New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 26, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Dominic Bielby, An Analysis of the Potential Jurisdiction of an International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in the Russo-Ukrainian War
• Başak Çali & Laurence R Helfer, Rethinking Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach
• Peter G Danchin, Jeremy Farrall, Jolyon Ford, Shruti Rana & Imogen Saunders, Reconceiving Engagement with International Law and Institutions in a Populist Era
• François Delerue, States’ Discourse on Third-Party and Collective Countermeasures in Cyberspace: An Evolution of Opinio Juris on Countermeasures
• Keri van Douwen, ‘What’s A Guideline Anyway?’, Or Rather: The Function of ‘Form’ in the Work of the International Law Commission

New Issue: Global Constitutionalism

The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 15, no. 1, March 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Jared Holley, Antje Wiener, Andrea Birdsall, Stephanie Law, Susan Kang, & Jo Shaw, Global constitutionalism and/as enlightenment
• Articles
• Mark Friedman & Anthony Sangiuliano, Proportionality and precaution
• Catherine Hecht, Dynamics of salient normative status dimensions and issues in a changing international order
• Kinfe Yilma, Reimagining digital constitutionalism
• Carmen E. Pavel, The ethics of state consent to international law
• Francisco Soto Barrientos, Orestes Suárez, & Benjamín Alemparte, The Citizen Initiative in Chile’s constitution-making (2021–2023): Lessons from a participatory and digital mechanism in comparative perspective
• Agora: From survival cannibalism to climate politics: Rethinking Regina vs Dudley and Stephens
• Michael Da Silva & David Owen, Itamar Mann, lifeboats and climate politics: An introduction
• Itamar Mann, From survival cannibalism to climate politics: Rethinking Regina vs Dudley and Stephens
• Antje Scharenberg, Aboard the ‘Commonist Lifeboat’: Metaphor, custom, materiality: Response to Itamar Mann Agora
• Chris Armstrong, Lifeboats and their problems: On the downsides of an influential metaphor in political theory
• Ainhoa Campàs Velasco, Navigating maritime law, law of the sea and human rights protection to inform climate adaptation

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 114, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• What role for regional human rights courts concerning democratic backsliding?
• Introduced by Bernardo Mageste Castelar Campos
• Elena Carpanelli, From watchdog to architect? The European Court of Human Rights’ role in and after democratic decay
• Lucas Carlos Lima, Democracy before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: From political rights to democratic backsliding
• Awalou Ouedraogo, Entre flux et reflux : la démocratie en question dans le système régional africain

Call for Papers and Engaged Listeners: International Legal History and Philosophy

A call for papers and engaged listeners has been issued for a forum on "International Legal History and Philosophy," to be held April 15, 2026, at Chanakya National Law University, Patna, India. The call is here.

Global Law at Reading's Ghandhi Research Seminar Series, 2025-26, Semester 2

Here's the schedule for Global Law at Reading's (GLAR) Ghandhi Research Seminar Series, 2025-26, Semester 2 (all times are UK time):

• February 24, 2026: Andrea Maria Pelliconi (Univ. of Southampton): Demographic engineering and the reconfiguration of self-determination in Western Sahara from Morocco’s occupation to UN Security Council Resolution 2797 (2025); 2pm, Palmer 101 and online on Teams
• March 5, 2026: Catherine Briddick (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford), Palestine refugees and Article 1D of the Refugee Convention in European courts; 1pm, EM57 or online on Teams
• March 11, 2026: GLAR book discussion: Animals and the Constitution: Towards Sentience-based Constitutionalism, with authors John Olusegun Adenitire and Raffael Fasel, and discussants David Bilchitz, Melanie Murcott and Alok Gupta; 2.30pm, Palmer 105 or online on Teams
• March 12, 2026: Nick Maple (Univ. of London), Refugee Reception in Southern Africa; 12 March 2026, 1pm, EM57 or online on Teams
• March 19, 2026: Antonio Coco (Univ. of Essex), Modes of Liability for AI-Enabled Crimes in International Criminal Law; 12 noon, Palmer G09 or online on Teams
• April 30, 2026: Federica Paddeu (Univ. of Cambridge), The Distributive Effect of Countermeasures in International Law; 12 noon, Palmer 107 or online on Teams
• May 7, 2026: Jeff Crisp (Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford), The Role of UNHCR and the Future of Humanitarian Work; 1pm, EM57 or online on Teams

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 28, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Elia Alexiou, The Revival of the ICJ’s Advisory Function: Enhanced or Contested Legitimacy?
• Jennifer Buckesfeld, Cooperating by Means of Collective Countermeasures? Examining States’ Obligations Regarding Grave Human Rights Violations
• Zuzanna Pepłowska-Dąbrowska, Krzysztof Wróbel, Mateusz Gil, & Ryszard Wawruch, Collisions at Sea Involving Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: Notes on Prevention and Liability Rules

New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly

The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 48, no. 1, February 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Rachel Chambers, Shareen Hertel, & Cory Runstedler, Human Rights Due Diligence: Views of the Process, From the Ground Up
• Yulia Ioffe & Hedi Viterbo, Reassessing Age Assessment: When the Violence of Age Meets the Violence of the Border
• Zahra Motamedi, Religious and Tribal Sovereignty in Afghanistan: The Taliban’s Governance, Its Impact on Women’s and Minorities’ Rights, and Global Implications
• Valeria Ruiz Pérez, Legitimizing Penality: Human Rights Discourses and Punitivism in Colombia
• Patient Mpunga-Biayi & Robin Sinchrist-Lecheks, The Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation in International Human Rights Law: The Contribution of the Joint General Comment by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights and the African Committee of Experts on the Rights and Welfare of the Child
• Qingxin K. Wang, Locke, Mencius, and Their Conceptions of Human Dignity and Rights

