Call for Papers: The Use of Force in Recent Conflicts

The Canadian Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for papers for a Young Scholars’ Workshop on “The Use of Force in Recent Conflicts,” to be held at the University of Ottawa in the fall of 2026 on the margins of the Annual Conference of the Canadian Council on International Law. At the workshop, the selected authors will receive constructive feedback from senior scholars and practitioners. Subsequently, authors will submit their articles for consideration by the Canadian Yearbook of International Law, subject to peer review. The call is here.

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 Applications: Canadian Yearbook of International Law Editorial Positions

The Canadian Yearbook of International Law has issued calls for applications for the positions of Acquisitions Editor and Communications Editor. The calls are here (acquisitions) and here (communnications).

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 61, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Camille Martini, From Fact to Applicable Law: What Role for the International Climate Change Regime in Investor-State Arbitration?
• Rémi Fuhrmann, Légitimités conflictuelles: le droit international humanitaire entre légitimité du statut et légitimité de la cause
• Anna Rahel Fischer & Bernard Duhaime, “The Purloined Letter”: Migrant Disappearances, Systematic Impunity, and States’ Risk Awareness
• Miriam Cohen & Renan Teles, L’appropriation de la transmission des traumatismes par le droit: le préjudice transgénérationnel dans la jurisprudence de la Cour pénale internationale
• Carol Dyck, Arctic Governance in the Face of Climate Change: A Case for “Inclusive Regionalism”
• Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Udoka Owie, Okechukwu Effoduh, & Rahina Zarma, Explaining the Comparatively Less Robust Human Rights Impact of the ECOWAS Court on Legislative and Judicial Decision-making, Process, and Action in Nigeria
• Godwin E.K. Dzah, The Interaction between International and Domestic Law, Aqua Nullius, and Water-mediated Claims in Canada
• Akinwumi Ogunranti, The Relationality of Community Development Agreements towards a Human Rights Due Diligence Good Faith Requirement
• Symposium on the African Financial Architecture and the African Multilateral Financial Institutions in Context
• Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, Preface
• Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, African Financial Architecture: Voice, Representation, Preferred Creditor Status, and the Alliance of African Multilateral Financial Institutions
• Gertrude Amorkor Amarh, A New Dawn in Credit Rating for Africa? A Review of the Africa Credit Rating Agency
• Ohiocheoya (Ohio) Omiunu & Ayodele Olabiyi, Knowledge Production and the Global Energy Transition: A Critical Appraisal of the Influence of International Financial Institutions on African Multilateral Financial Institutions
• Otieno Mbori, The African Development Bank’s Role in Financing the Green Energy Transition Harrison
• Florence Shako, Towards Dismantling Colonial Continuities: The Role of the African Export-Import Bank in Climate Financing in Africa

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 60, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Curtis A. Bradley, State International Agreements: The United States, Canada, and Constitutional Evolution
• Guy Marcel Nono, La possible réparation du préjudice d’éco-anxiété en Afrique: vers une meilleure protection des droits des peuples autochtones dans le contexte des activités des industries extractives
• Blair Major, Recovering the Dimensions of Dignity in Religious Freedom: Protecting Religious Proselytization in International Human Rights
• Milcar Jeff Dorce, L’expérience des États de la Grande Caraïbe en matière d’arbitrage international d’investissement: Récit troublant d’un voyage en terrain glissant
• Wolfgang Alschner, The Negotiation, Diffusion, and Legacy of NAFTA Chapter 11: An Empirical Eulogy
• Patient Mpunga Biayi & Marcel Badinga Citala, L’Afrique et le jus cogens: chronique d’une relation ambivalente
• Notes and Comments
• Daniel Turp, Le Scotland Act Reference, les référendums sur l’indépendance et le droit à l’autodétermination des peuples

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 January 31. The call is here.

