YJIL Forum

YJIL Forum is a platform for law students, practitioners, and legal scholars to publish timely, thoughtful pieces on recent developments in international law. The main goal of YJIL Forum is to foster a dynamic exchange between members of the international law community. Forum pieces are shorter and published more frequently than our Features Essays, allowing our readers to engage with a greater number of topical issues together.


Disaster Risk Governance and COVID-19 – Accountability, Transparency and Corruption

Hugo Cahueñas

March 17, 2021


COVID-19: Towards a Digital Fragmentation of the Right to Education

Kristin Bergtora Sandvik and Ingunn Ikdahl

January 22, 2021


The Trump Administration, Asylum Law, and Private-Actor Persecution

Rachael Stryer 

September 28, 2020


The ICC and Afghanistan – Time to End Impunity?

Mehdi J. Hakimi

August 31, 2018


Reflections on a Potential Peace Treaty for the Korean Peninsula

Jonathan Worboys and Laura Edwards

August 13, 2018


Symposium: Puerto Rico and the Right of Accession

May 31, 2018


Book Review: International Law in a Transcivilizational World by ONUMA Yasuaki

Richard A. Falk

May 26, 2018


Symposium: Constitutional Amendment and Dismemberment

February 27, 2018


Book Review: International Organizations and the Fight for Accountability: The Remedies and Reparations Gap by Carla Ferstman, Oxford University Press, 2017

Isa Qasim

February 21, 2018


Book Review: Is International Law International? by Anthea Roberts, Oxford University Press, 2017

Beatrice Walton

February 21, 2018


Not “Final and Irreversible”: Explaining South Korea’s January 2018 Reversal on the “Comfort Women” Agreement

Hyun-Soo Lim

February 1, 2018


A War Crimes “Wiki”: The Need for an Open Database to Ensure Syrian Accountability

Josh Macey, Paul Strauch, Mitzi Steiner & Nathaniel Zelinsky

December 4, 2017


More Privacy Principle: A Reply to Asaf Lubin

Frédéric G. Sourgens

November 29, 2017


Book Review: The Child in International Refugee Law 

Marina Sharpe 

November 28, 2017


Building a Durable Legal Framework in Space: The Extraterrestrial Impact of the South China Sea Dispute

Roncevert Ganan Almond

October 24, 2017


The Case of Kim Jong-nam and Questions of International Law

Quentin Johnson

July 5, 2017


President Trump’s Budget Blueprint and U.N. Blue Helmets

Tracy Nelson

May 18, 2017


A Closer Look at the Korean Constitutional Court’s Ruling on Park Geun-hye’s Impeachment

Hyun-Soo Lim

May 18, 2017


Book Review: Europe’s Justice Deficit?

Daniel Listwa

May 7, 2017


Understanding War-Sustaining Targeting: A Rejoinder to Iulia Padeanu

Maj Gen. Charles J. Dunlap Jr., USAF (Ret.) 

April 6, 2017


Exiting the United Nations: Paths and Potential

Tracy Nelson

March 2, 2017


Accepting that War-Sustaining Objects are ‘Legitimate Targets’ under IHL is a Terrible Idea

Iulia E. Padeanu

March 2, 2017


Treasuring the ‘Treasure Island of Korea’: A Cautionary Tale of Chinese Real Estate Development in Jeju Island

Hyun-Soo Lim

March 2, 2017


When Do Treaties Preempt State Law?

Sarah Weiner

March 2, 2017


Brexit and the Law Symposium

Introduction by Professor Harold Hongju Koh

February 3, 2017


Call for Modified Transparency in the Korea-Lone Star Funds Arbitration

Hyun-Soo Lim

December 1, 2016


International Law and the Lame-Duck Congress

Tracy Nelson

December 1, 2016


Investment Arbitration: A Poor Forum for the International Fight Against Corruption

Leo O’Toole

December 1, 2016


An Update on the Malaysian 1MDB Case

Quentin Johnson

December 1, 2016


The Uncertain Future of the European Investment Court System

Erin Biel and Mattie Wheeler

December 1, 2016


Is the Trump Administration Bound by the Iran Deal?

Iulia E. Padeanu 

December 1, 2016


Hacking the Election

Ram Sachs

October 27, 2016


Outsourcing Refoulement: The United States and the Central American Refugee Crisis

Aaron Korthuis

October 24, 2016