Workshop: Rethinking the Dimensions of International Economic Law

On September 13-14, 2024, the Schulich School of Law at Dalhousie University will host the Purdy Crawford Workshop on International Business Law. The theme is: "Rethinking the Dimensions of International Economic Law." The program is here. Registration is here.

Call for Papers: How and Why Do Double Standards Matter for International Law?

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on “How and Why Do Double Standards Matter for International Law?”, to take place May 15–17, 2025, at the Geneva Graduate Institute. The workshop is organized by the International Law Department of the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, in collaboration with the Harvard Law School Program on International Law in Armed Conflict and the Swiss National Science Foundation. The call is here.

Dothan: The Bandwagon of International Law

Shai Dothan (Univ. of Copenhagen - Law) has posted The Bandwagon of International Law. Here's the abstract:

States in the international arena are never acting in splendid isolation. Now more than ever, the actions of every state impact the incentives and shape the behavior of others. A critical aspect of state behavior is compliance with international law. This is also an aspect that is especially sensitive to influence between states. If your enemies are not complying with international law, it is difficult to stay compliant. If your allies respect international law, it is a bad idea to distance yourself from their company by noncompliance. States cascade after their interlocutors and change their practices following their behavior. The challenge that this paper undertakes is how to foster conditions that would allow good cascades toward greater compliance with international law and avoid bad cascades that would draw more states towards non-compliance.

New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 40, no. 2, June 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Kateryna Shokalo, Awarding costs where there is no arbitral jurisdiction on the merits: the making and enforcement of negative cost awards
• Emma Garrett, Independence and impartiality: Australia’s arbitrator bias test
• Noam Zamir & Neil Kaplan, To reason or not to reason: arbitral awards—the conflict between conciseness and the duty to provide reasons under national laws and international rules
• Faraz Shahlaei, The collision between human rights and arbitration: the game of inconsistencies at the Court of Arbitration for Sport
• Mikhail Riazantsev, Non-compensable regulation and regulatory expropriation: where is the line?
• Ahmet Cemil Yıldırım, The use of technology in case management in international investment arbitration: a realistic approach

New Issue: Human Rights Law Review

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

• Articles
• Valentine Granet, The Human Right to Land: A Peasant Struggle in the Human Rights System
• Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew, Valerie Verdoodt, & Eva Lievens, General Comment No. 25 on Children’s Rights in Relation to the Digital Environment: Implications for Children’s Right to Privacy and Data Protection in Africa
• Ilya Sobol, Glorification of Terrorist Violence at the European Court of Human Rights
• Julieta Lobato, Legal-Conflict Constellations. A Political Approach to the ‘Labour Rights-Human Rights’ Debate
• Niels Hedlund, The ECHR and the Positive Obligation to Criminalise Domestic Psychological Violence

New Issue: Journal of International Dispute Settlement

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 15, no. 3, September 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Graham Butler, Sun from Behind the Clouds: the Appeals Board of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts
• Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Reparations in environmental cases: should the International Criminal Court consider the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence?
• Ying Bi, Experimentation at the WTO lab: towards a better ‘Interface’ to accommodate State-owned enterprises
• José Pedro Villablanca Gutiérrez, The use of MFN clauses in investment arbitration: the problem of importation
• Current Developments
• Alemayehu Yismaw Demamu, A framework of African Continental Free Trade Area dispute settlement mechanism: legal challenges
• Xuexia Liao, Continental shelf delimitation beyond 200 nautical miles: Mauritius/Maldives and the forking paths in the jurisprudence
• Kei Nakajima, Yohei Okada, & Kento Nisugi, The sovereign function test out of thin air? The status of the central bank determined behind the scenes in Certain Iranian Assets