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 59, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Davorin Lapaš, Climate Change and International Legal Personality: “Climate Deterritorialized Nations” as Emerging Subjects of International Law?
• Select Réflexions épistémologiques sur l’illicéité résultant de l’incompatibilité du droit interne par rapport au droit international Emmanuel Simo, Réflexions épistémologiques sur l’illicéité résultant de l’incompatibilité du droit interne par rapport au droit international
• Julia Grignon, The “General Close of Military Operations” as the Benchmark for the Declassification of Armed Conflicts and the End of the Applicability of International Humanitarian Law
• Robert J. Currie & Elizabeth Matheson, State Responsibility for International Bail Jumping
• Amara Kone, La détermination de l’objet du différend et la compétence ratione materiae dans le contentieux des mesures conservatoires devant la Cour internationale de Justice
• Gail Lythgoe, The Changing “Landscape” of Sovereignty Viewed through the Lens of International Tax: Reterritorializing the Offshore
• Bjørn Kunoy, The Delimitation of Outer Continental Shelf Areas: A Critical Analysis of Courts’ and Tribunals’ Heterogeneous Approaches
• Christian Tshiamala Banungana, Vers l’intégration de l’écocide dans le Statut de Rome
• Vonintsoa Rafaly, The Concept of “Marine Living Resources”: Navigating a Grey Zone in the Law of the Sea
• Elen De Paula Bueno, Emílio Mendonça Dias Da Silva, An International Legal Perspective on Human Dignity: The Extrinsic Recognition of an Intrinsic Condition
• Notes and Comments
• Ljiljana Biukovic, The First Challenge to Canada’s Supply Management System under CUSMA: Tweaking the Supply Management System One Dispute at a Time
• Raphaël Maurel, La confirmation des évolutions récentes du droit des mesures conservatoires par et devant la Cour internationale de Justice: remarques sur les ordonnances en indication de mesures conservatoires du 7 décembre 2021 dans les affaires relatives à l’Application de la convention internationale sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination raciale (Arménie c Azerbaïdjan et Azerbaïdjan c Arménie)
• Geneviève Dufour & Pierre-Luc Morin, Buy America and Buy American: Can Canada Expect a Deal from the Biden Administration?

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 58, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• J. Anthony Vanduzer & Melanie Mallet, Indigenous Rights and Trade Obligations: How Does CUSMA’s Indigenous General Exception Apply to Canada?
• Kristin Bartenstein & Laure Gosselin, Le “prolongement naturel” et le plateau continental étendu arctique du Canada: coopérer pour donner sens au droit, à la science et aux faits
• Bjørn Kunoy, The Scope of Compulsory Jurisdiction and Exceptions Thereto under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Louisa Grigoryan & Amissi M. Manirabona, Lutter autrement contre la corruption transnationale: potentiel et défis du système de sanctions de la Banque mondiale
• Justin Okerman & Barbara Von Tigerstrom, Any Port in a Pandemic: International Law and Restrictions on Maritime Traffic during the COVID-19 Pandemic
• Thibault Moulin, Un nouveau “cheval de Troie”? Regard sur la codification des normes impératives du droit international général (jus cogens)
• Brian L. Cox, The Risk of Obsolescence: Reframing the Contemporary Use of Force Model to Achieve a More Holistic Application of the UN Charter Jus Ad Bellum Construct
• Notes and Comments
• Eva Monteiro, Mining for Legal Luxuries: The Pitfalls and Potential of Nevsun Resources Ltd v Araya
• Tiphaine Demaria, Obligations de comportement et obligations de résultat dans la jurisprudence de la Cour internationale de Justice
• Céline Lévesque, Canada’s Pro-Ban Stance on Double-Hatting: Playing the Long Game in ISDS Reform?

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 57, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Frédéric Mégret, “Do Not Do Abroad What You Would Not Do at Home?”: An Exploration of the Rationales for Extraterritorial Criminal Jurisdiction over a State’s Nationals
• Manuel Galvis Martinez, Defection and Prisoner of War Status: Protection under International Humanitarian Law for Those Who Join the Enemy?
• Jean d’Aspremont, Comparativism and Colonizing Thinking in International Law
• Bernard Duhaime & Andréanne Thibault, Contestation sociale, liberté de réunion pacifique et d’association: quelles leçons tirer des expériences interaméricaines?
• Yunus Emre Acikgonul & Edward R. Lucas, Developments in Maritime Delimitation Law over the Last Decade: Emerging Principles in Modern Case Law
• Geneviève Dufour & Delphine Ducasse, “America First” and the Return of Economic Isolationism and Nationalism to the United States: A Historic Turning Point for International Trade Law
• José Manuel Velasco Retamosa, Commercial Use of the Emblems of International Bodies: The Case of the International Committee of the Red Cross
• Charis Kamphuis, The Transnational Mining Justice Movement: Reflecting on Two Decades of Law Reform Activism in the Americas
• Sandrine W. De Herdt & Tafsir Malick Ndiaye, The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea and the Protection and Preservation of the Marine Environment: Taking Stock and Prospects

