New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 39, no. 2, Summer 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: Global Governance in Hard Times
• Benjamin Faude & John Karlsrud, The Institutional Dynamics of Global Governance in Hard Times: Innovation or Decline?
• Yoram Z. Haftel & Stephanie C. Hofmann, Under Cover: Substituting Formal IOs during Hard Times
• Matthew D. Stephen, The Diffusion of Global Power and the Decline of Global Governance
• Julia C. Morse, Information Fragmentation and Global Governance in Hard Times
• Nina Reiners, Hard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests
• Review Essay
• Abraham Singer, The Politics and Morality of Transnational Corporate Accountability

Call for Papers: Securing justice for the planet: Opportunities for, and barriers to, course correction

Macquarie University’s Environmental Law Research Centre and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Regional Office for the Pacific have issued a call for papers for a conference on "Securing justice for the planet: Opportunities for, and barriers to, course correction," to take place March 18-19, 2026, in Sydney. The call is here.

Conference: International Law Weekend 2025

The American Branch of the International Law Association will hold International Law Weekend 2025 in New York City on October 23-25. The theme is "Crisis as Catalyst in International Law." The program is here. Registration is here.

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 38, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• International Legal Theory
• Fleur Johns, On consular internationalism
• Cris van Eijk, The exclusive making of space law
• Işıl Aral, Russia’s expulsion: The Council of Europe as the guardian of European imperialism
• Dana Schmalz, The population growth discourse in the first decades of the United Nations: Interpretations of global economic inequality and the struggles for a just international legal order
• Tuomas Palosaari, The phantom menace: Effects and legitimacy of informal international instruments
• International Law and Practice
• Nengye Liu & Shirley V. Scott, China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?
• Danae Azaria, Inferring a ‘dispute’ from state silence
• Violetta Ritz, Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion
• Xin Wang, Global (re-)framing of cybercrime: An emerging common interest in flux of competing normative powers?
• Natalie Klein, International law-making and the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea
• International Court of Justice
• Iben Vagle, The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy
• International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• Ming-hsi Chu, Competing interpretations of international law: Law and politics in the war crimes trials of Nationalist China, 1946–1949
• Natalie M. Bryce, Leslie Johns, & Máximo Langer, Living with impunity versus living in fear: Universal jurisdiction defendants, due process, and the use of democracies by autocracies to prosecute their opponents
• Sharon Weill & Sandrine Lefranc, The French Bataclan Trial as a judicial experiment: What lessons for the prosecution of mass crimes?
• Sergii Masol & Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 79, no. 3, Summer 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Joshua Freedman, Can Status Competition Save the World? Grafting, Green Energy, and the Climate Crisis
• Chelsea Estancona & Lucía Tiscornia, From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence
• Timm Betz & Leonhard Hummel, Supplying Influence: Domestic Production Networks in Trade Politics
• Brandon K. Yoder & Michael D. Cohen, Fighting to Be Friends: Third-Party Bargaining, Alliance Formation, and War
• Research Notes
• Mark S. Manger & Nicola Nones, Trade and Exchange Rate Competition in East Asia
• Cameron Mailhot & Sabrina Karim, International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
• David C. Logan, Elite–Public Gaps on Nuclear Weapons: The Roles of Salience and Knowledge