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