Call for Papers: Liberland

Call for Papers: Liberland

Call for Papers: Legal, Economic, and Sociopolitical Studies on Liberland

The Liberland invites submissions for academic papers addressing a wide range of legal, economic, geographic, historical, and sociopolitical topics, with a focus on Liberland’s unique context and international law. This call is open to legal scholars, economists, political scientists, historians, sociologists, and other academics with expertise in the relevant fields.

Topics of Interest

Submissions should focus on, but are not limited to, the following areas:

• International Law and Territorial Disputes
• Liberland’s Constitutional Development
• Economic Models for Emerging Nations
• Geographic and Historical Analysis of Gornja Siga
• Sovereignty, Self-Determination, and Statehood
• Sociological Dynamics of Emerging Societies

A full list of suggested topics can be found in this document. Papers outside these suggestions but relevant to Liberland’s context are also encouraged.

Submission Guidelines

• Deadline for submission: 15 October 2024
• Paper length: 5,000 to 10,000 words
• Format: Submissions should follow standard academic formatting and include a title, abstract, main text and references.
• Eligibility: This call is open to scholars worldwide with a focus on European and international issues. Both junior and senior academics are encouraged to apply.

Review Process

All submissions will undergo a review process conducted by members of the Liberland government alongside a panel of external academics. Selected papers will be published in Liberland’s official legal and academic journal and presented at an international conference hosted by Liberland.

Reward

Authors of three selected papers will receive:

• Monetary award: 3 000 USD (paid in Liberland Dollar (LLD))
• Full, political Citizenship of Liberland (Liberland Passport)
• Invitation to a Liberland conference to present their research
• Opportunity for publication in an internationally recognized academic journal

Contact

For inquiries, please contact us at info@liberland.org. We look forward to your contributions and to advancing scholarly discussions on Liberland’s legal, economic, and political landscape.

Suggested Topics

International Law

• Rule by Diplomatic Notas? How Bad International Practice Seeks to Undermine Rule of Law in Europe
• Abandonment of Jurisdiction in International Law and its Consequences
• Why Croatia’s Claim that Gornja Siga is Either Serbia or Croatia but Not Liberland Contradicts International Law
• Gornja Siga and the Persian Gulf — the Comparative Study of Two Abandoned Territories
• Why Terra Nullius without Permanent Population is Truly Terra Nullius: Historical and International Legal Analysis
• Gornja Siga as the Open Sea: An Attempt to Discover What Law Applied Before the Founding of Liberland
• Exterritorial Jurisdiction in a No-Man’s Land: How (not) to Break the Law
• From Lotus and Eichmann to Liberland: (Mis)application of Exterritorial Jurisdiction
• The Case for Liberland Statehood
• Parastates and International Law: Croatia’s De-Facto Recognition of Liberland
• Terra Nullius, legal aspects and the Gornja Siga case study
• Terra Nullius, not a relic; rather, an indispensable institute
• Illegal Occupation in the Heart of Europe: The Gornia Siga Case
• In Broad Daylight: Analysis of Croatia’s Expulsions in the Perspective of EU and International Law

Law

• Constitution for a New Liberty: Case Study of Liberland Constitutionalism
• Directives for Constitution: Academic Proposal for a New Liberland Constitution
• U.S. and Liberland Constitutionalism: a Comparative Study
• Alternatives for Central Banking: Blockchain Powered Country
• Law and Liberty — the legal philosophy of Liberland
• Drafting Strategy: How to make the Law of Liberland strictly Libertarian while keeping it working?
• Procedural Unity: The Unique Case of Liberland’s “General Process”
• No Mandatory Taxes: How it Affects the State?
• No Mandatory Taxes and (medical system, pensions, social system, police, criminal law, please 688214choose one or more)
• Community Watch: Low Cost, Voluntary Policing in Liberland, a study in Law Enfocement
• Citizenship as Contract: What can we Learn from Liberland’s Unique Concept
• LiberJail? How to enforce criminal law compliance in a strictly libertarian society

