The Entertainment and Sports Law Journal (ESLJ) is a refereed online journal. It is located within a dynamic and rapidly expanding area of legal theory and legal practice. Whilst focussed within legal study, the areas it encompasses are necessarily interdisciplinary. Entertainment Law, Media Law, Sports Law, Licensing Law – these are all subjects that are taught at undergraduate and postgraduate level at increasing numbers of Law Schools in the UK and beyond. The broad aim of this journal is to provide an environment for considered discourse of this growing field of study, whilst such discourse will generally be from an academic perspective, we also welcome material that stresses the practical dimension to the area and the interaction between theory and practice.

A key watchword of the journal is eclecticism. An important part of this is what we consider to be framed by the title of the journal, or to put it another way, how broad is our scope? Writing in the editorial of the first Issue of Volume 1 of the journal that ESLJ has evolved out of, Entertainment Law, our clarion call considered that ‘[t]here are many sides to the subject and it appears in many guises, often under generic umbrellas, such as law and cultural studies or law and popular culture. We use the term ‘entertainment’ in its broadest form, embracing all aspects of regulation within the entertainment industries’.

As of 2013, the journal has adopted an iterative publishing policy that will enable us to publish material more quickly. See more information on this in the Editorial to Volume 10.

Interested contributors may make initial contact with any of the Editors, the contact details of which are available via the biographical pages.

Steve Greenfield

Mark James

Guy Osborn

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ESLJ is sponsored by Salford Law School