International law stands apart from most areas of law in the proliferation of specialty journals, particularly in U.S. law schools. Little is known, however, about what those journals publish and how their content compares to the content of other law journals. Two works in this symposium offer descriptive overviews of content published by journals related to international law.

This Essay analyzes the content published in four of the top-rated international law journals over the last twenty years along multiple dimensions. Using an original data set compiled through three library science databases,1 we hand-coded more than 1,500 articles from four leading international law journals: the American Journal of International Law (AJIL), the European Journal of International Law (EJIL), the Harvard International Law Journal (HILJ), and the Yale Journal of International Law (YJIL).

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