Workshop: International Humanitarian Law: Expanding its History(ies), Prospects and Challenges

On November 28-29, 2024, a workshop on "International Humanitarian Law: Expanding its History (ies), Prospects and Challenges" will be held at the University of Zurich and online. Details are here.

New Issue: Asian Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (Vol. 14, no. 2, July 2024) is out. Contents include:

• José Duke Bagulaya & Romel Regalado Bagares, Hidden in Plain Sight: International Law and Marxist Praxis in the Life and Works of Merlin M. Magallona
• Massimo Fabio Lando, The Limits of Deduction in the Identification of Customary International Law
• Kazuki Hagiwara, Enhanced De Facto Constraints Imposed by Non-legally Binding Instruments and Interactions with Normative Environment: An Analysis of the Joint Statements for the Conservation and Management of Japanese Eel Stock
• Jamieson Kirkwood, Characterization (and Registration) of a “BRI Dispute”
• Anam Soomro, People, Paper and Power: The Birth of the Passport in International Law
• Khorsed Zaman, Decolonizing Human Rights Law in Global Health - the Impacts of Intellectual Property Law on Access to Essential Medicines: A Perspective from the COVID-19 Pandemic
• I Dewa Gede Palguna & Agung Wardana, Pragmatic Monism: The Practice of the Indonesian Constitutional Court in Engaging with International Law

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 26, no. 6, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, The Trend of Changes in the Differentiation in Climate Change Law: Towards Intensifying, Not Weakening
• Giorgia Pane, Litigating the Climate between National and International Human Rights Regimes Judicial Complementarity?
• Antal Berkes, The Obligation to Cooperate to Protect Against Serious Breaches of the European and American Conventions on Human Rights
• Edyta Lis, Gender Perspective in the Recent Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 118, no. 4, October 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Article
• Evan J. Criddle, Extraterritoriality's Empire: How Self-Determination Limits Extraterritorial Lawmaking
• Current Develoopments
• Tom Dannenbaum & Janina Dill, International Law in Gaza: Belligerent Intent and Provisional Measures
• Alex Green & Douglas Guilfoyle, The Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty: Statehood and Security in the Face of Anthropogenic Climate Change
• International Decisions
• Lucas Carlos Lima, Declaratory Action of Constitutionality N. 39 of Brazilian Supreme Court
• Yusra Suedi & Marie Fall, Ligue Ivorienne des Droits de L’Homme and Others v. Cote D’Ivoire. App. No. 041/2016
• Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
• New Memorandum Elaborates U.S. Engagement in the Antarctic Treaty System, with Eye on Climate Change and Strategic Competitors
• The United States Endorses Amendments to the International Health Regulations
• President Biden Adds, Increases, and Maintains Tariffs on Chinese Goods Levied by President Trump
• Julian Assange Pleads Guilty to One Charge of Espionage and Returns to Australia, Ending U.S. Attempts to Extradite Him
• The United States and Twenty-Three Other Countries Enter into Bilateral Security Agreements with Ukraine
• President Biden Further Restricts Asylum Claims by Migrants at the U.S.-Mexico Border
• Recent Books on International Law
• Sivan Shlomo Agon & Michal Saliternik, Just About Time: International Law's Temporalities and Our Moment in History
• W.G. Werner, reviewing Natural Perception: Environmental Images and Aesthetics in International Law, by Alice Palmer
• Mira Burri, reviewing Cultural Heritage in International Economic Law, by Valentina Vadi
• Rossana Deplano, reviewing Who Owns Outer Space? International Law, Astrophysics, and the Sustainable Development of Space, by Michael Byers and Aaron Boley

Book Launch: Alex Wentker's "Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law"

On November 22, 2024, All Souls College, Oxford will host in person and online a book launch for Alex Wentker's Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law. The launch will be chaired by Elizabeth Wilmshurst, with panellists Philippa Webb and Marko Milanovic. Details are here.

Call for Papers: History of International Law Colloquium

The organizers of the Boston-area colloquium on the history of international law have issued a call for papers to be presented during the Spring and Fall of 2025. The call is here.

Call for Papers: International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (de-)Coloniality

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "International Law's Local Encounters: Experiences and Imaginaries of (de-)Coloniality," to take place June 5-6, 2025, at the University of Amsterdam. The call is here.

Call for Papers: The Politics of International Dispute Settlement

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on “The Politics of International Dispute Settlement,” to be held June 6, 2025, at Utrecht University. The call is here.

