The series aims to encourage debates and exchange across national borders, as well as disciplines and scholarly or academic boundaries. The re:constitution Working Paper Series shall be an easily accessible forum for the development, publication and exposition of ideas and evaluations on the issues of democracy and the rule of law in Europe, including both contributions from an academic and a more practical perspective. Contributions may range from early stages of an idea to nearly fully developed publications that shall be “tested” before their final publication, e.g. as articles (in newspapers or academic journals), book chapters, or reviews.

Suggested Citation: Panov, Stoyan, “To Derogate (and Notify), or Not to Derogate (and Not to Notify), that is the Question! An Analysis of the Legal Framework of the COVID-19 State of Emergency in the Republic of Bulgaria and ECHR Practice”, re:constitution Working Paper, Forum Transregionale Studien 1/2020, available at reconstitution.eu/workingpapers.html

Working Papers must be sent to reconstitution(at)trafo-berlin.de. Papers may be submitted by re:constitution Fellows and alumni, members of Democracy Reporting International, and the Advisory Board and their (research) staff, and persons who have been approached for contributions. In addition, people who are closely connected to the programme, e.g., scholars and practitioners from partner institutions or participants of re:constitution workshops or conferences may submit papers. Working papers may also be composed of several contributions by different authors (co-authorship), e.g. joint discussion on a current topic or as the result of a re:constitution workshop/conference.

re:constitution Working Papers will generally be published in English. Single contributions should be between 10 and 15 pages long and will ideally not exceed 20 pages. The number of issues of the re:constitution Paper Series will not be limited, and papers may be submitted at any time. There will be no editorial review (peer review). However, re:constitution does not guarantee that all papers submitted will be published.

Authors are requested to consult and respect the German Research Foundation's Guidelines for Safeguarding Good Research Practices. Regarding formatting requirements, please use the re:constitution template for Working Papers and cite according to the style sheet of Forum Transregionale Studien.

The working papers will be published under a Creative Commons License (CC BY-SA 4.0) and uploaded to the re:constitution website as well as to perspectivia.net, the digital open access publication platform of the Max Weber Foundation. Copyright remains with the authors. The publication as re:constitution Working Paper does not preclude subsequent publication elsewhere (magazines, archives, etc). It is the author´s responsibility to control the copyright. As Open Access publications, Working Papers may be copied, used, distributed, transmitted, publicly displayed and used for derivative works in any digital medium and for any responsible purpose, provided that authorship is correctly acknowledged.