Editorial

• Author: Francis Snyder
• Date: 01 June 2002
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/1468-0386.00155
• Published date: 01 June 2002

Editorial

Francis Snyder

The First International Workshop for Young Scholars in European Legal Studies

(WISH, or RIJC in French) will be held in Aix-en-Provence, France, on 20±21

September 2002. It is being organised by the European Law Journal and one of its

supporting institutions, the Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Internationales et

Communautaires (CERIC) at the Universite

Âd'Aix-Marseille III.

WISH has four main, rather ambitious objectives:

.To help to create a network among the most promising young scholars in the

®eld of EU legal studies from the universities of the EU Member States, countries

that are currently candidates for EU membership, and other countries such as

China or the United States;

.To oer participants an opportunity to present their best research work in a

professional academic setting to an audience of other young scholars and more

senior scholars;

.To identify the principal themes that are likely to be the most signi®cant research

topics in the ®eld of EU legal studies in the ®rst half of the 21st century; and

.To provide a means for young scholars in EU legal studies to publish their best

work. A selection of the papers presented at WISH will be published in a special

additional issue of the European Law Journal, and all of the papers will be

published in an edited book, if necessary following revision on the basis of panel

discussions and other comments.

If you are an advanced doctoral student in law or another social science discipline, and

are nearing completion of a thesis on a topic in EU law or European legal studies, we

invite you to submit a proposal for a paper, which could be based on your thesis. You

can ®nd full details about the call for papers and the selection procedures in ELJ 8:1,

in this issue, or on the WISH website at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/ceric/els.htm.

Following the call for proposals, the papers selected for presentation at WISH will

be organised around the following themes:

.Protection of the interests of the citizen

.Access to justice

.Economic and social rights and freedoms including tax law

.Legal culture of the European Union

.Comparative law in the EU context

.Criminal law and criminology in the EU, including co-operation in the ®eld of

Justice and Home Aairs

European Law Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 2002, pp. 195±197.

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