New Issue: Revista Española de Derecho Internacional

The latest issue of the Revista Española de Derecho Internacional (Vol. 73, no. 2, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Estudios. Migraciones y asilo: análisis y perspectivas
• Nuria Arenas Hidalgo, El principio de solidaridad y reparto equitativo de la responsabilidad entre Estados en la política europea de asilo: la conformación de la reubicación en un contexto de crisis
• Mª Carmen Chéliz Inglés, El laberinto jurídico de la protección de los menores migrantes abandonados: una aproximación desde el Derecho internacional privado
• Waldimeiry Corrêa da Silva, Movilidad internacional y el mercadeo de la migración segura a través de la teoría crítica de las Relaciones Internacionales
• Eva Díez Peralta, La política convencional de la UE sobre readmisión de inmigrantes irregulares: una cooperación opaca y con implicaciones graves para los derechos humanos
• Teresa Fajardo del Castillo, El derecho humano a abandonar un país, incluido el propio: las excepciones a la regla
• Jorge García Burgos, La cooperación migratoria en la configuración de las relaciones entre España y África Subsahariana
• Víctor Luis Gutiérrez Castillo, Los procesos probatorios de solicitudes de asilo por orientación sexual e identidad de género en Europa: análisis desde la perspectiva de los derechos humanos
• Diana Marín Consarnau, Nuevos y heredados desafíos en el contexto del regreso al país de origen del ciudadano de la Unión y su familia
• Lucas J. Ruiz Díaz, Entre apoyo a la integración y prevención de la radicalización. Una mirada crítica al plan de acción de integración e inclusión de la Unión Europea
• Ana Salinas de Frías, La insuficiente protección jurídica internacional de los migrantes irregulares víctimas de trata
• Beatriz Vázquez Rodríguez, Las obligaciones de los Estados en materia de prevención y protección contra la trata de mujeres con fines de explotación sexual en el contexto migratorio
• Estudios. Miscelánea
• Laura Esperanza Aragonés Molina, La buena administración de justicia en la jurisdicción internacional penal: excepciones a la aplicación estricta de la normativa procesal en materia de recursos
• Mónica Herranz Ballesteros, El Reglamento (UE) 2019/1111 relativo a la competencia, el reconocimiento y la ejecución de resoluciones en materia matrimonial y de responsabilidad parental y sobre la sustracción internacional de menores (versión refundida): principales novedades
• José A. Moreno Rodríguez, La nueva guía de la Organización de Estados Americanos y el derecho aplicable a los contratos internacionales (Parte II)
• Laura Movilla Pateiro, ¿Hacia un cambio de paradigma en el derecho del espacio ultraterrestre?: los Acuerdos Artemisa
• Xavier Pons Rafols, Biología sintética y Derecho internacional: débiles consensos ante desafíos inmensos
• Esteban Vidal Pérez, La construcción de una potencia global: la influencia de la competición geopolítica internacional en la transformación de la esfera doméstica de Estados Unidos

Nagy: Global Values and International Trade Law

Csongor István Nagy (Univ. of Szeged - Law) has published Global Values and International Trade Law (Routledge 2022). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Exploring the relationship and interaction between economic interests and normative non-trade values, this book argues that the emergence and development of non-trade values is based on a complex dialectic interaction between selfish economic interests and normative values, and examines how their structural interdependence has given rise to a remarkable evolution in international trade. Conceiving this relationship as an intricate dialectic one that is neither purely value-driven, nor purely economic-interest-driven, it addresses the emergence, function, and role of non-trade values in international trade with a synthetizing approach and explores the results of their interaction in international economic intercourse. Approaching the non-trade issues of trade in a holistic manner, the book demonstrates that trade can operate smoothly only if it is framed by an architecture of normative value standards and international trade liberalization has reached the level where further development calls for cooperation also in fields that, at first glance, may appear to be non-trade in nature.

Call for Papers: International Economic Law and New Frontiers of Global Security

The ESIL Interest Group on International Economic Law has issued a call for papers for a workshop to take place in advance of the ESIL Research Forum in Glasgow. The theme is: "International Economic Law and New Frontiers of Global Security." The call is here.

Call for Papers: Regulating Global Security: History of an Illusion

The ESIL Interest Group on the History of International Law has issued a call for papers for a workshop to take place in advance of the ESIL Research Forum in Glasgow. The theme is: "Regulating Global Security: History of an Illusion." The call is here.

New Issue: Vereinte Nationen

The latest issue of Vereinte Nationen (Vol. 69, no. 5, 2021). Contents include:

• Schwerpunkt: Zeit für ein besseres Klima
• Jan Burck & Thea Uhlich, Neue Energie für den Klimaschutz
• Drei Fragen an Christiane Textor
• Carl-Friedrich Schleußner, Standpunkt | Die Bedeutung des IPCC-Berichts für die COP-26
• Reiner Klingholz, Immer mehr Menschen wollen immer mehr
• Lisa Reggentin, Klimawandel als Konflikttreiber in Nigeria
• Hermann E. Ott & Lea Main-Klingst, Klagen gegen den Klimawandel
• Im Diskurs
• Imke Steimann, Die Kinder des Islamischen Staates

New Issue: World Politics

The latest issue of World Politics (Vol. 73, no. 4, October 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Alexander de Juan, Felix Haass, & Jan Pierskalla, The Partial Effectiveness of Indoctrination in Autocracies: Evidence from the German Democratic Republic
• Filip Kostelka & André Blais, The Generational and Institutional Sources of the Global Decline in Voter Turnout
• Amy Catalinac & Lucia Motolinia, Geographically Targeted Spending in Mixed-Member Majoritarian Electoral Systems
• Edgar Franco-Vivanco, Justice as Checks and Balances: Indigenous Claims in the Courts of Colonial Mexico
• Sungmin Cho, Why Non-Democracy Engages with Western Democracy-Promotion Programs: The China Model

New Issue: Revista Iberoamericana de Derecho Internacional y de la Integración

The latest issue of the Revista Iberoamericana de Derecho Internacional y de la Integración (no. 15, December 2021) is out. The table of contents is here.

