Johansson: Just Transition as an Evolving Concept in International Climate Law

Vilja Johansson (Univ. of Eastern Finland) has published Just Transition as an Evolving Concept in International Climate Law (Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 35, no. 2, pp. 229–249, July 2023). Here's the abstract:

‘Just transition’ has grown into an increasingly popular concept in climate policy. During the recent decade, it has been included in both international and national climate law frameworks. The concept, however, has not received much attention from legal scholars. Addressing this gap, this article analyses the meaning and legal implications of just transition, specifically within international climate law. Against this backdrop, it shows that, following the Paris Agreement, just transition has evolved into an increasingly important concept in how climate law principles and obligations are interpreted and developed. It further highlights a substantial evolution of just transition from a labour-centred to a more comprehensive concept that helps underline the importance of implementing climate measures in a way that engages and protects affected and vulnerable people and communities.

New Issue: Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé

The latest issue of the Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé (2023, no. 2) is out. Contents include:

• A.L. Ndjip, La protection des institutions diplomatiques à l’épreuve des conflits internes et internationalisés
• M.U. Ngah Noah, La sorcellerie en procès ou le procès du droit pénal africain francophone de la sorcellerie à la lumière de l’expérience camerounaise
• T. Garcia, Le groupe Wagner peut-il être saisi par le droit ?
• D. Leys, Ciels au-delà du ciel, La Chine et les Chinois : croiser nos regards

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 29, no. 2, April-June 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The 75th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping
• Alynna Lyon, Alistair Edgar, Kurt Mills, Peter Romaniuk, & Kendall Stiles, The 75th Anniversary of UN Peacekeeping: Introduction to a Special Issue of Global Governance
• Brian Drohan, Retaining Flexibility: Dag Hammarskjöld, the 1958 Summary Study, and the History of UN Peacekeeping
• Adekeye Adebajo, Blue Berets, Burning Brushfires: The History, Successes, and Failures of UN Peacekeeping
• Cedric de Coning, How Not to Do UN Peacekeeping: Avoid the Stabilization Dilemma with Principled and Adaptive Mandating and Leadership
• Audrey L. Comstock, In the Shadow of Peace: Sexual Exploitation, Abuse, and Accountability in UN Peacekeeping
• Karin Johansson & Anne-Kathrin Kreft, Sexual Violence and Peacekeeping
• Richard Ponzio & Muznah Siddiqui, Peacekeeping, Disarmament, and the New Agenda for Peace
• John Karlsrud, UN Peacekeeping Operations in a Multipolar Era
• Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, African-Led Peace Support Operations in a declining period of new UN Peacekeeping Operations
• A. Walter Dorn, Crucial Technologies for the Protection of Civilians by UN Peace Operations

Humphrey: Financing the Future: Multilateral Development Banks in the Changing World Order of the 21st Century

Chris Humphrey (ETH Center for Development and Cooperation) has published Financing the Future: Multilateral Development Banks in the Changing World Order of the 21st Century (Oxford Univ. Press 2023). Here's the abstract:

Financing the Future explains how the unique governance arrangements and financial model of Multilateral Development Banks (MDB) shape their behavior. Outlining a theoretical framework suitable to the 30-odd MDBs around the world, the book uses this to show how different sets of MDBs are grappling with the challenges of the 21st century. This is the first book to explain the core of the MDB model as a unique class of international institution and shows how that model is playing out the traditional large MDBs, smaller borrower-led banks, and the two new MDBs recently created with the support of China.

Krisch & Yildiz: From Drivers to Bystanders: The Varying Roles of States in International Legal Change

Nico Krisch (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies) & Ezgi Yildiz (California State Univ.) have posted From Drivers to Bystanders: The Varying Roles of States in International Legal Change. Here's the abstract:

When it comes to change processes in international law, states are typically thought to be in the centre, but in many instances, we can actually observe them playing different, more secondary roles. With this paper, we aim to conceptualize and understand the varying roles states occupy. Drawing on insights from inquiries in international law and international relations, it sets out a typology of different roles states play in international legal change processes — from drivers and blockers to catalysts, spoilers, and mere bystanders — and connects these ideal types with empirical evidence from actual cases of change. It also develops a framework for understanding when states occupy different roles, with a particular focus on states’ collective action (in)capacity and the existence of alternative authority to that of states. Overall, the paper presents building blocks of a more realistic, empirically-guided account of international law, its dynamism, and the degree of statism at its core.

