New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 26, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability
• Kamrul Hossain, An Indigenous Cosmovision for Earth-Centric Governance: Deconstructing the Normative Structure of International Law?
• Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Human Right to a Clean Environment: General Reflections
• Agnes Viktoria Rydberg, Climate Change Litigation: General Perspectives and Emerging Trends
• Pauline Martini, International Criminal Law and the Environment: A Few Reflections

Lin & Peel: Litigating Climate Change in the Global South

Jolene Lin (National Univ. of Singapore - Law) & Jacqueline Peel (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) have published Litigating Climate Change in the Global South (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

While climate change litigation in developed countries of the 'Global North' is a well-studied phenomenon (from its distinctive characteristics and the contribution it is making, to the implementation of international climate laws like the Paris Agreement), relatively few studies focus on climate case law emerging elsewhere.

Litigating Climate Change in the Global South sheds light on emerging and accelerating climate litigation in developing countries across the three regions of Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Asia and the Pacific. It is the first monograph-length work to provide a comprehensive assessment of this jurisprudence.

Amid growing scholarly and policy interest in climate change litigation and its impact on international climate governance, the book examines which Global South countries are seeing climate cases, what is driving these trends, the coalitions of actors involved, and the early impacts this litigation is having on global goals of climate mitigation and adaptation.

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 33, no. 1, April 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Yayun Shen & Michael Faure, Behavioural instruments in environmental law and policy: Potential and challenges
• Goran Dominioni, Carbon pricing for international shipping, equity, and WTO law
• Sarah Downs, Civil liability for climate change? The proposed tort in Smith v Fonterra with reference to France and the Netherlands
• Paula Leskinen, Antti Belinskij, & Sanna-Riikka Saarela, Integrating climate change into legislative drafting: An analysis of regulatory impact assessment obligations and practices in the EU and Finland
• Saga Eriksson, The centrality of law for EU sustainable finance markets: Outlining a research agenda
• Wen Duan, Area-based management tools under the BBNJ Agreement: Ambition or illusion?
• Antti Belinskij, Niko Soininen, Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, & Noora Veijalainen, Climate change adaptation in water law: International, EU and Finnish perspectives
• Yang Liu, A legal analysis of the interinstitutional duty to cooperate in international water law
• Esmeralda Colombo, A paper tiger in the fog of governance: Norway's riddle in biodiversity matters
• Mirta Alessandrini, Edwin Alblas, Lin Batten, & Sumira Bothé, Smallholder farms in the sustainable food transition: A critical examination of the new Common Agricultural Policy
• Case Note
• Gabriel M. Lentner & Weronika Cenin, Daniel Billy et al v Australia (Torres Strait Islanders Petition): Climate change inaction as a human rights violation

New Issue: Cooperation and Conflict

The latest issue of Cooperation and Conflict (Vol. 59, no. 1, March 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Vytautas Isoda, Can small states wage proxy wars? A closer look at Lithuania’s military aid to Ukraine
• Emma Mc Cluskey, Bourdieu the ethnographer: Grounding the habitus of the ‘far-right’ voter
• Tracy Adams, Gadi Heimann, & Zohar Kampf, How do states reminisce? Building relations through bonding narratives
• Janina Heaphy, When identity meets strategy: The development of British and German anti-torture policies since 9/11
• Wayne Stephen Coetzee, Sebastian Larsson, & Joakim Berndtsson, Branding ‘progressive’ security: The case of Sweden
• Tom FA Watts & Ingvild Bode, Machine guardians: The Terminator, AI narratives and US regulatory discourse on lethal autonomous weapons systems

von Bogdandy, Piovesan, Ferrer Mac-Gregor, & Morales Antoniazzi: The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Transformations on the Ground

Armin von Bogdandy (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), Flávia Piovesan (Pontifical Catholic Univ. of São Paulo), Eduardo Ferrer Mac-Gregor (National Autonomous University of Mexico), & Mariela Morales Antoniazzi (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) have published The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Transformations on the Ground (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). The book is available open access. Here's the abstract:

The Inter-American System of Human Rights (IASHR) is certainly a source of innovation in human rights law and policy. However, uncertainty reigns over its true legal, political, and social effects as many decisions face serious problems of compliance. To better grasp the System's effects, this book broadens the focus from compliance to impact as the key criterion of effectiveness. Thus, The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System: Transformations on the Ground can reveal the IASHR's deep and multifaceted effects, not least by embedding a common law of human rights.

Outlining the IASHR's historic path and contemporary practice, this book shows legal, political, and social effects with respect to the main problems that trouble the Americas. Though most of these certainly continue to exist, the System is having a transformative impact on them on the ground, though with huge differences between issues and countries. These achievements as well as the variations should be of interest to academics, judges, and policymakers in Latin America as well as other regions undergoing similar stress, such as Central and Eastern Europe or Africa.

The Impact of the Inter-American Human Rights System brings together leading scholars in international and constitutional law, social sciences, and international relations to present a systematic and critical analysis of the impact of the IASHR in the various fields of its activity. These include issues of internal conflicts, transition to democracy, rights of vulnerable groups, social rights, the environment, digital rights, and the accountability of private actors. The book also offers evidence-based proposals to further enhance the transformative impact of the Inter-American System that could be taken up by courts and policymakers at the national, Inter-American, and global levels.

