New Issue: Chinese Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 17, no. 4, December 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Rein Müllerson, Human Rights Are Neither Universal Nor Natural
• Yue Zhang, Customary International Law and the Rule Against Taking Cultural Property as Spoils of War
• Special Section on the Animal Science Product, Inc. Case in the US Supreme Court
• Jun Zhao, Notes on Animal Science Products, Inc., et al. v. Hebei Welcome Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. in the US Supreme Court
• Sienho Yee, Binding Deference to a Foreign Government’s Authoritative Interpretation or Characterization of its Laws: Brief for China Chamber of International Commerce as Amicus in Support of Respondents in Animal Science Products in the US Supreme Court

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 56, no. 3, September 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Claus Kreß, Die Aktivierung der Zuständigkeit des Internationalen Strafgerichtshofs für das Verbrechen der Aggression
• Sebastian Rödl, Freiheit als Recht
• Andreas Kulick, Die humanitäre Repressalie – Rechtsbruch zur Rechtsdurchsetzung?
• Johann Laux, A New Type of Evidence? Cyberinvestigations, Social Media, and Online Open Source Video Evidence at the ICC
• Beiträge und Berichte
• Jing Lu, Reflections on the Questions regarding Chagos Archipelago Put to the ICJ

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 9, no. 1, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Law Behind Rule of Law Transfers
• Till Patrik Holterhus, A Theoretical Introduction and Legal Perspective on Rule of Law Transfers
• Andreas L. Paulus & Johann Ruben Leiss, Constitutionalism and the Mechanics of Global Law Transfers
• Till Patrik Holterhus, The Legal Dimensions of Rule of Law Promotion in EU Foreign Policy: EU Treaty Imperatives and Rule of Law Conditionality in the Foreign Trade and Development Nexus
• Floris Tan, The Dawn of Article 18 ECHR: A Safeguard Against European Rule of Law Backsliding?
• Andreas Th. Müller, Promoting the Rule of Law Through the Law of Occupation? An Uneasy Relationship
• Astrid Wiik & Frauke Lachenmann, The Law Behind Rule of Law Promotion in Fragile States: The Case of Afghanistan
• Kei Hannah Brodersen, The Rule of Law à la ICTY: What the ICTY Deemed Just Good Enough and How it Supported the Countries in the Former Yugoslavia to Become Better
• Peter-Tobias Stoll, International Investment Law and the Rule of Law

Conference: A Common European Law on Investment Screening - Foreign Investment in Times of Change

On March 7-8, 2019, Gothenburg University will host a conference on "A Common European Law on Investment Screening - Foreign Investment in Times of Change." The program is here. Here's the idea:

Daimler, the harbour terminal in Zeebrugge, or Saxo Bank are only three recent examples of controversially discussed company takeovers in Europe. The “elephant in the room” is China and its “Belt and Road Initiative”. The political will in Europe is growing to more actively control investments flowing into the EU. The current regulatory initiatives raise several fundamental, constitutional and regulatory issues. Surprisingly, they have not been addressed in any depth so far. The internatonal conference shall take stock of the current rather fragmented regulatory approaches and produce the very first, interdisciplinary grounded, comprehensive appraisal of a future “Common European Law on Investment Screening”. The research conference is addressed to participants from academia as well as to representatives from government, business, and civil society.