Moynihan: Transboundary Freshwater Ecosystems in International Law: The Role and Impact of the UNECE Environmental Regime

Ruby Moynihan (Univ. College Cork) has published Transboundary Freshwater Ecosystems in International Law: The Role and Impact of the UNECE Environmental Regime (Cambridge Univ. Press 2021). Here's the abstract:

A global water crisis with far-reaching and interconnected environmental, social, health and economic impacts threatens the world. Healthy ecosystems and ecosystem services are degrading, and access to a sustainable water supply is increasingly inequitable both within and between States. This book demonstrates how to overcome the global freshwater ecosystem crisis by matching the scientific recommendations with an international legal framework fit for the task, which re-orientates international water law towards a stronger ecosystem approach that also protects vulnerable societies. It illustrates how to understand the fragmented legally binding and non-binding instruments of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe environmental treaties as one coherent legal regime, which contributes to strengthening general rules and principles of the law concerning transboundary freshwater ecosystems. With the recent global opening of the UNECE regime, this book explores its potential role within the European region, Central Asia, Caucasus, Africa, the Middle East and beyond.

van Doore: Orphanage Trafficking in International Law

Kathryn E. van Doore (Griffith Univ.) has published Orphanage Trafficking in International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2022). Here's the abstract:

Orphanage Trafficking in International Law explores the process of orphanage trafficking as a form of child trafficking in international law, examining the contexts in which it occurs and providing a comprehensive, holistic approach to addressing the issue as a form of trafficking. In doing so, this book establishes the method and process of orphanage trafficking as an issue of international concern. It reconceptualises the activity of orphanage tourism as a demand driver for child trafficking and a form of exploitation, and makes recommendations for how countries where orphanage trafficking occurs, as well as countries that contribute to orphanage trafficking via funding and volunteers, should tackle the issue.

Árnadóttir: Climate Change and Maritime Boundaries: Legal Consequences of Sea Level Rise

Snjólaug Árnadóttir (Reykjavik Univ.) has published Climate Change and Maritime Boundaries: Legal Consequences of Sea Level Rise (Cambridge Univ. Press 2022). Here's the abstract:

Coastal States exercise sovereignty and sovereign rights in maritime zones, measured from their coasts. The limits to these maritime zones are bound to recede as sea levels rise and coastlines are eroded. Furthermore, ocean acidification and ocean warming are increasingly threatening coastal ecosystems, which States are obligated to protect and manage sustainably. These changes, accelerating as the planet heats, prompt an urgent need to clarify and update the international law of maritime zones. This book explains how bilateral maritime boundaries are established, and how coastal instability and vulnerable ecosystems can affect the delimitation process through bilateral negotiations or judicial settlement. Árnadóttir engages with core concepts within public international law to address emerging issues, such as diminishing territory and changing boundaries. She proposes viable ways of addressing future challenges and sets out how fundamental changes to the marine environment can justify termination or revision of settled maritime boundaries and related agreements.

Boer: International Law As We Know It: Cyberwar Discourse and the Construction of Knowledge in International Legal Scholarship

Lianne J. M. Boer (Vrije Universiteit - Law) has published International Law As We Know It: Cyberwar Discourse and the Construction of Knowledge in International Legal Scholarship (Cambridge Univ. Press 2021). Here's the abstract:

International legal scholars tend to think of their work as the interpretation of rules: the application of a law 'out there' to concrete situations. This book takes a different approach to that scholarship: it views doctrine as a socio-linguistic practice. In other words, this book views legal scholars not as law-appliers, but as constructing knowledge within a particular academic discipline. By means of three close-ups of the discourse on cyberwar and international law, this book shows how international legal knowledge is constructed in ways usually overlooked: by means of footnotes, for example, or conference presentations. In so doing, this book aims to present a new way of seeing international legal scholarship: one that pays attention to the mundane parts of international legal texts and provides a different understanding of how international law as we know it comes about.

Huerta-Goldman & Gantz: The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership: Analysis and Commentary

Jorge A. Huerta-Goldman (TILPA) & David A. Gantz (Univ. of Arizona) have published The Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership: Analysis and Commentary (Cambridge Univ. Press 2022). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership among eleven key nations of the Pacific Rim has already expanded trade and economic cooperation among the Parties. It also serves to encourage political cooperation among them and has served as a model for future 'wide and deep' free trade agreements. The chapters of this book will provide readers with a detailed understanding of the CPTPP's coverage, including provisions relating to tariff elimination, customs rules of origin, agriculture, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, telecommunications, intellectual property, investment and investor–state arbitration, financial and other services, government procurement, state-owned enterprises, electronic commerce and digital trade, small and medium-sized enterprises, competition law, labor and environmental protection, dispute settlement, and many others. No international lawyer, economist, trade negotiator, or enterprise can afford not to take advantage of the opportunities for business that the CPTPP offers. This book has been written by CPTPP negotiators, experts, and practitioners.

Jevglevskaja: International Law and Weapons Review: Emerging Military Technology under the Law of Armed Conflict

Natalia Jevglevskaja (Univ. of New South Wales) has published International Law and Weapons Review: Emerging Military Technology under the Law of Armed Conflict (Cambridge Univ. Press 2022). Here's the abstract:

International law requires that, before any new weapon is developed, purchased or modified, the legality of its use must be determined. This book offers the first comprehensive and systemic analysis of the law mandating such assessments – Article 36 of the 1977 Additional Protocol I to the Geneva Conventions. Underpinned by empirical research, the book explores the challenges the weapons review authorities are facing when examining emerging military technology, such as autonomous weapons systems and (autonomous) cyber capabilities. It argues that Article 36 is sufficiently broad to cover a wide range of military systems and offers States the necessary flexibility to adopt a process that best suits their organisational demands. While sending a clear signal that law should not simply follow technological developments, but rather steer them, the provision has its limits, however, which are shaped and defined by the interpretative decisions made by States.

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 87, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• The shadow pandemic: Assessing the impact of COVID-19 on women’s rights
• Introduced by Micaela Frulli
• Enzamaria Tramontana, Women’s rights and gender equality during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Deborah Russo, Gender equality in the context of recovery plans after the Covid-19 pandemic

Gibney, Erdem Türkelli, Krajewski, & Vandenhole: The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations

Mark Gibney (Univ. of North Carolina, Ashville), Gamze Erdem Türkelli (Univ. of Antwerp), Markus Krajewski (Univ. of Erlangen-Nürnberg), & Wouter Vandenhole (Univ. of Antwerp) have published The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations (Routledge 2022). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The Routledge Handbook on Extraterritorial Human Rights Obligations brings international scholarship on transnational human rights obligations into a comprehensive and wide-ranging volume. Each chapter combines a thorough analysis of a particular issue area and provides a forward-looking perspective of how extraterritorial human rights obligations (ETOs) might come to be more fully recognized, outlining shortcomings but also best state practices. It builds insights gained from state practice to identify gaps in the literature and points to future avenues of inquiry. The Handbook is organized into seven thematic parts: conceptualization and theoretical foundations; enforcement; migration and refugee protection; financial assistance and sanctions; finance, investment and trade; peace and security; and environment. Chapters summarize the cutting edge of current knowledge on key topics as leading experts critically reflect on ETOs, and, where appropriate, engage with the Maastricht Principles to critically evaluate their value 10 years after their adoption.

