National and Regional Yearbooks of International Law and Relations: A Brief Survey

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The “national” yearbooks of international law—or, in a few cases, of international relations—are a relatively recent phenomenon in the legal literature. Modeled after their only pre-war ancestor, the British Yearbook of International Law, most of them came into existence during the last 25 years; the Swiss Yearbook, which first appeared in 1944, is the only one other than the British which antedates the end of WW II.