Call for Papers: Hague Yearbook of International Law

The Hague Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for papers for its forthcoming 2010 volume. Here's the call:

Call for Papers for 2010 Yearbook

The Hague Yearbook of International Law is an annual peer-reviewed publication that provides a forum for analyzing the most recent trends in international law, which is shaped by the many international institutions that are based in The Hague. Thus, the Hague Yearbook of International Law is a reference tool for tracking the current trends in practice and scholarly discussions in international law broadly understood. Accordingly, the scope of the Hague Yearbook of International Law covers public international law, private international law, international criminal law as well as relevant European law.

The newly established Editorial Board consists of Dr. Nikos Lavranos, LLM (Editor-in-Chief), Dr. Ruth Kok, LLM (Vice-Editor in-Chief) and Dr. Hege Elisabeth Kjos, J.D. (General Editor).

The Editorial Board welcomes both longer in-depth articles (8,000-12,000 words) and shorter notes and commentaries (4,000-7,000 words), which analyze the most recent developments in international law that have a nexus with the international institutions based in The Hague.

The closing date for submission is 1 March 2011.

New Issue: Harvard International Law Journal

The latest issue of the Harvard International Law Journal (Vol. 52, no. 1, Winter 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Anu Bradford & Eric A. Posner, Universal Exceptionalism in International Law
• Pierre-Hugues Verdier, Mutual Recognition in International Finance
• David Schleicher, What if Europe Held an Election and No One Cared?
• Gabriella Blum, On a Differential Law of War
• John Armour, Jack B. Jacobs, & Curtis J. Milhaupt, The Evolution of Hostile Takeover Regimes in Developed and Emerging Markets: An Analytical Framework

New Issue: Journal of International Dispute Settlement

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 2, no. 1, February 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Gilbert Guillaume, The Use of Precedent by International Judges and Arbitrators
• W. Michael Reisman, Soft Law and Law Jobs
• Anastasios Gourgourinis, The Distinction between Interpretation and Application of Norms in International Adjudication
• Thomas Schultz, The Concept of Law in Transnational Arbitral Legal Orders and some of its Consequences
• Sébastien Manciaux, The Representation of States before ICSID Tribunals
• Zachary Douglas, The MFN Clause in Investment Arbitration: Treaty Interpretation Off the Rails
• August Reinisch, How Narrow are Narrow Dispute Settlement Clauses in Investment Treaties?
• Leonila Guglya, The Interplay of International Dispute Resolution Mechanisms: the Softwood Lumber Controversy
• Maud Piers, Consumer Arbitration in the EU: A Forced Marriage with Incompatible Expectations
• Isabelle Van Damme, On ‘Good Faith Use of Dictionary in the Search of Ordinary Meaning under the WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding’—A Reply to Professor Chang-Fa Lo
• Cesare P.R. Romano, A Taxonomy of International Rule of Law Institutions

New Issue: Nordic Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 80, no. 1, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Ulf Linderfalk, International Legal Hierarchy Revisited - The Status of Obligations Erga Omnes
• Inger Österdahl, Challenge or Confirmation? The Role of the Swedish Parliament in the Decision-making on the Use of Force
• Peter Arnt Nielsen, The Hague Judgments Convention

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 48, no. 4, December 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Stefanie Schmahl & Tobias Winkler, Schutz vor Armut in der EMRK?
• Dominik Eisenhut, Dominik Sovereignty, National Security and International Treaty Law: The Standard of Review of International Courts and Tribunals with regard to 'Security Exceptions'
• Beiträge und Berichte
• Bartłomiej Krzan, Frieden und Gerechtigkeit nach der Kampala-Konferenz: Einige Überlegungen zur Rolle des Sicherheitsrats in der Völkerstrafgerichtsbarkeit
• Jenny Döge, Cyber Warfare: Challenges for the Applicability of the Traditional Laws of War Regime

