About ESLJ
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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
whilst noting that other areas such as fashion, computers and the internet and other areas of leisure were equally ripe for academic treatment. 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, the contact details of which are available via the biographical pages. Steve Greenfield Mark James Dave McArdle Guy Osborn |
ESLJ is sponsored by Salford Law School |
