New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 5, no. 2, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• General Articles
• Alejandro Rodiles, Non-Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council and the Promotion of the International Rule of Law
• Giovanni Boggero, Without (State) Immunity, No (Individual) Responsibility
• International Legislation and Jurisprudence
• Marlitt Brandes, "All’s Well That Ends Well" or "Much Ado About Nothing"?: A Commentary on the Arms Trade Treaty
• Michael E. Kurth, The Lubanga Case of the International Criminal Court: A Critical Analysis of the Trial Chamber’s Findings on Issues of Active Use, Age, and Gravity
• Conceptional Roots and Potentials of International Investment Treaties
• Wolfgang Alschner, Americanization of the BIT Universe: The Influence of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (FCN) Treaties on Modern Investment Treaty Law
• Lars Schönwald, The Possible Future of Promoting and Protecting European Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 63, no. 3, July 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Jonathan Hill, Determining the Seat of an International Arbitration: Party Autonomy and the Interpretation of Arbitration Agreements
• Fernando Lusa Bordin, Reflections of Customary International Law: The Authority of Codification Conventions and ILC Draft Articles in International Law
• Orla Lynskey, Deconstructing Data Protection: The ‘Added-Value’ of a Right to Data Protection in the EU Legal Order
• Kasey L. McCall-Smith, Severing Reservations
• Michael Ramsden, Reviewing the United Kingdom's ICCPR Immigration Reservation in Hong Kong Courts
• Uta Kohl, Corporate Human Rights Accountability: The Objections of Western Governments to the Alien Tort Statute
• Paul David Mora, The Alien Tort Statute After Kiobel: The Possibility for Unlawful Assertions of Universal Civil Jurisdiction Still Remains
• Shorter Articles and Notes
• Lavanya Rajamani, The Warsaw Climate Negotiations: Emerging Understandings and Battle Lines on the Road to the 2015 Climate Agreement
• Fan Yang, Applicable Laws to Arbitration Agreements Under Current Arbitration Law and Practice in Mainland China
• Kristie Thomas, The Product Liability System in China: Recent Changes and Prospects

New Issue: Revista Española de Derecho Internacional

The latest issue of the Revista Española de Derecho Internacional (Vol. 66, no. 1, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Estudios
• Santiago Ripol Carulla, Un nuevo marco de relación entre el Tribunal Constitucional y el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos
• Eduardo Javier Ruiz Vieytez, España y el Convenio marco para la protección de las minorías nacionales: una reflexión crítica
• Jesús Verdú Baeza, La controversia sobre las aguas de Gibraltar: el mito de la costa seca
• Javier Chinchón Alvarez, La competencia ratione temporis del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos sobre la obligación de investigar (art. 2 - Derecho a la vida). Teoría y práctica: de De Becker c. Bélgica a Canales Bermejo c. España
• Notas
• Mireya Castillo Daudí, Los campos de detención de la base naval de Guantánamo: aspectos de Derecho internacional humanitario

Bartels: Social Issues in Regional Trade Agreements: Labour, Environment and Human Rights

Lorand Bartels (Univ. of Cambridge - Law) has posted Social Issues in Regional Trade Agreements: Labour, Environment and Human Rights (in Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements, Simon Lester, Bryan Mercurio & Lorand Bartels eds., 2d ed., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This chapter reviews the several ways that bilateral and regional trade agreements regulate environmental and labour standards and human rights. It divides these into provisions granting the parties rights to adopt protective measures in the form of exceptions and conflicts provisions and provisions imposing on the parties obligations to take positive steps to implement certain norms. The chapter also reviews the extent to which these obligations can be enforced, if at all.

