Welcome to YSEC Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions

The English-language, peer-reviewed Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions (YSEC) presents contemporary analysis of the challenges that constitutional frameworks face in balancing fundamental economic and social interests on local, national, regional, and global level. YSEC is addressed to academics, professionals, politicians and all those involved or interested in socio-economic constitutional processes.

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“What are socio-economic constitutions?”

The Yearbook of Socio-Economic Constitutions (YSEC Yearbook) was launched five years ago. Not only this small anniversary, but also the manifold shifts and upheavals in the economies around the globe away from liberalism to geo-economics invite us to take a closer look at the phenomenon of socio-economic constitutions that gives the title to the YSEC Yearbook. (Extended) Deadline: 15 September 2023. Full call (en/de/fr) for submissions now online.

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Funding of Justice: Access to Effective Justice in Times of Marketisation of Justice and Shrinking Public Budgets

Funding of justice has significant consequences for the enforcement of rights and impacts directly on access to justice and the right to a fair trial as constitutional right. This volume deals with the socio-economic constitutional challenges associated with three broad perspectives on funding: “venue funding”, “party funding” and “law funding”.

Triangulating Freedom of Speech: Business, Social Rights, and the Freedom of Speech in a Digital Age

This volume addresses the challenges associated with upholding freedom of speech where it conflicts with social rights, such as respect for private and family life and with economic rights such as the freedom to conduct a business or the rights of free movement.

Common European Law on Investment Screening (CELIS)

Volume I (2020) publishes the academic results of the 2019 CELIS International Conference.

Key features:

  • Presents the very first, interdisciplinarily grounded, comprehensive appraisal of a future “Common European Law on Investment Screening”
  • Combines contributions from leading international academics, practitioners, and policy makers in their respective fields
  • Provides a foundation for a European administrative law framework for investment screening by setting out viable solutions and evaluating their pros and cons
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