The transition from 31 December 2025 to 1 January 2026 entails 4 large occasions in EJIL’s life.
1. After virtually 30 years, first as Assistant Editor and since 2008 as Managing Editor, Anny Bremner will go away the journal. Many worldwide legal professionals could have communicated with Anny concerning the publication of their articles or e book critiques. For a lot of authors, the expertise previous to acceptance is hard: screening selections are sometimes unfavourable, and if articles are despatched to look assessment, reviewers and editors are typically demanding, asking for an increasing number of and extra revisions. However then, after acceptance, there was Anny, taking the article by means of the publishing course of, and every thing turned a lot brighter. Many authors have written to say how a lot they’ve loved working with Anny and the way a lot she will probably be missed. Members of the Government Board really feel the identical. For Anny was in follow the spider within the net of all the EJIL ecosystem (additionally together with EJIL:Speak!, EJIL: The Podcast!, EJIL e book reviewing and EJIL social media), organizing conferences, sending supplies throughout the ecosystem, writing to board members, paying payments, holding the accountants up-to-speed, the record is limitless. Her to-do record grew as EJIL developed, so she additionally began delegating. When she joined EJIL in 1996, Anny copy-edited and proofread all articles herself. The proofs of every difficulty would arrive by courier, she would appropriate them with a pink pen and return them by courier. Quick ahead some years and we see Anny managing a workforce of copy editors and proofreaders, all on-line.
Earlier than EJIL, Anny labored as editor and publications officer on the UNICEF analysis centre in Florence. And after EJIL? She’s going to proceed making the world a extra peaceable and exquisite place as a professional yoga instructor and nation music singer. We now have requested Anny for an interview – few folks have had such an in depth participant remark expertise within the subject of worldwide regulation – however she has to this point declined. Thanks, Anny, for all you might have given the journal. It’s tough for journals to radiate heat, however your emails actually did.
2. After 13 years of involvement with EJIL:Speak!, Marko Milanovic will probably be stepping down as editor of the weblog. Marko was with the weblog from the very starting and shortly turned an editor. He has turn into world well-known for his terribly fast and razor-sharp analyses of the worldwide authorized points of present affairs, whether or not an incident involving using pressure someplace on the earth, a judgment of the European Court docket of Human Rights or an Advisory Opinion of the Worldwide Court docket of Justice. His commentary has set most of the parameters of subsequent discussions. However his behind-the-scenes service to the weblog has been no less than as spectacular. Whereas within the weblog’s early years, the job of editor largely entailed offering contents, in recent times it has concerned deciding on dozens of submissions each week, corresponding with authors and fixing technical issues on the weblog. Marko did all of it, together with his attribute velocity, sharpness and sense of humour. We hope he’ll proceed to put in writing his unparallelled rapid-response items and are tremendously grateful for the numerous, many hours that he has put into making EJIL:Speak! what it at present is. He leaves behind a well-oiled system, with Julian Arato, Nehal Bhuta, Wanshu Cong, Devika Hovell, Miles Jackson and Justina Uriburu as weblog editors, and Mary Visitor, Luíza Leão Soares Pereira and Sebastian von Massow as affiliate editors. And Marko? We are going to proceed to listen to from him!”
3. Urmila Dé will take over as EJIL’s Managing Editor. EJIL gratefully acquired many expressions of curiosity for the position. The choice committee (Anny Bremner, Abhimanyu George Jain and I) finally provided the position to Urmila due to her intensive editorial expertise. The worldwide felony legal professionals amongst our readers will acknowledge the title: Urmila has been Government Editor of the Journal of Worldwide Prison Justice since 2004; that’s to say, virtually since its very first yr. A historian by coaching, she has different intensive editorial expertise, is fluent in English, Bengali and Hindi, and has an curiosity in museology, rug and carpet making and fibre artwork. Welcome to the workforce, Urmila!
4. And final however completely not least, Michael Waibel will be a part of EJIL as Co-Editor-in-Chief. A professor of worldwide regulation on the College of Vienna, Michael brings editorial expertise as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Worldwide Financial Legislation and Co-Common Editor of the ICSID Stories. He combines specialised data within the subject of worldwide financial regulation with experience in basic areas of public worldwide regulation. Michael can be an institution-builder: as co-Deputy Director of the Lauterpacht Centre for Worldwide Legislation he initiated many programmes which are nonetheless going sturdy. He’s fluent in German, English and French and fairly fluent in Spanish. EJIL will proceed to develop underneath his management!
The Administration Board is grateful to all those that expressed curiosity within the position and likewise thanks Ana Luisa Bernardino, Megan Donaldson, Devika Hovell, Doreen Lustig and Anny Bremner for having joined me on the choice panel.