Kassoti: International Law as a Political Question: The CJEU’s Deference to the Institutions on Questions of International Law

Eva Kassoti (T.M.C. Asser Institute) has posted International Law as a Political Question: The CJEU’s Deference to the Institutions on Questions of International Law. Here's the abstract:

In the field of EU external relations law, judicial deference has been discussed mostly within the context of the political question doctrine debate. The latter has a long pedigree in US law. Its nature, scope and legitimacy as well as its applicability in the EU external relations context are controversial and the topic has been mainly discussed in the context of the CFSP. At the same time, the CJEU’s deference to the political institutions on questions relating to international law and international relations has been overlooked in the relevant literature, despite the historic relationship between the political question doctrine and international law and the fact that, there is relevant CJEU practice.

Questions of judicial deference in the realm of foreign affairs bring to the fore fundamental constitutional questions regarding the role of the judiciary and the proper division of powers between courts and the political branches.

In this light, the contribution focuses on the question of whether and under what circumstances the EU courts follow the lead of the political branches when faced with questions of international law. By doing so, the paper purports to feed into the broader debate on deference to the political institutions in EU external relations law as well as to illuminate the constitutional dimension of the discussion.

Allen, Diogo, Mensi, & Pereira Coutinho: Western Sahara in the International Legal Order – 50 Years after the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Stephen Allen (Queen Mary, Univ. of London - Law), João Francisco Diogo (NOVA School of Law), Andrea Mensi (Catholic Univ. of Milan - Law), & Francisco Pereira Coutinho (NOVA School of Law) have published Western Sahara in the International Legal Order – 50 Years after the ICJ Advisory Opinion (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This book commemorates the 50th anniversary of the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on the Western Sahara, bringing together leading international legal scholars to explore and critically assess the enduring relevance and implications of the Opinion. It offers a comprehensive and authoritative analysis of the main legal issues surrounding the status of the Western Sahara, including self-determination, territorial sovereignty, decolonization, and the role of international institutions. By providing historical context, legal interpretation, and contemporary perspectives, the volume serves as a definitive reference for scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in international law, conflict resolution, and the ongoing legal dimensions of the Western Sahara question.

Call for Papers: The European Union as a sanctioning actor: Legal and institutional developments

The Centre for the Law of EU External Relations at the T.M.C. Asser Institute and the Multidisciplinary International Network on Sanctions at Ghent University have issued a call for papers for a conference on "The European Union as a sanctioning actor: Legal and institutional developments," to take place on December 11, 2026, in The Hague. The call is here.

Call for Papers: The UN Security Council amid Fracture: Past, Present, and Future

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "The UN Security Council amid Fracture: Past, Present, and Future." The workshop will be part of the 13th European Workshops in International Studies, July 1-3, 2026, in Izmir, Turkey. The call is here. Abstracts may be submitted here. The deadline the submission of abstracts is February 11, 2026.

Mbengue, Cima, & McGarry: Shelton's International Environmental Law (Fourth Edition)

Makane Moïse Mbengue (Univ. of Geneva - Law), Elena Cima (Univ. of Geneva - Law), & Brian McGarry (Leiden Univ. - Law) have published the fourth edition of Dinah Shelton's International Environmental Law (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). Here's the abstract:

Dinah Shelton’s International Environmental Law provides a comprehensive and updated analysis of international environmental frameworks, offering insights into the triple planetary crisis—climate change, biodiversity loss, and pollution. This edition further develops the intersection of environmental law with human rights, trade, and other international legal fields, while examining the role of global institutions, treaties, and customary law in addressing today’s most pressing environmental issues. The book provides an essential guide to the legal frameworks that underpin efforts to protect the environment and ensure sustainable development in the 21st century.

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 74, no. 4, October 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Lord Sales, Purpose in Law and in Interpretation
• Caroline E. Foster, The 2025 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change
• Benoit Mayer, Victims in Climate Litigation
• Julien Chaisse, Investment Facilitation Agreements and Treaty Function Reordered: A Theory of Procedural Treaty Design
• Adeline Chong, ‘Salami-Slicing’ and Issue Estoppel: Foreign Decisions on the Governing Law
• Barend van Leeuwen, From Comparison to Effectiveness: The Scope and Aims of Comparative Analysis in Free Movement Judgments of the CJEU
• Shaun Matos, The Imposition of International Obligations on Domestic Non-State Actors
• Shorter Articles
• Sebastian von Massow, Using International Law in UK Courts
• Eleni Polymenopoulou, Provisional Measures in the African Human Rights System