New Issue: Pécs Journal of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Pécs Journal of International and European Law (Vol. 2021, no. 2) is out. Contents include:

• Bence Kis Kelemen, Quo vadis ECtHR? An assessment of Carter v. Russia before the European Court of Human Rights (Editorial comments)
• Brian Drummond, UK Nuclear Deterrence Policy and International Law: Terrorism with Impunity?
• Lilla Ozoráková, The right to a fair trial at international criminal courts and tribunals – Are the standards of international criminal proceedings fair enough?
• Anna Réka Szerencsés, The Protection of Fundamental Rights in the Jurisprudence of the CJEU and the Charter –Twelve Years On
• Valéria Horváth, Haitians in limbo – Legal responses for migration induced by the 2010 Haitian earthquake on the American continent
• Csongor István Nagy, EU Private International Law in Family and Succession Matters: The Hungarian Judicial Practice
• Mirabella Nezdei & Peter H. Koehn, Transnational Mobility and Global Health. Traversing Borders and Boundaries

Palmer, Bikundo, Harris Rimmer, & Clark: Futures of International Criminal Justice

Emma Palmer (Griffith Univ.), Edwin Bikundo (Griffith Univ.), Susan Harris Rimmer (Griffith Univ.), & Martin Clark (Univ. of Tasmania) have published Futures of International Criminal Justice (Routledge 2022). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This collection identifies and discusses problems and opportunities for the theory and practice of international criminal justice. The International Criminal Court and project of prosecuting international atrocity crimes have faced multiple challenges and critiques. In recent times, these have included changes in technology, the conduct of armed conflict, the environment, and geopolitics. The mostly emerging contributors to this collection draw on diverse socio-legal research frameworks to discuss proposals for the futures of international criminal justice. These include addressing accountability gaps and under-examined or emerging areas of criminality at, but also beyond, the International Criminal Court, especially related to technology and the environment. The book discusses the tensions between universalism and localisation, as well as the regionalisation of international criminal justice and how these approaches might adapt to dynamic organisational, political and social structures, at the ICC and beyond.

Tsagourias & Buchan: Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace (2nd ed.)

Nicholas Tsagourias (Univ. of Sheffield - Law) & Russell Buchan (Univ. of Sheffield - Law) have published Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace (2nd ed., Edward Elgar Publishing 2021). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This revised and expanded edition of the Research Handbook on International Law and Cyberspace brings together leading scholars and practitioners to examine how international legal rules, concepts and principles apply to cyberspace and the activities occurring within it. In doing so, contributors highlight the difficulties in applying international law to cyberspace, assess the regulatory efficacy of these rules and, where necessary, suggest adjustments and revisions.

More specifically, contributors explore the application of general concepts and principles to cyberspace such as those of sovereignty, power, norms, non-intervention, jurisdiction, State responsibility, human rights, individual criminal responsibility and international investment law and arbitration. Contributors also examine how international law applies to cyber terrorism, cyber espionage, cyber crime, cyber attacks and cyber war as well as the meaning of cyber operations, cyber deterrence and the ethics of cyber operations. In addition, contributors consider how international and regional institutions such as the United Nations, the European Union, NATO and Asia-Pacific institutions and States such as China and Russia approach cyber security and regulation.

New Issue: International Journal of Refugee Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Vol. 33, no. 2, June 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue on the 70th Anniversary of the 1951 Refugee Convention: Part 1
• Maja Janmyr, The 1951 Refugee Convention and Non-Signatory States: Charting a Research Agenda
• Sébastien Moretti, Southeast Asia and the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Substance without Form?
• Ciara Smyth, The Human Rights Approach to ‘Persecution’ and Its Child Rights Discontents
• Adel-Naim Reyhani, Anomaly upon Anomaly: The 1951 Convention and State Disintegration
• Eric Fripp, Nationality, Protection, and ‘the Country of His Nationality’ as the Country of Reference for the Purposes of Article 1A(2) of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees

Young: Supplying Compliance with Trade Rules: Explaining the EU's Responses to Adverse WTO Rulings

Alasdair R. Young (Georgia Institute of Technology - School of International Affairs) has published Supplying Compliance with Trade Rules: Explaining the EU's Responses to Adverse WTO Rulings (Oxford Univ. Press 2021). Here's the abstract:

Trade agreements have become politicized in part because of public concerns that trade rules constrain regulatory decisions. How much international obligations constrain state behaviour, however, is contested in the International Relations literature. This book seeks to explain whether, why, and how jurisdictions comply with inconvenient international obligations. It does so through detailed process tracing of European Union (EU) policies found incompatible with World Trade Organization (WTO) rules: its ban on hormone-treated beef, its banana trade regime, its moratorium on the approval of genetically modified crops, its sugar export subsidies, and its anti-dumping duties on bed linen from India. It uses the adverse rulings as the 'treatment' in a 'natural experiment', contrasting the policy-relevant politics before and after each ruling. The case studies are supplemented by a qualitative comparative analysis of all EU policies found to contravene WTO rules that had to be changed by the end of 2019. The book contributes to debates on the impact of international institutions, on the effectiveness of the WTO, and on the nature of the EU as an international actor. It argues that the preferences of policy makers (the 'supply' of policy change) matter more than demands from societal actors in determining whether compliance occurs. It also argues that while policy change in response to adverse WTO rulings is the norm (good news for trade), WTO members do resist obligations that would compromise cherished policy objectives (good news for legitimacy). This volume contends that the EU's compliance performance is like that of most WTO members; it is not a unique international actor.

Leinarte: Functional Responsibility of International Organisations: The European Union and International Economic Law

Emilija Leinarte (Univ. of Cambridge) has published Functional Responsibility of International Organisations: The European Union and International Economic Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2021). Here's the abstract:

This book provides a novel approach to the allocation of international responsibility in a multilayered structure like the European Union. Introducing a new concept of functional international responsibility, this study finds that in international economic law the focus of international dispute settlement bodies is not on the responsible party, but on a party best placed to bear responsibility. The book offers a comprehensive analysis of international rules of responsibility and international dispute settlement practice, primarily that of the World Trade Organization and investment arbitration. The study offers a practically applicable approach to questions of international responsibility which will assist international adjudicators, EU and Member States' officials and third country government agents who negotiate economic agreements and are involved in international economic disputes. The book is also relevant to those interested in the governance and accountability questions under the new EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement.

