofing Human Rights, Ghent University Teaching Law & Ecology: From juridical fiction to ecological reality
    • Simon Tans, Lecturer Environmental Law, Wageningen University
  • 15:45 – Drinks

Registration for this event has been closed. If you have any questions regarding this, please contact us through contact@elsacademy.nl