Workshop: International Humanitarian Law: Expanding its History(ies), Prospects and Challenges

On November 28-29, 2024, a workshop on "International Humanitarian Law: Expanding its History (ies), Prospects and Challenges" will be held at the University of Zurich and online. Details are here.

New Issue: Asian Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (Vol. 14, no. 2, July 2024) is out. Contents include:

• José Duke Bagulaya & Romel Regalado Bagares, Hidden in Plain Sight: International Law and Marxist Praxis in the Life and Works of Merlin M. Magallona
• Massimo Fabio Lando, The Limits of Deduction in the Identification of Customary International Law
• Kazuki Hagiwara, Enhanced De Facto Constraints Imposed by Non-legally Binding Instruments and Interactions with Normative Environment: An Analysis of the Joint Statements for the Conservation and Management of Japanese Eel Stock
• Jamieson Kirkwood, Characterization (and Registration) of a “BRI Dispute”
• Anam Soomro, People, Paper and Power: The Birth of the Passport in International Law
• Khorsed Zaman, Decolonizing Human Rights Law in Global Health - the Impacts of Intellectual Property Law on Access to Essential Medicines: A Perspective from the COVID-19 Pandemic
• I Dewa Gede Palguna & Agung Wardana, Pragmatic Monism: The Practice of the Indonesian Constitutional Court in Engaging with International Law

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 26, no. 6, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, The Trend of Changes in the Differentiation in Climate Change Law: Towards Intensifying, Not Weakening
• Giorgia Pane, Litigating the Climate between National and International Human Rights Regimes Judicial Complementarity?
• Antal Berkes, The Obligation to Cooperate to Protect Against Serious Breaches of the European and American Conventions on Human Rights
• Edyta Lis, Gender Perspective in the Recent Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 118, no. 4, October 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Article
• Evan J. Criddle, Extraterritoriality's Empire: How Self-Determination Limits Extraterritorial Lawmaking
• Current Develoopments
• Tom Dannenbaum & Janina Dill, International Law in Gaza: Belligerent Intent and Provisional Measures
• Alex Green & Douglas Guilfoyle, The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty: Statehood and Security in the Face of Anthropogenic Climate Change
• International Decisions
• Lucas Carlos Lima, Declaratory Action of Constitutionality N. 39 of Brazilian Supreme Court
• Yusra Suedi & Marie Fall, Ligue Ivorienne des Droits de L’Homme and Others v. Cote D’Ivoire. App. No. 041/2016
• Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
• New Memorandum Elaborates U.S. Engagement in the Antarctic Treaty System, with Eye on Climate Change and Strategic Competitors
• The United States Endorses Amendments to the International Health Regulations
• President Biden Adds, Increases, and Maintains Tariffs on Chinese Goods Levied by President Trump
• Julian Assange Pleads Guilty to One Charge of Espionage and Returns to Australia, Ending U.S. Attempts to Extradite Him
• The United States and Twenty-Three Other Countries Enter into Bilateral Security Agreements with Ukraine
• President Biden Further Restricts Asylum Claims by Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Recent Books on International Law
• Sivan Shlomo Agon & Michal Saliternik, Just About Time: International Law's Temporalities and Our Moment in History
• W.G. Werner, reviewing Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law, by Alice Palmer
• Mira Burri, reviewing Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law, by Valentina Vadi
• Rossana Deplano, reviewing Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space, by Michael Byers and Aaron Boley

Book Launch: Alex Wentker's "Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law"

On November 22, 2024, All Souls College, Oxford will host in person and online a book launch for Alex Wentker's Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law. The launch will be chaired by Elizabeth Wilmshurst, with panellists Philippa Webb and Marko Milanovic. Details are here.

Call for Papers: History of International Law Colloquium

The organizers of the Boston-area colloquium on the history of international law have issued a call for papers to be presented during the Spring and Fall of 2025. The call is here.

Call for Papers: International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (de-)Coloniality

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (de-)Coloniality," to take place June 5-6, 2025, at the University of Amsterdam. The call is here.

Call for Papers: The Politics of International Dispute Settlement

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on “The Politics of International Dispute Settlement,” to be held June 6, 2025, at Utrecht University. The call is here.

Lecture: Vergerio on “War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War”

On November 28, 2024, Claire Vergerio will give the next lecture of the TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War. The topic is: “War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War.” Details are here.

Call for Papers: Cambridge International Law Journal 14th Annual Conference

The Cambridge International Law Journal has issued a call for papers for its 14th Annual Conference, which will be held at the University of Cambridge on April 28-29, 2025. The theme is: "Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law." The call is here.

New Issue: Trade, Law and Development

The latest issue of Trade, Law and Development (Vol. 15, no. 2, Winter 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Aditya Suresh, Re-Calibrating the Standard of Review of Scientific Evidence in WTO Dispute Settlement
• Lorenzo Cotula, Critical Minerals: International Economic Law in a Global Resource Rush
• Marc D. Froese, Negative Reciprocity: Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement and the Extrajudicial Response to the Trump Tariffs of 2018
• Yasmin Salama, Eco Oro v. Colombia: Delving into the Misalignment between New-Generation IIAs and their Intended Outcomes
• Victoria Trifonchovska, European Legal Transplants in China? Legal Transposition and Reception of Rulres on Geographical Indications in China

Report: The legal arguments on the Climate Emergency Advisory Proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Lucas Carlos Lima (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and the Stylus Curiarum Research Group have released the report "The legal arguments on the Climate Emergency Advisory Proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights." The report analyzes the arguments presented in the written and oral observations submitted within the framework of the advisory proceedings on Climate Emergency and Human Rights before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights requested by Chile and Colombia. The study examines the observations presented - ten of which were filed by States, another ten by organs of States, eighteen by organs of international organizations, and two hundred and twenty-seven amici by non-state entities - with a view to identifying the legal arguments put forward before the Inter-American Court. The report can be found here.

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 63, no. 5, October 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Application of the Int'l Conv. for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism & of the Int'l Conv. on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discr. (Ukr. v. Russ.) (Merits) (I.C.J.), with introductory note by Iryna Marchuk
• Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukr. v. Russ.) (Judgment on Preliminary Objections) (I.C.J.), with introductory note by Catherine Drummond
• Case C-634/21, OQ v. Land Hessen (C.J.E.U.), with introductory note by Angela Maria Noguera

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Institutionalizing Investment Dispute Prevention

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Institutionalizing Investment Dispute Prevention.” The symposium includes an introduction by Julian Arato, Jonathan Bonnitcha and Mavluda Sattorova, and contributions by Jonathan Bonnitcha, Mavluda Sattorova, Priyanka Kher, Ricardo Ampuero Llerena, Zhenyu Xiao, and Jeremy K. Sharpe.

