New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 23, no. 2, May 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Jonas Kasteng, Ari Kokko, Nils Norell, & Patrik Tingvall, Learning to Use Trade Preferences: A Firm and Transaction Level Analysis of the EU–South Korea FTA
• Usama Salamat & Salamat Ali, The Long Shadows of Brexit: Implications for African Countries
• Anatole Boute, Accounting for Carbon Pricing in Third Countries Under the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism
• Mira Burri, María Vásquez Callo-Müller, & Kholofelo Kugler, The Evolution of Digital Trade Law: Insights from TAPED
• Emily Jones, Beatriz Kira, & Rutendo Tavengerwei, Norm Entrepreneurship in Digital Trade: The Singapore-led Wave of Digital Trade Agreements
• Bryan Mercurio, The Demise of Globalization and Rise of Industrial Policy: Caveat Emptor
• Thibault Denamiel, Response to Bryan Mercurio's Caveat Emptor
• Tim Groser, Small State Diplomacy in Action: The Real Origins of TPP

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (Vol. 34, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Heike Krieger, Constructing Narratives of Change – The War against Ukraine as a Transformational Moment for International Law?
• Robert Baumann, Die innerstaatliche Legitimation von bindenden Beschlüssen und einseitigen Erklärungen: Recht und Praxis
• Yannick Zerbe, Caught in the Web: The Right to Self-Defense of Third States as Victims of Spill-Over Effects from Cyberattacks

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 28, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Samantha Besson, The ‘Human Right to Science’ qua right to participate in science: The participatory good of science and its human rights dimensions
• Heloisa Pinheiro de Castro Simão, The Cartagena ‘Spirit’ as a third world human rights alternative to refugee protection: lessons to learn from Brazil’s approach to Venezuelan socio-economic refugee
• Lieselotte Viaene & María Ximena González-Serrano, The right to be, to feel and to exist: Indigenous lawyers and strategic litigation over Indigenous territories in Guatemala
• Neve Gordon, On antisemitism and human rights
• Md. Intekhab Hossain, Resurgent totalitarianism, charismatic dictatorship, and the rise of socio-political extremism in the age of globalisation and multiculturalism: an escalating human rights crisis
• Genís Galceran & Juan Carlos Palacios, What makes transitional justice possible? An analysis of the Spanish case
• Mohammad Pizuar Hossain, Assessing the International Criminal Court’s response to genocide: a reference to the case of Al-Bashir
• Agne Limante, Protecting vulnerable groups in Europe: highlights from recent case law of the European Court of Human Rights

Bianchi & Zarbiyev: Demystifying Treaty Interpretation

Andrea Bianchi (Geneva Graduate Institute) & Fuad Zarbiyev (Geneva Graduate Institute) have published Demystifying Treaty Interpretation (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Demystifying Treaty Interpretation doesn't just tell you how treaties are commonly interpreted. It helps you understand also the process of treaty interpretation and its outcomes. The idea that rules of treaty interpretation can guide us to the meaning of treaty provisions, in a simple and straightforward manner, is a myth to be dispelled. This book aims to capture some of the complex and nuanced processes involved in treaty interpretation. It spurs further reflection about how interpretation takes place against the background of concepts, categories, and insights from other disciplines. A useful tool for scholars, practitioners and researchers engaging with treaty interpretation at all levels, the book aims to enhance the reader's knowledge and mastery of the interpretive process in all its elements, with a view to making them more skilled and effective players in the game of interpretation.

Call for Papers: Biennial Conference on International Law and the Social Sciences

A call for papers has been issued for the Biennial Conference on International Law and the Social Sciences of the American Society of International Law's International Law and Social Sciences Interest Group. The conference will take place, September 27-28, 2024, at Northwestern University School of Law. Details, including the call, are here.

New Volume: Yearbook of International Disaster Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of International Disaster Law (Vol. 5, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Thematic Section: Human Rights and Disasters
• YIDL Dialogues with Practitioners #2: Dr Volker Türk, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights - A Dialogue with Marie Aronsson-Storrier and Emanuele Sommario
• Siobhán Mullally & Keelin Barry, Trafficking in Persons in the Context of Climate-Related Disasters and Displacement: a Failure of Protection and Prevention 
• Susan Breau, Lessons from COVID-19 with Respect to the Positive Obligations of States to Protect Older Persons in the Event of Disasters 
• Christina Binder, Emergencies in the Inter-American Human Rights System: the Example of Ecuador in Times of COVID-19 
• Miriam Cullen, Benedicte Sofie Holm, & Céline Brassart-Olsen, A Human Rights-Based Approach to Disaster Risk Management in Greenland: Displacement, Relocation, and the Legacies of Colonialism 
• Federica Passarini, The Prevention of Disasters Related to Natural Hazards in the Practice of Human Rights Courts and Treaty Bodies: towards a DRR Approach 
• Holly A. Seglah & Kevin Blanchard, Sexual and Gender Minorities and the Right to Non-discrimination: a Shortfall of Disaster Risk Reduction? 
• Stellina Jolly & Chhaya Bhardwaj, Exploring the Role of the National Human Rights Commission in Climate-Induced Disaster Displacement in India: Lessons from Sri Lanka and the Philippines 
• Kumush Suyunova, Human Rights Restrictions Prompted by the COVID-19 Pandemic: Uncertainties and Differences in the Practice of ECHR Parties 
• General Section
• Tuomas Palosaari, Legal Form and Competing Framings of Cross-Border Disaster Displacement in the Context of Climate Change 
• Natalia Cwicinskaja, The Impact of the COVID-19 on Contested Territorial Entities of Eastern Europe: between Isolation and Cooperation 
• Rebeca Isabel Muñoz Arosemena, International Disaster Law in Honduras: the Role of the Red Cross and IFRC in Integrating International Guidelines into the Domestic Legal System 

Conversation: Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty under the Law of Treaties

On April 19, 2024, Bocconi University will host a conversation, in the hybrid format, on "Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty under the Law of Treaties." Lorand Bartels (Univ. of Cambridge), Tibisay Morgandi (Queen Mary Univ. of London), and Roger O'Keefe (Bocconi Univ.) will discuss whether there is a way under the law of treaties for states parties withdrawing from the Energy Charter Treaty to circumvent the treaty’s twenty-year sunset clause. This is the latest in the series Bocconi Conversations in International Law. The event will take place at Bocconi University, via Röntgen 1, 20136 Milan, room 1.c3.01, from 4:30pm to 6:00pm. Registration is required for attendance in person (email dip.ius@unibocconi.it). The event will be on Zoom here (meeting ID 993 0983 0316, passcode 539190).