Dear Reader,   

As we wrap up the 2022 volume of the European Law Open, we count among the many things we are grateful for the symposia we have already hosted in our ‘Dialogue and Debate’ section, including: the symposium on Legal Geographies in EU law; the one on Wilkinson’s Authoritarian Liberalism and the Transformation of Modern Europe (2021); a symposium centered around Hesselink’s core analysis‘ Reconstituting the Code of Capital’ (2022); the symposium on ‘Law and the Production of Precarious Work in Europe’;  and the symposium around Eich’s ‘The Currency of Politics’ (forthcoming).  It is our hope not only that these symposia make for interesting and compelling reading, but also that they inspire you to consider ELO as the proper venue for a written exchange of views on a European Law subject/book/article of your choice.  

The range of topics in ELO’s past symposia is already broad but we aim to broaden it even further. We therefore invite you to develop a proposal for a new symposium, to be published in the academic year 2023/2024. We will be particularly receptive to applications from scholars located in, or originating from, underrepresented geographies or communities, working in any field of European law writ large.  The themes covered by the symposia should be in line with the journal’s aim to cover areas of EU law or topics that have been neglected by mainstream academia and to offer innovative perspectives on ongoing debates.  We aim to include a diverse authorship in these collections.   

The ELO Editorial Board will consider proposals submitted by April 30th, 2023 via email to [email protected] and marked for the attention of the ELO symposia editors: Daniela Caruso, Martijn Hesselink, Vlad Perju and Alexander Somek. The entire proposal should not exceed 7,000 words. 

Each proposal should contain: 

• The title of the proposed symposium. 
• A statement outlining the idea, the originality, and the rationale for the symposium. 
• A brief cv of the symposium organizer(s).
• An introduction, or framing paper for the collection, authored by the symposium organizer(s) (2000-4000 words) anticipating 5 to 8 pieces, each of 3000-8000 words. 
• The titles, authors, and abstracts of approx. 300-500 words for each of the proposed pieces.  
• A timeline, including a date by which all pieces should be completed.  
• A commitment by the symposium organizer(s) to manage the double blind peer review of each contribution and to edit each contribution.  
• An understanding that the ELO editorial team will also review each piece and reserve the right to choose not to publish all or some of the contributions if they are not convinced that they meet the journal’s quality standards.