New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 19, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Life Cycles of International Cooperation
• Julia Gray, The life cycle of international cooperation: Introduction to the special issue
• Yoram Z. Haftel & Bar Nadel, Economic crises and the survival of international organizations
• Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni & Daniel Verdier, To reform or to replace? Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organisations
• Alexander Baturo & Julia Gray, Leaders in the United Nations General Assembly: Revitalization or politicization?
• Henning Schmidtke & Tobias Lenz, Expanding or defending legitimacy? Why international organizations intensify self-legitimation
• Averell Schmidt, Treaty withdrawal and the development of international law
• Inken von Borzyskowski & Felicity Vabulas, Public support for withdrawal from international organizations: Experimental evidence from the US

New Issue: European Journal of International Relations

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Relations (Vol. 30, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Darshan Vigneswaran, Nora Söderberg, Natalie Welfens, & Saskia Bonjour, Capitalizing on a crisis: the European Union Trust Fund for Africa
• Sylvain Maechler & Jean-Christophe Graz, Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world
• Joscha Abels, Private infrastructure in geopolitical conflicts: the case of Starlink and the war in Ukraine
• Ilias Alami & Jack Taggart, A partial conversion: how the ‘unholy trinity’ of global economic governance adapts to state capitalism
• Ronen Palan, Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm
• Jeffrey Ding, Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies
• Reinout van der Veer & Gustav Meibauer, Technocracy, populism, and the (de)legitimation of international organizations
• Marianna Lovato, How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations
• Joanna Tidy, ‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence
• Nele Kortendiek, Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 106, no. 925, 2024) is out. The theme is: "Fundamental Principles." Contents include:

• Interview with Nils Melzer: Director of the Department of Law, Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy, International Committee of the Red Cross
• Marina Sharpe, It's all relative: The origins, legal character and normative content of the humanitarian principles
• Natalie Deffenbaugh, De-dehumanization: Practicing humanity
• Marc DuBois & Sean Healy, Imperfect relief: Challenges to the impartiality and identity of humanitarian action
• Pierrick Devidal, Lost in digital translation? The humanitarian principles in the digital age
• Yue Wang & Ting Fang, Translating impartiality into operations from a financial perspective: Uncertainties and solutions
• Anna Chernova, Queering the humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality: Implications for humanitarian action, IHL effectiveness and gender justice
• Nicole Hoagland & Magdalena Arias Cubas, Practice versus perception: A discussion of the humanitarian principle of independence in the context of migration
• Josephine Dresner & Riccardo Labianco, Humanitarian principles and humanitarian disarmament: An operator's perspective
• Marnie Lloydd, “Sticking together while standing one's own ground”: The meanings of solidarity in humanitarian action
• Cédric Cotter & Daniel Palmieri, “A season in hell”: The Rwandan genocide and the ICRC's Fundamental Principles
• Librarian's Pick: Charlotte Mohr on Immi Tallgren's Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces?
• Beyond the Literature: Conversation with Joël Glasman on his Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs: Minimal Humanity
• Ahmed Al-Dawoody & Kelisiana Thynne, Of date palms and dialogue: Enhancing the protection of the natural environment under international humanitarian law and Islamic law
• Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos, Navigating legal frontiers: Climate change, environmental protection and armed conflict
• Sâ Benjamin Traoré & Ezéchiel Amani Cirimwami, Environmental obligations of business entities during armed conflicts
• Andrea Camacho Rincón & Germán Parra Gallego, Addressing environmental damages in contexts of armed conflict through transitional justice in Colombia
• Mais Qandeel, The protection of the natural environment in armed conflicts and agent-based modelling
• Ivon Mingashang & Christian Tshiamala Banungana, The international responsibility of a belligerent State in the event of transboundary environmental damage

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 16, no. 3, November 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Katharine M. Millar, Limitations of hypocrisy as a strategy of critique in international politics
• Brieg Powel, The ‘Mesopotamian trap’: from the ‘first’ international to dynamic multiplicity
• Gabriel Mares, Recovering African contestation and innovation in global politics: Francis Deng and sovereignty-as-responsibility
• Sean W.D. Gray & Mark E. Warren, What kind of power can citizens exercise beyond the state? Globalizing democracy through representative claim-making
• Alex Prichard, Kenneth Waltz's Kantian moral philosophy: ‘the virtues of anarchy’ reconsidered

Call for Papers: Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Armed Conflict

The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, the Essex Armed Conflict and Crisis Hub and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford have issued a call for papers for a research workshop on "Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Armed Conflict," to be held June 13, 2025, at the Hertie School, Berlin. The call is here.

