New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 23, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Tomas Berkmanas, (Re)Birth of a State from the Perspective of the Restoration of Lithuanian Independence: Materialism, Naturalism and Positivism Stages
• Jurgita Grigienė, Paulius Čerka, Silvija Gervienė, & Dalia Perkumienė, The Application of Universal Jurisdiction for War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Lithuania
• Saulė Milčiuvienė, Julija Kiršienė, Darius Amilevičius, & Gailius Raškinis, The Impact of the EU Digital Strategy on the Regulation of the Lithuanian Energy Market
• Marijus Šalčius, The Influence of EU Law on the Evolution of State Tortious Liability in Lithuania: A Case of Compensation for Damage Caused in Criminal Proceedings
• Linas Meškys, The Implementation of EU Directive 2004/35/EC and the Challenges of Determining Environmental Damage in the Republic of Lithuania
• Edita Gruodytė, The Impact of EU Law on the Development of Environmental Criminal Liability: Implementation of EU Directive 2008/99/EC in Lithuania
• Evelina Žurauskaitė, Lithuania’s Membership of the ILO: Between International and Regional Labour Standards
• Albertas Milinis, Kristina Pranevičienė, & Neringa Gaubienė, Cross-Border Enforcement Involving Digital Assets: A Lithuanian Legal Perspective on International Frameworks and Challenges
• Žaneta Navickienė, Rolandas Krikščiūnas, Mindaugas Bilius, & Daiva Milienė, Modern Discourse on Financial Crime Pre-trial Investigation Planning
• Vilenas Vadapalas, Emerging Prohibition on the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

New Issue: Rivista di Diritto Internazionale

The latest issue of the Rivista di Diritto Internazionale (Vol. 108, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli
• Francesco Bestagno, Le relazioni convenzionali dell'UE nel quadro del Consiglio d'Europa e le prospettive di adesione alla CEDU
• Alessandro Ranieri, L'incerto ambito della protezione sussidiaria in caso di condanna a morte o esecuzione
• Gianfranco Gabriele Nucera, Sulla liceità di dichiarare il segretario generale delle Nazioni Unite persona non grata
• Note e Commenti
• Deborah Russo, Collegamento territoriale ed eccezione umanitaria rispetto alla immunità giurisdizionle degli Stati esteri
• Fabrizio Vismara, Controlli all'esportazione dei prodotti di sorveglianza informatica e tutela dei diritti umani
• Francesco D'Amario, L'autonomia dell'ordinamento dell'unione Europea e l'esecuzione della sentenza ICSID Micula

Call for Submissions: International Community Law Review

The International Community Law Review has issued an open call for submissions. The ICLR welcomes papers that examine how different traditions of international law — and prevailing trends — shape the concept of an international community. The journal examines how the international community applies and adapts international law to address new and emerging global challenges. Today, many actors influence international law — non-state groups, international and non-governmental organisations, individuals, communities, corporations, and civil society — alongside States. The ICLR’s focus is multicultural rather than regional, exploring how these different actors shape and engage with international law. The journal encourages alternative or critical perspectives and welcome contributions from scholars around the world, at all stages of their career. The call is here.

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: two lectures, in English and Spanish, on Full Protection and Security in International Investment Law, by Sebastián Mantilla Blanco; and two lectures, in English and French, on The International Legal Framework for Fighting Doping in Sport, by David Pavot.

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

New Issue: Virginia Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Virginia Journal of International Law (Vol. 66, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Neha Jain, Refugee Markets
• Sannoy Das, Domestic Stability and International Trade Order
• Edward Swaine, Prohibiting Threats of Aggression

Call for Submissions: ASIL International Criminal Law Works-in-Progress Workshop

The American Society of International Law's International Criminal Law Interest Group will hold its annual works-in-progress Workshop in person on June 8, 2026, at Boston University School of Law. Submissions at various stages of development on any topic related to international criminal law broadly construed (including transnational criminal law) are welcome. Indications of interest from potential commentators are also welcome. Prospective participants should fill out this form by April 1, 2026, indicating whether they hope to present a paper and/or comment on papers, or whether they would like to attend without presenting or commenting. Questions can be directed to the interest group co-chairs: Ryan Liss (rliss@uwo.ca) and Steve Koh (koh@bu.edu).

