International Law Reporter: 5/12/24

Friday, May 17, 2024

The latest issue of the International Criminal Law Review (Vol. 24, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

Simone Antonio Luciano, Pain as the Essence of Torture: Exploring the Characteristics and Requirements of the Element of “Pain or Suffering” in the Crime Against Humanity of Torture
Sarah Zink, Ecocide as a New Core Crime in the Rome Statute? An Ultima Ratio Lens on Legal Policy in International Criminal Law
Birju Kotecha, A Hollow Enterprise: International Criminal Justice and Public Relations
Lorenzo Acconciamessa, Balancing the Interest in Prosecuting International Crimes against the Fair Trial Guarantees: The Italian Constitutional’s Court’s Judgment in the Regeni Case on the Prosecution of Torture In Absentia
Tatjana Grote, Crimes of Humanity: International Criminal Law as a Collective Psychological Defence Mechanism

The latest issue of Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 15, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

Margot E. Salomon, The Trojan Horse of sovereign debt
Nahuel Maisley, Law and democracy in the globalisation of infrastructure as an asset class
Aoife O’Donoghue, Bluntschli, C’est Moi? International legal history and hagiography
Catherine Frost, Advisory opinions, juridical mischief and Canada’s contribution to the law of statehood

Sze Hong Lam, The Gentle Civilizer of the Far East – A Re-Examination of the Encounter between ‘China’ and ‘International Law’
Anna Hood, The Construction of Global Hierarchies through Disarmament Law
Charlotte Kiechel, ‘A Jurisprudence for the Future’: Anticolonial Lawyering during the Vietnam War Years