New Issue: Journal of Human Rights Practice

The latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Vol. 17, no. 1, February 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Juliana Jaramillo, Legal Mobilization Networks and the LGBT Rights Revolution in Colombia (1992–2022): Using Litigation and Amicus Curiae Briefs in Rights Struggles
• Julie Ada Tchoukou, Regulating Gender Violence in Postcolonial Societies: Is Legal Pluralism a Problem for Human Rights?
• Sapna Mesthrie, Interpreting the Child’s Right to Protection from Violence in the South African Context in Line with International Law Obligations
• Saumya Tripathi, Sameena Azhar, & Imtyaz Ahmad, ‘We Don’t Have Any Honor Because We Are khwaja sira’: Police Violence and Discrimination Against the Khwaja Sira Community in Swat, Pakistan
• Kristi Heather Kenyon, Saad Ahmad Khan, Fiona Vowell, & Madison Zienkiewicz, Unsettling the Familiar: Experiential Human Rights Learning through Civic Monuments at the University of Winnipeg
• Kirsten Francescone & Lisa Rankin, Knocking on a Locked Door: Assessing Canada’s Response to Attacks Against Human Rights Defenders
• Timo Istace, Establishing Neurorights: New Rights versus Derived Rights
• Marie Claire Van Hout, Ruth Kaima, Apatsa Mangwana Mhango, Vivian Kasunda, Victor Mhango, David M . Ong, & Stephanie Kewley, ‘We Fear For Our Lives’: Understanding, Responding and Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change on the Malawian Prison System
• Rosalind Turkie, Katrina Perehudoff, Jennifer Sellin, & Aldo Sainz, Ensuring Pharmaceutical Accountability for Human Rights and Access to Medicines: The Dutch Duty of Care Standard Applied to Pharmaceutical Companies
• Nathan Andrews & Raynold W Alorse, Can Voluntary Business and Human Rights Norms be Effective? Exploring a Multidimensional Perspective of Norm Effectiveness in Africa
• Policy and Practice Note
• Tamara Horbachevska, Iurii Barabash, & Olena Uvarova, The Expropriation of Sanctioned Assets: Does Ukrainian Jurisprudence Respond to Human Rights Concerns?

Calls for Papers: IG Online Workshops – 2025 ESIL Research Forum

In the context of the 2025 ESIL Research Forum in Catania, some ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for their online workshops. The calls currently open include:

• IG on the Law of the Sea: Permacrisis at sea: navigating oceans dualities (deadline: 16 February 2025)
• IG on International Bio Law: The New Boundaries of Bioethics and Biolaw in the Age of Anthropocene (deadline: 23 February 2025)
• IG on International Economic Law: International Economic Law in the Age of Permacrisis (deadline: 23 February 2025)

Job Opening: Ad Astra Fellow - Lecturer/Assistant Professor in International Law and Global Justice (UCD Sutherland School of Law)

The University College Dublin's Sutherland School of Law has posted an advertisement for an Ad Astra Fellow - Lecturer/Assistant Professor in International Law and Global Justice. Details are here.

Call for Papers: Navigating the North: Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Arctic

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Navigating the North: Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Arctic," to take place August 28-29, 2025, at the University of Inland Norway, Lillehammer. The call is here.

Conference: Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism: The Role of Transitional Justice

On March 27, 2025, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast will host a conference on “Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism: The Role of Transitional Justice,” in The Hague. Details are here.

Call for Submissions: At the Vanishing Point: The Collectable College of International Lawyers

A call for submissions has been issued for the research project "At the Vanishing Point: The Collectable College of International Lawyers." The project looks at how international law is mediated through the material objects that it produces. Thus far it has yielded an exhibition, social media accounts, and a website. The call is here.

Call for Submissions: Empires, International Organizations, and Transnational Legal History (Special Issue)

A call for submissions has been issued for a special issue of the Chinese Journal of Transnational Law on "Empires, International Organizations, and Transnational Legal History." The call is here.

