JIL: Submissions
June 17, 2007
Dear Authors,
On behalf of the Michigan State University Journal of International Law, I would like to take this opportunity to invite all prospective authors to submit their articles to the Journal for consideration. The Journal of International Law is committed to enhancing the scholarship and practical knowledge in the areas of international law, politics and economics, by selecting thought provoking articles and publishing them in our journal. The Journal has a proud tradition of being an informative and practical guide for lawyers who have found themselves thrust into an increasingly globalized economic, political and legal system. The Journal of International Law has been, and continues to be, one of the preeminent scholarly journals in the country in the area of international law and politics. Scholars from around the globe continue to submit their works to the Journal for publication, and recent articles have included such diverse topics as the development of a permanent international criminal court, to an analysis of the effects of national and international institutional policies on currency exchange-rater stability.
In the interests of promoting scholarship and the dissemination of knowledge, the Journal does not discriminate with regard to academic status or profession. In recent years, we have published articles by world-renowned scholars, practicing lawyers, and exceptional L.L.M. and Ph.D. candidates, who have labored to produce articles of the highest caliber and integrity. Due to the large increases in submissions and our subscription base alike, we now have the privilege of selecting only compositions of extraordinary quality for publication in the Journal. We remain committed, however, to reviewing each article objectively and thoroughly in the interests of our readers and authors.
The Journal of International Law reaches over 500 academic and private subscribers in hardcopy on virtually every continent of the globe, and in every major law library in the United States. More importantly, our journal articles are now available on the two major legal research databases in the United States, Westlaw and Lexis-Nexis, so that the articles are available to researchers though out the globe via the Internet. This ensures that the Journal’s articles will be widely circulated and cited repeatedly in research articles and compositions all over the world.
We encourage all interested authors to forward to the Journal of International Law their articles. Submissions may be made by either mailing a hardcopy and/or electric version of the article and Curriculum Vitae to the noted address or sending these materials via an e-mail attachment to msujil@msu.edu. We ask that the electronic versions of the requested materials please in Word format. Articles should be in proper citation format, as outlined in The Blue Book: A Uniform System of Citation (18th Ed.). We thank you in advance for your interest, and we look forward to receiving your submissions.
John Swallow
Managing Editor
Michigan State University College of Law
Journal of International Law
209 Law College
East Lansing, MI 48824-1300
517-432-6947
517-432-6966 (fax)