Webinar: The Lasting Legacy and Future of the United Nations and International Law

On March 24, 2023, the Max Planck Foundation for International Peace and the Rule of Law will hold a webinar on "The Lasting Legacy and Future of the United Nations and International Law" to celebrate the launch of Volume 25 of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law. Details and registration are here.

New Volume: German Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the German Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 64, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• FORUM – Debating a WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
• Pedro A. Villarreal, The Law of the WHO and COVID-19 Pandemic Reformism
• Silvia Behrendt & Amrei Müller, Do We Need to Protect the Entire World Population from Health Threats Through One Global Biomedical Surveillance and Response System? A Human Rights-Based Comment on the Proposed WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
• FOCUS – China and International Law
• Kerstin von der Decken, Introduction
• Björn Ahl, China’s Perspectives on Public International Law: Selective Adaptation of International Treaties and the Community of Common Destiny Concept
• Congyan Cai, China and International Security: How Law and Politics Work
• Sarah Biddulph, The Chinese Approach to Human Rights
• Yuhong Zhao, The Chinese Approach to International Environmental Law
• Moritz Rudolf, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Public International Law
• Matthieu Burnay & Florian Couveinhes-Matsumoto, One Country, Two International Status? The Evolution of Hong Kong’s International Positioning from Western Imperialism to Chinese Authoritarianism
• Walther Schücking Lecture
• Daniel McCarthy, Professor Bruno Simma’s Reflections on Dispute Resolution at the Peace Palace
• General Articles
• Julien Berger, The End of Intra-EU Investor-State Arbitration
• Henning Goeke, Moria 2.0 – Systemic Human Rights Violation and the Chance of a Pilot Decision
• Silvia Venier, The International Regime Governing Notification, Information-Sharing and Early Warning Applicable to Epidemic Outbreaks
• Apollin Koagne Zouapet, Turning Fantasy into Inclusion … Regional Approaches and Unity of International Law
• German Practice
• Helen Arling, The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Climate Decision and its Implications for International Law
• Phillip Eschenhagen, Germany’s Strategy for Promoting World Peace: Rule of Law, Locality, and the Berlin Process on Libya
• Leonard Amaru Feil, Criminal Procedural Law Interacting with International Criminal Law and Human Rights in the Context of Military Operations Abroad: The European Court of Human Rights’ Judgment in the Case of Hanan v. Germany
• Philip Nedelcu & Stefan Schäferling, The Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains – An Examination of the German Approach to Business and Human Rights
• Rico Neidinger, German Transparency and Anti-Corruption Regulations for Members of Parliament in the 19th Legislative Period (2017–2021) in Light of GRECO Evaluation
• Richard Schmidt, Sovereignty Decoupled from Human Rights: The German Position Paper on the Application of International Law in Cyberspace
• Hannah Sophie Strewe, Functional Immunity Before the Federal Court of Justice
• Sara Wissmann & Julius Adler, Good Things Come to Those Who Wait? The Joint Reconciliation Declaration of Germany and Namibia for the Herero and Nama Genocide

New Issue: Cooperation and Conflict

The latest issue of Cooperation and Conflict (Vol. 58, no. 1, March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Kristoffer Lidén, A better foundation for national security? The ethics of national risk assessments in the Nordic region
• Hanna Tuominen, In defence of common values: The Finnish EU Council Presidency 2019
• Nathanael Eschmann & Desirée Nilsson, Better together? Civil society coordination during peace negotiations
• Katharine AM Wright, Challenging civil society perceptions of NATO: Engaging the Women, Peace and Security agenda
• Johannes Scherzinger, Unbowed, unbent, unbroken? Examining the validity of the responsibility to protect
• Ivor Sokolić, Claims to ignorance as a form of participation in transitional justice
• Ondrej Ditrych & Tomas Kucera, Defence cooperation and change: How defence industry integration fostered development of the European security community

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 15, no. 1, March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Ranjoo Seodu Herr, Overlapping consensus view of human rights: a Rawlsian conception
• Moritz S. Graefrath & Marcel Jahn, Conceptualizing interstate cooperation
• Costas M. Constantinou & Fiona McConnell, On the right to diplomacy: historicizing and theorizing delegation and exclusion at the United Nations
• Jonathan Gilmore, Conceptualizing good global statehood: progressive foreign policy after the populist moment
• Christian Nikolaus Braun, Quo Vadis? On the role of just peace within just war
• Thomas Gehring & Kevin Urbanski, Member-dominated international organizations as actors: a bottom-up theory of corporate agency

Call for Submissions: Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies

The Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies has issued a call for submissions for its Summer/Fall 2023 issue. Here's the call:

With the Winter/Spring 2023 issue of JTMS now published, the Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies would like to inform readers that we are now soliciting manuscript submissions for the Summer/Fall 2023 issue of JTMS. Authors wishing to be considered for inclusion in the Summer/Fall 2023 issue of JTMS must submit their manuscripts by the extended deadline of February 28th, 2023.