New Issue: International Interactions

The latest issue of International Interactions (Vol. 49, no. 4, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Sumin Lee & Andrey Tomashevskiy, Punish or tolerate? State capacity, military oversight, and wartime sexual violence
• Jared Oestman, Burden sharing in UN peacekeeping operations: Who deploys to violent locations?
• Alastair Smith & James Raymond Vreeland, UN Security Council membership: Increased security and reduced conflict
• Mark Berlin & Iris Malone, Go arm me: How militant fragmentation affects external support
• James A. Piazza, Fear of terrorism and support for non-democratic rule in democracies
• Zhiyuan Wang, Unemployment, central bank independence, and diversionary conflict
• J. Andrés Gannon & Kerry Chávez, A Wiki-based dataset of military operations with novel strategic technologies (MONSTr)

Wouters: Legal Advisers in International Organizations

Jan Wouters (KU Leuven - Law) has published Legal Advisers in International Organizations (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This unique book presents an in-depth analysis of the provision of legal advice at international organizations. It elucidates the dual role of legal advisers as representatives of their organization and as international civil servants acting as protectors and promoters of international law.

Analysing the effects of internal and external factors on the work of advisers, including organizational specificity, political influences, and institutional position, this book identifies and examines common legal practices across organizations. Chapters discuss case studies of legal advisers working at various global organizations, including the United Nations, the European Union, UNESCO, the World Health Organization and the World Bank Group, as well as regional and cross-regional organizations such as NATO and the European Space Agency. Contributors emphasise the importance of collegiality and networking between legal advisers and analyse the differences in the delivery of legal services within both governmental and private contexts.

New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 18, no. 3, July 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Ryan Brutger & Richard Clark, At what cost? Power, payments, and public support of international organizations
• Tarald Gulseth Berge & Øyvind Stiansen, Bureaucratic capacity and preference attainment in international economic negotiations
• Greg Chih-Hsin Sheen, Hans H. Tung, & Wen-Chin Wu, WHO approves? Relative trust, the WHO, and China’s COVID-19 vaccines
• Ann-Sofie Isaksson & Dick Durevall, Aid and institutions: Local effects of World Bank aid on perceived institutional quality in Africa
• Markus Gastinger & Henning Schmidtke, Measuring precision precisely: A dictionary-based measure of imprecision
• Tina Freyburg, Lisa Garbe, & Véronique Wavre, The political power of internet business: A comprehensive dataset of Telecommunications Ownership and Control (TOSCO)

New Issue: Journal of Conflict Resolution

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution (Vol. 67, no. 6, July 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Kyungwon Suh, Does the Bomb Really Embolden? Revisiting the Statistical Evidence for the Nuclear Emboldenment Thesis
• Sangyong Son & Jong Hee Park, Nonproliferation Information and Attitude Change: Evidence From South Korea
• Bomi K. Lee, Triangles, Major Powers, and Rivalry Duration
• Max Schaub & Daniel Auer, Rebel Recruitment and Migration: Theory and Evidence From Southern Senegal
• Brett L Carter, Can Western Donors Constrain Repressive Governments? Evidence from Debt Relief Negotiations in Africa
• Cassy Dorff & Colin Henry, Does Violence Against Journalists Deter Detailed Reporting? Evidence From Mexico Sandra Ley
• Data Set Feature
• Charles Roger & Sam Rowan, The New Terrain of Global Governance: Mapping Membership in Informal International Organizations

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 27, no. 6, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Sevgi Doğan, Academic freedom between past and present: the birth of one-dimensional academia in Turkey
• Stephen J. Eichhorn, Resource extraction as a tool of racism in West Papua
• Connor Woodman, The West Papuan liberation movement, Indonesian settler colonialism and Western imperialism from an international solidarity perspective
• Camellia Webb-Gannon, #Papuanlivesmatter: how a narrative of racism has elevated West Papua’s decolonisation movement