New Volume: African Journal of International Economic Law

The latest volume of the African Journal of International Economic Law (Vol. 5, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Keynote Article
• Joel M. Ngugi, TWAIL, Transformation, The National Judge, Academic and Municipal Lawyer
• Special Issue: The African International Economic Law 2023 Conference: International Economic Law in an Era of Multiple Crises: Opportunities and Challenges for Africa
• Titilayo Adebola, Regis Y. Simo, Suzzie O. Oyakhire, Tsotang Tsietsi, Harrison Mbori, & Ashimizo Afadameh-Adeyemi, Introduction to the Special Issue
• Richard Frimpong Oppong, International Economic Law in an Era of Multiple Crisis: Opportunities and Challenges for Africa (Keynote Address: African International Economic Law Network 2023 Conference)
• Obiora C. Okafor, African States’ Priorities for International Economic Law and Socio-Economic Prosperity on the Continent in this Era of Multiple Crises: Reflections on Some of the Themes in Richard F. Oppong’s Keynote Address
• Caroline B. Ncube, Cascading Crises Call for a Concerted and Inclusive Continental Response: Reflections on Richard F. Oppong’s Keynote
• Kathleen Mpofu, Assessing the Viability of Investor Liability Provisions in the Reform Agenda of International Investment Law
• Atupele Masanjala, Malawi’s Cotton Trade: Riding the Coattails of the Cotton-4
• Chido Teclar Mitchel Muza, Unlocking the Potential of Blockchain Technology for Secured Payments in International Commercial Transactions
• Mbakiso Magwape, AfCFTA and Revenue: Navigating Outstanding Fiscal Issues and Legal Framework to attain Agenda 2063
• Suzzie O. Oyakhire & Ohiocheoya Omiunu, Decolonising the Teaching of International Economic Law: A Critical Reflection of Two Global South Scholars Situated on Either Side of the North-South Divide
• John S. Nyanje, ‘Swahilinisation’ of the East African Court of Justice: Decolonising Through Language

New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 25, no. 1, February 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Mona Paulsen & Dan Ciuriak, The Case for WTO Collective Action
• Eloise Elizabeth Gluer, The Level Playing Field and Determining Trade Impact under Trade Agreements: Implications from the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement
• Xiu-qun Ye, Qin Guo, Changjin Liu, Miraj Ahmed Bhuiyan, & Da Wang, Can Pilot Free Trade Zones Improve Local Governance Quality? Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment in China
• Tianqi Gu, Friend-Shoring Critical Minerals: Investment Law at the Intersection of Geo–economics and Treaty Restraint
• Silvana Tarlea & Florian Weiler, What Drives International Cooperation? Evidence from WTO Negotiations
• Martina F. Ferracane, Simón González Ugarte, & Tomás Rogaler, Global Trends in Digital Trade Policies and Practices: Evidence from the Digital Trade Integration Database

Call for Submissions: Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law

The Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law has issued a call for submissions for its Volume 29 for contributions related to the "Law and Practice of the United Nations" and "Legal Issues Related to the Goals of the United Nations." The call is here.

Rachovitsa: AI and Human Rights

Mando Rachovitsa (Univ. of Nottingham - Law) has published AI and Human Rights (in Artificial Intelligence: Law and Regulation, Charles Kerrigan ed., 2nd ed., Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). Here’s the abstract:

This chapter positions the relevance of human rights law to risks associated with AI, AI systems and algorithmic decision-making. The discussion is informed by EU developments on protecting against the harmful effects of AI systems, under the AI Act and the Digital Services Act, as well as the Council of Europe Framework Convention on AI and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law. The analysis addresses states’ human rights obligations within the lifecycle of AI systems by focusing on the challenges of algorithmic opacity and states’ responsibility to regulate AI systems via impact assessments. The discussion moves on to highlight how the regulatory framework evolves regarding non-state actors’ human rights duties. Business corporations increasingly find themselves being scrutinised by domestic courts in connection to human rights issues. The obligations, under the EU AI Act, to conduct a fundamental rights’ impact assessment for high-risk AI systems and, under the Digital Services Act, to conduct a risk assessment for systemic risks, which includes actual or foreseeable negative effects for the exercise of human rights, reposition the relevance of human rights in designing and deploying AI. The last part of the chapter engages with the incompatibility of certain AI systems with human rights law. The chapter concludes by reinforcing the value of human rights law to AI while interrogating its capacity to capture all novel algorithmic harms.

Cakal: Law and Torture: Widening the Apertures from the Doctrinal to the Critical

Ergün Cakal (Univ. of Copenhagen) has published Law and Torture: Widening the Apertures from the Doctrinal to the Critical (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Contemporary understandings of torture are ruled by a medico-legal duopoly: the language of law (regulating definition and prohibition) and that of medicine (controlling understandings of the body in pain). This duopoly has left little space for contextual conceptualisation – of ideological, emotional and imaginational impulses which function in readily recognising some forms of violence and dismissing others. This book challenges the rigour of this prevailing duopoly. In its place, it develops a new approach to critique the central scripts of 'law and torture' scholarship (around progress, violence, evidence and senses). Drawing on socio-legal and critical-theoretical scholarship, it aims to 'widen the apertures' of the dominant dogmas to their interconnected social, political, temporal and emotional dimensions. These dimensions, the book advances, hold the key to more fully understanding not only the production of torture's definition and prohibition; but also its normative contestation – to better grasp whose pain gets recognised and redressed and why.