New Issue: Chicago Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chicago Journal of International Law (Vol. 15, no. 1, Summer 2014) is out. Contents include:

• International Law and Economics Conference
• Katerina Linos & Jerome Hsiang, Modeling Domestic Politics in International Law Scholarship
• Daniel Abebe, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Nile: The Economics of International Water Law
• Anu Bradford, How International Institutions Evolve
• Rachel Brewster, The Domestic and International Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
• Adam S. Chilton, The Influence of International Human Rights Agreements on Public Opinion: An Experimental Study
• Tom Ginsburg, Chaining the Dog of War: Comparative Data
• Joel P. Trachtman, The Economic Structure of the Law of International Organizations
• Eric A. Posner & Alan O. Sykes, Voting Rules in International Organizations

Ramji-Nogales: Bespoke Transitional Justice at the International Criminal Court

Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple Univ. - Law) has posted Bespoke Transitional Justice at the International Criminal Court. Here's the abstract:

This chapter grapples with the question of whether the International Criminal Court should be conceptualized as a mechanism of transitional justice. Most schools of thought insist that transitional justice is either an inappropriate or an unrealistic goal for the Court. Some scholars have proposed that the Court might more accurately be theorized as seeking to achieve political goals through “juridified diplomacy”. Others suggest that the Court should speak primarily to a global, rather than local, audience. A third school of thought criticizes international criminal law as insufficiently focused on the preferences of societies affected by mass violence. Going one step further, some theorists suggest that the Court should be set aside in favor of mechanisms that are more responsive to local preferences. Though the incorporation of the International Criminal Court into a “locally owned” transitional justice paradigm faces substantial challenges, this chapter draws on a theory of bespoke transitional justice to suggest ways in which this knotty relationship might be better designed.

New Issue: Rivista di Diritto Internazionale

The latest issue of the Rivista di Diritto Internazionale (Vol. 97, no. 2, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli
• G. Rossolillo, Cooperazione rafforzata e Unione economica e monetaria: modelli di flessibilità a confronto
• F. Bassan, Le operazioni non convenzionali della BCE al vaglio della Corte costituzionale tedesca
• O. Lopes Pegna, Riforma della filiazione e diritto internazionale privato
• Note e Commenti
• C. Contartese, La prassi successiva come metodo per modificare un trattato nella giurisprudenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo
• F. Andreoli, Immunità delle Nazioni Unite e protezione equivalente: l’affare Associazione madri di Srebrenica
• C. Cipolletti, Cittadinanza statale e cittadinanza europea: il caso della legge maltese
• Panorama
• S. Forlati, L’affare del Sequestro di documenti e dati (Timor-Leste c. Australia): fra tutela dell’integrità del processo internazionale e diritto degli Stati alla riservatezza delle comunicazioni
• P. Pustorino, Immunità dello Stato, immunità degli organi e crimine di tortura: la sentenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo nel caso Jones
• F. Palombino, Quali limiti alla regola sull’immunità degli Stati? La parola alla Consulta

Kaye: Archiving Justice: Conceptualizing the Archives of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia

David Kaye (Univ. of California, Irvine - Law) has posted Archiving Justice: Conceptualizing the Archives of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Here's the abstract:

The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will complete its proceedings over the coming years, leaving behind an enormous collection of records. The ICTY archive provides a record of conviction and acquittal, prosecution case and defense response – a vast series of contested facts and arguments. The ICTY winds down with a decidedly mixed reputation, especially among the communities of the Balkans, doing damage to the already-discredited idea of a Tribunal capable of aiding the processes of reconciliation. And yet the UN still speaks of the reconciliatory purposes the ICTY archives may serve. Pursuing reconciliation, however, sets up the archive for failure. It would be better for those establishing the archives to focus on other, attainable goals, taking into account Martha Minow’s (1998) caution against judicial records that merely “speak for themselves”. This essay provides historical context for the development of the ICTY archive, outlining its two decades of work, and emphasizes the political context from and into which the archive will emerge.

Schüttpelz: Witness Preparation in International and Domestic Criminal Proceedings

Kai Oliver Schüttpelz has published Witness Preparation in International and Domestic Criminal Proceedings (Nomos 2014). Here's the abstract:

The study provides a practicable solution to the question whether and how witnesses can be pre-pared for their testimony before the International Criminal Court (ICC). For that purpose, the book highlights and analyses relevant judicial decisions of international tribunals as well as selected domestic decisions, especially from the USA and UK. It establishes an interdisciplinary approach by paying much needed attention to psychological pitfalls that arise from the interrogation setting of witness preparation sessions. Finally, the study concludes with a draft rule for ICC witness prepa-ration. Thus, it is of interest to scholars and practitioners of international criminal law alike.

