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The Maryland Journal of International Law has a long and prestigious history as a forum for scholarly discourse on a wide range of issues on international and comparative law. Established in 1976 as the International Trade Law Journal, it was known as the Maryland Journal of International Law & Trade from 1984 until 1999. Publication resumed under the current title in 2009.

The Journal presents balanced coverage on a broad range of topics related to international and comparative law and welcomes contributions from experts in the field, including scholars, judges, practitioners, journalists, and politicians. Student-written works are also accepted.

In conjunction with the University of Maryland Carey School of Law’s International and Comparative Law Program, the Journal hosts an annual Symposium during the fall semester of the academic year. Symposium proceedings and related articles are published the following spring. Recent Symposia have addressed an array of topics in international and comparative law, including international arbitration, intervention in international armed conflict, and the extraterritorial reach of U.S. laws.

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Maryland Journal of International Law 50th Anniversary: Alumni Panel, Lecture, Dinner and Symposium

Please join us for this special series of events to celebrate the 50th year of the MJIL.

To attend, please register here:
Maryland Journal of International Law 50th Anniversary Tickets (Eventbrite) .

Thursday, February 12, 2026

4:00 – 5:00 p.m. · Alumni Panel on International Legal Practice (Ceremonial Courtroom)

Co-sponsored by the Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice and International Law Society (ILS)

Join former MJIL editors to hear about their professional and intellectual journeys following law school in different fields of international and comparative law and legal practice.

5:30 – 6:30 p.m. · Investiture Lecture of Peter Danchin as Jacob A. France Professional of International Law (Ceremonial Courtroom)

“The Puzzle of Value Pluralism in International Legal Thought”

Introductory remarks by Professor Richard Boldt, Distinguished University Professor and T. Carroll Brown Professor of Law.

6:30 – 7:15 p.m. · Post-Investiture/Pre-Dinner Reception (Atrium)

7:15 p.m. · MJIL 50th Anniversary Dinner

The first edition of the MJIL was published in the 1975–1976 academic year. This celebratory dinner will recognize the contributions of our faculty and alumni over these past fifty years to the study and practice of international and comparative law and will include a talk by the current editor on the rich history and present work of the journal and ICL program.

Friday, February 13, 2026

2026 MJIL Symposium · Ceremonial Courtroom

“A Half Century of International Law: Critical Reflections, Reimagined Horizons”

This year's MJIL symposium will feature several leading international law scholars from the US and abroad engaging in a series of critical conversations with Maryland faculty doing innovative and important work in different aspects of international, comparative and transnational law. Maryland faculty participating include Professors Rabiat Akande, Peter Danchin, Mark Graber, William Moon, Matiangai Sirleaf and Marley Weiss. All are welcome to attend and participate in any of the sessions.

8:30 – 9:00 a.m. · Continental Breakfast (Atrium)
9:00 – 10:30 a.m. · Panel 1 International Legal Histories
10:45 – 12:15 p.m. · Panel 2 Critical Histories of Human Rights
12:15 – 1:00 p.m. · Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 p.m. · Lunch Gerber Memorial Keynote Lecture by Obiora Okafor
“Between Contextual Peril and Contingent Promise: International Law and the New ‘Cold Peace’ in Our Time”
2:15 – 3:45 p.m. · Panel 3 Comparative Constitutional Democracy in Crisis?
4:00 – 5:30 p.m. · Panel 4 Transnational Law: From Jessup’s Storrs Lectures to Today
5:30 p.m. · Brief Concluding Comments and Thanks