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 13, no. 1, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Douglas Howland, The Wisconsin-Milwaukee Conference on International Law and World Order. Introduction
• Arnulf Becker Lorca, Sovereignty beyond the West: The End of Classical International Law
• Li Chen, Universalism and Equal Sovereignty as Contested Myths of International Law in the Sino-Western Encounter
• Douglas Howland, Contraband and Private Property in the Age of Imperialism
• Caroline Reeves, Sovereignty and the Chinese Red Cross Society: The Differentiated Practice of International Law in Shandong, 1914-1916
• Leonard V. Smith, The Wilsonian Challenge to International Law
• Kevin M. Doak, Beyond International Law: The Theories of World Law in Tanaka Kōtarō and Tsunetō Kyō
• Joachim Schwietzke, Ernest Satow's Guides to Diplomatic Practice. From the First Edition in 1917 to the Sixth Edition (2009)

Heintze & Zwitter: International Law and Humanitarian Assistance: A Crosscut Through Legal Issues Pertaining to Humanitarianism

Hans-Joachim Heintze & Anrej Zwitter have published International Law and Humanitarian Assistance: A Crosscut Through Legal Issues Pertaining to Humanitarianism (Springer 2011). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

It is becoming increasingly apparent that there are major gaps in International Humanitarian Law and Public International Law in the area of humanitarian assistance. In response international organizations such as the UN and the EU are developing their own legal frameworks for humanitarian assistance and the body of customary law and so-called international disaster response law is growing steadily. This however shows that a coherent body of law is far from being a given. The legal reality of international law pertaining to emergency response is rather broadly spread over various international legal fields and related documents, covering situations of armed conflict and natural disasters. This book is one of the first attempts of linking different legal areas in the growing field of what could be called the international law of humanitarian assistance.

New Volume: European Yearbook of International Economic Law

The latest volume of the European Yearbook of International Economic Law (Vol. 2, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Part I Topics
• Special Focus I: The State and the Global Economy
• Karle M. Meessen, Distinguished Essay: Governmental Decision-Making in the World Economy
• Fabian Amternbrink, Central Bank Challenges in the Global Economy
• Ludwig Gramlich, An International Normative Framework for Sovereign Wealth Funds?
• Heike Schweitzer, Sovereign Wealth Funds: Market Investors or “Imperialist Capitalists”? The European Response to Direct Investment by Non-EU State-Controlled Entities
• Rosa M. Lastra, The Role of the IMF as a Global Financial Authority
• Andreas Falke, No Ado About Nothing: Obama’s Trade Policies After 1 Year
• Special Focus II: Climate Change and International Economic Law
• Alexander Proelss & Kerstin Güssow, Carbon Capture and Storage from the Perspective of International Law
• Wolfgang Weiß, Biofuels and WTO Law
• Erich Vranes, Climate Labelling and the WTO: The 2010 EU Ecolabelling Programme as a Test Case Under WTO Law
• Mireille Cossy, Environmental Services and the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): Legal Issues and Negotiating Stakes at the WTO
• Kierstyn Inglis, European Union Competences and Actions in International Environment Law: Recent Developments and Current Challenges
• Part II Regional Integration
• Colin M. Brown, The European Union and Regional Trade Agreements: A Case Study of the EU-Korea FTA
• Tomer Broude, MENA: The Question of Palestinian Observership and Accession to the WTO
• Stephen Clarkson, Integration and Disintegration in North America: The Rise and Fall of International Economic Law in One Region
• Colin McCarthy, African Regional Economic Integration: Is the Paradigm Relevant and Appropriate?
• Félix Peña, Regional Integration in Latin America: Some Lessons of 50 Years of Experience
• Prasit Aekaputra, Report on the ASEAN Economic Cooperation and Integration
• Part III International Economic Institutions
• Claudia Schmucker & Katharina Gnath, From the G8 to the G20: Reforming the Global Economic Governance System
• Edwini Kessie, The Doha Development Agenda at a Crossroads: What Are the Remaining Obstacles to the Conclusion of the Round: Part II?
• Andreas Krallmann, WTO Dispute Settlement – The Establishment of ‘Binding Guidance’ by the Appellate Body in US Stainless Steel and Recent Dispute Settlement Rulings