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 56, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Sara Wharton & Rosemary Grey, The Full Picture: Preliminary Examinations at the International Criminal Court
• Fernando Arlettaz, Expulsions collectives: définition et portée de leur interdiction dans la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme
• Joanna Harrington, Addressing the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials: Developments and Challenges within the Canadian Legal Landscape
• Antonio Bultrini, Reapprasing the Approach of International Law to Civil Wars: Aid to Legitimate Governments or Insurgents and Conflict Minimization
• Ryan Gauthier, Constructing Statehood through Sport: Football, Kosovo, and the Court of Arbitration for Sport
• Cyprien Bassamagne Mougnok, La codification du droit interaméricain de la drogue
• Idil Atak & Lorielle Giffin, Canada’s Treatment of Non-Citizens through the Lens of the United Nations Individual Complaints Mechanisms
• Marcin J. Menkes, The Legality of US Investment Sanctions against Iran before the ICJ: A Watershed Moment for the Essential Security and Necessity Exceptions

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 55, 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Lucas Lixinski, Trialogical Subsidiarity in International and Comparative Law: Engagement with International Treaties by Sub-State Entities as Resistance or Innovation
• René Provost, L’attaque directe d’enfants-soldats en droit international humanitaire
• Steve Lorteau, China’s South China Sea Claims as “Unprecedented”: Sceptical Remarks
• Louis Savadogo, Les incidents liés à la composition de la cour ou du tribunal dans le procès international
• Heather S. Fogo, A Legal Mirage: State Responsibility for Non-State Actor Interference with Space Systems
• Catherine Le Bris, La société civile, juge des droits de l’homme: à propos du Tribunal International Monsanto
• Vladimíra Pejchalová Grünwaldová, General and Particular Approaches to Implementation of the European Convention on Human Rights
• Amissi Melchiade Manirabona, La compétence de la future Cour pénale africaine à l’égard des personnes morales: propositions en vue du renforcement de ce régime inédit
• Notes and Comments
• Suzanne LaLonde, Donat Pharand (1922–2018)
• Kelsey A. Rose, When Immunity Means Impunity: Lessons for Canada from Recent Cases on State Immunity from Execution

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 54, 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Michael Byers & Andreas Østhagen, Why Does Canada Have So Many Unresolved Maritime Boundary Disputes?
• Robert J. Currie, Cross-Border Evidence Gathering in Transnational Criminal Investigation: Is the Microsoft Ireland Case the “Next Frontier”?
• Pallavi Kishore, A Critical Analysis of Conditionalities in the Generalized System of Preferences
• Craig Forcese & Leah West Sherriff, Killing Citizens: Core Legal Dilemmas in the Targeted Killing Abroad of Canadian Foreign Fighters
• Émile Ouédraogo, Le “nettoyage ethnique” en droit international
• Chilenye Nwapi, Accountability of Canadian Mining Corporations for Their Overseas Conduct: Can Extraterritorial Corporate Criminal Prosecution Come to the Rescue?
• Kirsten Stefanik, Rise of the Corporation and Corporate Social Responsibility: The Case for Corporate Customary International Law
• Notes and Comments
• Sharon A. Williams (1951–2016)
• Elsa Sardinha, Towards a New Horizon in Investor–State Dispute Settlement? Reflections on the Investment Tribunal System in the Comprehensive Economic Trade Agreement (CETA)
• Ali Tejpar & Steven J. Hoffman, Canada’s Violation of International Law during the 2014–16 Ebola Outbreak

