New Issue: Global Constitutionalism

The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 12, no. 3, November 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Feminist Manifestos and Global Constitutionalism
• Ruth Houghton & Aoife O’Donoghue, Introduction to special issue: Feminist manifestos and global constitutionalism
• Ruth Houghton & Aoife O’Donoghue, Manifestos as constituent power: Performing a feminist revolution
• Sheri Labenski, ‘The world is not organized for Peace’: Feminist manifestos and utopias in the making of international law
• Gina Heathcote & Lucia Kula, Abandoning the idealized white subject of legal feminism: A manifesto for silence in a Lusophone register
• Emily Jones, Posthuman feminism and global constitutionalism: Environmental reflections
• Articles
• Juan F González Bertomeu, A measure of last resort: Pseudo-constitutionalism and the persistence of a self-restraint slogan in Argentina
• Rouf Ahmad Dar, Constitutions and their foundational discontents: Studying the process of constitution-making in Jammu and Kashmir
• M A Sayeed & Lima Aktar, Between a republican and a Bengalee state: Confronting exclusionary constitutionalism in Bangladesh

New Issue: African Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 31, no. 3, August 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Samuel Opoku-Agyakwa, Making Ghana's Criminal Procedure Law Conform to Its Grundnorm: Decisions of the Supreme Court
• Christopher Yaw Nyinevi, Corporate Accountability to Local Communities for Investment-Related Harms: The Elusive Promise of Balanced Investment Treaties
• David Tarh-Akong Eyongndi & Adekunbi Imosemi, Aloysius V. Diamond Bank Plc: Opening a New Vista on Security of Employment in Nigeria through the Application of International Labour Organisation Conventions
• Miriam Chinyere Anozie & Emmanuel Onyedi Wingate, The Constitutionality Conundrum on Virtual Court Sittings in the Covid-19 Period in Nigeria
• Chukwuma Samuel Adesina Okoli, Abubakri Yekini & Philip Oamen, The Igiogbe Custom as a Mandatory Norm in Conflict of Laws: An Exploration of Nigerian Appellate Court Decisions
• Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi, The Supreme Court of Uganda and the Right to Bail Pending Appeal: Understanding Nakiwuge Racheal Muleke v Uganda (Criminal Reference No.12 Of 2020) (9 September 2021)
• Paul Andries Smit, An Evaluation of South Africa's Maternity and Parental Benefits Legislation in Light of the International Labour Organisation's Maternity Protection Convention and Recommendation

New Issue: Transnational Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the Transnational Criminal Law Review (Vol. 2, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Symposium on the Proposal to Create an International Anti-Corruption Court
• Cecily Rose, Introduction to Symposium on the Proposal to Create an International Anti-Corruption Court
• Anton Moiseienko, The Proposal for an International Anti-Corruption Court: What Law Should the Court Apply?
• Kathrin Betz, Evidentiary Aspects of an International Anti-Corruption Court
• Rosanne van Alebeek, Prosecuting Corruption Crimes before an International Court: Whither Immunity Rules?
• Daley J. Birkett, Recovering Assets at an International Anti-Corruption Court Cautionary Tales from Rome, The Hague, and the Field
• Hannah Harris, Corporate Liability within the IACC Framework A Proposal for Enhanced Corporate Accountability

Losch: Meeresspiegelanstieg und völkerrechtliche Herausforderungen für kleine Inselstaaten

Sebastian Losch has published Meeresspiegelanstieg und völkerrechtliche Herausforderungen für kleine Inselstaaten (Duncker & Humblot 2023). Here's the abstract:

Der Klimawandel ist eines der Themen, die die politischen und rechtlichen Diskussionen auf internationaler Ebene seit geraumer Zeit beherrschen. In dieser Arbeit werden seine Auswirkungen auf die wohl am stärksten Betroffenen untersucht. Einige kleine Inselstaaten haben nicht nur mit wirtschaftlichen, sondern insbesondere aufgrund des möglichen Verlusts des gesamten Staatsgebiets mit erheblichen nichtwirtschaftlichen Risiken zu kämpfen. Der Autor behandelt in einem ganzheitlichen Ansatz verschiedene rechtliche Fragen, die sich angesichts dieses beispiellosen Phänomens ergeben. Beleuchtet werden Implikationen des Flüchtlingsvölkerrechts, des Seerechts, Auswirkungen auf die Staatlichkeit, sowie die völkerrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit von Industriestaaten. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass alle adressierten Problemfelder miteinander in Verbindung stehen und sich gegenseitig beeinflussen und ihre konkrete politische und rechtliche Behandlung daher die Würdigung all dieser Aspekte erfordert.