JTMS is an interdisciplinary Journal of research on terrestrial and maritime territorial issues sponsored by the Northeast Asia History Foundation with editorial offices hosted by Yonsei University in South Korea, providing an academic medium for the announcement and dissemination of research results the fields of security studies, history, international law, international relations, geography, peace studies, and other relevant disciplines. The journal is indexed in SCOPUS and covers all continental areas across the world from a variety of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. Practical studies as well as theoretical works, which contribute to a better understanding of territorial and maritime issues, are also encouraged.

Articles should be submitted electronically to *** jtms@yonsei.ac.kr *** and include four major sections: the title page, structured abstract, main body, and references. The title page should contain the title of the paper, the author(s) name, the institutional affiliation and keywords. Manuscripts should follow the JTMS style guide available on our website.

A length of maximum 9,000 words is preferred for an article, including endnotes, and approximately 2,000 words for a review. Authors wishing to be considered for the Summer/Fall 2023 issue must submit their manuscripts by no later than February 28th, 2023. Inquiries may be sent via the email address provided above.

Conference: 2023 ESIL Research Forum

The European Society of International Law's 2023 Research Forum will take place April 27-28, 2023, hosted by the School of Law of the University of Tartu. The theme is: "Regional Developments of International Law in Eastern Europe and Post-Soviet Eurasia." The program is here. Registration is open here.

Vidigal: Designing Climate Clubs: The Four Models, Trade Commitments and the Non-Discrimination Dilemma

Geraldo Vidigal (Univ. of Amsterdam - Law) has posted Designing Climate Clubs: The Four Models, Trade Commitments and the Non-Discrimination Dilemma. Here's the abstract:

The imminent adoption of climate-motivated trade restrictions has led to renewed interest in climate clubs (CC), by which club participants limit the application of trade restrictions to countries that fail to contribute sufficiently to emissions reduction efforts. Within the decentralized international system, small-group cooperation among climatically ambitious states may be instrumental in making climate cooperation politically feasible. In particular, decarbonizing carbon-intensive sectors may require a “club” approach. This paper analyses the main CC models being proposed, classifying them as “inducive” or “equalizing” and “exclusive” or “inclusive”. If adopted unilaterally (or “minilaterally”, by a group such as the G7), all models are likely to be contentious, either unjustifiably favoring one policy design over others or setting up arbitrary distinctions between admissible and inadmissible contributing measures. Regardless of formal legal challenges, a CC imposed without multilaterally negotiated criteria is bound to create trade tensions. A credible outcome of current proposals is a CC component within a (de jure or de facto) multilateral climate governance (MCG) system, whose residual club component operates less as an exclusive club than as a fallback element to ensure continued adherence to the governance system. To avoid pitfalls, the design of a CC must match the stated objective of decarbonizing production while allowing participants a broad measure of freedom regarding policy choices. A CC component may be permissible as a means of eliminating incentives for free riding through non-participation, as long as the MCG sets for those within the club corresponding criteria for acceptable contributing measures, established means of assessing compliance, and commensurate consequences for non-compliance.

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 27, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Chen Kertcher & Ornat Turin, ‘Lost in translation’: United Nations commentaries on gender stereotypes to Muslim countries
• Mohammad Pizuar Hossain, The Rohingya refugee crisis: analysing the international law implications of its environmental impacts on Bangladesh
• Zvika Orr, Localised medical moralities: organ trafficking and Israeli medical professionals
• Cristina Aibar-Guzmán, Isabel-María García-Sánchez & Celia Salvador-González, Do codes of conduct really mean a change in corporate practices with regard to human rights? Evidence from the largest garment companies worldwide
• Sean Molloy, Conceptualising the transformative justice potential of peace processes
• Françoise Montambeault & Martin Papillon, Repoliticising indigenous participation: FPIC protocols in Canada and Brazil
• Adam Ploszka, From human rights to human wrongs. How local government can negatively influence the situation of an individual. The case of Polish LGBT ideology-free zones
• Bennett Collins & Ali Watson, Refusing reconciliation with settler colonialism: wider lessons from the Maine Wabanaki-State Child Welfare Truth and Reconciliation Commission

New Issue: Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of Territorial and Maritime Studies (Vol. 10, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Ricardo Abello-Galvis & Walter Arevalo-Ramirez, Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v. Colombia, 2022): Commentary on the Case and the Judgment on the Merits by the International Court of Justice
• David Molina Coello, Is UNCLOS Ready for the Era of Seafaring Autonomous Vessels?
• Onyemaechi Christopher Ugwuibe, Cordelia Ozoemena Idoko, David C. Nwogbo & Paul Chukwudi Ezinna, Nigeria Ports and Arms Smuggling: Evaluation of Cargo Tracking Note Amidst Growing Insecurity
• V. Adefemi Isumonah, Political Development Narrative of Africa’s Physical Space: The Case of Nigeria
• Mariam Mgeladze, UK House of Lords Inquiry: Is the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Still Fit for Purpose?