Special Issue: Private Citizen of the World: Karen Knop’s Scholarship

The latest issue of the University of Toronto Law Journal (Vol. 74, Supp. No. 1, 2024) is a special issue on "Private Citizen of the World: Karen Knop’s Scholarship." Contents include:

• Special Issue: Private Citizen of the World: Karen Knop’s Scholarship
• Mayo Moran, Private citizen of the faculty: Some reflections on a colleague, scholar, teacher, and friend
• Karen Knop & Annelise Riles, My own pink world: Feminist diplomacy after culture
• Roxana Banu, Private international law’s ambivalent humanism
• Karen Engle, ‘Private’ diplomacy and nuclear disarmament: Revisiting the Cold War activism of Women for a Meaningful Summit
• Fleur Johns, Rehoming diplomacy: Privilege and possibility in the international law of diplomatic relations
• David Kennedy, Possibility in paradox: Karen Knop re/stated
• Martti Koskenniemi, The law of international society: A road not taken
• Ralf Michaels, The right to have private rights
• Mai Taha, History and contestation: On teaching Diversity and Self-Determination in International Law
• Philippe Sands, On lizard pumps and the self-determination of Karen Knop
• Robert Wai, Trade law as foreign relations law
• David Dyzenhaus, Private citizen of the world: Karen Knop’s scholarship

Koh: The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century

Harold Hongju Koh (Yale Univ. - Law) has published The National Security Constitution in the Twenty-First Century (Yale Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Since the beginning of the American Republic, a package of norms has evolved in the U.S. Constitution to protect the operation of checks and balances in national security policy. This “National Security Constitution” promotes shared powers and balanced institutional participation in foreign policymaking. Today it is under attack from a competing claim of executive unilateralism generated by recurrent patterns of presidential activism, congressional passivity, and judicial tolerance. This dynamic has pushed presidents of both parties to press the limits of law in foreign affairs.

In his award-winning National Security Constitution (1990), Harold Hongju Koh traced the evolution of this constitutional struggle across America’s history. This new book, based on the earlier volume but with roughly 70 percent new material, brings the story to the present, placing recent events into constitutional perspective. Reviewing the presidencies of the twenty-first century, he explains why modern national security threats have given presidents of both parties incentives to monopolize foreign policy decision-making, Congress incentives to defer, and the courts reasons to rubber-stamp. Koh suggests both a workable strategy and crucial prescriptions to restore the balance of our constitutional order in addressing modern global crises.

New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 19, no. 2, April 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Lindsay R. Dolan & Alexandra O. Zeitz, Migration and development finance: A survey experiment on diaspora bonds
• Matthew A. Castle, Renegotiating in good faith: How international treaty revisions can deepen cooperation
• Francisco Urdinez, Undermining U.S. reputation: Chinese vaccines and aid and the alternative provision of public goods during COVID-19
• Diana Panke & Sören Stapel, Cooperation between international organizations: Demand, supply, and restraint
• Anna M. Meyerrose, Building strong executives and weak institutions: How European integration contributes to democratic backsliding
• Mirko Heinzel & Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Soft governance against superbugs: How effective is the international regime on antimicrobial resistance?

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 16, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Daniel R. Brunstetter & Francisco Lobo, R2P, the Imperial Critique, and Self-Determination: Recovering the Narrative of the Tlaxcaltecas
• Lucas de Belmont, Mass Atrocities against Indigenous Peoples: Atrocity Structure and the Brazilian Amazon under Bolsonaro
• Michael J. Butler, Beyond ‘Saving Strangers’: Revisiting R2P as an Accountability Mechanism

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 58, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Julien Chaisse & Xueji Su, Weaponization of Trade Barrier Investigations: Economic Coercion in China-Taiwan Relations
• Carrie Shu Shang, Mapping Export Control Extraterritoriality in the US-China Technology Decoupling
• Felicity Deane & Zoe Hurst, Climate Technology, Trade, and IPRs: New Rules for Global Needs
• Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi, Border Checks and Regional Economic Integration. Curious Examples from and Around the EU
• Hae Bin Oh, Developments in US Trade Policy Amid the Shifting Dynamics of World Trade
• Ginger T. Faulk, Strengthen US Sanctions by Enabling Regularized Use of Humanitarian Exemptions
• Meng Chen, Shaping Extraterritoriality under China’s Foreign Relation Regime

Gomula & Wittich: Research Handbook on International Procedural Law

Joanna Gomula (Univ. of Cambridge - Lauterpacht Centre for International Law) & Stephan Wittich (Univ. of Vienna - Law) has published Research Handbook on International Procedural Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

This comprehensive Research Handbook provides a detailed exploration of the principles and rules that impact the procedures and operation of international courts and tribunals. Within this framework, leading experts examine how the evolution of procedural rules and concepts has given rise to a distinct body of rules known as international procedural law.

Diverse contributors from common and civil law backgrounds discuss the significance, sources and general principles of international procedural law and highlight crucial, yet often overlooked, international dispute resolution regimes. Specific problems related to the emergence of international procedural law, such as the interaction between international judicial regimes, are also unpacked and potential practical solutions investigated. The Research Handbook concludes by looking forwards, using a comparative analysis of the interactions between distinct international dispute resolution regimes to outline how mutual consideration and comity can lead to procedural congruence.

Zahar: Research Handbook on the Law of the Paris Agreement

Alexander Zahar (Southwest Univ. of Political Science and Law - Law) has published Research Handbook on the Law of the Paris Agreement (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

This comprehensive Research Handbook sets out a systematic analysis of the Paris Agreement taking into account developments since it entered into force in 2016. It explores the treaty’s capacity, as an instrument of international law, to compel state action to address the universal threat of climate change.

Highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of the Paris Agreement in light of state practice, each chapter contains a critical examination of a separate aspect of the treaty in order to aid understanding of its legal force. Eminent scholars with experience in Paris Agreement law explore how the Agreement’s efficacy relies heavily upon the goodwill of states, sui generis domestic initiatives, forceful climate law at the domestic level, and other contextual factors such as international peace and cooperation. Acknowledging the weak legal substance of the Paris Agreement, the expert contributors propose new avenues of scholarly inquiry as well as new directions in the fight against climate change.

Morgera: Fair and Equitable Benefit-sharing in International Law

Elisa Morgera (Univ. of Strathclyde - Law) has published Fair and Equitable Benefit-sharing in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). This volume is available open access. Here's the abstract:

Fair and equitable benefit-sharing is a diffuse legal phenomenon in international law. The continued proliferation of benefit-sharing clauses can be explained by their appeal as an optimistic frame in addressing sustainability and equity concerns related to bio-based innovation, the use of natural resources, environmental protection, and knowledge creation. In principle, fair and equitable benefit-sharing serves to recognize, encourage, and incentivise sustainable human relationships with the environment by focusing on equity issues arising from the most intractable challenges of our time, such as loss of biodiversity, climate change, poverty, and global epidemics. Empirical evidence, however, indicates that, in practice, benefit-sharing rarely achieves its fairness and equity objectives, and ends up entrenching or worsening inequitable relationships with little to no benefit for the environment.

Instead of focusing on fair and equitable benefit-sharing in sub-specialist areas of international law in isolation, Elisa Morgera assesses the phenomenon from a general international law perspective and through comparison-across international environmental law, international human rights law, international health law, and the law of the sea. Strengthened by insights from local-level case studies in different regions and sectors, this book looks toward overcoming the limitations inherent in individual international regimes and addressing the shortcomings in benefit-sharing implementation. Morgera's topical and comprehensive analysis reveals opportunities to advance fairness and equity in benefit-sharing through a mutually supportive interpretation of international biodiversity law and international human rights law, as well as opportunities to contribute to future research in areas such as international health law, international law on outer space, and international economic law.

Quinton-Brown: Intervention before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy

Patrick Quinton-Brown (Singapore Management Univ. - International Relations) has published Intervention before Interventionism: A Global Genealogy (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

The era of liberal interventionism is over, and the prevailing international discourse is once again about defending state borders and putting up walls. This broad re-assertion of sovereignty and non-intervention---often considered the normative foundation of the BRICS countries, of the Non-Aligned Movement, of Bandung, of the “Westphalian” South---raises a series of difficult questions, not least about the management of challenges shared by all. How are we to make sense of re-organisations of intervention and non-intervention in global order?

Recently the dominant way of approaching these issues has been through the lens of cosmopolitan or liberal-solidarist duties, including the Responsibility to Protect. Yet it seems doubtful that this framework is still capable of posing the right questions or generating the right sorts of answers. This volume offers a new approach that provincializes the conventional debate, de-naturalises what it takes as universal or given, and lays out a series of alternatives at a time when non-intervention, quite suddenly, seems everywhere in the discourse of international society. It does so through a genealogy of the intervention concept since 1945.

Intervention before Interventionism is about the ways in which statespeople have re-ordered intervention and non-intervention since the middle of the twentieth century; it is concerned primarily with non-Western contestations of Western-dominated order; it illustrates institutional change in and through decolonization; and it provides a conceptual roadmap for understanding dilemmas of intervention and non-intervention today, particularly in relation to contestation as it has re-emerged in the twenty-first century. While building upon and conversing with existing literature, the book stands out from previous approaches insofar as it is a mapping of international struggles for the re-constitution of intervention in the globalization of the society of states.

New Issue: Nordic Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 42, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Agnė Limantė, Bias in Facial Recognition Technologies Used by Law Enforcement: Understanding the Causes and Searching for a Way Out
• Eetu Vento, The Global Institutionalization of Human Rights Discourse: A Cross-national Analysis of the Language used in the International Labour Conference during the Cold War
• Akinaga Yoshida, Beyond Non-bindingness: States’ Implementation of UN Human Rights Treaties Bodies’ Concluding Observations
• Mohammed Almahfali, Nesma Hewidy & Merle von der Hülst, Capitalizing on Freedom of Expression for Creativity: A Case Study of Dawit Isaak Library, Malmö, Sweden
• Carsten Anckar & Thomas Denk, Diffusion and the Abolition of the Death Penalty: A Global Comparison
• Andrew Fagan, The Subject of Human Rights: From the Unencumbered Self to the Relational Self
• Therese Boje Mortensen, Human Rights as Social Service: Vernacular Rights Cultures and Overlapping Ethical Discourses at an Indian Child Rights NGO

New Volume: Yearbook of International Environmental Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of International Environmental Law (Vol. 33, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Article
• Susan Ann Samuel, ‘Greening’ International Law en route to Agenda 2030: The Role of Youth in Enhancing the Soft Power of Climate Justice

New Issue: Journal of International Dispute Settlement

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 15, no. 2, June 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Szilárd Gáspár-Szilágyi, When the Dragon comes Home to Roost: Chinese Investments in the EU, National Security, and Investor–State Arbitration
• Stephany Aw, The effects of third-party intervention in the adjudication of maritime delimitation disputes
• Ngangjoh Hodu Yenkong, Reflecting on the rule of law contestations narratives in the world trading system
• Samaila Adelaiye & Okechukwu Eluogu, Trade openness in developing countries and use of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organisation
• Yun Zhao & Hui Chen, Enhancing access to digital justice: digital governance of dispute resolution and dispute prevention in online commercial activities
• Current Developments
• Elena Ivanova, Independence and impartiality through the lens of incompatible activities, disqualification and challenge: the ICJ, ITLOS, and inter-State arbitration
• Jean-Michel Marcoux, Banning oil and gas activities under international investment law: a problem of indeterminacy

Gauci & Sander: Teaching International Law: Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context

Jean-Pierre Gauci (British Institute for International and Comparative Law) & Barrie Sander (Leiden Univ.) have published Teaching International Law: Reflections on Pedagogical Practice in Context (Routledge 2024). Here's the abstract:

The practice of teaching international law is conducted in a wide range of contexts across the world by a host of different actors – including scholars, practitioners, civil society groups, governments, and international organisations.