Symposium: Accountability and Power in the Law of International Organizations

On November 4-5, 2023, the Centre for International Law and Policy at Tohoku University and the Faculty of Law at Teikyo University will hold a symposium, in the hybrid format, on "Accountability and Power in the Law of International Organizations," in Tokyo. Details are here.

Johnstone, Sukumar, & Trachtman: Building an International Cybersecurity Regime: Multistakeholder Diplomacy

Ian Johnstone (Tufts Univ. - Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), Arun Sukumar (Leiden Univ. - The Hague Program on International Cyber Security), & Joel Trachtman (Tufts Univ. - Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) have published Building an International Cybersecurity Regime: Multistakeholder Diplomacy (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023). The table of contents is here. The volume is available open access. Here's the abstract:

Providing a much-needed study on cybersecurity regime building, this comprehensive book is a detailed analysis of cybersecurity norm-making processes and country positions, through the lens of multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Multidisciplinary and multinational scholars and practitioners use insights drawn from high-level discussion groups to provide a rigorous analysis of how major cyber powers view multi-stakeholder diplomacy.

Looking at how past cybersecurity initiatives and multi-stakeholder negotiations in other fields illuminate its dynamics, this book will help put states' approaches towards multi-stakeholder cyber diplomacy into perspective, and frame the role of private actors in cybersecurity regime building. Evaluating the most promising institutional arrangements and mechanisms for implementing cybersecurity, this book combines top-down analyses relevant to the design of international cybersecurity regimes with bottom-up case studies, tracing the approaches of important states towards multi-stakeholder participation in cyber diplomacy.

Call for Papers: 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law

The European Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 19th Annual Conference, which will take place September 5-6, 2024, in Vilnius. The theme is: "Technological Change and International Law." The call is here.

New Issue: Journal of International Economic Law

The latest issue of the Journal of International Economic Law (Vol. 26, no. 3, September 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Olia Kanevskaia, WTO Rules for Trade with Disputed Territories
• Giulia Claudia Leonelli, Anti-deforestation npr-PPMs and Carbon Border Measures: Thinking About the Chapeau of Article XX GATT in Times of Climate Crisis
• Jorge Miranda & Manuel Sánchez Miranda, Chronicle of a crisis foretold: how the WTO Appellate Body drove itself into a corner
• Andrew D. Mitchell, The right to regulate and the interpretation of the WTO Agreement
• Yoram Z. Haftel, Morr Link & Tomer Broude, Last year’s model? Investment arbitration, negotiation, and the gap between Model BITs and IIAs
• Runar Hilleren Lie, Treaty influencers: a computational analysis of the development of international investment law
• Fuad Zarbiyev, ‘These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.’ On justifications of foreign investment protection under international law
• Desirée LeClercq, Integrating non-binding labour standards in binding trade agreements: The ILO’s feedback loop
• Panagiotis Delimatsis, Transnational economic activism and private regulatory power
• Robin Hui Huang & Weixia Gu, China’s recognition and enforcement of foreign securities judgments against overseas-listed Chinese companies
• Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, International Economic Law in the ‘Asian Century’

Bock & Wagner: Gerechtigkeit aus der Ferne? Herausforderungen der nationalen Verfolgung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen

Stefanie Bock (Philipps-Universität Marburg - Law) & Markus Wagner (Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Law) have published Gerechtigkeit aus der Ferne? Herausforderungen der nationalen Verfolgung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen (Duncker & Humblot 2023). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Nach mehr als zwanzig Jahren hat das zunächst als »Papiertiger« belächelte Völkerstrafgesetzbuch inzwischen seinen festen Platz in der deutschen Strafrechtspraxis. Auf dieser Grundlage befasst sich die deutsche Justiz unter anderem mit Staatsfolter in Syrien, dem Völkermord an den Jesid:innen und Kriegsverbrechen im Ukraine-Konflikt. Diese Verfahren stellen die beteiligten Institutionen vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen, die den meisten »regulären« nationalen Strafprozessen fremd und im Wesentlichen darauf zurückführen sind, dass zwischen Justiz und abzuurteilenden Taten eine große örtliche, kulturelle und ggf. zeitliche Distanz besteht. Der Sammelband führt Beiträge von Wissenschaftler:innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen und Vertreter:innen aus allen Bereichen der Justizpraxis zusammen, die diese Herausforderungen aus ihren jeweiligen Perspektiven analysieren. Damit wird der Grundstock für eine empirisch und wissenschaftlich fundierte Weiterentwicklung des nationalen Völkerstrafprozessrechts gelegt.

