AJIL is a leading peer-reviewed journal, published quarterly since 1907. It features articles, essays, editorial comments, current developments, and book reviews by pre-eminent scholars and practitioners from around the world addressing developments in public and private international law and foreign relations law. The Journal also contains analyses of decisions by national and international courts and tribunals as well as a section on contemporary U.S. practice in international law. AJIL and AJIL Unbound are indispensable for all professionals working in international law, economics, trade, and foreign affairs.
Article
Legal Entrepreneurship and the Invention of Legal Meaning: Revisiting Lord Asquith’s Abu Dhabi Award Jason Yackee
Current Developments
The ILC Study on Teachings as Subsidiary Means: Arguments for a Pluralist Reading Aldo Zammit Borda, Stefan Mandelbaum, Andrea Maria Pelliconi
International Decisions: Edited by Olabisi D. Akinkugbe
Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change, Advisory Opinion John H. Knox
Case of The J. Paul Getty Trust and Others v. Italy, Judgment Riccardo Di Marco
Angel Samuel Seda and Others v. The Republic of Colombia, Award Fabian Eichberger
European Union and Certain Member States — Certain Measures Concerning Palm Oil and Oil Palm Crop-Based Biofuels (Malaysia); European Union — Certain Measures Concerning Palm Oil and Oil Palm Crop-Based Biofuels (Indonesia), Panel Report Yury Rovnov
Land and Maritime Delimitation and Sovereignty Over Islands (Gabon v. Equatorial Guinea), Judgment Arman Sarvarian
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law: Edited by Jacob Katz Cogan
The Security Council Adopts Resolution Endorsing the United States’ “Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict”
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law: Edited by Jacob Katz Cogan
The United States Withdraws Its Participation in the Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law: Edited by Jacob Katz Cogan
The United States Attacks Venezuela and Abducts President Nicolás Maduro
Use of Force, Arms Control, and Non-proliferation
Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law: Edited by Jacob Katz Cogan
President Trump Instructs the Department of War to Start Testing Nuclear Weapons
President Trump Issues Executive Order Providing Qatar with a U.S. Security Guarantee
Book Reviews
A “Constitution for the Oceans”: The Long Hard Road to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea. By Kirsten Sellars. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. xvi, 372. Index. Christian Tams
Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law. Edited by Negar Mansouri and Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2025. Pp. x, 332. Index. Kristina Daugirdas
The New Haven School: American International Law. By Ríán Derrig. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. xx, 213. Index. Afroditi Giovanopoulou
Industrial Policy, National Security, and the Perilous Plight of the WTO. By Petros C. Mavroidis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2025. Pp. 329. Index. Rachel Brewster