New Issue: Transnational Environmental Law

The latest issue of Transnational Environmental Law (Vol. 14, no. 3, November 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Thijs Etty, Josephine van Zeben, Harro van Asselt, Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, Sébastien Jodoin, & Leonie Reins, Legal Pluralism in Transnational Environmental Law
• Articles
• André Nollkaemper, Avoid, Align or Contest? An Examination of National Courts’ Postures in International Climate Law Litigation
• Véronique Boillet & Mélanie Levy, A Human Rights Approach to Agrochemical Pollution: Lessons to be Learned from Climate Change Litigation?
• Clemens Kaupa, Can Corporations Fulfil Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Responsibilities by Using Carbon Credits?
• Ida Mae de Waal, The Legal Transition Towards a More Circular Battery Value Chain: A Critical Analysis of the Batteries Regulation
• Maria Lee & Chiara Armeni, Participation and Protest Across Civic Space: An Environmental Law Story
• Dominique Hervé Espejo & Dusanka Inostroza Skaric, Environmental Justice and Enforcement: Guidelines from Three Country Studies
• Asanka Edirisinghe & Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Legal Personhood and Rights of Nature: Bridging Relational Vedda Worldviews and Sri Lankan Law
• Jonathan Liljeblad, Clarifying Indigenous Approaches to Ecocide

New Issue: Business and Human Rights Journal

The latest issue of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Vol. 10, nos. 2-3, October 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Business and human rights: Looking ahead through the eyes of emerging voices
• Muhammad Asif Khan, Reimagining International Investment Law: Empowering Rightsholders and Addressing Legal Imperialism
• Jake Okechukwu Effoduh, Digital Colonialism and the Role of Local Intermediaries: Examining Big Tech’s Impact on Data Sovereignty and Human Rights in Africa
• Sebastian Smart, Corporate Power, Conflict and Transitional Justice: Addressing Business Human Rights Abuses in the Digital Era
• Justin Jos Poonjatt, To Waive or Not to Waive: Questioning the Use of Legal Waivers in Business Human Rights
• Hiruni Alwishewa, At the Crossroads of Business, Human Rights and Security: Business and Human Rights in Arms Trade Governance
• Marisa McVey, Outsourcing the Responsibility to Respect? ‘Visibilising’ the External Expert in Business and Human Rights Litigation
• Ekaterina Aristova, Strategic Business and Human Rights Litigation: It Is a Marathon, not a Sprint
• Yingru Li, Just Accounting
• Alysha Kate Elias Shivji, Time for a Break from the UNGPs? Reimagining the Future of Business and Human Rights
• Ana Cardia, Epistemic Justice, Co-Production and HREDD: A Three-Step Agenda for Advancing Business and Human Rights Research
• Developments in the Field
• Théa Bounfour & Lucie Chatelain, A (So Far Unlikely) Day in Court: An Overview of the First Judicial Decisions under the French Duty of Vigilance Law
• Luuk Ex, Bo Hijstek, & Mariëtte van Huijstee, Human Rights Risks from Immersive Technologies
• Yvonne Khor & Jing Hao Liong, Closing the Gap between Ideals and Reality: Lessons from a Malaysian SME’s Experiment with Ethical Recruitment in the Nepal-Malaysia Corridor
• J. MacLennan & W. De Catelle, The Revision of EU Greenwashing Laws: A New Framework of Analysis

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 64, no. 5, October 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Convention Against Cybercrime (U.N.), with introductory note by Jason Pielemeier
• Finding Under Art. 87(7) of the Rome Statute on the Non-Compliance by Mong. with the Request by the Ct. to Cooperate in the Arrest and Surrender of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin and Referral to the Assembly of States Parties (Int'l Crim. Ct. Pre-Trial Chamber II), with introductory note by Thomas Weatherall
• Regulation 2024/1689 of the Eur. Parl. & Council of June 13, 2024 (EU Artificial Intelligence Act), with introductory note by Nathalie A. Smuha
• Joined Cases C-608/22 and C-609/22, AH and FN v. Bundesamt Für Fremdenwesen Und Asyl (C.J.E.U.), with introductory note by Steve Peers

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 23, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Tomas Berkmanas, (Re)Birth of a State from the Perspective of the Restoration of Lithuanian Independence: Materialism, Naturalism and Positivism Stages
• Jurgita Grigienė, Paulius Čerka, Silvija Gervienė, & Dalia Perkumienė, The Application of Universal Jurisdiction for War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Lithuania
• Saulė Milčiuvienė, Julija Kiršienė, Darius Amilevičius, & Gailius Raškinis, The Impact of the EU Digital Strategy on the Regulation of the Lithuanian Energy Market
• Marijus Šalčius, The Influence of EU Law on the Evolution of State Tortious Liability in Lithuania: A Case of Compensation for Damage Caused in Criminal Proceedings
• Linas Meškys, The Implementation of EU Directive 2004/35/EC and the Challenges of Determining Environmental Damage in the Republic of Lithuania
• Edita Gruodytė, The Impact of EU Law on the Development of Environmental Criminal Liability: Implementation of EU Directive 2008/99/EC in Lithuania
• Evelina Žurauskaitė, Lithuania’s Membership of the ILO: Between International and Regional Labour Standards
• Albertas Milinis, Kristina Pranevičienė, & Neringa Gaubienė, Cross-Border Enforcement Involving Digital Assets: A Lithuanian Legal Perspective on International Frameworks and Challenges
• Žaneta Navickienė, Rolandas Krikščiūnas, Mindaugas Bilius, & Daiva Milienė, Modern Discourse on Financial Crime Pre-trial Investigation Planning
• Vilenas Vadapalas, Emerging Prohibition on the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

New Issue: Rivista di Diritto Internazionale

The latest issue of the Rivista di Diritto Internazionale (Vol. 108, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli
• Francesco Bestagno, Le relazioni convenzionali dell'UE nel quadro del Consiglio d'Europa e le prospettive di adesione alla CEDU
• Alessandro Ranieri, L'incerto ambito della protezione sussidiaria in caso di condanna a morte o esecuzione
• Gianfranco Gabriele Nucera, Sulla liceità di dichiarare il segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite persona non grata
• Note e Commenti
• Deborah Russo, Collegamento territoriale ed eccezione umanitaria rispetto alla immunità giurisdizionle degli Stati esteri
• Fabrizio Vismara, Controlli all'esportazione dei prodotti di sorveglianza informatica e tutela dei diritti umani
• Francesco D'Amario, L'autonomia dell'ordinamento dell'unione Europea e l'esecuzione della sentenza ICSID Micula

Call for Submissions: International Community Law Review

The International Community Law Review has issued an open call for submissions. The ICLR welcomes papers that examine how different traditions of international law — and prevailing trends — shape the concept of an international community. The journal examines how the international community applies and adapts international law to address new and emerging global challenges. Today, many actors influence international law — non-state groups, international and non-governmental organisations, individuals, communities, corporations, and civil society — alongside States. The ICLR’s focus is multicultural rather than regional, exploring how these different actors shape and engage with international law. The journal encourages alternative or critical perspectives and welcome contributions from scholars around the world, at all stages of their career. The call is here.

