New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly

The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 47, no. 2, May 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, and the UN's Balancing Act
• Shreya Atrey, Grounds of Affirmative Action
• Daan Bronkhorst, For the Victims: Six Decades of Theo van Boven's Human Rights Work
• Mark Gibney, Taking Human Rights Obligations (More) Seriously
• Kate McInnes, An Evaluation of the First Decade of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: From Social Development to Human Rights
• Heidar Piri & Niaz A Shah, The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 119, no. 2, April 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Pierre-Hugues Verdier, International Finance and the Return of Geopolitics
• Editorial Comment
• Monica Hakimi & Jacob Katz Cogan, The End of the U.S.-Backed International Order and the Future of International Law
• International Decisions
• Marco Longobardo, Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem
• Diego Mejía-Lemos, Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Government of Canada, Case No. UNCT/20/3
• Ori Pomson, Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 (Guyana v. Venezuela)
• Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
• President Trump Begins Second Term by Withdrawing the United States from International Agreements and Institutions and Contravening U.S. International Legal Obligations
• The United States Sanctions Georgians Overseeing Crackdown
• The Department of Justice Issues Regulations to Prevent Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data by Foreign Adversaries
• Secretary of State Blinken Concludes that the Rapid Support Forces Have Committed Genocide in Sudan
• The United States and France Facilitate Cessation of Hostilities Between Israel and Hezbollah
• Recent Books on International Law
• Sannoy Das, reviewing States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization, by Lydia Walker
• Taylor St John, reviewing The Many Paths of Change in International Law, edited by Nico Krisch and Ezgi Yildiz
• Oliver Diggelmann, reviewing Law for Leviathan: Constitutional Law, International Law, and the State, by Daryl J. Levinson
• Julian Ku, reviewing China's Diplomacy and International Law, by Huikang Huang

Call for Papers: Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law," to take place August 28-29, 2025, in Singapore (in person only). The conference will be hosted by the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore in partnership with Durham University's Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy. The call is here.

New Issue: Michigan Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Michigan Journal of International Law (Vol. 46, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Bryan Druzin, Anatole Boute, & Michael Ramsden, Confronting Catastrophic Risk: The International Obligation to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
• J. Benton Heath, Economic Sanctions as Legal Ordering
• Jeffrey Kucik, Lauren Peritz, & Sergio Puig, Rewriting Precedent: How International Adjudicators Influence Compliance

Calls for Papers: IG Workshops – 2025 ESIL Annual Conference (Updated)

In the context of the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin, ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for their pre-conference workshops. The calls currently open include:

• IG on Energy and International Law: Reconstructing International Energy Law in Times of Crisis (deadline: 25 April 2025)
• IG on the Law of the Sea: Reconstructing International Law of the Sea (deadline: 25 April 2025)
• IG on Critical Approaches to International Law: Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing International Law: Rethinking Legitimacy, Authority, and Inclusion (deadline extended: 27 April 2025)
• IG on the European and International Rule of Law: Reevaluating the Rule of Law in an Era of Geopolitical Tensions: Necessity and Prospects for Reform (deadline: 30 April 2025)
• IG on International Organizations: (Re-)constructing International Organizations in the Work of the United Nations International Law Commission (deadline extended: 5 May 2025)
• IG on International Health Law: Global Health Law under Pressure: Facing Acute and Chronic Challenges (deadline: 10 May 2025)

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 56, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Zhen Sun, Coastal State Jurisdiction over Acts against Transiting Submarine Pipelines in the Exclusive Economic Zone and on the Continental Shelf—The Case of the Nord Stream Incidents
• Osvaldo Urrutia S., Andrew Friedman & Adriana Fabra, Untangling Squid: Regulatory Gaps and Opportunities to Improve High Seas Squid Fisheries Management
• Klaas Willaert & Anemoon Soete, The Interaction Between the BBNJ Agreement and the International Deep Sea Mining Regime: More Questions than Answers?
• Iva Parlov, Remotely Controlled Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS), the “Genuine Link” Requirement, and the “Effectiveness” of Flag State Jurisdiction: Key Problems and Prospects
• Julian Roberts, Joanna Mossop & M. Rezah Badal, Planning for the Management of the Extended Continental Shelf: The Unique Situation of the Mascarene Plateau Region of the Western Indian Ocean

