In our current state of affairs in the world some of us must feel a measure of fatigue. Helplessness. Despair. At loss. A loss. A sense that we're…

Opening the articles section of this issue, Negar Mansouri uses the French ‘wine laws’ of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to present a view of international…

Written by human beings but with a grammar-check programme keeping an eye on these non-native speakers’ expressions, this editorial introduces EJIL’s first Policy on Use of Generative…

I have, as is increasingly evident, reached the final phases of my academic and professional career, though it is a pretty long and winding way out…. Be that…

EJIL Peer Review Prize The 2025 EJIL Peer Review Prize is awarded to Dr Taylor St John. Dr St John’s peer review reports combine analytical rigour…

The relationship between scholarship and practice in international law is unusually porous, yet still poorly understood.  Scholarship not only informs practice – frequently being cited in international legal…

In our Book Review section for this issue, we invite readers to reflect on international law’s institutions, concepts and subjects from the late Habsburg Empire, through the League…

As is customary in our final issue of the year, EJIL 36(4) opens with the Afterwords to the annual EJIL Foreword. Published in the first issue of this…

Various EJIL editorials have highlighted some of the dangers to the integrity of academic life of excessive reliance on quantitative indicators in assessing the excellence or…

This issue includes four book reviews that address, from different perspectives, varied experiences and expertise, and distinct methods, the ways in which international law can both limit state…