This collection brings together a diversity of scholars and practitioners to share their experiences and critically reflect on current practices of teaching international law across different contexts, traditions, and perspectives to develop existing conversations and spark fresh ones concerning teaching practices within the field of international law. Reflecting on the responsibilities of teachers of international law to engage with and confront histories, contemporary crises, and everyday events in their teaching, the collection explores efforts to decenter the teacher and the law in the classroom, opportunities for dialogical and critical approaches to teaching, and the possibilities of co-producing non-conventional pedagogies that question the mainstream underpinnings of international law teaching. Focusing on the tools and techniques used to teach international law to date, the collection examines the teaching of international law in different contexts. Traversing a range of domestic and regional contexts around the world, the book offers insights into both the culture of teaching in particular domestic settings, aswell as the structural challenges and obstacles that arise in terms of who, what, and how international law is taught in practice.

Offering a unique window into the personal experiences of a diversity of scholars and practitioners from around the world, this collection aims to nurture conversations about the responsibilities, approaches, opportunities, and challenges of teaching international law.

New Issue: European Journal of International Relations

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Relations (Vol. 30, no. 2, June 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Nicolas Lemay-Hébert & Ari Jerrems, The afterlives of state failure: echoes and aftermaths of colonialism
• Aurora Ganz, Emotions and securitisation: a new materialist discourse analysis
• Stephanie C. Hofmann & Andrew Yeo, Historical institutionalism and institutional design: divergent pathways to regime complexes in Asia and Europe
• Deborah Barros Leal Farias, Multiple hierarchies within the ‘civilized’ world: country ranking and regional power in the International Labour Organization (1919–1922)
• Jef Huysmans & João P. Nogueira, Against ‘resistance’? Towards a conception of differential politics in international political sociology
• Alexander Cooley, John Heathershaw, & Ricard Soares de Oliveira, Transnational uncivil society networks: kleptocracy’s global fightback against liberal activism
• Andreas Nishikawa-Pacher, How diplomacy evolves: the global spread of honorific state awards
• Suzanne Klein Schaarsberg, Enacting the pluriverse in the West: contemplative activism as a challenge to the disenchanted one-world world
• Filippo Costa Buranelli, Of nomads and khanates: heteronomy and interpolity order in 19th-century Central Asia
• Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni & Laura Breen, Issue-adoption and campaign structure in transnational advocacy campaigns: a longitudinal network analysis

Nollkaemper, Shany, & Tzanakopoulos: The Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law: Comparative Perspectives

André Nollkaemper (Univ. of Ambsterdam - Law), Yuval Shany (Hebrew Univ. - Law), & Antonios Tzanakopoulos (Univ. of Oxford - Law) have published The Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law: Comparative Perspectives (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The relationship between domestic courts and international law is usually defined by the frameworks of monism and dualism. The Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law advances and develops a new paradigm for describing, assessing, and understanding the role of domestic courts in the international legal order.

Two trends are examined in parallel in this volume. The traditional dividing lines between national and international law norms and institutions have become increasingly blurred. However, the practice of domestic courts can less and less be understood by reference to a formal approach that dictates how national legal orders receive international law. The solutions that courts reach are often based on a variety of other considerations that are not captured by the classical formal models. The aim of the book is to bring together the wide variety of types of engagement, as an important step towards a better understanding of what courts do and, eventually, towards a normative exercise of articulating principles or guidelines for the engagement of domestic courts with international law.

To bring together the pragmatic approaches of domestic courts, the International Law Association Study Group on Principles on the Engagement of Domestic Courts with International Law engaged in studies with experts from a variety of backgrounds. On the basis of the Study Group's Final Report, the editors of this book continued to work with experts from different jurisdictions to collect and analyse alternate pragmatic forms of engagement from domestic courts. This publication contains the outcome of this process.

Kolb: Reservations to Optional Declarations Granting Jurisdiction to the International Court of Justice

Robert Kolb (Univ. of Geneva - Law) has published Reservations to Optional Declarations Granting Jurisdiction to the International Court of Justice (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

In this incisive book, Robert Kolb sets out a short but nevertheless in-depth analysis of optional declarations for the jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice, and of the various reservations which restrict the jurisdiction. Concise and readable, the book examines the true scope of this jurisdiction once the numerous carve-outs of the reservations are subtracted.

Kolb constructs a detailed exploration of the reservations involved and their effects. After an overview of the optional declarations, chapters cover key topics such as reciprocity and how one should interpret the text of the many reservations. They delve into material reservations, including military and security, or reserved domain, territorial reservations and those relating to specific treaties, as well as temporal reservations and finally personal reservations.