Jurdi: The International Criminal Court and National Courts: A Contentious Relationship

Nidal Nabil Jurdi (American Univ. of Beirut) has published The International Criminal Court and National Courts: A Contentious Relationship (Ashgate 2011). Here's the abstract:

This book analyzes the position of the ICC in relation to national court systems. The research illustrates that what seemed to be a straight forward relationship between the ICC and national courts under the complementarity mechanism, proves to be much more complex in practice. Using the referrals of Uganda and Darfur, the book demonstrates ways in which it might be possible to prosecute for crimes currently not prosecuted by the ICC and brings to light possible solutions to overcome the gaps in law and practice in the jurisdictional relation between the ICC and national systems. It will be of value to academics, students and policy-makers working in the area of international law, international organizations, and human rights.

Ramji-Nogales: Questioning Hierarchies of Harm: Women, Forced Migration, and International Criminal Law

Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple Univ. - Law) has posted Questioning Hierarchies of Harm: Women, Forced Migration, and International Criminal Law (International Criminal Law Review, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Though international criminal law has made great strides in addressing harm perpetrated against women in wartime, its gendered structure diverts attention away from other significant harms that women endure as a result of armed conflict. In particular, international criminal law’s hierarchy of harm elevates crimes committed as part of a plan or pattern across political groups over equally serious forms of harm perpetrated randomly, often within political groups. Thus the private and opportunistic harms enabled by situations of displacement and perpetrated against female forced migrants do not fall clearly within the framework of international criminal law. This vacuum of accountability extends beyond international criminal law, as female forced migrants cannot rely on their own governments, their host governments, and often even international humanitarian organizations to protect them against opportunistic violence. International criminal law could fill the void only after quite serious reconstruction, namely expansion of its scope and restructuring of its focus. It may be that a structure designed specifically to prevent and account for opportunistic violence against female forced migrants would be better equipped to perform that task. Criminal accountability might be better performed in national legal systems or informal justice systems created within camp environments. There are also solutions other than criminal accountability, such as human rights law, that might be more appropriate in addressing such harms. In the meantime, until a solution is found that places these ‘private’ crimes on equal footing with ‘public’ attacks currently prohibited by international criminal law, the serious and frequent harms suffered by forcibly displaced women will continue to be overlooked, relegated to the bottom of the hierarchy of harm.

Kingsbury & Donaldson: From Bilateralism to Publicness in International Law

Benedict Kingsbury (New York Univ. - Law) & Megan Donaldson (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) have posted From Bilateralism to Publicness in International Law (in Essays in Honour of Bruno Simma, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This chapter, written with much pleasure in Bruno Simma’s honour, seeks to explore the ideas embedded in Simma’s notion of a move toward ‘a true public international law’ or ‘a contemporary international legal order which is strongly influenced by ideas of public law.’ We argue for two distinct but overlapping meanings of ‘public’ in this context. The first is an international law that is ‘inter-public’ law, being made by and for a set of entities (primarily States) that are not merely ‘actors’ (in the jargon of international relations), but public entities operating under public law. The second is a quality of publicness in law that is also becoming part of understandings of international law of the sort Bruno Simma has enunciated. Neither of these ideas - inter-public law and publicness - are commonplace or widely accepted in international law. We argue, however, that they represent important dimensions in current and future international law. We observe some tension between Bruno Simma’s idea of an ‘international community’ based on shared interests and the concepts underlying ‘inter- public law’, and we heretically suggest that the idea of ‘international community’ may become something of a by-way on the path to developing a theoretical basis for the dense and intrusive rules and institutions and governance processes serving multiple interests and constituencies that more and more characterise international law. We argue that it is fundamental for any publicly-oriented approach to international law to be built on an adequately-theorized account of the concept of law and the roles of law.

