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.