About

Now in its fiftieth year, the Virginia Journal of International Law is the oldest continuously-published, student-edited international law journal in the United States.

The Journal addresses issues such as international commercial transactions and trade law, international litigation and arbitration, international organizations, international humanitarian and human rights law, and comparative law. Its pages contain a mix of full-length articles, comments, essays, and book reviews by scholars and practitioners, as well as notes, recent developments, and book notes by students.

The Journal’s subscribers span the globe and include the libraries of law schools, major law firms, bar associations, and multinational corporations, as well as government agencies, courts, and foreign missions. Practitioners and scholars have long recognized the Journal as among the finest and most authoritative student publications on international law. They rely on it in their research and in their practice of international law, citing to it often in their writings and before foreign and domestic courts. Recent surveys of senior international law faculty have ranked the Journal as part of a select top tier of international journals, alongside its student-edited peer publications at Harvard, Columbia, and Yale.

The benefits of membership on the Journal are both immediate and long-lasting. Many of the Journal’s nearly 1,000 alumni have gone on to assume leading roles in the international legal community. Employers take note of Journal membership and many international law firms that interview at Virginia target members of the Journal specifically. Over the past few years, members of the Journal have worked in Beijing, Brussels, Buenos Aires, Hong Kong, Lima, London, Maastricht, Paris, Frankfurt and other foreign cities, in addition to undertaking public and private international legal work in major cities across the United States.