Chiam: International Law in Public Debate

Madelaine Chiam (La Trobe Univ. - Law) has published International Law in Public Debate (Cambridge Univ. Press 2021). Here's the abstract:

Public debates in the language of international law have occurred across the 20th and 21st centuries and have produced a popular form of international law that matters for international practice. This book analyses the people who used international law and how they used it in debates over Australia's participation in the 2003 Iraq War, the Vietnam War and the First World War. It examines texts such as newspapers, parliamentary debates, public protests and other expressions of public opinion. It argues that these interventions produced a form of international law that shares a vocabulary and grammar with the expert forms of that language and distinct competences in order to be persuasive. This longer history also illustrates a move from the use of international legal language as part of collective justifications to the use of international law as an autonomous justification for state action.

Conference: Teaching Migration and Asylum Law and Policy

On January 18, 2022, the University of Innsbruck will host an online conference on "Teaching Migration and Asylum Law and Policy." Details are here.

Discussion Group: Tladi on “The Second Reading of the ILC's Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms”

On January 12, 2022, the Athens Public International Law Center will host the inaugural discussion in its new Discussion Group series. Dire Tladi will speak on “The Second Reading of the ILC's Draft Conclusions on Peremptory Norms.” Details are here.

Crawford: Non-Binding Norms in International Humanitarian Law: Efficacy, Legitimacy, and Legality

Emily Crawford (Univ. of Sydney - Law) has published Non-Binding Norms in International Humanitarian Law: Efficacy, Legitimacy, and Legality (Oxford Univ. Press 2021). Here's the abstract:

This monograph examines and analyses the phenomenon of non-binding instruments (also known as 'soft law') in the law of armed conflict, or international humanitarian law.

In the past 30 years, there have been several non-binding instruments created, designed as either 'best practice' guidelines, or (re)statements of applicable law. These instruments are not treaties, but they nevertheless put themselves forward as authoritative statements of what the law is and, in some instances, what the law should be. Soft law instruments can be dynamic, prompt, and responsive measures to address pressing issues in armed conflicts. By drawing on the skill of a small group of experts, these instruments can be debated and drafted in a timelier manner than if these issues were to be left to the international community of 194 States to resolve. Furthermore, because these instruments do not have to be sent for debate to an international conference of States, it means that the provisions are not subject to the usual revisions, reservations, and dilutions that come with attempting to reach consensus. However, there are potential and actual problems with these instruments and the processes that bring them to fruition, and how they are received in practice by States and other stakeholders.

This volume looks at the benefits and drawbacks for States and non-State actors with regards to soft law, whether they are effective additions to the law of armed conflict, analysing the development through the lens of theories of legitimacy and legality in international law.

Iurlaro: The Invention of Custom: Natural Law and the Law of Nations, ca. 1550-1750

Francesca Iurlaro (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) has published The Invention of Custom: Natural Law and the Law of Nations, ca. 1550-1750 (Oxford Univ. Press 2021). Here's the abstract:

The concept of customary international law, although differently formulated, is already present in early modern European debates on natural law and the law of nations. However, no scholarly monograph has, until now, addressed the relationship between custom and the European natural law and ius gentium tradition. This book tells that neglected story, and offers a solid conceptual framework to contextualize and understand the 'problematic of custom', namely how to identify its normative content. Natural law doctrines, and the different ways in which they help construct human reason, provided custom with such normative content. This normative content consists of a set of fundamental moral values that help identify the status of custom as either a fundamental feature or an original source of ius gentium. This book explores what cultural values and practices facilitated the emergence of custom and rendered it into as a source of the law of nations, and how they did so. Two crucial issues form the core of the book's analysis. Firstly, it qualifies the nature of the interrelation between natural law and ius gentium, explaining why it matters in relation to our understanding of the idea of custom. Second, the book claims that the process of custom formation as a source of law calls into question the role of the authority of history. The interpretation of the past through this approach can thus be described as one of 'invention'.

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 36, no. 1, Winter 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Case Comments
• Mohamed S Abdel Wahab, Itisaluna and Others v Iraq: The OIC Agreement Conundrum: Consent to ICSID Arbitration and the MFN Clauses Saga
• Christina L Beharry, Herzig v Turkmenistan Requests for Security for Costs in ICSID Arbitrations Involving Third-Party Funded Insolvent Claimants
• Tolu Obamuroh, Interocean v Nigeria: Can a Domestic Investment Statute Provide the Basis for Claims under Customary International law?
• Notes
• Alexander Reuter, Taking Investors’ Rights Seriously: The Achmea and CETA Rulings of the European Court of Justice do not Bar Intra-EU Investment Arbitration
• Articles
• Dimitrios Katsikis, ‘Necessity’ due to COVID-19 as a Defence to International Investment Claims
• Menalco J Solis, Good-Faith Rule against Abusing Process by Multiplying Action
• Jack Biggs, The Scope of Investors’ Legitimate Expectations under the FET Standard in the European Renewable Energy Cases
• Despina Christofi, The Relationship between Allegations of Economic Crimes in Foreign Investments and the Adjudicative Power of Investor–State Tribunals
• Chitransh Vijayvergia, Dual Nationality of a Private Investor in Investment Treaty Arbitration: A Potential Barrier to the Exercise of Jurisdiction Ratione Personae?
• Julian Scheu & Petyo Nikolov, Jurisdiction of Tribunals to Settle Intra-EU Investment Treaty Disputes
• Saar A Pauker & Benny Winston, The Concept of (In)admissibility in Investment Treaty Arbitration: Limited Yet Indispensable

New Issue: Journal of International Peacekeeping

The latest issue of the Journal of International Peacekeeping (Vol. 24, nos. 3-4, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Atrocity Prevention: Promise, Policy, and Practice
• Alex J. Bellamy & Ivan Šimonović, Introduction: Towards Evidence Based Atrocity Prevention
• Frank O. Okyere, Central African Republic
• Kwesi Aning, Côte d’Ivoire
• Cristina G. Stefan, Lessons in Atrocity Prevention: A Closer Look at Guinea
• Tim Murithi, Kenya
• Noel M. Morada, Myanmar
• Alex J. Bellamy, Syria
• Jok Madut Jok, South Sudan
• Alex J. Bellamy & Ivan Šimonović, Conclusions: Lessons Learned from Atrocity Prevention

