Call for Papers: Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: An International Workshop

A call for papers has been issued for "Dollar Hegemony, State Sovereignty and International Order: An International Workshop," which will take place December 5-6, 2024, at the University of New South Wales. The call is here.

Hybrid Event: The Articulation and Enforcement of Obligations Erga Omnes: Recent Developments

In the latest in the series Bocconi Conversations in International Law, Priya Urs (Univ. of Oxford - St John's College) and Roger O'Keefe (Bocconi Univ.) will discuss "The Articulation and Enforcement of Obligations Erga Omnes: Recent Developments." The event will take place in hybrid format on Friday, June 7, 2024, 4:30pm-6:00pm, at Bocconi University, via Röntgen 1, 20136 Milan, room 1.c3.01. Registration is required for attendance in person (email dip.ius@unibocconi.it). To follow the event on Zoom, go here.

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 105, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• The use of universal jurisdiction to hold accountable perpetrators of crimes under international law: the sky is the limit?
• Introduced by Gabriella Citroni
• Luca Gervasoni, Enabling jurisdiction: Unravelling the global pursuit of justice for international crimes
• Ana Srovin Coralli, Universal jurisdiction: Time to revisit the basics

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 39, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Resilience of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: 40 Years
• Yoshifumi Tanaka & Bjørn Kunoy, Resilience of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: 40 Years – Introduction
• Sean D. Murphy, Durability, Flexibility and Plasticity in the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Hilde Woker, Disagreements between the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) and Submitting Coastal States
• Ilaria Tani, Historic Waters: the Everlasting Anomaly of the Law of the Sea
• Eva R. van der Marel & Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien, Accommodating a Future Plastics Treaty: the ‘Plasticity’ of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Bjørn Kunoy, Jurisdiction of Courts and Tribunals under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea over Disputed Land Areas
• Yoshifumi Tanaka, The Implications of Maritime Delimitation Judgments for Third States: the Nicaragua v. Colombia and Costa Rica v. Nicaragua Cases Revisited

New Issue: Climate Law

The latest issue of Climate Law (Vol. 14, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Alexander Zahar, Fact and Fiction in the Dubai cop’s Decision on Fossil Fuels
• Didac Amat-i-Puigsech, Common Concern of Humankind and Its Legal Consequences for Climate Stability
• Shashi Kant Yadav, Noreen O’Meara, & Rosalind Malcolm, Conceptualizing Climate Law in India
• Gitanjali Nain Gill, Climate Change and India’s Cities: Judicial Responses through the Lens of Sustainability Transformations

Conference: Invoking Global Standards: How International Law Works in Japan and in Other Asian Countries?

On June 30, 2024, the Japan Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law will host its 15th Annual Conference, at Chuo University, Myogadani Campus, Tokyo. The theme is: "Invoking Global Standards: How International Law Works in Japan and in Other Asian Countries?" Details are here.

Inaugural Issue: Journal of Global Health Law

The inaugural issue of the Journal of Global Health Law (Vol. 1, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Gian Luca Burci, The COVID-19 pandemic and the development of global health law: managing crises or achieving structural changes?
• Benjamin Mason Meier & Alexandra Finch, Seventy-five years of global health lawmaking under the World Health Organization: evolving foundations of global health law through global health governance
• Ebenezer Durojaye, Aisosa Jennifer Omoruyi, & Paula Knipe, A rights-based approach to eliminating cervical cancer in Africa
• Roojin Habibi, ‘Someone call a global health lawyer!’: global health law as an emerging community of practice
• Commentary
• Stefania Negri, Sandro Bonfigli, Emanuele Cesta, & Giacomo Di Federico, Strengthening legal preparedness and response within the global health emergency framework: the role of the GHSA Legal Preparedness Action Package
• Donato Greco, COVID-19 compulsory vaccination for certain worker categories and the socio-economic consequences of non-compliance before Italy’s Constitutional Court: a public health and human rights analysis

Sykes: The Utility of Appellate Review at the WTO and Its Optimal Structure

Alan Sykes (Stanford Univ. - Law) has posted The Utility of Appellate Review at the WTO and Its Optimal Structure. Here's the abstract:

The impasse over the appointment of new judges to the WTO Appellate Body shows no signs of abating, raising considerable doubt about the future of appellate review in trade disputes. This paper examines the need for appellate review in the WTO, drawing on both the history of the GATT and especially on the economic literature assessing the desirability of appellate review in judicial systems. It argues that the WTO does not present a compelling economic case for a two-stage judicial process. It further argues that if some form of appellate review is to be retained in the WTO, a discretionary “certiorari-like” mechanism is the best option, which dominates alternative proposals such as those for a more deferential standard of review or the elimination of de facto “precedent.”

Conference: The Borderlands of Criminal Law

On June 20-21, 2024, the Transnational Criminal Law Review will host its first conference, at the University of Windsor Faculty of Law. The theme is: "The Borderlands of Criminal Law." Details are here.

Sasson: The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire

Tehila Sasson (Emory Univ. - History) has published The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the Making of Neoliberalism after Empire (Princeton Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

After India gained independence in 1947, Britain reinvented its role in the global economy through nongovernmental aid organizations. Utilizing existing imperial networks and colonial bureaucracy, the nonprofit sector sought an ethical capitalism, one that would equalize relationships between British consumers and Third World producers as the age of empire was ending. The Solidarity Economy examines the role of nonstate actors in the major transformations of the world economy in the postwar era, showing how British NGOs charted a path to neoliberalism in their pursuit of ethical markets.

