Now Accepting Submissions
Volume 46 Special Online Issue: Contemporary Conflicts
In line with our 2025 Symposium theme (80 Years Later: Reflecting on the Legacies of World War II), the University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Law (“JIL”) invites current law students, academics, and legal professionals to submit their scholarship for an online issue dedicated to exploring contemporary conflicts. This may include, but is not limited to, scholarship focused on conflicts in North Africa, the Middle East, or in Eastern Europe.
In response to rapidly developing global conflicts, this issue produces a timely forum for intellectual and ethical inquiry. This could include a discussion of domestic and international law within the context of these conflicts, or the impact of war on human rights and governmental stability. Most importantly, JIL particularly encourages authors from communities, ethnicities, or countries engaged in or impacted by contemporary conflicts to contribute their expertise to relevant discourse.
By contributing your scholarship to this issue, you will join a crucial dialogue aimed at understanding and resolving complex disputes. For information on requirements and deadlines for submission, please see below on this webpage, or contact eic@pennjil.com.
With hope for our future,
Volume 46 Editorial Board
The views expressed in our special issue represent the views of their authors. They do not represent the views of JIL’s editorial board.
Format Requirements
Written in English, with a 6,000 word maximum, including footnotes.
Manuscripts may include short essays, articles, blogs, or other forms of short-form scholarship.
Sources should be varied, current, and either accessible in the United States or included by the author. Authors should be prepared to supply cited sources on request. Translations may be requested of non-English sources if we lack internal support for the language in question. Sources should be cited in proper Bluebook form.
Main body text should be double-spaced and in 12pt. font size. Footnotes should be in 10pt. font size and single-spaced. 1in margins.
Abstract of no more than 350 words.
What to Submit
Cover Letter
CV/Resume with contact information
Manuscript