Conference: Is There Anything Asian about International Law in Asia, and Should There Be?

On June 29, 2025, the Japan Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law will host its 16th Annual Conference, at Chuo University, Myogadani Campus, Tokyo. The theme is: "Is There Anything Asian about International Law in Asia, and Should There Be?" Details are here.

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 40, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Ecological Civilisation Building and the Law of the Sea
• Keyuan Zou & Lei Zhang, Ecological Civilisation in the Law of the Sea
• Anastasia M Telesetsky, Ocean Disaster Risk Reduction: Designing Anticipatory Actions for Vulnerable Households Engaged in Marine Capture Fisheries
• Christopher Whomersley, Innovations in the Institutional Arrangements in the BBNJ Agreement
• Xiangxin Xu & Li Chen, Navigating a New Course: The Likely Impact of the BBNJ Agreement on the Establishment of Area-Based Management Tools by the ISA
• Volker Röben, Ocean Power: Floating Nuclear Power Plants under the Law of the Sea
• Yen-Chiang Chang, Seokwoo Lee, & Xingyi Duan, Seeking an Advisory Opinion from International Judicial Bodies on Legal Issues concerning the Discharge of Radioactive Wastewater
• Matteo Bedendi & Lorenzo Schiano di Pepe, A New Chapter of Ocean Governance and the European Union: Codification Efforts and Prospects of a Moratorium at the International Seabed Authority
• Sen Wang, Revisiting the Common but Differentiated Responsibility Principle in the Prevention and Control of Marine Plastic Pollution

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 50, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• David Landau, Transitional Norms in Constitutions
• Zachary D. Clopton, Foreign Law on the Ground
• 50th Anniversary Conference: Celebrating the Work of W. Michael Reisman
• Lea Brilmayer, Option or Obligation? Third-State Support for the Enforcement of International Law
• Manuel Casas, Non-Judicialization and Dejudicialization in International Law
• Eyal Benvenisti, Looking Into the Future of the Law on International Organizations: Insights from the New Havel School
• Lucie Olejnikova, Evelyn Ma, & Steven A. Mitchell, Walking down Memory Lane on the 50th Anniversary of YJIL: An Exhibit in Honor of Professor W. Michael Reisman, Teacher, Jurist, Enduring Patron, and Inspiration

Jones: No Future for Future Generations: Who is International Environmental Law For?

Emily Jones (Newcastle Univ. - Law) has posted No Future for Future Generations: Who is International Environmental Law For? (Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

The idea that the environment must be protected for future generations has been gaining traction in recent years. This article argues that the concept of future generations, as deployed in international environmental law, is, however, deeply exclusionary, with only some humans being envisaged as future generations. It is furthermore argued that the concept is anthropocentric in that it focuses only on human future generations. The article discusses whether the concept can be recast considering these critiques, deploying queer and decolonial approaches to do so. In particular, Indigenous understandings of future generations are highlighted as offering an alternative framing. The article concludes by arguing that legal concepts must be carefully designed to ensure the construction of a future whereby climate change and environmental degradation are addressed in an equitable and just way, providing three pathways that can be used to begin to reframe the concept of future generations accordingly.

Call for Submissions: Tariffs: Emerging challenges in global trade

The Journal of Law, Market & Innovation has issued a call for submissions for its second issue of 2026 on the topic "Tariffs: Emerging challenges in global trade." The call is here.