New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law: two lectures, in English and Spanish, on Full Protection and Security in International Investment Law, by Sebastián Mantilla Blanco; and two lectures, in English and French, on The International Legal Framework for Fighting Doping in Sport, by David Pavot.

The Audiovisual Library of International Law is also available as an audio podcast on Apple, SoundCloud, and other platforms.

New Issue: Virginia Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Virginia Journal of International Law (Vol. 66, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Neha Jain, Refugee Markets
• Sannoy Das, Domestic Stability and International Trade Order
• Edward Swaine, Prohibiting Threats of Aggression

Call for Submissions: ASIL International Criminal Law Works-in-Progress Workshop

The American Society of International Law's International Criminal Law Interest Group will hold its annual works-in-progress Workshop in person on June 8, 2026, at Boston University School of Law. Submissions at various stages of development on any topic related to international criminal law broadly construed (including transnational criminal law) are welcome. Indications of interest from potential commentators are also welcome. Prospective participants should fill out this form by April 1, 2026, indicating whether they hope to present a paper and/or comment on papers, or whether they would like to attend without presenting or commenting. Questions can be directed to the interest group co-chairs: Ryan Liss (rliss@uwo.ca) and Steve Koh (koh@bu.edu).

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 74, Special Issue, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Law of the Sea: Present Challenges and Future Directions
• Malcolm Evans, Richard Barnes, Rozemarijn Roland Holst, Constantinos Yiallourides, & Jack Kenny, Foreword by the Co-Editors of the ICLQ Forum on the Law of the Sea
• Catherine Redgwell, Technological Change and the Law of the Sea: The Challenge of Marine Geoengineering
• Barbara Stępień & Mauro Arturo Rivera León, Law Enforcement in Autonomous Shipping: Rethinking Jurisdictional Challenges under UNCLOS
• Alexander Lott, Conventional Jurisdictional Approaches to Protecting Submarine Cables and Pipelines
• Christian Bueger, Timothy Edmunds, & Jan Stockbruegger, UNCLOS under Fire: Recalibrating Maritime Security Governance
• Makoto Seta, UNCLOS during Armed Conflict: Due Regard in the Exclusive Economic Zones of Neutral Coastal States
• Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho, From ‘Flags of Convenience’ to ‘Flags of Deceit’: The Future of the Law Governing the Nationality of Ships
• Yunjun Li, Constraining the Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles in Maritime Delimitation Cases
• Nilüfer Oral, Sea-Level Rise and Maritime Boundaries: From Uncertainty to Clarity?
• Eirik Bjorge, The Régime of Islands and Sea-Level Rise
• Sebastián Rioseco, The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and International Law: A Deep Dive into External Rules and Materials
• David Freestone, Fae Sapsford, & David Vousden, Navigating the BBNJ Treaty: Some Experiences from the Sargasso Sea
• So Yeon Kim & Youngdawng Moh, Due Regard Obligations in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
• Shirley V Scott & Nengye Liu, The Prospects of the High Seas Treaty Decisively Reducing the Negative Biodiversity Impacts of Distant-Water Fishing Operations
• Neil Craik, Julian Jackson, Aline Jaeckel, Hannah Lily, Pradeep Singh, & Hope Tracey, The International Seabed Authority, the Problem of Disregard and the Case for Administrative Accountability
• Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien, Negotiating Plastics Futures: The Law of the Sea and the Role of Non-State Stakeholders
• Reece Lewis & Sofia Galani, Addressing the Challenges of Applying Human Rights Law at Sea

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 79, Special Issue 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Future of Global Governance and World Order
• Brett Ashley Leeds, Layna Mosley, B. Peter Rosendorff, & Ayşe Zarakol, The Future of Global Governance and World Order
• Stacie E. Goddard & Abraham Newman, Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System
• Julia C. Morse & Tyler Pratt, Information Disorder and Global Politics
• C. Nicolai L. Gellwitzki & Jeremy F.G. Moulton, The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order
• Stephen Weymouth, Digital Disintegration: Techno-Blocs and Strategic Sovereignty in the AI Era
• Susan D. Hyde & Elizabeth N. Saunders, The Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership
• Jeff Colgan & Federica Genovese, Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump
• Austin Carson, Rachel Metz, & Paul Poast, Allies and Access: Implications of an American Turn Away from Alliances
• Tobias Pforr, Fabian Pape, & Johannes Petry, Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump
• Dongan Tan, The Decoupling Dilemma: How US Sanctions Erode Global Economic Governance
• Bryce W. Reeder, The Future of United Nations Peacekeeping in a Fragmenting World
• Rebecca Cordell & Alex Dukalskis, Authoritarianism, Global Politics, and the Future of Human Rights
• Perisa Davutoglu, The Architecture of Containment: Refugee Protection in a Postliberal Order
• Andreas Dür & Alessia Invernizzi, Weathering the Storm: US Trade Policy Beyond Trump
• Kenneth A. Schultz, Holding the World Together? The Future of Territorial Order
• Sarah Sunn Bush, Daniela Donno, Jon C.W. Pevehouse, & Christina J. Schneider, The End of Autocratic Norm Adaptation? US Retrenchment and Liberal Norms in Illiberal Regimes

Squatrito: Judging under Constraint: The Politics of Deference by International Courts

Theresa Squatrito (London School of Economics - International Relations) has published Judging under Constraint: The Politics of Deference by International Courts (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

As international courts have risen in prominence, policymakers, practitioners and scholars observe variation in judicial deference. Sometimes international courts defer, whereby they accept a state's exercise of authority, and other times not. Differences can be seen in case outcomes, legal interpretation and reasoning, and remedial orders. How can we explain variation in deference? This book examines deference by international courts, offering a novel theoretical account. It argues that deference is explained by a court's strategic space, which is structured by formal independence, seen as a dimension of institutional design, and state preferences. An empirical analysis built on original data of the East African Court of Justice, Caribbean Court of Justice, and African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights demonstrates that robust safeguards to independence and politically fragmented memberships lend legitimacy to courts and make collective state resistance infeasible, combining to minimize deference. Persuasive argumentation and public legitimation also enable nondeference.