New Issue: International Organizations Law Review

The latest issue of the International Organizations Law Review (Vol. 22, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: EU Responsibility in the International System
• Vassilis Pergantis, The International Responsibility of the EU and its Member States: Anything New under the Sun?
• Lorenzo Gasbarri, Lex Specialis and Eurocentrism
• Vassilis Pergantis, The Road (to Hell) not Taken in the EU Accession to the ECHR: Automatic Attribution Clauses & Tertiary International Responsibility Rules as a Nostrum to the CFSP Roadblock?
• Cristina Contartese, The Contribution of the Aarhus Convention Compliance Committee to the Debate on the Apportionment of Obligations between the EU and its Member States
• Vladyslav Lanovoy, Responsibility for Aid or Assistance in the Commission of an Internationally Wrongful Act: A Significant Risk for the European Union and its Member States?
• Kathleen Gutman, Are They Really So Far Apart? Reflections on Causation and Damage in the Internal and External Systems of EU Liability
• Esa Paasivirta, Some Reflections on the EU’s International Responsibility

Alves & Lixinski: Enforcing International Judgments Domestically: The Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Ayla do Vale Alves (Adelaide Univ. - Law) & Lucas Lixinski (UNSW Sydney - Law) have published Enforcing International Judgments Domestically: The Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). Here's the abstract:

This book broaches a hitherto unexplored subject. It is a systematic overview of the domestic implementation or enforcement of Inter-American Court of Human Rights Judgments across all the countries that accept its jurisdiction. This book urges (and allows) us to move beyond the discourse of "influence" of international courts, a discourse that, while helpful in some respects, also has limited usefulness for the victims of human rights violations in judgments. Comprehensive and theoretically sophisticated, this book sheds new light into how human rights law, international courts, and even international law more broadly can in fact be transformative on the ground.

Henrard & Duin: Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations

Kristin Henrard (Brussels School of Governance) & Michelle Duin (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands) have published Research Handbook on Accountability for Human Rights Violations (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Despite the expansion of the human rights paradigm, not only in terms of the variety of rights recognized – both general rights and those for particular groups – but also in terms of available supervisory mechanisms and remedies, multiple challenges can still be identified for the realization of the effective enjoyment of fundamental rights.

This thought-provoking Research Handbook explores accountability for human rights violations in terms of international law from a rich spectrum of angles. A conceptual angle, investigating the broader understanding of ‘accountability’, is followed by explorations of the who (can be held accountable), for (the violation of) what (rights), how (following what supervisory mechanisms) and to what extent (leading to what remedies). These angles translate into the five main parts of the Research Handbook and are complemented by a sixth part with contemporary case studies whereby, in each case study, the focus will be placed on a particular accountability challenge.

Calls for Papers: ESIL Interest Groups Workshops Preceding ESIL Research Forum 2026

In the context of the ESIL Research Forum 2026 in Kraków, ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for online workshops occurring in the days preceding the Forum. Here are the calls that are currently open:

• ESIL Interest Group on International Legal Theory and Philosophy – Call for Online Workshop “Normalizing Sustainability. Theoretical Perspectives on Stability and Change in International Law” (Deadline: 2 February 2026)
• ESIL Interest Group on International Business and Human Rights – Call for Online Workshop “Sustainability, Business & Human Rights: Evolutions from Soft to Hard Law” (Deadline: 9 February 2026)
• ESIL Interest Group on the Law of the Sea – Call for Online Workshop “To be or not to be: The sustainability of international law of the sea and the international law of sustainable seas” (Deadline: 15 February 2026)

AJIL Unbound Symposium: INTERPOL at 100: Improving the Organization’s Legal Framework

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “INTERPOL at 100: Improving the Organization’s Legal Framework.” The symposium includes an introduction by Brian McGarry, and contributions by Benjamin Katzenberg and Ananya Kuthiala, Michael Wood, Machiko Kanetake, Laurence Boisson de Chazournes and Camille Letoublon, Kristina Daugirdas, and August Reinisch.

Call for Rapporteurs: Oxford International Organizations

Oxford University Press has issued a call for rapporteurs for its database Oxford International Organizations. Reporters have the task of providing a short legal commentary (headnote) on documents and materials relevant to the law and practice of international organizations. The call is here.

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 43, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Lecture
• Jane McAdam, The Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law Annual Conference 2025 Keynote Address: The Role of History in International Law Scholarship: A Personal Reflection
• Articles
• Zar Chavla, Amy Maguire, & Leigh Toomey, Conscientious Objection to Military Service, A Comparative Human Rights Analysis in the Context of Ukraine’s War against Russia
• Emily Camins, Operationalising Individual Rights to Reparation: Australia’s Afghanistan Inquiry Compensation Scheme and the Development of International Law
• Eden McSheffrey, Execution against Sovereign States in Australia and the Problem of Separate Legal Entities

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 The Rights to Freedom of Peaceful Assembly and of Association, by Gina Romero; two lectures, in English, on Multi-Party Interim Appeal Arbitration Arrangement (MPIA) and Annulment of Arbitral Awards under the ICSID Convention, by Penelope Ridings; one lecture, in English, on The BBNJ Agreement, by Cymie Payne; and one Introductory Note, in English, on The United Nations Convention against Corruption, by Nikos Passas.

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

Call for Contributions: Motherhood and International Law

Völkerrechtsblog has issued a call for blog post proposals for its upcoming symposium "Motherhood and International," which will be held online, March 2-6, 2026. This is Völkerrechtsblog's fifth annual symposium on "Women and International Law." The call is here.

