AYBIL paper submissions form

The Year Book welcomes scholarly contributions by academics and practitioners on a broad range of topics in international law, including human rights, environmental law, and Australian state practice.  Manuscripts must be submitted online. The Year Book is a peer-reviewed journal. Manuscripts being considered for publication undergo a double blind peer review that may take several weeks to complete.

All submissions must comply with the following requirements:

  • Articles should be a minimum of 8,000 words.
  • Articles must be accompanied by a 250-word abstract and 5-10 suggested keywords.
  • Submissions must comply with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation ('AGLC').
  • Submissions must be formatted in accordance with our Formatting Template
  • Any information within a submission which might identify the author should be removed and submitted separately.
  • All research articles submitted to the Year Book must be original, not scheduled for publication elsewhere, and not currently under review elsewhere. The Editors will use the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics in cases of allegations of research errors, authorship complaints, multiple or concurrent (simultaneous) submission, plagiarism complaints, research misappropriation, reviewer bias, and undisclosed conflicts of interest.
  • If submissions are accepted, contributors must sign a Contributor Agreement with Year Book publisher Brill. 

Please note that the authors are not liable for any fees or charges that are required for the manuscript processing and/or publishing materials in the journal. 

Submit your paper to the Australian Year Book of International Law

Please ensure that any autobiographical details are removed from the substance of your manuscript and included here instead.

Please note that submitting an approx 100-word abstract and 4-6 keywords is mandatory.

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