Editorials

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 economic law that challenges the neoclassical account of global economic integration. She traces a link between French efforts to protect its wine producers from the unexpected competition by wine from…

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 as it may, as I look back, I want to offer, for what it is worth, some do’s and don’ts on different topics for scholars in the early (and not…

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 with a consistently constructive tone. She identifies conceptual and structural issues early and flags potential problems directly to the editors when appropriate, while remaining attentive to how an article might…

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 texts and itself constituting a secondary source of law – but is likewise shaped by the demands and experiences of practice. International law scholars routinely serve as judges, drafters, and…