Friday, October 17, 2025

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 38, no. 3, September 2025) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • Thomas Skouteris, Fin de siècle international law
  • International Legal Theory: Symposium on the Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: A Turn to Root Causes?
    • Ioannis Kampourakis, The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: A turn to root causes? An Introduction to the Symposium
    • Ioannis Kampourakis & Lottie Lane, The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes
    • Hannah Franzki & Angela Sánchez-Alfonso, From Business and Human Rights to entangled accumulation: Making sense of violence along global value chains
    • Klaas Hendrik Eller, Pricing and distribution in global value chain regulation
    • Abdurrahman Erol, Federica Violi, & Alessandra Arcuri, Policies on foreign investment in National Action Plans on BHR: Transformative change or reproduction?
  • International Law and Practice
    • Jean-Michel Marcoux, The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication
    • Chris O’Meara, Self-defence in outer space: Anti-satellite weapons and the jus ad bellum
    • A critical analysis of the work of the ILC on ‘State Succession in Matters of State Responsibility’: A missed opportunity Patrick Dumberry
    • Nicolas Lamp, Arrested norm development: The failure of legislative-judicial dialogue in the WTO
    • Salome Addo Ravn, Misha Ariana Plagis, & Mikael Rask Madsen, International courts and sovereignty politics: Design, shielding, and reprisal at the African Court
  • International Court of Justice
    • Michael A. Becker, Recent developments in reliance upon third-party fact-finding at the International Court of Justice
  • International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
    • Rohan Jain, Victim assistance under the Rome Statute: Approach and effectiveness of the Trust Fund for Victims assistance activities