New Issue: International Journal of Refugee Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Vol. 36, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Mariana Ferolla Vallandro do Valle, Fleeing Deprivation: Deducing Non-Refoulement Obligations from Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
• Erna Bodström, A Matter of Individual Discretion: Facilitating Performative Credibility in Asylum Interviews
• Arjumand Bano Kazmi, Pakistan’s Judicial Engagement with International Refugee Law
• Özlem Gürakar Skribeland, The Turkish Council of State’s Engagement with International Refugee Law in Cases Involving ‘Non-European’ Refugees

Arato: The Institutions of Exceptions

Julian Arato (Univ. of Michigan - Law) has posted The Institutions of Exceptions (Michigan Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

International economic law binds states’ hands in the interest of liberalizing markets in various ways, including cross border trade in goods and services (trade) and capital (investment). The treaty regimes for both trade and investment do this by disciplining states through legal rules, while preserving a modicum of governmental power over policy. Though not always recognized as such, the preservation of policy space in these regimes typically involves exceptions-style reasoning by adjudicators – formally in the case of most trade and some investment treaties, and informally in the investment treaty regime more generally. This "exceptions paradigm" of justification has worked well in the trade regime, where it has been especially key to securing a workable balance between market disciplines and regulatory policy space in the WTO/GATT context. But it has been less successful at striking a reasonable balance in the investment regime – irrespective of whether the paradigm has been formally codified in an exceptions clause. This Article seeks to explain why, by focusing on the institutions within which this mode of justification is embedded. Certain institutional differences between these regimes help explain the varied success of exceptionalism in trade and investment, in particular: the right of action (public vs private); the degree of judicial centralization (ad hoc arbitration vs court system); and the available remedies (retrospective compensation vs prospective injunctive relief). I argue that it is trade law’s public-oriented institutions that have made the exceptions clause workable – not the other way around. By contrast, investment law’s private-oriented institutions make that system particularly inhospitable to exceptions-style justification.

Conference: Cambridge International Law Journal 14th Annual Conference

On April 28-29, 2025, the Cambridge International Law Journal will hold its 14th Annual Conference at the University of Cambridge. The theme is: "Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law." Details are here.

Lecture: Mälksoo on “Russian and Soviet justifications of war and approaches to jus ad bellum: from the Great Nordic War (1700-1721) to Ukraine in 2022”

On April 7, 2025, Lauri Mälksoo (Univ. of Tartu - Law) will give the next lecture of the TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War. The topic is: “Russian and Soviet justifications of war and approaches to jus ad bellum: from the Great Nordic War (1700-1721) to Ukraine in 2022.” Details are here.

Call for Papers: Asian Cities and the International Legal Order

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on “Asian Cities and the International Legal Order,” to take place July 10-11, 2025, at the Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University. The call is here.

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 35, no. 4, November 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Editorial: EJIL: News!; In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews; EJIL Role of Honour; EJIL Peer Review Prize; Are We Missing Your Peer Review?; On My Way Out – Advice to Early Career Scholars VIII: Best Practice for Workshopping Projected Edited Collections (Books, Symposia) in 10 Not So Easy Steps; My Patria Is The Book: 10 Good Reads 2024
• EJIL Interview
• Sarah M H Nouwen & Joseph H H Weiler, ‘On my way out … for real!’ A Conversation with Joseph H.H. Weiler on the Occasion of His Stepping Down as EJIL Editor in Chief
• Articles
• Radha Ivory, The Concept of International Law Reform and the Case of Negotiated Settlements in Foreign Bribery Matters
• Andreas Buser, Exercising Planetary Jurisdiction: On the Legality and Legitimacy of Unilaterally Mitigating Planetary Ecological Footprints
• Jedidiah J Kroncke & Haimo Li, The Global Scope of Competitive Legalities in the Early 19th-Century South China Sea: The Topaz Incident
• Roaming Charges
• Places with a Soul: A Darkening World
• Book Review Symposium: International Law and Techology
• Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, International Law and Technology as a Critical Project: A Collective Reading
• Abhimanyu George Jain, In/visibilities
• Marie Petersmann, Refusing Algorithmic Recognition
• Christine Schwöbel-Patel, In the Service of Keeping Capital Moving
• André Dao, A Historiography of Amnesia: Beyond Data, Big Tech and the (Re)Turn to Human Rights
• Angelina Fisher, From In(-)formation to Infrastructural Turns: The Digital Futures of Human Rights Law and Practice
• Review Essay
• Vladyslav Lanovoy, Due Diligence in International Law: A Useful Renaissance or ‘All Things to All People’?
• Book Reviews
• Renske Vos, reviewing Deval Desai. Expert Ignorance: The Law and Politics of Rule of Law Reform
• Silvia Steininger, reviewing Laurence Burgorgue-Larsen, The 3 Regional Human Rights Courts in Context: Justice That Cannot Be Taken for Granted
• Book Review Symposium: The Hague Academy
• Phattharaphong Saengkrai, A Transcivilizational Perspective at the Hague Academy: A Critical Review
• Mario J A Oyarzábal, The Hague Academy of International Law and Latin America
• Rodolfo Ribeiro C Marques, Contestation, Emulation, Reformation: Latin American Legal Thought at the Hague Academy of International Law
• Justina Uriburu, Windows to Worlds: Eduardo Jiménez de Aréchaga’s Teachings at the Hague Academy
• The Last Page
• Thus Spoke JHH Weiler

Call for Papers: Annual Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights

The International Law and Human Rights Unit of the University of Liverpool's School of Law and Social Justice has issued a call for papers for its Annual Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights, to take palce July 21-22, 2025, in Liverpool. The call is here.

Workshop: EU Accession to the ECHR: Procedural Hurdles and Prospects Before the ECtHR

On May 15-16, 2025, the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki's Faculty of Law and the University of Liverpool's School of Law and Social Justice will co-host a workshop on "EU Accession to the ECHR: Procedural Hurdles and Prospects Before the ECtHR," in Thessaloniki, with the first day held in a hybrid format. Details are here.