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We hope you enjoyed last month's special issue on esports and if you haven't already, please get in touch with us to share your feedback. Special issues like October's esports issue require intensive effort on the part of the authors and peer reviewers, so we want to know if we did it right and how we can improve the product for future special issues.
And speaking of special issues, we recently announced the Call for Papers for the next topic we'll devote an entire issue to: Skill vs. Chance—The Fundamental Debate. Publishing in June 2018, we're excited to team up again with Brett Abarbanel, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas International Gaming Institute's director of research, to bring you exclusive articles from the foremost experts on this, most elemental of issues of gaming law. Visit the website for Gaming Law Review, www.liebertpub.com/glr, for more information or to submit your manuscript.
One of the main objectives for the journal under my leadership has been to expand the coverage of Gaming Law Review to include more global perspectives and updates. In our efforts to achieve that goal, we've been reaching out to a number of prospective contributors from outside the U.S. and Canada. We're pleased to report that this issue features some of the results of that outreach.
After having seen Sarah Harrison, the new chief executive of the Gambling Commission, speak at the London International Casino Exhibition in February, we decided to reach out to her to get her perspective on various high-profile topics, which resulted in the piece, “A Regulator's Perspective: Q&A with the Gambling Commission's Sarah Harrison.” We think you'll find her responses to our questions interesting and timely.
In addition, we're featuring an update on new gaming law developments in Greece and Cyprus. This article will give you a sense of how the gaming industry is faring and evolving in these jurisdictions.
This issue also includes a primer on net neutrality by long-time Gaming Law Review contributor and associate editor, Martin Owens. While many of us have heard the term before, this article will give you a better sense of what this issue actually means and how it may play out.
Another notable contribution in this issue includes a Meeting Report on cybersecurity and data protection issues. When we listened to the webinar put on by Mishcon de Reya, we felt that it had some very useful information that was worth sharing with you, our readers.
We're also pleased to feature an interesting perspective on head-to-head esports betting in “The Chess Conundrum: Skill Gaming and the Challenges of Head-to-Head Wagering,” by Alex Igelman and Joshua Prizant. And to round out the issue, Dr. Reginal Harris and Walter Champion provide a fascinating walk through of the recent history of the Pennsylvania Legislature's push to regulate online gambling.
Let me take a minute to encourage you to approach us about contributing content to Gaming Law Review. We've expanded the types of content from just academic articles to a variety of formats. You can get a better sense of the range of content we now accept by contacting Dawn Wagner, Gaming Law Review's managing editor, at