Between the 1950s and 1990s, nonprofits sought to establish an alternative to Keynesianism through their welfare and development programs. Encouraging the fair trade of commodities and goods through microfinance, consumer boycotts, and corporate social responsibility, these programs emphasized decentralization, privatization, and entrepreneurship. Tehila Sasson tells the stories of the activists, economists, politicians, and businessmen who reimagined the marketplace as a workshop for global reform. She reveals how their ideas, though commonly associated with conservative neoliberal policies, were part of a nonprofit-driven endeavor by the liberal left to envision markets as autonomous and humanizing spaces, facilitating ethical relationships beyond the impersonal realm of the state.

Drawing on dozens of newly available repositories from nongovernmental, international, national, and business archives, The Solidarity Economy reconstructs the political economy of these markets—from handicrafts and sugar to tea and coffee—shedding critical light on the postimperial origins of neoliberalism.

Gillard: Enhancing the security of civilians in conflict

Emanuela-Chiara Gillard (Chatham House) has posted Enhancing the security of civilians in conflict. Here's the abstract:

The desire to alleviate human suffering in conflict situations often leads to calls to establish arrangements to provide some security for civilians caught up in hostilities and to facilitate humanitarian response efforts.

This paper discusses six types of humanitarian arrangements that have been established or called for in recent conflicts: humanitarian notifications, evacuations, humanitarian corridors, suspensions of hostilities, protected zones and no-fly zones.

Some of the arrangements are interconnected, and need to be established in conjunction with one another. For an evacuation to take place safely, for instance, there also needs to be a safe route for people to travel, along with a suspension of hostilities.

For each humanitarian arrangement, the relevant international law is outlined, recurring operational challenges are identified, and recommendations are made for good practice. The concluding chapter of the paper makes some overarching points and recommendations applicable to all the arrangements.

Contesse: Inter-States Disputes Under the Inter-American Human Rights System

Jorge Contesse (Rutgers Univ. - Law) has posted Inter-States Disputes Under the Inter-American Human Rights System. Here's the abstract:

Under the inter-American human rights system, inter-State disputes seem largely irrelevant. Such irrelevance contrasts with the European human rights system, where the amount of inter-State disputes is significant (and growing), and is similar to the African human rights regime, where there is a very low number of inter-State disputes. In more than four decades since the entry into force of the American Convention on Human Rights, there are only two inter-State disputes brought before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights—one of the two bodies that, along with the Inter-American Court, make up the regional human rights system. The virtual inexistence of inter-State complaints, however, does not mean an absence of human rights disputes among members of the Organization of American States (OAS). In fact, States resort to other mechanisms to process their disputes. Therefore, to explore how inter-States disputes actually operate under inter-American human rights law, it is necessary to broaden the view and look beyond the specific mechanism of inter-State communications established in the American Convention. This article discusses the two inter-State communications that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has so far examined, and analyses other mechanisms—typically, advisory opinions by the Inter-American Court—that serve as a substitute for inter-State communications. The article shows how OAS States use advisory opinions as a covert inter-State dispute mechanism and argues that the Inter-American Court should articulate a clear set of admissibility standards to address this practice.

Call for Papers: ASIL/ESIL International Organizations Interest Groups Biannual Virtual Workshop

The International Organizations Interest Groups of the American Society of International Law and the European Society of International Law have issued a call for papers for their biannual virtual workshop of academic works in progress addressing the law or practice of international organizations. Here's the call:

The International Organizations Interest Groups (IOIGs) of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) and the European Society of International Law (ESIL) are delighted to announce a call for proposals for their biannual virtual workshop of academic works in progress addressing the law or practice of international organizations.

The workshop will provide an opportunity for scholars to receive feedback from their peers and experts in international organizations law. The tentative date to hold the workshop is 17 February 2025, at a time convenient for the most number of selected authors.

To be considered, please send an abstract of around 400 to 800 words to dpickard@debevoise.com and igioesil@gmail.com by 29 June 2024. Selected authors will be expected to submit article- or chapter-length papers by 2 December 2024. Co-authorship is permitted. We also welcome expressions of interest from potential reviewers.

Please contact dpickard@debevoise.com or igioesil@gmail.com with any questions.

New Issue: Chinese Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 23, no. 1, March 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Ka Lok Yip, Military Alliances under International Law
• Thanapat Chatinakrob, Interplay of International Law and Cyberspace: State Sovereignty Violation, Extraterritorial Effects, and the Paradigm of Cyber Sovereignty
• Seyfullah Hasar, Recognition of Governments and the Case of the Taliban
• Yunqing Liu, Revisiting the Customary International Law Avenue: Immunity of State Officials of Non-Party States in the Enforcement Proceedings of the International Criminal Court
• Comment
• Wang Yong & Pan Xin, The Application of the Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities in Environmental Governance on the High Seas
• Letters to the Journal
• Atul Alexander, Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) at the International Court of Justice
• Miłosz Gapsa, Broadening the Bindingness of the Provisional Measures Order in South Africa v. Israel at the ICJ?
• Daniele Musmeci, The UN Security Council Adopts a Targeted Sanctions Regime to Tackle Gang-related Violence and Arms Trafficking in Haiti
• Yen-Chiang Chang, Seokwoo Lee & Jie Sun, Better Ballast Water Discharge Initiative: A Need for Cooperation

Workshops: "National Military Manuals on IHL"/"International Humanitarian Law Legal Clinics Networking Conference"

On May 29-30, 2024, the IHL Red Consortium will host two online workshops: "National Military Manuals on IHL: Challenges and Opportunities in Drafting Instruments for the Application of IHL by Armed Forces" (May 29) and, in cooperation with the ICRC, "International Humanitarian Law Legal Clinics Networking Conference" (May 30). Details are here.