The European Journal of Risk Regulation

Dear Colleagues,

We’re delighted to inform you about the launch of a new journal: the European Journal of Risk Regulation.

As the European Union is increasingly emerging as de facto global regulator of all kinds of rules concerning the environment, human health, and safety, risk regulation is becoming a new lens through which to analyse the European integration process. Indeed, today the most important and widespread form of EU regulation in the internal market is concerned with the government of risk to individuals’ health and safety.

The European Journal of Risk Regulation (EJRR) is a new international journal that provides an innovative forum for informed and scholarly discussion on how these risks are regulated across policy domains in  Europe and beyond. By focusing on institutional, procedural and substantive aspects of EU risk regulation, the EJRR strikes a balance  between the interests of the practitioners, notably those increasingly engaged in regulatory drafting and advice to the industry, and a more  theoretical focus, combining normative articles with timely contributions on legislative and judicial developments, new literature and relevant events. The EJRR understands itself as a truly multi-disciplinary journal. While the central focus of the journal is the European law regulating inter alia Chemicals (REACH), Nanomaterials, Pharmaceuticals, Food and Feed, Cosmetics & Medical Devices, Pollution, Climate Change, Industrial Accidents and Public Health, discussion extends to other social sciences, such as inter alia  regulation studies, political science, risk analysis, safety science and sociology.

CALL FOR PAPERS:

The EJRR invites submissions for the first two issues of the journal.
The editors are looking for papers that communicate new research,
business analysis and policy insights to an informed readership across
EU regulatory domains. The EJRR is expected to ’go life’ in Spring
2010, and we therefore ask that work be submitted no later than January 30, 2010 in order to be considered for issue 1. Submissions will be reviewed on a rolling basis beginning December 10, 2009.

Please direct submissions and any questions about  the Journal to: 
Alberto Alemanno, Co-Founder of European Lawyers,
Associate Professor of Law, HEC Paris Email: alemanno@hec.fr