ILR: Extended Hiatus

After more than eighteen years, the ILR blog is going on an extended hiatus.

New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 41, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Maxence Rivoire, Party autonomy and the applicable law to the merits in intellectual property arbitration
• Gerhard Wagner & Oguzhan Samanci, Arbitration meets human rights—the Pechstein saga and its implications for commercial disputes
• Johan Lindholm, Can’t buy me arbitrator love? How party-appointed arbitrators help ‘haves’ come out ahead in sports arbitration
• Nathan Tamblyn, Governing law of an arbitration agreement, and the awkward relationship between English and international law
• Pratyush Singh & Aastha Malipatil, Empirical insights into the legal quicksand: the case of patent illegality in Indian arbitration
• Hosna Sheikhattar & Mansour Vesali Mahmoud, Domestic insolvency proceedings before investment treaty arbitration
• Giorgio Risso & Giovanni Dall’Agnola, Investment structuring and re-structuring: the Italian perspective
• Recent Development
• Nicolò Andreotti, The Colombian Santurbán Páramo saga and its contribution to the development of international investment law and arbitration
• Case Note
• Thomas Leung & Christopher K H To, Jurisdiction and admissibility in international commercial arbitration: back to basics
• Jason Haynes, New players, same problems: Michael Lee-Chin v Dominican Republic, and the rising tide of inconsistency in South–South ISDS

New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law: lectures in English and Spanish on “Ten Years of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals: Achievements and Challenges”, by Graciela Gatti Santana; lectures in English and Spanish on “Sovereign Debt Restructuring in relation to International Law”, by Mario J. A. Oyarzábal; and lectures in English and French on “International Law and Sustainability”, by Seline Trevisanut.

The Audiovisual Library of International Law is also available as an audio podcast on Apple, SoundCloud, and other platforms.

Call for Submissions: Advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice

The Polish Review of International and European Law has issued a call for submissions for a forthcoming special issue on "Advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice." The call is here.