The Cornell International Law Journal is one of the oldest international law journals in the United States

United States

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. It was founded in 1967 by members of the Cornell Society of International Law at Cornell Law School

Cornell Law School

Cornell Law School, located in Ithaca, New York, is a graduate school of Cornell University and one of the five Ivy League law schools. The school confers three law degrees...

. The Journal is published three times a year and hosts a symposium every spring in Ithaca, New York

Ithaca, New York

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Overview

The Journal has published articles and commentaries by scholars including:

• E. Allan Farnsworth
  E. Allan Farnsworth
  E. Allan Farnsworth , was one of the America's most renowned legal scholars on contracts. His writings were standard reference in courtrooms and law schools....
  
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• Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.
  Geoffrey C. Hazard, Jr.
  Geoffrey Cornell Hazard, Jr. is Trustee Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and the Thomas E. Miller Distinguished Professor of Law at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law. He is also Sterling Professor Emeritus of Law at Yale Law...
  
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• Rudolf B. Schlesinger, and
• Roger C. Cramton,

as well as notable politicians such as Senators:

• John F. Kerry,
• George J. Mitchell
  George J. Mitchell
  George John Mitchell, Jr., is the former U.S. Special Envoy for Middle East Peace under the Obama administration. A Democrat, Mitchell was a United States Senator who served as the Senate Majority Leader from 1989 to 1995...
  
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• Orrin G. Hatch;

and other well known people, such as:

• former U.S. Secretary of State James A. Baker III;
• Major General Barry Ashton, Deputy Commander of United Nations forces in Croatia 1993-94;
• the Rt. Hon. Lord Gordon Slynn of the United Kingdom’s High Court of Justice; and
• Judge Johann Kriegler
  Johann Kriegler
  Johann Christiaan Kriegler is a former Constitutional Court and Appeal Court judge from South Africa.-Early life:Born in Pretoria, he matriculated at King Edward Vll School in Johannesburg in 1949. He then attended the South African Military Academy for two years. He studied law at the University...
  
  of the Constitutional Court of South Africa.