Linderfalk & De Brabandere: International Law and the Significance of Disciplinary Boundaries: Special Regimes as Communities of Practice

Ulf Linderfalk (Lunds Universitet) & Eric De Brabandere (Universiteit Leiden) have published International Law and the Significance of Disciplinary Boundaries: Special Regimes as Communities of Practice (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Over the last thirty or so years, international law and legal practice have become increasingly more specialized and diversified. These developments come with an increasingly divergent legal practice, in what has been coined as 'special regimes'. This book proposes a new understanding of the concept of a special regime to explain why specialists in different fields of international law do similar things differently. It argues that special regimes are best conceived as communities of practice, in the sense of Etienne Wenger's theory of communities of practice. It explores how the theory of communities of practice translates to the context of international law and the concept of a special regime. The authors draw up an innovative methodology to investigate their theory, focused on the conduct of community members, and apply this method to selected case studies, offering an original approach to the understanding of the special regimes in international law.

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 38, no. 2, Summer 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: The Problem with International Order
• Ian Hurd, Introduction: The Problem with the Problem of Order
• Trine Flockhart, Order as Resilience-Governance of Sameness and Diversity
• Ian Hurd, World Order from Birmingham Jail
• Lina Benabdallah, The Liberal International Order as an Imposition: A Postcolonial Reading
• Jennifer Mitzen, The Politics of Pedagogy: The Problem of Order in the IR Classroom
• Owen R. Brown, The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition
• Ayşe Zarakol, Rethinking International Order
• Features
• Benoît Pelopidas & Neil C. Renic, The Tragedy Trap: On the Tragicized Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Armed Drones and the Making of Unaccountability

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 78, no. 3, Summer 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Soyoung Lee, Resources and Territorial Claims: Domestic Opposition to Resource-Rich Territory
• Sara M.T. Polo & Blair Welsh, Violent Competition and Terrorist Restraint
• Meicen Sun, Damocles's Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control
• Janina Beiser-McGrath, Sam Erkiletian, & Nils W. Metternich, The Role of Pan-African Ideology in Ethnic Power Sharing
• Matt Malis, Foreign Policy Appointments
• Review Essay
• Haoming Xiong, David A. Peterson, & Bear F. Braumoeller, Reconceptualizing International Order: Contemporary Chinese Theories and Their Contributions to Global IR
• Research Notes
• David A. Steinberg & Daniel McDowell, Race, Representation, and the Legitimacy of International Organizations
• Chase Bloch & Roseanne W. McManus, Denying the Obvious: Why Do Nominally Covert Actions Avoid Escalation?

New Issue: Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 24, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Renana Keydar, Vera Shikhelman, Tomer Broude, & Jonathan Elkobi, The Discursive Evolution of Human Rights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations
• Lee Hansen & Renginee G Pillay, Filling the Accountability Gap: Misleading Conduct Law in Business and Human Rights
• Michelle Bruijn, X Factors and Tipping Points in Eviction Cases: A Statistical Analysis of Eviction Litigation of the European Court of Human Rights

Bhat, Ukey, & Variath: International Space Law in the New Space Era: Principles and Challenges

Sandeepa Bhat B. (West Bengal National Univ. of Juridical Sciences - Law), Dilip Ukey (Maharashtra National Law Univ. - Law), & Adithya Variath (Maharashtra National Law Univ. - Law) have published International Space Law in the New Space Era: Principles and Challenges (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

The increasingly commercial nature of space activities and the intent of States to expand space travel have spawned renewed attempts of changing the foundations of space law, most of which originated in the twentieth century. Understanding the principles of international space law is essential for ensuring a sustainable future for all in outer space.