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 15, no. 2, July 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Janina Dill, Threats to state survival as emergencies in international law
• Regan Burles, Globalizing the international: Bull's metaphysics of order
• Matthew Draper & Stephan Haggard, The authoritarian challenge: liberal thinking on autocracy and international relations, 1930–45
• Derek Bolton, The unbearable lightness of being? Reconfiguring the moral underpinnings and sources of ontological security
• Sarah Sunn Bush & Sarah S. Stroup, Stay off my field: policing boundaries in human rights and democracy promotion
• Shmuel Nili, Getting away with it? Kleptocracy, atrocities, and the morality of autocratic exile
• Maria Birnbaum, The costs of recognition: global politics, religion, and the colonial history of South Asia

New Issue: Nordic Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 41, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Emma Sundkvist, Human Rights as Space-Making: Bodily Performative Activism Against Sexual Violence in Egypt
• Céline Brassart Olsen, A Blessing or a Curse? An Analysis of Menstrual Health Promotion in the Workplace from a Human Rights Perspective
• Gabriela García Escobar, Human Rights Pluralistic Universality: A Bridge Between Global Norms and Cultural Diversity
• Wade M. Cole, The Islamic Human Rights Deficit: Region, Not Religion, Is the Driver
• Trond Helland & Ragnhild Hollekim, The Convention on the Rights of the Child’s Imprint on Judgments from the European Court of Human Rights: A Negligible Footprint?
• Matti Muukkonen, Finnish Student Unions as Associations in the Context of ECHR Article 11

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New Issue: Global Society

The latest issue of Global Society (Vol. 37, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Joan Miró, Responding to the global disorder: the EU's quest for open strategic autonomy
• Amin Samman & Ronen Palan, Systemic Unreason: A Psychic History of States and Corporations
• Deborah Stienstra, (Th)reading Rights and Justice: Women and Girls with Disabilities
• Lance Y. Hunter, Craig Albert, Josh Rutland & Chris Hennigan, The Fourth Industrial Revolution, Artificial Intelligence, and Domestic Conflict
• Andrea Schapper, Linda Wallbott & Katharina Glaab, The Climate Justice Community: Theoretical Radicals and Practical Pragmatists?
• Doris Asante, Civil society and counter-terrorism governance: implementing the WPS agenda in Nigeria
• Gianfranco Brusaporci & Nissim Cohen, The role of individuals in social movements: the rise of policy entrepreneurs in Bulgaria during the first Borisov Cabinet

New Issue: International Organizations Law Review

The latest issue of the International Organizations Law Review (Vol. 20, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Forum on Contested Fundamentals
• Lorenzo Gasbarri, Introduction: Contested Fundamentals of the Law of International Organizations: Repositioning Legal Theory
• Catherine Brölmann, Transparency as a Contested Fundamental in the Law of International Organizations
• Richard Collins, Beyond Binary Oppositions? The Elusive Identity of the International Organization in Contemporary International Law
• Martina Buscemi, Institutional Sanctions and Functionalism: Insights from the Most Recent Practice
• Jan Klabbers, Towards a Political Economy of International Organizations Law

