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Editorial Policies

Focus and Scope
Section Policies
Peer Review Process
Publication Frequency
Open Access Policy
Archiving


Focus and Scope
Erasmus Law and Economics Review stemmed from the idea of some students in 2003 at the European Master in Law & Economics, which have understood that economic analysis of law is becoming fundamental for the future of legal studies, to break down national barriers and enable lawyers from all over the world to communicate with each other by providing a common framework of thinking, in the way economists and other social scientists have always done.

Erasmus Law & Economics Review aims at providing a new, open and free communication interface between lawyers, academics and economists, in order to spread the law and economics approach especially among young lawyers and law students in Central Europe, and Asia and South America, which for their social, economical and political background are sharply different from the nations where law and economics was born and flourished.
The Review will carry working papers written by scholars, alumni and students, concerning both general themes of law and economics and specific topics within the framework of periodic Thematic Issues.

In this connection, we will try to explore the different branches and discover new paths of law and economics (such as behavioural law and economics, social norms and so o­n) dedicating a special attention to the papers of students, young lawyers and economists who, thanks to the peer-to-peer character of the review, can efficiently improve the quality of their works.

Similarly, as we believe that in Europe there is a general absence of a substantial link between the law and economics theory and the effective everyday courts' activity, another aim of the journal is to develop economic analyses of European cases.



Section Policies
Articles
   Open Submissions
  Peer-Reviewed
   Indexed
  Research Support Tool
 
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Book/Media Reviews
   Open Submissions
  Peer-Reviewed
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Case Commentary
   Open Submissions
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Peer Review Process
Submission will be reviewed by at least two reviewers and, if needed, by an external advisor competent in the field. ELER follows the OJS procedure to review and publish articles.
Click here to see the procedure flowchart



Publication Frequency
ELER will publish one volume per year, containing one or more Issues


Open Access Policy
Open Access Research


This journal provides open access to all of it content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Such access is associated with increased readership and increased citation of an author's work. For more information on this approach, see the Public Knowledge Project, which has designed this system to improve the scholarly and public quality of research, and which freely distributes the journal system as well as other software to support the open access publishing of scholarly resources.

Except where otherwise specified, all papers are published under the terms of the ELER Public License.


Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...


Donate
So far ELER has been financed una tantum by the Hamburg Law & Economics Society and by the Hamburg Chamber of Commerce.
ELER received also voluntary contributions from some authors of published papers.

To carry o­n in the future, we need funds:
1- to keep paying the Internet Service Provider (about 120USD per year - we just switched to lunarpages.com)
2- to publish a yearly paper edition, which will collect all o­n-line Issues (we are still assessing the budget for that)
At the end of every year we will obviously post a balance sheet.

You can now donate to ELER in a very easy and fast way through PayPal.
Only a valid credit card is required.
If you already have a PayPal account, donate to
editor@eler.org (we prefer Euro, but we accept donations in all the main currencies)
If you don't have a PayPal account, send an e-mail to
editor@eler.org indicating which amount you want to donate, and we will send you a Request for that amount, with all the instructions to make the donation.

If you live in the European Union, you may also donate through bank swift.
Please send us an e-mail to
editor@eler.org and we will give you all the parameters.


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Advisory Board

     Prof. Dr. Boudewijn Bouckaert is a professor at the Law School of Ghent University. He is the Director of the Department of Legal Theory and President of the European School for Law and Economics. He has been visiting professor in law and economics at the Universities of Paris IX, Aix-Marseille, Montpellier. He lectured for the Institute for Humane Studies, Fairfax, Virginia USA. His main fields of interest are the economic analysis and the history of property law, the theory of sources of law, zoning law. He was Director of the ERASMUS-Programme in Law and Economics from 1989 until 1994. He is also co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Law and Economics.
e-mail: boudewijn.bouckaert@rug.ac.be
homepage: http://www.law.ugent.be/grond/ENGELS/ENGbb.htm



     Prof. Guido Calabresi (B.S., Yale, 1953; LL.B., Yale, 1958; B.A., Cambridge, 1955; M.A., Oxford, 1959; M.A.Hon., Yale, 1962) is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law School and Judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals, 2nd Circuit. He is one of the founders of Law and Economics and won several honors and awards as well as some forty honorary degrees (LL.D., Dr. Hum. Litt., D.Phil., Dott. Jur., Dr. S.D., and Dott. Sci. Pol.). His main fields of interest are torts, tragic choices and legal process. He is member of the American Philosophical Society, of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and of the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, as well as fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the British Academy.
e-mail: guido.calabresi@yale.edu
homepage: http://www.law.yale.edu/outside/html/faculty/gc3/profile.htm