Rieu-Clarke: Implementing Transboundary Water Agreements

Alistair Rieu-Clarke (Northumbria Univ. - Law) has published Implementing Transboundary Water Agreements (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this detailed book examines the types of compliance and implementation mechanisms that can support transboundary water cooperation.

Alistair Rieu-Clarke draws upon a range of theoretical accounts, case studies from the Danube, Orange-Senqu and Mekong rivers, and treaty practice to provide recommendations for the design and revision of transboundary water agreements. Delving into the role of international law in promoting treaty implementation and compliance, Rieu-Clarke reviews the extent to which these mechanisms are considered within the text of over 400 transboundary water agreements.

Wirthle: Immediate and Progressive Realisation in International Human Rights Law

Tobias Wirthle has published Immediate and Progressive Realisation in International Human Rights Law (Hart Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

This book makes a new and original contribution to the old debate about differences between socio-economic and civil and political rights, which has engaged human rights discourse over several decades.

Although scholars and practitioners now agree that these categories are more alike than originally assumed, they continue to delineate them based on the alleged difference between immediate and progressive realisation. The book asks whether this differentiation is still valid by exploring the historical and theoretical background, the text of relevant UN human rights treaties, and the practice of the UN human rights committees. By so doing, it shows that the standards of realisation converge more than diverge and that this last remaining distinction should be abandoned.

New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 41, no. 1, March 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Eugene Thong & Yvonne Guo, Reasons and reasoning in arbitral awards
• Lucas Clover Alcolea, ‘The King[’s] Courts as the fountain of justice’ and the supremacy of ordinary law: implications for English arbitration
• Dominik Stefer & Victoria Fricke, From algorithms to awards: exploring the technological and legal boundaries of AI’s contributions to the work of arbitrators
• João Ilhão Moreira & Jiawei Zhang, ChatGPT as a fourth arbitrator? The ethics and risks of using large language models in arbitration
• Markus Burgstaller & Auriane Negret, Investment protection standards: Can EU law fill the shoes of investment treaties?
• Aleksander Godhe, Tribunal duties and the exclusion of evidence in international arbitration: the tug-of-war of fairness and efficiency
• Sebastián Mantilla Blanco, Eduardo Zuleta Jaramillo, & Santiago Zuleta Ríos, The rise and fall of parochialism: Colombia and the New York Convention
• M Emirhan Havan, How to approach expropriation risk as a controversial component of country risk in investment arbitration
• Vladimir Kostcov, Is it just about the parties? A social welfare approach to familiar problems of international arbitration
• Jagriti Vij, Singapore’s stance on enforcement of foreign awards set aside at the seat: some recent developments
• Case Note
• Kanishka Bhukya, From inconsistency to coherence: examining the SGCA’s quest for a comprehensive approach to determining pre-award arbitrability

Azaria: State Silence Across International Law: Meaning, Context, and Developments

Danae Azaria (Univ. College London - Law) has published State Silence Across International Law: Meaning, Context, and Developments (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The words and actions of states have a significant influence on international law. But what of silence and inaction? During the twentieth and twenty-first century, the framework of international law underwent profound transformation. As a result, the contexts in which State silence may be interpreted have become complex and are not well understood. In light of these new realities, this ground-breaking volume explores the evolving legal meaning and effects of State silence in international law-making.

Across sixteen chapters, this book questions the circumstances that necessitate a State's reaction, the factors influencing a State's ability to respond, and how a period of silence should be assessed. It also investigates whether and how the shift in international law from bilateralism towards community interests, multilateralism, intergovernmental institutions, and expert bodies, including international courts and tribunals, affect the interpretation of State silence. Furthermore, it probes whether and how advancements in communication, the increased number of States, and their diverse characteristics influence this interpretation.

