A forum for early career researchers in Law

On 8-9 December 2025, the postdoctoral community at the Department of Law of the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg (FDEF) hosted  “Methods in Legal Discipline: Post-Doctoral Insights Across Research Fields”, a workshop organised by postdoctoral researcher representative, Dr. Tamar Khuchua and deputy representative Dr. Salomé Lannier, with support from the FDEF research committee.   

Across two days, postdoctoral researchers from diverse legal fields – private law, criminal law, labour law, intellectual property, international law, legal theory, and law & tech – came together to present and discuss how methodological choices shape contemporary legal scholarship. Dedicated commentators for each panel, coming from all over Europe, discussed the work of the presenters. 

The workshop opened with a keynote by Professor Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz, whose reflections on European integration, legal scholarship, and the relationship between law and society set a thought-provoking tone for the discussions that followed in the four panels:

• Comparing and working across legal analytical frameworks;
• Making sense of evolving Technologies Across Legal Disciplines;
• Rethinking Desk-Based Research” From Written Law to Empirical Analysis;
• Shedding Light on Public Policies through Legal Research. 

‟ The speakers and the participants of the workshop enriched their understanding of various methodological choices applied across legal fields, useful for day-to-day research. ”

Tamar Khuchua

Postdoctoral Researcher

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From comparative analysis and doctrinal innovation to empirical methods, interdisciplinary collaboration, and technology-sensitive approaches, the workshop showcased the remarkable depth and diversity of research carried out by early-career scholars at our faculty and contributed to an academic dialogue among them.