Welcome to the Melbourne Journal of International Law

The Melbourne Journal of International Law ('MJIL') is a student-edited, peer reviewed academic journal managed by a team of law students at the University of Melbourne.

MJIL was established in 2000 by five ambitious law students who had the vision of creating a forum facilitating scholarly research and discussion of international law issues, particularly those affecting the Asia-Pacific region. Now in its tenth year of publication, MJIL enjoys an outstanding domestic and international reputation as a leading journal publishing both private and public international law issues. To maintain this reputation, MJIL is a fully refereed journal and consistently publishes articles by pre-eminent international law scholars and practitioners writing in both Australia and overseas.

Call for papers

The Editors of MJIL invite submissions on areas of interest in international law for the first issue of their 11th volume, to be published in June 2010.

MJIL publishes articles, commentaries, case notes and book reviews. Articles should be in the vicinity of 10 000 to 20 000 words in length and be an original and detailed contribution to international law scholarship. Commentaries explore recent developments in a specific field of international law and their practical applications, and should be between 5000 and 8000 words in length.

Submission Process

All articles, case notes, commentaries and review essays published in MJIL are subjected to a double-blind refereeing process, involving at least two specialists in the field. Once accepted for publication, submissions will then be edited for compliance with the Melbourne Manual for International Law Citation and the Australian Guide to Legal Citation. Authors have an opportunity to review the final version of the piece prior to publication. Our publication policy can be accessed here.

All submissions should be sent to law-mjil@unimelb.edu.au in Word format, together with a signed publication policy.

The submission deadline for 11(1) is 29 January 2010.