Simma to Deliver Annual Grotius Lecture

Bruno Simma (Judge, International Court of Justice) will deliver the annual Grotius Lecture of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on March 3, 2011. His subject will be: "Foreign Investment Arbitration: A Place for Human Rights?"

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 15, no. 1, January 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Indigenous Rights in Southern Africa
• Jennifer Hays & Megan Biesele, Introduction: Indigenous rights in southern Africa: international mechanisms and local contexts
• Nigel Crawhall, Africa and the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Sidsel Saugestad, Impact of international mechanisms on indigenous rights in Botswana
• Robert K. Hitchcock, Maria Sapignoli, & Wayne A. Babchuk, What about our rights? Settlements, subsistence and livelihood security among Central Kalahari San and Bakgalagadi
• Renee Sylvain, At the intersections: San women and the rights of indigenous peoples in Africa
• Rodney K. Hopson, Language rights and the San in Namibia: a fragile and ambiguous but necessary proposition
• Jennifer Hays, Educational rights for indigenous communities in Botswana and Namibia

Workshop: Jones

John Jones (Doughty Street Chambers, London) will give a talk today at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law's Friday Lunchtime Lecture series on"War Crimes and Extradition Issues in UK Courts: Recent Developments."

Chesney: Who May Be Killed? Anwar Al-Awlaki as a Case Study in the International Legal Regulation of Lethal Force

Robert Chesney (Univ. of Texas - Law) has posted Who May Be Killed? Anwar Al-Awlaki as a Case Study in the International Legal Regulation of Lethal Force (Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Anwar al-Awlaki is a dual Yemeni-American citizen who has emerged in recent years as a leading English-language proponent of violent jihad, including explicit calls for the indiscriminate murder of Americans. According to the U.S. government, moreover, he also has taken on an operational leadership role with the organization al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), recruiting and directing individuals to participate in specific acts of violence. Does international law permit the U.S. government to kill al-Awlaki in these circumstances?

Part I opens with a discussion of what we know about AQAP, about al-Awlaki himself, and about the U.S. government’s purported decision to place him on a list of individuals who may be targeted with lethal force in certain circumstances. Part II then explores objections to killing al-Awlaki founded in the U.N. Charter’s restraints on the use of force in international affairs. I conclude that a substantial case can be made, at least for now, both that Yemen has consented to the use of such force on its territory and that in any event the conditions associated with the right of self-defense enshrined in Article 51 can be satisfied. Part III then turns to objections rooted in IHL and IHRL, beginning with the question whether an attack on al-Awlaki would fall within IHL’s field of application. I conclude that the threshold of armed conflict has been crossed in two relevant respects. First, it has been crossed in Yemen itself as between AQAP on one hand and the U.S. and Yemeni governments on the other. Second, it has been crossed as well with respect to the United States and the larger al Qaeda network—and not only within the geopolitical borders of Afghanistan. Building from these premises, I then proceed to consider whether al-Awlaki could be targeted consistent with IHL’s principle of distinction. I conclude that he can be if he is in fact an operational leader within AQAP, as this role would render him a functional combatant in an organized armed group.

Should the analysis instead turn on IHRL, however, the central issue becomes the requirement of necessity inherent in IHRL’s protection for the right-to-life, and in particular the notion of temporal necessity. I conclude that this requirement is not an obstacle to attacking al-Awlaki insofar as (i) there is substantial evidence that he is planning terrorist attacks, (ii) there is no plausible opportunity to incapacitate him with non-lethal means, and (iii) there is not good reason to believe that a plausible non-lethal opportunity to incapacitate him will arise before harm to others occurs. A second question then arises, however. Must al-Awlaki be linked to a specific plot to carry out a particular attack, or is it enough that the evidence establishes that he can and will attempt or otherwise be involved in attacks in the future without specificity as to what the particulars of those attacks might be? The former approach has the virtue of clarity, yet could rarely be satisfied given the clandestine nature of terrorism. The latter approach necessarily runs a greater risk of abuse and thus perhaps justifies an especially high evidentiary threshold, but in any event it is a more realistic and more appropriate approach (particularly from the point of view of the potential victims of future terrorist attacks).

