Nearly 600 academic journals across the globe are dedicated to the publication of international and comparative law scholarship. But what is known about them, and about their management? This Essay provides a first glimpse into the world of international and comparative law journals, their features, and trends surrounding their rise and their publishing practices. Drawing from an original data set, the Essay begins to answer some long-standing questions about how the opaque world of law review publishing operates.

There are more international law journals than any other type of specialty law journal. They have proliferated throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first. Many are published by major publishing houses such as Cambridge University Press (CUP) and Oxford University Press (OUP). The map of international law journals is so vast that it seems nearly impossible to measure or understand, and to account for the diversity in type, language, and geographic home. The landscape is finite, however, and it has contours that can be identified, as this Essay shows.

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