Conference: 2025 ESIL Research Forum

The European Society of International Law's 2025 Research Forum will take place March 20-21, in Cantania, hosted by the Department of Law of the University of Catania. The theme is: "“International Law in the Age of Permacrisis." Registration is here.

Panel: International and National Responses to Climate Change: 2024 Stocktake

On February 12, 2025, the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law will host a panel discussion on "International and National Responses to Climate Change: 2024 Stocktake," including Agnes Rydberg, Ivano Alogna, and Malgosia Fitzmaurice. Details (online participation is available) are here.

International Law and Social Science Spring 2025 Speakers Series

The International Law and Social Science Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and the Social Sciences and International Law Interest Group of the European Society of International Law have announced their "International Law and Social Science Speakers Series" for Spring 2025. The schedule is here. The series begins on February 12 with a talk by Lauge Poulsen on "Compensation, Economic Hostages, and Market Access" and commentary from Geraldo Vidigal and Joost Pauwelyn, moderated by Anne van Aaken. Details and registration are here.

Call for Papers: Beyond Development: Mapping Legal Entanglements between Africa and Europe

The Department of Legal and Constitutional History of the University of Vienna and the African Law Association have issued a call for papers for a conference on "Beyond Development: Mapping Legal Entanglements between Africa and Europe," to take place Decemeber 4–5, 2025, in Vienna. The call is here.

Call for Papers: Sixth Workshop on Sociological Inquiries into International Law

A call for papers has been issued for the Sixth Workshop on Sociological Inquiries into International Law, to take place November 13–14, 2025, at Utrecht University. The theme is: "Sociological Inquiries into International Law in a Polarized World: Markets, National Security, and Democracy." The call is here.

New Issue: La Comunità Internazionale

The latest issue of La Comunità Internazionale (Vol. 79, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli e Saggi
• Roberto Virzo, Fondamento ed esercizio della competenza consultiva del Tribunale internazionale del diritto del mare: considerazioni a margine del parere del 21 maggio 2024
• Fulvia Staiano, The Assessment of Circumstances Requiring the Indication of Provisional Measures by the International Court of Justice: Too Much, Too Soon?
• Denard Veshi, The Impact of Refugee Influx on Host Nations’ National Security: A Focus on Terrorism
• Pierluigi Salvati, The Duty of Non-Recognition of Internationally Unlawful Situations in the Face of the Current Crisis in Ukraine
• Osservatorio Europeo
• Guerino Fares, Le recenti proposte della Commissione europea in tema di proprietà intellettuale e market exclusivity nel settore farmaceutico: alla ricerca dell’interesse pubblico
• Osservatorio Diritti Umani
• Linda Cottone, Lebanon’s Resilient Approach to Migration and Security
• Note e Commenti
• Alessandra Nepa, Climate Smart Agriculture e commercio internazionale

Call for Book Proposals: International Human Rights Law in Practice Series (Brill | Nijhoff)

The series editors of the International Human Rights Law in Practice Series (Brill | Nijhoff) have issued a call for proposals for the publication of monographs, commentaries, and documentary collections on any aspect falling within the remit of the series. The call is here.

Heller & Moyn: The Vietnam War and International Law

Kevin Jon Heller (Univ. of Copenhagen - Centre for Military Studies) & Samuel Moyn (Yale Univ. - Law) have published The Vietnam War and International Law (in The Cambridge History of the Vietnam War: Volume 3, Endings and Aftermaths, Lien-Hang T. Nguyen & Pierre Asselin eds., 2024). The SSRN version is here. Here's the abstract:

