W. Cameron Beard, now an international commercial law litigator in New York, remembers quite well the launch of the Journal of International Law at the University of Connecticut School of Law 25 years ago. Although he won’t admit it, some say it was his brainchild.

“It was sort of a natural occurrence,” recalled Beard. “The law school just moved from West Hartford to the new campus. The whole student body was just excited about the move. A second [law] journal seemed like something the school needed.”