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 23, no. 4, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Raphael Schäfer & Maren Körsmeier, Spotlight Interview 2020: Maria Adele Carrai, The Politics of History in the Late Qing Era: William A. P. Martin and a History of International Law for China (JHIL 2–3/2020)
• Bart Wauters, Isidore of Seville on ius gentium: The View of a Theologian
• Misha Ariana Plagis & Lena Riemer, From Context to Content of Human Rights: The Drafting History of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the Enigma of Article 7
• Wouter De Rycke, Legislating Utopia: Louis Bara (1821–1857) and the Liberal-Scientific Restatement of International Law in the Nineteenth Century Peace Movement

Stoppioni: Le droit non écrit dans le contentieux international économique : Une analyse critique de discours

Edoardo Stoppioni (Université de Strasbourg - Law) has published Le droit non écrit dans le contentieux international économique : Une analyse critique de discours (Brill | Nijhoff 2022). Here's the abstract:

The main ambition of this work is to shed a different light on international economic adjudication, using methods drawn from different social sciences and evolving around the idea of critical discourse analysis. It studies the case law as a discourse, adopting a CLS and Neo-Gramscian approach, to unveil the neoliberal and hegemonic structures of international economic adjudication. Starting from the technical issue of the use of unwritten law, it provides context to understand how judicial power structures have built a certain vision of the global economy, rooted in a neoliberal understanding of the world.

L'objectif principal de ce travail est de porter un regard nouveau sur le contentieux international économique, en utilisant des méthodes issues de différentes sciences sociales et évoluant autour de l'idée d'analyse critique du discours. Étudiant la jurisprudence en tant que discours et adoptant une approche critique et néo-gramscienne, il entend dévoiler les assises néolibérales et hégémoniques de ce contentieux. Partant de la question technique de l'utilisation du droit non écrit, il fournit des éléments de contexte pour comprendre comment les structures du pouvoir judiciaire ont construit une certaine vision de l'économie mondiale, ancrée dans une compréhension néolibérale du monde.

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 102, no. 915, December 2020) is out. The theme is: "Non-State armed groups." Contents include:

• Interview with Attaher Zacka Maïga: Networking Coordinator
• Tilman Rodenhäuser, The legal protection of persons living under the control of non-State armed groups
• Irénée Herbet & Jérôme Drevon, Engaging armed groups at the International Committee of the Red Cross: Challenges, opportunities and COVID-19
• Olivia Herman, Beyond the state of play: Establishing a duty of non-State armed groups to provide reparations
• Luke Moffett, Violence and repair: The practice and challenges of non-State armed groups engaging in reparations
• ICRC Engagement with Non-State Armed Groups: Why, how, for what purpose, and other salient issues
• Jemma Arman, State responsibility for community defence groups gone rogue
• Martha M. Bradley, Additional Protocol II: Elevating the minimum threshold of intensity?
• Cenap Çakmak & Gökhan Güneysu, Exploring foundational convergence between the Islamic law of armed conflict and modern international humanitarian law: Evidence from al-Shaybani's Siyar al-Kabir
• Ana Dols García, Armed groups, IHL and the invisible world: How spiritual beliefs shape warfare
• Lara Hakki, Eric Stover, & Rohini J. Haar, Breaking the silence: Advocacy and accountability for attacks on hospitals in armed conflict
• Henning Lahmann, Protecting the global information space in times of armed conflict
• Yulia Nuzban, “For private or personal use”: The meaning of the special intent requirement in the war crime of pillage under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court
• Yaël Ronen, On prisoners, family life and collective punishment: The Namnam case
• Michael Talhami & Mark Zeitoun, The impact of attacks on urban services II: Reverberating effects of damage to water and wastewater systems on infectious disease

New Issue: Asian Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (Vol. 11, no. 2, July 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Notes and Comments
• Sumedha Choudhury, Contextualising Radhabinod Pal's Dissenting Opinion in Contemporary International Criminal Law
• Amit Kumar, Custom as a Source Under Article 21 of the Rome Statute
• Allison Goh, Sustainable Green Finance towards a Green Belt and Road
• Keer Huang, Adamakopoulos and Others v. Cyprus: “Massive” Problems Concerning a Mass Claims Proceeding in Investment Treaty Arbitration?
• Articles
• Reece Lewis, International Legal Fictions: Lessons from the South China Sea Award
• Alberto Pecoraro, Free Access to and from the Ocean in the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea: The Law of the Sea and the Caspian “Body of Water”
• Mutaz M. Qafisheh & Ihssan Adel Madbouh, Palestine's Accession to Geneva Convention III: Typology of Captives Incarcerated by Israel
• Jose Duke Bagulaya, International Juridical Forms and Legal Subjectivity: A History of the Subject in Southeast Asia from the Anglo-Dutch Treaty of 1824 to the ASEAN Charter
• Ryan Martínez Mitchell, China's Participation in the Second Hague Conference and the Concept of Equal Sovereignty in International Law
• Sophie Capicchiano Young, State Responsibility for COVID-19: Does International Contagion Constitute Transboundary Harm?

Hillebrecht: Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts

Courtney Hillebrecht (Univ. of Nebraska - International Relations) has published Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts (Cambridge Univ. Press 2021). Here's the abstract:

While resistance to international courts is not new, what is new, or at least newly conceptualized, is the politics of backlash against these institutions. Saving the International Justice Regime: Beyond Backlash against International Courts is at the forefront of this new conceptualization of backlash politics. It brings together theories, concepts and methods from the fields of international law, international relations, human rights and political science and case studies from around the globe to pose - and answer - three questions related to backlash against international courts: What is backlash and what forms does it take? Why do states and elites engage in backlash against international human rights and criminal courts? What can stakeholders and supporters of international justice do to meet these contemporary challenges?

New Issue: International Relations

The latest issue of International Relations (Vol. 35, no. 4, December 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Haro L. Karkour, Illiberal and irrational? Trump and the challenge of liberal modernity in US foreign policy
• Murat Ülgül, Faith abroad: how religion shapes Trump administration’s foreign policy
• Anke Schwarzkopf, The EU as a global negotiator? The advancement of the EU’s role in multilateral negotiations at the UN General Assembly
• Roee Kibrik, The state of concept: A new analytical tool for political research
• Max Lesch, Multiplicity, hybridity and normativity: disputes about the UN convention against corruption in Germany
• Steve Wood & Lloyd Cox, Status, imitation, and affective dissonance in international relations

VanderZwaag, Oral, & Stephens: Research Handbook on Ocean Acidification Law and Policy

David L. VanderZwaag (Dalhousie Univ. - Law), Nilüfer Oral (National Univ. of Singapore - Law), & Tim Stephens (Univ. of Sydney - Law) have published Research Handbook on Ocean Acidification Law and Policy (Edward Elgar Publishing 2021). Here's the abstract:

This important Research Handbook provides a guide to navigating the tangled array of laws and policies available to counter the multiple threats of ocean acidification. It investigates the limitations and opportunities for addressing ocean acidification under global governance frameworks, including multilateral environmental agreements, law of the sea and human rights instruments. The book also describes regional and national approaches and challenges in responding to ocean acidification. The special vulnerabilities of the Arctic, Antarctic and South Pacific are highlighted. Limited responses by regional sea programmes and regional fisheries management organizations are summarized. Case studies are provided from Australia, Brazil, China and the United States.

van Logchem: The Rights and Obligations of States in Disputed Maritime Areas

Youri van Logchem (Swansea Univ.) has published The Rights and Obligations of States in Disputed Maritime Areas (Cambridge Univ. Press 2021). Here's the abstract:

Many disputed maritime areas exist around the world. Often, the States concerned have not been able to reach agreement on how to, for example, regulate commercial activities within such areas. Conflict regularly arises between claimant coastal States if one of them acts unilaterally, such as in the South China Sea. This book examines the rights and obligations States have under international law concerning disputed maritime areas, in the first comprehensive treatment of this highly topical and pressing issue. It analyses conventional law, general international law, judicial decisions, State practice, and academic opinions that shine a light on the international legal framework that is applicable in disputed maritime areas. Proposing practical solutions on how to interpret the relevant international law, the book discusses the extent to which it currently provides clear guidance to States, and how international courts and tribunals have dealt with cases related to activities in disputed maritime areas.

Andrew & Bernard: Human Rights Responsibilities in the Digital Age: States, Companies and Individuals

Jonathan Andrew (Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights) & Frédéric Bernard (Univ. of Geneva) have published Human Rights Responsibilities in the Digital Age: States, Companies and Individuals (Hart Publishing 2021). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This book examines the tangled responsibilities of states, companies, and individuals surrounding human rights in the digital age. Digital technologies have a huge impact – for better and worse – on human lives; while they can clearly enhance some human rights, they also facilitate a wide range of violations. States are expected to implement efficient measures against powerful private companies, but, at the same time, they are drawn to technologies that extend their own control over citizens. Tech companies are increasingly asked to prevent violations committed online by their users, yet many of their business models depend on the accumulation and exploitation of users' personal data. While civil society has a crucial part to play in upholding human rights, it is also the case that individuals harm other individuals online. All three stakeholders need to ensure that technology does not provoke the disintegration of human rights.

Lim: The Cambridge Companion to International Arbitration

C.L. Lim (Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong) has published The Cambridge Companion to International Arbitration (Cambridge Univ. Press 2021). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This Cambridge Companion explores the main senses of the term 'international arbitration'; including the arbitration of private commercial disputes, disputes between a State and a foreign investor, disputes between States and also between a State and its parts. It treats these various forms as being inter-related, if not always conceptually, then as a matter of history, rather than as collective victims of imprecise language. The book touches not only on current debates but also more foundational aspects, such as the tension between party autonomy and State authority, and the pacifist roots of modern international arbitration. Thus, it aims to offer a concise survey of the history, the main issues as well as the latest developments in a single, handy volume.

Panosch: Das Menschenrecht auf Wasser im internationalen Investitionsrecht

Lara Maria Panosch has published Das Menschenrecht auf Wasser im internationalen Investitionsrecht (Nomos 2021). Here's the abstract:

Das internationale Investitionsrecht und das Recht der Menschenrechte weisen in der Praxis der Schiedsgerichtsbarkeit derzeit eine noch ungeklärte Beziehung zueinander auf. Inwiefern einem Menschenrecht auf Wasser im Rahmen des Investitionsschutzrechts Rechnung getragen werden kann, hat in der vorliegenden Arbeit eingehende Betrachtung erfahren. Die bei der Untersuchung entwickelten Lösungsmöglichkeiten bieten das Potential – sowohl durch außervertragliche Integration mittels systemischer Auslegung entlang der aufgestellten Guidelines als auch durch vertragliche Einbeziehung explizit formulierter Bausteine zur Unternehmensverantwortung – ein Menschenrecht auf Wasser im Investitionsschiedsverfahren angemessen zu berücksichtigen.

Senghor: Les réponses judiciaires aux crimes internationaux

Mamadou Doudou Senghor has published Les réponses judiciaires aux crimes internationaux (L'Harmattan 2021). Here's the abstract:

La traduction en justice des anciens chefs d'État, présumés auteurs de crimes internationaux, relève d'une véritable gageure. « L'affaire Habré », du nom de l'ancien président de la République du Tchad de 1982 à 1990, en est une parfaite caricature, mettant en scène différents systèmes et mécanismes juridictionnels, tant au niveau interne qu'au niveau international. L'accent est mis dans cette étude sur les questions juridiques qui ont été au coeur : la compétence universelle, l'immunité d'un ancien chef d'État devant les juridictions nationales étrangères, le caractère « self-executing » des conventions internationales, l'africanisation du droit international pénal et la pertinence d'une juridiction ad hoc à caractère international pour juger de faits limités dans le temps et l'espace, à savoir les Chambres africaines extraordinaires au sein des juridictions sénégalaises.

Kamto: Objectivisme et volonté(s)

Maurice Kamto (Université de Yaoundé) has published Objectivisme et volonté(s) (Pedone 2021). Here's the abstract:

Maurice Kamto, universitaire et praticien, réussit avec grand art à mêler un strict positivisme juridique avec une approche critique du droit international qu’on ne saurait étudier comme un univers clos sur lui-même. Sans doute parce qu’il sait que la seconde est vaine sans maîtrise du premier, il part toujours de celui-ci pour, ensuite, exposer sa « doctrine » du droit international. En s’en tenant à l’échantillon des écrits publiés dans ce volume, on notera deux grands axes de réflexion.

D’une part, à partir d’un examen scrupuleux des notions, techniques et mécanismes fondamentaux du droit international, comme l’Etat, le droit des traités, la coutume et sa codification ou encore le contentieux international, Maurice Kamto revisite les notions les plus discutées du droit international que sont le jus cogens, les obligations erga omnes ou encore l’autorité des décisions de la Cour internationale de Justice.

