Thursday, January 26, 2023

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 117, no. 1, January 2023) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Robert Howse & Joanna Langille, Continuity and Change in the World Trade Organization: Pluralism Past, Present, and Future
    • Andrej Lang, Alternatives to Adjudication in International Law: A Case Study of the Ombudsperson to the ISIL and Al-Qaida Sanctions Regime of the UN Security Council
  • Current Developments
    • Sean D. Murphy, Peremptory Norms of General International Law (Jus Cogens) (Revisited) and Other Topics: The Seventy-Third Session of the International Law Commission
  • International Decisions
    • Jaemin Lee, Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda)
    • Jacquelene W. Mwangi, Request for Advisory Opinion by the Pan African Lawyers Union (Palu) on the Compatibility of Vagrancy Laws with the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights and Other Human Rights Instruments Applicable in Africa, No. 001/2018
  • Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
    • The United States Recognizes the Human Right to a Clean, Healthy, and Sustainable Environment
    • Signatories of the U.S.-Led Artemis Accords Meet in Person for the First Time
    • The United States Establishes Fund for the Afghan People from Frozen Afghan Central Bank Assets
    • The United States Announces Export Controls to Restrict China's Ability to Purchase and Manufacture High-End Chips
  • Recent Books on International Law
    • Fleur Johns, Disastrous Law: International Law and the Shock-absorption of Disaster, reviewing International Law in Disaster Scenarios: Applicable Rules and Principles, by Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani; Law and Disaster: Earthquake, Tsunami and Nuclear Meltdown in Japan, by Shigenori Matsui; and All is Well: Catastrophe and the Making of the Normal State, by Saptarishi Bandopadhyay
    • Karen J. Alter, reviewing Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886–1981, by Doreen Lustig
    • David Kaye, reviewing Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War, by Samuel Moyn
    • Ksenia Polonskaya, reviewing Identity and Diversity on the International Bench: Who Is the Judge?, by Freya Baetens
    • David P. Stewart, reviewing Lex Pacificatoria, Jus Post Bellum, or Just “Good Practice”? - International Law and Peace Settlements, edited by Marc Weller, Mark Retter and Andrea Varga; and Lawyering Peace, by Paul Williams