New issue of the German Law Journal
- the first to appear in 2015.
Throughout the Journal's sixteen years, time and again, we have
delivered on our broad mandate: "Review of Developments in German,
European and International Jurisprudence." But we have seldom be so
comprehensive in a single issue. Here we present you with excellent
scholarship from each of those fields.
And we continue our tradition of timely and thoghtful commentary on the
most important recent developments with a remarkable "special section"
on the CJEU's controversial Opinion 2/13.
It is another excellent issue. We hope it makes a contribution to your
engagement with the diverese issues covered. We also hope it inspires
you to contribute your work to the GLJ for publication. We understand
very well that the Journal's first purpose is to provide an effective
and dynamic platform for the work of scholars. For that reason, the GLJ
is - and always has been - an online/open-access scholarly forum. Your
articles, commentary, notes and reviews will benefit from exposure to
the Journal's large readership (each published text receives an average
of 500 views in the first month of publication) and the Journla's
established reputation (it is placed #1 and #2 in the relevant
impact-factor rankings).
There are other profound services the GLJ offers it authors. The
peer-review board often offers thoughful feeback. And the student
editors invest themselves in each accepted text, offering
native-language style edits, formatting the content for publicaiton, and
aligning the citations with the Journal's style-guide. The student
editors' contribution to this important project is especially on my mind
as we publish this issue because it is the time of year when the
current team, in preparation for graduation in a few weeks, hands it
responsibilities to a new group of editors. I want to take this
opportunity - on behalf of the all those connected with the Journal
(editors and authors and readers) - to thank them for their dedication
and committment. This is particularly true of the outgoing chief editor
of the student team, Brenna Duncan. Working from here in the Virginia
countryside, Brenna and the other W&L students are an absolutely
esstential and tireless, but too-often unremarked, part of the the
Journal's success. For all of that - I hope you'll join me in thanking
them.
