Description
The essence of commercial law is in commercial transactions.
The Basic Concepts of European Journal of Commercial Contract Law (EJCCL)
EJCCL aims to play a major role in (international and European) commercial law and offer the latest factual, accessible and scientifically reliable information to legal scholars, practitioners, courts and legislators. Its basic concepts are therefore:
Up-to-Date
In order to ensure accurate and up-to-date information, the EJCCL will be published regularly. Four issues will appear annually. EJCCL will include reliable overviews of current affairs regarding litigation, legislation and legal doctrine in the Member States.
Comprehensive and Scientific
EJCCL will offer comprehensive information in key areas of commercial law. Furthermore, it will meet scientific requirements of the highest standards, including having an excellent board of editors, reliable and competent correspondents, a ‘peer review’ team and first-rate contributors. The board of editors controls the journal, and identifies topics and developments which should be addressed. Correspondents and contributors will offer information/overviews and high-quality articles. Further attention from universities and practitioners will be called for, and will enhance the status of the journal (which aims at the highest academic level, and equal esteem in legal practice).
Accessible
Apart from quality as a standard, accessibility should be ensured. The journal will offer clear and intelligible information for academic audiences, as well as for legal practitioners. Its main contributions and overviews of current affairs will be ‘user-friendly’ and uniform.
Structure of EJCCL
EJCCL consists of three parts:
Leading articles aim to disseminate and enhance legal knowledge and scholarship in commercial law, in accordance with the objectives of EJCCL. Concise observations and overviews deal primarily with legal practice and opinions.
Why EJCCL?
The national and international market for law journals is abundant, apparently. However, a commercial law journal covering Europe as a whole is lacking. This is an impediment to the development of commercial law as a truly international (and, increasingly, European) area of law.
Commercial law covers many fields of law, including transport law, international trade law, insurance law, sale of goods law (commercial transactions), securities and payment-systems (bills of exchange, electronic payments), e-commerce, arbitration law, agency, litigation, conflict of laws and commercial dispute resolution.
Commercial law journals exist in most Member States (IHR, TBH, NTHR, RIW, LCMQ), but their focus is mostly on national trade law and the impact of international developments on national legal issues. Commercial law is increasingly an international area of law; many external sources of law exist. Often, these have their own rules of (autonomous) construction and specific systems for dispute resolution. Knowledge of national and external sources of commercial law is essential in contemporary legal practice; comparative legal research is necessary. However, language barriers may hinder practitioners, and case-law and other sources are not easily accessible.
The European Journal of Commercial Contract Law seeks to solve these difficulties by offering a reliable and up-to-date international platform for practical, principle-based and comparative legal research. From this perspective, the developments regarding European harmonisation or unification via non-binding principles (Lando, Unidroit) and/or common frames of references (DCFR) in various areas of the law deserve careful attention.
Editorial board
Maartje Bijl
Utrecht University (editorial secretary)
Michael Bridge
London School of Economics
Malcolm Clarke
University of Cambridge (St. John’s College)
Herman Cousy
Catholic University of Leuven
Anka Ernes
Open University of the Netherlands; Maastricht University
Benoît Goemans
Catholic University of Leuven
Goemans, De Scheemaecker Advocaten
Helmut Heiss
University of Zurich
Marc Hendrikse
University of Amsterdam; Open University of the Netherlands; Utrecht University (editor-in-chief)
Philip van Huizen
Utrecht University; Van Mens & Wisselink N.V Attorneys at Law
Jérôme Kullmann
University of Paris
Peter Mankowski
University of Hamburg
María Victoria Petit Lavall
Universitat Jaume I
Burghard Piltz
University of Bielefeld; Brandi, Dröge, Piltz & Gronemeyer Lawyers
Jac Rinkes
Open University of the Netherlands; Maastricht University
Anton Schnyder
University of Zurich; Kellerhals Attorneys at Law
Verica Trstenjak
Advocate General at the ECJ
Ralph de Wit
Vrije Universiteit Brussel; Van Doosselaere Advocaten
Editorial secretary
Maartje Bijl,
Molengraaff Institute for Private Law,
Nobelstraat 2a,
3512 EN Utrecht,
the Netherlands
M.C.Bijl@uu.nl