New Issue: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 43, no. 4, December 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Column
• Ann Skelton, Cash strapped! Can the multi-lateral human rights system survive the UN financial crisis?
• Articles
• Ben TC Warwick, Temporalised international human rights: Complicated times
• Anna Arden, Intersecting enforced disappearance and migration: The creation of a new legal tool against pushbacks within WGEID and CED
• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, Paradoxical human rights implications of phasing out fossil fuels for highly fossil fuel-dependent countries in the climate change law

Call for Contributions: Digital Solidarity and International Law: Collective Action and Human Rights in the Digital Age

A call has been issued for contributions to the forthcoming volume "Digital Solidarity and International Law: Collective Action and Human Rights in the Digital Age," which is to be published in the Routledge Research in International Law series. The book will examine how solidarities are formed and expressed in the digital sphere and their implications for international law in areas including human rights, trade, environment, health, and peace and security. The editors invite contributions that engage with doctrinal, empirical, or critical approaches (e.g., TWAIL, feminist, or interdisciplinary perspectives). The call is here.

Swaine: Prohibiting Threats of Aggression

Edward T. Swaine (George Washington Univ. - Law) has posted Prohibiting Threats of Aggression. Here's the abstract:

Recent events, particularly Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have revived worries about the international regime regulating the use of force. Vastly less attention has been paid to what often precedes such attacks—threats to use force—and the prohibition on them. While the UN Charter and other legal instruments integrate the threats regime with the regime on actual uses of force, the two regimes are increasingly decoupled, in part because only one considers gradations: the use-of-force regime now identifies more serious variants like aggression and crimes of aggression; threats rules, by contrast, do not. This decoupling reflects real differences in the underlying wrongs, but it is also due to bureaucratic history and path dependence, including reluctance to criminalize threats of aggression while the underlying concept of aggression was still being developed.

As a result, international law and its institutions fail clearly to treat more serious threats, like threats to annex another state’s territory, as graver state conduct—putting aside, that is, whether criminalization is appropriate. This artificially limits the toolkit for addressing incipient aggression of the kind patently evident before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It has also impoverished consideration of potential aggression, such as may become inferable from U.S. policy concerning the Panama Canal and Greenland, before positions harden and avoidable consequences come to pass.

This Article proposes clearly defining and recognizing threats of aggression as prohibited state conduct. It evaluates the potential for deterring wrongdoing and proposes concrete and novel ways that institutions could develop and employ the rule. Such an initiative might discourage the most bellicose threats by states and even acts of aggression themselves.

Gift: Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity

Thomas Gift (Univ. College London) has published Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

What causes a Western democratic leader to stop even feigning to value the law of war? Unlike past US presidents, who at least paid lip service to the law of armed conflict, Donald Trump has openly flouted it: pardoning war criminals; denigrating the Geneva Conventions; praising torture; and discarding military norms of restraint. This gripping account depicts how Trump has upended assumptions about America's outward commitment to the law of war, exposing the conditions that make such defiance possible. Drawing on in-depth case studies and original survey analysis, Thomas Gift explains how Trump has relied on right-wing media and allies in Congress to attack the law of war – not in the shadows, but in broad daylight. Killing Machines cautions that Trump's approach is not an aberration – it's a playbook other leaders could follow. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

New Issue: Netherlands International Law Review

The latest issue of the Netherlands International Law Review (Vol. 72, no. 2, September 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Humoud Al-Fadhli, From Nuremberg to The Hague and Beyond: Reincorporating ‘Taking a Consenting Part’ into International Modes of Liability
• Abdata Abebe Sefara, The Ethiopian Perspective on the Civil Law Consequences of Corruption in International Contracts
• Guangjian Tu, Xiaoxuan Gu, & Weiqing Song, China’s Shift on Foreign State Immunity and Its Legal Implications for ‘One Country, Two Systems’
• Zhuo Liang, The Law of Neutrality in and after the Ukraine War: Navigating the Legal Labyrinth
• Lautaro Melcón, Covering the Expenses of Rebel Administration: Are Rebels Taxing or Pillaging Towns?

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 39, no. 3, Fall 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Book Symposium: Beyond the Law’s Reach?
• Michael Blake, In the Shadow of Democratic Violence
• Yuna Blajer de la Garza, Ambiguous Debts
• Alex Zakaras, Citizens’ Complicity in State Action: Exploring the Limits
• Shmuel Nili, Beyond the Law’s Reach? Reply to Critics
• Feature
• Tyra Lennie, Detained Migrant Children, Autonomy, and Positive Duties

Call for Papers: International & EU Law Horizons Conference

The Centre for European Research and Education at the Faculty of Law, University of Pécs, has issued a call for papers for the "International & EU Law Horizons Conference," to take place in May 2026, in Pécs. The conference particularly welcomes the participation of early-career researchers and PhD candidates. The call is here.

Colloque : De jure belli ac pacis. Grotius quatre-cents ans plus tard

Le 8 décembre prochain, l’Académie des Sciences morales et politiques et la S.F.D.I. organisent un colloque sur le thème « De jure belli ac pacis. Grotius quatre-cents ans plus tard ». Le programme peut être téléchargé en cliquant ici.

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 113, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Reparations for civilian victims of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza
• Introduced by Silvia Borelli and Chiara Vitucci
• Chiara Giorgetti, Reparations for civilian victims in Ukraine and Gaza: Legal frameworks, normative debates, and implementation
• Shuichi Furuya, Reparations for Victims of the Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza

Call for Papers: 21th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law

The European Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 21th Annual Conference, which will take place September 3-5, 2026, at the Universidad de Málaga. The theme is: "International Law and Conflict: An Enduring Tension?" The call is here. The deadline is January 31, 2026.

New Issue: Europa Ethnica

The latest issue of Europa Ethnica (Vol. 82, nos. 3/4, 2025). Contents include:

• Schwerpunkt: Heimat
• Gilbert Gornig, Das Recht auf die Heimat – erneut aufgegriffen
• Heinrich Neisser, Doris Dialer, & Annegret Eppler, Heimat und die Verwirklichung des Binnenmarktes
• Roland Benedikter, Heimat Europa. Im Zeitalter des globalen Umbruchs brauchen wir einen gemeinsamen Heimatbegriff, der uns zu den Vereinigten Staaten von Europa führt
• Margareth Lun, Die Option – ein Verrat an der Heimat?
• Rita Franceschini, Heimat – und wenn man keine hat? Ein Aufzug in fünf Akten
• Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne, Ein genauerer Blick auf die Staatsbürgerschaft: Das soziale Engagement von „Russlanddeutschen“ in Bayern
• Amal Allouch, Amazigh Identity, Indigeneity and Coloniality in Morocco – Between Resistance and Resilience

Wang: China's Approach to International AI Governance: Selective Shaping?

