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Prior to 2000
John King Gamble, Jr. & Natalie S. Shields, International Legal Scholarship: A Perspective on Teaching and Publishing, 39 J. Legal Educ. 39 (1989). [Link]
Chris Tennant, Indigenous Peoples, International Institutions, and the International Legal Literature from 1945–1993, 16 Hum. Rts. Q. 1 (1994). [Link]
Anthony D’Amato, The Path of International Law,1 J. Int’l Legal Stud. 1 (1995). [Link]
John K. Gamble, International Law and the Information Age, 17 Mich. J. Int’l L. 747 (1996). [Link]
2000 – 2009
David J. Bederman, I Hate International Law Scholarship (Sort Of), 1 Chi. J. Int’l L. 75 (2000). [Link]
David J. Bederman & Jonathan C. Hamilton, Agents of International Discourse: A Conspectus on the Future of International Law Journals, 40 Va. J. Int’l L. 817 (2000). [Link]
Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Gaps in International Legal Literature, 1 Chi. J. Int’l L. 101 (2000). [Link]
John Norton Moore, Toward the Rule of Law Among Nations: A Tribute to the Virginia Journal of International Law, 40 Va. J. Int’l L. 805 (2000). [Link]
W. Michael Reisman, The Vision and Mission of the Yale Journal of International Law, 25 Yale J. Int’l L. 263 (2000). [Link]
Diane P. Wood, Diffusion and Focus in International Law Scholarship, 1 Chi. J. Int’l L. 141 (2000). [Link]
Kincaid C. Brown, How Many Copies Are Enough? Using Citation Studies to Limit Journal Holdings, 94 Law Libr. J. 301 (2002). [Link]
David J. Bederman, International Law Casebooks: Tradition, Revision, and Pedagogy, 98 Am. J. Int’l. 200 (2004). [Link]
David J. Bederman, Appraising a Century of Legal Scholarship in the American Journal of International Law, 100 Am. J. Int’l L. 20 (2006). [Link]
Lori Fisler Damrosch, The “American” and the “International” in the American Journal of International Law, 100 Am. J. Int’l L. 2 (2006). [Link]
Richard H. Steinberg & Jonathan M. Zasloff, Power and International Law, 100 Am. J. Int’l L. 64 (2006). [Link]
Marci Hoffman & Katherine Topulos, Tyranny of the Available: Under-Represented Topics, Approaches, and Viewpoints, 35 Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 175 (2008). [Link]
Lyonette Louis-Jacques, Gaps in International Legal Literature: A Skeptical Reappraisal, 35 Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 363 (2008). [Link]
Marylin J. Raisch, Codes and Hypertext: The Intertextuality of International and Comparative Law, 35 Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 309 (2008). [Link]
Christos Ravanides, The Internationalization of the American Journal of International Law: Reality or Chimera (A Survey), 31 Hastings Int’l & Comp. L. Rev. 193 (2008). [Link]
Mary Rumsey, Gauging the Impact of Online Legal Information on International Law: Two Tests, 35 Syracuse J. Int’l L. & Com. 201 (2008). [Link]
Mathias M. Siems, Legal Originality, 28 Oxford J. Legal Stud. 147 (2008). [Link]
2010 – 2019
Carsten Stahn & Eric de Brabandere, Editorial, The Future of International Legal Scholarship: Some Thoughts on “Practice,” “Growth,” and “Dissemination,” 27 Leiden J. Int’l L. 1 (2010). [Link]
András Jakab, Seven Role Models of Legal Scholars, 12 Ger. L.J. 757 (2011). [Link]
Jean d’Aspremont, Wording in International Law, 25 Leiden J. Int’l L. 575 (2012). [Link]
Robert Lutz, On Scholarship in the American Legal Academy: An Essay, 46 Int’l Law. 673 (2012). [Link]
Gregory Shaffer & Tom Ginsburg, The Empirical Turn in International Legal Scholarship, 106 Am. J. Int’l L. 1 (2012). [Link]
Larissa van den Herik, L.J.I.L. in the Age of Cyberspace, 25 Leiden J. Int’l L. 1 (2012). [Link]
Impact Factor – The Food is Bad and What’s More There is Not Enough of It; EJIL – The Beginning of an Existential Debate; Masthead Changes; in This Issue; 23 Eur. J. Int’l L. 607 (2012). [Link]
Jean d’Aspremont & Larissa van den Herik, The Public Good of Academic Publishing in International Law, 26 Leiden J. Int’l L. 1 (2013). [Link]
Christian Djeffal, Commentaries on the Law of Treaties: A Review Essay Reflecting on the Genre of Commentaries, 24 Eur. J. Int’l L. 1223 (2013). [Link]
Freya Baetens & Vid Prislan, The Dissemination of International Scholarship: The Future of Books and Book Reviews, 27 Leiden J. Int’l L. 559 (2014). [Link]
Sergey Vailiev, On Trajectories and Destinations of International Criminal Law Scholarship, 28 Leiden J. Int’l L. 701 (2015). [Link]
David J. Bederman & Chimène Ilona Robbins Keitner, International Law Frameworks (Foundation Press, 2016).
Lianne J.M. Boer “The Greater Part of Jurisconsults”: On Consensus Claims and their Footnotes in Legal Scholarship, 29 Leiden J. Int’l L. 1021 (2016). [Link]
Ryan Scoville & Milan Markovic, How Cosmopolitan are International Law Professors?, 38 Mich. J. Int’l L. 119 (2016). [Link]
Eric de Brabandere & Ingo Venzke, The Leiden Journal of International Law at 30, 30 Leiden J. Int’l L. 1 (2017). [Link]
Ignacio de la Rasilla, A Very Short History of International Law Journals (1869-2018), 29 Eur. J. Int’l L. 137 (2018). [Link]
Kincaid C. Brown, How Many Copies Are Enough Revisited: Open Access Legal Scholarship in the Time of Collection Budget Constraints, 111 Law Libr. J. 551 (2019). [Link]
Dov Jacobs & Joseph Powderly, On the Impact of Online Commentary in International Criminal Law: A Vain Pursuit of a Socratic Ideal? 32 Leiden J. Int’l L. 615 (2019). [Link]
Marnix Snel, Making the Implicit Quality Standards and Performance Expectations for Traditional Legal Scholarship Explicit, 20 Ger. L. J. 1 (2019). [Link]
2020 – Present
Naz K. Modirzadeh, Cut These Words: Passion and International Law of War Scholarship, 61 Harv. Int’l L.J. 1 (2020). [Link]
Lionel Bently, The Past, Present and Future of the Cambridge Law Journal, 80 Cambridge L.J. S8 (2021). [Link]
James Thuo Gathii, Studying Race in International Law Scholarship Using a Social Science Approach, 22 Chi. J. Int’l L. 71 (2021). [Link]
Arthur Roberto Capella Giannattasio, Debora Roma Drezza, & Maria Beatriz Wehby, In/On Applied Legal Research: Pragmatic Limits to the Impact of Peripheral International Legal Scholarship via Policy Papers, 34 Leiden J. Int’l L. 571 (2021). [Link]
Jean-Marie Henckaerts, The Impact of Commentaries on Compliance with International Law, 115 Am. Soc’y Int’l L. Proc. 55 (2021). [Link]
Omri Sender, The Importance of Being Earnest: Purpose and Method in Scholarship on International Law, 54 Case W. Res. J. Int’l. L. 53 (2022). [Link]