The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (Yearbook, GCYILJ) provides an authoritative, comprehensive, and unique annual review of the most significant legal transformations worldwide, covering a vast range of global legal issues and developments before international courts and tribunals. Its philosophy is rooted in a global perspective, transcending sectoral and spatial confines, and is unprecedented in subject, methodology, and research. Its scope is closely linked to an annual monitoring process that tracks the construction of a global community. This involves examining the implications for law (specifically global constitutional principles), justice, governance, and ethics, which are the "key identifiers" of a legal community.
The 2023 volume marks a decisive stage for the Yearbook, introducing significant refinements to its composition, scope, and format. The revamping includes the establishment of a new editorial board, an increase in the number of international courts and tribunals covered, and increased attention on the role of both "ethics" and "politics" in the global legal system. This has been emphasized by the addition of a subtitle: Global Law, Politics, Ethics, Justice.
The 2023 edition is dedicated to exploring globalization, including threats to the environment and democracy which in turn endanger the stability of the global community, as well as UN and WTO sustainable development reforms and the movement toward a constitutionalization of global health. Other articles address the normative framework of global security governance and hybrid regimes, including the Russia-Ukraine and Israel-Palestine conflicts and relevant international law principles; the legality of the ECOWAS's intervention in Niger; the development of the right to reparations in international law; and the global regulation of hazardous chemical trade, among other subjects.
The Yearbook is ingrained in the analysis of judicial practice. In this volume the coverage of international courts and tribunals has doubled in size (from 10 to 20) to account for the fragmentation of international law and the significance of certain emerging issues. In response to the proliferation of judicial mechanisms and the evolution of international jurisprudence, GCYILJ will now publish "Jurisprudential Surveys" covering a wide range of issues addressed by twice as many international courts, tribunals, and other quasi-jurisdictions. The Yearbook features articles by renowned scholars, judges, and experts worldwide using an interdisciplinary approach that integrates a theoretical lens with practical research methods grounded in jurisprudential data, which is precisely interpreted for the reader. Its aim is to guide the establishment of a more just, responsive, and coherent legal order for the global community.
The Yearbook provides students, scholars, and practitioners alike an informed, constructive debate of fundamental questions in international and global studies facing the emerging global legal system, as well as an indispensable window into recent case law. Readers can anticipate receiving the most recent updates in the emerging global community in terms of international legal theory, digital technologies and approaches, and judicial best practices.
Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Emeritus Professor of International Law, University of Salerno, is internationally renowned as a pioneer of global law and global community. As the architect of the integrative approach to global governance, she has offered creative solutions on the legal aspects of integrated decision-making processes. In her book The Pillars of Global Law (2008) she establishes her vision of global constitutionalism based on the idea of securing globally shared governance in terms of a constitutional democracy, as well as global constitutional principles within the human community as a whole. In addition to her impressive Repertory of Decisions of the International Court of Justice (1947-1992), published in 1995, she is the author or editor of 49 books and numerous academic journal articles. She is a member of the Editorial Board of the International Criminal Law Series and is included among the prominent internationalists who gave significant contributions to the subject in Who's Who in Public International Law. Her proudest accomplishment is having founded, in 2001, The Global Community Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (22 editions so far-Oceana Publications/Oxford University Press), of which she is General Editor. Her influence as regards the formulation and understanding of global law was celebrated in the large Festschrift Global Trends: Law, Policy & Justice: Essays In Honour of Professor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Oxford University Press, 2013.
