YJIL accepts submissions for Articles and Notes.

The Yale Journal of International Law (YJIL) is committed to publishing cutting-edge, provocative, and thoughtful works at the forefront of international, comparative, and transnational law. We seek to publish works that include international, comparative, or transnational elements as an intrinsic part of the central legal argument. We do not publish works which deal purely with the domestic law of a single nation. This category includes articles which deal with the law of foreign nations as well as articles dealing with foreign actors in a domestic legal context, such as United States immigration law. The goal of YJIL, furthermore, is to publish new ideas and viewpoints rather than summarizing areas of international law. YJIL aims to provide a forum for the widest possible diversity of opinion.

All manuscripts should be submitted in English with both text and footnotes typed and text double-spaced. Footnotes must conform to The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation (18th ed.), and authors should be prepared to supply any cited sources upon request.

We particularly welcome the submission of articles and essays under 30,000 words (including footnotes). Articles above 35,000 words are strongly discouraged. These guidelines will be a factor in consideration for publication. We ask authors to be concise in the length of literature reviews in their articles. While the Journal is a general interest publication, we presume that most readers will have at least a basic understanding of key ideas in the field of international law and encourage authors to cite to these basic tenets with footnotes rather than extensive exposition.

We accept article submissions from Ph.D. and S.J.D./J.S.D. students as well as practicing attorneys and legal scholars. Current J.D. and LL.M. students at the Yale Law School are not eligible to publish articles in the Yale Journal of International Law, though we encourage those students to submit notes to the Journal. Current J.D. and LL.M. students at other schools are not eligible to publish in YJIL.

YJIL is distinguished among international law journals for its thoughtful, professional editorial review process. In addition to rigorous cite-checking and Bluebooking, all articles selected for publication receive two rounds of substantive feedback in the form of “edit letters” (usually around five to six pages each in length) containing the Editorial Board’s suggestions for further honing the author’s argument and improving the structure and development of the piece. Nevertheless, our authors retain full control over the final content of their work, and all comments and suggestions offered by YJIL’s Editors are optional. For more information about the YJIL editorial review process, we encourage you to contact the Editors-in-Chief, Kathleen Claussen and Jonathan Ross-Harrington.

We require electronic submission of all articles in order to guarantee consideration. We strongly encourage submission through the ExpressO online submission system. Article and essay submissions can also be sent via email as Word (.doc) attachments to YJIL.submissions@yale.edu. For either submissions format, we request that you also attach a resumé or CV with your article. Due to high submissions volume we are unable to offer feedback on articles not accepted for publication.

We are not accepting article submissions at this time. We will begin accepting submissions for Volume 35, Issue 2 (Summer 2010) on August 1, 2009, and our Board will begin full-time review of those articles on September, 1, 2009. We endeavor to read and respond to all submissions within fourteen days of receipt; however, articles submitted during the month of August will take somewhat longer.

We appreciate the effort that authors have put into the articles submitted to the Journal, and we promise to give all articles full consideration and to notify authors of all final decisions in as timely a manner as possible. While we will try our best to accommodate requests for expedited review, we cannot guarantee that we can accomplish an expedited review by a specific deadline. To request an expedited review, please submit a request for expedited consideration through ExpressO or email YJIL.submissions@yale.edu. (Please include “Request for Expedited Review: TITLE OF ARTICLE” in the subject heading of any e-mails.)

Please provide the following information in your request: 1) Author name and contact information (phone and email); 2) Article title; 3) Journals that have accepted the article; 4) Deadlines those journals have given the author; 5) The latest possible date that the author can be given a decision.

If you wish to withdraw your piece from consideration, please send an email to YJIL.submissions@yale.edu. Please put "Withdraw" as the subject of your email, and include in the text the author name and title of your manuscript.