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 and the
transformation of international and global law, with a distinctive global outlook.
The Yearbook examines how law, institutional practices, and governance evolve in response to contemporary
global challenges, and provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary perspective on the interaction
between law, governance, ethics, and justice, identifying emerging patterns and normative developments
shaping the global legal order.
The Yearbook's structure is typically composed of articles in legal theory, dedicated sections on global
law, politics and ethics, and the jurisprudence of international adjudicatory bodies. The Yearbook combines
theoretical rigour with empirical analysis and brings together doctrinal scholarship and systematic surveys
of judicial practice, examining the role of such bodies in constructing the global legal system.
The Yearbook serves as an analytical and practice-oriented laboratory for scholarly engagement with the
dynamics of the global community, offering a critical platform for understanding and rethinking today's
changing global order in a rapidly evolving geopolitical context.
The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence was first launched in 2001 and has
been published by different academic presses over time.
From 2001 to 2013, the Yearbook was published by Oceana Publications. During this period, the Yearbook
appeared in two volumes per edition from the 2002 to the 2014 edition, and in a single volume per edition
from the 2015 edition onwards.
Subsequently, the Yearbook was published by Oxford University Press, which oversaw the publication of
later volumes.
Since 2024, the Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence has been published by
De Gruyter Brill, continuing its mission to provide an authoritative annual forum for global legal scholarship.
"The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence has, since its founding, become
the most important source of reference on global legal issues, which necessarily covers an enormous range
of issues and more particularly developments before international tribunals."
- M. Cherif Bassiouni, DePaul University, College of Law
"A very useful publication, one that retains its focus on relevant global developments in international law
while being extensive in the issues it covers, and this makes it different from other similar publications."
- Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Department of Law, University of London
