Event- 21 November 2020
Palestine Yearbook of International Law Call for Papers
Palestine Yearbook of International Law
Call for Papers
PYBIL Vol. XXIV (24), Submission by 15 March 2022
The Palestine Yearbook of International Law (PYBIL) has opened an invitation for a round of submissions for Volume XXIV. We are interested in particular in critical approaches to public international law, and welcome submissions in relation to Palestine. In addition, the PYBIL welcomes articles on critical legal studies, Third World Approaches of International Law (TWAIL), and Critical Race Theory (CRT).
This peer-reviewed volume would include articles, case commentaries, and book reviews.
-Articles should not exceed 12,000 words, including footnotes. Submissions to the general Articles section will be reviewed by the editorial board in addition to anonymous review by external experts to assess their quality and contribution to academic debates.
-Case commentaries should not exceed 5,000 words, including footnotes. Commentaries should discuss significant and relevant jurisprudential developments, whether in international law tribunals or in domestic courts that are pertinent to international law.
-Book reviews should not exceed 3,000 words, including footnotes. Book reviews would critically engage with recent international law publications. PYBIL is also happy to receive review essays that examine several books. Review essays should not exceed 5,000 words, including footnotes.
Submission guidelines and PYIL style requirements:
Submissions should be exclusive to PYBIL in order to be considered. We will aim to update authors on submission progress in a timely manner.
Authors who would like their articles to be considered for Volume XXIII should submit them by 15 March 2022. Articles submitted at a later stage will be considered for Volume XXV.
Article submissions should include 2 documents: the article file without name of author, and a second file that includes the name of author, institutional affiliation, contact info, and an abstract for the submitted Article (no more than 500 words).
The submission should be double-spaced, with one-inch margins.
The Yearbook follows the legal citation system used by The Bluebook: A Uniform System of Citation, published by the Harvard Law Review Association.
The Yearbook is published in English since 1984. It is edited at Birzeit University’s Institute of Law (Birzeit, Palestine), and published by Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (The Hague, The Netherlands). The Editor-in-Chief of the Yearbook is Dr. Nimer Sultany.
For a list of previous volumes, please see: https://brill.com/view/serial/PYIL
Contact address for submission:
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