Lecture: Vergerio on “War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War”

On November 28, 2024, Claire Vergerio will give the next lecture of the TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War. The topic is: “War, States, and International Order: Alberico Gentili and the Foundational Myth of the Laws of War.” Details are here.

Call for Papers: Cambridge International Law Journal 14th Annual Conference

The Cambridge International Law Journal has issued a call for papers for its 14th Annual Conference, which will be held at the University of Cambridge on April 28-29, 2025. The theme is: "Navigating a Multipolar World: Challenges to the Post-WWII Status Quo of International Law." The call is here.

New Issue: Trade, Law and Development

The latest issue of Trade, Law and Development (Vol. 15, no. 2, Winter 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Aditya Suresh, Re-Calibrating the Standard of Review of Scientific Evidence in WTO Dispute Settlement
• Lorenzo Cotula, Critical Minerals: International Economic Law in a Global Resource Rush
• Marc D. Froese, Negative Reciprocity: Retaliation in WTO Dispute Settlement and the Extrajudicial Response to the Trump Tariffs of 2018
• Yasmin Salama, Eco Oro v. Colombia: Delving into the Misalignment between New-Generation IIAs and their Intended Outcomes
• Victoria Trifonchovska, European Legal Transplants in China? Legal Transposition and Reception of Rulres on Geographical Indications in China

Report: The legal arguments on the Climate Emergency Advisory Proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Lucas Carlos Lima (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais) and the Stylus Curiarum Research Group have released the report "The legal arguments on the Climate Emergency Advisory Proceedings before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights." The report analyzes the arguments presented in the written and oral observations submitted within the framework of the advisory proceedings on Climate Emergency and Human Rights before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights requested by Chile and Colombia. The study examines the observations presented - ten of which were filed by States, another ten by organs of States, eighteen by organs of international organizations, and two hundred and twenty-seven amici by non-state entities - with a view to identifying the legal arguments put forward before the Inter-American Court. The report can be found here.

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 63, no. 5, October 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Application of the Int'l Conv. for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism & of the Int'l Conv. on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discr. (Ukr. v. Russ.) (Merits) (I.C.J.), with introductory note by Iryna Marchuk
• Allegations of Genocide under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Ukr. v. Russ.) (Judgment on Preliminary Objections) (I.C.J.), with introductory note by Catherine Drummond
• Case C-634/21, OQ v. Land Hessen (C.J.E.U.), with introductory note by Angela Maria Noguera

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Institutionalizing Investment Dispute Prevention

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Institutionalizing Investment Dispute Prevention.” The symposium includes an introduction by Julian Arato, Jonathan Bonnitcha and Mavluda Sattorova, and contributions by Jonathan Bonnitcha, Mavluda Sattorova, Priyanka Kher, Ricardo Ampuero Llerena, Zhenyu Xiao, and Jeremy K. Sharpe.

New Blog: Tålking Rights

The Human Rights Institute of the Åbo Akademi University Law School has announced the launch of Tålking Rights, an academic blog dedicated to human rights. The blog offers a platform for insights, analysis, and dialogue on international human rights law issues. Those interested in contributing should review the blog's contributor guidelines and style guide.

Call for Chapter Proposals: Handbook on Decolonising Human Rights

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim (Emory Univ. - Law) has issued a call for chapter proposals for his forthcoming edited volume Handbook on Decolonising Human Rights, to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing. The call is here.

New Issue: Virginia Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Virginia Journal of International Law (Vol. 65, no. 1, Fall 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Christopher R. Drahozal, Donald Earl Childress III, Jack J. Coe, Jr., & Catherine A. Rogers, Challenging and Enforcing International Arbitral Awards in U.S. Federal Courts: An Empirical Study
• Nick Robinson, The Regulation of Foreign Funding of Nonprofits in a Democracy
• George Rutherglen, Territoriality and Admiralty

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 62, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Julia Weitensteiner, Das organisations- und situationsbezogene Begründungsmodell korporativer Rechte des EGMR in Croatian Radio-Television/Kroatien
• Otto Luchterhandt, Arzachs Untergang – historische Tragödie und Alarmzeichen für die Republik Armenien
• Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Die Transformation des Konzepts des »gerechten Kriegs« (»bellum iustum«) in der Geschichte der Philosophie: Von Thomas von Aquin bis zur Schule von Salamanca

Call for Papers: The International Court of Justice at 80

The Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security at the University of Glasgow has issued a call for papers for the Sixth Scottish Conference on International Law, to take place September 8-9, 2025. The theme is: "The International Court of Justice at 80." The call is here.