International Space Law in the New Space Era addresses the international legal and regulatory aspects of outer space that govern developments in the field worldwide. It covers the five United Nations' space treaties along with soft law and other policies. With contributions from established experts in the domain of space law, the volume encompasses the entire gamut of international space law while simultaneously addressing inadequacies that have arisen in light of current developments such as space commercialization, space tourism, and space mining.

Pagallo: The New Laws of Outer Space: Ethics, Legislation, and Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Ugo Pagallo (Univ. of Turin - Law) has published The New Laws of Outer Space: Ethics, Legislation, and Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hart Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

Humanity is on the brink of a new space era in which projects for permanent human colonies on the Moon and space missions with autonomous AI systems will soon become a reality. Principles and provisions of international space law fall increasingly short in tackling this scenario. Experts and institutions have recommended improvements to the legal framework, such as new international agreements, or policies that would not require any amendment to conventional law. Most of the time, such proposals and recommendations overlook the challenges posed by technology and how autonomous and intelligent systems in outer space require moral and legal standards of their own.

This book argues that the traditional focus on satellite communications, space-related services, and the appropriability of celestial resources needs to be integrated by new laws of outer space regulating cybersecurity law and environmental law, data governance and consumer protection. The new laws of outer space will increasingly concern the development of new standards for the behaviour and decision-making of AI systems and smart robots, with and without humans aboard deep space missions and in next-generation colonies.

Lesaffer & Peters: The Cambridge History of International Law: Volume 1. The Historiography of International Law

Randall Lesaffer (KU Leuven & Tilburg Univ.) & Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) have published The Cambridge History of International Law: Volume 1. The Historiography of International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Volume I of The Cambridge History of International Law introduces the historiography of international law as a field of scholarship. After a general introduction to the purposes and design of the series, Part 1 of this volume highlights the diversity of the field in terms of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and perspectives that have informed both older and newer historiographies in the recent three decades of its rapid expansion. Part 2 surveys the history of international legal history writing from different regions of the world, spanning roughly the past two centuries. The book therefore offers the most complete treatment of the historical development and current state of international law history writing, using both a global and an interdisciplinary perspective.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: New Pathways Toward Supply Chain Accountability

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “New Pathways Toward Supply Chain Accountability.” The symposium includes an introduction by León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Tibisay Morgandi, and Sergio Puig, and contributions by Carsten Koenig, Tibisay Morgandi, Humberto Cantú Rivera, Jason Rudall, Jowita Mieszkowska, and Sarah Vandenbroucke.

Call for Papers: 32nd Annual ANZSIL Conference

The Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 32nd Annual Conference, to be held July 2-4, 2025, at Australian National University. The theme is: "International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance." The call is here.

Ruys, Ryngaert, & Rodríguez Silvestre: The Cambridge Handbook of Secondary Sanctions and International Law

Tom Ruys (Ghent Univ.), Cedric Ryngaert (Utrecht Univ.), & Felipe Rodríguez Silvestre (Ghent Univ.) have published The Cambridge Handbook of Secondary Sanctions and International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

We live in an age of sanctions. For geopolitical reasons, powerful states and economic blocks increasingly impose unilateral measures restricting economic transactions with certain target states. These sanctions may apply to transactions between the sanctioning state and a target country but may at times also extend to transactions between third states and the target state. By imposing such 'secondary' sanctions, states aim to further isolate the target state. The extraterritorial character of secondary sanctions makes them controversial, as they impinge on third states' economic sovereignty and the latter's operators' freedom to conduct international business. This book addresses the legality of secondary sanctions from multiple legal perspectives, such as general international law, international economic law, and private law. It examines how third states and operators can legally react against secondary sanctions, e.g. via blocking legislation or litigation. It also provides economic and political perspectives on secondary sanctions.

Ho: New Property in International Law

Jean Ho (National Univ. of Singapore - Law) has published New Property in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Until now, the definition of property in international law has been poorly addressed. It is assumed that international law possesses sufficient content to regulate property, that provisions in international instruments addressing property rights are shown to act, and that resolutions of property disputes are claimed to be in accordance with international law. Yet, when asked to define key attributes of property in international law are, the legal world draws a collective blank.

