The Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law was established in 2011 at the University of Cambridge. Click here to view the text and photographs from the launch of the Journal at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law. It is an open access, double-blind peer review Journal, which can be distinguished by five key features:
1. A broad focus on international and comparative law and intersecting domestic, regional, transnational and international legal regimes.
2. A commitment to being an open access, double blind peer review Journal.
3. A commitment to providing a platform for both young and well-established academics to publish their work along side and in dialogue with each other. The Journal aims to become a platform for constructive and critical dialogue between the different generations of international and comparative scholars.
4. A commitment to publishing outstanding research on cutting edge, highly topical, legal issues.
5. The CJICL will publish an annual special issue, which will critically examine the decisions of the UK
Supreme Court from the preceding judicial year. The CJICL is the only journal to produce a full issue review 
of the previous three terms of the work of the UK Supreme Court. In addition to its yearly value, the comprehensive review will also, in future editions, be able to assess the work of the Court over time. This will provide a unique research resource for students and academics alike.
In addition, an integral part of the Journal is the online blog and the international and comparative law conference held annually in Cambridge.
This post does not reflect the opinion of the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. The author was a Fulbright researcher in Colombia.
Last week, the Colombian government and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) announced that the peace negotiations in Cuba had led to a major breakthrough on land reform and rural development, an issue at the heart of the half-century-long internal armed conflict in Colombia.
The 2013 CJICL conference "Legal Tradition in a Diverse World" is taking place this weekend (18-19 May) in Cambridge. The conference will begin on Saturday morning with a keynote address by Judge Abdulqawi Yusuf of the ICJ. At lunchtime on Saturday Professor Patrick Glenn will deliver a guest lecture on the topic "The State as a Legal Tradition" and launch his new book "The Cosmopolitan State" by Oxford University Press.
Sunday morning sees a debate between Professor James Crawford and Professor Alain Pellet on the topic "Anglo-American v Continental Traditions in Advocacy at International Courts and Tribunals." The debate will be moderated by Professor Catherine Redgwell.
More than 50 papers will be presented in over a dozen panels covering a wide range of topics, including IHL, transitional justice, the teaching of law, EU law, economic development, legal procedure and critical legal studies.
The full conference programme is available here:
http://www.cjicl.org.uk/conference
Anyone wishing to attend who hasn't yet registered may sign up for the last remaining places via the CJICL conference website: www.cjicl.org.uk/conference
Those unable to attend can follow some of the conference highlights via the CJICL Blog Twitter account: https://twitter.com/CJICLBlog
Highlights of the conference will be tweeted using the hashtag #CJICL2013
We look forward to seeing many of you in Cambridge.
From 18-19 April, I attended the inaugural London International Boundaries Conference. It was a superb conference, involving excellent presentations from a variety of practitioners on technical and legal aspects of boundary delimitation. Sitting at the back of the room at one point, I was struck by the fact that the majority of the audience was made up of white men in grey suits. Boundary delimitation is a man’s world, it seemed.
A quick scan of Twitter during the conference provided some welcome news. I was very happy to read that President Obama had nominated Avril Haines as the next Legal Adviser of the State Department. If her appointment is confirmed, she will fill the vacancy created by the departure of Harold Koh, the former Legal Adviser. Koh returned to Yale Law School in January 2013 as Sterling Professor of International Law.
