• Aims and Scope
• Peer-review process
• Subscriptions, Accessing Content, TOC alerts
• Archiving
• Ethics Policy
• Policy on Artificial Intelligence
• Indexing

Aims and Scope

The Cambridge International Law Journal (CILJ) succeeds the Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (CJICL), which was established in 2011 at the University of Cambridge. CILJ is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal with a broad focus on international law. CILJ publishes in all areas of international law, including regional and transnational legal regimes, such as European Union Law. CILJ provides a platform for both young and well-established academics to publish outstanding research on cutting edge, highly topical international law issues alongside, and in dialogue, with each other. CILJ is well-served by an Academic Review Board made up of distinguished international law experts from around the world. Additionally, the CILJ blog and the CILJ annual conference are integral parts of the journal.

Peer-review Process

This journals is double-blind peer-reviewed.

Subscriptions, Accessing Content, TOC alerts

Please see subscription information or email: journals@e-elgar.com.

If your institution has a subscription, content is accessible via IP ranges. Single articles can also be purhased online.

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Archiving

Portico (www.portico.org) provides a permanent archive for our eJournals.

Ethics Policy

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Policy on Artificial Intelligence

The Cambridge International Law Journal does not accept submissions containing drafting or text generated by artificial intelligence (AI) tools. Authors are expected to submit pieces which they have drafted themselves in their own words. The identification of AI-generated text in any of the submissions to the Cambridge International Law Journal by our Editorial Board will result automatically in a decision not to publish the submission. 

Indexing

Law Journal Rankings Project

ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)

ESCI (Clarivate Analytics)

Scopus

Legal Journals Index (Westlaw)

Honorary Editor-in-Chief

• Professor Eyal Benvenisti, Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, Whewell Professor of International Law, and Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge, UK

Editors-in-Chief

• Helin Laufer, University of Cambridge, UK
• Liyu Feng, University of Cambridge, UK

Faculty Advisers

• Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor and Jean Monney Chair of European Law, Co-Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK
• Professor Jorge E. Viñuales, Harold Samuel Chair of Law and Environmental Policy, Founding Director of the Cambridge Centre for Environment, Energy and Natural Resource Governance (C-EENRG), Fellow of Clare College, University of Cambridge, and Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, UK
• Dr Kate Miles, Lecturer in Law and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK
• Dr Andrew Sanger, Associate Professor of International Law and Fellow and Director of Studies of Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge, UK; Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, UK

Managing Editors

• Sebastian Aguirre, Leonardo F. Souza-McMurtrie, Marina Iskander, Anna John, Marno Swart, Jonas Wieschollek

General Editors

• Lauren Abrahams, Ebunoluwa Adeniran, Ebube Hilary Akpamgbo, Alice Baker, Ronel Uy Buenaventura, Bogyung Hwang, Tereza Jakoubkova, Shruti Janakiraman, Aastha Kapoor, Celin Khoo Roong Teng, Camilla Middleton, Taran Molloy, Nitansha Nema, William Ruan, Campbell Russell, Mira Salhi, Emma Scott, Abhijeet Shrivastava, Muskaan Singh, Aleksandra Smajevic, Matheus de Souza Depieri, Aleksandr Statsenko, Edward Watson, Che Yang

Blog Manager

• Tejas Rao and Renatus Otto Franz Derler

Blog Editors

• Jai C Brunner, Sofia Evans, Peta-Gay Facey, Sofia Gierow, Erica Henry, Aisha Strohal

Conference Convenors

• Marno Swart and Renatus Otto Franz Derler

Conference Team

• Falyn Dwyer, Anton Kamke, Patrick Lavelle, Yishu Liu, Kaainat Pundir, Jasleen Virk, Dimitris Vossos

