EJIL: News!

1. Have a Have a look at the Cowl

Many readers discover EJIL articles by searches and don’t learn the journal cowl to cowl. However take a look on the cowl of quantity 36 (2025). There she is: a ‘Girl with a Hat’, a piece from 1981 by Slovak artist Albín Brunovský. Like all good artwork, it permits for a number of interpretations, even on the duvet of a world regulation journal. Choose your worldwide regulation strategy and you might even see it within the picture: for example, worldwide regulation as a strong basis, unmoved in tempestuous occasions; worldwide regulation as harbouring the waves that shake individuals’s lives; worldwide regulation as an onlooker; worldwide regulation as a relaxed girl justice who appears to be like at each considered one of us. You might discover your imaginative and prescient of worldwide regulation represented within the art work on the duvet, and within the pages that comply with too: as our mission assertion supplies, ‘we purpose for every situation to supply a menu of articles from which any Worldwide Regulation scholar, no matter particular pursuits and specialization, will discover articles of relevance and curiosity’.

2. Inclusive Citations

EJIL has been blessed by terrific peer reviewers (see the final situation of every quantity). Good peer reviewers learn not solely the physique of the textual content, but in addition the references: does the work pretty interact with current scholarship? In our ‘Directions concerning Manuscripts’, we have now now included a paragraph inviting authors to think about the article’s quotation apply earlier than they add the article to ScholarOne:

Earlier than you submit your manuscript to EJIL, please take into account the vary of students that you just draw upon. Citations in educational journals have traditionally overrepresented the views of dominant teams and obscured the data produced by others, notably racialized teams, ladies, individuals with disabilities and indigenous peoples. Your article, too, could make a distinction in equitable data manufacturing. As well as, the Journal encourages authors to discuss with analysis materials printed not solely in English but in addition in different languages.

3. AI: An Assistant, however No Peer

Generative Synthetic Intelligence absolutely has every kind of advantages. However peer reviewing can’t be outsourced to it. EJIL’s invitation to look reviewers now contains the next paragraph:

It’s EJIL coverage that reviewers could not beneath any circumstance add the article beneath overview, in entire or partly, onto an AI platform (e.g. ChatGPT), even when solely to get solutions from the platform. (As soon as on the platform will probably be utilized in answering prompts by different customers of the platform, compromising the copyright and authentic artistic concepts of the writer beneath overview).

4. Adjustments in EJIL:Discuss! Editors

After 10 years of service, Diane Desierto stepped down as EJIL:Discuss! editor in April 2025. She parted with a signature blogpost: ‘Worldwide Regulation Can not Endure With out Human Rights’. We’re tremendously grateful to Diane for the numerous hours she has devoted to studying and enhancing submissions in addition to contributing her personal posts.

In recognition of the numerous enhance in submissions over time, and the large footwear that Diane and Dapo Akande, whose end-of-service was introduced within the earlier editorial, go away to fill, the EJIL Administration Board has determined to nominate 4 new EJIL:Discuss! editors: Julian Arato (professor of regulation on the College of Michigan); Wanshu Cong (lecturer on the Regulation Faculty of the Australian Nationwide College); Miles Jackson (professor of regulation on the College of Oxford) and Justina Uriburu (lecturer in worldwide regulation on the College of Manchester). Along with incumbent weblog editors Nehal Bhuta, Devika Hovell and Marko Milanovic, they sit up for receiving your submissions!

5. From Editorial Board and Scientific Advisory Board to Government Board and Advisory Board

Totally different journals work in several methods. In some journals, editorial boards resolve on particular person submissions; in EJIL, the editorial board has had, not less than over latest many years, a purely advisory position. As well as, EJIL has benefited from a Scientific Advisory Board, which additionally had an advisory position. On the similar time, the EJIL ecosystem developed, increasing to incorporate not solely a journal, but in addition a weblog, a video sequence, a podcast and a social media presence. All these elements of the ecosystem have their very own editors, with their very own tasks and discretion. So as higher to replicate the varied roles, the EJIL Administration Board determined in January 2025 to merge the present Editorial and Scientific Advisory Boards into one Advisory Board and to create a brand new Government Board, consisting of all those that take editorial selections on a day-to-day foundation, specifically the editors of the weblog, podcast and movies, social media, e-book opinions and the journal.

The present composition of the brand new boards is:

EJIL Advisory Board:

Tilmann Altwicker, Zurich

Pierre d’Argent, Louvain

Arnulf Becker Lorca, Florence

Andrea Bianchi, Geneva

Eva Brems, Ghent

Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis, Cambridge (UK)

Idriss Fofana, Cambridge (US)

Leena Grover, Tilburg

Mamadou Hébié, Leiden

Gleider Hernández, Leuven