New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 39, no. 2, June 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Andrea K. Bjorklund, William W. (Rusty) Park, General Editor, Arbitration International 2006–2022
• Articles
• John M. Townsend, Preface to the edition of Arbitration International published in honour of Professor William W. Park
• Henri C. Alvarez, Rusty Park: learning and leadership—a personal reflection
• Frank Berman, The Rusty Park formula
• Charles N. Brower, Professor ‘Rusty’ Park: a genuine polyhistor
• Stephen L. Drymer, The Cohasset C.A.D.
• George A Bermann, The UNCITRAL model law at the US state level
• Andrea K Bjorklund, What the Ecuador–US award tells us about the potential for more state–state investment arbitration
• Stavros Brekoulakis, The public interest in arbitration
• John R Crook, A note on footnotes
• John Fellas, Dissenting opinions in international arbitration
• L. Yves Fortier, Diversity in international arbitration
• Hilary Heilbron, Managing the unexpected in international arbitration
• Paula Hodges, Time to stand up for immunity
• Julian DM Lew, The need for expert evidence?
• Bruno de Loynes de Fumichon, Bishops as arbitrators in the early church: the episcopalis audientia
• Alexis Mourre & Alexandre Vagenheim, Again on the case for the publication of arbitral awards
• Adam Samuel & Karyl Nairn, Boundless arbitration—a sentimental voyage through the delocalization debate
• Ucheora Onwuamaegbu, Stay of enforcement of awards under the ICSID Convention—trends and issues
• Jan Paulsson, The hand behind the hand
• Luca G. Radicati di Brozolo, What rules must international commercial arbitrators apply to decide according to the law?
• Catherine A. Rogers, Arbitrator impartiality: the devil is in the details
• Articles
• Audley Sheppard, Tax and arbitration (an ISDS update)
• Hi-Taek Shin & Joonhak Choi, The anti-arbitration injunction under Korean law: the Korean Supreme Court Decision of 2018
• Edna Sussman, Adding strands to our bow: two arbitration proposals
• Ruth Teitelbaum, O Nottebohm and an imaginary conversation with Kurt Lipstein

New Issue: Netherlands International Law Review

The latest issue of the Netherlands International Law Review (Vol. 70, no. 1, May 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Menno T. Kamminga, Confiscating Russia’s Frozen Central Bank Assets: A Permissible Third-Party Countermeasure?
• Daniela HeerdtLucas Roorda, Lessons Learned in Qatar: The Role of the Netherlands and Its Businesses in Addressing Human Rights Abuses in Mega-Sporting Events
• Medes Malaihollo, On Due Diligence and the Rights of Indigenous Peoples in International Law: What a Māori World View Can Offer
• Ingeborg de Koningh, Consolidating International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law: Protection from Gender-Based Violence Against Women in Non-International Armed Conflict
• Louisa Handel-Mazzetti, Vyashti Ramlakhan, Daniëlla Dam-de Jong & Cedric Ryngaert, CAVV Symposium on Independent Advice on Public International Law
• Anna Meijknecht, Hague Case Law: Latest Developments

New Issue: Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy

The latest issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy (Vol. 8, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue (Part 2): 2022 APOLIA Conference: UNCLOS in Asia-Pacific – 40 Years and Onwards
• Margaret A. Young, Strengthening Capacity in Ocean Governance
• Esmeralda Colombo, Energy Storage Governance in the Asia-Pacific through the Law of the Sea Convention: Exploring Bottlenecks and Enablers of Regulating Offshore Wind Combined with Energy Storage
• Dita Liliansa, A Quest for Meaning: Interpretation of Article 73(3) of the Law of the Sea Convention by Indonesian Supreme Court
• Jacqueline F. Espenilla, A New WTO Protocol on Fisheries Subsidies: Potential Implications for the South China Sea Disputes
• Articles
• Nong Hong, China and the United States in the South Pacific Ocean: Will Strategic Competition or Practical Cooperation Drive the Future Development
• Nguyễn Hồng Thao, South China Sea: Battle of the Diplomatic Notes among China and Non-Claimant States

Call for Papers: Chemical and Biological Weapons: The Interconnectivity of Norms

The Justus-Liebig University Gieβen in collaboration with CBWNet have issued a call for papers for a conference on "Chemical and Biological Weapons: The Interconnectivity of Norms," to take place October 23-24, 2023, in Gieβen. The call is here.

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (Vol. 33, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Andreas R. Ziegler & Rimdolmsom Jonathan Kabré, Contribution des avocats et conseils au règlement des différends inter- nationaux : étude à la lumière de la pratique devant la Cour internationale de Justice et le Tribunal international du droit de la mer
• Christina Neier, EWR/EFTA-Staaten in EU-Verwaltungseinrichtungen: Integration zur Homogenitätswahrung
• Madalina Diaconu, The «Macolin Convention» against Competition Manipulation: Promises, Achievements and Pitfalls