New Blog: Tålking Rights

The Human Rights Institute of the Åbo Akademi University Law School has announced the launch of Tålking Rights, an academic blog dedicated to human rights. The blog offers a platform for insights, analysis, and dialogue on international human rights law issues. Those interested in contributing should review the blog's contributor guidelines and style guide.

Call for Chapter Proposals: Handbook on Decolonising Human Rights

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim (Emory Univ. - Law) has issued a call for chapter proposals for his forthcoming edited volume Handbook on Decolonising Human Rights, to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing. The call is here.

New Issue: Virginia Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Virginia Journal of International Law (Vol. 65, no. 1, Fall 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Christopher R. Drahozal, Donald Earl Childress III, Jack J. Coe, Jr., & Catherine A. Rogers, Challenging and Enforcing International Arbitral Awards in U.S. Federal Courts: An Empirical Study
• Nick Robinson, The Regulation of Foreign Funding of Nonprofits in a Democracy
• George Rutherglen, Territoriality and Admiralty

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 62, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Julia Weitensteiner, Das organisations- und situationsbezogene Begründungsmodell korporativer Rechte des EGMR in Croatian Radio-Television/Kroatien
• Otto Luchterhandt, Arzachs Untergang – historische Tragödie und Alarmzeichen für die Republik Armenien
• Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Die Transformation des Konzepts des »gerechten Kriegs« (»bellum iustum«) in der Geschichte der Philosophie: Von Thomas von Aquin bis zur Schule von Salamanca

Call for Papers: The International Court of Justice at 80

The Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security at the University of Glasgow has issued a call for papers for the Sixth Scottish Conference on International Law, to take place September 8-9, 2025. The theme is: "The International Court of Justice at 80." The call is here.

Call for Submissions: International Law & Emerging Technologies

The Georgetown Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for a symposium issue on "International Law & Emerging Technologies." The call is here.

Zidar & Cotič Zidar: Amended WHO International Health Regulations for Better Global Pandemic Governance?

Andraž Zidar (MFEA of Slovenia – Diplomatic Academy) & Živa Cotič Zidar (Ombudsman of Slovenia & Univ. of Ljubljana – Social Sciences) have posted Amended WHO International Health Regulations for Better Global Pandemic Governance? (Medical Law International, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Recent amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), adopted at the 77 th World Health Assembly in May 2024 represent an important conceptual development in the field of global pandemic governance. The Regulations now include the notion of a pandemic emergency, a heightened subcategory of the public health emergency of international concern, which necessitates rapid, equitable and enhanced coordinated international action to counteract global pandemics. In addition, changes to the guiding principles expressly require that the implementation process 'shall promote equity and solidarity'. This is further crystallised in concrete commitments to enable equitable access to health products and provide for the mobilisation of financial resources for developing countries. Taking lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, these changes make the IHR a more effective tool against global pandemics and represent significant steps towards achieving global health justice.

Becker: Crisis in Gaza: South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice (or the Unbearable Lightness of Provisional Measures)

Michael A. Becker (Trinity College Dublin - Law) has posted Crisis in Gaza: South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice (or the Unbearable Lightness of Provisional Measures) (Melbourne Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

In the early hours of 7 October 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip launched a set of attacks across southern Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and abducting 252 people to be held as hostages. Israel unleashed an overwhelming military response, with grave humanitarian consequences for the Palestinian population of Gaza. On 29 December 2023, South Africa initiated proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging violations of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide based on Israel's response to the 7 October attacks. This article examines South Africa's litigation of the Gaza conflict through its use of the provisional measures procedure at the ICJ. Part I provides an overview of the humanitarian crisis and the polarizing effect of Israel's military operation in Gaza. Part II examines South Africa's four attempts to obtain provisional measures and the Court's decision to indicate such measures on three occasions within a four-month period. Part III considers the relative ineffectiveness of the provisional measures-their 'unbearable lightness' in a situation of extreme gravity and examines doctrinal issues that emerged along the way, including the nature of the Court's 'plausibility' test at the provisional measure stage and the procedure for seeking additional or modified measures. Part IV concludes by considering challenges that lay ahead in the ICJ case-for the parties, for the Court, and for the Palestinians of Gaza.

Khalil & Lavaud: Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats

Mona Ali Khalil & Floriane Lavaud have published Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges and opportunities associated with empowering the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to fulfil its primary responsibility: to maintain international peace and security.

Across ten chapters, this timely book addresses several areas of possible reform, without amending the UN Charter, to improve the representative character of the UNSC, empower its elected members, restrain the use of the veto, and enhance the UNSC's ability to respond to modern threats including aggression and mass atrocity crimes. It explores the UNSC's relations with internal and external partners, including tapping the potential of the UN General Assembly, reinforcing the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, as well as strengthening cooperation with regional arrangements.

Now, more than ever, there is a realistic possibility borne out of the imperative of necessity to reform the UN Security Council to better ensure international peace and security for future generations. Bringing together an international cast of experts from multiple disciplines and all five regions of the world, Empowering the UN Security Council offers a roadmap toward a more legitimate and effective UNSC.

Hilpold & Senti: WTO: System und Funktionsweise der Welthandelsordnung

Peter Hilpold & Richard Senti have published WTO: System und Funktionsweise der Welthandelsordnung (3. Auflage, Schulthess 2024). Here's the abstract:

Seit nahezu vier Jahrzehnten publiziert Professor Richard Senti von der ETH Zürich das maßgebliche deutschsprachige Lehrbuch zum GATT-Recht bzw. nachfolgend zum WTO-Recht. In der nun vorliegenden Neubearbeitung unter Mitwirkung von Professor Peter Hilpold von der Universität Innsbruck wird der aktuelle Stand der Welthandelsordnung in einem weitgehend veränderten wirtschaftlichen Umfeld dargestellt. Die Kräfteverhältnisse haben sich verschoben, die Ansprüche an eine wertorientierte Welthandelsordnung sind gestiegen, für das in der WTO stark verrechtlichte Streitbeilegungssystem wird nach einer neuen Ausrichtung gesucht.