New Issue: Journal of Human Rights Practice

The latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Vol. 16, no. 1, February 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Collection - Developments, Opportunities and Complexities in Global South Climate Litigation
• Melanie Jean Murcott & Maria Antonia Tigre, Developments, Opportunities, and Complexities in Global South Climate Litigation: Introduction to the Special Collection
• Maria Antonia Tigre, The ‘Fair Share’ of Climate Mitigation: Can Litigation Increase National Ambition for Brazil?
• Danielle de Andrade Moreira, Ana Lucia B . Nina, Carolina de Figueiredo Garrido, & Maria Eduarda Segovia Barbosa Neves, Rights-Based Climate Litigation in Brazil: An Assessment of Constitutional Cases Before the Brazilian Supreme Court
• Délton Winter de Carvalho & Rafaela Santos Martins da Rosa, Climate Constitutionalism as a Foundation for Climate Litigation in Latin America
• Fernanda de Salles Cavedon-Capdeville, María Valeria Berros, Humberto Filpi, & Paola Villavicencio-Calzadilla, An Ecocentric Perspective on Climate Litigation: Lessons from Latin America
• Ademola Oluborode Jegede, Framing Climate Litigation in Individual Communications of the African Human Rights System: Claw-Backs and Substantive Divergences
• Melanie Jean Murcott & Clive Vinti, The Judge-Made ‘Duty’ to Consider Climate Change in South Africa
• Yusra Suedi & Marie Fall, Climate Change Litigation before the African Human Rights System: Prospects and Pitfalls
• Gastón Medici-Colombo & Thays Ricarte, The Escazú Agreement Contribution to Environmental Justice in Latin America: An Exploratory Empirical Inquiry through the Lens of Climate Litigation
• Juan Auz, The Political Ecology of Climate Remedies in Latin America and the Caribbean: Comparing Compliance between National and Inter-American Litigation
• Natalia Urzola Gutiérrez, Gender in Climate Litigation in Latin America: Epistemic Justice Through a Feminist Lens
• Diogo Andreolla Serraglio, Fernanda de Salles Cavedon-Capdeville, & Fanny Thornton, The Multi-Dimensional Emergence of Climate-Induced Migrants in Rights-Based Litigation in the Global South
• Lisa Chamberlain & Melissa Fourie, Using Climate Litigation to Strengthen Advocacy Strategies: The Life After Coal Campaign in South Africa
• Lorena Zenteno Villa, Exploring Institutional Barriers to Effective Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation in Latin American Courts—Lessons from Chile and Ecuador
• María Daniela de la Rosa Calderón, Rights-based Climate Litigation in Colombia: An Assessment of Claims, Remedies, and Implementation
• Conrado M Cornelius, What Might Future Rights-Based Climate Litigation Look Like in Indonesia? A Preliminary Analysis
• General Issue
• Lina Hillert, Human Rights and Peacebuilding: Bridging the Gap
• Corina Lacatus, Balancing Legalism and Pragmatism: A Qualitative Content Analysis of Human Rights Language in Peace Agreements
• Sebastián Smart, Expanding and Contracting the UN Guiding Principles: an Analysis of Recent Inter-American Human Rights Court Decisions
• Afrooz Kaviani Johnson, Grooming and Child Sexual Abuse in Organizational Settings—an Expanded Role for International Human Rights Law
• Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz, Patricia Cruz-Marín, & James Cavallaro, More than Lack of Capacity: Active Impunity in Mexico
• Daragh Murray, Pete Fussey, Kuda Hove, Wairagala Wakabi, Paul Kimumwe, Otto Saki, & Amy Stevens, The Chilling Effects of Surveillance and Human Rights: Insights from Qualitative Research in Uganda and Zimbabwe
• Aysel Küçüksu, Proactive Prevention: Denmark’s Domestic Practices of Human Rights Compliance
• Joe Mlenga, Coverage of Human Rights Issues in Malawian Newsrooms: Challenges and Prospects
• Catherine Masud & Armen T Marsoobian, The Power of Personal Archives in Witnessing, Teaching, and Visual Storytelling: The Armenian Memory Project
• Dustin N Sharp, A Larger ‘We’; Identity, Spirituality and Social Change in Pluralistic Societies
• Carolin Funke, Making it Work: Closing the Inclusion Gap for Persons with Disabilities in Humanitarian Crises

