Publication & Submissions
The International Legal Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed academic journal, produced by the University of the Philippines Institute of International Legal Studies. The Journal produces peer-reviewed scholarly articles on significant developments in various areas of International Law, and related fields.
Editorial Policy
Manuscripts must be original, unpublished academic work, not currently under consideration for publication by other journals.
Opinions published in the Journal are understood to reflect the individual author’s views only. Disclaimers may be added by the Editorial Team, as may be appropriate.
Authors are expected to comply with the Journal’s editorial policy and guidelines. Submissions may be rejected at any stage of the publication process if they deviate from the same policy and guidelines.
Revision and Editing Process
Publication of submissions is not guaranteed, whether solicited or proffered. All submissions shall undergo an initial screening by the editorial team. Once the editorial team conducts its evaluation of a manuscript, a notification of the acceptance, rejection or need for revision of the manuscript is given.
The Journal uses a double-blind anonymous peer review process, with peer reviewers identified based on their expertise.
Based on the advice of the peer reviewer(s), the editorial team can either: reject the submission; request that the author revise and resubmit the manuscript; accept the submission subject to mandatory revisions; or accept the submission subject to minor revisions.
Once updated drafts of submissions accepted subject to revision are received, the editorial team works with the author(s) for final substantive editing, and citation- or fact-checking. The manuscript then undergoes copy editing and type-setting.
How to treat editorial comments
Once the author receives his or her draft article from the editorial team with editing notes and comments, it is important that the author goes through these edits and comments as soon as practicable to send the revised draft back within the specified deadline.
Changes: It is important that all changes to the draft be implemented using the “track changes” function, to enable the editorial team to easily identify edits to the previous version.
Areas of disagreement: Should the author disagree with an edit or a comment and he or she does not wish to implement the change in the revised draft, the author should include a comment bubble giving, in one or two sentences, a brief reason for this disagreement and lack of implementation.