Centre for SEELS is announcing the Call for Research stays that is open within the "New Challenges for European Integration - Ukrainian War and its implications for the European Union and the Western Balkans" project, implemented by Europa Instut and SEELS and funded by the German Academic Exchange Service.

The Call is open to all  PhD students coming from the SEELS Network, which have a PhD project in the field of European Law and/or International Law. Within the project selected PhD candidates will have the opportunity to research in the field of European and International Law at the Europa-Institut of Saarland University for one month.

Followinf the completion of the research stays, a PhD colloquium, both for the PhD candidates from South East Europe and from Germany will be organized, where the participants will be able to present their topic to senior academics and the project leader. They will also be able to visit the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg and get in contact with judges and advocate generals from Croatia.

Total number of 5 (five) research scholarships will be awarded for one month research stay in July 2023.

Deadline for application is 2^nd of April (23:59 CET). The application should be sent both to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. and This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.  with subject: New Challenges for European Integration-Application-Last Name, First Name. More detailed instructions for all interested applicants is available in the Call for Research Stays. 

We are glad to announce that the SEE Law Journal No.10 is now available online.

It is the longest edition of the journal we have published so far, and it contains papers from various renown academics coming from the SEELS Network. The 10 edition of the journal is a Special Edition which is based on the results of the findings of "Legal Status and Protection of Internationally Displaced Persons, Refugees, Asylum Seekers and 'Invisible' Persons without IDs" project which is financed by the South East European Law School Network and is being implemented by the Faculty of Law of the University of Niš (Serbia), as the project lead, and  Faculty of Law, University of Zenica (Bosnia and Herzegovina),  Iustinianus Primus Faculty of Law, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University of Skopje (North Macedonia) and Faculty of Law, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek (Croatia) as project partners.

Within the project the national experts involved developed a A Guide to Good Practice where the national reports explain the legal position of these persons as regulated by different branches of law (e.g. Public International Law, Private International Law, Social Protection and Labour Law, Human Rights, European Law and related asylum policy, etc). The Guide to Good Practice will be available on the local languages and is being published within the project itself.

The specific scientific approach of the academic team invoved in the project and the speciffic current meaning of the topic, were the main reason that the Editorial Board of the SEE Law Journal has decided to publish the findings as a special edition of the SEE Law Journal. 

The publication is available under the following link: https://www.seelawschool.org/images/SEE_Law_Journal/2022/SEE-LJ--no10.pdf

The South East European Law Journal (SEE Law Journal) is a scientific journal of the South East European Law School Network (SEELS) that is published solely in English Language from its inception. The SEE Law Journal publishes high-quality original, double peer-reviewed scientific, review and professional articles focusing on relevant questions of regional, European and international integration of SEE countries, issues of legal reform and approximation with the acquis communitaire, best practices, in legal reform and unification of the legislation in the region of South East Europe and the EU.

The SEE Law Journal as regards its envisioned scope and content, makes available to a global audience a unique the South East European perspective on the vibrantly evolving regional systems, traditions and innovations of law in the region in the context of historical, economic and political‐legal transformation. As such, the SEE Law Journal has the potential to provide for a highly valuable, transnational platform to bring together legal academics and practitioners to engage in thorough exchange regarding the challenges and possibilities arising from the unique historical and geographical context across legal disciplines and geographical boundaries. Our main criteria for assessing submissions include originality, quality of analysis, potential impact, and relevance to contemporary debates. Our aim is to publish papers of high quality, that will contribute to the knowledge transfer and exchange of best practices with regard to public and private law, EU law, legal education and the legal profession. 

SEE Law Journal is open for submission of articles prepared by the academics of the SEELS network of the SEELS members primarily, and with the amendment and broadening of the existing Editorial Policy the SEE Law Journal is also open for articles from individual PhD candidates from the SEELS network, as well as authors who are coming from the region but are not coming from the SEELS network itself. The only requrement is that the interested authors should be researching and writing on EU Law related topics such as analyses of EU Law related issues, implementation of the EU Law legislation in the region and local legislation practices, EU Law related news, book reviews, and similar.

The journal has continuously been published since 2014 till the present day, and has been significantly supported and strenghtened through the activities which were implemented within the implementation of the “Strengthening the EU Legal Studies in South Eastern Europe” (2017-2020) a project that was financially supported by the Erasmus + Jean Monnet. In 20221 the SEE Law Journal was officially registered on the well established Hein Online data base, and all of the published issues are available there as well.

With the new Editorial Policy the SEE Law Journal has now two fixed deadlines for submission of papers - 1 of April and 1 November each year. More in the Call for Papers and Gidelines for Authors.

All of the issues of the SEE Law Journal are available for use under these links:

SEE LAW JOURNAL No.10

SEE LAW JOURNAL No.9

SEE LAW JOURNAL No.8

SEE LAW JOURNAL No.7

SEE LAW JOURNAL No.6

SEE LAW JOUNAL No.5

SEE LAW JOUNAL No.4

SEE LAW JOURNAL No.3

SEE LAW JOURNAL No. 2

SEE LAW JOURNAL No.1

If you have missed the opportunity to apply to the summer school "Equality and Diversity in European Legal Education" in the set deadline, you have another chance to do so as the deadline was extended to 21 of June, 23:59CET.

The one week summer school (04 to 10 of June) is being organized within the framework of the project “ED4ELE - Equality and diversity in European legal education” and is open for participants comming from the faculties from the SEELS network, the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Law (Slovenija) and from the Europa-Institut of Saarland University (Germany). The project is once again financially supported by DAAD and Federal Foreign Office of Germany.

You may find more about the call in the Call for Applications and on how to apply in the Application Form. More about the event you may find here.

The Call for Application for this years Summer School entitled "Equality and Diversity in European Legal Education" which is to be held at the Faculty of Law in Split from 04 to 10 of September 2022 is open.