Berkes: International Law Without Statehood: The Outlier Application of International Law by Eurasian De Facto Regimes

Antal Berkes (Univ. of Liverpool - School of Law and Social Justice) has posted International Law Without Statehood: The Outlier Application of International Law by Eurasian De Facto Regimes (Asian Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This paper explores how unrecognised separatist entities in Eurasia—de facto regimes such as Transnistria, South Ossetia, Abkhazia, Nagorno-Karabakh, and the Donetsk and Luhansk People’s Republics—engage with international law. It examines whether, and to what extent, these regimes comply with international law, analysing court decisions and legislation to move beyond simplistic views of non-recognition or assumed legality. The findings reveal that de facto regimes tend to mirror the international law approaches of the states they are most closely connected to—whether the territorial state (e.g., Ukraine) or an outside state exercising effective control over the entity (e.g., Russia or Armenia). This pattern is explained by the theory of “acculturation to statehood”: through sustained legal and institutional interaction, these regimes internalise and replicate the legal systems of their reference states. The study contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the role of de facto regimes in the international legal order.

Webinar: A Report Card on the Laws of Armed Conflict

On February 17, 2026, the American Branch of the International Law Association will host a webinar on "A Report Card on the Laws of Armed Conflict." Speakers include: Janina Dill, Cordula Droege, Oona A. Hathaway, Gabor Rona, and Mike Schmitt. Registration is here.

Conference: L'utilisation stratégique des juridictions internationales

On February 5, 2026, a conference will be held on "L'utilisation stratégique des juridictions internationales" at the Université de Rennes. Details are here.

Call for Papers: Legal and Global Ordering

A call for papers has been issued for a section on "Legal and Global Ordering" for the 19th Pan-European Conference on International Relations. Here's the call:

For EISA | PEC 2026 (1-4 September in Lisbon) we are organizing a section on Legal and Global Ordering, including a panel on ‘Aesthetics as a technology of ordering’. Inspired by aesthetic and material turns in various disciplines, the panel organizes an interdisciplinary dialogue to investigate the role of aesthetic practices in global and legal governing, and the politics and hierarchies it reinforces. From the usage of standardized files for the production of colonial treaties, to the role of legal form in offshore oceanic migration policing and transformation of borders, to the gridding of the deep-seabed through networks of mining contracts, or the mapping of the Arctic, we are particularly interested in exploring colonial logics at play in concrete aesthetic manifestations of global ordering.

Another panel focuses on legal and political temporalities. We invite researchers who are working on questions of futurity, connections between the past-present-future, haunting, and temporal ordering to explore connections between law and politics.

Interested? Please contact Tasniem Anwar or Tanja Aalberts. Early-career scholars are especially encouraged to submit and join the conversation!

PS: working on either Technology, data & infrastructure or socio-material shifts in global governance practices? Contact Gavin Sullivan or Nina Reiners who are organizing panels on these themes.

Call for Submissions: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The Canadian Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions. Please note that submissions for each annual volume are encouraged by February 28. The call is here.

Call for Papers: Securitisation and International Law in Asia

The Japan Chapter of the Asian Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 17th Annual Conference, to be held June 28, 2026, in Osaka (Umeda). The theme is: "Securitisation and International Law in Asia​." The call is here. The deadline for proposals is February 28, 2026.

Call for Papers: Early-Career Workshop: New Voices in International Law

A call for papers has been issued for "Early-Career Workshop: New Voices in International Law," to be held May 22, 2026, at Trinity College Dublin. The call is here. The deadline is January 30, 2026.

Call for Submissions: Trade, Law and Development

The journal Trade, Law and Development has issued a call for submissions for its Summer 2026 issue (Vol. 17, no. 2). The call is here. The deadline is March 10, 2026.

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 120, no. 1, January 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Special Book Review Issue: The Past and Future of International Law
• Ingrid Brunk, Jeffrey Dunoff, & Monica Hakimi, Introduction to Special Book Review Issue: The Past and Future of International Law
• Gary J. Bass, The Scourge of War
• Arnulf Becker Lorca & Sarah Nouwen, The Rise and Fall of Lauterpacht’s Function of Law
• Simon Chesterman, Silicon Sovereigns: Artificial Intelligence, International Law, and the Tech-Industrial Complex
• David Singh Grewal, Pax Economica and Its Discontents
• Ratna Kapur, From Necropolitics to Piety: Twail and the “Other” Subject of Human Rights
• Marko Milanovic, Dystopian International Law
• Kate Miles, On the Stories We Tell
• Umut Özsu, Colonialism and Decolonization on a World Scale—Three Perspectives
• Kal Raustiala, Whoever Rules the Waves Rules the World: Sea Power and the Law of the Sea
• Shirley V. Scott, China, Anti-Hegemonism, and the Scope for International Law to Facilitate Peaceful Power Transitions
• Guy Fiti Sinclair, Is Another World Possible?
• Current Development
• Charles Chernor Jalloh, The International Law Commission’s Seventy-Sixth (2025) Session: The Negative Impact of the United Nations’ Fiscal Crisis on the Codification and Progressive Development of International Law
• International Decisions
• Erick Fabián Guapizaca Jiménez, Modern Slavery in Furukawa. Case No. 1072-21-JP/24
• Juan Du, Junefield Gold Investments Limited v. The Republic of Ecuador. PCA Case No. 2023-35
• Jason Haynes, Semenya v. Switzerland. Application No. 10934/21
• Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
• Secretary of State Rubio Denies and Revokes Visas for Palestinian Delegation Invited to Attend UN General Assembly Meetings
• The U.S. Military Targets and Destroys Alleged Narcotics Trafficking Vessels in the Southern Caribbean Sea and Eastern Pacific Ocean, Killing Nearly All of Their Crew

Call for Papers: New Technologies and International Legal Accountability

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "New Technologies and International Legal Accountability," to be held October 22-23, 2026, at the University of Perugia. The call is here.

