The Yale Journal of International Law is the oldest of Yale Law School's eight secondary journals still in publication.[1] The journal was founded in 1974 by a group of students who were followers of the New Haven School of international law,[2] and their publication was originally known as Yale Studies in World Public Order. Under the leadership of then editor in chief Eisuke Suzuki, a graduate fellow from Tokyo, the first issue was produced without assistance from the Law School.[3] After being renamed The Yale Journal of World Public Order, the journal obtained its current title. About ten years after its founding, the Yale Law School started to support the journal.[3]
Content
Some of the journal's most-cited articles include:[4]
Kenneth W. Abbott, Modern International Relations Theory: A Prospectus for International Lawyers, Yale J. Int. Law 14:335 (1989)
The journal was ranked second among international law reviews in the 2007 ExpressO Guide to Top Law Reviews based on the number of manuscripts received.[5]
Events
In collaboration with Opinio Juris, occasional online symposia centering on scholarly conversations on articles published in the journal are organized. In collaboration with the Forum on the Practice of International Law, the journal periodically convenes workshops and presentations on various topics. Some recent events are:
Symposium: International Trade in the Trump Era (2019)
Reflections on the International Court of Justice’s LaGrand Decision (2002)
Realistic Idealism in International Law, a conference in honor of W. Michael Reisman. Selected proceedings from this conference were published in the Summer 2009 issue.
^ abW. Michael Reisman, The Vision and Mission of The Yale Journal of International Law, Yale J. Int. Law 25:263 (2000).
^Fred R. Shapiro, The Ten Most-Cited Works from The Yale Journal of International Law and Its Predecessors, Yale Studies in World Public Order and The Yale Journal of World Public Order, Yale J.
Int. Law 25:271 (2000).