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 53, 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Iñaki Navarrete, L’espionnage en temps de paix en droit international public
• Catherine Blanchard, Evolution or Revolution? Evaluating the Territorial State-Based Regime of International Law in the Context of the Physical Disappearance of Territory Due to Climate Change and Sea-Level Rise
• Priscila Pereira de Andrade, La contribution limitée de la Convention des Nations Unies sur les contrats de vente internationale des marchandises pour l’application des “clauses de durabilité” des biocarburants
• Craig Brannagan & Christopher Waters, ICRC Privilege in Canada
• Mathieu Vaugeois, Quelle représentation pour l’Union européenne à l’Organisation de l’aviation civile internationale?
• I.M. Lobo de Souza, Revisiting the Right of Self-Defence against Non-State Armed Entities
• Notes and Comments
• Michael Carfagnini, Too Low a Threshold: Bilcon v Canada and the International Minimum Standard of Treatment
• François Larocque & Christiane Bossé, Kazemi ou l’inhumaine immunité de l’État tortionnaire en droit canadien

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 52, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• James Crawford, Responsibility, Fraternity, and Sustainability in International Law
• Suzanne Lalonde, The Right of Overflight above International Straits
• Elise Hansbury & Bernard Duhaime, Les enjeux de la corruption sur le continent américain: une réflexion sur le rôle du Système interaméricain de protection des droits humains dans la consolidation des politiques de lutte contre la corruption
• Sara Wharton, Redrawing the Line? Serious Crimes of Concern to the International Community beyond the Rome Statute
• Frédéric Mégret & Raphaël Girard, Diasporas, Extraterritorial Representation, and the Right to Vote
• Yves Hamuli Kabumba, L’élément politique des crimes contre l’humanité: État des lieux de la jurisprudence de la Cour pénale internationale
• Jean-Michel Marcoux, Beyond Gold Reserve Inc. v Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela: The Host State’s Capacity to Regulate Extractive Activities in Light of Canadian Firms’ Experience in International Investment Treaty Arbitration

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 51, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Gus van Harten, The Canada-China FIPPA: Its Uniqueness and Non-Reciprocity
• Elvira Domínguez-Redondo & Edward R. McMahon, More Honey Than Vinegar: Peer Review as a Middle Ground between Universalism and National Sovereignty
• Philippe Pelletier, La révision de 2012 de l'Accord de l'OMC sur les marchés publics: Son contexte et les dimensions de son champ d'application
• Patrick C.R. Terry & Karen S. Openshaw, Nuclear Non-Proliferation and "Preventive Self-Defence": Why Attacking Iran Would Be Illegal
• Maureen Irish, Renewable Energy and Trade: Interpreting against Fragmentation
• Notes and Comments
• Jure Vidmar, The Scottish Independence Referendum in an International Context
• Alain-Guy Tachou-Sipowo, Does International Criminal Law Create Humanitarian Law Obligations? The Case of Exclusively Non-State Armed Conflict under the Rome Statute

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 50, 2012) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Joanna Harrington, Exploring the "Canadian" in the Canadian Yearbook of International Law
• Marie Ghantous, Les mesures conservatoires indiquées par la Cour internationale de Justice dans le cadre de conflits territoriaux et frontaliers: Développements récents
• Ryan Liss, The Abuse of Ambiguity: The Uncertain Status of Omar Khadr under International Law
• Véronique Guèvremont, La reconnaissance du pilier culturel du développement durable: vers un nouveau mode de diffusion des valeurs culturelles au sein de l’ordre juridique mondial
• Noemi Gal-Or, Responsibility of the WTO for Breach of an International Obligation under the Draft Articles on Responsibility of International Organizations
• Notes and Comments
• Paul David Mora, Jurisdictional Immunities of the State for Serious Violations of International Human Rights Law or the Law of Armed Conflict
• Alison Mitchell, Distinguishing Friend from Foe: Law and Policy in the Age of Battlefield Biometrics

