Monday, March 17, 2025

New Volume: Japanese Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Japanese Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 67, 2024) is out. Contents include:
  • New Frontiers of State Jurisdiction
    • Akio Morita & Mari Takeuchi, Introductory Note
    • Cedric Ryngaert, Weaponizing Economic Interdependence via Extraterritorial Chokepoint Jurisdiction: An International Law Perspective
    • ISHII Yurika, Limits of State Jurisdiction in Cyberspace — The Legality of the Cross-Border Remote Access and the Use of Policeware —
    • Makoto Seta, Port State Jurisdiction as Universal Jurisdiction over Fisheries
    • Takayo Ando, Changes in the Legal Structure of the Aut Dedere Aut Judicare Principle — Focusing on the Requirements for the Obligation to Exercise Jurisdiction —
    • MORITA Akio, Theoretical Analysis of Conflicting Approaches on State Jurisdiction — Focusing on “Liberté” and Conflicting “Basic Positions” —
  • Legal Analysis on Sucession Substitutes
    • Dai Yokomizo, Introductory Note
    • OSHIMA Lisa, The Potential and Limitations of Contracts That Function as Succession Substitutes
    • Dai Yokomizo, Succession Substitutes and Japanese Conflict of Laws: Including the Possibility of Introducing Limited Professio Juris to Japanese Choice-of-Law Rule Relating to Succession
    • Takami Hayashi, Conflict-of-Law Issues Regarding Succession Substitutes with a Focus on Trusts
    • Charlotte Wendland, The Law Applicable to Succession Substitutes: European Perspective
    • Takeshi Fujitani, Succession Substitutes and Taxation — An Analysis from the Perspective of Party Autonomy and Tax Neutrality —
  • Human Rights Approach to Regulate Armed Conflicts: Beyond the Lex Generalis/Specialis Framework: Part Two
    • Megumi Ochi, The Other Side of the Human Rights Approach to the Reparation for Victims of Armed Conflict — The Coalition of the Sword and Shield Function for Transformative Reparation —
    • Yaël Ronen, Occupation, the Right to Self-Determination, and the Law
    • Yutaka Arai-Takahashi, Digging the Skewed Gendered Surface — The Rights of Female Prisoners of War Under International Humanitarian Law —
    • Shuichi Furuya, Conclusion: Why Do We Tend to Apply International Human Rights Law to Armed Conflicts?