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25 Eur. J. Int'l L. 1 (2014)

handle is hein.journals/eurint25 and id is 1 raw text is: The European Journal of International Law Vol. 25 no. 1
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Editorial
The International Society for Public Law - Call for Papers and
Panels; Van Gend en Loos - 50th Anniversary; Vital Statistics;
Roll of Honour; Quantitative Empirical International Legal
Scholarship; In this Issue
The International Society for Public Law - Call for Papers
and Panels
On 26-28 June 2014, in Florence, the European University Institute and NYU-La
Pietra will host the Inaugural Conference of the newly established International
Society of Public Law (ICON.S).
We invite all our readers to submit proposals for either individual papers, or even
more ambitiously, proposals for panels which, if selected, will be presented at the
Inaugural Conference. Full details, modules for submitting proposals and for register-
ing for the conference may be found at http://icon-society.org/. Registration for the
Inaugural Conference includes the first annual membership fee in ICONoS and a free
one-year online subscription to I-CON, the International Journal of Constitutional Law.
* Why create a new international learned society- are there not enough already?
* Why public law - if we typically teach Constitutional Law, Administrative Law, or
International Law (and now the much a la mode Global Law)?
* And why does the word 'comparative' not feature in the title of the new Society?
Surely if we bring together constitutionalists from, say, Japan and Canada or
administrative lawyers from Italy and Turkey - their common language will be
Comparative Law?
The initiative to create an International Society of Public Law emerged from the
Editorial Board of I-CON- the International Journal of Constitutional Law. For several
years now I-CON has been, both by choice and pursuant to the cartographic reality
of the field, much more than a journal of comparative constitutional law. I-CON has
expanded its interests, range of authors, readers, Editorial Board members and, above
all, issues covered, to include not only discrete articles in fields such as Administrative
Law, Global Constitutional Law, Global Administrative Law and the like, but also -
and increasingly so - scholarship that reflects both legal reality and academic percep-
tion; scholarship which, in dealing with the challenges of public life and governance,
EJIL (2014), Vol. 25 No. 1, 1-7                         doi:10.1093/ejil/chuOl9

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