Luporini: Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Human Rights in International Law

Riccardo Luporini (Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies) has published Climate Change Adaptation, Disaster Risk Reduction and Human Rights in International Law (Springer 2025). Here’s the abstract:

Climate change poses an escalating challenge to global society, with climate-related disasters becoming more frequent, severe and widespread in their impact on individuals and communities, and in their interference with human rights. To confront this challenge, States must not only mitigate climate change by reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also adopt comprehensive measures to adapt to its effects and manage climate change-related disaster risk. This book provides an in-depth analysis of the international legal frameworks governing climate change adaptation and disaster risk reduction, focusing on the critical role of human rights in strengthening these frameworks and ensuring their implementation. The study explores the extent to which human rights have been integrated into international climate change and disaster law, examines how climate change-related disaster risk is addressed within international human rights law, and assesses the growing trend of human rights-based climate change and disaster litigation and its potential regulatory impact. The book offers a unique perspective on international lawmaking in the fields of climate change and disaster management while also shedding light on the ongoing development of human rights law as it seeks to address the unprecedented threats posed by climate change and its associated risks.

New Issue: Transnational Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the Transnational Criminal Law Review (Vol. 4, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• The Borderlands of Criminal Law: First Transnational Criminal Law Review Conference
• Sara Wharton & Masha Fedorova, Introduction
• Neil Boister, A Normative Map of Transnational Criminal Law
• Gillian MacNeil, The Core Crimes MLAT: A Reason for (Cautious) Optimism?
• Alberto di Martino, Transnational Surrogacy, Active Nationality Principle, and the Legitimacy of (Transnational) Criminal Law
• Anna Głogowska-Balcerzak, The Borderlands of Trafficking in Persons: Abuse of a Position of Vulnerability in Theory and Practice
• Rui Carlo Dissenha & Derek Creuz, International Criminal Antidrug Policies and Decoloniality: A Critical Assessment Based on Brazilian Experience
• Kenny Cetera & Grahat Nagara, Illegal Timber Trade as a Transnational Crime: Driving External Measures to Enhance Enforcement in Indonesia
• Andreas Schloenhardt, Joint Investigation Teams: A panacea in the fight against organised crime?
• Dominik Brodowski, Borderlands of Criminal Law: Judicial and Police Cooperation in German-French Borderlands as a Laboratory of Transnational Criminal Law

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 56, no. 4, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• The Lifecycle of Offshore Wind Power: Nordic Legal Perspectives
• Gabriela Argüello, Ignacio Herrera Anchustegui & Henrik Ringbom, Offshore Wind Energy in a Nordic Regulatory Context: Editorial
• Niko Soininen, Kaisa Huhta & Seita Vesa, Offshore Wind Power through the Lenses of EU Climate, Energy, and Environmental Law—Between Climate Aspirations, Market Competition, and Environmental Impact
• Aron Westholm, The Role of Planning in Offshore Wind Power Deployment
• Leila Neimane, Sigrid Eskeland Schütz & Lena Gipperth, On the Concept of—and Legal Pathways Towards—Marine Co-existence: Sustainable Offshore Wind Energy in the Baltic and North Seas
• Niels Krabbe & Gabriela Argüello, Reconciling Marine Conservation with Offshore Wind Parks
• Niels Krabbe, The Strained Relationship of Offshore Wind Energy and Shipping: Promoting Coexistence under the Law of the Sea
• Thaysa Portela de Carvalho, Incorporating Qualitative Criteria in Offshore Wind Tenders: Experiences in Denmark, Finland, Germany, and the Netherlands
• Katrine Broch Hauge, Licensing Offshore Wind in Norway: Integrating Sustainability Requirements Such as Nature Positivity
• Iva Parlov & Maria Madalena das Neves, Regulating the Sustainable Decommissioning of Offshore Wind Turbines: Lessons from Europe?

Erie & Lin: Inter-Asian Law

Matthew Erie (American Univ. - Law) & Ching-Fu Lin (National Tsing Hua Univ.) have published Inter-Asian Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

