Editors’ Introduction: ‘Continuity and Change’

Abstract

The Cambridge Journal of International and Comparative Law (CJICL) was born in Cambridge on 1 August 2011, named by Professor James Crawford SC (now known as ‘The Godfather’) and ‘baptised’ by the Faculty of Law at its Board Meeting. The independent Journal naturally complements the renowned series of Cambridge monographs—currently edited by Professors Crawford and Bell—which were established in 1946 by Professors Lauterpacht, Gutteridge and McNair. Whereas the monographs are edited by accomplished academics in the fields of international and comparative law, the Journal is run by a young, up and coming team of doctoral candidates at the Law Faculty, and builds on the experience of its predecessor, the Cambridge Student Law Review (2003–2011). It is this balance between preserving continuitywith the pastwhile fostering change for the future that the Journal seeks to capture. It focuses on public and private international law, while employing a comparative method to bridge gaps between legal orders and to assess the intersection between international, regional and national legal orders. Our vision is for the Journal to become an open platform for a constructive and critical dialogue between the junior and senior ends of the academic spectrum, as well as between international scholars and practitioners. The authors of our first issue reflect this vision—ranging from an unpublished piece of work by Sir Hersch Lauterpacht (he will therefore have featured prominently in establishing both the monograph and Journal series) to Ms Anna Cowan, who was recently awarded her LL.M. Our second issue is equally balanced: submissions by three eminent judges are published alongside the work of fifteen doctoral and masters’ candidates. The first issue also contains a piece by HE Judge Greenwood CBE QC, who, after sketching a picture of the increase in international tribunals, focuses on some of the challenges of international litigation: work level, diversity, jurisdiction and compliance. Complementing this piece, but from a different