Europarättslig tidskrift (ERT) aims to provide a meeting place for academic scholars and practitioners with an interest in European Law. Our understanding of European Law is broad and we endeavour to be at the forefront of the dynamic legal developments taking place within Europe, including not only the EU legal system but also the legal system built around the Council of Europe as well as the interaction with, and between, the legal systems in the European states.

The interaction between European and national courts is particularly topical, and was for this reason be subject to debate at the ERT conference ‘The European Judicial Dialogues and National Procedural Autonomy’ (8 April). Protocol No. 16 to the European Convention on Human Rights, which allows the highest courts and tribunals to request Strasbourg to give an advisory opinion, has already been ratified by Finland and, in December 2024, by Sweden. However, Norway, Denmark and Iceland are still outside this procedure. There has also been important news within EU law. In the case of Consorzio Italian Management (CIM), the European Court of Justice has ruled that national courts or tribunals of last instance that refrain from referring a question for a preliminary ruling must state the reasons for this, thereby adopting a position in line with legislation already in place in Sweden since 2006. Furthermore, the EU has, for the very first time, delegated certain preliminary rulings to the General Court.

Against this background, ERT welcomes contributions examining the relationship between the Nordic and the European courts (Court of Justice of the European Union, European Court of Human Rights, and the EFTA Court) as well as contributions considering how rulings of the European courts are reflected in Nordic case-law.

Contributions may, for example, address any of the following issues:

• Has the reasoning style of Nordic courts been affected by requirements of the European courts?
• Are there any new or changed methods of interpretation in Nordic courts, that can be traced back to European role models?
• How do Nordic courts relate to the European courts when they request preliminary rulings and advisory opinions, and when they are using European case-law as sources of law?
• What status should be awarded to European case-law as a source of law in the Nordic context?
• In which questions and in which areas of law has the case-law of the European courts had the greatest impact for the national legal development?

Contributions can be written in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, or English. ERT intends to publish the articles in a special issue, tentatively issue no. 4/2025. We are particularly keen for the special issue to appeal to a broad Nordic readership and welcome contributions from across the whole region.

The deadline for contributions to this theme issue is 15 August 2025. Please send your contribution in word format to ertred@ert.se.

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