Open Call for Abstracts – European Yearbook of International Economic Law 2025
The editors of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law (EYIEL) welcome abstracts from scholars and practitioners at all stages of their career for the EYIEL 2025. This year’s Focus Section will concentrate on Global Sports and International and European Economic Law. EYIEL’s General Section will feature contributions addressing Current Challenges, Developments and Events in International and European Economic Law.
The Focus Section proceeds from the understanding that global sports is of enormous economic and societal relevance (a point brought home by the worldwide interest in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games), but not easily integrated into the existing structures of international and European economic
law. Abstracts should seek to elucidate how international and European economic law address global sports and where they fail to do so. They can cover any topic falling within the broad theme of ‘Global Sports and International and European Economic Law’, whether on the international or regional level
(incl. also other regional associations).
We particularly welcome contributions addressing the following aspects:
- Global Sports and the Exercise of National Jurisdiction, especially the Validity of Arbitration Clauses,
- Global Sports and Investment Protection,
- Global Sports and Arbitration, especially the Role and Record of both the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) and the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR),
- Global Sports and Intellectual Property Rights,
- Global Sports and Competition Law,
- Global Sports and Public Procurement,
- Global Sports and Human Rights,
- Global Sports and Private Law Concerns,
- Global Sports and International Organisations, Committees etc.,
- Global Sports and Sanctions,
- the Status of Central Actors of the ‘Sports Family’ in International and European Economic Law (IOC, FIFA, UCI, UEFA, etc.)
- and the Role of Multi- and Plurilateral Treaties in Enabling and/or Shaping Gobal Sports.
For the General Section, abstracts should address topics of current relevance to European and International Economic Law. Similarly, reviews of case-law or practices and developments in the context of international organisations are encouraged.
Abstracts should not exceed 500 words. They should be concise and clearly outline the significance of the proposed contribution. Abstracts together with a short bionote must be submitted by 15 December 2024 via email to eyiel@leuphana.de indicating whether the contribution is intended for the Focus Section or the General Section.
Successful applicants will be notified by the end of February 2025 that their proposal has been accepted. They are expected to send in their final contribution by 1 June 2025.
Final submissions will undergo peer review prior to publication. Given that submissions are to be developed on the basis of the proposal, the review will focus on the development of the paper’s central argument put forward in the abstract.
Submissions addressing particular regional and institutional developments should be analytical and not descriptive. Due to its character as a yearbook, the EYIEL will not publish articles which will lose their relevance quickly. Submissions should not exceed 12.000 words (including footnotes and references), though preference may be given to shorter submissions. They should include an abstract and a biographical note. Submissions need to be in conformity with the EYIEL citation guidelines.
The editors of the EYIEL welcome informal enquiries about any other relevant topic in the field of international and European economic law. Proposals may be submitted via e-mail to eyiel@leuphana.de.