CIL Dialogues: Guide & Submissions

CIL Dialogues intends to publish the highest quality contributions on international law broadly conceived. We welcome unsolicited submissions for the Interventions rubric and suggestions for Symposia on any topic of international law, with a particular interest in contributions relating to Asia Pacific as well as those coming from outside the pool of usual suspects.

Each submission will be judged on its merits. We are interested in publishing academic as well as practitioners’ perspectives, and the usual expectation is that the author has at least an LLM degree (albeit ultimately subject to the previous sentence). Submissions must be in English and should not exceed 1,500 words. CIL Dialogues follows an internal Style Guide (but OSCOLA is also a helpful starting point if you do not hold strong views on these matters). CIL Dialogues uses hyperlinks rather than footnotes.

As to Interventions, please fill in the submissions form below. The Editorial Board will review submissions and may suggest minor or major revisions as conditions for publication. We expect submissions to adhere to the usual standards by which robust disagreement is expressed in the leading peer-reviewed journals. We also expect submissions to be published exclusively at CIL Dialogues. For submission troubleshooting or queries, please contact our Managing Editor, Ms Yvette Foo (yvette.f@nus.edu.sg).

As to Symposia, we encourage potential authors to approach individual members of the Editorial Board to discuss possible themes.

Finally, we are not dogmatic. It may well be that the general rules set out above do not capture the equities of a particular situation, and we are open to be persuaded to that effect.