Friday, November 15, 2024
AJIL Unbound Symposium: Institutionalizing Investment Dispute Prevention
Thursday, November 14, 2024
New Blog: Tålking Rights
Wednesday, November 13, 2024
Call for Chapter Proposals: Handbook on Decolonising Human Rights
New Issue: Virginia Journal of International Law
- Christopher R. Drahozal, Donald Earl Childress III, Jack J. Coe, Jr., & Catherine A. Rogers, Challenging and Enforcing International Arbitral Awards in U.S. Federal Courts: An Empirical Study
- Nick Robinson, The Regulation of Foreign Funding of Nonprofits in a Democracy
- George Rutherglen, Territoriality and Admiralty
New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts
- Abhandlungen
- Julia Weitensteiner, Das organisations- und situationsbezogene Begründungsmodell korporativer Rechte des EGMR in Croatian Radio-Television/Kroatien
- Otto Luchterhandt, Arzachs Untergang – historische Tragödie und Alarmzeichen für die Republik Armenien
- Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Die Transformation des Konzepts des »gerechten Kriegs« (»bellum iustum«) in der Geschichte der Philosophie: Von Thomas von Aquin bis zur Schule von Salamanca
Tuesday, November 12, 2024
Call for Papers: The International Court of Justice at 80
Call for Submissions: International Law & Emerging Technologies
Zidar & Cotič Zidar: Amended WHO International Health Regulations for Better Global Pandemic Governance?
Recent amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), adopted at the 77 th World Health Assembly in May 2024 represent an important conceptual development in the field of global pandemic governance. The Regulations now include the notion of a pandemic emergency, a heightened subcategory of the public health emergency of international concern, which necessitates rapid, equitable and enhanced coordinated international action to counteract global pandemics. In addition, changes to the guiding principles expressly require that the implementation process 'shall promote equity and solidarity'. This is further crystallised in concrete commitments to enable equitable access to health products and provide for the mobilisation of financial resources for developing countries. Taking lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, these changes make the IHR a more effective tool against global pandemics and represent significant steps towards achieving global health justice.
Becker: Crisis in Gaza: South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice (or the Unbearable Lightness of Provisional Measures)
In the early hours of 7 October 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip launched a set of attacks across southern Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and abducting 252 people to be held as hostages. Israel unleashed an overwhelming military response, with grave humanitarian consequences for the Palestinian population of Gaza. On 29 December 2023, South Africa initiated proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging violations of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide based on Israel's response to the 7 October attacks. This article examines South Africa's litigation of the Gaza conflict through its use of the provisional measures procedure at the ICJ. Part I provides an overview of the humanitarian crisis and the polarizing effect of Israel's military operation in Gaza. Part II examines South Africa's four attempts to obtain provisional measures and the Court's decision to indicate such measures on three occasions within a four-month period. Part III considers the relative ineffectiveness of the provisional measures-their 'unbearable lightness' in a situation of extreme gravity and examines doctrinal issues that emerged along the way, including the nature of the Court's 'plausibility' test at the provisional measure stage and the procedure for seeking additional or modified measures. Part IV concludes by considering challenges that lay ahead in the ICJ case-for the parties, for the Court, and for the Palestinians of Gaza.
Monday, November 11, 2024
Khalil & Lavaud: Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats
Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges and opportunities associated with empowering the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to fulfil its primary responsibility: to maintain international peace and security.
Across ten chapters, this timely book addresses several areas of possible reform, without amending the UN Charter, to improve the representative character of the UNSC, empower its elected members, restrain the use of the veto, and enhance the UNSC's ability to respond to modern threats including aggression and mass atrocity crimes. It explores the UNSC's relations with internal and external partners, including tapping the potential of the UN General Assembly, reinforcing the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, as well as strengthening cooperation with regional arrangements.
Now, more than ever, there is a realistic possibility borne out of the imperative of necessity to reform the UN Security Council to better ensure international peace and security for future generations. Bringing together an international cast of experts from multiple disciplines and all five regions of the world, Empowering the UN Security Council offers a roadmap toward a more legitimate and effective UNSC.