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 74, Special Issue, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Law of the Sea: Present Challenges and Future Directions
• Malcolm Evans, Richard Barnes, Rozemarijn Roland Holst, Constantinos Yiallourides, & Jack Kenny, Foreword by the Co-Editors of the ICLQ Forum on the Law of the Sea
• Catherine Redgwell, Technological Change and the Law of the Sea: The Challenge of Marine Geoengineering
• Barbara Stępień & Mauro Arturo Rivera León, Law Enforcement in Autonomous Shipping: Rethinking Jurisdictional Challenges under UNCLOS
• Alexander Lott, Conventional Jurisdictional Approaches to Protecting Submarine Cables and Pipelines
• Christian Bueger, Timothy Edmunds, & Jan Stockbruegger, UNCLOS under Fire: Recalibrating Maritime Security Governance
• Makoto Seta, UNCLOS during Armed Conflict: Due Regard in the Exclusive Economic Zones of Neutral Coastal States
• Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho, From ‘Flags of Convenience’ to ‘Flags of Deceit’: The Future of the Law Governing the Nationality of Ships
• Yunjun Li, Constraining the Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles in Maritime Delimitation Cases
• Nilüfer Oral, Sea-Level Rise and Maritime Boundaries: From Uncertainty to Clarity?
• Eirik Bjorge, The Régime of Islands and Sea-Level Rise
• Sebastián Rioseco, The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and International Law: A Deep Dive into External Rules and Materials
• David Freestone, Fae Sapsford, & David Vousden, Navigating the BBNJ Treaty: Some Experiences from the Sargasso Sea
• So Yeon Kim & Youngdawng Moh, Due Regard Obligations in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
• Shirley V Scott & Nengye Liu, The Prospects of the High Seas Treaty Decisively Reducing the Negative Biodiversity Impacts of Distant-Water Fishing Operations
• Neil Craik, Julian Jackson, Aline Jaeckel, Hannah Lily, Pradeep Singh, & Hope Tracey, The International Seabed Authority, the Problem of Disregard and the Case for Administrative Accountability
• Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien, Negotiating Plastics Futures: The Law of the Sea and the Role of Non-State Stakeholders
• Reece Lewis & Sofia Galani, Addressing the Challenges of Applying Human Rights Law at Sea

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 79, Special Issue 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Future of Global Governance and World Order
• Brett Ashley Leeds, Layna Mosley, B. Peter Rosendorff, & Ayşe Zarakol, The Future of Global Governance and World Order
• Stacie E. Goddard & Abraham Newman, Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System
• Julia C. Morse & Tyler Pratt, Information Disorder and Global Politics
• C. Nicolai L. Gellwitzki & Jeremy F.G. Moulton, The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order
• Stephen Weymouth, Digital Disintegration: Techno-Blocs and Strategic Sovereignty in the AI Era
• Susan D. Hyde & Elizabeth N. Saunders, The Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership
• Jeff Colgan & Federica Genovese, Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump
• Austin Carson, Rachel Metz, & Paul Poast, Allies and Access: Implications of an American Turn Away from Alliances
• Tobias Pforr, Fabian Pape, & Johannes Petry, Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump
• Dongan Tan, The Decoupling Dilemma: How US Sanctions Erode Global Economic Governance
• Bryce W. Reeder, The Future of United Nations Peacekeeping in a Fragmenting World
• Rebecca Cordell & Alex Dukalskis, Authoritarianism, Global Politics, and the Future of Human Rights
• Perisa Davutoglu, The Architecture of Containment: Refugee Protection in a Postliberal Order
• Andreas Dür & Alessia Invernizzi, Weathering the Storm: US Trade Policy Beyond Trump
• Kenneth A. Schultz, Holding the World Together? The Future of Territorial Order
• Sarah Sunn Bush, Daniela Donno, Jon C.W. Pevehouse, & Christina J. Schneider, The End of Autocratic Norm Adaptation? US Retrenchment and Liberal Norms in Illiberal Regimes

Squatrito: Judging under Constraint: The Politics of Deference by International Courts