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 36, no. 1, February 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• EJIL: News!: Call for Expressions of Interest for a New Co-Editor-in-Chief of EJIL; EJIL: News!: Thank you Wanshu – Welcome Abhimanyu!; In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews; Vital Statistics
• EJIL Foreword
• Susan Marks, If the World Is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?
• Articles
• Jarrod Hepburn, The Legal Justification for the Doctrine of Legitimate Expectations in International Investment Law
• Ka Lok Yip, Demystifying the Right to Life during the Conduct of Hostilities: Theories, Methods, Practices
• Jens T Theilen, Civilizational Hierarchies and the Notion of ‘Europe’ in the European Convention on Human Rights
• Roaming Charges
• Places with a Soul: Kibera, Nairobi
• Review Essays
• Fuad Zarbiyev, Of Theory and Reality, and Airplanes and Helicopters
• Jed Odermatt, Reimagining International Law Teaching
• Book Reviews
• Ergün Cakal, reviewing Ezgi Yildiz, Between Forbearance and Audacity: The European Court of Human Rights and the Norm against Torture
• Güneş Ünüvar, reviewing Charalampos Giannakopoulos, Manifestations of Coherence and Investor-State Arbitration
• Anni Pues, reviewing Sophie Rigney, Fairness and Rights in International Criminal Procedure
• Kirsten Sellars, reviewing Gary J. Bass, Judgment at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia
• Eran Sthoeger, reviewing Carlos Espósito & Kate Parlett, eds., The Cambridge Companion to the International Court of Justice
• Book Review Symposium: The Hague Academy
• Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Three Feminists Walk into the Hague Academy: Ease and Discomfort in an Affective Space
• Sué González Hauck, Order in and through Law at the Hague Academy: Examining a Century of Legal Influence and Controversy
• Valentina Vadi, The Health of Nations at The Hague
• Niccolò Ridi & Thomas Schultz, Distantly Reading the Recueil des Cours: Authority and Authorities in the History of the Hague Academy of International Law
• León Castellanos-Jankiewicz & Momchil Milanov, A Well-known Stranger: André Mandelstam – From Empire to Human Rights
• Vladyslav Lanovoy, The Hague Academy and the World Court: Travelling Together in the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes
• The Last Page
• The Vineyard

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Laura Di Gianfrancesco, Questioning the Use of the Veto: The Veto Initiative and the General Assembly’s Role as an Accountability Forum for the Security Council
• Henrique Marcos, Lex Specialis as a Reason-Giving Norm: Balancing Norm Specificity and Individual Rights in Times of Crisis
• Abdullah Abdullatif, Jamal Barafi, Salam Al Kasem, & Suhaib H. Anagreh, Safety Zones in Outer Space: A Means Towards Achieving Sustainability and Preventing Conflicts in Space Activities
• Marco 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

New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 24, no. 2, May 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Disruptions and the Reorientation of the Trade Regime: Towards a Trade and Sustainability 2.0?
• Weihuan Zhou, Trade and Sustainability in an Era of Re-globalization
• Bernard Hoekman & Douglas Nelson, Industrial Policy and International Cooperation
• Mandy Meng Fang, Multi-Purpose Green Industrial Policy and the WTO: An Unavoidable Clash?
• Pasha L. Hsieh, Green Regionalism in World Trade Law
• Gregory Messenger, Free Trade Agreements as Sites of Economic Diplomacy: Agreeing Common Standards for Sustainable Development
• Sanvid Tuljapurkar & Ruosi Zhang, Developing Countries' Participation in Environmental Services Negotiations: What are the Challenges and What Should be Done?
• Giulia Claudia Leonelli, Critical Raw Materials, the Net-Zero Transition and the ‘Securitization’ of the Trade and Climate Change Mitigation Nexus: Pinpointing Environmental Risks and Charting a New Path for Transnational Decarbonization
• Weihuan Zhou, Victor Crochet, & Haoxue Wang, Demystifying China's Critical Minerals Strategies: Rethinking ‘De-risking’ Supply Chains
• Addressing Competitiveness Concerns of EU exporters with Industrial Policy: The Role of Innovation Support Michael Jakob, Michael Mehling
• Tolulope Anthony Adekola & Bryan Mercurio, mRNA Technology Transfer Hub and Intellectual Property: Towards a more Equitable and Sustainable Model

Conference: 2025 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum

The 2025 ILA-ASIL Asia-Pacific Research Forum will be held July 7-8 in Taipei and hosted by the Research Center for International Legal Studies of National Chengchi University and the Chinese (Taiwan) Society of International Law. The theme is: "Sustainable International Law." Details are here.

