New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (2026, no. 2) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: International Law and Technology
• Mariela de Amstalden, Andreas R. Ziegler, Introduction to the Special Issue: International Law and Technology
• Thomas Cottier, Technology and the Law
• Juan Pablo Gómez Moreno, Invisible Bias at the Border: Algorithmic Discrimination and the Erosion of Equality in Cross-Border Digital Trade María Vásquez Callo-Müller, Digital Services Trade and Intellectual Property: Surveying the Ground in Free Trade Agreements
• Karen Sandoval, David v. Goliath in the Digital Age: Safeguarding Women’s Rights from AI’s Power

Vázquez Guevara: Truth Commissions and International Law: Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority

Valeria Vázquez Guevara (Univ. of Hong Kong - Law) has published Truth Commissions and International Law: Jurisdiction, Representation, Authority (Cambridge Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:

This book examines how truth commissions construct authoritative accounts of conflict, and how they account for the plurality of accounts across affected communities. Vázquez Guevara examines three of the earliest and most influential truth commissions: Argentina (1983–1984), Chile (1990–1991), and El Salvador (1992–1993), and examines how relevant cultural objects support or counter the official account for each. In doing so, she argues that these truth commissions drew on international law to authorise their accounts of violent conflict, and that this had the consequence of privileging an internationally-authorised truth over other truths, whilst simultaneously strengthening the authority of international law over the post-conflict state. By demonstrating how truth commissions turn to international law for authority, the book shows how this produces an official account of past violence and promises of future community, which fundamentally affects how communities live together in the aftermath of violent conflict.

Job Opening: Assistant Professor of International Law (Geneva Graduate Institute)

The Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is recruiting an assistant professor of international law with a demonstrated interest in issues related to global health. The deadline for applications is August 16, 2026. Details and how to apply can be found here.

New Issue: Nordic Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 95, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Hans Corell, The Fifth Hilding Eek Memorial Lecture: The UN Security Council and the Rule of Law
• Johan Rochel, Encoded Normativity: Designing Large Language Models for International Law
• Åsa Gustafsson, EU Sanctions Measures’ Increasing Extraterritoriality: The EU’s ‘No Re-export’ to Russia Clause and Other Recent Circumvention Measures
• Gaiane Nuridzhanian, The Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine: Jurisdiction, Immunities and Due Process
• Hadi Strømmen Lile, The Legal Validity of Treaty Rules on the Aims and Content of Education and the Nature of State Obligations in Relation to These Norms

Call for Papers: JIEL Junior Faculty Forum for International Economic Law

A call for papers has been issued for the Journal of International Economic Law's sixth annual Junior Faculty Forum for International Economic Law. The call is here. The deadline is June 30, 2026.

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 39, no. 2, June 2026) is out. Contents include:

• International Legal Theory
• Samantha Besson, In what sense are international organizations ‘public’? A plea for an international public law of organization
• Michal Saliternik & Sivan Shlomo Agon, International law and time between three paradigms
• Caitlin Murphy, Logistics as jurisdiction: International development, the energy transition and legal ordering through supply chains
• International Law and Practice
• Henrique Marcos, Rohan Nanda, & Júlia Schütz Veiga, Marine genetic resources, who owns and who owes what? A Hohfeldian mapping of legal positions on MGRs
• Didac Amat, The Paris Agreement’s temperature goal: An obligation of due diligence to protect the 1.5°C threshold
• José Rogelio Gutiérrez Álvarez, On reading travaux: Factors to consider when interpreting a treaty’s preparatory work
• Akinwumi Ogunranti, No one is coming to save you — A quest for Africanizing Business and Human Rights
• Shahab Saqib, Avoiding the semantic conundrum of the Race Convention through the forms of racial discrimination
• Jinú Carvajalino, In search of well-crafted amnesties: The emergence of a new jurisprudence on amnesty
• International Court of Justice
• Kheda Djanaralieva, Prolonged occupation of Palestine by Israel: A violation of occupation law or an abuse of it?
• International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• Rosemary Grey, Reproductive violence against child soldiers

Volovelsky & Agon: Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Anti-Money Laundering Challenge: Rethinking Global Frameworks for a Leaderless World

Uri Volovelsky (Israeli Ministry of Justice) & Sivan Shlomo Agon (Bar-Ilan Univ. - Law) have published Decentralized Autonomous Organizations and the Anti-Money Laundering Challenge: Rethinking Global Frameworks for a Leaderless World (Harvard National Security Journal, Vol. 17, no. 2, 2026). Here's the abstract:

Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) are blockchain-based entities that operate without centralized management or shareholders, enabling worldwide token holders the option of participating in their governance through self-executing smart contracts. With approximately fifty thousand DAOs controlling over $30 billion in assets, these organizations offer unprecedented efficiency and global collaboration, enabling stakeholders to participate and contribute to the operation of DAOs regardless of their jurisdiction or physical presence. DAOs, however, also present significant legal and regulatory challenges, particularly concerning liability, contractual enforcement, tax obligations, and oversight. Their decentralized and fluid structure makes it substantively difficult for any single country—including powerful actors such as the United States and the European Union—to assert jurisdiction or exercise regulatory authority over such organizations. In addition to governance considerations, the decentralized, pseudonymous, and borderless structure of DAOs may be exploited for unlawful purposes, most notably money laundering.

This Article examines how DAOs, particularly within the decentralized finance sector, facilitate anonymous cross-border transactions that pose novel and significant money laundering risks. By analyzing existing regulatory responses in major jurisdictions including the United States and the European Union, as well as efforts by key international organizations such as the Financial Action Task Force, the International Monetary Fund, and the United Nations, the Article demonstrates that prevailing regulatory frameworks and enforcement models cannot adequately respond to the distinct challenges presented by DAOs. This regulatory vacuum poses significant risks to global financial stability, the integrity of the financial systems, and core national-security interests, including the prevention of sanctions evasion, counterterrorism and proliferation financing, and the deduction and disruption of state-sponsored, cyber-enabled illicit finance. Accordingly, the Article proposes a novel, modular, risk-based, global anti-money laundering framework tailored to DAOs’ unique operational realities. The proposed framework aligns with principles of functional equivalence, technological neutrality, and transnational cooperation, offering a more effective means of addressing DAO-related, anti-money laundering risks while preserving space for innovation.

Call for Submissions: Securitisation of Supply Chains: Critical Raw Materials Between Energy Security and the Green Transition

The Journal of Law, Market and Innovation has issued a call for submissions for a special section on "Securitisation of Supply Chains: Critical Raw Materials Between Energy Security and the Green Transition." The call is here.