TLCP is one of four student-edited journals published by the University of Iowa College of Law.

Founded in 1991, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems represents a departure from the traditional law journal. Each issue is a collaborative effort between the student editorial staff and the University of Iowa College of Law's international and comparative law faculty. TLCP is thus an expression of the International and Comparative Law Program's (ICLP) broader philosophy that views the students and faculty of the College as partners in the academic process, providing enhanced opportunities for faculty-student interaction, intellectual exchange, and practical legal training.

TLCP is also unique in its approach and content. It provides the worldwide international and comparative law communities with innovative matters of interest not commonly found in other law journals and reviews. Mindful that law is quintessentially a collaborative discipline, TLCP calls itself "an interdisciplinary law journal." Each of its issues focuses on a contemporary problem of transnational, or global, significance, typically presenting a multidisciplinary symposium edited by an invited guest editor knowledgeable in the field. Each symposium includes articles written by scholars from a variety of carefully-selected perspectives designed to provide comprehensive, multi-disciplinary coverage of the topical focus.

Thus, after an initial inquiry into the "The United States' Commitment to International Law," past issues have addressed such pressing concerns as global warming, weapons proliferation, global food regimes, and the challenges of privatization in Eastern Europe. TLCP has also provided a forum for such other matters of emerging concern as the roles played by feminist legal theory and indigenous peoples in international and comparative law, the re-alignment of global markets and trade structures, and the preferred restructuring of the United Nations system. Symposia authors have included -- in addition to numerous international and comparative law scholars and practitioners as well as specialists in the natural and social sciences -- prime ministers, ambassadors and other government officials, United Nations and other international civil servants, representatives of non-governmental organizations, and members of international arbitral and judicial tribunals, among others.

In addition to the primary symposia, TLCP frequently publishes a "Living History Interview" with a person of substantial international prominence and renown. Among those interviewed in the past have been Professor Sir Geoffrey W.R. Palmer (former Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Attorney General, Minister of Justice and Minister for the Environment of New Zealand), Nobel Laureate Norman Borlaug, Dr. Mostafa Tolba (former Director-General of the UN Environment Programme in Nairobi), Paul C. Warnke (former Director of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency), and Arthur Dunkel (former Secretary-General of the GATT). Through the informal format of these interviews, TLCP provides the international community with personal insight, opinions, and perspectives not generally found in law reviews.

TLCP features other items as well: traditional notes and comments written by law students concerning adjudicative, diplomatic, legislative, and other developments as well as non-traditional pieces such as analyses of "international incidents" and their impact upon international legal norms.

As a student-edited journal, TLCP offers qualified students at the College of Law a significant opportunity to engage in researching international and comparative law issues and in editing and writing for publication. All TLCP student writers interested in international and comparative law are encouraged to submit articles for publication and may thereby earn academic and writing credit in the College of Law's renown writing program. Members of the TLCP editorial board are chosen from among the student writers.

Additional and updated TLCP information regarding its past and future issues, subscription rates, back-issue and full-set acquisition, submission and editorial requirements, and information for organizations that might wish to co-sponsor symposia is available throughout our Web site. We invite you to browse at your leisure. Should you have any questions or comments, please contact TLCP's editorial staff via email at mailto:tlcp@uiowa.edu