New Issue: Journal of Philosophy of International Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Philosophy of International Law (Vol. 4, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Aleksandar Jokic, Conventional Wisdom about Yugoslavia and Rwanda: Methodological Perils and Moral Implications
• Conrad Nyamutata, Self-Referrals Contra Objectives of International Criminal Justice
• Radhika Jagtap, International Legal Theory for International Terrorism: Formulation of a Universal Concept out of the Ideological Quagmires and Overlapping Approaches
• Chintan Chandrachud, Jus Cogens in the International Court of Justice: Lessons from the Basic Structure Doctrine in Indian Constitutional Law
• Slavka Antonova, Internet and the Emerging Global Community of Rights: The Human-Rights Debate at the Internet Governance Forum
• Rosanna Deplano, Questioning Unstated Assumptions of International Constitutionalism

Call for Submissions: Journal of Philosophy of International Law

The Journal of Philosophy of International Law has issued a call for submissions. Here's the call:

The Journal of Philosophy of International Law (JPIL) is a peer reviewed (and currently an open source Journal) published by ElectronicPublications.Org Ltd-a publisher with no institutional affiliation. The JPIL's sister publications are the Manchester Journal of International Economic Law and the Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law. The JPIL is being re-launched and will be published twice a year (May and November).

AIM: The Journal has a distinguished Advisory Board and its aim is to scholarly platform for the philosophy of international law. The aims of the JPIL are to promote:

- Critical examination of and legal reflection on the foundations of International Law.

- Philosophical analysis and critique of the nature legal order or any aspect thereof.

The areas that might be covered by these aims include, but are not confined to the following:

- Historical enquiry into International Law for philosophical purposes, or intellectual history as related to the foundations and development of International Law.

- Ethical issues in International Law or the uses of International Law for ethical debate.

- Ontological questions of the existence of International Law and the nature of the reality it attempts to regulate such as states, humanity and world society.

- Epistemological questions of an interdisciplinary nature and enquiry into the limits of disciplinary approaches such as positivism in International Law.

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS: The Journal welcomes submission or articles and reviews for consideration with a view to publication. The normal word length for article contributions is between 4000-8000 words. The normal word length for article contributions should be 1000 to 1500 words. Submissions except reviews should include a short abstract of not more than 60 words. The style guide for references is Oxford University Standard for Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA).

PAPER SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: Editorial correspondence, including submissions to the Journal should made electronically to the Journal, should be to the Editor-in-Chief at JPIL-submissions@mail.com

New Issue: Journal of Philosophy of International Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Philosophy of International Law (Vol. 3, 2009) is out. Contents include:

• Tomasz H. Widłak, Sovereignty vs. human rights. A case of the relation between order and justice in international society
• Ilias Bantekas, The possibility or not of international norm change following mass human rights violations
• Anthony Carty, Territory and territorial waters in post-colonial international law
• Eric Wilson, The republic of heterology: De Indis of Hugo Grotius, deconstruction and the political ontology of the Dutch Stat

New Issue: Journal of Philosophy of International Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Philosophy of International Law (Vol. 2, 2007) is out. Contents include:

• Chalen Westaby, A critical analysis of orthodox approaches to customary international law and the search for transcendence
• Veijo Heiskanen, Death of the layman: the legacy of deconstruction and the philosophy of international law
• Petar Bojanic, Terrorism: terror and explosion "... importance of fire and the construction of bombs ..."
• Paulo de Brito, Towards a natural law theory of international law