elni Review is publishing full articles as well as shorter pieces of about 1.000 words (ideas, opinions, recent developments etc). 

It is the peer reviewed journal of the Environmental Law Network International. Until 2019, it was distributed bi-annually. Starting in 2020, articles are published on a rolling basis. We aim for online publication within 4 weeks. Articles are available at the elni archive as free downloadable pdfs. elni members will be notified of new releases.

elni Review publishes articles on environmental law, focussing in particular on European and international environmental law as well as recent developments in the EU Member States.

If you wish to publish your manuscript in elni Review, please contact info@elni.org.

If you wish to subscribe to elni Review, please fill out the membership form

Prof. Jerzy Jendrośka

Founding member of elni. Professor of European Union Law at the University of Opole and Managing Partner at JJB Jendrośka Jerzmański Bar i Partnerzy law firm in Wrocław. Since 2025, he has served as Head of the Environmental Law Department at the Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute (IOŚ-PIB). For many years, he has been actively involved in international processes concerning the development of environmental law. He served as Vice-Chair of the negotiations leading to the adoption of the Aarhus Convention (1996–1998) and the SEA Protocol (2001–2003). From 1998 to 1999, he served as Secretary of the Aarhus Convention, and subsequently as Vice-Chair (1999–2002) and Chair (2002–2003) of the Aarhus Convention Bureau. His work has focused particularly on environmental impact assessment (EIA), strategic environmental assessment (SEA), and the implementation of the Aarhus Convention. His academic achievements include 31 authored or edited monographs and more than 250 scholarly publications in environmental and international environmental law.

Urszula Kałłaur

Junior Legal Specialist at the Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute (IOŚ-PIB), Poland. She holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Warsaw and a Bachelor of Liberal Arts degree from the same institution. Her professional interests focus on environmental noise regulation and legal aspects of noise protection.

Adrianna Skupień

Junior Legal Specialist at the Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute (IOŚ-PIB), Poland. She is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Law at the Faculty of Law and Administration of the University of Warsaw.

Jakub Abramski

Junior Legal Specialist at the Institute of Environmental Protection – National Research Institute (IOŚ-PIB), Poland. He holds a Master of Laws degree from the University of Silesia.

elni Review is published by the Environmental Law Network International (elni).

In many countries, lawyers are working on aspects of environmental law and sustainable development, often as part of environmental initiatives and organisations or as legislators. However, before the digital age they generally had limited contact with other lawyers abroad, in spite of the fact that such contact and communication is vital for the successful and effective implementation of environmental law. Therefore, a group of lawyers from various countries decided to initiate the Environmental Law Network International (elni) in 1990 to promote international communication and cooperation worldwide. Since then, elni has grown to a network of about 700 individuals and organisations from all over the world. It is a registered non-profit association under German Law (since 2005).

Three organisations currently share the organisational work of the elni network: HHI (Hermann-Hoepke-Institut)) at the University of Applied Sciences in Bingen, sofia (Society for Institutional Analysis) at the University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt and Öko-Institut (Institute for Applied Ecology). The Coordinating Bureau of elni is currently hosted by the University of Applied Sciences Bingen.

elni Review is completely financed by the elni members fee, there are no additional subscription fees for elni Review as a journal. Also, elni does not charge authors for publishing in elni Review. elni Review also does not receive any revenue from advertising or other institutional or organisational support.

elni Review is committed to pursuing the highest standards of probity and the elimination of malpractice in research presented within this journal. The ethics and malpractice statement is based on COPE’s Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing (https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.12).

• Immediate review by the Editors within 2 weeks
• Peer review by pertinent expert in the field within up to additional 6 weeks
• Publication usually within 3 months

• Submitted manuscripts must be the original work of the author(s)
• Only unpublished manuscripts should be submitted.
• Manuscript should not be submitted to more than one journal concurrently.
• Any conflict of interest must be clearly stated.
• Literary and data sources must be acknowledged.
• Authors should consider the guideline for authors (last update in May 2022)

• Any reviewer who feels unqualified to review the manuscript or knows that a prompt review will be impossible should decline the invitation to review.
• All information pertaining to the manuscript must be kept confidential and must not be shown or discussed with others except if authorized by the editors.
• Material from a submitted manuscript must not be used in a reviewer’s own research without expressed consent of the author
• All manuscripts must be reviewed objectively and in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry or political values of author(s).
• Observations should be formulated clearly with supporting arguments for improvements by the author(s).
• Identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors and notify editors of similarity or overlap between the manuscript and any other work
• Any information that may be the reason for the rejection of publication of a manuscript must be communicated to the Editor.
• Any observed conflict of interest, .e.g from competitive, collaborative relationships or connections with any of the authors must be communicated to the Editor.

• All manuscripts are evaluated in fairness based on the intellectual content of the paper regardless of gender, race, ethnicity, religion, citizenry nor political values of authors.
• Any observed conflict of interest pertaining manuscripts must be disclosed.
• All information pertaining manuscripts are kept confidential.
• The intellectual independence of authors should be respected.