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

Published in print and online
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.

News
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.

GCYILJ: Sections

The Yearbook explores the evolving architecture of the global legal order through doctrinal scholarship and international jurisprudence. Each volume collects reflections on law, politics, ethics and justice, and is organised into the following sections:


Learn more
GCYILJ: Concept
The Four Analytical Dimensions
The intellectual identity of the Yearbook rests on four interconnected analytical dimensions—Law, Politics, Ethics, and Justice—that provide an integrated lens through which contemporary developments in global law and governance are critically examined. Together, they illuminate how the architecture of the Global Community is being reshaped.
GCYILJ: Scholarship
What kind of articles does the Yearbook publish?
The Yearbook publishes doctrinal scholarship that engages with international and global law as both an intellectual discipline and a practical field. Its aim is to advance debates and to offer arguments that are rigorous, well-sourced and attentive to the broader legal, institutional and political contexts in which international and global law operates. The Yearbook constitutes a laboratory for sustained reflection on the evolution, limits and possibilities of international and global law and jurisprudence.
GCYILJ: Jurisprudential Surveys
What kind of surveys does the Yearbook publish?

The Yearbook’s case-law coverage traces the judicial and arbitral decisions that shape the development of international law, collecting commentary on significant judgments, awards and opinions from a range of courts and tribunals, analysing them within their doctrinal and institutional contexts, and revealing emerging trends and shifts in judicial reasoning. Jurisprudential Surveys are designed for readers who need to understand which developments matter—and why.
Latest editorial
Editorial: Understanding the Global Community.
GCYILJ 2024 expands its analysis of international courts to address the increasing complexity of the global legal system. Discover how Editor-in-Chief Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo examines the role of GCYILJ in advancing international judicial dialogue and rethinking global law through broad comparative perspectives for an increasingly interconnected world.
Editorial Board News
GCYILJ is pleased to announce the appointment of Jean d’Aspremont as Deputy Editor. His appointment strengthens the Yearbook’s editorial structure and reflects its continuing commitment to rigorous scholarship, broad comparative engagement, and sustained reflection on the development of international law
Featured Interview

GCYILJ features an interview-based portrait of Professor Claus Kreß, invited by the Editor-in-Chief and the Editorial Board to reflect on his scholarly journey, intellectual interests, and contribution to international law. The interview discusses Professor Kreß’s work across national and international contexts, offering insight into his academic development, areas of research, and engagement with questions relevant to international legal theory and practice.
Global Community Yearbook
of International law and Jurisprudence
ISSN: 1535-9468 - Copyright © 2017 GCYILJ