Call for Submissions: International Law & Emerging Technologies

The Georgetown Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for a symposium issue on "International Law & Emerging Technologies." The call is here.

Zidar & Cotič Zidar: Amended WHO International Health Regulations for Better Global Pandemic Governance?

Andraž Zidar (MFEA of Slovenia – Diplomatic Academy) & Živa Cotič Zidar (Ombudsman of Slovenia & Univ. of Ljubljana – Social Sciences) have posted Amended WHO International Health Regulations for Better Global Pandemic Governance? (Medical Law International, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Recent amendments to the International Health Regulations (IHR), adopted at the 77 th World Health Assembly in May 2024 represent an important conceptual development in the field of global pandemic governance. The Regulations now include the notion of a pandemic emergency, a heightened subcategory of the public health emergency of international concern, which necessitates rapid, equitable and enhanced coordinated international action to counteract global pandemics. In addition, changes to the guiding principles expressly require that the implementation process 'shall promote equity and solidarity'. This is further crystallised in concrete commitments to enable equitable access to health products and provide for the mobilisation of financial resources for developing countries. Taking lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, these changes make the IHR a more effective tool against global pandemics and represent significant steps towards achieving global health justice.

Becker: Crisis in Gaza: South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice (or the Unbearable Lightness of Provisional Measures)

Michael A. Becker (Trinity College Dublin - Law) has posted Crisis in Gaza: South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice (or the Unbearable Lightness of Provisional Measures) (Melbourne Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

In the early hours of 7 October 2023, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip launched a set of attacks across southern Israel, killing more than 1,200 people and abducting 252 people to be held as hostages. Israel unleashed an overwhelming military response, with grave humanitarian consequences for the Palestinian population of Gaza. On 29 December 2023, South Africa initiated proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) alleging violations of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide based on Israel's response to the 7 October attacks. This article examines South Africa's litigation of the Gaza conflict through its use of the provisional measures procedure at the ICJ. Part I provides an overview of the humanitarian crisis and the polarizing effect of Israel's military operation in Gaza. Part II examines South Africa's four attempts to obtain provisional measures and the Court's decision to indicate such measures on three occasions within a four-month period. Part III considers the relative ineffectiveness of the provisional measures-their 'unbearable lightness' in a situation of extreme gravity and examines doctrinal issues that emerged along the way, including the nature of the Court's 'plausibility' test at the provisional measure stage and the procedure for seeking additional or modified measures. Part IV concludes by considering challenges that lay ahead in the ICJ case-for the parties, for the Court, and for the Palestinians of Gaza.

Khalil & Lavaud: Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats

Mona Ali Khalil & Floriane Lavaud have published Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats provides an in-depth analysis of the challenges and opportunities associated with empowering the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) to fulfil its primary responsibility: to maintain international peace and security.

Across ten chapters, this timely book addresses several areas of possible reform, without amending the UN Charter, to improve the representative character of the UNSC, empower its elected members, restrain the use of the veto, and enhance the UNSC's ability to respond to modern threats including aggression and mass atrocity crimes. It explores the UNSC's relations with internal and external partners, including tapping the potential of the UN General Assembly, reinforcing the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court, as well as strengthening cooperation with regional arrangements.

Now, more than ever, there is a realistic possibility borne out of the imperative of necessity to reform the UN Security Council to better ensure international peace and security for future generations. Bringing together an international cast of experts from multiple disciplines and all five regions of the world, Empowering the UN Security Council offers a roadmap toward a more legitimate and effective UNSC.

Hilpold & Senti: WTO: System und Funktionsweise der Welthandelsordnung

Peter Hilpold & Richard Senti have published WTO: System und Funktionsweise der Welthandelsordnung (3. Auflage, Schulthess 2024). Here's the abstract:

Seit nahezu vier Jahrzehnten publiziert Professor Richard Senti von der ETH Zürich das maßgebliche deutschsprachige Lehrbuch zum GATT-Recht bzw. nachfolgend zum WTO-Recht. In der nun vorliegenden Neubearbeitung unter Mitwirkung von Professor Peter Hilpold von der Universität Innsbruck wird der aktuelle Stand der Welthandelsordnung in einem weitgehend veränderten wirtschaftlichen Umfeld dargestellt. Die Kräfteverhältnisse haben sich verschoben, die Ansprüche an eine wertorientierte Welthandelsordnung sind gestiegen, für das in der WTO stark verrechtlichte Streitbeilegungssystem wird nach einer neuen Ausrichtung gesucht.

