Henckels: Permission to Act: The Legal Character of General and Security Exceptions in International Trade and Investment Law

Caroline Henckels (Monash Univ. - Law) has posted Permission to Act: The Legal Character of General and Security Exceptions in International Trade and Investment Law (International & Comparative Law Quarterly, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

The dyadic rule-exception structure common to many legal systems has posed particular interpretive difficulties in international trade and investment law. Adjudicators have interpreted general and security exceptions in GATT, GATS and cognate provisions of investment treaties in divergent ways, and the analytic character of these provisions is under-theorized in the literature. This article argues that we should understand exceptions from a deontological perspective as permissions that affirm governmental regulatory capacity and thus limit the scope of the commands set out in the treaty. This characterization of exceptions has both symbolic and practical implications, of which this article discusses two: determining the exception’s applicability as a preliminary matter rather than as a defence, which would permit consideration of regulatory purpose at the point of obligation; and whether the applicability of an exception is properly a question of merits or jurisdiction.

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 66, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action five years on: Legal questions and future prospects
• Introduced by Maurizio Antonini & Enrico Milano
• Mirko Sossai, ‘The dynamic of action and reaction’ and the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal
• Tyler Cullis & Shahrzad Noorbaloochi, A U.S. return to the JCPOA: Complications moving forward and the JCPOA’s mechanisms to resolve them

New Addition to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added a lecture to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. It was given by Emanuela-Chiara Gillard on “Tensions between Sanctions, Counter-terrorism Measures and Humanitarian Action.”

New Issue: La Comunità Internazionale

The latest issue of La Comunità Internazionale (Vol. 74, no. 4, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Forum: Contrasto al Terrorismo Internazionale, Con Particolare Riferimento al Fenomeno dei Foreign Fighters
• Franco Frattini, Introduzione
• Alessandro Politi, Il terrorismo della porta accanto
• Germano Dottori, Stati e terrorismo
• Matteo Bressan, L’evoluzione della minaccia terroristica alla luce dell’uccisione di AlBaghdadi
• Claudio Bertolotti, I numeri e la geografia del terrorismo jihadista in Europa
• Chiara Sulmoni, Prospettive europee sulla radicalizzazione. Considerazioni da un tragitto in cinque Paesi
• Alessia Melcangi, Il caos libico e la minaccia jihadista: prospettive e mutamenti
• Michela Mercuri, La Libia: il buco nero nella mappa del terrorismo
• Cinzia Bianco, Visioni, instabilità e lotta armata: l’Arabia Saudita al bivio
• Tiziano Li Piani, Codifica quantitativa dell’input meccanico della minaccia terroristica per soft target in ambienti urbanizzati, basata sull’analisi comportamentale del carrier
• Giuseppe Cusimano, Cyber e terrorismo
• Andrea Manciulli, Il futuro del terrorismo di matrice jihadista. Evoluzione della minaccia, strumenti di contrasto e strategie di prevenzione

New Issue: Journal of International Dispute Settlement

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 11, no. 1, March 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, The Asymmetric Judicial Dialogue Between the ICJ and the IACtHR: An Empirical Analysis
• Sondre Torp Helmersen, The Application of Teachings by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
• Carlotta Ceretelli, Abuse of Process: An Impossible Dialogue Between ICJ and ICSID Tribunals?
• Paula Baldini Miranda da Cruz, Trackers and Trailblazers: Dynamic Interactions and Institutional Design in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Philipp Günther, Groupthink Bias in International Adjudication
• Current Developments
• Aphiwan Natasha King, Press Freedom and Investor–State Dispute Settlement: Past, Present and Future
• Sheng Zhang, China’s International Commercial Court: Background, Obstacles and the Road Ahead

Carrai: The Belt and Road Initiative and Global Governance

Maria Adele Carrai (KU Leuven - Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies) has published The Belt and Road Initiative and Global Governance (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020). Here's the abstract:

This timely book examines the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), assessing its effect on the international economic order and global governance more broadly. Through a variety of qualitative case studies, the book investigates the implementation of the BRI and evaluates its development outcomes both for China and the countries it interacts with under the initiative, along with its international implications.

Rist: What Does the ICJ Decision on The Gambia v. Myanmar Mean?

D. Wes Rist (American Society of International Law) has posted an ASIL Insight on What Does the ICJ Decision on The Gambia v. Myanmar Mean?