New Issue: Journal of World Investment & Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Vol. 24, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Critiques of Investment Arbitration Reform
• Gus Van Harten & Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, Special Issue: Critiques of Investment Arbitration Reform - An Introduction
• Juan Carlos Boué, The Investor-State Dispute Settlement Damages Playbook: To Infinity and Beyond
• Surya Deva & Tara Van Ho, Addressing (In)Equality in Redress: Human Rights-Led Reform of the Investor-State Dispute Settlement Mechanism
• Nicolás M. Perrone, Investment Treaty Law and Matters of Recognition: Locating the Concerns of Local Communities
• Frank J. Garcia & Brooke S. Guven, Designing a Multilateral Investment Court for Procedural Justice
• Daria Davitti & Paolo Vargiu, Litigation Finance and the Assetization of International Investment Arbitration
• Article
• Jörg Kammerhofer, Regulatory Expropriation – A New Hope: The Use of Legal Theory for Investment Law

Conference: Persistent imbalances in international trade and the prospects for sustainable development: Focus on the developing countries

On June 30-July 1, 2023, a conference on "Persistent imbalances in international trade and the prospects for sustainable development: Focus on the developing countries" will be held at the University of Ljubljana and online. The program is here. Registration for online participation is here.

New Volume: African Human Rights Yearbook

The latest volume of the African Human Rights Yearbook (Vol. 6, 2022) is out. Contents include

• Articles Focused on Aspects of the African Human Rights System and African Union Human Rights Standards / Articles Portant sur les Aspects du Système Africain des Droits de L’homme et les Normes des Droits de L’homme de L’Union Africaine
• Victor Ayeni & Andreas von Staden, Monitoring second-order compliance in the African human rights system
• Zelalem Mogessie Teferra, Provisional measures in international human rights law: the practice of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights
• Koffi Arnaud Kpla, La notion d’intérêt dans la procédure contentieuse devant la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples
• Catherine Maia & AndréMarie Gbenou, A proibição e repressão da tortura no sistema africano dos direitos humanos: utopia ou má-fé dos Estados?
• Nyanda Williams Mkamwa, Les vaccinations obligatoires et les droits de l’homme en Afrique: l’urgence d’un encadrement juridique efficace au sein de l’Union africaine
• Mwiza Jo Nkhata, What counts as a ‘reasonable period’? An analytical survey of the jurisprudence of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights on reasonable time for filing applications
• Opal Masocha Sibanda, Towards a more effective and coordinated response by the African Union on children’s privacy online in Africa
• Simeu Christelle Corinne Kamgang, Le droit humain à l’eau: un droit dans l’ombre d’autres droits de l’homme dans le système africain de protection des droits de l’homme?
• Abdoulaye Sylla, Les réformes du système judiciaire de l’Union africaine: enjeux juridico-institutionnels sur la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples
• Wubeshet Tiruneh, Holding corporations liable for human rights abuses committed in Africa: the need for strengthening domestic remedies
• Special Focus on the African Union’s Theme for 2022: Strengthening Resilience in Nutrition and Food Security on the African Continent: Strengthening Agro-Food Systems, Health and Social Protection Systems for the Acceleration of Human, Social And Economic Capital Development / Focus Spécial sur le Theme de L’Union Africaine Pour L’annee 2022: Renforcer la Résilience en Matière De Nutrition sur le Continent Africain: Accélérer le Développement du Capital Humain et de L’économie Sociale
• Ibrahim Banaru Abubakar, Poverty, policies, and politics: a rights-based approach to food insecurity in Africa
• Juliet Aimienrovbiye, The right to health in Nigeria and South Africa: the need for effective integration of food safety
• Charles A Khamala, Green crimes: the impact of genetically modified organisms on promoting food security in Kenya
• Case Commentaries / Commentaires de Decisions
• Têtêvi Didier Prince-Agbodjan, Bienvenu Criss-Dess Dongar, & Nouwagnon Olivier Afogo, Le retrait du consentement des États à l’office de la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples: déni du droit d’accès des citoyens à la justice régionale? Le cas Glory Cyriaque Hossou et un autre c. Bénin 323
• Adamantia Rachovitsa, The judicial function of the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights in default judgments: the developments set forth in the Léon Mugesera case
• Benjamin Kagina, Commentaire de l’arrêt de la Cour africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples dans l’affaire Anudo Ochieng Anudo c. Tanzanie
• Andrea Mensi, The South Africa High Court Baleni judgment: towards an indigenous right to consent?

