An international seminar to think about and analyse legislative studies

📍 Hybrid - Every week from September 2025 to May 2026
🔎 A space for dialogue between doctoral students, researchers and practitioners of legislative studies

Why?

The Doctoriales legislatives is a bilingual (French/English) seminar bringing together young researchers and experts from the parliamentary world. This initiative by the Research Chair in Legislative Studies of the University of Luxembourg, in partnership with a number of academic and legislative institutions, provides a unique forum for exchange on :

• History and institutionalisation of representative democracy
• Key speeches on the comparative foundations of representative democracy
• Public affairs, ethics and professional conduct in co-legislative institutions (Constitutional Court, Council of State, parliaments, etc.)
• Comparative parliamentary law
• Parliaments and regional economic governance (EU, NAFTA, Mercosur, SADC, etc.)
• Multi-level parliamentarisms
• Law, science, technology and parliament
• Parliaments and international affairs
• Citizens and law-making (deliberative democracy, participatory democracy, direct democracy and representative democracy)

Conditions for participation

🎓 Registered doctoral student or confirmed researcher, from an institution, a university or a think tank
🗣 Fluency in French and English (B2 minimum required)

 Important dates

🗓️ 15th March 2025 - Applications open
🗓️ 15th June 2025 - Closing date for applications
🗓️ 15th July 2025 - Notification of acceptance
🗓️ 10th September 2025 - Starting date of the seminar (introductory meeting)

➡ Apply now and join an international network of motivated researchers!