Murphy: The Human Right to Resist in International and Constitutional Law

Shannonbrooke Murphy (St Thomas Univ.) has published The Human Right to Resist in International and Constitutional Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

The human right to resist is a contemporary legal concept with an ancient pedigree. Although it has received recognition in constitutions, customary international law and human rights treaties, and acknowledgment by leading publicists of international law, it remains obscure compared to other human rights. In this innovative and comprehensive book, Shannonbrooke Murphy addresses the perennial question of who has a 'right' to resist – and what, when, why, and how, from a legal perspective. Using a systematic and comparative approach to analyzing both the theoretical concept and the provisions in positive law, this study aims to establish that a 'right to resist' can be recognized and codified as an enforceable 'human right', proposing a common conceptual language and an analytical framework for evaluating the legal basis of claims. Murphy makes a strong and detailed case for a firmer place for the 'right to resist' in the human rights lexicon.

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 31, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Tana Johnson, Revolutionary Aspects of Formal Inter-governmental Organizations
• Patrik Johansson, The UN Security Council and the Rejection of Draft Resolutions
• Andrew Harmer, Sustainably Financing the World Health Organization: A Narrative Literature Review
• Ali Kaif & Ubaid Sidique, Transnational Climate Change Governance in South Asia: Analyzing Effectiveness of Post-Paris Initiatives

Yip: Demystifying the Right to Life during the Conduct of Hostilities: Theories, Methods, Practices

Ka Lok Yip (Hamad Bin Khalifa Univ. - Law) has posted Demystifying the Right to Life during the Conduct of Hostilities: Theories, Methods, Practices (European Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

In determining the right to life under international human rights law (IHRL) during the conduct of hostilities, the traditional approach defers to the relevant rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) as ‘lex specialis’, while the ‘normative’ approach adopts an open-ended ‘contextual application’ of ‘systemic integration’. Neither approach provides a theoretical account that speaks to the heart of the matter – the just assignment of legal responsibility for the deprivation of life in war-fighting, where ‘responsibility’ implies the correct location of a ‘cause’ that is answerable, or ‘able’ to provide a ‘response’, for such deprivation. The invocation of causality in the social world in turn requires an account of social ontology, the study of what exists in society to cause anything at all. This article outlines a social ontological approach that reconnects the relevant norms under IHL and IHRL with different types of causes of deprivation of life in war-fighting in order to demystify the right to life in hostilities theoretically. It then demonstrates the proper use of systemic integration together with the legally prescribed ‘context’ and analyses concrete scenarios of deprivation of life in war-fighting in order to demystify the right to life in hostilities methodologically and practically.

New Issue: International Journal of Transitional Justice

The latest issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Vol. 19, no. 1, February 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Kelebogile Zvobgo & Francesca Parente, The Afterlives of Transitional Justice
• Special Issue: The Afterlives of Transitional Justice
• Onur Bakiner, ‘The Strength Even to Comprehend the Incomprehensible’: Rereading Adorno in the Age of Authoritarian Resurgence
• Geoff Dancy & Oskar Timo Thoms, Transitional Justice and the Problem of Democratic Decline
• Cynthia M Horne, Public Attitudes toward On-Going Transitional Justice in Latvia: Sometimes More Isn’t Better
• Sofie Budhoo, Divisive Documents: Exploring the Local Impact of Legal Documents in Transitional Justice Contexts
• Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch & Jennifer M Dixon, The State of Repair: The International Norm of Reparations between Aspirations and Expectations
• Ulrike Lühe & Erin Baines, Difficult Stories that Haunt: Towards Research Otherwise in Transitional Justice
• Noha Aboueldahab, Breaking the Echo Chambers of Transitional Justice and TWAIL: An Intellectual and Policy Exchange
• Tine Destrooper & Elke Evrard, The (Many) Afterlives of Transitional Justice: Practice-based Insights on Continuity, Impact and Evolving Justice Struggles
• Notes from the Field
• María Paula Prada Ramírez & Leslie Wingender, Listening and Preparing the Society to Engage: The Case of the Colombian Truth Commission and Its Legacy Strategy
• Review Essay
• Cath Collins & Selbi Durdiyeva, ‘Too Long a Sacrifice?’: Post-Transitional Justice and the Afterlives of Authoritarianism

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Migrant Solidarity in Theory, Law, and Praxis

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Transdisciplinary Approaches to Migrant Solidarity in Theory, Law, and Praxis.” The symposium includes an introduction by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Violeta Moreno-Lax, and Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and contributions by Nermeen Arastu, Linda Bosniak, Barbara Buckinx, Amelia Frank-Vitale, and Shannon Gleeson, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Gabriella Sanchez, and Sarah Soto, Çiğdem Çıdam, Luba Cortés, Ayten Gündoğdu, and Violeta Moreno-Lax, Seán Binder, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Isabella Trombetta, Lisa Ariemma, Cecilia Bailliet, and Nayelli Torres-Salas, and Joyce De Coninck, Alexandra Délano Alonso, and Haddy Gassama.

Call for Papers: International Law Workshop in Honour of Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC

The University of Oxford has issued a call for papers for an "International Law Workshop in Honour of Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC," to be held June 17, 2025. The theme is: "Treaty Regimes in International Law." The call is here.

Call for Papers: SLADI/LASIL 7th Biennial Conference

The Sociedad Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional/Latin American Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its seventh biennial conference, to be held July 31-August 2, 2025, at the Universidad de la República, in Montevideo, Uruguay. The theme is: “América Latina en un mundo en vertiginosa transformación/América Latina em um mundo em vertiginosa transformação/Latin America in a Rapidly Changing World.” The call is here (English/Español/Português).