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 49, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Katie Sykes, "Nations Like Unto Yourselves": An Inquiry into the Status of a General Principle of International Law on Animal Welfare
• Sara L. Seck, Canadian Mining Internationally and the UN Guiding Principles for Business and Human Rights
• Athanasios Yupsanis, The International Labour Organization and Its Contribution to the Protection of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
• Alberto Alvarez-Jimenez, Private Rights, the Use of Maps, State Responsibility, and Other Issues in the International Court of Justice’s Boundary Jurisprudence: 2000-10
• Ashley Barnes & Christopher Waters, The Arctic Environment and International Humanitarian Law
• Notes and Comments
• Matthieu Aldjima Namountougou, Responsabilité pénale des agents ou fonctionnaires internationaux et immunité de jurisdiction
• Avinash Sharma, The Entry into Force of the Lisbon Treaty: The European Union in Retrospect and Prospect
• The Editors, Leslie C. Green (1920-2011)
• Donald M. McRae, Charles B. Bourne (1921-2012)

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 48, 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Christopher K. Penny, Obeying Restraints: Applying the Plea of Superior Orders to Military Defendants before the International Criminal Court
• Robin F. Holman, The Rogue Civil Airliner and International Human Rights Law: An Argument for a Proportionality of Effects Analysis within the Right to Life
• Charles Riziki Majinge, Regional Arrangements and the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: The Role of the African Union Peace and Security Council
• Géraud de Lassus Saint-Geniès, Les piliers économique et environnemental du développement durable: conciliation ou soutien mutuel? L’éclairage apporté par la Cour internationale de Justice dans l’Affaire des Usines de pâte à papier sur le fleuve Uruguay (Argentine c Uruguay)
• Notes and Comments
• Drew Tyler, Does the Charter Float? The Application of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms to Canada’s Policing of High Seas Fisheries
• Daniel H. Meester, The International Court of Justice’s Kosovo Case: Assessing the Current State of International Legal Opinion on Remedial Secession

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 47, 2009) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Graham Mayeda, Pushing the Boundaries: Rethinking International Law in Light of Cosmopolitan Obligations to Developing Countries
• Louis-Philippe Jannard, Le traitement jurisprudentiel du traffic de migrants en droit comparé: Un désaveu des dispositions legislatives canadiennes
• Michael Elliot, Where Precision Is the Aim: Locating the Targeted Killing Policies of the United States and Israel within International Humanitarian Law
• Gregg Erauw, Trading Away Women’s Rights: A Feminist Critique of the Canada-Colombia Free Trade Agreement
• Justin Carter, The Protracted Bargain: Negotiating the Canada-China Foreign Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement
• Notes and Comments
• Fannie Lafontaine, Poursuivre le génocide, les crimes contre l’humanité et les crimes de guerre au Canada: une analyse des éléments des crimes à la lumière de l’affaire Munyaneza
• Benjamin Perrin, Searching for Accountability: The Draft UN International Convention on the Regulation, Oversight and Monitoring of Private Military and Security Companies
• Juan-Francisco Escudero Espinosa, The Definition of Damage Resulting from Transboundary Movements of Living Modified Organisms in Light of the Cartagena Protocol on Biosecurity

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 46, 2008) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Maureen English, Objectivity and Statutory Interpretation: End Use in the Canadian Customs Tariff
• Pierre François Mercure, La notion de conditionnalité reconsidérée dans les relations Nord-Sud: réflexion sur une approche favorisant le plein exercice des droits économiques dans les pays en développement
• Kristen E. Boon, The Future of the Law of Occupation
• Frédéric Mégret, Civil Disobedience and International Law: Sketch for a Theoretical Argument
• Verónica B. Pinero, Canadian International Human Rights Obligations in the Context of Assisted Human Reproduction
• Karinne Coombes, Protecting Civilians during the Fight against Transnational Terrorism: Applying International Humanitarian Law to Transnational Armed Conflicts
• Notes and Comments
• John H. Currie, Khadr’s Twist on Hape: Tortured Determinations of the Extraterritorial Reach of the Canadian Charter
• Charles-Emmanuel Côté, Un nouveau chantier transatlantique: l’entente France-Québec sur la reconnaissance des qualifications professionnelles
• Jean-Gabriel Castel, Giving Effect to Out-of-Province Judgments in Class Actions
• C. Emanuelli, Faut-il parler d’une "guerre" contre le terrorisme?