Treasurer

• Matt Jordan

Academic Review Board

• Dr Geert De Baere, Assistant Professor of International Law and EU Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium 
• Professor Freya Baetens, Professor of Public International Law at the Faculty of Law, Head of Programmes at the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights, and Fellow of Mansfield College, University of Oxford, UK; affiliated with the PluriCourts Centre, Faculty of Law, University of Oslo, Norway 
• Professor Cecilia Marcela Bailliet, Professor of Law, University of Oslo, Norway; affiliated with the Europa Institute, Faculty of Law, Leiden University, Netherlands  
• Dr John Barker, Fellow of Hughes Hall and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Professor Catherine Barnard, Professor and Jean Monnet Chair of European Union Law, Co-Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, and Fellow of Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Professor Lorand Bartels MBE, Professor of International Law, Fellow and Director of Studies of Trinity Hall, and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK
• Professor John Bell, Emeritus Professor of Law, Director of the Centre for Public Law, and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Professor Eirik Bjorge, Professor of International Law, University of Bristol, UK 
• Dr Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis, Research Fellow of Gonville & Caius College and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK
• Dr Daniel Clarry, Fellow in Private Law and Lecturer in Law, Harvard Law School, USA; Affiliated Lecturer in Law, University of Cambridge, UK; Editor-in-Chief of The UK Supreme Court Yearbook; Barrister, Gerard Brennan Chambers, Brisbane, Australia
• Dr Richard Clements, Assistant Professor of International Law, Tilburg Law School, Netherlands
• Professor Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger, Professor of Law, University of Waterloo, Canada; Fellow of C-EENRG, University of Cambridge; Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK; Fellow and Senior Director, Centre for International Sustainable Development Law (CISDL), Canada; Executive Secretary, Climate Law and Governance Initiative (CLGI)
• Dr Anthony Cullen, Senior Lecturer in Law, School of Law, Middlesex University, London, UK 
• Professor Zachary Douglas KC, Professor of International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Switzerland; Barrister, 3 Verulam Buildings, UK 
• Professor Alex Oude Elferink, Director and Professor, Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea, Utrecht University, Netherlands 
• Professor David Erdos, Professor of Law and the Open Society; Director, Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law (CIPIL), University of Cambridge, UK
• Dr Veronika Fikfak, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark; Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, UK 
• Professor Charles Garraway, Fellow, Human Rights Centre, University of Essex, UK; Independent Consultant, Former Stockton Professor, United States Naval War College, USA 
• Dr Catherine Gascoigne, Macquarie Research Fellow, Macquarie University
• Dr Markus Gehring, Associate Professor, Deputy Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies, Tutor in Sustainable Development Law at the Law Faculty, Fellow of C-EENRG, Fellow of Hughes Hall and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Dr Joanna Gomula-Crawford, Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK; Visiting Fellow; Queen Mary, University of London, UK 
• Dr Tom Grant, Senior Research Fellow of Wolfson College and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Professor Christine Gray, Emeritus Professor of International Law and Fellow of St. John’s College and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK  
• Professor Douglas Guilfoyle, Associate Professor of International and Security Law, UNSW Canberra, Australia 
• Professor James Harrison, Professor of Environmental Law, University of Edinburgh, UK 
• Professor Gleider Hernández, Professor of Public International Law, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium; Chair of Public International Law, Open Universiteit, Netherlands 
• Dr Jessie Hohmann, Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia 
• Dr Valentin Jeutner, Associate Professor of International Law, Lund University, Sweden; Research Associate, Pembroke College, University of Oxford, UK 
• Mr Christopher D Johnson, Adjunct Professor of Law, Georgetown University of Law Center; Space Law Advisor, Secure World Foundation, USA 
• Dr Natalie Jones, Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development, Switzerland
• Dr Daniel Joyce, Associate Professor, University of New South Wales, Australia 
• Dr Ridhi Kabra, Associate, Three Crowns LLP, UK
• Dr Massimo Lando, Assistant Professor of Law, School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, China 
• Dr Emilija Leinarte, Assistant Professor, Co-Deputy Director of the Centre for European Legal Studies and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK
• Dr Gabriel Lentner, Assistant Professor of International Law and Arbitration, Danube University Krems, Austria; Transatlantic Technology Law Forum Fellow, Stanford Law School, USA 
• Dr Brian McGarry, Assistant Professor of Public International Law, Grotius Centre for International Legal Studies, Faculty of Law, Leiden University, Netherlands; Visiting Professor, Sciences Po Law School, Paris, France; Senior Researcher, Geneva Center for International Dispute Settlement, Switzerland 
• Professor Marko Milanovic, Professor of Public International Law, University of Reading, UK
• Dr Cameron Miles, Barrister, 3 Verulam Buildings, London, UK 
• Professor Alex Mills, Professor Public and Private International Law, University College London, UK 
• Professor Daniel Moeckli, Chair for Public Law with a focus on International and Comparative Law, University of Zurich, Switzerland 
• Dr Eva Nanopoulos, Senior Lecturer in Law, Queen Mary, University of London, UK 
• Ms Penelope Nevill, Visiting Lecturer, King’s College London, UK; Barrister, Twenty Essex Street, London, UK 
• Dr Lan Nguyen, Assistant Professor, Utrecht University School of Law, Netherlands 
• Dr Matthew Nicholson, Assistant Professor in International Law, Durham Law School; Member, Durham Centre for Ethics and Law in the Life Sciences, and Fellow of the Global Policy Institute, Durham University, UK 
• Professor Sarah Nouwen, Professor of International Law, European University Institute, Italy; Professor of International Law and Fellow of Pembroke College, University of Cambridge, UK; Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of International Law 
• Dr Niall O’Connor, Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Essex, UK 
• Professor Roger O’Keefe, Full Professor of Public International Law, University of Bocconi, Italy
• Professor Tiina Pajuste, Professor of International and European Law, Tallinn University, Estonia 
• Professor Martins Paparinskis, Professor of International Law, University College London, UK
• Dr Kate Parlett, Barrister, Twenty Essex Street, UK 
• Professor Photini Pazartzis, Professor of International Law and Director of the Athens Public International Law Center, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; Member, UN Human Rights Committee (ICCPR)
• Professor Surabhi Ranganathan, Professor of International Law, Fellow of King’s College and Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Professor Pippa Rogerson, Professor of Private International Law, and Master, Fellow and Director of Studies of Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK and Chair of Management Committee of the Cambridge Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Ms Evgeniya Rubinina, Partner, Enyo Law, London, UK 
• Professor Philippe Sands KC, Professor of Public Understanding of Law and Director of the Centre of International Courts and Tribunals, University College London, UK; Samuel and Judith Pisar Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; Barrister, 11KBW, UK
• Dr Andrew Sanger, Associate Professor of International Law, Fellow and Director of Studies of Corpus Christi College and Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK 
• Dr Daniel R Saxon, Distinguished Fellow and Assistant Professor, Leiden University, Netherlands 
• Professor Malcolm Shaw KC, Emeritus Sir Robert Jennings Professor of International Law, University of Leicester, UK; Senior Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK; Barrister; Essex Court Chambers, London, UK 
• Dr Barry Solaiman, Assistant Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University College of Law, Qatar 
• Professor Eleanor Spaventa, Full Professor, University of Bocconi, Italy 
• Professor Kimberley Trapp, Professor of Public International Law, University College London, UK 
• Dr Jamie Trinidad, Fellow and Tutor of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, UK and Fellow of the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK; Barrister, UK and Gibraltar 
• Dr Isabelle Van Damme, Partner, Van Bael & Bellis, Belgium; Visiting Professor and Distinguished Fellow, Notre Dame London Law Programme, USA  
• Professor Guglielmo Verdirame KC, Professor of International Law, King’s College London, UK; Barrister, Twenty Essex Street, UK 
• Dr Santiago Villalpando, UNESCO Legal Adviser and Director of the Office of International Standards and Legal Affairs, France 
• Professor Michael Waibel, Professor of International Law, University of Vienna, Austria 
• Professor Marc Weller, Chair of International Law and International Constitutional Studies and Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK; Barrister (Middle Temple) and Associate Tenant, Doughty Street Chambers, UK 
• Dr Ralph Wilde, Associate Professor, University College London, UK 
• Dr Rumiana Yotova, Assistant Professor in International Law at the Faculty of Law, Fellow and Director of Studies in Law of Gonville & Caius College and Fellow, Lauterpacht Centre for International Law, University of Cambridge, UK

