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PUBLICATIONS

September 2022-September 2023

EPLO Publications’ scope extends to Journals, Series and Stand-alone publications focusing on public law but also
dealing with topical issues of our times falling within other areas.

A distinctive feature of the EPLO Publications is that submissions can be made in a variety of languages: English,
French, Greek, Spanish, Russian, Portuguese, German and Italian, and the native languages of authors coming
from Central and Eastern European countries (including the Turkish and Greek languages) depending on the case,
with a view, among other, to giving the opportunity to researchers to access an international audience.

The EPLO Publications website (www.eplopublications.eu) is a valuable source of information on the EPLO
Publications, where one can find detail on each new publication.

During the reporting period (September 2022-September 2023), the EPLO remained committed to contributing to
the research and study of public law but also to expanding to other areas which are of contemporary importance.
More in particular, the following publications are to be noted:

Journals

EUROPEAN REVIEW OF PUBLIC LAW (ERPL)
In the ERPL issues appeared during the reporting period, topical public law issues have been addressed and
developments in the fields of Constitutional and Administrative Law (and Jurisprudence) from Austria, Belgium,
Brazil, Cyprus, Denmark, Federal Republic of Germany, Finland, France, Georgia, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy,
Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Spain, have been chronicled. The Book Reviews chronicles are
also an inseparable and important section of the ERPL. More detailed information is provided herein with regard
to the latest ERPL issue appeared:

ERPL 35_1/2023 (127)

Among the ERPL issues that appeared during the reporting period, the latest ERPL issue is
35_1/2023 (127), on the theme “Climate Change and Public Law: Challenges, Policies, Future
Perspectives”, comprising the proceedings of the EGPL Conference that took place in
September 2022 on the occasion of the EGPL Annual Reunion. Topical issues of utmost
significance such as “Climate Change: New Challenges to Global and European Public Law”,
“Climate Change Governance and Decision-making”, “Effective Judicial Review of Public
Action or Inaction related to Climate Change Law” are examined in depth by eminent
academics and legal scholars, experts in the field. Moreover, the themes treated in the
context of the Workshops held within the framework of the Conference (i.e., on Urban
Climate Change Resilience (UCCR) in the light of SDG11; on Climate Change and Public Law: Challenges and
Application of the Modern Technologies; and on the Blog “Constitutional Discourse”) are presented in this ERPL
issue through contributions by legal scholars and academics with a great interest in the respective fields.

CENTRAL AND EASTERN EUROPEAN LEGAL STUDIES (CEELS)

• Central and Eastern European Legal Studies, 1/2022. The first issue of the year 2022 of
the Central and Eastern European Legal Studies comprises papers: on lobbying, as an
integral part of a healthy democracy, providing the reader with a better understanding of
the way lobbying is regulated in Europe, and presenting an analysis of the perspective
that lobbying in Romania represents a need of society that seeks to be materialized in a
law aligning it to the standards of European legislation; on the quality and effectiveness
of the constitutional basis for the structure and activities of public administration in
Slovakia in terms of promoting the rights guaranteed by the Charter of Fundamental
Rights and Freedoms and the Constitution of the Slovak Republic in the context of
procedural principles recommended by the Committee of Ministers of the Council of
Europe; on the emergence of legal particularism, one of the major challenges that the Kingdom of Serbs,
Croats and Slovenes faced after its establishment; on the question ‘What are possible barriers in accessing
abortion procedures amongst (undocumented) immigrant women in the United States, and what are possible
consequences of the inability to do so?”, in light of the historical setback in the reproductive rights for
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