Editorial: The First WISH/RIJC

• DOI: http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0386.2004.00199.x
• Published date: 01 January 2004
• Date: 01 January 2004

Editorial: The First WISH/RIJC

Francis Snyder

This Special Issue of the European Law Journal is devoted to research by young schol-

ars in European law. It presents a selection of the revised (and where necessary, trans-

lated) versions of papers which were originally presented at the First International

Wor kshop for Young Scholars in European legal studies (WISH; in French, Rencontre

Internationale des Jeunes Chercheurs (RIJC)). The first WISH/RIJC focused on ‘Euro-

pean Legal Studies in the 21st Century’ / ‘Etudes juridiques européennes au 21ème

siècle’. It was organised by the European Law Journal,together with the Centre d’E-

tudes et de Recherches Internationales et Communautaires (CERIC—CNRS-UMR

6108) of the Faculté de Droit et de Science Politique of the Université d’Aix-Marseille

III. It was held at the Faculty of Law and Political Science, University of Aix-

Marseille III, in Aix-en-Provence, France, on 20–21 September 2002.

The Workshop, one of the first of its kind in Europe, sought to bring together the

most promising young scholars in the field of European Union law from universities

of the EU Member States, countries that are currently candidates for EU membership,

and other countries such as China or the United States. Its objective was to identify

and discuss themes that are likely to be the most significant topics of research in the

field of European Union law in the first half of the twenty-first century. The Workshop

was oriented primarily toward research currently being carried out by advanced doc-

toral students. It was designed to offer the 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. It also was intended to provide a means by which

their work could be published either in the form of an article or in an edited book des-

tined for an international readership. Following the Workshop, the authors revised their

papers on the basis of detailed written comments, oral comments by assigned discus-

sants, and the comments made in open discussion. A limited number of revised papers

were selected for publication in this Special Issue of the ELJ.1Articles written origi-

nally in French were translated into English for this purpose.

The articles selected for publication in this issue, though ranging widely in specific

topics, deal with two broad areas of concern. The first area is governance, including

domestic social and economic regulation, issues of powers and competence, and rela-

tions of the EU with other countries. The second area is consumer protection, broadly

European Law Journal, Vol.10, No. 1, January 2004, pp. 1–4.

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1The complete set of revised papers from the first WISH/RIJC is being published in two volumes: Comment

protéger les intérêts du citoyen dans l’Union européenne d’aujourd’hui / Protecting the Interests of the Citizen

in Today’s European Union (Bruylant, 2003) and The European Union and Governance / Governance et

l’Union européenne (Bruylant, 2003).