New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 51, no. 2, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Leo You Li, The Faces of Judicial Data Governance
• Cody Corliss, The War Crime of Spreading Terror
• Ding Yuan, The Legitimacy Lever in Africa-ICC Politics Note

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 51, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Eliav Lieblich, The Death and Life of the Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals
• Monica Hakimi, Thinking Constructively About International Law
• Abadir M. Ibrahim & Angela Hefti, Contributions of the African Human Rights System to International Climate Law

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 50, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Catherine A. Rogers, Donald Earl Childress III, Jack J. Coe, Jr., & Christopher R. Drahozal, Complying in the Shadow of the Award
• Mona Paulsen, The Past, Present, and Potential of Economic Security
• 50th Anniversary Conference: Celebrating the Work of W. Michael Reisman
• Gregor Novak, Unilateral Sanctions and International Lawmaking
• Farshad Ghodoosi, Against Sanctions
• Viviane Meunier-Rubel, Environmental Protection Through Civic Enforcement and the Proceduralization of International Environmental Law

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 50, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• David Landau, Transitional Norms in Constitutions
• Zachary D. Clopton, Foreign Law on the Ground
• 50th Anniversary Conference: Celebrating the Work of W. Michael Reisman
• Lea Brilmayer, Option or Obligation? Third-State Support for the Enforcement of International Law
• Manuel Casas, Non-Judicialization and Dejudicialization in International Law
• Eyal Benvenisti, Looking Into the Future of the Law on International Organizations: Insights from the New Havel School
• Lucie Olejnikova, Evelyn Ma, & Steven A. Mitchell, Walking down Memory Lane on the 50th Anniversary of YJIL: An Exhibit in Honor of Professor W. Michael Reisman, Teacher, Jurist, Enduring Patron, and Inspiration

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 49, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Sophie Eastwood, Investment Arbitration and Environmental Protection: Irreconcilable Interests or Mutual Adaptation?
• Zohra Ahmed, The Price of Consent
• Patryk I. Labuda, Countering Imperialism in International Law: Examining the Special Tribunal for Aggression against Ukraine through a Post-Colonial Eastern European Lens

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 49, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Stephen Kim Park & Tim R. Samples, Promises and Perils of Sovereign Debt Transparency
• Sannoy Das, Giving Peace a Chance? Decolonization, Development, and the Foundations of the GATT
• Symposium: Consortium for the Study and Analysis of International Law Scholarship (SAILS)
• Kathleen Claussen, Forward
• Oona A. Hathaway & John D. Bowers, International Law Scholarship: An Empirical Study
• Daniel Peat & Cecily Rose, The Changing Landscape of International Law Scholarship: Do Funding Bodies Influence What We Research?
• Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Comparative International Law and the Rise of Regional Journals

Conference: YJIL's 50th Anniversary: Celebrating the Work of W. Michael Reisman

On March 8, 2024, the Yale Journal of International Law will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with a conference on "Celebrating the Work of W. Michael Reisman." Program and registration are here.

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 48, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Noam Noked & Zachary Marcone, The International Response to the U.S. Tax Haven
• Gershon Hasin, Ocean Governance in the 21st Century: A "New Package-Deal"
• Shana Tabak, Refugee Detention as Constructive Refoulement

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 48, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Melissa J. Durkee, The Pledging World Order
• Adnan A. Zulfiqar, Human Rights Norms From Below

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 47, no. 2, Summer 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Shu-Yi Oei, World Tax Policy in the World Tax Polity? An Event History Analysis of OECD/G20 BEPS Inclusive Framework Membership
• Cree Jones & Weijia Rao, (Un)stable BITs

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 47, no. 1, Winter 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Asaf Lubin, The Reasonable Intelligence Agency
• Ryan M. Scoville, U.S. Foreign Relations Law from the Outside In
• Paul Harpur & Michael Ashley Stein, The U.N. Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Global South

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 46, no. 2, Summer 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Brian G. Slocum & Jarrod Wong, The Vienna Convention and Ordinary Meaning in International Law
• Ioannis Kampourakis, Protecting National Security Whistleblowers in the U.S. and in the ECtHR: The Limits of Balancing and the Social Value of Public Disclosures
• Ivana Isailovic, Gender Equality as Investment: EU Work-Life Balance Measures and the Neo-Liberal Shift

Call for Submissions: Managing Mixed Migration (Yale Journal of International Law)

The Yale Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its volume 47 symposium on “Managing Mixed Migration.” The call is here.

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 46, no. 1, Winter 2021) is out. Contents include:

• James J. Brudney, The Right to Strike as Customary International Law
• Assaf Harpaz, Taxation of the Digital Economy: Adapting a Twentieth-Century Tax System to a Twenty-First-Century Economy
• Christiana Ochoa, Contracts on the Seabed

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 45, no. 2, Summer 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Pamela K. Bookman, The Adjudication Business
• Manoj Mate, The WTO and Development Policy Space in India
• Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, The Gender of Occupation

Symposium: China and the International Legal Order

On October 15, 2020, the Harvard International Law Journal, Yale Journal of International Law, and Oxford University’s “China, Law and Development” project and Commercial Law Centre will host an online symposium on "China and the International Legal Order." The program is here.

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 45, no. 1, Winter 2020) is out. Contents include:

• James L. Cavallaro & Jamie O'Connell, When Prosecution Is Not Enough: How the International Criminal Court Can Prevent Atrocity and Advance Accountability by Emulating Regional Human Rights Institutions
• Stratos Pahis, Investment Misconceived: The Investment-Commerce Distinction in International Investment Law
• Michelle Rourke, Sam Halabi, Gian Luca Burci, & Rebecca Katz, The Nagoya Protocol and the Legal Structure of Global Biogenomic Research

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 44, no. 2, Summer 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Jorge Contesse, Resisting the Inter-American System
• Andrea Pin & Francesca M. Genova, The Duty to Disclose Adverse Precedents: The Spirit of the Common Law and Its Enemies
• Angela Huyue Zhang, Strategic Comity

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 44, no. 1, Winter 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Elena Chachko, Foreign Affairs in Court: Lessons from CJEU Targeted Sanctions Jurisprudence
• Oona A. Hathaway, Paul K. Strauch, Beatrice A. Walton, & Zoe A.Y. Weinberg, What is a War Crime?
• Tamar Megiddo, Beyond Fragmentation: On International Law's Integrationist Forces

Symposium: International Trade in the Trump Era

The Yale Journal of International Law Online has begun to post a symposium on "International Trade in the Trump Era." Contents include:

• Kathleen Claussen & David Singh Grewal, Introduction
• Rachel Brewster, The Trump Administration and the Future of the WTO
• Timothy Meyer, Trade, Redistribution, and the Imperial Presidency
• Joel P. Trachtman, A World Trade Organization for Workers?
• Gregory Shaffer, A Tragedy in the Making? The Decline of Law and the Return of Power in International Trade Relations
• Andrew Lang, Protectionism’s Many Faces
• David Singh Grewal, A Research Agenda for Trade Policy in the Trump Era
• Padideh Ala’I, The Trump Administration vs. the WTO Appellate Body: How the Appellate Body Can Help Maintain Global Economic Relations and Peace
• Chantal Thomas, Trade and Development in an Era of Multipolarity and Reterritorialization
• Kathleen Claussen, Old Wine in New Bottles? The Trade Rule of Law
• Harold Hongju Koh, Epilogue