New Issue: Revue belge de droit international

The latest issue of the Revue belge de droit international (2023, nos. 1-2) is out. Contents include:

• Hommage à Jean Salmon
• A. Lagerwall & O. Corten, Introduction
• J.J.A. Salmon, Éditorial
• E. Bribosia, Libres pensées en hommage à Jean Salmon, professeur passionné et passionnant de droit international
• J.-P. Legrand, La pratique rédactionnelle, locale et militante d’un ancien étudiant
• A. Louwette, « Qui dit choix, dit valeurs »
• L. Weyers, Une histoire de Jean Salmon : la rumeur, la rencontre et pour finir un « petit » projet
• P. Willaert, Cheminement d’un disciple à l’épreuve de la pratique européenne
• G. Abi-Saab, L’adieu à un vaillant frère d’armes dans toutes les batailles juridiques en défense des peuples opprimés et contre l’injustice partout ailleurs
• N. Angelet, L’acte de la fonction selon Jean Salmon : entre théories du droit public et réalités du droit privé
• R. Bachand, Jean Salmon, l’école de Reims et la contradiction : proposition méthodologique appliquée à l’évolution du droit international économique
• G. Bastid Burdeau, Sur les traces des débuts d’un grand chercheur : le financement des organisations internationales scruté par Jean Salmon
• J. Cardona, Jean Salmon face aux problèmes fondamentaux du droit international. le droit international à l’épreuve au tournant du XXIe siècle, vingt ans après
• M. Chemilliergendreau, Jean Salmon, « l’État, le peuple, le pouvoir », à l’épreuve du questionnement démocratique
• O. Corten, Jean Salmon, enseignant rigoureux, enseignant engagé !
• P. Couvreur, Variations sur le thème de l’« auditoire » de la Cour internationale de Justice
• S. D’Aloia, Jean Salmon et la reconnaissance d’État : un cas supplémentaire
• M. Didat, Du langage et de l’idéologie comme reflets des turpitudes du droit international au XXIe siècle. Le cas de la guerre russo-ukrainienne
• O. Dua, La catégorisation de(s) l’intention(s) en matière de responsabilité internationale de Jean Salmon appliquée aux obligations internationales relatives au commerce d’armes
• F. Dubuisson, « There will be Palestine » : Jean Salmon et l’État de Palestine
• P. Klein, Le Dictionnaire de droit international (et autres projets monumentaux) – Jean Salmon encyclopédiste
• R. Kolb, Jean Salmon et la « sainteté des traités ». Réflexions suscitées par la relecture du commentaire de l’article 26 de la convention de vienne sur le droit des traités de 1969, pacta sunt servanda
• V. Koutroulis, Le mythe de la qualification objective des conflits armés : réflexions à propos de « la conférence diplomatique sur la réaffirmation et le développement du droit international humanitaire et les guerres de libération nationale » (R.B.D.I., 1976/1)
• A. Lagerwall, Le droit est-il à la fois la plus puissante des écoles de l’imagination et l’armurier des innocents, cher Jean ?
• I. Mingashang, La contribution de Jean Salmon au débat d’ordre terminologique et juridique sur la quiddité de l’État indépendant du Congo
• G. Niyungeko, À propos du cours sur « le fait dans l’application du droit international » une théorie toujours actuelle
• A. Pellet, Précédents et jurisprudence – Lost in Translation
• C. Van Assche, Quelques aspects de la protection et de l’assistance consulaires en droit international public
• E. Wyler, Jean Salmon et le concept de fiction juridique
• Études – Studies – Studies
• C. Bertouille, Les moyens justifient-ils la faim ? Analyse de la légalité du siège au regard de l’interdiction de la famine comme méthode de guerre contre les civils et du principe de proportionnalité
• A. Kavoosi, Migration containment policies in Niger in light of migrants’ right to leave a country
• F. Quilleré-Majzoub & T. Majzoub, La « réalité nuancée » de la succession aux traités relatifs au Nil
• F. Vandepitte, Exploring the influence of politics on universal jurisdiction : a case study on german universal jurisdiction cases regarding Syria

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 42, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Lecture
• Tim McCormack, The 2023 Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: The International Criminal Court and Global Criminal Justice: Are We Making Progress?
• Articles
• Regina Jefferies & Jane McAdam, Locked Down and Locked Out: Australia’s COVID-19 Restrictions on Internal Movement
• Carina Bury, Deficient by Design? Why Australia’s Ramsar Convention Implementation Deficits are Symptomatic of Outdated Treaty Reception Mechanisms 
• Sophie Ryan, Fundamental Legal Conceptions and the International Law of (Civil) Jurisdiction 

New Issue: TWAIL Review

The latest issue of the TWAIL Review (no. 5, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Matheus Gobbato Leichtweis, Bob Marley and the TWAILers: Music, Decolonization, and the Critique of International Legal Education
• S. Ali Malik, Making the New Developmental State: International Law and Neoliberal State Formation in India
• Jane Ezirigwe, TWAIL As A Scholarly Approach To Teaching International Economic Law In Selected African Universities: Pedagogy And Challenges
• Conrad Bryan, The Pursuit of Justice for Children of African Irish Descent: Can International Law provide a pathway to justice?
• Ọláolúwa Òní, Nigeria’s Settler-Colonial Present: Review Essay of Folúkẹ́ Adébísí’s Decolonisation and Legal Knowledge
• Christiana Essie Sagay, Transnational Labour Mobility and Issue-Linkages in the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration: A TWAIL Analysis
• Kamari Maxine Clarke, El imperio del derecho a través de la economía de las apariencias: la construcción discursiva de “El Señor de la Guerra Africano”
• Usha Natarajan & Kishan Khoday, Situando la naturaleza: hacer y deshacer el derecho internacional

New Issue: Michigan Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Michigan Journal of International Law (Vol. 45, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Diane Marie Amann, Child-Taking
• Nikola R. Hajdin, Neutral Business Assistance and the Limits of Complicity under International Criminal Law
• Catharine Titi, Investment Treaty Arbitration Caught in the Public-Private Law Divide

New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly

The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 46, no. 4, November 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Bingwan Xiong & Li Chen, Unravelling the Challenges in Implementing China’s New Anti-Sexual Harassment Law
• Elida Guerra, Camila v. Peru: Standards Set by CRC on Sexual and Reproductive Rights
• Eric Heinze, Identitarian Hatreds and Disloyalty Propaganda: Revisiting the Eurocentrism of Human Rights
• Chidi Anselm Odinkalu, The Right to Be Human: Rest and Leisure in International Human Rights Law
• Rebecca Smyth Abortion Exceptionalism in International Human Rights Law
• Mark Yost, Kasey Fernandez, Etoile Nelson, Rochelle Dicker, & Maryam Farzanegan, Gun Violence Against Children in the U.S

Call for Papers: Freedom of the seas and freedom of the individual: a historical appraisal

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Freedom of the seas and freedom of the individual: a historical appraisal," to take place February 7, 2025, at SOAS, University of London. The call is here.