Peter D. Camesasca holds a law degree with honours from Antwerp University (1996), combining studies also in Hannover, Leuven and Mannheim. His Ph.D. thesis o­n European Merger Control: Setting the Efficiencies Right was published recently (2000). His main research area is European merger control. His activities also include other issues of economic regulation. He has thereto published a number of articles in the leading European, Dutch and German competition law journals. He lectures o­n topics of "Competition Law and Economics" in the Institute's (post-)graduate studies in Law and Economics.
e-mail: Camesasca@law.eur.nl
homepage: http://www.frg.eur.nl/rile/camesasca.htm 




Professor Robert Cooter (B.A., Swarthmore College, M.A., Oxford University, Ph.D., Harvard University), a pioneer in the field of law and economics, is o­ne of the founders of the American Law and Economics Association and served from 1994 to 1995 as its president. In 1999 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He lectures frequently in America and abroad.  He is a recipient of various awards and fellowships, including Guggenheim and, most recently, the Max Planck Research Prize. Robert Cooter has published a wide variety of articles o­n private law, constitutional law and economics, and law and economic development. Recent publications include the third edition of the leading textbook Law and Economics (with Tom Ulen, 1999; translated into several languages) and The Strategic Constitution (2000). Recent journal publications especially concern the connection between law and social norms.
email: rdc@law.berkeley.edu
homepage: http://www.law.berkeley.edu/faculty/cooterr/welcome.html 



Prof. Dr. Hans-Bernd Schäfer is professor of Economics at the Law Faculty and at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Hamburg. His main fields of interest are economic analysis of civil law and development economics. Together with Prof. Dr. Ott he published a German textbook o­n the economic analysis of civil law and a series of articles o­n law and economics. He is Director of the Ph.D. Graduate College o­n Law and Economics.
e-Mail: schaefer@uni-hamburg.de
homepage: http://www.jura.uni-hamburg.de/personen/schaefer/ 



Professor Lorenzo Stanghellini (J.D., University of Florence, 1987; LL.M., Columbia University, 1995) is professor of business organization law at the Law School of the University of Florence. His main fields of interest are corporate governance and economic analysis of law. He has been visiting scholar at Columbia University (1997) and at the Robbins Collection, University of California at Berkeley (2001). He has published widely o­n corporate governance, economic analysis of insolvency law, bankruptcy law. His interests also include competition law and banking law.
e-mail: stanghellini@unifi.it
homepage: http://mle.economia.unibo.it/f14.html 




Professor Thomas Ulen (B.A. Dartmouth College, M.A. Oxford University, Ph.D. Stanford University) holds a Swanlund Chair, o­ne of the highest endowed titles o­n the Urbana-Champaign campus, and is Director of the College’s Program in Law and Economics. Professor Ulen served as a Visiting Professor at several Universities in Europe, Australia, and China. His book, Law and Economics (with Robert Cooter), now in its fourth edition, has been translated into several languages. Professor Ulen was a member of the founding Board of Directors of the American Law and Economics Association and has served as a member of the editorial board of several professional journals.
e-mail: tulen@law.uiuc.edu
homepage: http://www.law.uiuc.edu/faculty/DirectoryResult.asp?Name=Ulen,+Thomas 




Professor Roger Van den Bergh is professor of Law and Economics at the Erasmus University Rotterdam and Visiting Professor at the University of Bologna. Professor Van den Bergh received his degree and a PhD in Law at the University of Antwerp. He has been a research fellow and lecturer at several Universities in Europe and in the US. He published extensively in both books and leading journals o­n Competition Law and Economics, European Law and Economics, the Economic Analysis of Consumer Law, and of Tort Law and Insurance. Professor Van den Bergh is a member of the editorial boards of several renowned journals. He has been President of the European Association of Law and Economics (EALE) from 1987 to 2001and was also expert-member of the Belgian Economic Affairs Ministry's Council for Economic Disputes (1988-1992).
e-mail: R.Vandenbergh@law.eur.nl
homepage: http://www.frg.eur.nl/rile/vdbergh.htm 









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