This chapter offers a synthetic overview of the range of international law issues that arose during the course of the Vietnam War, especially as Americans took over from the French after Dien Bien Phu in 1954 and moved towards massive escalation between 1964 and 1973. The chapter begins with the debate about what law applied to the conflict, which turned on the legal status of South Vietnam. The chapter then asks what claims were possible and plausible when it came to the legality of American intervention in the war. Next, the chapter addresses the different kinds of warfare in which the United States engaged, from its bombing campaigns over North Vietnamese territory and waters to the changing forms of its counterinsurgency in the South and, later, across the Cambodian border. Finally, the chapter concludes by examining the legal legacy of Vietnam: not only how it led to the most significant substantive development of the laws of war since the Geneva Conventions, the First and Second Additional Protocols, but also, and equally importantly, how it ensured that international law would play (for good or ill) a central role in debate over and analysis of all future conflicts.

Longobardo: The Monetary Gold Principle and States' Obligations Triggered by a Serious Risks of Atrocities Being Committed by Another State: The Cases of the Duty to Prevent Genocide and the Duty to Ensure Respect for IHL

Marco Longobardo (Univ. of Westminster - Law) has posted The Monetary Gold Principle and States' Obligations Triggered by a Serious Risks of Atrocities Being Committed by Another State: The Cases of the Duty to Prevent Genocide and the Duty to Ensure Respect for IHL (International Community Law Review, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This article explores whether the Monetary Gold Principle applies to cases brought against a state for its failure to comply with its obligations triggered by a serious risk that another state might commit atrocities. The focus is on the obligations to ensure respect for international humanitarian law and to prevent genocide. The article considers that the duty to ensure respect and the duty to prevent genocide are primary rules of international law that embody both positive and negative duties. Compliance with these duties is independent of whether another state actually commits genocide or violations of international humanitarian law. Rather, these duties are triggered by the awareness of a serious risk of genocide or of violations of international humanitarian law. Accordingly, if claims before the International Court of Justice are framed on the basis of this awareness, the Court can exercise its jurisdiction even without the participation of the third state.

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 56, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Bastiaan E. Klerk, A Sheep in Wolf’s Clothing? Reflections on the Institutional Nature of the New Regime for ABMTs and MPAs under the BBNJ Agreement
• Pradeep A. Singh, Aline Jaeckel & Jeff A. Ardron, A Pause or Moratorium for Deep Seabed Mining in the Area? The Legal Basis, Potential Pathways, and Possible Policy Implications
• Vonintsoa Rafaly, Beyond States: Ocean Governance in the Anthropocene
• Michael Tsimplis & Ming Chen, Ship Arrest in China: The Link with Economic and Marine Policy
• Shani Friedman, The Law of the Sea Goes Digital—Indigenous Peoples’ “Right to Exclude” Their Traditional Knowledge from the Digital Sphere
• Massimo Lando, Baseline Preservation as a Response to Sea-Level Rise

Kulick: Between Advice and Miracle: Expectations and Persuasiveness of ICJ Advisory Opinions

Andreas Kulick (Johannes Gutenberg Univ. Mainz - Law) has posted Between Advice and Miracle: Expectations and Persuasiveness of ICJ Advisory Opinions. Here's the abstract:

This contribution submits that, in light of the Court’s judicial function (Part 2), stakeholders initiating advisory proceedings seek advice with one or several of six types of expectations in mind (Part 3), ranging from advice as advice to advice as miracle (3.1-3.6). The type, management and failure of these expectations (4.1), in turn, impact on what legal relevance the Court’s pronouncements in advisory opinion may have in other proceedings before international courts and tribunals. While they cannot be formally legally binding, they are also not devoid of legal effect. To explore this in-between space, I develop the concept of ‘persuasiveness’. It establishes a combination of content-dependent and content-independent reasons for why and under which conditions other courts and tribunals may regard the Court’s specific pronouncement in an advisory opinion as determinative for deciding their case (4.2). Employing these analytical tools developed in Parts 3 and 4, Part 5 concludes with tying back these insights to the relationship of the ICJ’s judicial function and international law-development as well as an outlook at the advisory proceedings currently pending before the Court.