The Rutgers International Law and Human Rights Journal is the Law School’s only journal, and one of the few in America, publishing double-blind, fully peer-reviewed scholarship, accompanied by traditional student-authored notes and comments, book reviews, and analysis of recent important legal decisions.
In addition to its published scholarship, the Journal annually hosts two symposium, and publishes online topical interviews, podcasts and other content, which can be accessed at www.rutgers-ilhr-journal.org
The Journal is managed through a three-pronged approach: its Executive and Editorial Board of Newark and Camden law students, aided by its faculty advisors; an Editorial Advisory Board of peer-reviewers; and an Executive Advisory Board of international law and human rights practitioners. This structure aids the Journal in its mission “to create an important forum through which leading legal scholars and students can foster intellectual and interdisciplinary dialogue on emerging and key legal issues affecting the global community.”
The Journal's management also aids in achieving one of the Journal's most innovative objectives: bringing into the American discussion on international law and human rights, those scholars which have heretofore been ignored or undervalued. The Journal is committed to highlighting the work of scholars or practitioners from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and other overlooked legal communities, to enhance the international legal debate in the United States.
Organized with the belief that the posits and norms of international law and human rights are not just a varnish on the human existence, the Journal’s vision holds that these must be the foundation of our legal work, as institutions and states become more inextricably-intertwined and interdependent, to create a civil, just and sustainable world. With the advance of globalization and its attendant impacts on actors from all corners, many legal issues remain unsettled or not even yet identified. As such, the legitimacy of international law and human rights is aided by critical and new legal scholarship today, to help shape the legal disputes and doctrines of tomorrow.
To contact us or submit your scholarship for consideration, please visit our website for further details or email: inquiries@rutgers-ilhr-journal.org.