Call for Submissions: The Impact of Environmental and Climate Change on the Oceans and Marine Resources

The Maritime Safety and Security Law Journal has issued a call for submissions for a special issue on “The Impact of Environmental and Climate Change on the Oceans and Marine Resources.” The call is here.

Call for Papers: International Legal Work(shop): Compositions and Performances of Global Governance

A call for papers has been issued for "International Legal Work(shop): Compositions and Performances of Global Governance," to take place June 11, 2025, at Tilburg Law School. The call is here.

Call for Papers: Ljubljana Sanctions Conference

A call for papers has been issued for the Ljubljana Sanctions Conference, which will take palce September 25–26, 2025, at the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana. The call is here.

Call for Papers: 9th Asian International Economic Law Network Conference

A call for papers has been issued for the 9th Asian International Economic Law Network (AIELN) Conference, which will take place June 14-15, 2025, at Senshu University, Tokyo. The theme is: "Geopolitical Risks and Geoeconomics in International Economic Law: Asian Perspectives and Beyond." The call is here.

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. 26, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Robert Schütze, British Utilitarianism after Bentham: Nineteenth-Century Foundations of International Law Part II
• Shiu Chung Chan, Unequal Treaty in Practice: A Story about Article 23 of the Treaty of Tientsin
• Paola Zichi, Gender, Human Rights Networks, and the State of Emergency During the Arab Revolt (1936–1939)

Call for Submissions: Netherlands Yearbook of International Law

The Netherlands Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its volume 55 on the topic "The manifold forms of contemporary international legal scholarship." The call is here. Abstracts are due by November 25, 2024.

New Issue: GlobaLex

The latest issue of GlobaLex (September/October 2024) includes:

• Julienne E. Grant, Researching Comparative Constitutional Law

Conference: Radhabinod Pal: A Trailblazer of TWAIL in Decolonizing India?

On November 20, 2024, the International Criminal Law Research Unit of Friedrich-Alexander-University Erlangen-Nuremberg, in collaboration with the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, will host a conference on “Radhabinod Pal: A Trailblazer of TWAIL in Decolonizing India?”, in Nuremberg and online. Details are here.

New Issue: Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 12, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: ILA-Korea’s 60th Anniversary Conference on Private International Law
• Seokwoo Lee, Reflections on the Interpretation and Application of International Law by South Korea, China, and Japan and Leadership in the Formation of International Norms in East Asia
• Seokwoo Lee, Preface to the Special Issue: ILA-Korea’s 60th Anniversary Conference on Private International Law
• Naoshi Takasugi, Harmonization of Jurisdictional and/or Choice-of-Law Rules: Introduction to the Asian Principles of Private International Law (APPIL) Project
• Yuko Nishitani, Challenges of Private International Law in Asia
• Adeline Chong, “Asian” Principles for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments? Singapore as a Case Study
• Wilson Lui, Asian Private International Law and Hong Kong
• Dai Yokomizo, ILA Guidelines on Intellectual Property and Private International Law
• Zheng (Sophia) Tang, Territoriality and Intellectual Property Infringement Proceedings
• Bui Thi Quynh Trang, Phan Dinh Nguyen, & Nguyen Thi Hong Trinh, Admissibility of ILA Principles on Intellectual Property and Private International Law in Vietnam

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law (Vol. 8, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Part 1 Governance and Accountability
• Nuwani Nirmani Rathugama, Paving the Way for a South Asian Human Rights Mechanism: Lessons Learnt from Regional Human Rights Mechanism with Special Reference to India and Sri Lanka
• Thomas Phillips, The Contradictions of the UK Human Rights Act
• Ben Stanford, Who Watches the Watchmen? Independent Observers, Constitutional Principles and Democratic Accountability
• Harison Citrawan & Sabrina Nadilla, Law, Affective Bureaucracy, and the Registration of Public Satisfaction in Indonesia
• Part 2 Justice and Accountability
• Khanlar Gadjiev & Maria Filatova, General Measures in the Process of Enforcement of International Courts’ Judgments: Between Subsidiarity and Binding Nature
• Ignatius Yordan Nugraha, Deferring to Consensus and Procedural Rationality: Assessing the European Court of Human Rights’ Approach to Majoritarian Will
• M Jashim Ali Chowdhury & Jubaer Ahmed, Globalization of American Interpretation Debate: Originalists, Living Constitutionalists, and the Drifters
• Ashfaquzzaman Chowdhury, ‘Pay First’ to Unlock the Appeal? A Controversial Appeal Provision in the Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881 of Bangladesh
• Part 3 Economic and Social Justice
• Mohammad Towhidul Islam & Nurun Nahar Urmi, Realizing the Right to Property under the Constitution of Bangladesh: Myths and Realities
• Aktieva Tri Tjitrawati, Mochamad Kevin Romadhona, Oemar Moechthar, & Sri Endah Kinasih, The Palu Disaster and Indonesia’s Obligation to Ensure the Right of Adequate Housing and Land Rights: Mission Accomplished?
• Mohammad Abu Taher, Siti Zaharah Jamaluddin, & Tahsin Khan, Protection of Children on the Internet within the Legal Landscape of Bangladesh: An Appraisal
• Part 4 Violence and Accountability
• Zia Akhtar, Rohingyan Muslims, Monism and Expanding the Responsibility to Protect Mechanism
• Lakmali Bhagya Manamperi, Prospects of Environmental Liability before the International Criminal Court: A Case Study on the International Armed Conflict between Russia and Ukraine
• Darul Mahdi, The Problematic Inclusion of a Motive Element in the Indonesian Definition of Terrorism
• Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller, Reporting from War Zones: How Does International Humanitarian Law Protect Journalists?

Call for Papers: Imperialism, Sovereignty and the making of International Law; 20 years on

The Laureate Program in Global Corporations and International Law has issued a call for papers for a conference on "Imperialism, Sovereignty and the making of International Law; 20 years on," to be held August 7-8, 2025, in Melbourne and online. The call is here.