Call for Papers

The Editorial Board of the Cambridge International Law Journal is pleased to invite submissions for Volume 13(1), to be published in June 2024.

The journal accepts the following types of submissions that engage with current themes in international law:

1. Articles between 6,000 and 12,000 words including footnotes;
2. Case notes, including substantive analysis, not exceeding 3,000 words including footnotes; and
3. Book reviews on recently published works not exceeding 2,500 words including footnotes. Those interested in submitting a book review are kindly requested to send first a short (250–500 words) book review proposal to editors@cilj.co.uk.

Submissions are subject to double-blind peer review. The Journal’s Editorial Board reviews all pieces, and select articles are sent to the Academic Review Board, which consists of distinguished international law scholars and practitioners.

Submissions

Submissions for Volume 13(1) must be received through the online Submittable platform by 11:59 pm (BST) on Friday, 27 October 2023.

Please list the word count of the text and the footnotes on your manuscript.

All copies must be submitted in Word (.doc) or (.docx) format and must conform to our style guidelines, which are available at the following links:

• OSCOLA Fourth edition: 
  https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/oscola_4th_edn_hart_2012.pdf
• OSCOLA: Citing International Law Sources:
  https://www.law.ox.ac.uk/sites/files/oxlaw/oscola_2006_citing_international_law.pdf

For full submission instructions, please visit www.elgaronline.com/cilj.

We also accept submissions for the CILJ Blog on a rolling basis. Blog articles may be submitted at any time here.

Further information can be obtained from the Editors-in-Chief at editors@cilj.co.uk.

Helin Laufer and Liyu Feng
Editors-in-Chief for Cambridge International Law Journal (Volume 13)

Terms of Publication

Please complete the Author Information form when you submit your final draft. This captures author details, consent to publish, and outlines the terms of publication. All details must be completed before articles can be accepted for publication.