D’autre part, fort de la même méthodologie positiviste, il n’hésite pas à remettre en question certaines idées prétendument fondées sur celle-ci mais en réalité dévoyées, comme le statut juridique des traités signés entre les représentants des puissances coloniales et les chefs africains. On sera également impressionné par les réquisitoires menés contre les principes de souveraineté et d’égalité des Etats qu’il contemple depuis la réalité des faits, en particulier la très grande pauvreté de certains Etats qui ne disposent même pas des outils de base d’une diplomatie internationale. Or, à cette inégalité factuelle, le droit « du » développement et le droit « au » développement n’y ont rien fait en sorte que la mondialisation « pourrait être un terrible malentendu »

Belin, Laurent, & Tournepiche: La conflictualité armée : Approches interdisciplinaires

Jean Belin (Université de Bordeaux), Sébastien-Yves Laurent (Université de Bordeaux), & Anne-Marie Tournepiche (Université de Bordeaux) have published La conflictualité armée : Approches interdisciplinaires (Pedone 2021). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

La conflictualité armée connaît depuis la seconde moitié du XXème siècle des évolutions majeures : diminution considérable des conflits armés classiques entre deux Etats, développement des conflits opposant des Etats à des groupes armés non étatiques, souvent terroristes, investissements des Etats dans de nouvelles technologies de défense qui ouvrent de nouveaux champs de conflictualités…les défis sont nombreux et primordiaux. Les contributeurs de cet ouvrage se sont efforcés de répondre à quelques unes des questions fondamentales posées par les évolutions actuelles de la conflictualité armée. Issus de formations et de disciplines différentes, ils portent un regard scientifique sur les contours de cette notion de conflictualité (définitions) au travers de plusieurs analyses appliquées (guerres civiles, rôle de l’ONU), sans éluder certains enjeux particulièrement prégnants (comme notamment l’accès aux ressources naturelles ou le cyberespace). L’ originalité essentielle de cet ouvrage est de proposer une analyse interdisciplinaire de la conflictualité armée, en mêlant des approches juridiques, économiques, politistes ou encore historiennes, susceptibles d’intéresser tous les acteurs (étudiants, enseignants, praticiens…) concernés par cette approche novatrice de la conflictualité armée.

Demaria: Le lien de causalité et la réparation des dommages en droit international public

Tiphaine Demaria has published Le lien de causalité et la réparation des dommages en droit international public (Pedone 2021). Here's the abstract:

Le fait illicite de l’État – la violation du droit international qui lui est attribuable – engage sa responsabilité internationale. Celle-ci donne naissance à un ensemble de relations juridiques nouvelles. L’une d’entre elles, traditionnelle mais restée primordiale dans le paysage des réclamations internationales, impose à l’État responsable le devoir de réparer intégralement le préjudice causé. Cette obligation, qui prend le plus couramment la forme d’une indemnisation, est conditionnée par l’existence d’un lien de causalité suffisant entre le dommage et le fait générateur. Or, derrière une idée simple, la notion de causalité interroge. En témoigne la pratique des juridictions internationales, qui demeure floue et inconstante, ce qui contribua à la décision de la Commission du droit international, lors de ses travaux de codification sur le sujet ayant abouti en 2001, de ne pas véritablement la définir. Pourtant, au-delà de ces apparentes disparités, il reste possible – et souhaitable, compte tenu de l’enjeu pratique qu’elle présente – d’en préciser le contenu. Tel est l’objet et l’ambition de cette monographie.

Zeidler: Klimahaftungsklagen. Die Internationale Haftung für die Folgen des Klimawandels

Sophie Zeidler has published Klimahaftungsklagen. Die Internationale Haftung für die Folgen des Klimawandels (Duncker & Humblot 2021). Here's the abstract:

Die Autorin beleuchtet die internationale privatrechtliche Haftung für die Folgen des Klimawandels und deren gerichtliche Geltendmachung. Hierbei werden die rechtsordnungsübergreifend auftretenden materiell-rechtlichen Probleme einer privatrechtlichen Klimahaftung, sowie damit zusammenhängende Fragen der internationalen Zuständigkeit unter der Brüssel Ia-Verordnung und des Internationalen Privatrechts unter der Rom II-Verordnung bei Klimahaftungsklagen untersucht. Die Arbeit kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass die privatrechtliche Klimahaftung aufgrund der materiell-rechtlichen Hürden kein erfolgsversprechendes Instrument ist, um der globalen Herausforderung Klimawandel auf rechtlichem Wege zu begegnen. Die Brüssel Ia-Verordnung und die Rom II-Verordnung stellen dagegen flexible Regelungsinstrumente dar, welche auf das neuartige Phänomen der Klimahaftungsklagen angemessen reagieren können.

Eftekhar: The Role of the Domestic Law of the Host State in Determining the Jurisdiction ratione materiae of Investment Treaty Tribunals: The Partial Revival of the Localisation Theory?

Reza Eftekhar has published The Role of the Domestic Law of the Host State in Determining the Jurisdiction ratione materiae of Investment Treaty Tribunals: The Partial Revival of the Localisation Theory? (Brill | Nijhoff 2021). Here's the abstract:

The Role of the Domestic Law of the Host State in Determining the Jurisdiction ratione materiae of Investment Treaty Tribunals: The Partial Revival of the Localisation Theory? focuses on the largely unexplored role of the host state law in determining the jurisdiction ratione materiae of investment treaty tribunals. Given domestic law’s essential role in subject-matter jurisdiction issues, and in the light of the broader function of host state law and host state courts in contemporary investment treaty law, the author argues that the dormant “localisation” theory that was raised and defended by developing countries in the 1960s-1970s in the context of foreign investment contract disputes has now been partially revived in the area of the investment treaty law. This is a significant milestone in the ongoing discussions on the reform of the investment treaty dispute settlement regime.

Pangalangan: Philippine Materials in International Law

Raul C Pangalangan (formerly, Judge, International Criminal Court) has published Philippine Materials in International Law (Brill | Nijhoff 2022). Here's the abstract:

This is a collection of international law materials relating to the Philippines: excerpts of treaties and declarations; international judicial and arbitral decisions; and Philippine constitutional clauses, statutes and Supreme Court decisions. Today new theories abound, calling for comparative perspectives that look at international law through the lens of national and regional practice. This book engages with that challenge at a concrete level, e.g., how Marcos's human rights abuses were litigated abroad but never in Philippine courts, and how victim claims for reparations are, ironically, blocked by the Philippine Government citing the Filipino people’s competing claims over Marcos's ill-gotten wealth. It retells Philippine history using international law, and re-examines international law using the Philippine experience.

