Chicago Journal of International Law

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Chicago Journal of International Law

Abbreviated title	CJIL; Chi. J. Int'l L.; Chi J Intl L
Discipline	International law
Language	English
Publication details
Publisher	University of Chicago Law School (USA)
Publication history	Vol. 1., No. 1, Spring 2000
Frequency	Semiannual
Indexing
ISSN	1529-0816
Links
Journal homepage

The Chicago Journal of International Law ("CJIL") is a semiannual, student-edited law review published by the University of Chicago Law School. CJIL contains articles covering issues of international law and policy. CJIL is one of the three student-edited law journals published at the University of Chicago Law School.[1] CJIL began publication with its first issue in the spring of 2000.[2]

In a 2007 ranking of law journals based on a combination of the impact factor and citations, CJIL ranked 78 out of the more than 1,400 journals ranked.[3] In the same ranking, CJIL placed 7th among international and comparative law reviews.

CJIL's contents are covered by several academic abstracting services, including LegalTrac, EconLit and CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.[4][5] The full text of CJIL articles is available via LexisNexis, Westlaw, ProQuest, and HeinOnline.[6]

[edit] Staff and editor selection

University of Chicago law students are selected to join CJIL as staff members each year by that year's incoming managing board of editors through a blind writing competition held after the participants' first year of law school.[7] CJIL also allows law students to "write on" to the journal to become staff members by submitting a publishable piece of legal scholarship.[8] The outgoing managing board selects the next year's editors each spring, generally from among the current staff.[9]