The Assistant Editor will have particular responsibility for the Journal’s reviews section. They will assist the Reviews Editor, Dr Marco Longobardo, to commission review essays and book reviews, and marshal them through the publication process. This will include communicating with the authors of book reviews and book publishers, and checking accepted reviews for compliance with the Journal’s style guide. The position is unpaid.

If you are interested in applying for the position of Assistant Editor, please send a copy of your CV to editors@jihls.net by 15 July 2022.

The Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies is a biannual peer-reviewed journal published by Brill. The objective of the Journal is to explore the application of international law to humanitarian crises and, more specifically, to examine the role that this legal framework plays in protecting human security during times of emergency.

The scope of the Journal is broad and it publishes papers on international humanitarian legal issues including but not limited to: the law of international and non-international armed conflict; the protection of human rights during times of armed conflict; international refugee law; military law; disaster law; the law of post-conflict reconstruction; and international criminal law.

The Editors-in-Chief of the Journal are Russell Buchan (University of Sheffield, UK), Emily Crawford (University of Sydney, Australia) and Rain Liivoja (University of Queensland, Australia).

The Journal is now accepting contributions for Volume 12(1), which will be published in June 2021. This edition will focus on the theme of ‘recovery and international law’, and we welcome articles on this topic, which we define broadly to include law reform in the wake of major humanitarian incidents, reparations, transitional justice and post-conflict reconciliation and reconstruction.

The Journal publishes full-length articles (of no more than 10,000 words excluding footnotes), shorter commentaries and case notes (4,000 words), and book reviews (1,500 words). The Journal welcomes contributions from academics, government and non-governmental organisation officials, military personnel, and practitioners working in the humanitarian field more generally.

Contributions must adhere to the OSCOLA referencing style and follow the Journal’s Instructions for Authors. For contributions to be considered for publication in Volume 12(2) they must be submitted no later than the 31 December 2020.

Any queries may be addressed to the Editors-in-Chief (editors@jihls.net) and proposals to review books should be discussed in advance with the Reviews Editor (reviews@jihls.net).

For 2019, a committee composed of members of the editorial board exceptionally chose to make a joint award, giving the prize to two excellent articles:

• ‘Inked or Not: Maras and Their Participation in El Salvador’s Recent Armed Conflict’ by Ximena Galvez Lima (Geneva Call) and
• ‘Shifting from Autonomous Weapons to Military Networks’ by Léonard Van Rompey (University of Copenhagen).

Congratulations to both authors! Our publisher, Brill, has kindly made made the articles open access for a month. 

The Creation and Protection of History through the Prism of International Criminal Justice in Al Mahdi

Shea Elizabeth Esterling and Michael John-Hopkins | pp 1–60

Promoting the Teaching of IHL in Universities: Overview, Successes, and Challenges of the ICRC’s Approach

Etienne Kuster | pp 61–97

Reflections on the International Adjudication of Cases of Grave Violations of Rights of the Human Person

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade | pp 98–136

Obituary: Christophe Swinarski

Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade | pp 139–141

The Journal seeks to explore the application of international law to humanitarian crises and, more specifically, to examine the role that this legal framework plays in protecting human security during times of emergency.

Thus, the scope of the Journal is broad and covers:

• the law of international and non-international armed conflict;
• the protection of human rights during times of armed conflict and other public emergencies;
• international refugee law;
• military law;
• disaster law;
• the law of post-conflict reconstruction; and
• international criminal law.

The Journal publishes full-length articles (8,000-10,000 words), short notes (such as comments and case notes of around 4,000 words), book reviews (500–1,500 words), and book review essays (2,000–4,000 words). The Journal welcomes contributions from academics and practitioners alike.

Contributions must adhere to the OSCOLA referencing style. For contributions to be considered for publication in Volume 10(2), they must be submitted no later than 30 June 2019.

The Journal will implement an online submission system in 2019. Meanwhile, please submit papers by emailing them to editors@jihls.net. Please send all proposals to review books to reviews@jihls.net.

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Author Guidelines

The Journal publishes full length articles (of no more than 10,000 words), shorter commentaries and case comments (4,000 words), and book reviews (1,500 words). The Journal welcomes contributions from academics, government and non-governmental organisation officials, military personnel, and practitioners working in the humanitarian field more generally.

For contributions to be considered for publication in Volume 10(1) they must be submitted no later than the 15 January 2019. Contributions must adhere to OSCOLA referencing style.

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