Hastings International and Comparative Law Review (HICLR) is one of the oldest international law journals in the United States, and was established in 1976. It is published by law students through the O'Brien Center for Scholarly Publication, the publishing foundation for UC Hastings. HICLR publishes articles on the topics of international, comparative, and foreign law. It also publishes student-written work (termed "notes") on recent developments in international law. The current Editor-in-Chief is Jacklin Lee.
Notable international-legal figures that have published articles in HICLR include: current Legal Adviser of the Department of State, Harold Koh;HeinOnline David Cole, Jules Lobel and Harold Hongju Koh, Interpreting the Alien Tort Statute: Amicus Curiae Memorandum of International Law Scholars and Practitioners in Trajano v. Marcos, Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., Volume 12, Number 1, Fall 1988. former Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence, Jimmy Gurulé;HeinOnline Jimmy Gurulé, Terrorism, Territorial Sovereignty, and the Forcible Apprehension on International Criminals Abroad, Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., Volume 17, Number 3, Spring 1994. founder of the Association of Humanitarian Lawyers, Karen Parker;HeinOnline Karen Parker and Jennifer F. Chew, Compensation for Japan's World War II War-Rape Victims, Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., Volume 17, Number 3, spring 1994. and premier legal scholars Julius StoneHeinOnline Professor Julius Stone, Policy-Oriented World Power Process, Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., Volume 7, Number 2, Winter 1984. and George Bermann.HeinOnline George A. Bermann, Subsidiary and the European Community, Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., Volume 17, Number 1, Fall 1993.
Two distinguished former Faculty Advisors of HICLR are comparative legal scholar, Rudolf Schlesinger and former Judge Advocate General of the United States Army, Major General George S. Prugh.Faculty Advisory Committee, Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., Volume 7, Number 2, Winter 1984 The current HICLR Faculty Advisors are Professors Naomi Roht-Arriaza, Ugo Mattei, Joel Paul, Bill Dodge and Richard Boswell.Faculty Advisory Committee, Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev., Volume 35, Number 2, Summer 2012
The journal currently publishes two issues per year, Winter and Summer. HICLR articles are commonly cited under the abbreviation "Hastings Int'l & Comp. L. Rev." Furthermore, HICLR hosts an annual symposium where a series of experts discuss a pressing issue in international law. Recent topics have included Japanese legal reform and Palestinian access to international courts.UC Hastings Symposium on Japanese Legal Reform
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