Examining these issues across multiple facets of international law, the book demonstrates the ubiquity of State silence and its legal significance in different fields, and the contextual factors that come together to interpret State silence in a particular instance. Through this exploration, the broad question of state silence's role in either maintaining stability or enabling change is scrutinised.

Sarvarian: The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice

Arman Sarvarian (Univ. of Surrey - Law) has published The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Arman Sarvarian's The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive, practical, and empirical overview of the topic, establishing State succession as a distinct field with a cohesive set of rules.

From the secession of the United States of America in 1784 to that of South Sudan in 2011, the book digests and analyses State practice spanning more than two centuries. It is based on research into a wide and diverse range of case studies, including archival and previously unpublished data. Reconstructing the intellectual foundation of the field, the book offers a vision for its progressive development - one that is rooted in an interpretation of State practice that transcends the politics of the codification projects in the decolonization and desovietization eras.

The book examines international law on State succession with respect to territorial rights and obligations, State property (including archives) and debt, treaties, international claims and responsibility, as well as nationality and private property (including concessions and investments). Its central focus is identifying the general rules of international law in order to guide States in the negotiation of succession agreements, the interpretation of ambiguous or incomplete provisions, and the regulation of succession in default of specific agreement.

New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 85, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Comment
• Gordon M. Friedrichs, The Age of the Disaffected Voter: American Democracy and US Foreign Policy under the Second Trump Presidency
• Re-Reading Historic Articles in the ZaöRV: Anniversary Series
• Felix Lange, Claiming Legality – German Lawyers under the Swastika and the Aggression against Poland
• Abhandlungen
• Letizia Lo Giacco & Brian K. McGarry, Common Interests and Common Spaces: Visions of the Past and Future of International Justice
• Sarah Thin, ‘Proxy States’ as Champions of the Common Interest? Implications and Opportunities
• Vladyslav Lanovoy & Miriam Cohen, Climate Change Before International Courts and Tribunals: Reflections on the Role of Public Interest in Advisory Proceedings
• Elisa Ruozzi, Repairing Harm to Common Interests and Common Spaces: Recent Institutional Developments Across Public Inter- national Law
• Carlos A. Cruz Carrillo, The Implementation and Compliance Committee of the ABBNJ: a Legal Prospection on Potential Modalities and Pro- cedures
• Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Bringing in Community Interests Under Inter- national Environmental Law: Substantive and Procedural Paths
• Isabel Walther, Über jeden Zweifel erhaben – Feststellung von Völker- gewohnheitsrecht in der BGH-Rechtsprechung zur funktionellen Immunität ausländischer Staatsbediensteter
• Alexander Blankenagel, Smart Sanctions gegen russische Oligarchen – weder smart noch rechtmäßig!
• Finn Preiss, Fleisch auf dem Verhandlungstisch – Die Tierhaltung im völkerrechtlichen Klimaschutzsystem des Pariser Abkommens

Mansouri & Quiroga-Villamarín: Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law

Negar Mansouri (Copenhagen Business School) & Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín (Univ. of Vienna) have published Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

For decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international organisations -also known as 'international institutional law'- has been marked by an intellectual quietism. Most of the scholarship tends to focus narrowly on providing 'legal' answers to 'legal' questions. For that reason, perspectives rarely engage with the insights of critical traditions of legal thought (for instance, feminist, postcolonial, or political economy-oriented perspectives) or with interdisciplinary contributions produced outside the field. Ways of Seeing International Organisations challenges the narrow gaze of the field by bringing together authors across multiple disciplines to reflect on the need for 'new' perspectives in international institutional law. Highlighting the limits of mainstream approaches, the authors instead interrogate international organisations as pivots in processes of world-making. To achieve this, the volume is organised around four fundamental themes: expertise; structure; performance; and capital. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.