New Property in International Law examines how international law consistently falls short when it comes to new property regulation, because key stakeholders have failed to define what property is. The book considers and categorises new property into three areas; cultural property, common property, and contingent property, aiming to carve out, update, and impart coherence to international property law. By sketching the contours of new property in international law through a rigorous analytical comparison of property concepts in the Western, Soviet, post-Soviet, Chinese and Islamic juristic traditions, this work enables a balanced distillation of core attributes of new property from diverse property concepts that can then be woven into a broadly acceptable and broadly applicable definition.

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 39, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Robin Churchill, Dispute Settlement in the Law of the Sea: Survey for 2023
• Peter Ehlers, Maritime Pilotage from the Perspective of the International Law of the Sea
• Andrew Friedman, The International Maritime Organization’s Revised Greenhouse Gas Strategy: A Political Signal of Shipping’s Regulatory Future
• Martin Ratcovich Leopardi, International Law and Ocean Nuclear Power Plants in the Arctic
• Klaas Willaert, The Interests of Developing States in the Area: Promoted or Neglected?
• Kimberley J Graham, Turning the Tide on Remnants of War at Sea? Toward the Principles for Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts
• Chuxiao Yu, Can and Should an International Court or Tribunal Define the Term ‘Marine Scientific Research’ under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Klaas Willaert, Protest at Sea against Deep Sea Mining Revisited: the MV Coco Case
• David Freestone, Clive Schofield, Richard Barnes, & Payam Akhavan, Request for an Advisory Opinion Submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, Case 31

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 37, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Ingo Venzke, Against impact
• International Legal Theory: Symposium on Global South Perspectives on Methology and Critique in International Law
• Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Global south perspectives on methodology and critique in international law
• Abdelghany Sayed, What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images
• W.L. Cheah, Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial
• Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana, The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century
• Cristina Blanco Vizarreta, Rethinking international law along with Amazonian ontologies: problematizing human-non-human divisions
• Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Under the shadow of legality: A shadow hauntology on the legal construction of the Women, Peace and Security agenda
• International Law and Practice
• Lena Holzer, International sports federations as de facto lawmakers: Queer-feminist explorations of the gendered power of sports law
• Fabian Eichberger, Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback
• Géraldine Giraudeau, Lili Song, & Morsen Mosses, Chagos in the South Pacific? The principle of self-determination and the France-Vanuatu dispute over the Matthew and Hunter Islands
• Du Li, Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities
• Raphaël van Steenberghe, The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice
• International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• René Provost & Vishakha Wijenayake, Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting
• Bruno Biazatti, To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 39, no. 2, Spring 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Agora on ISDS and Armed Conflicts
• Meg Kinnear, Paul Jean Le Cannu & Pierre Nosewicz, ICSID Preface Alain Farhad, Investment Protection in Situations of Armed Conflict: Evolution, Relevance and Challenges
• Dapo Akande, Armed Conflicts and Investor-State Disputes
• Samaa Haridi & Vivasvat Dadwal, The Protection of Intangible Property during Armed Conflict
• Borzu Sabahi & Farshad Rahimi Dizgovin, International Legal Framework Governing Assessment of Damages Caused to Foreign Investors in Armed Conflict
• Mohamed Shelbaya, Security Exceptions
• Zeynep Gunday Sakarya & Isabel Manfredonia, Extra-Treaty Defenses Available to States in Investment Disputes Arising from Armed Conflicts
• Floriane Lavaud & Marta Canneri, Evidentiary Challenges in the Context of Armed Conflict
• Case Comment
• Joseph Dyke, Infrastructure Services Luxembourg Sàrl and Energia Termosolar BV v Kingdom of Spain: Spain Fails to Secure Set Aside of Registration of Intra-EU ICSID Award in the English Commercial Court
• Articles
• Luke Nottage, Australia’s Ambivalence Again Around Investor-State Arbitration: Comparisons with Europe and Implications for Asia
• Nikos Braoudakis, Rosanne Craveia, & Clémentine Baldon, Neutralising the ECT Sunset Clause Inter Se
• Margrit Trein, The Duty of Arbitrators to Raise Suspected Corruption or to Investigate Poorly Particularized Allegations of Corruption
• Qianwen Zhang, What Can IIAs Contribute to Regulating Cross-border Data Transfer: A Threshold Analysis
• Mevelyn Ong, From Aspiration to Public Policy: Imprinting UNGP-Aligned Footprints of Corporate Responsibility and Accountability into the Shifting Sands of International Arbitration Practice

