Current Volumes

17th Volume of The Yearbook (2024)

Special Guest Editors:	Ekaterina Zmyvalova, Elena Kavanagh, and Akiho Shibata
Contact:	yearbook.pl2024 [@] gmail.com
Book Review Editor:	Federica Scarpa
Current Status:	Closed the submission; peer-review process　（as of 1 April 2025) Call for submission (deadline 28 February 2025)

16th Volume of The Yearbook (2023)

Special Guest Editors:	Bárður Larsen and Mikael M. Karlsson
Contact:	ypl.chief.editors [@]gmail.com (chief editors)
Book Review Editor:	Federica Scarpa
Current Status:	Final production stage (expected publication date: August 2025)

General Editorial Policy

Editorial Policy for all volumes

The Yearbook of Polar Law is open for submission by any who are interested in polar law and policy. Under the overall authority and responsibility of the Co-Editors-in-Chief, Special Guest Editor(s) and Book Review Editor are designated for each of its volumes. All research articles published in the Yearbook are through submission by the authors (not being invited) with rigorous peer-review according to the Guidelines. The Keynote lectures at the Polar Law Symposium are to be included in the Yearbook as full-fledged research articles, with the same rigorous peer-review. All book reviews published in the Yearbook are being invited by the Book Review Editor without peer-review.

The following is the general editorial policy set by the Co-Editors-in-Chief for all volumes, and the Special Guest Editors of a particular volume will determine other details within this general policy.

Publisher Requirements and Submission Instructions

1. Prepare a Word document of no more than 8,000 words (including footnotes). Template.
2. Authors should write in English only.
3. Use the Chicago Footnotes style. Do not use Endnotes. Click here for detail.
4. The deadline for submission for papers is normally set around mid to end of February following the Polar Law Symposium which is usually held in October to November.
5. Call for Papers will be announced soon after the completion of the Symposium, from the Special Guest Editors and on the official Polar Law Symposium website. In this call, in addition to 1. to 4. above, it will indicate the overall scheduling of the editing process including the expected timeframe of the peer-reviews and of the final production of that Volume; general information on the Yearbook’s open access policy; and contact points of the Special Guest Editors and Book Review Editor.

Information for Guest Editors

Special Guest Editor(s) of each volume of the Yearbook of Polar Law are normally recommended by the local hosts of the Polar Law Symposium and officially designated by the Co-Editors-in-Chief. The Book Review Editor(s) of each volume of the Yearbook are designated by the Co-Editors-in-Chief and notified to the Special Guest Editors.

For more details, please see the "General Policy and Scheduling of the Yearbook of Polar Law Production and Responsibilies of the Special Guest Editors of Each Volume" (under construction).

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