Professor and Associate Dean Milena Sterio has been asked to contribute an article to the German Yearbook of International Law (GYIL). Established in 1948, the GYIL is a peer-reviewed journal, edited by the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the University of Kiel, the oldest university institute for public international law, founded in 1914. GYIL’s advisory board members include some of the most prominent academics in the field of international law, such as Lori Damrosch (Columbia Law School), James Crawford (Cambridge Law School and judge on the International Court of Justice), Bruno Simma (University of Michigan Law School and former judge on the International Court of Justice), and Christine Chinkin (London School of Economics and University of Michigan Law School).

Professor Sterio will contribute an article for Volume 59 (2016) due to appear in April 2017. The issue’s focus will be on “frozen conflicts” and Professor Sterio’s paper will focus on the on Nagorno-Karabakh region, which is disputed between Azerbaijan and Armenia.  Professor Sterio was a Fulbright Scholar in Azerbaijan in 2013, where she conducted research about the Nagorno-Karabakh region.