QIL is an open-source peer-reviewed e-journal which aims to foster the debate on questions of public international law by providing a dynamic platform for scholars and practitioners. Founded by a group of Italian scholars, it started in May 2014.
QIL is divided into two sections. “Zoom-in” will focus on recent judicial and diplomatic practice, as well as on other events of interests, mainly with the aim to explore or review the underlying legal issues. The other section, entitled “Zoom-out”, is designed to publish wider debates and symposia on major issues of international law. QIL will publish every two months either a “Zoom-in” or a “Zoom-out”. Contributions may be written in English, French and Italian, though English is preferred.
QIL encourages comments from scholars, students and practitioners on the articles published in the “Zoom-in” and “Zoom-out” sections. Comments which provide a constructive and critical contribution to the analysis of the relevant legal issues will be published alongside the main contributions. Before publication they will undergo an anonymous peer-review process.
All contributions published in “Zoom-in” and “Zoom-out” will be collected in the QIL Journal, a volume in pdf format, which can be freely downloaded from the website.
Managing Editors
Maurizio Arcari , University of Milano-Bicocca (editor-in-chief)
Giulio Bartolini, University of “Roma Tre”
Beatrice Bonafe’, “La Sapienza”, University of Rome
Micaela Frulli, University of Florence
Paolo Palchetti, University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Marco Pertile, University of Trento
Antonello Tancredi, University of Milano-Bicocca
Chiara Vitucci, University of Campania “Luigi Vanvitelli”
Editorial Board
Giovanna Adinolfi, University of Milan
Angelica Bonfanti, University of Milan
Silvia Borelli, University of Bedfordshire
Andrea Caligiuri, University of Macerata
Andrea Carcano, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Federico Casolari, University of Bologna
Emanuele Cimiotta, University of Perugia
Francesca De Vittor, Catholic University of Milan
Gabriele Della Morte, Catholic University of Milan
Serena Forlati, University of Ferrara
Lucas Carlos Lima, Federal University of Minas Gerais
Claudio Matera, University of Twente
Irene Papa, “La Sapienza” University of Rome
Irini Papanicolopulu, University of Milano-Bicocca
Cesare Pitea, University of Parma
Chiara Ragni, University of Milan
Marco Roscini, University of Westminster
Annalisa Savaresi, University of Stirling
Seline Trevisanut, NILOS, University of Utrecht
Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani, International Telematic University Uninettuno, UTIU
Assistant Editors
Alessandro Bufalini, Tuscia University
Martina Buscemi, University of Milan
Elena Carpanelli, University of Parma
Gian Maria Farnelli, University of Bologna
Sondra Faccio, University of Trento
Loris Marotti, University of Naples “Federico II”
Bernardo Mageste Castelar Campos, University of Milano-Bicocca
Jean-Paul Moinet, University of Trento
Francesca Mussi, University of Trento
Giuseppe Puma, LUMSA University, Palermo
Alice Riccardi, University of “Roma Tre”
Paolo Turrini, University of Trento
Niccolò Zugliani, Bocconi University, Milan
Chris Callan (linguistic editor)
Website Designer:
Daniele Palermo (daniele.palermo@gmail.com)



