Student Notes
The Berkeley Journal of International Law invites submissions of original student notes on novel issues relating to public or private international law, broadly defined.
We are currently accepting and reviewing note submissions to BJIL, Volume 45, Issue 2, which will be published in December 2027. We will close submissions for this issue on December 15, 2026.
Please email your anonymized note to bjilstudentnotes@berkeley.edu to submit.
Student Note Requirements
Student Note Submissions should be sent to bjilstudentnotes@berkeley.edu and must include:
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the email subject line “Student Note Submission: [Title of Paper]”
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the article or thesis itself, which must be formatted as a double-spaced Word document and should be, at a maximum, 20,000 words (including footnotes). To preserve anonymity, the Student Notes themselves should contain no identifying information.
Student Note Guidelines
Submissions will be reviewed by BJIL Submissions Editors on a rolling basis, and final decisions will be made in consultation with the Editors-in-Chief. Authors will receive notification of a publication decision approximately three weeks after the submission deadline.
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Eligibility. We accept submissions only from J.D. and LL.M. students who are currently enrolled at Berkeley Law. We do not accept notes from PhD students (who can submit articles through the regular process). Recent graduates may also submit notes for consideration. For consideration in the current open cycle, student note authors must have completed law school no earlier than May 2026.
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Application Process. We will do our best to preserve the anonymity of student submissions. Please ensure cover sheets contain no identifying information. Please send all submissions and any questions to bjilstudentnotes@berkeley.edu.