Thursday, November 9, 2023

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 36, no. 4, December 2023) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • Joseph Powderly & William A. Schabas, ‘A Plea of Humanity to Law’: In Memoriam for Benjamin Berell Ferencz (1920–2023)
  • International Legal Theory
    • Eric Loefflad, In search of Paulus Vladimiri: Canon, reception, and the (in)conceivability of an Eastern European ‘founding father’ of international law
    • Margot E. Salomon, Emancipating human rights: Capitalism and the common good
    • Dorothea Endres, Conceptualizing legal change as ‘norm-knitting’ through the example of the environmental human right
    • Céline Braumann, The settlement of tax disputes by the International Court of Justice
  • International Law and Practice
    • Thea Coventry, Seizing stateless smuggling vessels on the Mediterranean High Seas
    • Máté Csernus, Might contain traces of Lotus: The limits of exclusive flag state jurisdiction in the Norstar and the Enrica Lexie cases
    • Jelena von Achenbach, The global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines by the public-private partnership COVAX from a public-law perspective
    • Olivier Corten & Vaios Koutroulis, The 2022 Russian intervention in Ukraine: What is its impact on the interpretation of jus contra bellum?
    • Ori Pomson, Methodology of identifying customary international law applicable to cyber activities
    • Martin Lolle Christensen, In someone else’s words: Judicial borrowing and the semantic authority of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights
  • International Court of Justice
    • James Gerard Devaney, A coherence framework for fact-finding before the International Court of Justice
  • International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
    • Patryk I. Labuda, Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion
    • Jochen von Bernstorff & Enno L. Mensching, The dark legacy of Nuremberg: Inhumane air warfare, judicial desuetudo and the demise of the principle of distinction in International Humanitarian Law