Bhuta & Vallejo: Global Rights? Human Rights in Complex Governance

Nehal Bhuta (Univ. of Edinburgh - Law) & Rodrigo Vallejo (Univ. of Ambsterdam - Law) have published Global Rights? Human Rights in Complex Governance (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

What is the place of human rights law within global governance? How can we safeguard human rights in various sites of global governance? What is the role of the state, non-state actors, and global governance institutions in all this? Global Rights?: Human Rights in Complex Governance interrogates how human rights and global governance interact with various sub-fields of international and transnational regulation to answer these foundational questions.

The volume offers a detailed exploration of the role of human rights in global governance contexts, such as the sovereign debt regime, global value chains, development assistance, international food governance, and the laws of war. Through an in-depth study of several global governance regimes based on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, this volume challenges the mainstream discourse on the evolution of human rights law and its limits. As a result, issue areas that are rarely in conversation with each other--such as the World Bank's practices and the law on the use of force--are examined through a common analytical framework that is both rich and flexible enough to shed new light on individual areas of concern and simultaneously reflect on cross-cutting themes.

Bringing human rights experts together with leading scholars in the law of international organizations, public finance, corporations, and use of force, Global Rights? thus serves as a contemporary reflection and set of arguments on how to study and productively think about human rights in complex governance settings.

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 35, no. 3, August 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Editorial: In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews; The Three Scholars behind ScholarOne: EJIL’s Associate Editors
• Articles
• Madelaine Chiam, Monique Cormier, and Anna Hood, Law, War and Letter Writing
• Taylor St John, Malcolm Langford, Yuliya Chernykh, Øyvind Stiansen, Tarald Gulseth Berge, & Sergio Puig, Bargaining in the Shadow of Awards
• Jason Webb Yackee, The First French BIT
• Hedi Viterbo & Yulia Ioffe, No Refuge from Childhood: How Child Protection Harms Refugees
• Critical Review of Governance
• Diego Zannoni, Are We Opening Pandora’s Box? Clones, Human Spare Parts and International Law
• Cecily Rose, The Progressive Development of International Law on the Return of Stolen Assets: Mapping the Paths Forward
• Critical Review of Jurisprudence
  • Salvatore Caserta and Mikael Rask Madsen, When the Sun, the Moon and the Stars Align: Litigating LGBTQIA+ Rights and the Death Penalty in East Africa and the Caribbean
• Roaming Charges
• Things with a Soul: Low Tech
• Review Essay
• Thomas Bustamante, Taking Dworkin’s Legal Monism Seriously
• Book Reviews
• STracy-Lynn Field & Michael Hennessy Picard, reviewing Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
• Jelena Bäumler, reviewing Ivano Alogna, Christine Bakker, & Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds), Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives
• Daniel Müller, reviewing Lukas Vanhonnaeker, Shareholders’ Claims for Reflective Loss in International Investment Law
• Diego Mejía-Lemos, reviewing Imogen Saunders, General Principles as a Source of International Law: Art 38(1)(c) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Book Review Symposium: The Hague Academy (Part II)
• Moritz Koenig, Turkey, the Hague Academy and International Law in the Interwar Period: The Transnational Thinking of Ahmed Reşid
• Artur Simonyan, Russia’s Counter-revolutionary International Law in the Scholarship of Boris Mirkine-Guetzévitch
• Karin van Leeuwen, The Hague Academy as a Space of Encounter: How Scelle’s 1933 Teachings on National Courts Landed in the Netherlands
• Diane Marie Amann, A Nuremberg Woman and the Hague Academy
• The Last Page
• Adalbert Stifter, Müdigkeit (transl. Susan McClements Wyss)