Heng Wang (Singapore Management Univ. - Law) has posted China's Approach to International AI Governance: Selective Shaping?. Here's the abstract:

China is rapidly solidifying its position as a key actor in the development and governance of artificial intelligence (AI). Domestically, China is exploring a comprehensive and evolving regulatory framework. Internationally, China has transitioned from a passive recipient of external norms to a proactive norm-shaper, advancing its vision of AI governance through initiatives such as the Global AI Governance Initiative. This contrasts with its earlier accession to the World Trade Organization, when it adapted to pre-existing rules. As a leading AI power, China now influences governance practice at the international level. This paper explores two important but underexplored questions: What is China’s approach to international AI governance? How to understand China’s approach? This paper argues that China pursues a strategy of selective shaping in international AI governance, resulting in a targeted reshaping of global order. By “uploading” China-proposed institutions and norms particularly in areas of strength, China leverages new initiatives and standards to shape the developing landscape of AI governance. Meanwhile, China’s approach also faces challenges such as normative ambiguity.

Call for Submissions: European Investment Law and Arbitration Review

The European Investment Law and Arbitration Review has issued a call for submissions for its spring issue (1/2026). The call is here.

New Volume: Polish Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Polish Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 44, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• General Articles
• Lucas Lixinski, Resisting Chrononormative International Law
• Maurizio Arcari, Divisive Jus Cogens Reloaded. Some Remarks on the Peremptory Character of Self-determination under the ICJ Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024
• Kristýna Urbanová, Validity of a Potential Peace Treaty Between Ukraine and Russian Federation in the Light of Article 52 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• Milan Lipovský, Suitability of the Principle of Non-intervention as a Rule Against Cybernetic Electorate Targeting Information Operations
• Hanna Kuczyńska & Andriy Kosylo, The Long-awaited Breakthrough Legislation – Changes in Ukrainian Criminal Law Due to the Ratification of the Rome Statute
• Jan Denka, The Enforcement of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by the Administrative Courts in Poland and Czechia
• Julia Sochacka, Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq: Could There Be a Region-specific Approach to International Arbitration?
• Markiyan Malskyy, Current State and Future of Investor-State Mediation
• Andrzej Wróbel, An Axiological Turn in European Constitutionalism?
• Agnieszka Sołtys, Equality of Member States as a New Rationale for the Principle of Primacy and Its Significance for the Constitutionalisation of EU Law
• Patrycja Dąbrowska-Kłosińska, Exploring Asymmetries of Market Integration at the Intersection of Health Protection and Mobility During the Pandemic and the Effects on the Rights of Individuals in the EU
• Raquel Cardoso & Vasil Pavlov, The Effectiveness of the European Approach to Irregular Migration – A Legal-economic Assessment
• Ewa Bujak, Escaping into Economic Security. How Can the European Union Use Foreign Direct Investment Screening in Times of Crises? Lessons from the United States
• Edgar Drozdowski, Effectiveness and Constitutional Standards as a Barrier to the Correct Implementation of the European General Anti-abuse Rule
• Book Reviews
• Maciej Taborowski, reviewing Krystyna Kowalik, Andrzej Jakubowski, & Karolina Wierczyńska (eds.), Harmony and Dissonance in the International Legal Order. Liber Amicorum Władysław Czapliński, Wydawnictwo INP PAN, Warszawa: 2024
• Anna Czaplińska, reviewing Peter Hilpold & Richard Senti, WTO: System und Funktionsweise der Welthandelsordnung, 3rd ed., Nomos-Schulthess-Facultas, Baden Baden, Zürich, Wien: 2025
• Łukasz Gruszczyński, reviewing Peter Hilpold & Giuseppe Nesi (eds.), Teaching International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Leiden, Boston: 2024
• Marcin Marcinko, reviewing Alberta Fabbricotti (ed.), Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage and the Law: A Research Companion, Routledge, London–New York: 2024

Call for Submissions: Drugs and International Law (Special Issue of Estudios Socio-Jurídicos)

The journal Estudios Socio-Jurídicos has issued a call for submissions for a special issue that will explore the intersections between drugs and international law. The call is here.

Burri: Phenomenal International Law, Part 1: Chasing Chagos

Thomas Burri (Univ. of St. Gallen) has posted Phenomenal International Law, Part 1: Chasing Chagos. Here's the abstract:

This paper is part of a series I will publish in the near future. It develops a new approach I call “phenomenal international law”. Phenomenal international law addresses two challenges international law faces today: i) International law is increasingly under pressure because some major powers, including the United States and Russia, are turning away from it, preferring the use of raw power and military force over the rule of law. ii) International lawyers, like all lawyers, are under strain as intelligent algorithms become better by the day at doing what used to be their job. Artificial intelligence writes briefs, answers complex legal questions, summarizes long court decisions, delivers crisp lectures, writes international law manuals, produces elaborate footnotes, etc, – and all that in a fraction of the time international lawyers needed to complete these tasks.

New Issue: Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy

The latest issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy (Vol. 10, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Law of the Sea in the ASEAN Maritime Domain
• Anh Vo, China’s Maritime Militia Under the Law of the Sea and the Applicability of The State Responsibility Rules
• Le Duy Tran & Thi Ha Trang Dao, Security Matters Involving Marine-Based Nuclear Power Plants: Several Regulatory Challenges and ASEAN’s Prospects
• Nguyên Thị Kim Trần, Law of the Sea and Offshore Wind Power in Vietnam
• Mónica Chinchilla-Adell, The Proliferation Security Initiative in the asean Region: a Missed Opportunity for Maritime Security?
• Faudzan Farhana & Rifki Indra Maulana, Developing Regional Norms on Protecting Migrant Fisher’s Rights at Sea: ASEAN Way
• Yulu Liu, Southeast Asian Countries at the Sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution and the Bridging with ASEAN Marine Plastic Policies
• Jacqueline Joyce F. Espenilla, Combatting iuu Fishing in Southeast Asia through Next-Generation Surveillance Cooperation
• Jeremia Humolong Prasetya, Anissa Yusha Amalia, & Fadilla Octaviani, Charting the Course for the Protection of People at Sea: Lessons Learned from ASEAN
• Halina Sapeha & Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Maritime Boundary Dispute Resolution in the ASEAN Region

Call for Applications: Canadian Yearbook of International Law Editorial Positions

The Canadian Yearbook of International Law has issued calls for applications for the positions of Acquisitions Editor and Communications Editor. The calls are here (acquisitions) and here (communnications).

