European Company and Financial Law Review
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Editors-in-Chief:
Pierre-Henri Conac
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Managing Editors:
Claartje D.J. Bulten
About this journal
Please note the press release of the editors of May 27, 2021 in Supplementary Materials
In legislation and in case law, European Union law has become a steadily more dominant factor in determining national company laws as well as financial markets and banking law of the member states. However, national law also continues to play a major role in several fields. Such developments are sometimes of high academic interest in other European jurisdictions.
However, the discussion of these European and national developments is still to a great extent restricted to the national communities of experts and is done in their national language. Therefore, there is still a strong publication and language barrier in Europe. ECFR intends to change this situation by being one of the leading European academic platforms for debate across Europe on drafting and application of European and comparative company and financial markets law. It aims at universities, lawmakers on both the European and national levels, courts, lawyers, banks and other financial service institutions, in house counsel, accountants and notaries who draft or work with European company and financial law.
The journal focuses on all areas of European and national company law and of the financing of companies and business entities. This includes the law of capital markets as well as the law of accounting and auditing and company law-related issues of insolvency law. Banking law is also treated through specific articles as part of financial markets law. Finally, ECFR serves as a platform for the discussion of theoretical questions such as economic analysis of company law. It consists of articles and case notes on both decisions of the European courts as well as of national courts insofar as they are of interest from a comparative perspective. This does not, of course, exclude contributions from other parts of the world which may also be of interest for European readers.
Based on an initiative by the editors of Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (ZGR), ECFR soon gained the support of many sister journals all of them leading company and financial markets law journals in their respective jurisdictions. Thus, ECFR as a European platform for academic exchange is currently edited by the editors of ZGR in co-operation with Ondernemingsrecht, Revista de Derecho de Sociedades, Revue des sociétés, Rivista delle società, and the Revue pratique des sociétés - Tijdschrift voor rechtspersoon en vennootschap.
Annual conference
ECFR holds an annual conference on current topics and research in European company and financial law. The location of the conference changes annually. For further inquiries, please contact the editorial board (ecfr@jura.uni-wuerzburg.de).
| Journal Impact Factor | 1.2 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| 5-year Journal Impact Factor | 0.9 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| Journal Citation Indicator | 1.14 | 2024, Journal Citation Reports (Clarivate, 2025) |
| CiteScore | 1.6 | 2024, Scopus (Elsevier B.V., 2025) |
| SCImago Journal Rank | 0.592 | 2024, SJR (Scimago Lab, 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
| Source Normalized Impact per Paper | 0.651 | 2024, CWTS Journal Indicators (CWTS B.V., 2025; Data Source: Scopus) |
Accompanied by an abstract of not more than 200 words, please address manuscripts to Pierre-Henri Conac and to Christoph Teichmann, who act on behalf of the editorial board, by using the following email-address: ecfr@jura.uni-wuerzburg.de. Manuscripts will only be subject to peer review on the condition that they have not previously been published or accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere. The editorial board may make exceptions to this rule if the previous or concurrent publication is not in English.
Contributors are also invited to contact any member of the editorial board to discuss potential articles and to submit their papers which will be subjected to blind peer review. Manuscripts should conform to the guidelines adopted by the editorial board (see link above). The author, in submitting his or her manuscript, warrants that he or she is exclusively entitled to the copyright to his or her contribution (including drawings, sketches and tables, as the case may be) and that its publication does not infringe the rights of third parties.
Manuscripts submitted for publication in the ECFR are subject to two blind peer reviews. The editorial board will, in general, inform the author within two months as to whether his or her manuscript has been accepted for publication, or what revisions, before publication, are necessary. In submitting his or her manuscript, the author grants his or her copyright to the publisher.
Articles submitted to ECFR may also be published on SSRN or other websites. The final version after peer review, however, shall exclusively be published in ECFR. Working papers shall refer to the final publication in ECFR.
Please also observe our Guidelines for Ensuring Good Research Practices.
Hybrid Open Access
In this journal, authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. Open Access allows you as an author to retain copyright and share your findings with colleagues and interested parties worldwide without any restraints.
Please note that authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement can publish open access without paying an article processing charge (APC). More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found under the "Funding and Support" tab here.
ECFR is published and directed by the publishers of Zeitschrift für Unternehmens- und Gesellschaftsrecht (ZGR).
Chief Management
Pierre-Henri Conac, Université du Luxembourg, Max Planck Institute Luxembourg
Christoph Teichmann, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Managerial Board
Claartje Bulten, Radboud University Nijmegen
Sofie Cools, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Holger Fleischer, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Jesper Lau Hansen, Københavns Universitet
Hanno Merkt, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
Andrés Recalde Castells, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
Edmund Schuster, London School of Economics and Political Science
Marco Ventoruzzo, Università commerciale Luigi Bocconi, Milano
Advisory Board
Paul Davies, University of Oxford
Yves De Cordt, Université catholique de Louvain
José M. Embid Irujo, Universidad de Valencia
Luis Fernández de la Gándara, Universidad de Alicante
Guido Ferrarini, Università di Genova
Peter Hommelhoff, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
Klaus J. Hopt, Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg
Susanne Kalss, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien
Maarten J. Kroeze, Hoge Raad der Nederlanden / Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam
Isabelle Urbain-Parleani, Université Paris V (René Descartes)
Hans Caspar von der Crone, Universität Zürich
Marieke Wyckaert, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
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Supplementary Materials
- Author Guidelines
- Jahresregister_ECFR_ 2016
- Jahresregister_ECFR_ 2024
- Jahresregister_ECFR_2017
- Jahresregister_ECFR_2018
- Jahresregister_ECFR_2019
- Jahresregister_ECFR_2020
- Jahresregister_ECFR_2021
- Jahresregister_ECFR_2022
- Jahresregister_ECFR_2023
- Pressemitteilung der Herausgeber
- ZGR ECFR Guidelines for Ensuring Good Research Practices
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