Roht-Arriaza: Fighting Grand Corruption: Transnational and Human Rights Approaches in Latin America and Beyond

Naomi Roht-Arriaza (Univ. of California, San Francisco - Law) has published Fighting Grand Corruption: Transnational and Human Rights Approaches in Latin America and Beyond (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Grand corruption-systemic, large-scale, and top-down misappropriation of public resources for private gain-remains a pervasive problem around the world. It affects the ability of governments to educate, feed, and care for their people. It undermines human rights, perpetuates impunity, and erodes trust in government and the judiciary. It strengthens disgruntlement, authoritarianism, and insurgency. Corruption, however, is not a static force. In this work, Naomi Roht-Arriaza explores how corruption has changed, and how new anti-corruption thinking, especially in Latin America, centers human rights, victims' access to justice, and reparations. Roht-Arriaza shows how activists have used outside pressure and support for local actors where state institutions have been captured and foregrounds anti-corruption considerations in dealing with transitional justice and atrocity crimes. Written with engaging stories and examples, this book will appeal to lawyers, scholars of Latin America, and anyone else interested in fighting kleptocrats with the goal of reclaiming the common good.

Panel Discussion: Environmental Goods and Services: Unlocking the Full Potential

On June 24, 2025, the Center for Commercial Law Studies at Queen Mary University of London will host a panel discussion on "Environmental Goods and Services: Unlocking the Full Potential." Details are here.

Call for Papers: The Law and Political Economy of 21st-Century Authoritarianism

A call for papers has been issued for the 2025 Australian Progressive Legal Studies workshop, to take place December 8–9, 2025, in Brisbane, at the University of Queensland. The theme is: "The Law and Political Economy of 21st-Century Authoritarianism." The call is here.

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 17, nos. 2-3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Accountability in and after Frozen Conflicts: Lessons from Syria
• Dara Conduit & Yasmine Nahlawi, Legal Accountability in Frozen Conflicts: Lessons from Syria
• Roua Al Taweel, Responsibility to Protect and Syria’s Displacement: Unprotected at Home and Abroad
• Yasmine Nahlawi, Accountability Pursuits in the Syrian Context: an r2p Success?
• Danny Singh & Haian Dukhan, From Libya to Syria: Assessing the Impact of the Responsibility to Protect Doctrine on Global Intervention Strategies
• Linda Osman, Reflections on the Dabbagh Case: Challenges and Implications for Justice
• Ruham Hawash, Restoring Faith in Justice – the Imperative of Impartiality in the Pursuit of Justice
• Lubna Alkanawati, A First-Hand Account of Surviving Atrocities in Syria, and Fighting for Justice
• Mohamad Katoub, From Syria to Gaza: the Dangerous Normalisation of Attacks on Healthcare

Engle: Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court: Rethinking Responses to Gendered and Racialized Violence

Karen Engle (Univ. of Texas, Austin - Law) has published Toward an Abolitionist Human Rights Court: Rethinking Responses to Gendered and Racialized Violence (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). This book is free online from May 22, 2025 to June 5, 2025. Here's the abstract:

Contemporary international human rights law increasingly obligates states to heighten their criminalization of certain human rights violations, including gendered, racialized, and homophobic violence. This Element uses prison and police abolitionist thought to challenge this trend. It focuses on the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), arguing that the Court's reliance on punishment and policing threatens to undo earlier European approaches to criminal law and human rights that resonate with abolitionist thought. It also contends that the criminalization approach provides the Court with an alibi for not recognizing or attending to the deeply structural racialized, colonial, sexual, gendered, and homophobic violence in Europe, particularly but not only against Roma communities and Black and Muslim migrants. Encouraging human rights advocates and judges to take seriously prison and police abolition in Europe and elsewhere, the Element calls for the ECtHR to pave the way for an abolitionist-oriented turn among human rights courts.

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 62, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Paul Gragl, Sanktionen und Strafe - Rechtskonformität und Verwebungseffekt von restriktiven Maßnahmen der EU gegen Russland
• Darius Hashemolhosseini & Patricia Wiater, International law approaches to state-owned enterprises
• Valentin Schatz & Aziz Epik, Zur völker- und verwaltungsrechtlichen Einordnung der zivilen Seenotrettung
• Julian A. Hettihewa, Potenziale der Youth Studies im Völkerrecht: Ein Plädoyer für einen wissenschaftlichen Austausch