New Volume: Italian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Italian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 34, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• The United Nations at 80: Contestation, Resilience and Change
• Santiago Villalpando, How Do Nations Unite Within the United Nations? Coalitions and Divides in International Law-Making
• Christian J. Tams, Binding Settlement of Inter-State Disputes: The United Nations Between Resilience and Resignation
• Alessandra Annoni, The UN and the ICC: Navigating the Persistent Tension Between Peace and Justice
• Chiara Redaelli, The United Nations and the Reinvention of Peace: Which Peace and for Whom?
• Rosario Sapienza, Human Rights at the United Nations Between Universalism and Multiculturalism
• Elena Fasoli, Sustaining Change: The Role of the United Nations in Promoting Environmental Protection amid Rising Discontent
• Annamaria Viterbo, The Specialised Agencies and their Relationship with the United Nations: Membership and Representation Issues
• Articles, Notes and Comments
• Donato Greco & Riccardo Pavoni, Which Treaties Override Inconsistent Domestic Legislation Under Article 117(1) of the Italian Constitution? Taking Stock of a Quarter-Century of Practice
• Tullio Scovazzi, Piracy: A Notable Omnis Definitio Instance
• Cristina Campiglio, The New Challenges for International Cooperation in Healthcare and Public Health
• Federica Passarini, Cannavacciuolo v. Italy: A Cautious Step in Protecting the Right to Life Against Environmental Harm
• Alessandra Lanciotti, Confiscation of Archaeological Property: The Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in J. Paul Getty Trust v. Italy
• Anna Fazzini, The Italy-Albania Protocol on the Extraterritorial Detention of Migrants: Critical Issues in International Law
• Practice of International Courts and Tribunals
• Serena Forlati, The Genocide Convention Before the ICJ: Judicial Protection of Fundamental Values Between Tradition, Innovation, and the Risk of Futility
• Raffaella Nigro & Emma Luce Scali, Cooperation with the ICC and Personal Immunities of Heads of State or Government of Non-Parties: Revisiting Articles 27 and 98 of the Rome Statute After the Court’s Finding on Mongolia’s Non-Compliance
• Giorgio Sacerdoti & Carlo de Stefano, The WTO Dispute Settlement System 2023–2024: Navigating the Crisis, Engaging in Reform, Addressing Trade and Climate Change
• Giuliana Lampo, The 2024 Case Law of Investment Tribunals: Early Effects of the ICSID Rules Amendments and the Issue of Security for Costs

New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 24, no. 5, December 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Fang Gu & Xu Qian, Reconstruction of the Evaluation of Legitimate Expectations within Investor–State Dispute Settlement: A Vantage Point from Fuller’s Interactional Theory
• Wentian Zu & Ying Bi, Investment Facilitation and the Structural Evolution of International Investment Law: Toward a Third Configuration
• Fenghua Li & Haibin Zhu, Embedding Conditionality in the Special and Differential Treatment in WTO Disciplines on Fisheries Subsidies to Achieve Fishery Sustainability
• Maarja Saluste, Cross-Border ‘Data Adequacy’ Frameworks under GATS Article VII: Aligning WTO Members’ Rights to Protect Personal Data with Their International Commitments
• Jeongmeen Suh, Shifting Dynamics in WTO Ministerial Statements: A Textual Analysis of Member Engagement, 1996–2024
• Christian Delev, Economic Resilience under the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework Supply Chain Agreement: Treading between Geoeconomic Ambitions and World Trade Organization Compatibility?

Symposium: A Year of Climate Change in International Courts

On January 31-Feburary 1, 2026, a symposium will be held on "A Year of Climate Change in International Courts," at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, in Hamburg. The program is here. Registration is here.

Symposium: Obligations Erga Omnes: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

On November 28, 2025, Bocconi University will host, in the hybrid format, a symposium on "Obligations Erga Omnes: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives." Details are here.

Call for Submissions: ASIL International Criminal Law IG Scholarship Prize

Submissions are now being accepted for the ASIL International Criminal Law Interest Group's International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize. Details are here.

Panel: Treaties and Consent to Be Bound in an Era of Crisis of Multilateralism

On November 26, 2025, the International Law at Westminster Research Centre will host a panel on "Treaties and Consent to Be Bound in an Era of Crisis of Multilateralism." Details are here.

ASIL-ESIL International Law and Social Sciences Speaker Series Upcoming Events

The ASIL-ESIL International Law and Social Sciences Speaker Series has two upcoming events. They are:

• November 26, 2025: Formal Change in International Organizations: How Amendment Rules Matter, with Tom Ginsburg (Speaker) and Jan Klabbers (Commentator). Details here.
• December 10, 2025: The Other Secret Deals: Uncovering The Power of Non-Binding International Agreements, with Guillermo Garcia Sanchez (Speaker) and Timothy Meyer (Commentator). Details here.

Garrido Muñoz, Morgan-Foster, Peat, & Thévenot-Werner: The Law and Practice of International Administrative Tribunals

Asier Garrido Muñoz (Hague Univ. for Applied Sciences), Jason Morgan-Foster (International Court of Justice), Daniel Peat (Universiteit Leiden), & Anne-Marie Thévenot-Werner (Université Paris-Panthéon-Assas) have published The Law and Practice of International Administrative Tribunals (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

The jurisprudence of international administrative tribunals holds great relevance for international organisations, as seen in the proliferation of these tribunals, the complexity of their jurisprudence, and their practical impact. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible analysis of essential topics in this field, including applicable sources, jurisdiction and admissibility, grounds for review, equality and non-discrimination, and remedies. It also covers key emerging issues, such as the rights of non-staff personnel, the growing application of international human rights law by tribunals, and the protection of acquired rights. Drawing on thousands of decisions, this book is an invaluable resource for both practitioners and scholars. For practitioners, it offers a practical guide to navigating complex cases. For scholars, it highlights common principles and key divergences across the jurisprudence of some thirty tribunals, at the same time illuminating the increasingly sophisticated interplay between international administrative law and public international law.

Call for Papers: Regional Approaches to International Law: What Role in a Dividing World?

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on “Regional Approaches to International Law: What Role in a Dividing World?,”to take place August 26–28, 2026, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais Law School, Belo Horizonte, Brazil. The event is co-organized by the Brazilian Branch of the International Law Association, the African Society of International Law, and the Latin American Society of International Law. The call is here.

Webinar: Mooting International Law

On November 21, 2025, the European Society of International Law will host a webinar on "Mooting International Law." This event, part of the ESIL Teaching Corner Webinar Series, will gather coaches, organisers, and participants in international moot court competitions to discuss the pedagogical value, strengths, and challenges of this method of teaching international law. Details are here.

Kassoti, Cabrita, & Idriz: The European Union and Regionalism: Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives

Eva Kassoti (T.M.C. Asser Institute), Teresa Cabrita (UCLouvain Saint-Louis Brussels - Law), & Narin Idriz (T.M.C. Asser Institute) have published The European Union and Regionalism: Conceptual and Contextual Perspectives (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

While the EU is the most emblematic Regional International Organization (RIO), the 'regional' perspective is largely absent in debates about the EU's identity and external posture. What does the 'regional' lens offer to the study of EU law? How is the regional dimension reflected in EU policymaking, and how does it impact norm production? This book offers the first critical, legal account of the EU as a RIO. It brings together scholars from different disciplines to reflect on the construction, use and misuse of the 'region' in EU law and practice and to examine how this dimension interacts with other RIOs.