Urs: The Elusiveness of “Interdependent Obligations” and the Invocation of Responsibility for Their Breach

Priya Urs (Univ. of Oxford) has posted The Elusiveness of “Interdependent Obligations” and the Invocation of Responsibility for Their Breach (British Yearbook of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Since the adoption in 2001 of the International Law Commission’s ‘Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts’, attention has been increasingly drawn to the enforcement by states individually of multilateral obligations. The Commission, for its part, addressed the invocation of responsibility for breaches of such obligations by distinguishing between the respective entitlements of ‘an injured State’, under article 42, and ‘a State other than injured State’, under article 48. In line with this distinction, the existing debate has focused largely on clarifying the entitlement of ‘a State other than an injured State’ to invoke responsibility for breaches of obligations owed erga omnes partes or erga omnes, in accordance with article 48. In contrast, little or no attention is paid in the discussion to ‘interdependent obligations’, which, while deemed to constitute a subset of obligations erga omnes partes, were deliberately placed by the Commission in article 42(b)(ii) as multilateral obligations whose breach was said to injure ‘all the other States to which the obligation is owed’. This article lends necessary clarity to this ‘curious category’ of obligations with a view to the distinction between article 42(b)(ii) and article 48, both of which address breaches of multilateral obligations, but which set out different routes to the invocation of responsibility.

Berkes: The obligation to cooperate to protect against serious breaches of the European and American Conventions on Human Rights

Antal Berkes (Univ. of Liverpool - Law) has posted The obligation to cooperate to protect against serious breaches of the European and American Conventions on Human Rights (International Community Law Review, forthcoming)). Here's the abstract:

This paper discusses the obligation of States to cooperate as a duty that stems from two different areas of international law. First, States are obliged to cooperate under the law of State responsibility, the aim of cooperation within this framework being to bring to an end serious breaches of peremptory norms. The second area is international human rights law and, in particular, the European (ECHR) and the American Conventions on Human Rights (ACHR), as these instruments have been interpreted by the respective regional human rights courts to encompass a procedural obligation for States to cooperate with a view to protect human rights. The paper asks whether the obligation to cooperate, as constructed by the two regional human rights courts, has any overlap with the obligation to cooperate under the law of State responsibility, and, if yes, whether it can and does cross-fertilise the interpretation of the latter. The analysis of the relevant case law provides two affirmative answers. First, there is common space between the obligations to cooperate under the law of State responsibility, the ECHR, and the ACHR. Second, analysis also identifies certain features in the relevant human rights case law that enrich the obligation to cooperate under the law of State responsibility. These features are the effectiveness in the protection of the most fundamental norms and interpretation of the duty to cooperate through systemic integration. Systemic integration is necessary to concretise the conduct States are expected to develop as the obligation to cooperate refers to a rather open list of relevant rules of international law applicable to that State.

Longobardo & Violi: Access to justice for atrocities in the comparison of land-mark cases on state immunity in Brazil and Italy

Marco Longobardo (Univ. of Westminster - Law) & Federica Violi (Erasmus Univ. of Rotterdam - Law) have posted Access to justice for atrocities in the comparison of land-mark cases on state immunity in Brazil and Italy (Internaitonal Journal of Human Rights, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This article investigates differences and similarities in the approach of Italian and Brazilian domestic courts to the topic of access to justice for atrocities and the role of state immunity, taking particular note of the limited and select dialogue between the two judiciaries and reflecting on the potential for further developments of the customary international law rule on state immunity. To do so, the article first outlines the rule on state immunity and offers an overview of the articulated Italian case law on why state immunity cannot bar access to justice for atrocities, considering the judicial developments occurred after 2004. The paper moves on to describe the recent 2021 decision of the Brazilian Supremo Tribunal Federal, in which the Brazil judiciary seemingly joined the Italian trend against state immunity when atrocities are committed. The two different judicial trends are then compared and analysed, with a discussion on the limited explicit reference to Italian decisions by the Supremo Tribunal Federal. The article concludes the research by describing the likely impact of these judicial trends on future developments on the relationship between access to justice for atrocities and state immunity.

Call for Expressions of Interest: (De-/re-)constructions of International Law over Time and Space

The ESIL Interest Group on the History of International Law has issued a call for expressions of interest for an agora panel proposal on "(De-/re-)constructions of International Law over Time and Space" for the 2025 European Society of International Law Annual Conference. The call is here.

Abel, Beham, Dederer, & Herrmann: Völkerrechtliche Perspektiven auf die internationale Streitbeilegung

Patrick Abel (Universität Passau), Markus Beham (Universität Passau), Hans-Georg Dederer (Universität Passau), & Christoph Herrmann (Universität Passau) have published Völkerrechtliche Perspektiven auf die internationale Streitbeilegung: Beiträge zum 45. Österreichischen Völkerrechtstag 2022 in Passau (Peter Lang 2024). The table of contents is here.

O'Hara & Paige: Queer Encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities / Queer Engagements with International Law: Times, Spaces, Imaginings

Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Univ. - Law) & Claerwen O'Hara (La Trobe Univ. - Law) have published Queer Encounters with International Law: Lives, Communities, Subjectivities (Routledge 2024) and Claerwen O'Hara (La Trobe Univ. - Law) & Tamsin Phillipa Paige (Deakin Univ. - Law) have published Queer Engagements with International Law: Times, Spaces, Imaginings (Routledge 2024). Here's the abstract:

These sibling edited books apply insights from queer theory to a range of new issues and topics in international law. Queer Encounters explores new issues relating to gender, sexuality and LGBTIQ communities in international law, such as recent contestation over the definition of 'gender' in international criminal and human rights law and the possibility of building an international queer abolitionist movement. In contrast, Queer Engagements moves beyond queer theory's site of origin by applying queer theory to a range of new topics international law not directly related to gender and sexuality, including international environmental law, international space law, international heritage law and travaux préparatoires. These collections will be invaluable to scholars of international law and international relations with an interest in critical approaches in these areas.

Berkes, Collins, & Deplano: Reassessing the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations: From Theory to Practice

Antal Berkes (Univ. of Liverpool - Law), Richard Collins (Queen's Univ. Belfast - Law) & Rossana Deplano (Univ. of Leicester - Law) have published Reassessing the Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations: From Theory to Practice (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

This book critically examines the reception and application of the 2011 Articles on the Responsibility of International Organizations (ARIO), assessing their effectiveness and limitations. Adopting a panoptic approach, it explores the theory underlying the concept of responsibility for internationally wrongful acts in ARIO through both doctrinal analysis and practical case studies.

