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Some Blog Statistics

October 2, 2024

The blog’s editors, with the help of our Associate Editor Tal Gross, prepared some statistics for the recent annual meeting of the EJIL Editorial and Scientific and Advisory Boards, which may also be of interest to our readers and authors. A summary of the salient points is as follows. In the August 2023-August 2024 period, the blog published 314 substantive posts. Other than the 45 posts which were written by the editors, practically all of the posts we published were received as unsolicited submissions. To our best recollection, with the exception of book discussions only one substantive post was solicited over the whole of the past year. We received 640 submissions, of which we rejected 371 and accepted 269 (often after comments and sometimes multiple rounds of revisions). That is, our rejection rate is about 60%. Two points here are important for prospective authors. First, don’t be discouraged if your submission is rejected – that happens to most submissions that we receive.  We accept posts that make genuinely original, novel contributions to…

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Welcoming Nehal Bhuta as Editor

September 24, 2024

We are happy to announce that Nehal Bhuta will be joining us as the fifth co-editor of the blog. Nehal will be well known to our readers, especially because he had already edited the blog, back in its early days. Nehal holds the Chair of Public International Law at University of Edinburgh and is Co-Director of the Edinburgh…

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In This Issue – Reviews

August 14, 2024

This issue abounds with reviews and marks a first of sorts. It features one review essay and three regular reviews. Thomas Bustamante asks us to ‘tak[e] Dworkin’s legal monism seriously’ in his essay reviewing Cormac S. Mac Amhlaigh’s New Constitutional Horizons: Towards a Pluralist Constitutional Theory and considers the relationship between domestic, regional and international legal systems. Daniel Joyce begins…

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In This Issue

August 13, 2024

This issue opens with a symposium in our occasional series on The European Tradition in International Law. This instalment focuses on the work of Italian jurist Antonio (‘Nino’) Cassese (1937–2011), a founding Editor of EJIL. Convened by Megan Donaldson, Neha Jain, and Sarah Nouwen, the symposium consists of a framing article by Megan Donaldson and three contributions. Donaldson…

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It’s a Scam: Third-party Services Promising (Smoother) Publication in EJIL

May 31, 2024

An author recently contacted us to ask: a) Whether EJIL collaborates with external service providers for manuscript submissions; b) Whether there is an official process through which third parties can facilitate submissions or communications with the journal; c) Whether we could verify the authenticity of the…

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