New Volume: German Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the German Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 65, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• FORUM – Rethinking Military Necessity and other Belligerent Rights in Wars of Aggression
• Chile Eboe-Osuji, Military Necessity and Aggression
• Claus Kreß, A Reply to Judge Eboe-Osuji
• Chile Eboe-Osuji, Reply to Professor Claus Kreß
• FOCUS – Dispute Settlement and Community Interests: Colloquium in Honour of Prof. Dr. Rüdiger Wolfrum’s 80th Birthday
• Rüdiger Wolfrum, The Potential of International, Regional, and National Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in Deciding on Issues Concerning Community Interests
• Doris König, The Federal Constitutional Court’s Order on the Federal Climate Change Act of 24 March 2021
• Nele Matz-Lück, Claiming Community Interests in International Law
• Volker Röben, The Mask of Dimitrios: Objective and Subjective Approaches to judicial Enforcement of International Law on Common Interests
• Anja Seibert-Fohr, Public Health as a Community Interest: What Role for the European Court of Human Rights?
• Peter-Tobias Stoll, Hardly About People and Climate: Court of Justice of the European Union’s People’s Climate Case – Exemplifying Luhmanns’ Ecological Communication
• Silja Voeneky, Key Challenges for Climate Change Litigation – Human Rights meet Precaution: The Duarte Agostinho Case
• Holger P. Hestermeyer, Community Interests and the Objectives of International Dispute Resolution: A Paradigm-Shift for the International Court of Justice?
• Walther Schücking Lecture
• Liesbeth Lijnzaad, Fairness in the Law of the Sea, a Preliminary Enquiry
• General Articles
• André Nunes Chaib, International Organisation as Government: Rereading Georges Scelle’s Theory of International Government
• Dominic Npoanlari Dagbanja, Developmental Constitutionalism and Treatybased Investment Protection in Africa
• Fuad Zarbiyev, The International Court of Justice and Specialised International Adjudicative Bodies: From Indifference to Authority Trading
• German Practice
• Franziska Bachmann, Revisiting the NetzDG and Its Changes Against the Backdrop of International Human Rights Law
• Katia Hamann, A New Government in a ‘Perfect Storm’ of Crises: An International Law Perspective on the 2021–2025 Coalition Agreement
• Ralf Lewandowski, Germany’s Role in the Prosecution of Russian War Criminals in Ukraine
• Celina S. Lubahn Greppler, The Return of the Benin Bronzes from Germany on the Significance of the Joint Declaration between Germany and Nigeria in Light of European Restitution Practice
• Simon A. Miller, The Increasing Relevance of Universal Jurisdiction Over Core Crimes
• Felix Schott, The Military Evacuation from Afghanistan by the German Armed Forces: A Change in Germany’s Legal Position?
• Leon Seidl, Shifting Priorities in a Changing World: Germany at the 12th WTO Ministerial Conference
• Lisa Wiese, The Question of a ‘State of Palestine’ Before the German Administrative Courts

New Issue: Human Rights Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Review (Vol. 25, no. 1, March 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Ana Martin, The Efficiency of Intersectionality: Labelling the Benefits of a Rights-Based Approach to Interpret Sexual and Gender-Based Crimes
• Dora Kostakopoulou & Morteza Mahmoudi, Academic Bullying and Human Rights: Is It Time to Take Them Seriously?
• Daniel Brantes Ferreira, Elizaveta Gromova, & Elena V. Titova, The Principle of a Trial Within a Reasonable Time and JustTech: Benefits and Risks
• Köksal Avincan, The Resurgence of Enforced Disappearances in the Aftermath of the July 15, 2016 Failed Coup Attempt in Turkey: A Systematic Analysis of Human Rights Violations
• Aikaterini-Christina Koula, Human Rights Violations Committed Against Human Rights Defenders Through the Use of Legal System: A Trend in Europe and Beyond

New Issue: Global Constitutionalism

The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 13, no. 1, March 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Article
• Stephanie Law, Jo Shaw, Jonathan Havercroft, Susan Kang, & Antje Wiener, Private law, private international law and public interest litigation
• Agora: Ocean Governance
• Jonathan Havercroft & Alice Kloker, A constitution for the ocean? An agora on ocean governance
• Chris Armstrong, The United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, global justice and the environment
• Katherine Louise Hill, Reflections on international ocean science and ocean governance: Can our global structures rise to the occasion?
• Emma McKinley, Ocean literacy for an Ocean constitution
• Articles
• Maartje De Visser & Brian Christopher Jones, Unpacking constitutional literacy
• Chao Wang, Hong Kong in the age of the PRC’s alienation from the international system: In search of normative consensus
• Mauro Arturo Rivera León, Judicial review of supermajority rules governing courts’ own decision-making: A comparative analysis
• Tom Theuns, Is the European Union a militant democracy? Democratic backsliding and EU disintegration
• Amal Sethi, Looking beyond the constituent power theory: The theory of equitable elite bargaining
• Symposium
• Sergio Verdugo & Luis Eugenio García-Huidobro, How do constitution-making processes fail? The case of Chile’s Constitutional Convention (2021–22)
• Luis Eugenio García-Huidobro, Elite non-cooperation in polarized democracies: Constitution-making deferral, the entry referendum and the seeds of the Chilean failure
• Tom Ginsburg & Isabel Álvarez, It’s the procedures, stupid: The success and failures of Chile’s Constitutional Convention
• María Cristina Escudero, Institutional resistance: The case of the Chilean Convention 2021–22
• Valeria Palanza & Patricia Sotomayor Valarezo, Chile’s failed constitutional intent: Polarization, fragmentation, haste and delegitimization
• Rosalind Dixon & Marcela Prieto Rudolphy, Parity constitutionalism
• Adam Chilton, Cristián Eyzaguirre, & Mila Versteeg, Social rights scapegoating
• David Landau & Rosalind Dixon, Utopian constitutionalism in Chile
• José Francisco García, A failed but useful constitution-making process: How Bachelet’s process contributed to constitution-making in Chile
• Sergio Verdugo, Constitutions as moving targets

New Issue: Transnational Environmental Law

The latest issue of Transnational Environmental Law (Vol. 13, no. 1, March 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Thijs Etty, Josephine van Zeben, Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, Bruce Huber, Sébastien Jodoin, & Leonie Reins, Salvaging Environmental Law
• Articles
• Matthias Petel, The Illusion of Harmony: Power, Politics, and Distributive Implications of Rights of Nature
• Rachel Killean, Jérémie Gilbert, & Peter Doran, Rights of Nature on the Island of Ireland: Origins, Drivers, and Implications for Future Rights of Nature Movements
• Alice Pirlot, Carbon Leakage and International Climate Change Law
• Lukas Schuett, Permanence and Liability: Legal Considerations on the Integration of Carbon Dioxide Removal into the EU Emissions Trading System
• Laura Mai, Measuring It, Managing It, Fixing It? Data and Rights in Transnational and Local Climate Change Governance
• Patrick Toussaint, Loss and Damage, Climate Victims, and International Climate Law: Looking Back, Looking Forward
• Suvi-Tuuli Puharinen, Antti Belinskij, & Niko Soininen, Adapting Hydropower to European Union Water Law: Flexible Governance versus Legal Effectiveness in Sweden and Finland
• Sébastien Jodoin & Kasia Johnson, The Intersections of Public Rights and Private Rules: An Analysis of Human Rights in Forestry and Fisheries Certification Standards

