The Indonesian Journal of International & Comparative Law · Cianjur, since 2014
Law, beyond the State.
A small journal with a stubborn question: what does international and comparative law look like when it starts from people rather than states?
Begun by the Institute for Migrant Rights in West Java, IJICL publishes work that carries humane values beyond the familiar centres of the field.
Founding vision
Why this journal began
The Journal began in 2014 as an academy-based initiative of the Institute for Migrant Rights in Cianjur, West Java. It started from a doubt about the models that place the State at the centre of international life.
The Journal publishes multidisciplinary work that carries humane values into non-Western societies and extends their protection beyond the conventional idea of citizens’ rights. These questions are often neglected in writing on legal development in the Global South, which tends to be dominated by statist perspectives.
In the spirit of free inquiry, the Journal gathers diverse perspectives from law and the social sciences that contribute to a more humane law, in the region and elsewhere. The need is clearest in the lives of people who move across state boundaries.
The Institute for Migrant Rights
The Institute for Migrant Rights was founded in Cianjur as the first organization of its kind in Indonesia, at a time when the country paid little attention to the rights of migrant workers. The Journal is its programme of legal scholarship.
Current issue
January 2026
- 5–70
Institutional Configurations of Securities Litigation: Beyond Conventional Comparative Analysis
Chengxiao Jiang · Article
- 71–103
National Ideology in International Law: The Case of Indonesia
Nandang Sutrisno & Pranoto Iskandar · Article
- 107–163
Trust Governance: The “No-State” Solution
Sophia Maya-Collins · Feature article
Edward J. Larson, The Common Law of Geoengineering: Building an Effective Governance for Stratospheric Injections, 2 Indon. J. Int’l & Comp. L. 329 (2015).
From the archive
Earlier work
- 01
The Economics of Cultural Property Laws
Adam Wallwork
- 02
Welcome to the New Internet: The Great gTLD Experiment
Edward Nazzaro
- 03
All Bark and No Bite? Rhetoric and Reality in the War on Terror
Roslyn Fuller
- 04
Grand Corruption: Strategies for Preventing International Impunity
Esther Hava
- 05
ASEAN Further Enhances Its Dispute Settlement Mechanism
Edmund Sim
“This project . . . strikes me as important and utterly worthwhile.”
Mattias Kumm, NYU School of Law
Cited by courts
- U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, United States v. Chin Chong
- U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, State of Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh v. Donald J. Trump et al.
Read beyond the academy
- The Los Angeles Times
- Human Rights Watch, World Report
- Studies by UN Special Rapporteurs
- American Bar Association, India Law News
“An essential tool for disseminating Asian scholarship and creating a dialogue between scholars from around the world on issues which are of importance to the region and the planet, such as migration and the environment.”
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We read theoretical, empirical, historical, comparative and interdisciplinary work in any jurisdiction, from first-time authors and established scholars alike. We judge it on originality, soundness and contribution.
- Articles
- Up to 75 letter-sized pages
- Current developments, notes & comments
- Up to 30 letter-sized pages
- Format
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- Citation
- The Bluebook; Chicago Manual of Style for capitalization and titles
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- Cover letter, résumé, and manuscript
Authors
Submit only original work that is not under review elsewhere, cite the sources they draw on, obtain permission for copyrighted material, and disclose any conflict of interest.
Reviewers
Keep manuscripts and their comments confidential, and give clear, constructive reviews on contribution, originality, coherence, clarity and method.
Editors
Judge each paper on its scholarly merit alone, regardless of subject, region, or the author’s sex, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity or nationality, and welcome cogent criticism of published work, with a right of reply.
