Monday, September 29, 2025

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 38, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:
  • International Legal Theory
    • Fleur Johns, On consular internationalism
    • Cris van Eijk, The exclusive making of space law
    • Işıl Aral, Russia’s expulsion: The Council of Europe as the guardian of European imperialism
    • Dana Schmalz, The population growth discourse in the first decades of the United Nations: Interpretations of global economic inequality and the struggles for a just international legal order
    • Tuomas Palosaari, The phantom menace: Effects and legitimacy of informal international instruments
  • International Law and Practice
    • Nengye Liu & Shirley V. Scott, China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?
    • Danae Azaria, Inferring a ‘dispute’ from state silence
    • Violetta Ritz, Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion
    • Xin Wang, Global (re-)framing of cybercrime: An emerging common interest in flux of competing normative powers?
    • Natalie Klein, International law-making and the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea
  • International Court of Justice
    • Iben Vagle, The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy
  • International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
    • Ming-hsi Chu, Competing interpretations of international law: Law and politics in the war crimes trials of Nationalist China, 1946–1949
    • Natalie M. Bryce, Leslie Johns, & Máximo Langer, Living with impunity versus living in fear: Universal jurisdiction defendants, due process, and the use of democracies by autocracies to prosecute their opponents
    • Sharon Weill & Sandrine Lefranc, The French Bataclan Trial as a judicial experiment: What lessons for the prosecution of mass crimes?
    • Sergii Masol & Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War