[Call for Nominations] Max van der Stoel Award

The Max van der Stoel Human Rights Award celebrates early-career researchers in the field of human rights. The upcoming edition, organised by Tilburg University, will take place on 10 December 2025. Manuscripts compete in two categories: Best Doctoral Dissertation and Best Master's Thesis. A prize of €4,000 is to be distributed among winners by the jury.

Each NNHRR member faculty may nominate one Doctoral dissertation and one Master's thesis to participate in the competition.

Conditions:

• Doctoral dissertations must have been defended between 1 July 2023 and 1 June 2025
• Master theses must have been defended or published between 1 September 2023 and 31 August 2025
• Manuscripts must be written in Dutch or English

Deadlines:

• Doctoral dissertations must be submitted before 1 July 2025
• Master theses must be submitted before 1 October 2025

More information, as well as instructions for faculties on submitting their nominees is available here.

Are you an early-career researcher interested in participating in the award? Then get in touch with your faculty!