CALL FOR PAPERS: Folia Iuridica vol. 113, 2025

2024-12-10

Because the proposal of this issue is to foster an innovative engagement with Human Rights philosophy that goes beyond traditional certainties, the volume includes, besides the usual academic papers, sections of dialogue and exchange amongst the authors. This interactive process will be guided by the editor, once the paper proposals have been accepted.

The call to join this special volume is explicitly open to all interested researchers and practitioners engaging with Human Rights. Nevertheless, in order to know more about the background of this issue and its possible topics, it might be useful to recall that the impulse for this endeavour has been given by exchanges and encounters during various academic events, in particular, at the 30th and 31st World Congresses of the International Association for Philosophy of Law and Social Philosophy (IVR) (2022, Bucharest;  2024, Seoul). You can find here the descriptions of the Special Workshops “Encountering difference: The ‘other’ Philosophies of Human Rights” and “Arts-based research in legal and social philosophy – an exploratory workshop” that took place at the IVR2024.

Contributions, however, are not limited to the scope of these workshops. On the contrary, you are very much encouraged to share your own proposal to re-think Human Rights from a pluralistic and relational perspective. Exemplarily, potential points of entry are: 

  • Feminist and queer as well as ecosystemic and posthumanist ethics 
  • Approaches to ‘dignity’, ‘freedom’ and ‘justice’ in neglected Western non-modern philosophies 
  • Indigenous approaches to human-nature relations, eg. as expressed in the debate over Nature Rights and the personhood of rivers
  • Non-individualistic philosophies of human conflict (and peace) and their connection to key categories of Human Rights 
The deadline for submission of publication proposals – in the form of an abstract (about 1 typed page) – is 28 February 2025. Please send abstracts electronically to the Editors' email addresses: florencia.benitezschaefer@gmail.com and olga.rosenkranzova@upol.cz. Acceptance of the abstract does not imply acceptance of the article for publication. All articles must pass the standard review process. Once approved by the Volume Editor, please submit articles meeting the editorial requirements (link below) via the OJS platform (link below) by June 30 2025. Articles submitted by passing the abstract selection by the deadline of 30 June 2025 may be included in the volume with the approval of the subject editors or referred by the editors for publication in another volume of the journal.

 

Editorial requirements: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/Iuridica/editorial_instructions.

Article submission: https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/Iuridica/about/submissions.

 

We cordially invite you to publish your research and dialogue in this innovative issue!