Keele Law Review
The Keele Law Review is pleased to announce a call for submissions for its sixth volume (2025) on the theme of ‘Is Democracy Possible?’
We will accept submissions on any topic relating to the above theme.
Deadline for proposals: Monday 14 April 2025. Proposals will be considered on a rolling basis.
Proposal submission: Proposals of 350-500 words should be submitted to y.nehushtan@keele.ac.uk. Please put “Proposed paper – KLR” in the subject line of your email. Complete papers must be submitted by Monday 29 September 2025. We will accept manuscripts no longer than 10,000-15,000 words (including footnotes), and short notes no longer than 4000-5000 words.
Manuscripts will be accepted from academics and PhD students. Short notes will also be accepted from LLM students.
Decisions to publish a submission are based on editorial and double-blind peer review.
About the KLR: The Keele Law Review is a general, online, open-access, peer-reviewed journal, edited by Prof Yossi Nehushtan – with the support of a team of students-editors. The KLR is published by the School of Law, Keele University, UK. For more details about the KLR, please see here: https://keelelawreview.com/
SLS Public Law Workshop
A workshop for ECR and PGR researchers has been organised by the SLS Public Law section, to take place on Wednesday 26 February 2025. The schedule for the day is as follows:
| Time | Activity |
| 10:00 | Welcome from the SLS Public Law Convenors Dr Chris Monaghan & Dr Michael Lane |
| 10:15 | Panel 1,Chaired byDr Chris Monaghan ‘Redefining Accountability: Is Financial Monitoring the Ultimate Weapon Against Corruption?’ by Dr Maryna Utkina, University of Warwick. ‘The Invisible Triad: Constitutionalism, Preventive Justice, and Property Rights in Legal Countering Terrorism’ by Ahmed Ellaboudy, Trinity College Dublin. |
| 11:00 | Panel 2, Chaired by Dr Michael Lane ‘Ineffective International Cultural Heritage Law in Indian Courts’ by Ankit Malhotra. ‘The Purpose Frustration Test: A Good Heuristic, but a Heuristic Nonetheless’ by Ross R-S Pey, University of Western Ontario. |
| 11:45 | Break |
| 12:15 | Publisher’s Panel, Chaired by Dr Chris Monaghan Professor Se-shauna Wheatle, Durham Law School, Series editor of the Diverse Voices series for Bristol University Press, co-editor of ‘Diverse Voices in Public Law’ and the ‘Oxford Handbook of Caribbean Constitutions’. Professor Chien-Chih Lin, Institutum Iurisprudentiae, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, and Melbourne Law School, Australia. Associate Editor of the International Journal of Constitutional Law. Professor David Marrani, Provost, International Centre of Law and Business; Researcher, AGIR Group; Series Editor of ‘Routledge Research in Constitutional Law’. |
| 13:15 | Panel 3, Chaired by Dr Michael Lane ‘European Network of Supervisory Authorities under the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive 2024: a need for further harmonization?’ by Mariia Domina, University of Lorraine. ‘Uncovering Colonised Consciousness: An exploration of legal consciousness & language communities in Northern Ireland’ by Emma-Rose McKeown, Cardiff University. ‘Incorporating Administrative Justice: The Evolving Role of Public or Quasi-Public Institutions in Sports Governance’ by Shubham Jain, University of Cambridge. |
| 14:15 | Concluding Remarks & Workshop End |
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