​San Diego International Law Journal

The San Diego International Law Journal (SDILJ) is an academic journal dedicated to the publication of articles that widen the realm of international and comparative legal scholarship. The SDILJ is committed to publishing articles, essays and book reviews written by academics and legal practitioners from all over the world. The SDILJ is especially devoted to attracting articles written by academics and practitioners who are involved in international and multi-national organizations. In addition, the SDILJ shall act as a forum for academic discourse regarding the pertinent and pressing issues of international and comparative law.

The SDILJ was founded as a forum for such academic discourse in order to promote the study of international and comparative law in both the United States of America and throughout the world.

As a journal that is published in San Diego, an American city that is intimately connected with the growth of international trade and the emergence of a global economy, the SDILJ shall promote studies of the emerging international legal regime. Because, San Diego borders Mexico, along one of the most frequently traveled and traded borders in the world, international law has special poignancy in San Diego. In numerous ways, the international challenges of immigration, investment, trade, criminal, labor and environmental issues in the San Diego-Tijuana region exemplify similar challenges found throughout the world.

The SDILJ shall also provide a rich educational experience for its Editorial Board and its members. Thus, SDILJ encourages students' participation in international legal scholarship by publishing essays, comments and notes written by members and deserving law students from other law schools. The SDILJ shall promote and publish innovative and timely student pieces that expand the understanding of international and comparative law.

The SDILJ shall always remain an academic publication devoted to the highest values of academic discourse, the free discussion of ideas, the importance of critical perspectives and the inclusion of perspectives from different nations, communities, cultures and legal systems.

Current Issue

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Articles in Volume 24
A Path Forward to #NiUnaMenos Based on an Intersectional Analysis of Laws Criminalizing Femicide/Feminicide in Latin America
Melissa Padilla
Deportations for Drug Convictions in the United States and the European Union: Creating a More Compassionate Approach Toward Drug Convictions in the Immigration Law
Megan Smith
End Crime with Harm? Castration for Sexual Offenders in Hong Kong
Max Hua Chen
K-Pop’s Secret Weapon: South Korea’s Criminal Defamation Laws
Rebecca Xu
Long Live Joint Criminal Enterprise: With a Particular Reference to Tadi?’s Interactive Construction Between “the Beast” and Specific Direction
Miguel Ângelo Loureiro Manero de Lemos
Make Shite-Collar Offenders Pay (Additional) Tax and Subject Them to Technological Incarceration Instead of Being a Tax Burden on Society
Mirko Bagaric, Theo Alexander, & Brienna Bagaric
Outdated United States’ Online Copyright Infringement Practices: What We Can Learn From the International Community
Ian Carstens
Poland’s Rule of Law Snowball: The Increasing Severity of the Rift Between Poland the the European Union
Ronan A. Nelson
Star Trek, Star Wars, or Battlestar Galactica—the Occurring Privatization of Space Exploration, and the Need for “Global” Regulations
Marty Levers
Strengthening International Institutions by Enforcing Norms: The Way Forward for Prosecuting Aggression
Dr. Nadia Ahmad
The Right to Vote of Persons With Disabilities and the Difficult Relationship Between the CRPD and the European Court of Human Rights
Francesco Seatzu & Paolo Vargiu
‘I Will Control Your Mind’: The International Regulation of Brain-Hacking
Thibault Moulin