New Issue: Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé

The latest issue of the Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé (2021, no. 3) is out. Contents include:

• D. Philippe, Arbitrage, contrats internationaux et imprévision
• J.E. Yayi Lipem, La protection du secret face à la cybercriminalité dans le contexte des lois antérieures aux réseaux électroniques en Afrique francophone
• R. Chouvel, La péréquation fiscale et financière dans les états du centre et de l’est de l’Union européenne

New Issue: Revue québécoise de droit international

The latest issue of the Revue Québécoise de Droit International (Hors-série décembre 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Organisations internationales. Droit et politique de la gouvernance mondiale
• Stéphane Paquin & Kristine Plouffe-Malette, Organisations internationales. Droit et politique de la gouvernance mondiale
• Stéphane Paquin, Les organisations internationales dans la théorie des relations internationales
• Kristine Plouffe-Malette, Le système des Nations Unies : au coeur de la gouvernance mondiale
• Ronald Hatto, Le Conseil de sécurité et les opérations de maintien de la paix
• Kristine Plouffe-Malette, Les droits de la personne : organisations internationales et régionales
• François Roch, Des objectifs du millénaire pour le développement à l’agenda 2030
• Renée-Claude Drouin, L’Organisation internationale du travail
• Linda Rey, L’Organisation mondiale de la santé a 70 ans : de la santé internationale à la globalisation de la santé
• Véronique Guèvremont, L’UNESCO et la diversité culturelle
• Isabelle DuPlessis, Les droits des femmes et les Nations Unies : d’hier à aujourd’hui
• Idil Atak, Les Nations Unies et les enjeux de la migration
• Annie Chaloux & Philippe Simard, La gouvernance environnementale mondiale : évolution et enjeux
• Azé Kerté Amoulgam & Fannie Lafontaine, Le système international pénal
• Julia Grignon, Le Comité international de la Croix-Rouge
• Olivier Schmitt, L’Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique Nord
• David Pavot, Le Fonds monétaire international
• Geneviève DuFour, L’Accord général sur les tarifs douaniers et le commerce et l’Organisation mondiale du commerce
• Christian Deblock, Les nouveaux accords commerciaux régionaux
• Richard Ouellet & Jade-Élie Savoie, L’ACÉUM: le nouveau cadre juridique du libre-échange en Amérique du Nord
• Michèle Rioux & Olivier Dagenais, Le rôle des organisations internationales dans la gouvernance d’Internet et des secteurs numériques

New Issue: Cambridge International Law Journal

The latest issue of the Cambridge International Law Journal (Vol. 10, no. 2, December 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Indigenous peoples and identity
• Simon Chesterman, Weapons of mass disruption: artificial intelligence and international law*
• Mary Crock & Zoe Nutter, Global human capital or cash cows? Redressing the uncertain status of internationally mobile students under international law*
• Michael A Greenop, The International Law Commission’s Draft Articles on Transboundary Aquifers: striking the appropriate balance between sovereignty and international cooperation
• Gabriela Argüello, The International Maritime Organization and regime interaction: cooperation or hegemony?
• Tonny Raymond Kirabira, NGO influence in global governance: achieving transitional justice in Uganda and beyond

New Issue: International Organizations Law Review

The latest issue of the International Organizations Law Review (Vol. 18, no. 3, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: COVID-19 and International Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities from the Perspective of Good Governance and the Rule of Law
• Julinda Beqiraj & Francesca Ippolito, COVID-19 and International Organizations: Challenges and Opportunities from the Perspective of Good Governance and the Rule of Law: Introduction to the Forum
• Gian Luca Burci & Jennifer Hasselgård-Rowe, Through the Rule of Law Looking Glass: The World Health Organization’s Role in Health Emergencies and Its Response to COVID-19
• Gabrielle Marceau & Shivani Garg, The Role of the WTO in the Global Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Anne Trebilcock, Governance Challenges and Opportunities for the International Labour Organization in the Wake of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Christiane Ahlborn, The Rule of Law and Good Governance at the United Nations during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Francesco Seatzu, On the Legitimacy and Effectivity of the World Bank and Its Pandenic Emergency Financing Facility (‘PEF’) at the Time of the covid-19 Outbreak
• Francesca Ippolito, Re-Evaluating Triage in International Justice during COVID-19 – Complying with the Rule of Law?
• Joelle Grogan, The Limited Role of the European Union in the Management and Governance of the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Regular Issue
• Jérémy Boulanger-Bonnelly & Louise Otis, In Search of Coherence: Burden and Standard of Proof in International Administrative Law
• Philip Burton, Ordering Institutions: The Judicial Function of the Permanent Court of International Justice in Relation to Interwar Organizations

New Volume: European Investment Law and Arbitration Review

The latest volume of the European Investment Law and Arbitration Review (Vol. 6, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Nikos Lavranos & Ahmed Mazlom, The Investment Treaty Implications of Covid-19 Responses by States
• Ronan O’Reilly, EU- China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment – A Rebalancing of Investment Relations
• Lawrence Northmore-Ball, Jennifer Harvey, & Amber Courtier, Micula v Romania – A Saga of Lasting Significance
• Ondřej Svoboda, UNCITRAL Working Group III and Multilateral Investment Court – Troubled Waters for EU Normative Power
• Samuel Pape & Alice Zhou, Investment Protection Under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Limited but Predictable?
• Marek Anderle & Andrej Leontiev, Here Comes Doomsday … Or Does It? – Implications of Achmea on Intra-EU Investment Arbitration in Light of Recent Case Law
• Lucian Ilie, Revisiting the Concept of Legitimate Expectations in Renewable Energy Treaty Cases
• Patrick Dumberry, Why Are Wrongful Acts Committed by Rebels during a Civil War Attributable to the State When They Are Successful? – A Critical Analysis of Theory and Practice
• Yash Shiralkar, Article 26(7) of the Energy Charter Treaty – An Analysis into Its Inadequacies and a Proposal for Potential Remedies (Winner of the Essay Competition 2021)
• Anina Liebkind, Fredrik Norburg, & Ossian Dittmer Hvarfner, The ECT, Achmea and Intra-EU Arbitration – Swedish Court Requests Preliminary Ruling from the CJEU
• Auriane Negret, Opinion of Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe in Anie and Others v. Italy – End of the Road for intra-EU ECT Arbitration?
• Philipp Stompfe, The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main Is the First European Court to Declare the Achmea Case a Landmark Decision with Significance for All Intra-EU BITS
• Julien Chaisse & Arjun Solanki, Raiffeisen Bank International AG V Croatia, ICSID Case No arb/17/34
• Malcolm Robach & Velislava Hristova, The Renewed Role of States in Investment Arbitration – Report of the 6th EFILA Annual Conference 2021
• Tim Maxian Rusche, How to Enforce the Achmea Judgment – Tools for EU Member States before, during and after Investment Arbitration Proceedings Brought by an Investor from Another EU Member State
• Giammarco Rao & Caroline Croft, States’ and Investors’ Views on ISDS Reforms – Closer than One Would Expect