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12 Middle E. L. & Governance 1 (2020)

handle is hein.journals/measterna12 and id is 1 raw text is: MIDDLE EAST MIDDLE EAST LAW AND GOVERNANCE 12 (2020) 1-2 LAWAND INTERDISCIPLINARY GOVERNANCE JOURNAL BRILL brillcom/melg Introduction This special issue marks one year that I have been MELG's Editor-in-Chief It was with both great excitement and trepidation that I took on the role, know- ing that I had very large shoes to fill, following Anver Emon, who was one of the journal's founders and its first Editor-in-Chief. MELG flourished under Anver's impressive stewardship, and I see one of my roles as the new Editor-in-Chief as building on the many strengths MELG developed under his leadership. It has been an extraordinarily rewarding and invigorating year, as we have built on this strong foundation. One of these strengths lies in MEL G's very title - its unique focus on law and governance. Over the last year, the editorial and advisory boards and I have built on this focus and introduced case comments as a form of submission. Relatively short pieces, case comments focus on a single notable judicial deci- sion. They analyze and critique the decision and often put it in a broader perspective - sometimes within a longer line of jurisprudence, but also some- times using other disciplines, such as political science, to contextualize or critique the decision. We hope that these case comments will offer a new pub- lishing opportunity that will be rewarding for new authors to MELG and its readership. A second of the many strengths that MELG developed under Anver's leader- ship is its tradition of insightful special issues - to which this current special issue on Islamism edited by Mark Lynch and Jillian Schwedler attests. In fol- lowing Anver's footsteps, I continue to emphasize special issues that are of high quality and speak to topics relevant to the journal's focus. Towards this end, the boards and I have added solicited and unsolicited roundtables to MELG'S submissions. Revolving around a theme, topic, event, or even a note- worthy publication, roundtables consist of shorter submissions than special issues. We hope they provide authors the opportunity to respond to events in a faster, yet still meaningful, manner. Under Anver, MELG also introduced a regular fieldnote section for which authors submitted reflections on the state of the field of Middle East studies. Building on this important pillar of the journal, we have expanded the notion of fieldnote to include reflections from the field and also field research methods. The boards and I firmly believe that all three types of fieldnotes are not only of interest to MELG's readership, but also of value both for research and teaching purposes. © KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2020 1 DOI:10.1163/18763375-01201006

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