GCYILJ: Volume 23 (2024)
The 2023 volume features enhancements in structure, scope, and format, and oversight from a new
editorial board. The 2023 edition is dedicated to exploring globalization, including threats to the environment and
democracy which in turn endanger the stability of the global community, as well as UN and WTO
sustainable development reforms and the movement toward a constitutionalization of global health. Other
articles address the normative framework of global security governance and hybrid regimes, including the
Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts and relevant international law principles; the legality of the
ECOWAS's intervention in Niger; the development of the right to reparations in international law; and the
global regulation of hazardous chemical trade, among other subjects.
The Yearbook is ingrained in the analysis of judicial practice. In this volume the coverage of international
courts and tribunals has doubled in size (from 10 to 20) to account for the fragmentation of international
law and the significance of certain emerging issues. In response to the proliferation of judicial mechanisms
and the evolution of international jurisprudence, GCYILJ will now publish “Jurisprudential Surveys” covering
a wide range of issues addressed by an increased number of international courts, tribunals, and other
quasi-jurisdictions.
However, one of the previous hallmarks – “legal Maxims” – has been replaced, as a logical consequence of
the ever-burgeoning international case-law.
The “Surveys” examine and comment on the jurisprudence of various judicial and quasi-judicial bodies and
their role in developing international/global law. They provide an overview of the annual jurisprudence of
various dispute settlement mechanisms (judicial or quasi-judicial) by experts in the field, bringing to the
reader’s attention the jurisprudential solutions aimed at the development of global law and justice in order
to better respond to new challenges.