Comments and criticisms on this draft paper are welcome.

Hessbrueggern: ECOWAS Court Judgment in Habré v. Senegal Complicates Prosecution in the Name of Africa

Jan Arno Hessbrueggern (Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) has post an ASIL Insight on ECOWAS Court Judgment in Habré v. Senegal Complicates Prosecution in the Name of Africa.

New Issue: Virginia Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Virginia Journal of International Law (Vol. 51, no. 3, Spring 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Daniel Abebe & Eric A. Posner, The Flaws of Foreign Affairs Legalism
• Robert M. Chesney, Iraq and the Military Detention Debate: Firsthand Perspectives from the Other War, 2003–2010
• Ching-Fu Lin, Global Food Safety: Exploring Key Elements for an International Regulatory Strategy

New Volume: African Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the African Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 16, 2008) is out. Contents include:

• Special Theme: International Migration in Africa
• Ibrahim Awad, Introduction: Concepts, Practice and Policies of International Migration in Africa
• Aderanti Adepoju, Formulating Migration Policy at the Regional, Sub-Regional and National Levels in Africa
• Aurelia Wa Kabwe-Segatti, Regional Integration Policy and Migration Reform in SADC Countries: An Institutional Overview of Power Relations
• Thomas Lacroix, Politiques de codéveloppement et le champ associative immigré africain : un panorama européen
• Harouna Mounkaila & Hamidou Issaka Maga, La gestion des migrations internationales au Niger : défis, enjeux et Perspectives
• Simon Bekker, Explaining Violence Against Foreigners and Strangers in Urban South Africa: Outbursts During May and June 2008
• Tarek Badawy, The Protection of Refugees Between Obligations under the United Nations Charter and Specific Treaty Obligations: The Case of Egypt
• Ibrahim Wani, International Migration and Human Rights
• General Articles
• Melissa Khemani, Corruption and the Violation of Human Rights: The Case for Bringing the African Union Convention on Prevention and Combating Corruption Within the Jurisdiction of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• Charles Riziki Majinge, The Doctrine of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources in International Law and its Practice in Developing Countries: The Case of a Mining Sector in Tanzania
• Jackson Nyamuya Maogoto, Yesterday’s Mistakes Still Today’s News: The Persisting Cloud of Humanitarian Violations Over United Nations Peacekeeping: A New Agenda for Accountability
• Salman M. A. Salman, Water Resources in the Sudan North-South Peace Process: Past Experience and Future Trends
• Notes and Comments
• Suzy H. Nikièma, Nature et portée des exceptions relatives au développement durable dans les accords internationaux d’investissement
• Abdoulaye Soma, Sur le principe d’une obligation des Etats africains de se « démocratiser » : éléments de droit constitutionnel et de droit international public
• Kishore Singh, Right to Education and Equality of Opportunity in Education: An Analysis of Constitutional Obligations in African States

Workshop: Reid

Emily Reid (Univ. of Southampton) will give a talk today at the Oxford Public International Law Discussion Group on "WTO Law and Human Rights: Sustainable Development – a Lens through which to Integrate Fragmented Fields."

