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DearReaders,
Te2018volumeofthePolishYearbookofInternationalLawisnowout.Departing
fromourtraditionofpresentingthecontentofeachnewvolume,thisyearwewill
wouldliketosharesomestatisticaldatawithyou.
TeBoardofEditorseventuallyselectedthirteenarticlesforpublicationinthecur-
rentvolume.AllofthemfallwithinthescopeofthecoreinterestsoftheYearbookand
relateeithertopublicinternationallaworEUlaw.Inaddition,thevolumecontains
twobookreviews.
Teselectionprocesswasdifcultaswereceivedsixty-threesubmissionsthisyear
(notincludingsomearticlesthatweresubmittedafterthedeadline).Tiswasaslight
increasefromthepreviousyear,whenwehavereceivedfifty-ninesubmissions.Wecan
observethatoverthelastfiveyearstherehasbeenamodestbutsteadygrowthofinterest
amongscholarsinpublishingwithus.
Amongthosearticlestimelysubmitted,sixpapersweresubsequentlywithdrawnby
theauthors,whileabout10%oftextswererejectedbecausetheirsubjectmatterwasnot
sufcientlyconnectedtopublicorprivateinternationallaworEUlaw(thesenumbers
werequitesimilarinpreviousyears).Onepaperwasrejectedbecauseoftheauthor’s
infringementofpublicationethicsandacademicmalpractice,thedetailsofwhichare
providedonourwebpageinthedocumententitledKInformationforauthors”.
Teforty-onesubmissionsthatpassedtheinitialassessmentbytheBoardofEditors
weresubsequentlyreviewedbyatleasttworeviewers(insomeinstances,whenthe
reviewswerenotconclusiveorsharplydilered,weengagedathirdreviewer).Tis
yearaltogetherforty-sixreviewerswereinvolvedintheprocess,seventeenofthem(i.e.
36.95percentofthewholegroup)havingafliationoutsideofPoland.Tefulllistof
thereviewersisavailableattheendofthevolume.Twenty-sixreviewersreviewedfor
usforthefirsttime,whiletheresthadshorterorlongerexperiencewiththeYearbook.
Inouropiniontheyalldidanexcellentjob,oleringsuggestionstotheauthorsonhow
toimprovetheirworksandallowingustoselectthebestsubmissions.Wewouldlike
totakethisopportunitytosincerelythankallofthemfortheirhardwork,expertise,
andtime.
Inouropinion,thequalityofthetextssubmittedtousthisyearwashigh.Asacon-
sequence,weconsideredforpublicationonlythosesubmissionsthatreceivedatleast
twopositivereviews.
Movingontoanotherissue,thispastyearwasalsosignificantintermsofourinsti-
tutionaldevelopment.Wearecurrentlyworkingonanewwebpagethatwillbemore
interactiveandwillincludemorescientificcontent.Fornow,theonlychangeisanew
address(http://www.pyil.inp.pan.pl/),althoughtheoldonewillstillbeoperationalfor