Conference: The Rules of Interpretation of Customary International Law

On October 12-13, 2023, the TRICI-Law project and AthensPIL will hold a conference on "The Rules of Interpretation of Customary International Law" in Athens. Details are here.

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 15, no. 4, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Mark J. Wood, Applying Pillar Three of the Responsibility to Protect in Sudan
• Luciano Pezzano, Towards a Judicial R2P: The International Court of Justice and the Obligation to Prevent Genocide in The Gambia v. Myanmar Case
• Wisdom Oghosa Iyekekpolo, Bridging the Norms of Counter-Terrorism and Responsibility to Protect: Countering the Proliferation and Activities of Armed Groups in Nigeria
• Rebecca Barber, A Proposal for Advancing Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (Vol. 33, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• 15. Aarauer Demokratietage – Der Klimawandel vor Gericht
• Lorenz Langer, Der Klimawandel vor Gericht: Klimaklagen als institutionelles Dilemma?
• Mirina Grosz, Klimaschutz vor Schweizer Gerichten
• Christian Bickenbach, Klimaschutzklagen – Herausforderung für die deutsche Judikative
• Andreas Th. Müller, Klimaklagen vor den Gerichten der EU: Der «People’s Climate»-Fall und Luxemburger «judicial self-restraint»

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 4, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Reforming the Election Process of Judges of the European Court of Human Rights
• Hans-Jörg Behrens, The Status of Judges: Intergovernmental Work on the Evaluation of Issues Relating to the Judges of the echr
• Paul Mahoney, The Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election to the European Court of Human Rights
• Helen Keller, How to Improve Independence and Impartiality of Judges of the European Court of Human Rights
• Joëlle Trampert, The Export of Goods Used for Torture and the Applicability of Article 3 echr
• Mugambi Jouet, The Abolition and Retention of Life Without Parole in Europe: A Comparative and Historical Perspective

New Volume: The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence

The latest volume of The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (Vol. 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Monitoring the Construction of the Global Community: Key Changes in Global Law and Governance
• Overview Essays: Grand Challenges of Our Time - Nuclear Weapons Threat
• Louis René Beres, Endgame- Obligations to Transform "Westphalian" International Law
• Richard Falk, Deconstructing the Struggle Against Nuclearism
• Articles
• Shane Darcy, The Contribution of the UN Treaty Bodies to Business and Human Rights
• Luis A. López Zamora, Algunos Comentarios Al Estudio De La Comisión De Derecho Internacional, Sobre Los Principios Generales Del Derecho
• Notes and Comments
• Paul Schiff Berman, Global Legal Pluralism and the Making of International Climate Change Law
• Sonja C. Grover, The Court's Role in Upholding Inter- Generational Obligations Respecting the Child's Right to Truth: Juliana v. United States as a Case in Point
• Lando Kirchmair, Information Interventions in the Twenty- First Century: Fighting Disinformation Across National Boundaries with International Information Campaigns
• Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops & Sara Pedroso, The Evidentiary Value of NGO and IO Reports in International Criminal Proceedings
• Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, Non- compensatory Reparation Modalities in UN Legal Sources: Focus on Gross Violations of Human Rights
• In Focus: Global Policies and Law
• Thomas G. Weiss, Protecting Heritage: Weighing Politics and Law
• Forum - Jurisprudential Cross-Fertilization: An Annual Overview
• Ravindra Pratap, Geography and Legal Culture of ICJ Judges and Their Consideration of Erga Omnes Obligations
• Yoshifumi Tanaka, Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v. Colombia): Reflections on the ICJ Judgment of 21 April 2022

New Issue: Human Rights Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Review (Vol. 24, no. 3, September 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Christopher J. Einolf, Understanding and Preventing Torture: a Review of the Literature
• Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz, Ana Valverde Cano, Mohammed Abdelsalam Babiker, Maddy Crowther, Emily Death, Keith Ditcham, Abdal Rahman Eltayeb, Michael Emile Knyaston Jones, Sonja Miley & Maria Peiro Mir, Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan
• Nicky Deluggi & Cameran Ashraf, Liars, Skeptics, Cheerleaders: Human Rights Implications of Post-Truth Disinformation from State Officials and Politicians
• Ana Tanasoca, Local Agents of International Justice? On the Role of Subnational Units in Refugee Protection
• Elisavet Athanasia Alexiadou, Identifying a Human Rights Approach to Roma Health Vulnerabilities and Inequalities in Europe: From Concept to Action
• Michaela Guthridge, Tania Penovic, Maggie Kirkman & Melita J. Giummarra, The Role of Affective Empathy in Eliminating Discrimination Against Women: a Conceptual Proposition

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