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 21, no. 4, November 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• JHHW, Editorial: Dispatch from the Euro Titanic: And the Orchestra Played; On Snippets From the Mail Box of the Editor: Poaching Masthead Changes
• Symposium: Revisiting Immunity
• Dapo Akande & Sangeeta Shah, Immunities of State Officials, International Crimes, and Foreign Domestic Courts
• Jasper Finke, Sovereign Immunity: Rule, Comity or Something Else?
• Articles
• Annie Bird, Third State Responsibility for Human Rights Violations
• Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Thomas Jaeger, & Robert Kordic, The Role of Atypical Acts in EU External Trade and Intellectual Property Policy
• Sarah M. H. Nouwen & Wouter G. Werner, Doing Justice to the Political: The International Criminal Court in Uganda and Sudan
• Mehrdad Payandeh, The Concept of International Law in the Jurisprudence of H.L.A. Hart
• Critical Review of International Jurisprudence
• Sujitha Subramanian, EU Obligation to the TRIPS Agreement: EU Microsoft Decision
• Critical Review of International Governance
• Helen Keller, Andreas Fischer, & Daniela Kühne, Debating the Future of the European Court of Human Rights after the Interlaken Conference: Two Innovative Proposals
• Wenhua Shan & Sheng Zhang, The Treaty of Lisbon: Half Way toward a Common Investment Policy
• Review Essays
• Thomas Kleinlein, On Holism, Pluralism, and Democracy: Approaches to Constitutionalism beyond the State
• Kirsten Sellars, Imperfect Justice at Nuremberg and Tokyo

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 14, no. 7, 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Khurshid Iqbal, Re-conceptualising the right to development in Islamic law
• Hatla Thelle, Who infringes their rights? Discrimination of Chinese peasant-workers
• Evelyne Schmid, A few comments on a comment: the UN Human Rights Committee's General Comment No. 32 on Article 14 of the ICCPR and the question of civilians tried by military courts
• Abdulaziz M. Alwasil, Saudi Arabia's engagement in, and interaction with, the UN human rights system: an analytical review
• Linda Briskman, Deborah Zion, & Bebe Loff, Challenge and collusion: health professionals and immigration detention in Australia
• Amar Shah, Human rights and mentally disordered offenders
• Riccardo Baldissone, Human rights: a lingua franca for the multiverse
• Jakob Cornides, Human rights pitted against man (II)-the network is back
• Kay Goodall, Human rights pitted against man (II)-a response

Vale Columbia Center International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series

Here's the schedule for the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment's International Investment Law and Policy Speaker Series for Spring 2011:

• February 7, 2011: Stephen M. Schwebel (formerly, Judge and President, International Court of Justice), The Charter of Economic Rights and Duties of States and Other Obsolescences
• February 21, 2011: Muthucumaraswamy Sornarajah (National Univ. of Singapore - Law), The Old Order Changeth: Envisioning the New Order in International Law on Foreign Investment
• March 7, 2011: Abby Cohen Smutny (White & Case), Getting Fast Relief -- Is It Possible? Provisional Measures in ICSID Arbitration
• March 28, 2011: Thea Lee (AFL-CIO), Rebalancing bilateral investment agreements: the challenges ahead
• April 4, 2011: Federico Ortino (King's College London - Law), The Role of International Investment Tribunals
• April 11, 2011: Manfred Schekulin (OECD Investment Committee), The OECD Guidelines for MNEs Revisited: Will They Make a Difference?

ILA (British Branch) Belfast Seminars Spring 2011

Here's the schedule for the International Law Association (British Branch) Belfast Seminars (Semester 2):

• February 2, 2011: Takis Tridimas (Queen Mary, Univ. of London), The EU and International Law: Uneasy Bedfellows?
• February 16, 2011: Mashood Baderin (SOAS), Religion and Human Rights: Towards a Better Understanding
• March 9, 2011: Robert Cryer (Univ. of Birmingham), The Relationship Between War Crimes and Humanitarian Law: Marriage, Not Unity?

