[1][2] Established in 2010, it is named after the late European international lawyer Torkel Opsahl (1931-1993).
It is owned by the Centre for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP), an independent international research centre incorporated in Brussels, Belgium,[3] but it has editorial independence.
TOAEP was the first academic e-publisher in international law, publishing both in print and freely online,[5] and the first publisher to be certified by the Digital Public Goods Alliance, along with its full catalogue.
[7] Its publications can also be accessed through the award-winning ICC Legal Tools Database and Lexsitus.
TOAEP's Editor-in-Chief is Morten Bergsmo, and it draws on an international team of editors and editorial assistants, prominently among them the Italian lawyer Antonio Angotti.