People
Editorial Board
Founding Editor
Pranoto Iskandar Founding Director, Institute for Migrant Rights
Advisory Board
Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na’im Charles Howard Candler Professor of Law Emeritus, Emory University School of Law / Jagdish Bhagwati University Professor, Columbia University; Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations / Laurence Boisson de Chazournes Professor Emerita, University of Geneva Faculty of Law / Hilary Charlesworth Judge, International Court of Justice / Tom Ginsburg University of Chicago Law School / Mattias Kumm Inge Rennert Professor of Law, NYU School of Law; WZB Berlin and Humboldt University / Bert B. Lockwood, Jr. Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights, University of Cincinnati College of Law / Beth Lyon Clinical Professor of Law and Associate Dean for Experiential Education, Cornell Law School / Frédéric Mégret Hans & Tamar Oppenheimer Chair in Public International Law, McGill University / Muna B. Ndulo William Nelson Cromwell Professor of International & Comparative Law, Cornell Law School / Nicola Piper Professor of International Migration, Queen Mary University of London / Aziz Rana J. Donald Monan, S.J., University Professor of Law and Government, Boston College / Dinah Shelton Manatt/Ahn Professor of International Law Emeritus, George Washington University Law School
Honorary Editorial Board
Zühtü Arslan Former President, Constitutional Court of Türkiye / Ronald C. Brown Professor Emeritus, William S. Richardson School of Law, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa / Diane Desierto Professor of Law and Global Affairs, University of Notre Dame / Ejan Mackaay Professor Emeritus, Université de Montréal / Paul J. Magnarella Professor Emeritus, University of Florida; former Expert-on-Mission, ICTY / Bradford Mank James B. Helmer, Jr. Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law / Philip McConnaughay Dean Emeritus, Peking University School of Transnational Law / André Nollkaemper University Professor of International Law, University of Amsterdam / Ingeborg Schwenzer Professor Emerita, University of Basel / Edmund Sim Partner, Appleton Luff, Singapore / Ana Filipa Vrdoljak UNESCO Chair in International Law and Cultural Heritage, University of Technology Sydney
Review Board
Paul M. Anderson Director, Sports Law Program, Marquette University Law School / Zühtü Arslan Former President, Constitutional Court of Türkiye / Tae-Ung Baik Professor of Law, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa / Christine Bell Emeritus Professor of Constitutional Law, University of Edinburgh / Laurie Berg Associate Professor, University of Technology Sydney / Ian Blackshaw International sports lawyer; Court of Arbitration for Sport / Simon Butt Professor of Indonesian Law, University of Sydney / Sophie Clavier Dean of Graduate Studies, San Francisco State University / Donald L. Horowitz James B. Duke Professor Emeritus of Law and Political Science, Duke University / Faleel Jamaldeen Effat University, Saudi Arabia / Natalie Klein Professor, UNSW Law & Justice / Ejan Mackaay Professor Emeritus, Université de Montréal / Agustín José Menéndez Universidad Complutense de Madrid / Mark Sidel Doyle-Bascom Professor of Law and Public Affairs, University of Wisconsin–Madison / Andy Spalding Professor of Law, University of Richmond / Amanda Whiting Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School / Simon N. M. Young Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Hong Kong
Technical Editorial Board
Christopher Cason Institute for Migrant Rights / Sarah Ingle Executive Assistant Editor, Institute for Migrant Rights / Dan Trevanion Executive Director, Institute for Migrant Rights / Yu-Jhong Huang Research, Institute for Migrant Rights / Saru Arifin Faculty of Law, Universitas Negeri Semarang / Michelle Tjugito Website Manager, Institute for Migrant Rights
Support
Keep it independent
IJICL belongs to no law school. Friends of the IJICL keep it free for authors and open to new voices.
- Annual PrizeRecognizes the most outstanding contribution in each volume.
- Fellowship EndowmentSupports the writing of promising manuscripts for the Journal.
- EndowmentSecures the Journal’s long-term independence.
- Operating FundMeets immediate needs, including the cost of publication.
Cheques payable to the Institute for Migrant Rights, PO Box 267, Cianjur 43213, Indonesia. Note the fund on the cheque.