Kingsbury: International Courts: Uneven Judicialization in Global Order

Benedict Kingsbury (New York Univ. - Law) has posted International Courts: Uneven Judicialization in Global Order (in Cambridge Companion to International Law, J. Crawford & M. Koskenniemi eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

‘Law without courts’ seemed to Hugo Grotius an entirely coherent approach to the juridification of international relations. The first edition of his Law of War and Peace (1625) reflects an intense commitment to framing claims and rules for conduct outside the state in terms of legal rights and duties, but not to judicialization, even though arbitration between sovereigns was addressed in earlier works he had read, such as Alberico Gentili’s Law of War (1598). Yet in modern times international judicialization – the creation and use of international courts and tribunals – has been not only a significant component of liberal approaches to international order, but for some thinkers an indispensable concomitant of juridification. Section I of this chapter provides an overview of the waves, and accretion, in the formation of what are now ten basic types of international courts. Section II offers some balance to the tendencies (implicit in the approach taken in Section I) to acclaim each flourishing legal institution as an achievement and to study only what exists, by considering the marked unevenness in the issues, and in the ranges of states, currently subject to juridification through international courts and tribunals. Section III addresses the question whether the density and importance of the judicially-focused juridification that now exists has implications for politics, law, and justice that are truly significant and qualitatively different from what has gone before. This is explored by examining some of the main roles and functions of international courts, considered not simply as a menu but as a complex aggregate. Section IV concludes.

Conference: Justice? Whose Justice? Punishment, Mediation or Reconciliation

SOLON, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, and the Centre for Contemporary British History will host the 2nd Biennial War Crimes Conference, March 3-5, 2011, in London. The conference theme is "Justice? Whose Justice? Punishment, Mediation or Reconciliation." The program is here. Here's the idea:

This conference is an initiative between SOLON, the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and the Centre for Contemporary British History to explore themes surrounding judicial roles and responses to war crimes (broadly construed)– past, present and future – and also responses to such initiatives, from victims/victors, interested agencies and commentators, including the UN, NATO and various local, regional and international NGOs. Papers presented at this conference will consider questions such as whether the history of such prosecutions indicate that they should simply expose/reveal or whether they should always punish; what is the role of mediation in the interests of revelations of ‘truth’, and what impact can strategies for reconciliation have. Developments in areas like forensic anthropology will also be considered, and the issues surrounding how witness testimony should be managed within the legal process. Consideration of the ethical or moral basis for war crimes prosecutions, and the problem of their chronological dimensions provide a focus for other discussions. Speakers and delegates will debate when, if ever, it ceases to be practical or useful, in terms of successful post-conflict reconstruction to pursue war crimes prosecutions? A particular focus will be on the International Criminal Court, where the Court’s actions indicate that it is taking on the role of the conscience of the world. Does the future of war crime prosecutions lie solely, or mainly, with the ICC? Is this acceptable, given the lack of universal global support for the ICC? As this is the second Biennial Conference, we will also be hearing reports from delegates at the first conference of developments with which they have been associated.

Conference: 2011 ILA British Branch Spring Conference (Update)

The International Law Association British Branch's spring 2011 conference, hosted by the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law, will take place on April 27-28, 2011. The pre-conference PhD workshop will now take place on April 26. Registration is open. The draft program is now available.

New Issue: Journal of Conflict Resolution

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution (Vol. 55, no. 1, February 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Susan Olzak, Does Globalization Breed Ethnic Discontent?
• Krista E. Wiegand & Emilia Justyna Powell, Past Experience, Quest for the Best Forum, and Peaceful Attempts to Resolve Territorial Disputes
• Juan Miguel Benito, Pablo Brañas-Garza, Penélope Hernández, & Juan A. Sanchis, Sequential versus Simultaneous Schelling Models: Experimental Evidence
• Orlandrew E. Danzell, Political Parties: When Do They Turn to Terror?
• Jennifer Kavanagh, Selection, Availability, and Opportunity: The Conditional Effect of Poverty on Terrorist Group Participation
• Ravi Bhavnani, Dan Miodownik, & Hyun Jin Choi, Three Two Tango: Territorial Control and Selective Violence in Israel, the West Bank, and Gaza