Saturday, January 17, 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