Call for Papers: The African Renaissance in the Age of Globalization: What Role for International Investment Law?

The Department of Political Science of the University of Padua has issued a call for papers for a conference on "The African Renaissance in the Age of Globalization: What Role for International Investment Law?" to take place November 10-11, 2023, in Padua. The deadline is July 14, 2023. Details are here.

Call for Papers: Journal of International Economic Law Third Annual Junior Faculty Forum

The Journal of International Economic Law has issued a call for papers for its third annual Junior Faculty Forum, to be held by Zoom on September 15-16, 2023. The deadline is July 14, 2023. Details are here.

Fajardo: CEPAL, the “International Monetary Fund of the Left”? The Tale of Two Global Institutions

Margarita Fajardo (Sarah Lawrence College) has published CEPAL, the “International Monetary Fund of the Left”? The Tale of Two Global Institutions (American Historical Review, Vol. 128, no. 2, pp. 588–615, June 2023). Here's the abstract:

The article examines the entangled histories of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (CEPAL) during the post–World War II era. Born of the same global moment, within two decades of their foundation, these institutions had come to represent two opposing visions of world economic order. Yet their mutual antagonism was not a foregone conclusion, and their identities were not so defined from the start. The binary division between them—as well as the very terms of their debate—emerged not in the realm of abstract ideas but rather in their competition over influence in Latin America. Unlike the history of the UN, the story of the IMF continues to be told as one of projection—of power, ideas, and practices—and reception, of dominance by the North and resistance of the South. By looking at CEPAL and the IMF in tandem, as they converged, diverged, and shaped each other, this article shows the impact of a southern institution and Latin America on the northern institution and the structure of global governance. It contributes to our understanding of global institutional history and economic governance, precisely at a moment when global institutions have lost prestige and leverage.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Critical International Law and Technology

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Critical International Law and Technology.” The symposium includes an introduction by Fleur Johns and Gregor Noll and contributions by Geoff Gordon, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Dorothea Endres, Luisa Hedler, and Kebene Wodajo, Gabriela Argüello, Matilda Arvidsson, and Niels Krabbe, Lovisa Häckner Posse and Hedvig Lärka, and Priya S. Gupta.

Abraham: Contesting the Universality of the Refugee Convention: Decolonization and the Additional Protocol

Itty Abraham (Arizona State Univ.) has published Contesting the Universality of the Refugee Convention: Decolonization and the Additional Protocol (Journal of Refugee Studies, Vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 195–216, June 2023). Here's the abstract:

Recent scholarship has insightfully explored the colonial roots of the UN Refugee Convention of 1951. In this work I seek to extend this line of argument by situating the adoption of the Additional Protocol of the Refugee Convention (1967) in relation to the transformations of international order following the Second World War. Contra the conventional account, this article shows that the Additional Protocol was created in no small part due to fears that the UN Refugee Convention would be unable to claim universal status due to competing ‘regional’ refugee conventions. Breaking down four meanings of ‘universal’ and drawing on archival documents of the Organization of African Unity (OAU), the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee and the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, I explore efforts by newly independent African and Asian countries to find voice in an exclusionary international order. Reading the Bangkok Principles and OAU Convention as collective subaltern resistance against efforts to discipline newly independent states offers new insights into contemporary international struggles and brings refugee studies into productive dialogue with critical international relations.

Roundtable: Advocating Against Gender-Based Violence Through International Law

On July 10, 2023, a roundtable will be held on "Advocating Against Gender-Based Violence Through International Law" at the University of Milan and online. The program is here. Registration is here.

New Issue: GlobaLex

The latest issue of GlobaLex (May/June 2023) includes:

• Sophie Lobey, The Council of Europe
• Julienne E. Grant, Researching Global Health Law

Webinar: Accountability for conflict-related environmental harm

The Law Interest Group of the Environmental Peacebuilding Association and the IUCN-WCEL Environmental Security and Conflict Law Specialist Group will hold a webinar on "Accountability for conflict-related environmental harm" on July 5, 2023. Details are here.

