About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The European Insolvency and Restructuring Journal is a fully open access and double-blind peer reviewed journal focused on the development of insolvency and restructuring laws and practice in Europe.

Insolvency and restructuring are of great practical and academic importance globally, but also in Europe specifically. Over the last decades, a body of law has developed in Europe that is gradually shaping what may be called a European law of restructuring and insolvency. The adoption of the European Insolvency Regulation (1346/2000) in May 2000, followed by the recast thereof (2015/848) in June 2015, marked important steps in that development, particularly with respect to insolvencies with cross-border elements. The adoption of the Directive on restructuring and insolvency (2019/1023) in June 2019 marked a further step in the development of a common European approach to insolvency and restructuring. A new proposal for an EU Directive aimed at harmonising the substantive insolvency laws of the member States has been published in December 2022. The automatic recognition of insolvency and restructuring proceedings throughout the European Union, the duty and necessity to cooperate and communicate with insolvency practitioners and courts from all Member States and the increasing convergence of laws in the area of insolvency and restructuring, require practice and academia to have a thorough understanding of the insolvency and restructuring regimes and the development thereof in Europe. EIRJ aims to contribute to this knowledge.

Primary Journal Readership

EIRJ aims to provide a solid and authoritative forum for in-depth (comparative and empirical) articles on topics that are of relevance to the development of insolvency and restructuring laws and practice in Europe. It aims to promote academic discussion which crosses national boundaries, mainly in the field of European preventive restructuring and corporate insolvency law. Therefore, EIRJ publishes articles with a comparative legal perspective or a cross-border point of view. Witnessing the increasing convergence of insolvency and restructuring laws in Europe in the past few years, the journal aims to provide a deeper understanding of insolvency and restructuring laws in Europe.

EIRJ seeks to be relevant to the entire European insolvency and restructuring community, including lawyers, insolvency practitioners, judges, bankers, legislators, regulators and academics. EIRJ strongly believes in the benefits of cross-fertilization between practice and academia and therefore publishes content that is relevant to both academics and practitioners in the field of insolvency and restructuring law. 

Journal History

EIRJ was founded in 2021 by Prof. Michael Veder and Prof. Ben Schuijling of Radboud University, the Netherlands. It published on a rolling basis.