What happens when Western law is no longer the default referent for legal modernity? This is a deceptively simple question, but its implications are significant for such fields as comparative law, international law, and law and development. Whereas much of comparative law is predicated on the idea that modern law flows West to East and North to South, this volume proposes the paradigm of 'Inter-Asian Law' (IAL), pointing to an emerging field of comparative law that explores the legal interactions between and among Asian jurisdictions. This volume is an experimental and preliminary effort to think through other beginnings and endings for law's movement from one jurisdiction to another, laying the grounds for new interactions between legal systems. In addition to providing an analytical framework to study IAL, the volume consists of fifteen chapters written by scholars from Asia and who study Asia that provide doctrinal and empirical accounts of IAL. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 38, no. 4, December 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Joseph Powderly, Surabhi Ranganathan, Bojana Ristić, Ingo Venzke, & Rebecca O’Rourke, Going Open Access
• International Legal Theory
• Nicole Štýbnarová, Unwholesome marriages and diamond drills: The making of the UN Marriage Convention (1962)
• Rishabh Bajoria, Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism
• Jason Haynes, International human rights law’s complicity in status subordination: A postcolonial critique of treaty bodies’ engagement with human trafficking
• Tim Lindgren, In the name of nature: Making the League of Nations, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal and international law
• International Law and Practice
• Mingyan Nie, Legal measures to preserve lunar security and safety in the context of China–US competition to the Moon: An appraisal from China’s perspective
• Sava Jankovic & Volker Roeben, Mind the gap: The determination, legality and consequences of implicit threats of force
• Sandrine De Herdt, Mapping representation before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, The challenge of phasing out fossil fuels for highly fossil fuel-dependent countries in international law
• Corina Heri, Climate-related vulnerabilities and the European Court of Human Rights: Reimagining victim status through intersectional thinking
• International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• Natasa Mavronicola & Mattia Pinto, Challenging punishment as the justice norm in the face of ongoing atrocities
• Grażyna Baranowska & Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Living up to obligations through the International Red Cross? A critique of states’ attempts to shift obligations when addressing missing persons
• Miguel Manero de Lemos, The indictments against Adolf Hitler, their endorsement by the UNWCC, the IMT judgment and a twenty-first century immunity myth

Conference: 120th ASIL Annual Meeting

On April 22-25, 2026, the American Society of International Law will hold its 120th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The theme is: "Advancing and Defending The Rule of Law." Registration is now open, with the early bird discount ending on Feburary 10, 2026.

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 17, no. 4, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Fatih Cüre, Adapting Responsibility to Protect (R2P) for a Multipolar World: Sovereignty, Intervention, and Veto Power
• Chiara De Franco & Christoph O. Meyer, Media and Mass Atrocity Prevention: Three Pathways of Potential Influence
• Ainoa Cabada, R2P as an Early Warning Doctrine: Building a Case for the Establishment of an R2P Preventative Assessment Tool
• Andrew E. Yaw Tchie, Converging Global Norms and Institutional Policies with Bottom-Up Approaches to the Protection of Civilians
• Interventions Forum on Gaza
• Josie Hornung & Elisabeth Haugland Austrheim, Atrocity Prevention and the Applicability of R2P to Occupied Palestine
• Sarah Teitt, Israel, Gaza, and the Unrealised Promise of the Responsibility to Protect
• Jeremy Moses, Gaza and the Perils of Militarised Humanitarianism: Universal Values, Politics, and the Hypocrisy of R2P
• Book Forum: A Discussion of Jess Gifkins’ Inside the UN Security Council: Legitimation Practices and Darfur
• Samuel Jarvis, Informal Practice as a Driver of Change: the UN Security Council and Darfur
• Holger Niemann, The Everyday Life of the UN Security Council and International Practice Theory
• Carmen Robledo, Uses and Practices in the UNSC Decision-Making: the Case of Sudan
• Jess Gifkins, Informal UN Reform: a Response to Reviews of Inside the UN Security Council

New Issue: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

The latest issue of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy (Vol. 28, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Rob Amos, A Critical Analysis of the Global Biodiversity Framework
• Zakieh Taghizadeh & Hoda Asgarian, From Global Commons to Global Accountability: The Erga Omnes Obligation to Safeguard Marine Biological Diversity as Common Heritage of Humankind
• Kenji Kamigawara, Katsuki Nakai, Nigel Semmence & Moon Bo Choi, What Kinds Of Social Factors Contribute to Rapid Responses to Invasive Alien Species? Comparative Case Studies on Controlling Invasive Alien Hornets in the UK and Japan
• Mohammad Nazmul Hossain, Delower Hossain & Nasir Uddin, Ensuring Wildlife Justice in Bangladesh: Challenges and Recommendations for the Future

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 16, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium on the Law Applicable to the Use of Biometrics by Armed Forces
• Marten Zwanenburg, Aleksi Kajander, Steven van de Put, & Sebastian Cymutta, Introduction to Symposium on the Law Applicable to the Use of Biometrics by Armed Forces
• Lily Hamourtziadou & Welmoet Wels, Biometrics to Necrometrics: What the Dead Can Tell us About War: A Human Security Approach to Collecting and Analysing Conflict Data from the Dead
• Emelie Andersin, The Use of the ‘Lavender’ in Gaza and the Law of Targeting: ai-Decision Support Systems and Facial Recognition Technology
• Anna Rosalie Greipl, The Military Fantasy of Biometrics: Neglecting the Risks of the Normalizing of Bodies During Armed Conflicts

Call for Submissions: Central Asia Yearbook on International Law

A call for submissions has been issued for the inaugural volume of the Central Asia Yearbook of INternational Law. Here's the call:

The Central Asia Yearbook on International Law (CAYIL) is the first academic publication of its kind in the region. It is designed to promote rigorous and original research in international law with a specific focus on Central Asia. The Yearbook responds to a longstanding gap in scholarly publishing by offering a dedicated platform for legal analysis situated in and oriented toward the region. The first volume will be published in 2026 by De Gruyter Brill under the imprint Brill | Nijhoff.