The editors have brought together a diverse group of legal experts to analyse various fields in the law of responsibility for international organizations (IOs), including questions of attribution, shared responsibility, the implementation of responsibility and the progressive development of ARIO rules. The book argues that, despite its rare application, the ARIO are a useful resource for ascertaining the responsibility of IOs in the form of judicial, non-judicial, internal or external control mechanisms. Ultimately, the book demonstrates that the ARIO constitute an authoritative legal source, capable of guiding IOs in reforming their internal law.

New Issue: Chinese Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 23, no. 3, September 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Marten Zwanenburg, The Use of OSINT for Military Operations Abroad under International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law
• Yue Zhang & Yuqi Zhou, Reviewing the Necessity Test in a PHEIC: “Least Intrusiveness” or “Reasonable Necessity”
• Comments
• Yury Rovnov, Judicialization of Global Climate Governance: In Defence of the Paris Agreement
• Güneş Ünüvar & Xueji Su, International Legal Governance of Space Resources and the Role of National Frameworks: The Case of China
• Current Developments
• Ignacio de la Rasilla, The Rise in the Participation of Asia Pacific States in the Proceedings of the International Court of Justice (2010-2023)
• Barbara Stępień, Navigating New Waters: IMO’s Efforts to Regulate Autonomous Shipping

New Issue: La Comunità Internazionale

The latest issue of La Comunità Internazionale (Vol. 79, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli e Saggi
• Francesca Romanin Jacur, L’evoluzione del diritto internazionale dell’ambiente tra prassi successiva e interpretazione giudiziale degli accordi
• Andrea Mensi, The Identification of International Non-Binding Agreements Through the Lens of Subjective and Objective Indicators: Fiction or Reality?
• Luca Martelli, I “paradisi ambientali”: prima che economico, un fenomeno giuridico di diritto internazionale
• Mario Pasquale Amoroso, Convergence and Divergence Between International Humanitarian Law and the Law of Neutrality in Inter-State Military Assistance: Lessons from Recent State Practice in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
• Rosa Stella de Fazio, Alcune considerazioni sul Trattato a tutela della biosostenibilità marina
• Osservatorio Diritti Umani
• Antonio Alì, Encryption Backdoors on Trial: The Telegram Case Before the European Court of Human Rights
• Grazia Eleonara Vita, Cambiamento climatico e diritti umani. Note alla sentenza della Corte europea dei diritti umani Verein KlimaSeniorinnen e altri c. Svizzera
• Osservatorio Europeo
• Fabiola Massa, La tutela brevettuale del farmaco nell’ordinamento multilivello tra passato e futuro

New Issue: Journal of International Economic Law

The latest issue of the Journal of International Economic Law (Vol. 27, no. 3, September 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Mira Burri & Kholofelo Kugler, Regulatory autonomy in digital trade agreements
• Alan O Sykes, The utility of appellate review at the WTO and its optimal structure
• Giulia Claudia Leonelli & Francesco Clora, Retooling the regulation of net-zero subsidies: lessons from the US Inflation Reduction Act
• Jie (Jeanne) Huang, The rise of data property rights in China: how does it compare with the EU data act and what does it mean for digital trade with China?
• Jaemin Lee, The automatic termination clause in the Fisheries Subsidies Agreement—brinkmanship for future negotiation or a time bomb for self-destruction?
• Yawen Zheng, Rethinking the ‘Full Reparation’ standard in energy investment arbitration: how to take climate change into account
• Noam Noked & Jingyi Wang, Chinese companies in tax havens
• Anu Bradford, Adam Chilton, & Katerina Linos, Dynamic diffusion
• Marios Tokas, The concept of the level playing field in International Economic Law

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 55, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Hui Wu, International Law Challenges for Underwater Cultural Heritage Protection in the South China Sea
• Andrey Todorov, Potential Contributions of IMO Area-Based Shipping Management and Port State Jurisdiction to the Regulation of Ship-Borne Tourism in Antarctica
• Rob McLaughlin, Different Pacta or Different Servanda? Grey-Zone Lawfare and Law of the Sea-Based Passage and Operational Rights
• Alexandre Pereira da Silva, The Case of the Martin Vaz Rocks and Other Brazilian Offshore Archipelagos: A Further Step Toward the “Territorialization” of the South Atlantic
• Mutaz M. Qafisheh, Eastern Mediterranean Maritime Boundary Delimitation: The Claims of the State of Palestine under UNCLOS
• Suk Kyoon Kim, Challenges to the Capacity-Building of Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) in East Asia: What Is at Stake?

Mack & Cogan: In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries

Kenneth W. Mack (Harvard Univ. - Law) & Jacob Katz Cogan (Univ. of Cincinnati - Law) have published In Between and Across: Legal History Without Boundaries (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Contents include:

• Kenneth W. Mack & Jacob Katz Cogan, Introduction: Rewriting the Boundaries of Legal History
• Part I: The Political Economy of Time
• Matthew Axtell, Views from Rathole Mountain: A Lawscape Journey through Old Virginia
• Donna Dennis, The Rise of Retail Stockholder Litigation and the Creation of the Plaintiff's Bar in American Business Law, 1930-1950
• Felicia Kornbluh, Private Law, Public Welfare, Marital Ideals, and The Gender Binary . . . or, What I Learned at the Socio-Legal Revolution
• Maribel Morey, Power of the Purse: How “the Philanthropic North” Has Helped Determine Which Individuals, Groups, and Ideas in the Black Freedom Struggle Will Thrive Nationally
• Sarah Seo, “Kindred to Treason”: Conspiracy Laws in the United States
• Part II: Law, Space, and Place in History
• Catherine L. Evans, The Case as Episode: Murder and Migration in Colonial Australia
• Maeve Glass, The Chain and the Rope: Illuminating Constitutional Traditions
• Mitra Sharafi, South Asians at the Inns of Court: Empire, Expulsion, and Redemption circa 1900
• Part III: Rethinking Method: Law and Everything Else
• Jessica K. Lowe, “Our Experiences Make Us Who We Are”: Lessons from Thomas Ruffin and Dirk Hartog
• Farah Peterson, Debtor Constitutionalism
• Christina D. Ponsa-Kraus, Roosters and Resistance
• Laura Weinrib, Law, History, and the Interwar ACLU's Jewish Lawyers

Fach Gómez & Titi: The Award in International Investment Arbitration

Katia Fach Gómez (Univ. of Zaragoza - Law) & Catharine Titi (Centre national de la recherche scientifique; Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas) have published The Award in International Investment Arbitration (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

The Award in International Investment Arbitration is a comprehensive study of the international investment award, which serves as a unique reference work and an authoritative one-stop resource on the topic for both practitioners and academics. The book reviews the award in a holistic manner: from award drafting to the procedural principles that govern it; from arbitral deliberations and tribunal dynamics to post-award challenges; from the role of gender in decision-making to the impact of tribunal secretaries. It puts emphasis on the practitioners needs with a careful selection of hands-on topics, such as fact-finding in complex disputes, the role of experts, and legal reasoning and persuasion. Sensitive to contemporary challenges, the book addresses both existing questions that have evolved over time and novel topics that have not yet received sufficient attention, such as the impact of technology on award drafting.