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 5, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Is there a gap between principles and practices in using the ECHR to set limits to States’ discretion in the management of migration flows?
• Introduced by Francesca De Vittor and Cesare Pitea
• Andrea Saccucci, The protection from removal to unsafe countries under the ECHR: not all that glitters is gold
• Emanuele Nicosia, Massive immigration flows management in Italy between the fight against illegal immigration and human rights protection

New Issue: Nordic Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 32, no. 2, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law - Beyond Conflict of Laws
• Marjan Ajevski, Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law – Beyond Conflict of Laws
• Lucas Lixinski, Comparative International Human Rights Law: An Analysis of the Right to Private and Family Life across Human Rights “Jurisdictions”
• Marjan Ajevski, Freedom of Speech as Related to Journalists in the ECtHR, IACtHR and the Human Rights Committee – a Study of Fragmentation
• Orsolya Salát, Comparative Freedom of Assembly and the Fragmentation of International Human Rights Law
• Svetlana Tyulkina, Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law: Political Parties and Freedom of Association in the Practice of the UN Human Rights Committee, European Court of Human Rights and Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Knut Vollebæk & Ingvill Thorson Plesner, Constitutional Protection of National Minorities' Rights in Norway: Does It Matter?

Blokker: Constituent Instruments - Creating a Genie that May Escape from the Bottle?

Niels Blokker (Leiden Univ. - Law) has posted Constituent Instruments - Creating a Genie that May Escape from the Bottle? (in The Oxford Handbook of International Organizations, Jacob Katz Cogan, Ian Hurd & Ian Johnstone eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This paper presents an analysis of constituent instruments of international organizations. Following an overview of the different names of these instruments, their content and the parties to such instruments, the main part discusses the legal characteristics of constituent instruments and their interpretation. Particular emphasis is put on the creation of a new legal person and constitutional development through 'practice of the organization'.

New Issue: Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme

The latest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme (No. 99, July 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Jean Waline & Jean-Paul Costa, In memoriam – Le Doyen Gérard Cohen-Jonathan (1936-2014)
• Pierre Lambert, Éditorial
• David Szymczak, Le préjudice important… Un critère inquiétant ? - Retour sur les premières années d’application de la nouvelle condition de recevabilité par la Cour de Strasbourg
• Martial Jeugue Doungue, La garantie des droits de la femme par le Protocole de Maputo comme condition du développement durable en Afrique
• Elisabeth Lambert-Abdelgawad, L’exécution des arrêts de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme par le Comité des ministres (2013) : bilan et perspectives d’avenir
• Institut de droit européen des droits de l'homme (I.D.E.D.H.), Christophe Maubernard, Hélène Surrel, Laure Milano, Romain Tinière, & Katarzyna Blay-Grabarczyk, Les juridictions de l’Union européenne et les droits fondamentaux - Chronique de jurisprudence (2013)
• Xavier Delgrange & Mathias El Berhoumi, Pour vivre ensemble, vivons dévisagés : le voile intégral sous le regard des juges constitutionnels belge et français (obs/s. Cons. const. fr., n° 2010-613 DC, 7 octobre 2010; Cour const. b., n° 145/2012, 6 décembre 2012)
• Maïté De Rue, Les peines de perpétuité réelle sont contraires à la dignité humaine : la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme consacre un droit à l’espoir pour tous les condamnés (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt Vinter e.a. c. Royaume-Uni, 9 juillet 2013)
• Damien Scalia, L’application du principe de légalité des peines aux crimes (les plus) graves : l’orthodoxie retrouvée (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt Maktouf et Damjanović c. Bosnie-Herzégovine, 18 juillet 2013; Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt Del Río Prada c. Espagne, 21 octobre 2013)
• Julie Tavernier, La loi interprétative devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme - Une illustration des conséquences des arrêts pilotes dans l’ordre juridique italien (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt M.C. et autres c. Italie, 3 septembre 2013)
• Anne Danis-Fâtome, Le droit des couples à un « engagement public » (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt Vallianatos et autres c. Grèce, 7 novembre 2013)
• Walter Jean-Baptiste, « L’ex-épouse devint, un jour, belle-maman et acquit le droit de le rester » (obs/s. Cass. fr., arrêt n° 1389, 4 décembre 2013)

van den Herik: Peripheral Hegemony in the Quest to Ensure Security Council Accountability for its Individualized UN Sanctions Regimes