Croatian Law

• Defining Croatian Territory: The Constitution, the Law and nothing besides that
• Territorial Jurisdiction: Why the Croatian Forestry and Building Officials Have No Jurisdiction over Gornja Siga
• Reserving a Land? The Legal Impossibility of Croatia’s Novel Scheme to Have its Cake and Eat it Too
• Rule by Diplomatic Notas: Why This Breaches the Croatian Constitution and the Rule of Law
• Croatian Forestry and Gornja Siga: an In-Depth Analysis
• Ownership vs. Possession: A Gornja Siga study of Croatian Rule of Law and its Shortcomings

Economics

• Liberty as the Old-New Motor for Progress
• Thinning the State Apparatus: the Blockchain Cure for the Bloating of Government Pretences
• Milton Friedman Vindicated: Algorithmic Central Bank in Action
• Tokenisation of Everything: How Liberland Posits Itself to Change the Economic Paradigm
• Monetary Freedom, Monetary Plurality: When a State Refuses to Dictate What Money to Use
• Bitcoin Reserves: The Best Reserves? El Salvador and Liberland Reviewed by Modern Economists
• Legal Pluralism for a New Prosperity? Internal Choice of Law and its Economic Benefits: A Liberland and Prospera Case Study

Geography

• A qualitative study of mapping Liberland as a geographic phenomenon
• History of the Geography of Gornja Siga
• The formation of the modern shape of Gornja Siga and the grounds of the dispute in cadastral (non) mapping in late-stage Austria-Hungary
• Topology of Liberland and its unique role in the natural equilibrium of the area
• Historical discourse on Liberland’s importance for the ecosystems of the Danube
• Comparative analysis of Liberland vs. other similar chosen spots

History

• History of Gornja Siga in ancient to early medieval times
• History of Gornja Siga in the early medieval period until the Ottoman conquest
• Ottoman Vojvodina: the times of subjugation or times of prosperity?
• Gornja Siga and the Spring of Nations: from Vojvodina back under the Crown of St. Stephen
• Gornja Siga in the 19th Century — the Golden Age of the Danube as an artery of civilisation
• The Loss of Trianon: Consequences of International Obedience and Unilateral Disarmament
• Self-Determination, Confiscation and Regicide: Gornja Siga in the First Yugoslavia
• The Partition of 1938 in Vojvodina and Baranja: From Yugoslavia to Hungary
• Back to Hungary: Gornja Siga in the Second World War
• The federal Yugoslavia and the conservation of the Austro-Hungarian errors
• Gornja Siga and the Yugoslav Civil War
• Uti Possidetis Iuris and Gornja Siga
• The Times of Non-Solutions: How Croatia and Serbia Avoided Settling the Border Dispute for 25 Years.
• The Founding of Liberland
• The Early History of Liberland: A people without access to land, a land without people
• The Breakthrough: The Birth of Liberland Settlement
• The First Year: Rising and Falling of the Liberland Settlement, a detailed analysis
• Gornja Siga: Never a Croatian territory

Politology

• What is a Parastate?
• What constitutes a sovereign country? A comparative study of five recent attempts to establish statehood
• To Tame a Land: the crucial role of settler movements in establishing modern civilisation
• Nationhood: What constitutes a nation? Perspectives from Politology and International Law
• Self-Determination Under Attack: The Dispelling of the Time Immemorial Myth
• Self-Determination vs. Human Rights: When Titans Collide and why Human Rights must win if we are to have future
• Microstate vs. Micronation: Constitutive Differences
• Modern Microstates: Not the Same Thing
• Network States: Next Step in Evolution, Money-Making Scheme or the Rise of Colonial Technofascism? (hint: the first!)
• Terra Nullius: Why it Still Matters
• Gornja Siga vs the Scramble for Africa: Why Liberland is Not a Movement of Settler Colonization
• Croatia Occupies the Settlement of Liberland: The World’s Newest and Most Peculiar Native Liberation Movement

Sociology

• Emerging Societies: Intentional Communities, Network States and Liberland
• The Case for Secession: John Galt, Network States and Liberland
• Libertarian Freedom: Why it Still Matters
• Javier Milei, Nayib Bukele and Liberland: A Libertarian Revolution?
• Dynamics of Community Building
• Role of Private Property in Building Communities
• Beyond Conspiracy Alt-Right: The Birth of a Sane, Freedom-Loving Progressive Right

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