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 119, no. 4, October 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Current Development
• Diane Marie Amann, Child-Taking Justice and the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative
• International Decisions
• Kushtrim Istrefi & Pola Cebulak, European Commission and Council of the European Union v. Front populaire pour la libération de la Saguia el-Hamra et du Rio de oro (Front Polisario)
• Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Case of the Inhabitants of La Oroya v. Peru, Preliminary Objections, Merits, Reparations, and Costs Judgment
• Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
• Ingrid Brunk, Jacob Katz Cogan, & Monica Hakimi, Introduction to a Special Issue on the Contemporary Practice of the United States at the Outset of President Trump’s Second Term in Office
• Julian Arato, Kathleen Claussen, & Timothy Meyer, The “America First Trade Policy” in Practice
• Jeffrey L. Dunoff & Mark A. Pollack, The Trump Administration’s Trade Policy and the International Trading System
• Gregory Shaffer & Sergio Puig, The U.S.-Ukraine Strategic Minerals Partnership in the Wake of Russia’s War of Aggression
• Henry Gao, From Great “Liberator” to “Landlord Seeking Rent”: The Implications of U.S. Reciprocal Tariffs Policy in Asia and Beyond
• Anne van Aaken, From Cooperation to Anomie and Transaction in the Transatlantic Relationship? A View from Europe on the Trump Administration 2.0
• Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Entrenching Inequality or Opportunities to Forge New Pathways: Implications of U.S. Foreign Aid Cuts and Reciprocal Tariffs for African Countries
• Jorge Contesse, President Trump Targets Latin American Countries and Nationals as He Begins His Second Term
• Jaya Ramji-Nogales, The Trump Administration’s Unprecedented Violations of the Non-Refoulement Principle
• John H. Knox, Daniel Bodansky, & Lavanya Rajamani, The Trump Administration Steps Back from International Environmental Cooperation
• Jacob Katz Cogan, The Trump Administration Signals Major Reevaluation of U.S. Engagement with International Organizations
• Lori Fisler Damrosch, The Trump Administration Reverses U.S. Position on UNRWA Immunities
• Jean Galbraith, United States Bombs Iran’s Nuclear Facilities
• Michael J. Glennon, Where Have All the (War) Powers Gone?
• Melissa J. Durkee, International Space Law Under the Trump Administration: Commerce and Security
• Recent Books on International Law
• Alexandra Huneeus, The Making of Regional Human Rights
• Rachel López, International Law as a Site for Queer Joy?
• Stephen C. Neff, reviewing They Called it Peace: Worlds of Imperial Violence, by Lauren Benton
• David Bosco, reviewing The United Nations and the Question of Palestine: Rule by Law and the Structure of International Legal Subalternity, by Ardi Imseis

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 17, no. 3, November 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Liliana B. Andonova, The scope of accountability of international organisations: the relevance of power, institutional structure, and salience
• Kilian Spandler, Rethinking democracy in global network governance: norm polysemy, pluralism, and agonistic engagement
• Jean-Frédéric Morin & Pauline Pic, Sequencing binding and non-binding agreements: the case of outer space governance
• Alexander Lanoszka, Non-aggression pacts: context and explanation
• Aditi Sahasrabuddhe & Jack Seddon, The perils of technocratic power: central bank discretion and the end of Bretton Woods revisited
• Rens van Munster, Through the surrealist looking glass: international theory, imagination, and the Anthropocene
• Charlie Thame, The tripartite structure of critical international theory

Lecture: Lieblich on "The Death and Life of the Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals"

On November 24, 2025, Eliav Lieblich (Tel Aviv Univ. - Law) will give the next lecture of the TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War. The topic is: “The Death and Life of the Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals.” Details are here.

New Volume: Australian International Law Journal

The latest volume of the Australian International Law Journal (Vol. 30, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Elizabeth S. Flatley, CEDAW's Contribution to Refugee Law: What Does It Offer for Gender-Based Claims?
• Adam Kamradt-Scott, To the Moon and beyond: Evaluating Australia's Possible Legal Dilemma in Signing the Artemis Accords While Having Acceded to the Moon Agreement
• Temitope Lawal, The Impact of Preferential Trade Agreements on Cross-Border Legal Practice
• Agnes Chong, Progressive International Water Law and the ILC's 2018 Draft Conclusions on Subsequent Agreements and Subsequent Practice in Relation to the Interpretation of Treaties
• Samuel White, Pacta Sunt Servanda - Distilling a Fundamental Humanitarian Principle through Australia's Colonisation
• Sami Abbas, From Sapmi to Navajo Nation: Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples
• Case Notes
• Jack Zhou, Opinio Juris under the Microscope: The International Court of Justice in Nicaragua v Colombia
• Catherine Li, Certain Iranian Assets (Islamic Republic of Iran v USA) (2023)
• Georgia Perissinotto, Settling the Enforcement Conundrum - The High Court Distinguishes between Recognition, Enforcement and Execution in Kingdom of Spain v Infrastructure Services Luxembourg Sarl
• Nicola Eadie, Aussie Suit Hails in Royal Flush? Infrastructure Services Luxembourg v Kingdom of Spain [2023] EWHC 1226 (Comm)
• Caitlin Astill, The Law Debenture Trust Corporation plc v Ukraine: The Boundaries and Intersections between International and Domestic Law
• Didi Mulligan, 2023 or 1984? Facial Recognition Technology, Law Enforcement and Human Rights: Glukhin v Russia

Call for Papers: Tribal Energy Law, Environmental Justice, and Climate Change

A call for papers has been issued for a symposium on "Tribal Energy Law, Environmental Justice, and Climate Change," to take place March 25, 2026, at the University of Tulsa College of Law. The call is here.

Call for Nominations: ASIL International Law and Social Science Interest Group Prizes

The International Law and Social Science (ILASS) Interest Group of the American Society of International Law seeks nominations for two prizes:

• the ILASS Prize for Best Article on International Law and Social Science, awarded annually to author(s) of the best published article that the Selection Committee considers to be an outstanding social science contribution to the study of international law; and
• the ILASS Prize for Best Book on International Law and Social Science, awarded annually to the author(s) of the best published book that the Selection Committee considers to be an outstanding social science contribution to the study of international law.