New Issue: African Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 32, no. 2, May 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Eghosa O. Ekhator & Newman U. Richards, The Continuing Relevance of Customary Arbitration in Nigeria: Critical Evaluation of Contemporary Developments
• Ugochukwu Lawrence Obibuaku & Obinna Christian Edeji, Fostering Socio-Economic Rights and Human Dignity Through Collaborative Partnerships: The Role of Civil Society Organisations
• Izunwanne Lights Uwaegbulem, An Appeal of the Legal Framework for the Prohibition of Attempted Suicide in Nigeria
• Maureen O’Sullivan, Rose Ohiama Ugbe, Mabel Izzi, Emuobo Emudainohwo, & Uche Jack-Osimiri, Annulment of Discriminatory Custom and its Impact on Matrilineal and Patrilineal Societies/People
• Mahmoud Alkhen, Changes in the Value of Harm and Their Impact on Judicial Compensation: The Case of Egypt and the UAE
• Ashraf Elfakharani, The Grand Tension and Controversy Over the Renaissance Dam between Egypt and Ethiopia
• Somadina Ibe-Ojiludu, Enhancing Human Development in Nigeria Through Constitutional Reform via the Human-Rights-Based Approach to Development
• Jonas Oliver Piduhn, Exporting Constitutions – A Valuable Contribution to Nation Building or a Cementing of Conflict? A Case Study of the Export of Germany’s Basic Law (Grundgesetz)
• Jason Haynes, The Interplay Between International and Regional Human Rights Instruments on the Rights of Women: Reflections on the Maputo Protocol at 18

New Volume: Austrian Review of International and European Law

The latest volume of the Austrian Review of International and European Law (Vol. 27, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: International Human Rights and International Economic Law: Interfaces, Challenges, Visions
• Christina Binder & Ursula Kriebaum, Introduction to the ARIEL Special Issue – ‘International Human Rights and International Economic Law: Interfaces, Challenges, Visions’
• Andreas Th Müller, The Right to Water as a Shaping Force in International Economic Law
• Rafael Tamayo-Álvarez & René Urueña, Regulating Seed Digitization: What Role for Seed Sovereignty?
• Julian Scheu & Eva-Maria Wettstein, Climate Change, Human Rights, and Private Capital: The Obligation of States to Close the Climate Investment Gap
• Ursula Kriebaum, Parallel Proceedings – Investment Arbitration and the European Court of Human Rights
• Rebecca McMenamin & Michael Waibel, Shareholder Protection in International Human Rights and Investment Law
• Irmgard Marboe, The Legal Consequences of a Violation: Reparation/Just Satisfaction/Damages by Human Rights Bodies and Investment Tribunals
• Veronika Bílková, Economic Sanctions Against Individuals and Human Rights Law
• Finnur Magnússon, Sanctions against Individuals and Investment Law
• Mateja S Platise, Traditional Legal Concepts under Fire? Business and Human Rights at the International, National and EU Levels
• General Article
• Gábor Kajtár, Between Chaos and Coherence – Attribution Tests in the Practice of International Investment Tribunals

New Issue: International Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the International Criminal Law Review (Vol. 24, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Barry Hashimoto, Kevin W. Gray, & Kafumu Kalyalya, The International Criminal Court and the Justice Cascade
• Audrey Fino, Surfacing Harmful Speech Against Women—Proposals for Gender-Sensitive Fact-Finding and Interpretation in International Criminal Law
• Lina Stotz, The Normative Framework Behind the (Non-)Recognition of Children Born of War in International Criminal Law
• Emma Palmer, Disconnect: The International Criminal Court’s Engagement in the Situation in Bangladesh/Myanmar

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 29, no. 1, Spring 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Catherine O’Rourke, Disarming the Women, Peace and Security agenda: the case for centring the United Nations General Assembly
• Luigi Daniele, Incidentality of the civilian harm in international humanitarian law and its Contra Legem antonyms in recent discourses on the laws of war
• Natalino Ronzitti, Neutrality, non-belligerency, and permanent neutrality according to recent practice and doctrinal views
• Quoc Tan Trung Nguyen, The practice of non-recognition and economic sanctions: The case study of Ukraine, Manchuria and South Africa
• David McKeever, Old Rules to Fix New Problems: Counterterrorism, Refugees and Withdrawal of Nationality
• Yasuhito Fukui, International Nuclear Security Law: The Use of ‘Soft Law’
• Brendan Walker-Munro, Can Autonomous Weapon Systems be Seized? Interactions with the Law of Prize and War Booty
• Michael Moncrieff, Pavle Kilibarda, & Gloria Gaggioli, Social network analysis and counterterrorism: a double-edged sword for international humanitarian law

