About the Journal
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For over four decades, the Texas International Law Journal has earned acclaim and recognition as one of the top international/specialty journals in the nation by providing its readers access to cutting-edge legal analysis of recent international developments. Our three issues per year contain articles by scholars, judges, and practitioners; reviews of important recent books; and student-written notes. The Journal is currently the eighth most cited international and comparative law journal in federal and state cases in the United States and the tenth most cited by law journals.1
Mission Statement
Practitioners, scholars, and courts of all levels have cited articles from the Texas International Law Journal as legal authority since its first issue appeared in 1965. Members of the Journal seek to maintain this tradition of excellence for our forty-third continuous year of publishing by providing the legal community with the highest quality of secondary source material on current and relevant international legal developments.
History
The Texas International Law Journal is among the oldest and best-established student-published international law journals in the United States. In the wake of the Bay of Pigs Invasion and the Cuban Missile Crisis, our publication began as an offshoot of the Texas International Law Society.2 In January 1965, under the guidance of Professor E. Ernest Goldstein, we planted the Texas flag in the international arena with our first issue, entitled the Journal of the University of Texas International Law Society. Publications thereafter were biannual, taking the name Texas International Law Forum until Volume 7, Number 1 (Summer 1971), when the Journal adopted its present title and became a triannual publication. Of the more than eighty-four student-published international law journals across the country, only three schools have an older international heritage (Harvard, Columbia, and Virginia).
Over the years, the Journal has made the most of its established heritage. We have developed international repute by forging close ties with numerous scholars and authors worldwide. As a result, we receive over twelve hundred unsolicited manuscripts each year and are extremely selective in our publication choices. This position has helped us develop one of the largest student-published subscription circulations of any international law journal in the United States. The Journal’s subscription base includes law schools, government entities, law firms, corporations, embassies, international organizations, and individuals from more than forty-five countries.
With over thirty board members and seventy staff members made up of full-time J.D. and LL.M. students, the Journal maintains a refined and well-organized editing process. As economic integration accelerates and nations forge closer ties in the new millennium, we are confident that the Journal will continue to provide a significant contribution to the burgeoning field of international law.
Distinguished Authors
The Texas International Law Journal has been fortunate to publish articles from a number of eminent scholars, including:
The Honorable Justice William O. Douglas, former Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States; W. Page Keeton, former dean of the University of Texas School of Law; Thomas Buergenthal, former president of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Charles Alan Wright, former professor at the University of Texas, co-author of the leading treatise Federal Practice and Procedure, and former president of the American Law Institute; Louis Henkin, former president of the American Society of International Law, chief reporter of the Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States, and former editor-in-chief of the American Journal of International Law; the Honorable Justice Richard J. Goldstone, member of the Constitutional Court of South Africa and chief prosecutor of the United Nations International War Crimes Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda; and the Honorable Dalia Dorner, Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel.
Outstanding Contributors
Our submissions consistently reflect the highest degree of quality from outstanding professionals, including:
Robert Reich, former U.S. Secretary of Labor, former professor of government and public policy at Harvard University, and former director of public policy for the Federal Trade Commission; Joseph Jove, former U.S. ambassador to Mexico; Andreas Lowenfeld, professor at New York University School of Law and leading international law scholar; Dean Rusk, U.S. Secretary of State under President Johnson; Ewell “Pat” Murphy, former chairman of the International Law Section of the American Bar Association and respected practicing attorney in the field of international business transactions; Walter S. Surrey, former chairman of the National Council for U.S.-China Trade and former president of the American Society of International Law; and W. Michael Reisman, professor at Yale Law School and member of the board of directors of the American Society of International Law.
1. John Doyle, Associate Law Librarian, Washington and Lee University Law Library, Law Journals: Submissions and Ranking (Apr. 25, 2008), http://lawlib.wlu.edu/LJ/index.aspx (reflects ranking among English-language, specialized, student-edited, print journals).
2. See generally E. Ernest Goldstein, Thank You Fidel! Or How the International Law Society and the Texas International Law Journal Were Born, 30 Tex Int’l L.J. 223 (1995).