JLMI – Call for papers – Issue no. 1/2027
This Call for Papers of the Journal of Law, Market & Innovation (JLMI) concerns the first issue to be published at the end of March 2027 and is devoted to the Securitisation of Supply Chains: Critical Raw Materials Between Energy Security and the Green Transition. This issue will be edited by the Editors-in-Chief of the JLMI (Lorenza Mola, Cristina Poncibò and Riccardo de Caria), along with Pritam Banerjee and Vishakha Srivastava as guest co-editor. You can find the call with all the details at the following link:
The Call invites contributions on the subject of Securitisation of Supply Chains: Critical Raw Materials Between Energy Security and the Green Transition. The growing use of trade policy to advance national and economic security objectives is blurring the boundary between legitimate security measures and disguised restrictions on trade. Countries are increasingly giving new dimensions to traditional instruments such as trade defence instruments, import restrictions, export controls, local content requirements, subsidies tied to trusted supply chains, traceability and transparency requirements, among others, to serve strategic purposes. Moreover, concerns around energy security are translating into the securitisation of trade through control over critical raw materials, with security and resilience of supply chains emerging as the legal and political vocabulary for legitimising discriminatory trade measures.
The authors are called to explore the link between energy security and the green transition with regard to the regulation of trade in critical raw materials, particularly the tension between dependence on critical raw materials and decarbonisation commitments. In this context, the submissions examine the governance of critical raw materials, with a particular focus on their treatment as strategic assets rather than ordinary tradable goods.
The issue will also address the risk factors for security and resilience of supply chains, such as vulnerabilities arising from technological dependencies and asymmetries in access to key technologies.
We invite submissions that analyse state priorities, primarily driven by critical raw materials availability divide, and firm priorities, primarily driven by resilience of supply chains. Submissions may explore treatification, unilateral measures, contract clauses on critical raw materials, as well as their broader implications for global trade.
The Editorial Board will select articles based on the quality of research and writing, diversity, and relevance of the topic. The novelty of the academic contribution is also an essential requirement.
Prospective articles should be submitted in the form of full papers to submissions.jlmi@iuse.it by 20 July 2026. Submissions will undergo a preliminary selection process by the editorial board: authors will be notified of the outcome of this preliminary selection by 10 September 2026. Selected articles will then undergo a rigorous double- blind peer-review process. Typically, the JLMI accepts contributions within the range of 10.000-15.000 words, including footnotes, but both shorter and longer articles will be considered. We ask prospective authors to kindly make sure that their submission conforms to the JLMI Code of Ethics and Authors’ guidelines (also with regard to disclosure of simultaneous submission to other journals: authors are required to disclose if they have submitted their article elsewhere, both in case of negative and pending reviews, and promptly update the editorial board of any changes in this regard, throughout the whole editorial process with the JLMI). Perspective authors are kindly required to follow the JLMI style guide, and abide by the OSCOLA citation standard. For further information, or for consultation on a potential submission, please email us at editors.jlmi@iuse.it.