New Issue: Legal Issues of Economic Integration

The latest issue of Legal Issues of Economic Integration (Vol. 47, no. 1, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• A Geopolitical Commission, a European Green Deal and Trade
• Weihuan Zhou, In Defence of the WTO: Why Do We Need a Multilateral Trading System?
• Giulia Claudia Leonelli, CETA and the External Autonomy of the EU Legal Order: Risk Regulation as a Test
• Nojeem Amodu, Corporate Social Responsibility and Economic Globalization: Mainstreaming Sustainable Development Goals into the AfCFTA Discourse

New Issue: Transnational Dispute Management

The latest issue of Transnational Dispute Management (2020, no. 2) is out. The table of contents is here.

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 35, no. 1, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: External Aspects of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy
• Richard Barnes, James Harrison, Eva van der Marel & Mihail Vatsov, Introduction: External Aspects of the European Union Common Fisheries Policy
• Arron N. Honniball, What’s in a Duty? EU Identification of Non-cooperating Port States and Their Prescriptive Responses
• Eva Kassoti & Mihail Vatsov, A Missed Opportunity? Unilateral Declarations by the European Union and the European Court of Justice’s Venezuelan Fisheries Judgment
• Anne-Carlijn Prickartz, The European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy, the Right to Self-determination and Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources
• Robert C. Steenkamp, Svalbard’s ‘Snow Crab Row’ as a Challenge to the Common Fisheries Policy of the European Union
• Valentin J. Schatz, The International Legal Framework for Post-Brexit EEZ Fisheries Access between the United Kingdom and the European Union

Call for Submissions: Rosalyn Higgins Prize of The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals

The journal The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals has issued a call for submissions for the 2020 Rosalyn Higgins Prize. Here's the call:

The Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals now invites submissions for the 2020 Rosalyn Higgins Prize

In light of her outstanding and inspiring achievements in the field of international dispute settlement, the Law & Practice of International Courts and Tribunals (LPICT) has named a Prize in honour of H.E. Rosalyn Higgins.

The Rosalyn Higgins Prize is an annual prize which awards EUR 1.000 of Brill book vouchers and a one-year LPICT subscription to the author of the best article on the law and practice of the International Court of Justice, either focusing solely on the ICJ or with the ICJ as one of the dispute settlement mechanisms under consideration. The winning article will also be published in LPICT and made freely available online for ninety days to maximize its dissemination.

Competition for the Prize is open to all: scholars as well as practitioners, junior as well as senior professionals. Submissions will be selected via a double-blind peer review process by a Prize Committee, including both co-Editors-in-Chief.

Exceptionally, two papers of an equally high standard can be selected. The Committee is also able to choose not to award the Prize if in its opinion none of the submitted papers reaches the required standards.

Submissions should be between 6.500 and 8.000 words in length, not yet published or under review elsewhere. Other submission requirements are the same as for regular LPICT submissions (instructions available here).

Submissions now open! Deadline: 30 June 2020

All papers for consideration of the 2020 prize should be sent directly to Freya Baetens (freya.baetens@jus.uio.no) and Régis Bismuth (regis.bismuth@sciencespo.fr), LPICT Co-Editors- in-Chief (with “LPICT Rosalyn Higgins Prize” as email subject).

The prizewinner(s) will be announced in September 2020.

New Issue: African Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 28, no. 1, February 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Alexandra Carleton, Constitutional Incorporation of the (Collective) Freedom to Govern Mineral Wealth: Comparing the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Republic of Zambia
• Yenkong Ngangjoh-Hodu, ‘Regional Trade Courts’ in the Shadow of the WTO Dispute Settlement System: The Paradox of Two Courts
• Samuel Boadi Adarkwah, Counter-Terrorism Framework and Individual Liberties in Ghana
• Sanford U. Mba, Preventive Debt Restructuring and the Nigerian Draft Insolvency Legislation: Lessons from a Comparative Perspective
• Nelson E. Ojukwu-Ogba & Patrick C. Osode, A Critical Assessment of the Enforcement Regime for Combatting Money Laundering in Nigeria
• Kato Gogo Kingston, Concealment of Illegally Obtained Assets in Nigeria: Revisiting the Role of the Churches in Money Laundering
• Chinenyendo Nriezedi-Anejionu, Could the Non-domestication of Nigerian Treaties Affect International Energy Investment Attraction into the Country?

