Tuesday, January 6, 2026

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