New Issue: International Journal of Transitional Justice

The latest issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Vol. 18, no. 1, March 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Race, Racism and Transitional Justice
• Editorial
• Matiangai Sirleaf & E. Tendayi Achiume, Reflecting on Race, Racism and Transitional Justice
• Articles
• R. S Leiby, The Case for Rage in Transitional Justice: Lessons from the Anti-Racist Struggle
• Anushka Sehmi, Legacies of Colonial Violence in Contemporary Transitional Justice: Memories of Mau Mau, the ‘Kapenguria Six’ and the ‘Ocampo Six’ in Kenya
• Pablo Pamplona, Beatriz Besen, Kaya de Wolff, Soraia Ansara, & Luis Galeão-Silva, Racial (In)justice in Brazil: Reconstructing the Subaltern Memories of Poor and Black Women in the Brazilian Dictatorship
• Ezechiel Sentama, Transitional Justice and Redress for Racial Injustices against Marginalized Minorities: Lessons from Indigenous Twa People in Post-Genocide Rwanda
• Jamil S. Scott, Daniel Solomon. & Kelebogile Zvobgo, Historical Violence and Public Attitudes towards Justice: Evidence from the United States
• Linda J Mann, Advancing Local US Transitional Justice Initiatives: A University Partnership Alongside Descendant Communities
• Notes from the Field
• Bretton J McEvoy, ‘Taking Responsibility for the White Collective’: Implicated Subjects and Transformative Justice in the United States
• Nina Bries Silva, Discovering What Is Already Known: The Afro-Colombian Ancestral Justice System before the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
• Review Essay
• Zinaida Miller, The Impossible Necessity of Racial Justice in Transitional Justice
• Postscript
• Matiangai V. S Sirleaf, Palestine as a Litmus Test for Transitional Justice

New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 84, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Comment
• Kertulli Lingenfelter, Romancing International Criminal Justice: The European Union and Criminal Accountability in Ukraine
• Focus Section: Opening the Access to International Legal Scholarship
• Raffaela Kunz, Opening the Access to International Legal Scholarship – an Introduction
• Stewart Manley, The Proportion of Global South Scholarship in Elite International Law Publications
• Lutiana Valadares Fernandes Barbosa, Pandemic, Maternity, and International Lawyers from the Global South: a Call for an Intersectional Approach
• Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, Arminius Rex: On the Postcolonial Uses of Imperial Languages in, and beyond, International Law
• Max Milas, Open Educational Resources and the Teaching of Public International Law: A German Lens on a Global Matter
• Sina Fontana & Lorenz Lang, Extraterritoriale Schutzpflichten und ihre Entfaltung – dargestellt am Beispiel des Schwangerschaftsabbruchs im Kontext der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit
• Clara Folger, Das Leiden anderer betrachten – Die digitale Vorführung von Kriegsgefangenen zwischen Propaganda und Kriegsverbrechen

New Issue: Human Rights Law Review

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

• Articles
• Andreas Buser, From Doughnut Economics to Doughnut Jurisprudence: A Human Rights Perspective
• Bartosz Biskup, The Received View about the Right to Marry: A Critique
• Rebecca Lawrence, A Positive Right to Rehabilitation? An Examination of the ‘Principle of Rehabilitation’ in the Caselaw of the European Court of Human Rights
• Koldo Casla & Marion Sandner, Solidarity as Foundation for Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Ekaterina Yahyaoui Krivenko, Sex and Gender in International Human Rights Law through the Prism of the ‘Women’ Category in Recent Case Law
• Céline Brassart Olsen, Who Manages Menstrual Health? The Untapped Potential of the Right to Health to Support a Comprehensive Right to Menstrual Health beyond Menstrual Hygiene Management

New Volume: Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional

The latest volume of the Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional (Vol. 24, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Doctrina
• Marco Longobardo, La aplicabilidad del Apartheid a las situaciones de ocupación: en las encrucijadas entre el derecho internacional humanitario, el derecho penal internacional y el derecho internacional de los derechos humanos
• Estela Cristina Vieira de Siqueira, Refugiados, litigación climática en el sur global y cambio climático: enfrentando la brecha en la protección de refugiados climáticos en el derecho internacional
• Tatiana Cardoso Squeff & Gabriel Pedro M. Damasceno, Supuestos para un derecho internacional decolonial: un manifiesto
• Annabella Sandri Fuentes, El derecho de acceso a la jurisdicción civil y reparación no punitiva de las víctimas de graves violaciones al DIDH y al DIH en la relación Estado-Estado La versión 2022 del caso Alemania c. Italia ante la CIJ
• Santiago Martínez Neira, El control de convencionalidad y la cultura jurídica interamericana: hacia la construcción de un sentido colectivo
• Comentarios
• Gerhard Niedrist & Aida Figueroa Bello, El Acuerdo Ambiental Regional de Escazú: una comparación con la Convención de Aarhus
• Víctor Manuel Rojas Amandi, Errores de la Suprema Corte de Justicia de la Nación en derecho de los tratados
• Liliana Ronconi, Derecho a la educación e igualdad: reflexiones a partir del caso Pavez Pavez vs. Chile de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos
• Jorge Manrique de Lara Seminario & María Angela Sasaki Otani, La historia sin fin del proceso de reingeniería de la Comunidad Andina: análisis de algunas propuestas de reforma

New Volume: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional

The latest volume of the Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional (Vol. 17, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Noelia Arjona Hernández, El conflicto entre la inmunidad soberana y la carga de los buques hundidos: el rol de la equidad
• Rafael Fonseca Melo, Los usos de las opiniones disidentes de la Corte Internacional de Justicia en el caso “changrilá” por el Tribunal Supremo de Brasil
• Héctor Olasolo, Rafael Tamayo-Álvarez, & Mario Iván Urueña-Sanchez, Narrativa neoliberal y crítica: la construcción social de la norma global contra la corrupción