Call for Papers: Western Sahara

A call for papers has been issued for the Second Conference of the Western Sahara Research Group, on October 16, 2023, at the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna. The conference's general themes are the international legal status of Western Sahara and the role of EU trade policy regarding Western Sahara. The conference will take place almost fifty years after the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion. Contributions selected for the conference will be considered as chapters in a forthcoming book. The call is here.

Call for Submissions: Trade, Law and Development

The journal Trade, Law and Development has issued a call for submissions for its Winter 2023 issue (Vol. 15, no. 2). The call is here. The deadline is August 5, 2023.

New Issue: London Review of International Law

The latest issue of the London Review of International Law (Vol. 11, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Bonnie Honig, Toward a democratic theory of contagion: virality and performativity with Eve Sedgwick, JL Austin, Hortense Spillers, and Patricia Williams
• Renske Vos, The many beginnings of Operation Sophia: international law and literature in the governance of the EU
• Renata Nagamine & João Roriz, Rhetorical militarism, humanitarian law, and public space: a study on military interventions in Brazil
• Iavor Rangelov & Ruti Teitel, The justice archive: transitional justice and digital memory
• Books etc.
• Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Locating humanity in crimes against humanity
• Sinja Graf, Business as unusual: a materialist critique of international criminal justice
• Christine Schwöbel-Patel, Response to Graf
• Sinja Graf, Response to Schwöbel-Patel

Efrat & Yair: Should we sell arms to human rights violators? What the public thinks

Asif Efrat (Reichman Univ.) & Omer Yair (Reichman Univ.) have posted Should we sell arms to human rights violators? What the public thinks (Defence and Peace Economics, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Arms-exporting countries – even those that are liberal democracies – sell weapons to governments that violate human rights. Does the public support the provision of weapons to human rights violators? We examine public attitudes on arms exports through a survey experiment in Israel – a major arms exporter that is often criticized for arming repressive governments. Our analysis finds that human rights violations substantially increase the public’s opposition to the sale of arms – by 21 percentage points. Furthermore, opposition to the arms sale arises even when the recipient country carries economic or strategic importance. Overall, we find a public preference for arms exports constrained by ethical concerns – a preference that is often at odds with governments’ export practice. This study enhances our understanding of the domestic politics of the arms trade, which has received little scholarly attention, but increases in importance with rising public scrutiny and criticism of arms sales.

Call for Applications: International Institutions in the Face of International Crises (Centre for Studies and Research, Hague Academy of International Law)

Applications are open for the 2024 edition of the Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations of the Hague Academy of International Law. The topic is: "International Institutions in the Face of International Crises." The call is here. The deadline is September 1, 2023.

Muir Watt: The Law's Ultimate Frontier: Towards an Ecological Jurisprudence: A Global Horizon in Private International Law

Horatia Muir Watt (Sciences Po - Law) has published The Law's Ultimate Frontier: Towards an Ecological Jurisprudence: A Global Horizon in Private International Law (Hart Publishing 2023). Here's the abstract:

This important book offers an ambitious and interdisciplinary vision of how private international law (or the conflict of laws) might serve as a heuristic for re-working our general understandings of legality in directions that respond to ever-deepening global ecological crises. Unusual in legal scholarship, the author borrows (in bricolage mode) from the work of Bruno Latour, alongside indigenous cosmologies, extinction theories and Levinassian phenomenology, to demonstrate why this field's specific frontier location at the outpost of the law – where it is viewed from the outside as obscure and from the inside as a self-contained normative world – generates its potential power to transform law generally and globally.

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 23, no. 2, December 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Bruno Arpi, Jeffrey McGee, Andrew Jackson & Indi Hodgson-Johnston, Legal Analysis of the Argentine and Australian Titles to Territory in Antarctica
• David Keane, Palestine v Israel and the Collective Obligation to Condemn Apartheid under Article 3 of ICERD
• Eve Massingham & Dale Stephens, Autonomous Systems, Private Actors, Outer Space and War: Lessons for Addressing Accountability Concerns in Uncertain Legal Environments
• Ash Murphy, Climate Insecurity: The Promise and Peril of Securitising Climate Change before the UN Security Council
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