Submissions

EAFIT Journal of International Law welcomes articles from professors, practitioners, and law students from all around the world. We consider articles related politically or economically with the international law system, as well as seek to disseminate articles of comparative law. Other related topics can be considered by editorial team for its inclusion in the publication.

All material submitted must be original. EJIL does not evaluate papers that are scheduled for publication, or are currently under review elsewhere. A request to submit a contribution to the EJIL is not a guarantee that the contribution will be published.

Articles for EJIL must be submitted via email on a Word document and emailed to: ejil@eafit.edu.co and rtamayo1@eafit.edu.co .

Another option to submit the articles can be founded in the following link: http://publicaciones.eafit.edu.co/index.php/ejil/about/submissions#onlineSubmissions

In addition to the specific criteria related to the title’s form and the citation system that will be detailed right afterward, the general criterion of the form is:

• The article should be definitive, if the author wants to reform it after the paper has been sent, must express his/her intention to remove the article from the editorial process.
• Articles should have a maximum extension of 7000 words, including bibliography.
• All documents must use Times New Roman font (12 points for text and 10 points for footnotes).
• Articles should be text 1.5 spaced.
• All documents must have margins of 2.5 cm.
• Page numbering should be in the bottom right, starting at (1) on the first page.
• Titles should not have any automatic numbering.
• The end of the lines must not have dashes nor enter within the same paragraph.
• In the case of using abbreviations, the first time you must write the complete expression and the abbreviation must appear within parenthesis. Ex.: Free Trade Agreement (FTA onward in the text)
• The article should have in capital letters sustained the abbreviations of maximum three letters. The abbreviations of more than three letters should have only the first letter on capital letter. However, if the abbreviation is hard to read owed to the lack of vowels, it must be written totally on capital letters.
• The expressions written in other languages different to the general text of the document must appear on italics. Ex: …Por esta razón The Taxation Act Estadounidense debe considerarse…

Writing and presentation:

Full manuscript title must have the first letter of each word capitalized; the font must be Times New Roman, 14 points. In the following line with the same font in 12 points must be the title in English. In the next line should appear the name(s) of author(s) -a short biography in the first footnote-, and these names shall read "By:" or "Por:”. Authors should provide (in the first footnote) the highest academic level obtained, their institutional affiliation, country and their e-mail address.

After the previous information, there should be included a 250-words abstract in English and Spanish (by preference each one in one paragraph). Abstract of research and innovation articles must include: Main objective, scope, applied methodology, main results and conclusions. After the abstract, the article should also include 5 “Key words” (in English and Spanish) with the objective of including them into the search criteria of the article in digital systems. The titles: “Resumen”, “Abstract”, “Palabras Clave” y “Key words” must be in italic and bold.

Example 1.

TITLE OF THE ARTICLE.
TÍTULO DEL ARTÍCULO.
By: Name(s) of the Author (s).1

Abstract (A text of 250 words maximum)
Key words: Word 1, Word 2, Word 3, Word 4, Word 5.

Resumen (Texto de máximo 250 palabras)
Palabras Claves: Palabra 1, Palabra 2, Palabra 3, Palabra 4, Palabra 5.

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1 Ph.D in Law, Professor at Universidad EAFIT, Medellín- Colombia. ejil@eafit.edu.co.

Authors are encouraged to remember the importance of establish clearly the internal division of the article and the reasons of that distribution. The internal titles must be numbered manually in order to avoid mistakes in the editorial process, all the titles should be in bold, the title at fist level does not require numbering, lower levels start at 1., and sublevels at 1.1.

Example 2.

Delimitación terminológica. (Title, level 1).

Aspectos referentes a las fuentes del Derecho Internacional. (Title, level 1)

1. Los Tratados internacionales (Title, level 2)

2. La Costumbre Internacional (Title, level 2)

2.1. Los elementos de la Costumbre en el objeto de estudio. (Title, level 3)

Conclusions (Title, level 1)

Bibliography (Title, level 1)

If the article contains photographs, graphics or other images, those should be attached on JPG format. Images must not exceed a resolution of 72 dpi, preferably images that do not exceed 820 pixels wide; this information can be verified by right clicking on the image in the option “Properties”.

Footnotes and reference:

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