Merkourios

Merkourios, Utrecht Journal for International and European Law, is issuing a call for papers to be published in its forthcoming edition on International and European Migration Law. The Board of Editors of Merkourios invites you to submit papers addressing any aspect of migration law from a multilevel approach; for example, freedom of movement within the European Union, status of European citizenship, criminalization of irregular migration, detention, family reunification and rights of children, labour migration, and asylum and refugee law. The authors are invited to describe possible problems and questions arising from the different layers of law applying to migration law: including the question of national sovereignty, relationship between EU law and international human rights standards, or the possible effect of accession of the EU to the ECHR.

Merkourios also provides a platform for outstanding articles regardless of the topic in its general section. Such articles shall meet the same criteria as the topic-related articles.

All types of manuscripts, from socio-legal to comparative will be considered. Authors may be graduate students, post-graduates, PhD-candidates, professors or university lecturers. Merkourios will select articles based on quality of research and writing, diversity, and relevance of topic.

It is imperative that all submissions conform to the Oxford Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCLA). A copy of the OSCLA can be found at http://denning.law.ox.ac.uk/published/oscola.shtml or can be requested from the Merkourios Board of Editors. Merkourios has a word limit of 15000 words, including footnotes.

Merkourios is the student-led, peer-reviewed biannual law journal of Urios, the Utrecht Association for International and European Law and was founded in 1988. Merkourios focuses on providing readers with articles written by excelling academics and professionals on topical subjects. Recently, Merkourios has dealt with subjects such as the Lisbon Treaty, International Tribunals, and European Competition Law. In the years since 1988, Merkourios has expanded its readership and is now distributed all over the world through our website http://www.merkourios.org and online databases such as HeinOnline.