The prizes are for articles or books with a 2025 publication date, and ASIL membership is not required for a prize to be awarded. For details please consult the ILASS website and scroll down the page to "Additional Media." Both calls for nominations are now open, closing on December 31, and details of both awards and application procedures (including addresses to send a pdf of nominated articles and hard copies of nominated books to the respective committees) can be found in their respective calls for nominations.

New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 41, no. 3, September 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• George A Bermann, Most-favoured-nation’s false promises
• Lord Hoffmann, Richard Aikens, Salim Moollan, & Ricky Diwan, An important realignment and an opportunity missed? The law applicable to the arbitration agreement, jurisdictional re-hearings, stays to court proceedings, and the Arbitration Act 2025
• Alberto Plaza López-Berges, Arbitral tribunal-led settlement facilitation in international arbitration
• Robert Walters, Tokens and blockchain evidence in international commercial arbitration: its current status?
• Nakul Dewan & Sathvik Chandrashekar, Stretching separability to its yield point
• Phillip Landolt, EU law in international arbitration—the example of Switzerland
• Nawsheen Maghooa, Withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty: the Ostrich Effect?
• Katherine Reece Thomas & Doğan Gültutan, Enforcement of ICSID awards and state immunity: should immunity trump all? Analysis of the English Court of Appeal’s ISL / Border Timbers conjoined judgment, advocating for a domestic teleological interpretation
• Case Notes
• Yağmur Hortoğlu Grant, Arbitral fraud and the power of arbitrators in the Nigeria v P&ID case: all that glitters is not gold
• Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, The DCF standard in the calculation of compensation—some comments in connection with the standard of compensation adopted by the tribunal in the Rockhopper v Italy Award

Gordon: Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice

Gregory S. Gordon (Peking Univ. - School of Transnational Law) has published Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice (Univ. of Virginia Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Ferencz approached the lectern to deliver the prosecution’s opening statement against Hitler’s brutal henchmen of the Einsatzgruppen—the SS killing units responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths during the Holocaust—in what the Associated Press dubbed “the biggest murder trial in history.” As the field of international criminal justice was being born in the aftermath of World War II, only Ferencz led in all its phases: investigation, prosecution, and restitution—an extraordinary feat given his humble origins as an impoverished immigrant escaping antisemitic persecution in Eastern Europe and growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. A Harvard Law scholarship student, Ferencz had been General Patton’s lead war crimes field investigator before becoming a chief prosecutor at Nuremberg. Horrified by what he encountered, he dedicated his career to Holocaust survivors, pioneering key restitution efforts and helping negotiate the landmark reparations treaty between West Germany, Israel, and Jewish civil society. Later, he became a peace advocate and driving force behind the creation of the International Criminal Court, remarkably joining the prosecution for the Court’s first trial as the last living Nuremberg prosecutor.

Call for Papers: Colonial Mobility and Legal Encounters: Rethinking the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC)’s Role in Asia

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Colonial Mobility and Legal Encounters: Rethinking the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC)’s Role in Asia," to take place March 25-26, 2026, at the University of Amsterdam. The call is here.

Istrefi, Ratniece, & Kamber: The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights

Kushtrim Istrefi (Utrecht Univ.), Zane Ratniece (Eurojust), & Kresimir Kamber (Council of Europe) have published The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). Here is the abstract:

Over time the corpus of rights and obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights has developed into and is perhaps best understood as a system of autonomous concepts, with the European Court of Human Rights acting as its master of conceptualisation. The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights seeks to identify and explain what these concepts are, how they have evolved, and how they have been applied by the Court. The Companion presents the first compilation and analysis of nearly 300 ECHR notions on Convention rights, principles, procedures and institutions written by 89 authors, including current and former judges of the European Court of Human Rights, scholars and practitioners working on the Convention system.

Call for Engaged Listeners: Workshop on Armed Conflict and Climate Change

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Humboldt University, Berlin, are organising the Sixth Authors’ Workshop of the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War, to take place March 12-13, 2026, in Berlin. The workshop will explore the relationship between climate change and armed conflict and how to conceptualize it from a legal perspective. The organisers invite interested researchers, especially doctoral and early career researchers, to apply as “engaged listeners.” Engaged listeners will not give a talk but are expected to participate actively in the discussions and will be listed in the workshop’s program. Applications should be submitted through the online application system with a CV and letter of motivation (max. 500 words) by December 15. 2025. More information can be found here.

Chasapis Tassinis: A Theory of International Organizations in Public International Law

Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis (Univ. of Cambridge) has published A Theory of International Organizations in Public International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Greater, lesser, or just different than the sum of their parts? For all their prominence in global affairs, international organizations remain relative strangers from the perspective of international legal theory. Drawing insights from philosophical discourse, this book moves past binary models that would have international organizations either be nothing over and above their members or simply analogous to them. Rather than compare international organizations and their members, Chasapis Tassinis asks us to understand them both as manifestations of communal organization and what international law recognizes as 'public' authority. Theorizing international organizations as only a branch within a broader family of corporate entities, this book allows us to untangle old doctrinal puzzles. These include the extent to which international organizations are bound by customary international law and can contribute to its formation, or whether they enjoy a legal personality that is opposable to members and non-members alike.

Call for Submissions: The Impact of Climate Change on International Law in the Light of Decisions of International Bodies

The Polish Review of International and European Law has issued a call for submissions for a forthcoming special issue on "The Impact of Climate Change on International Law in the Light of Decisions of International Bodies." The call is here.

Dawuni, Grossman, Ramji-Nogales, & Ruiz Fabri: The Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law

J. Jarpa Dawuni (Howard Univ. - Political Science), Nienke Grossman (Univ. of Baltimore - Law), Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple Univ. - Law), & Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Sorbonne Law School) have published The Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law interrogates women's interrelationship with international law's institutions, norms, and theoretical approaches. Women have made tremendous strides in international law by contributing to its development and application; wielding power as representatives and leaders in international organizations; and serving as judges, legal experts, and leaders of non-governmental organizations pushing the law in new directions. Yet, as this Handbook demonstrates, full equality remains elusive while new threats emerge. Climate change, the rise in nationalism, and anti-gender ideology pose serious challenges to multilateral institutions and norms that protect and empower women.

Featuring diverse and interdisciplinary contributions from across the globe by leading scholars, international judges, and legal practitioners, this Handbook explores the ways in which international law might meet its unmet potential for achieving gender equality for women and girls, in all their diversity, and counter these emerging challenges. All the while, the book wrestles with both who "women" are and the extent to which international law's norms and institutions are effective and worthwhile spaces for emancipatory change.

Call for Papers: Business, Armed Conflict, and International Law

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Business, Armed Conflict, and International law," to take place June 25-26, 2026, at Utrecht University. The call is here.

