Entertainment and Sports Law Journal (ESLJ) (England)
The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal provides a forum for both academics and practitioners working in these dynamic and rapidly-expanding areas. These subjects now appear within undergraduate legal curricula and form the basis of many postgraduate courses across the common law world and the broad aim of the journal is to provide an environment for considered discourse of this growing field of study from both a theoretical and practical perspective.ESLJ was originally published as Entertainment Law in hard copy by Frank Cass Journals from Spring 2002 (Volume 1 Number 1) to Autumn 2003 (Volume 2 Number 3). About ESLJ
The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal (ESLJ) is a refereed online journal. It is located within a dynamic and rapidly expanding area of legal theory and legal practice. Whilst focussed within legal study, the areas it encompasses are necessarily interdisciplinary. Entertainment Law, Media Law, Sports Law, Licensing Law ? these are all subjects that are taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level at increasing numbers of Law Schools in the UK and beyond. The broad aim of this journal is to provide an environment for considered discourse of this growing field of study, whilst such discourse will generally be from an academic perspective, we also welcome material that stresses the practical dimension to the area and the interaction between theory and practice.
A key watchword of the journal is eclecticism. An important part of this is what we consider to be framed by the title of the journal, or to put it another way, how broad is our scope? Writing in the editorial of the first Issue of Volume 1 of the journal that ESLJ has evolved out of, Entertainment Law, our clarion call considered that ‘[t]here are many sides to the subject and it appears in many guises, often under generic umbrellas, such as law and cultural studies or law and popular culture. We use the term ‘entertainment’ in its broadest form, embracing all aspects of regulation within the entertainment industries’. Our original list of possible areas included
- art
- music
- literature
- sport
- film
- media
Keen readers will notice a subtle change in the title of the journal from its paper to its electronic form, the addition of ‘sport’ as a specific field. This is largely in response to the large numbers of papers received and published within the area of sports law in the first two volumes. While we would still argue that sport is, most certainly, a part of entertainment industry, we have added this to the title to aid researchers working in the field. Our focus, as noted above remains eclectic and we encourage submissions from all areas of law that intersect with entertainment, construed in its broadest form.
Articles in the first two volumes, now available online via Warwick’s Electronic Journals Project, lie testament to this eclecticism. Witness articles covering areas such as digital music, gambling, photography and school sports in the first issue alone.
We would encourage prospective authors to browse through these to both engage with some cutting edge high level scholarship, and to provide food for thought as regards other possible areas of engagement. One final change with our move to an online environment is to welcome Mark James, previously Book Reviews Editor on Entertainment Law, as a full Editor of ESLJ in recognition of his important work and input to the Journal.
Interested contributors may make initial contact with any of the Editors:
Steve Greenfield
Mark James
Dave McArdle
Guy Osborn
ESLJ Team
ELJ Project Director:
Professor Abdul Paliwala (A.Paliwala@warwick.ac.uk)
University of Warwick, UK
Entertainment and Sports Law Editors:
Steve Greenfield
University of Westminster
David McArdle
University of Stirling
Guy Osborn
University of Westminster
Mark James
Salford University
Production Editor:
Paul Trimmer (paul.trimmer@warwick.ac.uk)
University of Warwick, UK
Editorial Board:
See ESLJ Editors List
Submission of Articles
Digital copies may be in the form of attachments to emails, sent to Guy Osborn at g.osborn@wmin.ac.uk; David McArdle at d.a.mcardle@stirling.ac.uk; or Mark James at m.d.james@salford.ac.uk. Alternatively, articles can be submitted postally on disk to Steve Greenfield, School of Law, University of Westminster, 4-12 Little Tichfield Street, London W1W 7UW. If submitting articles by post, please include two paper copies of your article, with the author(s) name and adress(es) on a separate sheet rather than in the articles themselves. Submissions are accepted in one of the following standards - Microsoft Word (all versions but preferably Word XP), ASCII text, Rich Text Format and HTML (version 3.0 or higher).
The journal team will be pleased to assist contributors with special features such as graphics, graphic images, and diagrams. Authors' own prepared graphic images in standard formats are welcome. Please contact any of the editors for more information and assistance in the first instance.
Please also remember to download, print out, sign and return a copy of the Exclusivity of Publication agreement.
ESLJ Call For Papers
The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal welcomes submissions for peer-reviewed articles for publication in our upcoming issues. Contributions should reflect the journal's general areas of inquiry.
Papers intended for peer-review should be a minimum of 4000 words in length, and should reflect high scholarly content. Please note that each paper will be reviewed by at least two anonymous referees in the field of the subject matter addressed in the paper. The review process normally takes six to eight weeks.
Submissions of other articles are also welcome. These should take the form of interventions, reports on contemporary developments and/or recently-held conferences and events, case summaries and analyses and book reviews.
Contributors are encouraged to refer to our section on Submission Standards for more information on article format details and for information on submitting articles to the editors.
From time to time, we will issue Calls for Papers for our Special Issues. Please refer to the relevant sections for guidelines on submissions.