Call for Papers: on Facts in International Humanitarian Law, YIHL Vol. 28 (2025)
In all fields of law, factual determinations are a necessary step in the application of a rule to a specific case. During armed conflict, the factual determinations necessary to assess belligerents’ conduct are especially contested and difficult to make. Oftentimes, full information is only available to an attacking party, which may be unwilling to disclose it, for example, on grounds of national security. In other cases, belligerent parties which control the territory where alleged violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) have occurred might themselves conceal or manipulate factual information. Sometimes, belligerents deny reporters, judicial investigators, and commissions of inquiry access to areas of hostilities. In still other instances, belligerents undermine and dispute the credibility of fact-finding mechanisms or expert bodies to cultivate factual doubts amongst the public. Furthermore, fake news, and other forms of disinformation produced by readily available technology, can be used to distort facts or construct alleged facts.
Submission Timeline
Interested authors should send an abstract of a maximum of 500 words to the Managing Editor of the Yearbook, James Patrick Sexton ([email protected]), by 13 June 2025. This abstract should include (i) a working title; (ii) your main research questions and hypotheses; (iii) what gap your analysis/argument would fill in the literature; and, (iv) the provisional structure of your reflections. Authors of selected abstracts will be notified by 27 June 2025, and the deadline for the submission of final papers, which should be no longer than 10,000 words (including footnotes), is 24 October 2025. Submitted articles should conform to the YIHL Author’s Guidelines and will be sent for double-blind peer review. The Editorial Board aims to publish Vol. 28 (2025) at the end of 2026. The publisher of the Yearbook is T.M.C. Asser Press, working in partnership with Springer Nature regarding the production and distribution.
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