Larissa van den Herik (Leiden Univ. - Law) has posted Peripheral Hegemony in the Quest to Ensure Security Council Accountability for its Individualized UN Sanctions Regimes (Journal of Conflict and Security Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

A demand for strengthened Security Council accountability has been put forward quite vigorously in the context of the individualized UN sanctions regimes. Over the years, a great variety of actors have voiced their concerns or outright condemnation of the accountability deficit that exists for UN sanctions regimes which target individuals. This accountability gap was effectively created when the heavily critiqued Security Council policy to impose comprehensive sanctions transmuted into designs of targeted sanctions regimes in the 1990s. The traditional procedures and accountability mechanisms that controlled the comprehensive sanctions against states were overall political and diplomatic in nature and not considered fit for the new sanctions paradigm which had the individual rather than the state as its core focus. The shift to targeted sanctions thus required fresh thinking about and new approaches to Security Council accountability. External actors, including states, and particularly their courts and parliaments, but also regional courts and parliaments, UN human rights bodies and special rapporteurs, scholars and civil society took the lead in exposing the accountability deficit and through concerted efforts they created the impetus for change. The protagonist in this story is beyond any doubt the European Court of Justice (ECJ) with its legendary Kadi-case. In light of the above panorama, this article examines issues of Security Council accountability in relation to individualized UN sanctions regimes. It particularly assesses and appraises the role of external forces in bringing about change within the UN system, with a focus on the ECJ and its Kadi case.

New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 74, no. 2, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• EMRK - GG - Symposium aus Anlass des Erscheinens der 2. Auflage des Konkordanzkommentars
• Heike Krieger, Positive Verpflichtungen unter der EMRK: Unentbehrliches Element einer gemeineuropäischen Grundrechtsdogmatik, leeres Versprechen oder Grenze der Justiziabilität?
• Hans-Joachim Cremer, 'Caroline II - Zwischenschritt auf dem Weg zu einem Kooperationsverhältnis Straßburg - Karlsruhe?: Eine kurze Stellungnahme
• Abhandlungen
• Sarah Schadendorf, Die EU und die menschenrechtlichen Verträge ihrer Mitgliedstaaten: Divergierende Schutzniveaus am Beispiel der CEDAW
• Armin von Bogdandy & Michael Ioannidis, Merkmale, Instrumente und Probleme am Beispiel der Rechtsstaatlichkeit und des neuen Rechtsstaatlichkeitsaufsichtsverfahrens
• Raffaela Kunz, Schweiz - EU: Wohin führt der bilaterale Weg nach der Annahme der Volksinitiative "Gegen Masseneinwanderung"?
• Christian Marxsen, The Crimea crisis: An international law perspective

Lazar: Associative Duties and the Ethics of Killing in War

Seth Lazar (Australian National Univ. - Philosophy) has posted Associative Duties and the Ethics of Killing in War (Journal of Practical Ethics, Vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 3-48, 2013). Here's the abstract:

This paper advances a novel account of part of what justifies killing in war, grounded in the duties we owe to our loved ones to protect them from the severe harms with which war threatens them. It discusses the foundations of associative duties, then identifies the sorts of relationships, and the specific duties that they ground, which can be relevant to the ethics of war. It explains how those associative duties can justify killing in theory — in particular how they can justify overriding the rights to life of some of those who must be killed to win a war. It then shows how these duties can be operationalised in practice: first, showing how soldiers who fight on behalf of their community can act on reasons that apply to the members of that community; second, showing that the argument from associative duties does not prove too much — in particular, that it does not license the intentional killing of noncombatants in war.