Theresa Squatrito (London School of Economics - International Relations) has published Judging under Constraint: The Politics of Deference by International Courts (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

As international courts have risen in prominence, policymakers, practitioners and scholars observe variation in judicial deference. Sometimes international courts defer, whereby they accept a state's exercise of authority, and other times not. Differences can be seen in case outcomes, legal interpretation and reasoning, and remedial orders. How can we explain variation in deference? This book examines deference by international courts, offering a novel theoretical account. It argues that deference is explained by a court's strategic space, which is structured by formal independence, seen as a dimension of institutional design, and state preferences. An empirical analysis built on original data of the East African Court of Justice, Caribbean Court of Justice, and African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights demonstrates that robust safeguards to independence and politically fragmented memberships lend legitimacy to courts and make collective state resistance infeasible, combining to minimize deference. Persuasive argumentation and public legitimation also enable nondeference.

New Issue: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 43, no. 4, December 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Column
• Ann Skelton, Cash strapped! Can the multi-lateral human rights system survive the UN financial crisis?
• Articles
• Ben TC Warwick, Temporalised international human rights: Complicated times
• Anna Arden, Intersecting enforced disappearance and migration: The creation of a new legal tool against pushbacks within WGEID and CED
• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, Paradoxical human rights implications of phasing out fossil fuels for highly fossil fuel-dependent countries in the climate change law

Call for Contributions: Digital Solidarity and International Law: Collective Action and Human Rights in the Digital Age

A call has been issued for contributions to the forthcoming volume "Digital Solidarity and International Law: Collective Action and Human Rights in the Digital Age," which is to be published in the Routledge Research in International Law series. The book will examine how solidarities are formed and expressed in the digital sphere and their implications for international law in areas including human rights, trade, environment, health, and peace and security. The editors invite contributions that engage with doctrinal, empirical, or critical approaches (e.g., TWAIL, feminist, or interdisciplinary perspectives). The call is here.

Swaine: Prohibiting Threats of Aggression

Edward T. Swaine (George Washington Univ. - Law) has posted Prohibiting Threats of Aggression. Here's the abstract:

Recent events, particularly Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have revived worries about the international regime regulating the use of force. Vastly less attention has been paid to what often precedes such attacks—threats to use force—and the prohibition on them. While the UN Charter and other legal instruments integrate the threats regime with the regime on actual uses of force, the two regimes are increasingly decoupled, in part because only one considers gradations: the use-of-force regime now identifies more serious variants like aggression and crimes of aggression; threats rules, by contrast, do not. This decoupling reflects real differences in the underlying wrongs, but it is also due to bureaucratic history and path dependence, including reluctance to criminalize threats of aggression while the underlying concept of aggression was still being developed.

As a result, international law and its institutions fail clearly to treat more serious threats, like threats to annex another state’s territory, as graver state conduct—putting aside, that is, whether criminalization is appropriate. This artificially limits the toolkit for addressing incipient aggression of the kind patently evident before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It has also impoverished consideration of potential aggression, such as may become inferable from U.S. policy concerning the Panama Canal and Greenland, before positions harden and avoidable consequences come to pass.

This Article proposes clearly defining and recognizing threats of aggression as prohibited state conduct. It evaluates the potential for deterring wrongdoing and proposes concrete and novel ways that institutions could develop and employ the rule. Such an initiative might discourage the most bellicose threats by states and even acts of aggression themselves.

Gift: Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity

Thomas Gift (Univ. College London) has published Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

What causes a Western democratic leader to stop even feigning to value the law of war? Unlike past US presidents, who at least paid lip service to the law of armed conflict, Donald Trump has openly flouted it: pardoning war criminals; denigrating the Geneva Conventions; praising torture; and discarding military norms of restraint. This gripping account depicts how Trump has upended assumptions about America's outward commitment to the law of war, exposing the conditions that make such defiance possible. Drawing on in-depth case studies and original survey analysis, Thomas Gift explains how Trump has relied on right-wing media and allies in Congress to attack the law of war – not in the shadows, but in broad daylight. Killing Machines cautions that Trump's approach is not an aberration – it's a playbook other leaders could follow. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.