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Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (JHIL)

Aims and Scope

The Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international is an interdisciplinary journal on the history of international law with a broad outreach. It is placed among the top international law journals which are regularly consulted by all international lawyers with a general interest in the history of their field. It provides a forum for the emerging and expanding scholarship that takes a historical approach to exploring a wide range of issues in international law. It accommodates the growth in interest in the histories of international law from scholars working in related fields (global history, imperial history, intellectual history and international relations). It creates a venue for ground-breaking work in this field by combining tradition with innovation and to provide the opportunity to develop sustained critical engagement with work on the history of international law.

The Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international encourages critical reflection on the classical grand narrative of international law as the purveyor of peace and civilization to the whole world. It specifically invites articles on extra-European experiences and forms of legal relations between autonomous communities which were discontinued as a result of domination and colonization by European Powers. It is open to all possibilities of telling the history of international law, while respecting the necessary rigour in the use of records and sources. It is a forum for a plurality of visions of the history of international law, but also for debate on such plurality itself, on the methods, topics, and usages, as well as the bounds and dead-ends of this discipline. Moreover, it devotes space to examining in greater depth specific themes.

Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet, Anne Peters: The Journal of the History of International Law: A Forum for New Research. In: Journal of the History of International Law 16, 1-8 (2014).


Submissions

Manuscripts (accompanied by files with abstract and affiliation) should be submitted online via Editorial Manager. For more information on submissions, the evaluation process and style-conditions, please consult the Instructions for Authors.

Book reviews and suggestions of newly published books for consideration for review in the Journal should be sent to the attention of the Journal’s book review manager, Dr. Inge Van Hulle .

Newly published books may be sent to the editorial address (see below) for consideration for review in the Journal.

 

Abstracting/Indexing

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Editor-in-Chief

Anne Peters, Professor of International Law, Director, MPIL

Editors

Randall Lesaffer, Professor of Legal History, Tilburg University and Leuven University

Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet, Professor at Sciences Po Law School, Paris

Miloš Vec, Professor of European Legal and Constitutional History, Vienna University



Managing Editor

Raphael Schäfer, Research Fellow, MPIL

Book Review Editor

Inge Van Hulle, Assistant Professor, Tilburg University

 

Emeritus Editors

Peter Haggenmacher, Emeritus Professor of Public International Law, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva

Michael Stolleis †, Emeritus Professor in Public Law and Modern Legal History, Max Planck Institute for European Legal History, Frankfurt am Main

Rüdiger Wolfrum, Director emeritus, Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

 

Academic Advisory Board

Kinji Akashi, Professor of International Law, Kyushu University

Ziv Bohrer, Assistant Professor of Law, Bar-Ilan University

Annabel Brett, Professor of Political Thought and History, University of Cambridge

Anthony Carty, Professor of Public Law, University of Tsinghua, Beijing

Tamar Herzog, Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard University

Martti Koskenniemi: Professor of International Law, University of Helsinki

Samuel Moyn, Henry R. Luce Professor of Jurisprudence and Professor of History, Yale University

Luigi Nuzzo, Professor of Legal History, Università de Salento, Lecce

Liliana Obregón, Professor of Law, Universidad de los Andes

Sundhya Pahuja, Professor of International Law, University of Melbourne

 

Editorial Address

Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit internationa

Max-Planck-Institut für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht / Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law

Im Neuenheimer Feld 535
D - 69120 Heidelberg
Germany

 

Publisher

Martinus Nijhoff / Koninklijke Brill N.V., Leiden

Also available online: www.brill.com/jhil

ISSN: 1388-199X

 


Documents

Instruction for Authors (PDF, 186.0 KB)

Conference: 'Politics and the Histories of International Law'

On 15 and 16 February 2019, the international conference 'Politics and the Histories of International Law' was held at the MPIL in Heidelberg under the auspices of the Journal of the History of International Law. A selection of peer-reviewed and revised conference papers was published in a special issue on 'Politics and the Histories of International Law' in the journal (double issue 2/3 in volume 22 (2020)). Further papers are published in: Raphael Schäfer and Anne Peters (eds), Politics and the Histories of International Law: The Quest for Knowledge and Justice (Leiden: Brill 2021). For more information please refer to this website.


Histoire Globale des Idees Internationalistes

The Journal of the History of International Law would kindly like to draw your attention to the research project "Histoire Globale des Idees Internationalistes" by our Co-Editor Prof. Emmanuelle Tourme Jouannet:

The Project for an Evolving Collection of Public International Ideas Texts will look at international law from a global perspective, leaving behind the Eurocentric perspective that Western internationalists have imposed upon the rest of the world. The goal will be to provide readers with the tools to develop a global history of international law. Being more global and more open to influences from all over the world, this history of international law will draw non-European ideas, both ancient and new. Thus, it will allow for the kind of comparisons, connexions, and oppositions which have always played a central part in the global history of international ideas – a history which cannot be written any longer by resorting only to Western categories and concepts.

The project's outline can be found here.