Call for Papers: Technology is Global

The Law and Technology Interest Group of the International Law Association - Swiss Branch has issued a call for papers for its inaugural roundtable on "Technology is Global," to take place July 3, 2025, at the University of Lausanne. The call is here.

New Issue: Netherlands International Law Review

The latest issue of the Netherlands International Law Review (Vol. 71, no. 3, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Public Interest Litigation
• Xandra Kramer, Public Interest Litigation at the Intersection of Public Law and Private Enforcement
• María Carlota Ucín, In the Name of Human Rights: Sketching a Definition of Public Interest Litigation
• Gizem Halis Kasap, Defending Privacy Across Borders: Public Interest Litigation in the Fight Against Data Exploitation
• Ignacio Vásquez Torreblanca & Pablo Neupert Kaplan, Public Interest Climate Litigation in Latin America Leading the Way in Addressing Climate Change? The New Focus on Ecocentric and Intergenerational Dimensions
• Charlotte de Meeûs, Investing in Responsible Litigation: Third-Party Funding for Public Interest Litigation

Urs: The Articulation of Obligations Erga Omnes and Erga Omnes Partes by the International Court of Justice: Coherence or Confusion?

Priya Urs (Univ. of Oxford) has posted The Articulation of Obligations Erga Omnes and Erga Omnes Partes by the International Court of Justice: Coherence or Confusion? (International and Comparative Law Quarterly, forthcoming). Here’s the abstract:

Which international obligations are characterised as obligations owed erga omnes or erga omnes partes is today a crucial question for the enforcement of international law, particularly through adjudication before the International Court of Justice. The Court, however, has not given sufficiently clear indication as to how it understands and identifies obligations erga omnes and erga omnes partes. The lack of clarity and consistency permits varied approaches to the articulation of such obligations, ultimately leaving uncertain the enforceability, through adjudication and otherwise, of a wide variety of obligations.

Shereshevsky & Shany: Programmed to Obey: The Limits of Law and the Debate over Meaningful Human Control of Autonomous Weapons

Yahli Shereshevsky (Univ. of Haifa - Law) & Yuval Shany (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem - Law) have posted Programmed to Obey: The Limits of Law and the Debate over Meaningful Human Control of Autonomous Weapons (Columbia Human Rights Law Review, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

New military technologies are transforming the contemporary battlefield and raise complex ethical and legal questions previously unaddressed. This essay makes three novel contributions to the significant debate on Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS) and military AI in the legal and ethical literature. First, it puts forward a normative argument against AWS—even if they outperform humans in adhering to the rules governing the conduct of hostilities. This argument is grounded in the critical importance of the human capacity to act beyond the strict letter of the law. The essay contends that this capacity is central to the regulation of warfare, which permits, rather than obligates, the use of force against legitimate targets. Second, it offers a doctrinal analysis of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL)—the two principal legal regimes that regulate armed conflicts under international law—providing a fresh perspective on how they intersect in the context of AWS. Finally, the essay explores the extent to which its normative argument is persuasive in the context of military AI beyond AWS, an area that is rapidly evolving and already extensively employed in current conflicts. It examines the similarities and differences between these emerging technologies, and reflects on the implications of those differences for the desirable regulation of both technologies.

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (2025, no. 1) is out. Contents include:

• Benjamin Meret, Les accords en matière de sécurité et coopération entre l’Ukraine et divers Etats : zoom sur des textes atypiques
• Mpoi Leuta Hilpert, Swiss Novel Foods Regulation: From Autonomous Adaptation to a Bilateral Treaty

New Issue: Asian Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (Vol. 15, no. 1, January 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Notes and Comments
• Tien-Duc Nguyen, Viet Nam’s Dynamic Approach to Lawfare
• Lixin Chen, Human rights at sea: Analyzing states’ responses to cruise ships during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Articles
• Hafiz Gaffar & Saleh Albarashdi, Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Works: Exploring Originality and Ownership in a Digital Landscape
• Ka Lok Yip, Reconceptualizing Norm Conflict in International Law
• Javier García Olmedo, In Fairness to Nottebohm: Nationality in an Age of Globalization
• Carl Landauer, C.H. Alexandrowicz's India and the Kautilyan Moment
• Champika Thushari Roshanie Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s Sustainable Development Act (2017) on the 2030 Agenda: Lessons from Canada’s Federal Sustainable Development Act
• Rahul Mohanty, Need For Fairness In Climate Change Negotiations: A Third World Perspective

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 30, no. 1, Spring 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Akira Kato, Revitalizing the obligatory abstention rule in the UN Security Council: an interpretation of the Proviso in Article 27 (3) of the UN Charter
• Walter Rech, Indirect aggression and the North Atlantic Treaty
• Chosen Udorji, Reconceptualizing the meaning of indirect force and the scope of its regulation under international law
• Chris McQuade, The use of human shields in the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
• Ilias Bantekas & Safaa S Jaber, The human rights obligations of belligerent occupiers: Israel and the Gazan population
• Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan & Christian Pippan, Inherited obstruction: the complaint procedure under the Biological Weapons Convention and the UN Charter rule on obligatory abstention in the Security Council
• Martin Fink, The Newport Manual: The new kid on the block on the laws of naval warfare

Lecture: Milanović on "The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ's 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion"

On April 24, 2025, Marko Milanović (Univ. of Reading - Law) will deliver a lecture on "The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ's 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion" at the Technische Universität Dresden. Details are here.

Call for Papers: The Principle of Good Faith in International and European Union Law (Young Scholars)

A call for papers has been issued for the XXII edition of the Conference of Young Scholars of International Legal Studies, to 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.” The call is here.