Global Community Yearbook

of International Law and Jurisprudence
Current Issue
Volume 24 (2025)


Editor-in-Chief Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo

Deputy Editor Professor Jean D’Aspremont

Editorial Board
Managing Editor

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About the Yearbook

The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (GCYILJ) offers an authoritative and forward-looking analysis of the evolving structure of the global community, with a distinctive global outlook. The Yearbook brings together doctrinal scholarship and systematic surveys of judicial practice, offering a critical platform for understanding and rethinking today’s changing global legal order.

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Latest Published Volume 2024

The most recent published issue of The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence is Volume 2024, published by Brill | Nijhof. Volume 2025, which mark the 25th Anniversary of the Yearbook, is scheduled for publication in 2026.

An inside look at the Yearbook – GCYILJ: Sections

The Yearbook adopts a global constitutionalist perspective to explore the evolving architecture of the global legal order through the lens of international jurisprudence. Each volume collects reflections on law, politics, ethics, and justice, and is organised into the following sections: Editorial; Articles; Notes and Comments; Global Law and Legal Theory; Global Governance and Ethics; Global Justice – Jurisprudential Surveys; and Recent Lines of Internationalist Thought.

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Featured contents
Latest Articles
The Global Law in the Context of Politics, Ethics, Justice: The Growth Path of the GCYILJ, Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo

A Phenomenology of the Law of International Organizations, Jean d'Aspremont

The Legal Fabrique of Global Security Governance, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi

European Economic and Environmental Constitutionalism as Driver for UN and WTO Sustainable Development Reforms, Ulrich Petersmann

Constitutionalizing Global Health: The Security Council as a “Constitutional Legislator”, Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo

ECOWAS Intervention in Niger, Afia A. Amponsah-Mensah

Russian Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine: Intersecting Backgrounds of Aggression and Genocide Under International Law, Louis René Beres

Détermination du domaine d'application du principe dit de l'Or monétaire dans le droit de la Cour internationale de Justice, Robert Kolb

Collection of Papers on Reparations, Otto Spijkers

Let There Be Light! Regime Hybridity as a Reinvention of (Different Dimensions of) the Democratic Paradox, Anja Matwijkiw

Recommended Papers
From Integration Through Law to Global Community Law? Between Arbitration, Adjudication and Judicial Overreach

Towards a “Judicial Knowledge-Sharing Dialogue”—A Methodological Pilot Project to Interpret and Disseminate Global Law

China’s “Belt and Road Initiative”: A Research Study of a Multifaceted Policy

The Unresolved Struggle for International Criminal Accountability: from Nuremberg to the International Criminal Court

When Practice Doesn't Make Perfect: The Responsibility to Protect in Lived Reality

The Legal Status of Decisions by Human Rights Treaty Bodies: Authoritative Interpretations or mission éducatrice?

The Role of ICJ Procedure in the Emergence and Evolution of Erga Omnes Obligations

Jurisprudence
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ICJ - Comment & Cases
ITLOS - Comment
WTO - Comment & Cases
ICC - Comment & Cases
IRMCT - Comment
ECJ - Comment & Cases
ECtHR - Comment & Cases
IACtHR - Comment & Cases
ACtHPR - Cases
ICSID - Comment & Cases
PCA - Comment & Cases
IATs - Comment & Cases
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Selected editorial reflections explore the emergence of global law and global constitutional principles, addressing questions of normativity, coherence, and accountability in the evolving global legal order.

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A Milestone in the Yearbook’s Development

On the occasion of its twentieth anniversary, the Yearbook reflected on its evolving editorial direction and the consolidation of its long-term scholarly project.



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GCYILJ is an authoritative reference for international and global legal scholarship, offering critical analysis of jurisprudential developments and emerging trends in legal theory, digital governance, and judicial practice.

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