New Issue: Virginia Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Virginia Journal of International Law (Vol. 60, no. 1, Fall 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Paul B. Stephan, One Voice in Foreign Relations and Federal Common Law
• Jessica Laird & John Fabian Witt, Inventing the War Crime: An Internal Theory
• Charlotte Ku, William H. Henning, David P. Stewart, & Paul F. Diehl, Even Some International Law Is Local: Implementation of Treaties Through Subnational Mechanisms
• Jill I. Goldenziel, Checking Rights at the Border: Migrant Detention in International and Comparative Law

Tistounet: The UN Human Rights Council: A Practical Anatomy

Eric Tistounet (Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights) has published The UN Human Rights Council: A Practical Anatomy (Edward Elgar Publishing 2020). Here's the abstract:

Since its establishment the work of the Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has been subject to many interpretations, theories, comments or conclusions. This comprehensive book dissects every aspect of the UNHRC’s work and analyses the efficiency of, and interactions between, its mechanisms. Authored by the first Secretary of the UNHRC, this book provides unique practitioner insights into the complex decision making processes of the Council alongside the core variations from its predecessor.

Call for Papers: Accommodating Multiple Interests at Sea

The Sustainable Ocean Project has issued a call for papers for its final conference, to be held in Utrecht on September 3-4, 2020. The theme is: "Accommodating Multiple Interests at Sea." The call is here.

Heffes: International Human Rights Law and Non-State Armed Groups: The (De)Construction of an International Legal Discourse

Ezequiel Heffes has posted International Human Rights Law and Non-State Armed Groups: The (De)Construction of an International Legal Discourse (in Research Handbook on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Further Reflections and Perspectives, Robert Kolb, Gloria Gaggioli & Pavle Kilibarda eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This chapter explores the way in which the discourse related to the application of international human rights law (IHRL) to non-State armed groups (NSAGs) is being constructed by numerous scholars and institutions. Although it is undisputed that NSAGs have an impact on the civilian population in the various conflict settings to which they are party, the actual reasons why this discourse is being articulated and who is undertaking this task remain insufficiently explored. As international law does not exist in an intellectual vacuum, an examination of these issues may serve to better comprehend the purpose and goals of IHRL in armed conflict as understood by scholars and institutions, together with certain legal interactions that often remain unseen.

New Issue: Human Rights & International Legal Discourse

The latest issue of Human Rights & International Legal Discourse (Vol. 13, no. 2, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• O. Herman, Holding Armed Groups to Account under International Human Rights Law: An Analysis of the Under-Explored Practice of Truth Commissions
• L.R. Glas, The Execution Process of Pilot Judgments before the Committee of Ministers
• S. Skogly & P. Osim, Jurisdiction – A Barrier to Compliance with Extraterritorial Obligations to Protect against Human Rights Abuses by Non-state Actors?
• F. Seatzu, Leaving No One Behind: A Human Rights-Based Approach to the Protection of the Victims of Global Public Health Emergencies

New Issue: Global Trade and Customs Journal

The latest issue of Global Trade and Customs Journal (Vol. 15, no. 2, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Bregt Natens, Sven De Knop, & Arnoud Willems, Effect of and Compliance with Judgments of the Court of Justice of the European Union: The Case of Trade Defence Measures
• Ognjen Alagic, Customs Valuation: A Bosnian and Herzegovinian Perspective
• Sara Armella & Maurizio Conti, Borders and Protectionism: US Trade Policy and Its Impact on law, Economy and International Trade
• Tobias Dolle & Lourdes Medina, The EU’s Request for Arbitration Under the EU-Ukraine Association Agreement
• Jan A. Micallef, EU-ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: Taking Them Forward

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 12, no. 1, March 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Chris Thornhill, Constitutionalism and populism: national political integration and global legal integration
• Nora Stappert, Practice theory and change in international law: theorizing the development of legal meaning through the interpretive practices of international criminal courts
• Simon Frankel Pratt, From norms to normative configurations: a pragmatist and relational approach to theorizing normativity in IR
• David Jason Karp, What is the responsibility to respect human rights? Reconsidering the ‘respect, protect, and fulfill’ framework
• Jack Snyder, Backlash against human rights shaming: emotions in groups
• Marcus Holmes & Nicholas J. Wheeler, Social bonding in diplomacy

Call for Papers: Protecting Common Goods and Values through Domestic Litigation

A call for papers for a roundtable on "Protecting Common Goods and Values through Domestic Litigation" has been issued by the Interest Group on Domestic Law and International Law of the Italian Society of International Law. The workshop will be held at the University of Salento, in Lecce, on June 17, 2020. The call is here.

New Addition to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added a lecture to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. It was given by Chiara Giorgetti on “The Evolving Position of the Individual in International Law.”

Call for Papers: The Multilevel Character of Global Law

A call for papers has been issued for a Ph.D. workshop on "The Multilevel Character of Global Law," to take place April 22, 2020, at the University of Barcelona. The call is here.