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 107, no. 929, 2025) is out. The theme is: "Protection of the Dead." Contents include:

• Interview with Florence Anselmo and Pierre Guyomarc’h
• Mitigating the risk of military personnel becoming unaccounted for on the battlefield: An interview with Stephen Fonseca and Vaughn Rossouw on the ICRC’s Military Personnel Identification Project
• Interview with Michael Pollanen
• Alizéa-Maïwenn Ciftcisoy, Protecting the dead against sexual violence from the perspectives of international criminal law and international humanitarian law
• Gabriella Citroni, Practical, legal and psychological issues related to the protection of the dead in cases of enforced disappearance
• Tatjana Grote, Data and the dead: How does IHL regulate data related to the identification of deceased persons?
• Mischa Gureghian Hall, The war crime of outrages against the personal dignity of the dead: Legal basis, evolution, and elements
• Thomas D. Holland, “Grant him quickly to my longing eyes”: The evolution of the US common law of sepulchre and its potential utility in interpreting the protection of the dead under IHL
• Juana María Ibáñez Rivas, The dead and missing in armed conflict: Protections set out in the judgments of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights
• Melanie Klinkner, Ellen Donovan, Diego Nunez, Ian Hanson, Emily Fisher, David Biggins, & Ellie Smith, Mass grave mapping and the protection of the dead
• Janet E. Lord & Christopher J. Hart, Disabled dead bodies: Marking the intersections of international humanitarian law and international human rights law
• Helen Obregón Gieseken & Ximena Londoño, Dignity in death: International humanitarian law and the protection of the deceased in war
• Anjli Parrin, Morris Tidball-Binz, Jessica L. Garda, Allison M. Gelman, Katherine C. Kazmin, & Anna Schmitt, The protection of dead persons under international human rights law: Evaluating gaps and developing a principles framework
• Viola Santini, Visual representation of armed conflict-related deaths and the evolving standards of protecting the dignity of the deceased
• Pietro Sferrazza Taibi & Mauricio Carrasco Núñez, The search for missing persons: Comparative analysis of the incorporation of international standards into national search plans implemented in Latin American countries
• Jane Taylor, Pierre Guyomarc’h, Oran Finegan, Luis Fondebrider, Mercedes Salado Puerto, Morris Tidball-Binz, Respecting IHL obligations to the deceased does make a difference: The ICRC-led Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas identification operation
• Angelica Widström, A case study on War Poses
• Clara Palmisano, Anthropology of violent death: Theoretical foundations for forensic humanitarian action By Roberto C. Parra and Douglas H. Ubelaker

New Issue: International Journal of Refugee Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Vol. 37, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Catherine Dauvergne, Towards a Theoretical Account of the Refugee in International Law
• Davide Tomaselli, ‘Forced’ Refugees versus ‘Voluntary’ Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of Asylum
• Vasiliki Apatzidou, Bordering Asylum: Examining the EU’s Border Procedures under the Asylum Procedures Regulation (EU) 2024/1348
• Bríd Ní Ghráinne, Internally Displaced Persons and Exclusion Clauses

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, no. 6, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Child and International Law
• Elżbieta Karska & Karol Karski, The Child and International Law: General Remarks
• Krzysztof Orzeszyna, Child as a Special Subject of Rights and Freedoms in International Human Rights Law
• Elżbieta Hanna Morawska, Legal Aspects of the Vulnerable Situation of Unaccompanied and Separated Children on the Move: Key Elements of the Approach of the European Court of Human Rights in Light of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Karol Karski & Konrad Wnorowski, Engineered Migrations on the Eastern Border of the European Union: Belarusian Hybrid Activities and Children’s Rights
• Karolina Kiernozek, The Role of International Business in Eliminating Child Labour
• Bartosz Ziemblicki, The Deficiencies of the Rights of the Child in Labour Relations from the Perspective of International Law
• Maria Skwarcan, Between Principle and Practice: Children’s Rights in Light of the EDPB’s Stance on Personal Data as a Non-tradable Commodity
• Jakub Ali Farhan, ‘After the 4th Month’: Questionable Food Labelling for Infant Products under EU Food Law
• Paweł Bucoń, Children’s Rights in Poland

Chiam & Duxbury: Australia in the International Legal System: From Empire to the Contemporary World

Madelaine Chiam (La Trobe Univ. - Law) & Alison Duxbury (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) have published Australia in the International Legal System: From Empire to the Contemporary World (Hart Publishing 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

What impact has Australia had on international law and what is its significance in terms of its participation in the transnational legal system? This collection of essays delves into the history of Australia's interactions with international law and considers how its people have shaped international law. It explores key issues such as the country's imperial and settler past. It assesses how Australians have contributed to key institutions such as the ICJ, the UN and the British Commonwealth. It gives a fascinating insight into international law's impact on a domestic legal system and the complex and multifaceted nature of that relationship. Scholars from across the international spectrum, whether in the field of law, politics or history, will welcome this erudite and engaging work.

New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law: a lecture in English on Exception Clauses in International Trade Law, by Petros C. Mavroidis, and a lecture in English, entitled The Singapore Convention on Mediation, by Natalie Y. Morris-Sharma.

The Audiovisual Library of International Law is also available as an audio podcast on Apple, SoundCloud, and other platforms.

Seminar Materials: The Right to Strike under International Law

The Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at York University recently hosted a seminar bringing together leading international labour law experts to examine whether the right to strike is protected under ILO Convention No. 87 — the question currently before the International Court of Justice. The seminar materials - including a written recap of the discussion, the full video recording, edited transcripts of the presentations and Q&A, and a French translation of the recap - are available here.

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 25, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Michael A. Becker, Crisis in Gaza: South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice (or the Unbearable Lightness of Provisional Measures)
• Christopher M. Roberts, Re-Covering Forced Labour: Colonial Foreclosures and Forgotten Potentials
• Maria Sjoholm, Framing Obstetric Violence and Associated Rights to Respectful Care in Childbirth through International Human Rights Law
• Cait Storr, Common Heritage or Commonwealth: Australia's Role in Negotiations over Resource Extraction in Domains beyond National Jurisdiction, 1958-91
• Yueming Yan & Xinhui Hong, 'Resolving Doors' and the CICC's One-Stop Platform: Reflections on Institutional Design
• Juliette McIntyre, Pyrrhic Victory or Inconsequential Loss? The International Court of Justice Judgment on Preliminary Objections in Ukraine v Russia

Conference: The Principle of Good Faith in International and European Union Law

The XXII edition of the Conference of Young Scholars of International Legal Studies will take place December 4-5, 2025, at the University of Ferrara Department of Law. The theme is: “The Principle of Good Faith in International and European Union Law.” Progam and registration are here.

Call for Submissions: Polish Yearbook of International Law

The Polish Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its next volume (vol. 45, 2025). The deadline is January 31, 2026. The call is here.