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Document Type

Article

Language

English (en)

Publication Date

2024

Publication Title

Proceedings of the 118th ASIL Annual Meeting

Abstract

How we produce and disseminate international legal scholarship affects can affect how international law itself develops. Fragmentation and siloing of international legal scholarship can diminish the coherence of international law as a shared social practice across national borders. It can also diminish the perceived salience of international law within the United States, contributing to U.S. propensities toward exceptionalism and isolationism. Non-traditional publication formats have equalizing and connecting functions, but there is still room for growth when it comes to aggregating scholarship across regional, linguistic, and disciplinary divides. Finding ways to do that will help international lawyers better accomplish the field’s normative goals: to develop, cultivate, and improve the rules-based international legal order.

Keywords

International Legal Scholarship, International Law, International Legal Sources

Publication Citation

Melissa J. Durkee, Fragmented Futures: Publication Choices and the Evolution of International Legal Scholarship, 118 Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 388 (2024)

Comments

In SAILS Symposium Launch on International Law Scholarship: What We Write, Where We Publish, and Why it Matters at 10.1017/amp.2024.5

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