For over 60 years, Common Market Law Review has provided the leading forum for exploring and debating the most important issues and developments in European Union Law. The Editors welcome for review manuscripts that address topics drawn from across the entire and dynamic field of EU law, though we encourage authors to bear in mind the broad nature of our readership, as well as our goal to publish lasting contributions on the key questions facing our discipline. It can be especially useful, when writing on an apparently more specialized area or subject, or when writing from a particular national perspective, to identify and / or explore its potential wider significance, its relationship with cognate issues in other fields, or its value as an exemplar of more general trends etc. The Editors would also like to highlight the value of combining high standards of academic rigour in terms of research and critical analysis, with approaches that might enrich the perspectives also of our considerable readership working on policy and in practice at the national, European and international levels.
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Submission of manuscripts
Articles and case notes should be submitted to the Managing Editor, Ms Anna Krisztian, in Word format, at CMLRev@law.leidenuniv.nl. Please make sure to anonymise your manuscript before submission.
With inquiries and proposals, please reach out to the Managing Editor at the same email address.
Correspondence related to book reviews should be sent to cmlrev-books@law.leidenuniv.nl.
Manuscripts not yet edited
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Published manuscripts
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We agree to authors publishing edited and published manuscripts on SSRN or similar services if there is a delay of at least 6 months (from the official publication date). In exceptional cases, the author may negotiate with Kluwer Law International a shorter delay period.
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