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handle is hein.journals/qmlj2021 and id is 1 raw text is: QMLJ (2021), 1, i-ii
DOI: 10.26494/QMLJ72462
Queen Mary Law Journal: Special Conference Issue 2021
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Since 2010 the PhD candidates of the Queen Mary School of Law have organised the
annual Queen Mary Postgraduate Legal Research Conference to bring together young minds
and exchange fresh ideas. Following the conference, the best papers are selected for a special
issue of the Queen Mary Law Journal (QMLJ).
When we started planning the tenth edition of the conference, scheduled for 2-3 July
2020, my colleagues and I compiled a list of the potential difficulties we might encounter
during the process. Needless to say, a global pandemic was not among them. Due to the time
constraint and the rising uncertainty surrounding the global situation at that time, we were
obliged to cancel the conference. Nevertheless, we still felt that all the effort that the applicants
put into their abstracts had to be accounted for and, for this reason we decided to select a
handful of the abstracts we received and offer the authors the opportunity to publish their work.
Selecting the articles for publication was anything but easy as the vast majority of the
submissions received presented interesting perspectives and original ideas. We chose 7
abstracts that, in our view, best met the theme of the conference, 'More of Less of Law?',
demonstrated considerable expertise and reflected contemporary global issues.
As a result, the QMLJ's special issue gathers contributions from  early career
researchers and PhD candidates from a variety of institutions, at different stages of their
academic paths, and working in various legal fields. The contributions touch a number of
highly relevant subjects, ranging from European criminal and environmental law (Dimitrios
Kafteranis and Stefano Porfido) and EU external relations in the management of migration
(Eleonora Frasca) to an account of domestic legal frameworks on terrorism, politicisation of
the judiciary, Brexit and transition to green energy (Ward Yperman, Ayesha Riaz, Pier Mario
Lupinu, Alexandru Gociu). We would like to thank the authors for their excellent commitment
and enthusiasm to the delivery of high quality articles and for bringing this issue to life.
Needless to say, this issue would not have been possible without the hard work of many
administrators, professors and the QMLJ team. In particular, we would like to thank Professor
Maksymilian del Mar, Dr Roxana Banu and Dr Costanza Russo, for their role in the conference
and in reviving the Journal, Hayley O Hagan and Julie Bacon, who have been an indispensable

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