New Issue: Revue belge de droit international

The latest issue of the Revue belge de droit international (2023, nos. 1-2) is out. Contents include:

• Hommage à Jean Salmon
• A. Lagerwall & O. Corten, Introduction
• J.J.A. Salmon, Éditorial
• E. Bribosia, Libres pensées en hommage à Jean Salmon, professeur passionné et passionnant de droit international
• J.-P. Legrand, La pratique rédactionnelle, locale et militante d’un ancien étudiant
• A. Louwette, « Qui dit choix, dit valeurs »
• L. Weyers, Une histoire de Jean Salmon : la rumeur, la rencontre et pour finir un « petit » projet
• P. Willaert, Cheminement d’un disciple à l’épreuve de la pratique européenne
• G. Abi-Saab, L’adieu à un vaillant frère d’armes dans toutes les batailles juridiques en défense des peuples opprimés et contre l’injustice partout ailleurs
• N. Angelet, L’acte de la fonction selon Jean Salmon : entre théories du droit public et réalités du droit privé
• R. Bachand, Jean Salmon, l’école de Reims et la contradiction : proposition méthodologique appliquée à l’évolution du droit international économique
• G. Bastid Burdeau, Sur les traces des débuts d’un grand chercheur : le financement des organisations internationales scruté par Jean Salmon
• J. Cardona, Jean Salmon face aux problèmes fondamentaux du droit international. le droit international à l’épreuve au tournant du XXIe siècle, vingt ans après
• M. Chemilliergendreau, Jean Salmon, « l’État, le peuple, le pouvoir », à l’épreuve du questionnement démocratique
• O. Corten, Jean Salmon, enseignant rigoureux, enseignant engagé !
• P. Couvreur, Variations sur le thème de l’« auditoire » de la Cour internationale de Justice
• S. D’Aloia, Jean Salmon et la reconnaissance d’État : un cas supplémentaire
• M. Didat, Du langage et de l’idéologie comme reflets des turpitudes du droit international au XXIe siècle. Le cas de la guerre russo-ukrainienne
• O. Dua, La catégorisation de(s) l’intention(s) en matière de responsabilité internationale de Jean Salmon appliquée aux obligations internationales relatives au commerce d’armes
• F. Dubuisson, « There will be Palestine » : Jean Salmon et l’État de Palestine
• P. Klein, Le Dictionnaire de droit international (et autres projets monumentaux) – Jean Salmon encyclopédiste
• R. Kolb, Jean Salmon et la « sainteté des traités ». Réflexions suscitées par la relecture du commentaire de l’article 26 de la convention de vienne sur le droit des traités de 1969, pacta sunt servanda
• V. Koutroulis, Le mythe de la qualification objective des conflits armés : réflexions à propos de « la conférence diplomatique sur la réaffirmation et le développement du droit international humanitaire et les guerres de libération nationale » (R.B.D.I., 1976/1)
• A. Lagerwall, Le droit est-il à la fois la plus puissante des écoles de l’imagination et l’armurier des innocents, cher Jean ?
• I. Mingashang, La contribution de Jean Salmon au débat d’ordre terminologique et juridique sur la quiddité de l’État indépendant du Congo
• G. Niyungeko, À propos du cours sur « le fait dans l’application du droit international » une théorie toujours actuelle
• A. Pellet, Précédents et jurisprudence – Lost in Translation
• C. Van Assche, Quelques aspects de la protection et de l’assistance consulaires en droit international public
• E. Wyler, Jean Salmon et le concept de fiction juridique
• Études – Studies – Studies
• C. Bertouille, Les moyens justifient-ils la faim ? Analyse de la légalité du siège au regard de l’interdiction de la famine comme méthode de guerre contre les civils et du principe de proportionnalité
• A. Kavoosi, Migration containment policies in Niger in light of migrants’ right to leave a country
• F. Quilleré-Majzoub & T. Majzoub, La « réalité nuancée » de la succession aux traités relatifs au Nil
• F. Vandepitte, Exploring the influence of politics on universal jurisdiction : a case study on german universal jurisdiction cases regarding Syria