Valedictory editorial

DOI10.1177/1388262720962643
Published date01 September 2020
Date01 September 2020
Subject MatterEditorial
EJS962643 255..256 EJSS
EJSS
Editorial
European Journal of Social Security
2020, Vol. 22(3) 255–256
Valedictory editorial
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Michael Adler
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Frans Pennings
Universiteit Utrecht, Heidelberglaan, CS Utrecht, Netherlands
The first issue of EJSS came out at the beginning of 1999. We have edited the journal together
since then and the previous issue, the Special Issue on ‘The Future of Coordination of Social
Security in the EU’ was the last for which we were responsible. Some time ago we decided that it
was time for us to hang up our boots and to pass the editorial mantle on to a younger pair of editors.
It took some time to find them and to make the necessary arrangements for a smooth transfer of
responsibilities. However, we are now delighted to introduce and welcome our successors, Cathe-
rine Jacqueson and Tim Goedem´e. Catherine is a well-known EU lawyer who is Professor in EU
law with a special focus on EU welfare law at the University of Copenhagen, based at the Centre
for Legal Studies in Welfare and Market (WELMA), while Tim Goedem´e is a distinguished social
researcher who is Senior Research Officer in the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET) at
the University of Oxford and Senior research fellow of the Herman Deleeck Centre for Social
Policy at the University of Antwerp. Catherine’s current interests are in the free movement of
persons within the EU, the impact of rights on citizenship, migration to the EU from third coun-
tries, Social Europe and work in the digital age while Tim’s current research focuses on the
measurement of poverty, the adequacy and effectiveness of minimum income policies, and the
relationships between inequality, climate change and social protection. Both have previously
published in EJSS and are very highly regarded academics. We wish them well and think that,
under their editorship, the...

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