Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

VJTL’s special expedited review period is still ongoing through the end of June! Decisions for articles will be sent within 3 weeks of submission via Scholastica. Don’t miss out on this chance to quickly receive a decision! We look forward to reviewing your work!

VJTL is excited to announce a special expedited review period during June! Decisions for articles will be sent within 3 weeks of submission via Scholastica. Please DM us with any questions. We look forward to reviewing your work!

The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law is accepting submissions for the 2022-23 issues through the end of summer! Please send your scholarship via Scholastica or e-mail at [email protected].

The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law is still accepting submissions for 2022-23 issues! Please send your scholarship via Scholastica or e-mail at [email protected]. We look forward to reviewing your work!

The Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law is currently accepting submissions for 2022-23. Please send your scholarship via Scholastica or e-mail at [email protected]. We look forward to reviewing your submissions!

Tune in tomorrow for our 2022 Symposium on The Law of Cyberterrorism!

Tune in to VJTL's 2022 Symposium - The Law of Cyberterrorism: State Responsibility, Organized Crime, and Election Interference - this Friday 2/11 at VLS/on Zoom (vanderbilt.zoom.us/j/9784669…) Featuring @RebeccaCrootof, Fatemah Albader, @AsafLubin, @AnupamChander, & @DuncanHollis!

"Substantive harmonization shouldered by the contracting parties is the way forward for the Hague Agreement to better streamline the availability of design protections worldwide." - Breaking the Status Quo of International Design Law - Nicholas P. Mack tinyurl.com/yrnv2atr

"This Note will suggest that a new polycentric governance system over the tribal lands be instituted to ensure that collective tribal rights will be effectively balanced with the international government interests in play."- A Tribe Divided - Jacob Moeller tinyurl.com/3kbx4psj

"This Article... discusses how authoritarian countries affect the international legal order, proposing the importance of studying group dynamics in any given political international institution."- "Authoritarian International Law" in Action? - @yujiechentw tinyurl.com/2p95bazj

"This Article will argue that violent nonstate actors are more properly thought of as civilians than combatants but that this approach should not be permitted to affect the treatment of state actors like Soleimani." - @COFinkelstein tinyurl.com/2w4kdaw6

"This Article outlines how multiple strategies handle encounters with the legal-cultural differences of Afghanistan in order to neutralize what may be called the alterity of law." - Limits of the Rule of Law - Ledvinka & Donovan tinyurl.com/2p9ykakr

"The Article demonstrates how the Chinese Social Credit System redefines the institution of citizenship and warns against similar patterns that are mushrooming in liberal democracies." - How to Make the Perfect Citizen? - Liav Orgad & @WesselReijers tinyurl.com/2p954maa

"This Article suggests that moving forward the ICJ should actively appoint its own independent experts in environmental disputes, rather than relying on the evidence brought forward by parties." Compensation for Environmental Damage- MP Ram Mohan & Els Reynaers VJTL Vol. 54 No.3

"Country-hopping issues can be avoided with transnational standards in assessing foreign judgments, including evidentiary standards for initial enforcement & a standard of review in subsequent attempts." Preventing Foreign-Country Judgment Hopping- Ryan Everette VJTL Vol. 54 No.3

"This Article’s findings indicate a gradual yet continual diffusion of legal norms from EU law into ISC rulings, as the status and resonance of EU law among Supreme Court justices in Israel demonstrate." European Law as Foreign Law- Lior Zemer & @pardosharon VJTL Vol. 54 No. 3

"This Article argues that the World Trade Organization’s Appellate Body, or a successor body, must become more transparent in justifying its decision to rely (or not) on prior decisions." How to Treat the WTO's Problem with Precedent- @Tim_L_Meyer VJTL Vol. 54 No. 3

"This article shows that there can be precedent without a formal stare decisis rule, and that over time the widening of legal commitments can result from extending precedent to new situations." Extending Trade Law Precedent- Jeffrey Kucik & @LawProfPuig VJTL Vol. 54 No. 3

We're honored to work with such wonderful authors and on important scholarship like this! Thank you to all the authors who choose to publish with us.

We are accepting submissions for our March issue! Work can be submitted by authors through Scholastica. For further information go to the Submissions tab on our website (transnat.org).