Two major factors brought about the establishment of the Netherlands
Yearbook of International Law in 1970: demand for the publication of
national practice in international law, and the desirability for legal
practitioners, state representatives and international lawyers to have
access to the growing amount of available data, in the form of articles,
notes etc. The documentation section of the NYIL contains an extensive
review of Dutch state practice from the parliamentary year prior to
publication, an account of developments relating to treaties and other
international agreements to which the Netherlands is a party, summaries
of Netherlands judicial decisions involving questions of public
international law (many of which are not published elsewhere), lists of
Dutch publications in the field and extracts from relevant municipal
legislation. Although the NYIL has a distinctive national character, it
is published in English and the editors do not adhere to any
geographical limitations when deciding upon the inclusion of articles.