By bringing together the biggest names in the contemporary investment arbitration scene - a unique line-up of highly-qualified arbitrators and experts from academia and international legal practice - The Award in International Investment Arbitration offers a singular reservoir of knowledge and experience on the topic, drawn from a diverse set of angles and perspectives.

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 16, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Adrian Gallagher, Charles T. Hunt, & Cecilia Jacob, The Responsibility to Protect at an Inflection Point
• Gareth Evans, Atrocity Prevention and Response: Challenges for R2P
• Special Section: Cyberspace and the Responsibility to Protect
• Rhiannon Neilsen, Cyberspace and the Responsibility to Protect Populations from Atrocity Crimes
• Federica D’Alessandra & Ross James Gildea, Technology, R2P, and the UN Framework of Analysis for Atrocity Crimes
• Talita Dias, Finding Common Ground: the Right to Be Free from Incitement to Discrimination, Hostility, and Violence in the Digital Age
• Savita Pawnday, Digital Technologies and Atrocity Risks

Moremen: Perceptions of State: The US State Department and International Law

Philip Moremen (Seton Hall Univ. - Diplomacy and International Relations) has published Perceptions of State: The US State Department and International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Why, and to what extent, are states more or less likely to comply with international law? No overarching state compels compliance, and the international institutional context is thin, yet states seem largely to comply. How do we explain this behaviour? Developed through interviews with eighty State Department senior officials from across five recent administrations, Philip Moremen provides a qualitatively and quantitatively rich study of the extent to which and under what conditions the United States and other countries comply with international law. US policymakers consider legal issues, national interest, and other factors together when making decisions-law is not always dispositive. Nevertheless, international law constrains states. In State Department policymaking there is a strong culture of respect for international law, and lawyers play a highly influential role. In this context, the book concludes by investigating the effect of the Trump Administration on the culture and processes of the State Department.

Conversation on "Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives"

On November 4, 2024, Birmingham Law School will host a conversation with Emily Jones (Newcastle Univ. - Law) and Máiréad Enright (Univ. of Birmingham - Law) on Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives. Details are here.

Lecture: Dill on “International Law in Gaza: Belligerent Intent & Provisional Measures”

On October 22, 2024, Janina Dill (Univ. of Oxford - Government) will give the next lecture of the TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War. The topic is: “International Law in Gaza: Belligerent Intent & Provisional Measures.” Details are here.

Kulamadayil: Global Starvation Governance and International Law

Lys Kulamadayil (Geneva Graduate Institute) has posted Global Starvation Governance and International Law (TWAILR: Reflections, 70/2024). Here's the abstract:

Lys Kulamadayil reflects on the concept of starvation in international law, and argues that contemporary understandings have been distorted by the classification of “famine” in purely technical terms, obscuring the intentional use of starvation as a tactic of war, erasure and genocide.

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 73, no. 3, July 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr, Revisiting the Five-Powers War Risk Exclusion
• Kathryn Greenman, Of War and International Investment Law
• Harry Hobbs & Donald Rothwell, Towards a Legal Era of Islands: The International and Constitutional Legal Status of Island Territories
• Douglas Guilfoyle & Joanna Mossop, The Extent and Legitimacy of the Judicial Function in UNCLOS Dispute Settlement
• Delia Ferri, Iryna Tekuchova, & Eva Krolla, Between Disability and Culture: The Search for a Legal Taxonomy of Sign Languages in the European Union
• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Niccolò Ridi, The Use of Scholarship by the European Court of Human Rights
• Shorter Articles
• Mauro Arturo Rivera León, Voting Protocols as Informal Judicial Institutions: The Politics of Enforceability and Strategic Breaching
• Christian Henderson, US and UK Military Strikes in Yemen and the Jus Ad Bellum
• Yingfeng Shao, Laura Carballo Piñeiro, Maximo Q Mejia, Jr, A Newcomer to Maritime Law: The Beijing Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships

New Issue: Nordic Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 42, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Yulia Dergacheva, A Critical Engagement with the Conceptualization of Sexual Harassment in International Human Rights Law
• Klaus D. Beiter, Open Access ‘Unaccomplished’ – Reforming Copyright or Reconceptualizing Science? Access to Scholarly Publications under a (Reinterpreted) Right to Science
• Tomas Wedin & Carl Wilén, Historicizing the Historical Turn in Human Rights Studies: Origins, Inequality, and Neoliberalism in the Modern Epoch
• Elin Skaar & Aaron John Spitzer, Conceptualizing the Legitimacy of Non-Transitional Truth Commissions: Norway and Canada Compared
• Muyiwa Adigun, Companies’ Human Rights: The Implications for a Human Rights Approach to Climate Change Litigation in South Africa
• Kateryna Zakomorna, Oleksandr Poproshaiev, Olena Poproshaieva, Viktor Muntian & Anna Prikhodko, Legal Guarantees of Physical Activity as Determinants of the Human Right to Health: The Ukrainian Experience in the European Integration Context
• Puskar R. Joshi, Zohreh R. Eslami & Hector H. Rivera, New Constitution in Nepal: Fundamental Freedoms and Educational Rights Provisions, and Implications for Dalits’ Schooling

Call for Papers: 2025 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum

A call for papers has been issued for the 2025 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum, which will be held July 7-8 in Taipei and hosted by the Research Center for International Legal Studies of National Chengchi University and the Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law. The theme is: "Sustainable International Law." The call is here.

