Harvard Research in International Law

American Journal of International Law

AJIL is a leading peer-reviewed journal, published quarterly since 1907. It features articles, editorials, notes, comments, and book reviews by pre-eminent scholars and practitioners from around the world addressing developments in public and private international law. The Journal also contains analyses of decisions by national and international courts and tribunals as well as a section on contemporary U.S. practice in international law. AJIL and AJIL Unbound are indispensable for all professionals working in international law, economics, trade, and foreign affairs.

Harvard Research in International Law (print version)

This is a reprint of the Harvard Research in International Law, originally published in the American Journal of International Law between 1929 and 1939. Hein has a option to purchase this title alone or along with the Contemporary Analysis and Appraisal.

International Law Commission

Manley O. Hudson, who established the Harvard Research in International Law, was the first chairman of The International Law Commission, which was founded in 1947 to research and make recommendations to encourage the development of international law. The Commission utilized the Harvard Research to draft the Vienna Conventions on Diplomatic Relations 1961 and on Consular Relations 1963, and the piracy provisions of the Geneva Convention on the High Seas 1958. 

Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law

It was while compiling the second edition of the Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law that J. Craig Barker and John P. Grant began exploring the topic of the Harvard Research and found that there was a lack of contemporary analysis on this essential publication.