Editorial

Date01 March 2019
DOI10.1177/2032284419836519
Published date01 March 2019
Subject MatterSpecial Issue: Editorial
Special Issue: Editorial
Editorial
1. The present issue of the NJECL collects the revised, updated and edited versions of the
papers given by the authors at the international conference European Criminal Law in the
Global Context: Values, Principles and Policies, organized by the IJ – Instituto Jur´ıdico da
Universidade de Coimbra (University of Coimbra Institute for Legal Research
1
)and
ECLAN – European Criminal Law Academic Network,
2
which took place in Coimbra in
March 2017.
Established in 2004 at the initiative of Professor Anne Weyembergh (ULB-IEE), ECLAN is a
network of researchers and academics engaging in EU criminal law across thirty-two countries. It
aims at developing academic research and training in the field by facilitating collaboration and
synergies between universities and research centres, and its pool of experts takes part in several
projects funded by the European Commission. ECLAN also organises conferences and edits
publications, hosts a summer school and a PhD seminar on the EU area of criminal justice and
publishes a newsletter dedicated to recent developments in the field.
The IJ, founded in 1911, was re-established in 2013 as a Unit of R&D under the new Statutes of
the Faculty of Law. The March 2017 conference was promoted by the research group on Crisis,
Sustainability and Citizenship(s), which intends to draw up a normative framework of reference for
the various dimensions involved in the reform of the State, in the current context of shared or ‘late’
sovereignty, with a view to anticipating the implications of such reform for traditional legal
methodology.
The Conference was part of a wider event, which included the IJ/ECLAN Symposium on The
European Public Prosecutor’s Office. It brought together more than 30 speakers, including practi-
tioners, researchers and stakeholders specialised in European criminal law. More than 160 people
from 27 nationalities/provenances registered to attend, including students and professionals com-
ing from abroad, allowing for the presentation of diverse views on the proposed topics, followed by
lively debates.
2. Most of the research on European criminal law revolves around what could be called the
internal dimension of the topic, that is, the specific features of this relatively new branch of
criminal law, namely its particular relationship with the criminal law systems of the Mem-
ber States. This approach was consistent with the stage of ‘minimum European criminal
1. http://ij.fd.uc.pt
2. www.eclan.eu
New Journal of European Criminal Law
2019, Vol. 10(1) 3–6
ªThe Author(s) 2019
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