Presentation
Eurojus is a legal journal, band A, founded in 2014, the year which the first issue was published on 29 June and all legal requirements for its registration were fulfilled (9 September, roll with the Court of Milan, no. 278). The journal was created in the non-print form, yet to be widespread at the time, to be a specialised publication of EU law, anticipating the recognition of the specificity of EU law concerning other branches of law.
The online publication has an undoubted advantage: it allows for rapid turnaround times and thus guarantees the topicality of the insights offered to readers. A feature that differentiates online journals from printed journals is the ‘discount’, so to speak, the time, which is not short, of printing, but first of all, the composition of the texts and distribution.
The ‘history’ of eurojus started long before 2014.
Eurojus began as a website (on 25 May 2002) and as a trademark registered with the OHIM now EUIPO (on 15 December 2003 upon application of 2 August 2002): a site available to teachers and students of European Union law. Notes and materials useful for lectures and conferences were collected as part of one of the initiatives of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence funded by the European Commission and the Jean Monnet Chair ad personam of the editor of this journal.
Hence the idea of creating a journal that, in addition to being an information tool, would be an instrument of knowledge, debate, and in-depth study for those who cultivated theoretical, but also practical, interests in the Community phenomenon in general and in European Union law in particular.
Hence the idea of creating a journal that, in addition to being an information tool, would be an instrument of knowledge, debate and in-depth study for those who cultivated theoretical, but also practical, interests in the Community phenomenon in general and in European Union law in particular.
The editorial line privileges certain themes, not only dealing with institutional aspects (which, moreover, also allows a comparison with scholars of other subjects), but dealing with issues related to litigation before the Court of Justice of the European Union, judicial cooperation in criminal matters immigration and citizenship issues, the protection of fundamental rights, competition and state aid, monetary union and banking governance, the relationship between EU law and national law, Italy’s participation in the development of EU law and the adaptation of national law to EU law.
The journal is not identified with its editor, but with all those who collaborate directly and indirectly. While being aware that eurojus is an addition to the numerous information and debate tools that already exist, it aims to share the research results and foster debate on the topics mentioned, involving those who, in other scientific and institutional venues, deal with these issues. For this reason, a weekly newsletter is published and distributed every Tuesday, where articles, reports, conference papers and reviews are published and collected in the four annual volumes of the journal. But that is not all. So-called ‘single-topic special issues’ have been published, so far ten that have accompanied and enriched the journal since 2017, constituting short monographic works.
The journal has also promoted conferences and has supported the establishment of an independent examination subject, EU law, precisely, among the examination subjects for obtaining the qualification to practise the legal profession (art. 46 Law no. 247 of 31 December 2012, as subsequently amended), and the establishment of the qualification of “lawyer specialised in European Union law” within the sphere of specialisations (thirteen in all) that lawyers can obtain (by art. 9, l. 247/2012 and Ministerial Decree No. 144 of 12 August 2015, as amended by Ministerial Decree No. 163 of 1 October 2020). The journal aims to accompany, for the purposes of in-depth study, those who, after their law studies, wish to practise a profession (lawyer, magistrate) while remaining up to date in the field of European Union law and its transposition into national law.