About EJIL

Welcome to the website of EJIL, the European Journal of International Law. EJIL is “an ecosystem” for reflection on international law, consisting of the journal, the blog EJIL: Talk!, the podcast EJIL: The Podcast!, the video-series EJIL: Live! and social media presence. The ecosystem is more than the sum of its parts: through close collaboration, the parts of the ecosystem allow new ideas about international law to reach the broadest possible audience.

With its openness to diverse styles and approaches to international legal scholarship and evolving rubrics which nurture distinct modes of scholarship and foster debate on current controversial issues, the journal offers readers and authors a unique opportunity to engage with leading thinking on international law. We aim for each issue to provide a menu of articles from which any International Law scholar, regardless of specific interests and specialization, will find articles of relevance and interest.

EJIL aims to foster an intellectual community and this commitment is reflected in the journal’s editing and reviewing practices. EJIL undertakes extensive engagement with submitted articles, from the moment of submission to dissemination, with a view to publishing articles with a long shelf life that generate discussion. The philosophy of our review process is that there is nothing that is so good that it cannot be made better. Even articles clearly destined for publication typically receive comments and suggestions. EJIL takes special pride in publishing the work of early career scholars as even a cursory look at successive table of contents will reveal.
All articles are available in Free Access one year after publication in the EJIL archive.

To assess its own performance, EJIL looks at, among other things, the number of high-quality submissions; the number of years that a contribution is downloaded or accessed; the number of peer reviewers willing to review for the journal and the quality of their reviews; and the inclusiveness across various EJIL media in terms of topics, approaches, methods, forms, subfields of international law and the diversity of authors and interlocutors. It also cares about fostering talent and consciously engages with practices of knowledge production, challenging negative practices in academia.

Whether it is the journal, the blog, the podcast or the video-series, EJIL aspires to be the obvious go-to place for international law.

Our commitment to linguistic diversity

Originally bilingual, the Journal is now published only in English. While we retain a strong belief in the central importance of linguistic diversity to the continued flourishing of international law, the decision to publish exclusively in English is based on the fact that it enables us to reach the widest possible readership, in view of the ever-growing number of Europeans and others for whom English is the principal second language. At the same time, however, we warmly welcome submissions in French, Spanish, Italian and German. Where resources permit, we will endeavour to translate into English those articles written in other languages that are accepted for publication.

What others have to say about the EJIL …

The most lively and interesting quarterly in the field of general international law, certainly in Europe, possibly anywhere.
Prof. James Crawford, Cambridge University

No scholar can afford not to read it.
Prof. Christian Tomuschat, Humboldt University, Berlin

A superb way to keep abreast of the most recent thinking being done by the outstanding scholars in the field.
Prof. Thomas M. Franck, New York University School of Law

The EJIL clearly has no rival for its coverage of new theories and the history of international law.
Prof. Martti Koskenniemi, University of Helsinki

The forum for reflective pieces on the theory of international law.
Judge Rosalyn Higgins, International Court of Justice

An indispensable, ‘must read’ source.
Prof. emeritus, Theodor Meron, New York University School of Law

The originality and high quality of each issue of EJIL has made it required reading.
Prof. W. Michael Reisman, Yale School of Law

Feedback and criticism

While the Editors are proud of what has been achieved to date with the EJIL, we do not wish to become complacent. We therefore warmly welcome all forms of feedback, including in particular suggestions for improving the content, the reach and the presentation of the Journal. Please write to us through our Assistant Editor, Anny Bremner at anny.bremner@eui.eu.