Call for Papers Special Issue/Special Section of Bratislava Law Review: “Public Finance and Financial Regulation in Times of Multi-Crisis”

03.02.2026

Theme Overview:

Multi-crisis is a term that can be used for a series of crisis situations we are facing in recent years, including, in particular but not limited to, the Covid-19 pandemic, the military conflict on the territory of Ukraine, an extreme raise of costs of energy and other supplies, and inflation. The consolidation of public finance may also be included. All of these factors have influenced the measures adopted by states, as well as the behaviour of the addressees of legal norms enacted in response to these new challenges.  

This special issue aims to examine the impacts of the multi-crisis in the field of public finance and financial regulation through the lens of international law and international relations, EU law and international integration, comparative law, including but not limited to the following areas:

  • Budgetary Law: the impacts on state budget, local budgets, and other public budgets, instruments of consolidation of public finances, public debt and its limits, limits on public expenditures, Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) and its implementation in Member States;
  • Tax law: how is the national tax system influenced by the need to compensate new expenditures, imposition of new taxes with specific purposes: environmental taxes, financial transaction tax and other taxes, adjusting tax mix as a source of local government revenue to compensate for the increased expenditures, dealing with the challenges of taxation of the digital economy;
  • Customs Law:  customs rules in a national and supranational framework as a source of EU
    and national revenues, customs duties as a tool of trade wars;
  • Financial Markets Law and Banking Law: Financial and capital markets´ response to crisis, state regulation and its impacts on the behaviour of banks and other financial institutions, prudential regulation and supervision in the financial market, protection of customers, fighting financial criminality, crisis management in the financial sector, the digital euro challenge, crypto assets in the unstable times;
  • Constitutional Law:  possible breach of fundamental rights and freedoms, protection of local self-government, aspects of budgetary responsibility and budgetary transparency;
  • Legal History: historical analyses of how specific crises in the area of finance have been dealt with.

We encourage submissions that engage with these themes from both theoretical and practical perspectives, drawing on historical, comparative, or contemporary contexts. Contributions from scholars of law, political science, and related disciplines are especially welcome.

Submission Guidelines:
Deadline for Submissions: March 31, 2026.
Anticipated Publication Date: August 30, 2026.
Manuscript Length: Articles shall have a length of 36,000 – 72,000 characters (except the title, abstract, tables, figures, and references list). 
Formatting: Submissions should follow the Bratislava Law Review style guidelines, which can be found on our website. 
Submission Process: Please submit your manuscripts via journal webpage which enables authors to follow the editorial process.
All submissions will undergo a double-blind peer-review process to ensure academic rigor and quality. For more details about our review policy see here.

For queries: should you have any questions or require further information, please contact us at blr@flaw.uniba.sk

We look forward to receiving your contributions and to advancing the discourse on this pivotal topic.
Sincerely, 

Prof. Ondrej Blažo
Editor-in-Chief
Bratislava Law Review

Prof. Michal Radvan
Guest Editor
Masaryk University, Brno

Prof. Miroslav Štrkolec
Guest Editor
Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice