Polish Yearbook of International Law

Aims & Scope

Polish Yearbook of International Law (PYIL) is a scientific journal established in 1966 published by the Institute of Law Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences and the Committee on Legal Sciences of the Polish Academy of Sciences, owners of the title. The focus of the Yearbook is on public and private international law as well as European law, with a preference for Central Eastern European scholarship and manuscripts which focus on the region. Each volume of the PYIL also includes a selection of texts on the Polish practice in public international law and book reviews. PYIL is published annually, new volumes are available in August each year. Each volume includes 12-16 articles, depending on the number and the quality of the submissions in a particular as well as their lenght. The Polish Yearbook of International Law (PYIL) is one of the few Polish legal journals published in English. Founded in the dark times of communism as an attempt to build intellectual bridges with the West, it went through the difficult period of wild capitalism in the 1990s, characterised by a permanent lack of public funding, only to more recently face the challenges posed by the technological revolution in the area of scientific publishing and the rapidly accelerating process of research quantification. This chapter tells the story of the PYIL. The initial function of the Yearbook was to provide a platform for Polish scholars for dissemination of the results of their research to a wider international audience. It seems that the ‘missionary’ objective of sharing the Polish experiences in the application of international law with the rest of the world was only of a supplementary (or instrumental) character, mainly performed by other PYIL sections. More recently, the PYIL Editorial Board has attempted to redefine the objectives of the Yearbook once again. There seems to be a growing feeling among the Polish (or more generally CEE) scholars that research coming from this part of Europe rem

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Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

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