Volume 64 ♦ Issue 2 ♦ April 1, 2024
The Virginia Journal of International Law has had the opportunity to collaborate with the Yale Journal of International Law and the Georgetown Journal of International Law in the joint publication of nine essays as part of the Consortium for the Study and Analysis of International Law Scholarship (SAILS). SAILS is an effort by a committed group of international law scholar-practitioners to cultivate sustained attention to scholarship and its interaction with practice by investigating the relationship among theory, research, and practice to address international law’s twenty-first-century challenges.
As part of this inaugural SAILS project, each journal has published three essays within their individual issues, which can be found on their respective websites linked below. The nine published essays include:
Bianca Anderson & Kathleen Claussen, International Law Publishing Trends: What Journals Print
Elena Chachko, International Law and Political Science: A Retelling
Kathleen Claussen, The World of International & Comparative Law Journals
Harlan Grant Cohen, A Short History of the Early History of American Student-Edited International Law Journals
Jorge Contesse, International Law Scholarship in Latin America
Oona Hathaway & John Bowers, International Legal Scholarship: An Empirical Study
Daniel Peat & Cecily Rose, The Changing Landscape of International Law Scholarship: Do Funding Bodies Influence What We Research?
Niccolò Ridi & Thomas Schultz, Tracing the Footprints of International Law Ideas: A Scientometric Analysis
Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Comparative International Law and the Rise of Regional Journals
All nine essays and further information about SAILS can be found at the SAILS website and on Twitter/X @SAILS_Intl_Law. A discussion of the SAILS project and the nine essays will take place at the American Society of International Law Annual Meeting in Washington, DC on April 5th. The panel is entitled “SAILS Symposium Launch on International Law Scholarship: What We Write, Where We Publish, and Why It Matters to the Field.”
Enforcement and Accountability in International Law ♦ Article
Transnational Enforcement Leadership and the World Police Paradox
In an international system that lacks centralized authority, the burden of enforcing the law generally falls on individual states. In many areas of transnational enforcement such as financial fraud, cybercrime, and tax…
PIERRE-HUGUES VERDIER
International Trade ♦ Note
Between Scylla and Charybdis: Sanctions Compliance for International Companies Divesting from Russia
This Note offers an overview of the U.S. and Russian economic sanctions following the outbreak of the War in Ukraine. It examines the regulatory conflicts companies face when complying with U.S. or Russian sanctions and the…
SIMON VOLKOV
International Relations ♦ SAILS Essay
International Law Scholarship in Latin America
There are numerous publications on international law in Latin America. Books and yearbooks—which compile articles, essays and international law developments during the year of publication—traditionally published by…
JORGE CONTESSE
International Governance ♦ Article
Accommodating Secession Within the EU Constitutional Order of States
The Article provides a holistic account of the legal mechanisms that allow the EU to accommodate all three forms of secession that may take place within its borders: internal secession, external secession and withdrawal from the EU…
NIKOS SKOUTARIS
International Relations ♦ SAILS Essay
A Short History of the Early History of American Student-Edited International Law Journals
While to some the “invisible college of international lawyers” may invoke images of open spaces between buildings and airy quads, to others the picture will be something much more clubbish and cloistered. And at least at their start…
HARLAN GRANT COHEN
International Relations ♦ SAILS Essay
Tracing the Footprints of International Law Ideas: A Scientometric Analysis
International law is a vast and dynamic field, shaped and influenced by a multitude of actors ranging from states and international organizations to non-governmental organizations and individuals. At the core of this dynamic field…
NICCOLÒ RIDI & THOMAS SCHULTZ
Volume 64 ♦ Issue 2 ♦ March 2024