We invite scholars, practitioners, and policymakers to submit papers for consideration in the inaugural volume of the Yearbook. Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis, with the final deadline of 31 March 2026.

Scope of the Yearbook

We particularly welcome contributions that explore international law from a Central Asian viewpoint, are written by Central Asian scholars, or center on issues relevant to the region, although papers on broader topics of international law will also be considered. In addition to peer-reviewed scholarly articles, the Yearbook also publishes:

• practice-oriented essays,
• reflections on recent legal developments,
• case and treaty notes,
• reviews of relevant literature, and
• surveys of State practice in the region.

Aims and Audiences

The Yearbook seeks to advance academic dialogue both within Central Asia and between Central Asian scholars and their global counterparts. It is intended as a resource for:

• academics and researchers in international law,
• legal practitioners and government officials in Central Asia,
• diplomats and policymakers in international organisations and foreign ministries,
• graduate students and educators, and
• think tanks, NGOs, and civil society organisations engaged in legal reform and international cooperation.

Editorial Standards

The Yearbook is supported by an international Editorial Board and a distinguished Advisory Board, composed of both Central Asian legal scholars working abroad and foreign experts on Central Asian law. This ensures that contributions meet the highest academic standards while reflecting the region’s distinct legal and institutional experiences.

Submission Guidelines

• Submissions should be written in clear academic English.
• Articles should not exceed 10,000 words including footnotes; shorter notes, essays, and reviews are also welcome.
• For citations, please use the Oxford University Standard for the Citation of Legal Authorities (OSCOLA), 4th edition: OSCOLA Guidelines (PDF).
• Authors are expected to adhere to De Gruyter Brill’s AI Policy for Authors, meaning any use of AI tools in drafting or preparing submissions must be transparently disclosed, and authors must ensure that they retain intellectual ownership and responsibility for the content.
• All submissions will be subject to double-blind peer review.

Contact

Manuscripts and inquiries should be sent to:

Professor Sergey Sayapin
Editor, Central Asia Yearbook on International Law
School of Law, KIMEP University
Email: s.sayapin@kimep.kz

New Issue: Cambridge International Law Journal

The latest issue of the Cambridge International Law Journal (Vol. 14, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Tomas Heidar, Bringing climate change into the realm of UNCLOS: the ITLOS Advisory Opinion
• Alberto Rinaldi, Cognitive warfare in the biotechnological age: threats and challenges to international law
• Sebastian von Massow, Redrawing trade routes through litigation: phosphates and the Polisario in Panama and South Africa
• Bogdan Aurescu, Lessons learned from the work of the United Nations International Law Commission on Sea-level rise in relation to international law
• Jolyon Ford & Imogen Saunders, International law as geology: Crawford’s core/periphery metaphor and the future of the ‘rules-based international order’
• Rena Lee, The institutionalisation of international law in a multipolar world
• Vladimir Trofimchuk, Food security: is the international law status quo adequate to guarantee it?
• Khrystyna Kostiushko, Consequences of incorporation/annexation of territory for the spatial scope of application of investment treaties
• Mohamad Ghazi Janaby, The intersection of counter-terrorism law and government recognition in post-conflict transitions

Conference: The Law of Armed Conflict and Emerging Technologies: Legal, Ethical and Strategic Perspectives

The International Society for Military Law and the Law of War will host a conference on "The Law of Armed Conflict and Emerging Technologies: Legal, Ethical and Strategic Perspectives," on March 10-13, 2026, in Lucerne. The invitation is here. The program is here. The application form is here.

Kojima & Takeuchi: Japanese Approaches to International Law: Theory and Practice

Chie Kojima (Chuo Univ.) & Masatoshi Takeuchi (Toyo Gakuen Univ.) have published Japanese Approaches to International Law: Theory and Practice (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Japanese Approaches to International Law analyses historical developments, controversies, and future challenges regarding Japan’s contribution to the making and implementation of international law. Each chapter discusses the Japanese government’s positions on issues related to international law, relevant theories and concepts developed in Japanese academia, and leading domestic cases, laws, and policies, which have facilitated or hindered the effective implementation of international law in Japan. This book, based on domestic legal materials, policy documents, and academic literature, is a comprehensive handbook for readers to better understand Japanese approaches to international law.

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 79, no. 4, Fall 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Nikhar Gaikwad, Kolby Hanson, & Aliz Tóth, How Migrating Overseas Shapes Political Preferences: Evidence from a Field Experiment
• David B. Carter, Austin L. Wright, & Luwei Ying, Population Displacement and State Building: The Legacies of Pashtun Resettlement in Afghanistan
• Haifeng Huang, Reckoning with Reality: Correcting National Overconfidence in a Rising Power
• Essay
• Kerry Goettlich, Territorial Integrity As an Etiquette of Thieves: Non-conquest in Nineteenth-Century Imperialism
• Research Notes
• Lorenzo Crippa, Edmund J. Malesky, & Lucio Picci, Making Bribery Profitable Again? The Market Effects of Suspending Accountability for Overseas Bribery
• Lucy Right, Jeremy Springman, & Erik Wibbels, Pushing Back or Backing Down? Evidence on Donor Responses to Restrictive NGO Legislation
• Amanda Kennard, Konstantin Sonin, & Austin L. Wright, When Do Citizens Support Peace-Building? Economic Hardship and Civilian Support for Rebel Reintegration