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 118, no. 3, July 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Ingrid Brunk & Monica Hakimi, The Prohibition of Annexations and the Foundations of Modern International Law
• Joanna Jarose, A Sleeping Giant? The ENMOD Convention as a Limit on Intentional Environmental Harm in Armed Conflict and Beyond
• International Decisions
• Ibrahim A. Alturki, R (on the Application of PACCAR Inc. and Others) v. Competition Appeal Tribunal and Others, [2023] UKSC 28
• Lauri Mälksoo, Application of the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism and of International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (Ukraine v. Russian Federation), Judgment
• Tomasz Jaroszyński, European Parliament v. European Commission, Case C-137/21, Judgment
• Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
• The Department of State Announces Initiatives to Counter Foreign State Information Manipulation
• The United States Designates the Overthrow of Niger's Government a “Coup d'Etat”
• New Compact of Free Association Agreements with Micronesia, the Marshall Islands, and Palau Approved by Congress
• President Biden Issues Memorandum Requiring Assurances from Recipients of U.S. Military Aid and the State and Defense Departments Certify Israel's Compliance
• The UN General Assembly Adopts U.S.-Led Resolution on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
• The United States Comments on Matters Pending at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court Pertaining to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
• Recent Books on International Law
• J. Benton Heath, Neutrality and Governance in a Weaponized World
• Natsu Taylor Saito, reviewing Race and National Security, edited by Matiangai V. S. Sirleaf
• Kal Raustiala, reviewing Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology, by Anu Bradford
• Annyssa Bellal, reviewing Rebel Courts: The Administration of Justice by Armed Insurgents, by René Provost

Conference: Forty-Second Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference

On November 8, 2024, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law will host, in person and online, the Forty-Second Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference. The theme is: "Illegality in International Investment Law." The program is here.

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 16, no. 2, July 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Scott Wolford & Toby J. Rider, Weak sovereignty and interstate war
• Patrick J. McDonald & Kevin Galambos, Trilateral politics in hierarchy, war, and state formation
• Kate Yoon, The many faces of sovereignty
• David Lefkowitz, A new philosophy for international legal skepticism?
• Tim Beaumont, John Stuart Mill on the Suez Canal and the limits of self-defence

Von Bernstorff: L’essor et la chute du droit international humanitaire

Jochen Von Bernstorff (Universität Tübingen - Law) has published L’essor et la chute du droit international humanitaire : Une brève histoire de la codification de la protection des civils en temps de guerre (1899-1977) (Pedone 2024). Here's the abstract:

Les règles de protection des civils ont toujours été au cœur du droit de la guerre (ius in bello). La codification de ces règles a commencé dans la seconde moitié du 19e siècle, à l'apogée de l'impérialisme européen, et s'est poursuivie après les deux guerres mondiales et pendant la guerre froide. Malgré cela, le nombre de civils tués à la guerre n'a cessé d'augmenter jusqu'à aujourd'hui.

L'expert en droit international Jochen VON BERNSTORFF décrit l'essor et la chute des règles de protection des civils en temps de guerre.

Seminar Series: Thinking Gender, History and International Law

The University of Warwick School of Law's Gender and the Law Cluster will host a seminar series in 2024-2025 on "Thinking Gender, History and International Law." The schedule is here. The first seminar, on "How to Write Feminist Histories of International Law," will take place on October 21, 2024.

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 63, no. 4, August 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Views adopted under art. 31 of the Convention, concerning Commc'n No. 4/2021 (U.N. Comm. Enforced Disappearances), with introductory note by Ariel Dulitzky
• Convention on Int'l Cooperation in the Investigation and Prosecution of the Crime of Genocide, Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes, with introductory note by Hilly Moodrick-Even Khen
• Case C-632/20 P, Spain v. Eur. Comm'n (C.J.E.U.), with introductory note by Eva Kassoti
• Foreign Relations Law of the People's Republic of China, with introductory note by Zheng Tang
• R (AAA (Syria) and Others) v. Secretary of State for the Home Dep't (UKSC), with introductory note by Guy S. Goodwin-Gill

Call for Papers: 20th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law

The European Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 20th Annual Conference, which will take place September 10-13, 2025, at the Freie Universität Berlin. The theme is: "Reconstructing International Law." The call is here. The deadline is January 31, 2025.

Carballo Piñeiro & Mejia: The Elgar Companion to the Law and Practice of the International Maritime Organization

Laura Carballo Piñeiro (Universidade de Vigo - Law), & Maximo Q. Mejia Jr (World Maritime Univ.) have published The Elgar Companion to the Law and Practice of the International Maritime Organization (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

This Companion sheds light on the law and practice of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), which plays a key role in securing safe, secure, and efficient shipping on clean oceans.

Considering core elements of IMO history, this insightful Companion delineates how the Organization has revitalized its law-making powers, encompassing an increasing number and range of maritime-related activities. Taking into account the perspectives of flag, port, seafaring, and ship-owning states, the chapters focus on areas of increasing concern such as compliance and enforcement, and ocean governance. Expert contributors critically examine the efforts made and limitations encountered by the IMO in contributing towards achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, exploring the potential for building a sustainable and inclusive maritime governance. Ultimately, this Companion showcases how the IMO evolved from an ostensibly consultative inter-governmental forum into an active global standards-setting organization.

Bradley: Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice

Curtis A. Bradley (Univ. of Chicago - Law) has Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs: Constitutional Authority in Practice (Harvard Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

In the more than 230 years since the Constitution took effect, the constitutional law governing the conduct of foreign affairs has evolved significantly. But that evolution did not come through formal amendments or Supreme Court rulings. Rather, the law has been defined by the practices of Congress and the executive branch, also known as “historical gloss.”

Curtis A. Bradley documents this process in action. He shows that expansions in presidential power over foreign affairs have often been justified by reference to historical gloss, but that Congress has not merely stepped aside. Belying conventional accounts of the “imperial presidency” in foreign affairs, Congress has also benefited from gloss, claiming powers for itself in the international arena not clearly addressed in the constitutional text and disrupting claims of exclusive presidential authority.

Historical Gloss and Foreign Affairs proposes a constitutional theory that can make sense of these legal changes. In contrast, originalist theories of constitutional interpretation often ignore influential post-Founding developments, while nonoriginalist theories tend to focus on judicial decisions rather than the actions and reasoning of Congress and the executive branch. Moreover, the constitutional theories that do focus on practice have typically emphasized changes at particular moments in time. What we see in the constitutional law of foreign affairs, however, is the long-term accumulation of nonjudicial precedents that is characteristic of historical gloss. With gloss confirmed as a prime mover in the development of foreign affairs law, we can begin to recognize its broader status as an important and longstanding form of constitutional reasoning.