Fach Gómez & Titi: Facilitating Access to Investor-State Dispute Settlement for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Tracing the Path Forward

Katia Fach Gómez (Univ. of Zaragoza - Law) & Catharine Titi (Centre national de la recherche scientifique; Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas) have posted Facilitating Access to Investor-State Dispute Settlement for Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: Tracing the Path Forward. Here's the abstract:

The costs of accessing investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) are notoriously high. International investment treaties and investment dispute settlement in particular have been primarily designed with large investors in mind – those with the means to access an international tribunal –, while small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and individual or vulnerable investors can face significant barriers to accessing ISDS. This article is the first in legal scholarship to identify and evaluate the diverse opportunities that exist for the establishment and operation of mechanisms allowing SMEs better and easier access to ISDS. Drawing on the wealth of comparative experience from the functioning of existing dispute settlement assistance mechanisms in international courts and tribunals, the article argues that legal assistance is a more efficient and cost-effective tool than financial assistance and presents concrete proposals for the funding and operation of such a mechanism for SMEs. Finally, the article examines the political cost involved in facilitating SMEs’ access to ISDS, in light of the fact that some states have been increasingly wary of ISDS, but it weighs this challenge against the imperative of ensuring effective access to justice.

New Issue: Chinese Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 21, no. 4, December 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Yang Liu, Proportionality Balancing under General International Law: the Case of Article 25(1)(b) of ARSIWA
• Adrien Schifano, Organizationhood in the Light of Asian Minimalism
• Sergey Yu Marochkin, A Changed Constitutional Perception of International Law: Demonstrating the Move Ahead With a Turned Back Head?
• Comment
• Maria Stefania Cataleta, The Prohibition of Prosecution of Child Soldiers: a Desirable Emerging Rule of Customary International Law

New Issue: Global Trade and Customs Journal

The latest issue of Global Trade and Customs Journal (Vol. 18, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Joy W. Moodley & Sanele Gumede, A Comparative Analysis of South African Current and Proposed Customs Legislation for Customs Brokers
• Hanh T. Vu, Hien T. B. Tran, & Tuan S. Vu, Vietnam’s Commitment to Implementing TFA: Perspectives in Customs Law
• Mbakiso Magwape, SACU and Trade Facilitation: A Post-Covid Pandemic Legal Analysis for Improved Efficiency
• Md Kamrul Islam & Ashish Nath, Bilateral Trade Between India and Bangladesh: A Pre- and Post-SAFTA Period Analysis

Heller: The Concept of 'The Human' in the Critique of Autonomous Weapons

Kevin Jon Heller (Univ. of Copenhagen - Centre for Military Studies) has posted The Concept of 'The Human' in the Critique of Autonomous Weapons. Here's the abstract:

The idea that using “killer robots” in armed conflict is unacceptable because they are not human is at the heart of nearly every critique of autonomous weapons. Some of those critiques are deontological, such as the claim that the decision to use lethal force requires a combatant to suffer psychologically and risk sacrifice, which is impossible for machines. Other critiques are consequentialist, such as the claim that autonomous weapons will never be able to comply with international humanitarian law (IHL) because machines lack human understanding and the ability to feel compassion.

This article challenges anthropocentric critiques of AWS. Such critiques, whether deontological or consequentialist, are uniformly based on a very specific concept of “the human” who goes to war: namely, the Enlightenment subject who perceives the world accurately, understands rationally, is impervious to negative emotions, and reliably translates thought into action. Decades of research in cognitive psychology indicate, however, that the Enlightenment subject does not exist. On the contrary, human decision-making is profoundly distorted by cognitive and social biases, negative emotions, and physiological limitations — particularly when humans find themselves in dangerous and uncertain situations like combat. Given those flaws, and in light of rapid improvement in sensor and AI technology, it is only a matter of time until autonomous weapons are able to comply with IHL better than human soldiers ever have or ever will.

The article itself is divided into five sections. Section I critiques deontological objections to autonomous weapons. It shows that those objections either wrongly anthropomorphize AWS by assuming they “decide” on targets in a manner similar to humans or are predicated on a romanticized and anachronistic view of war in which most killing takes place face-to-face between combatants of equal status.

Section II addresses the common argument that IHL compliance requires human understanding — particularly the ability to discern the intentions of potential targets. The section demonstrates that such understanding is far less necessary to IHL than AWS critics assume and explains why, in those situations in which judgment is necessary, limits on human decision-making undermine the idea that human soldiers are more likely to comply with IHL than autonomous weapons.

Section III responds to the claim that autonomous weapons will not be able to comply with IHL as well as human soldiers because machines cannot feel compassion. It shows that compassion is irrelevant to IHL compliance, that compassion can lead to negative outcomes in combat as well as positive ones, and that any potential benefits of compassion are far outweighed by the costs of negative emotions such as stress and anger.

Section IV addresses the argument that the non-human nature of autonomous weapons makes it difficult, if not impossible, to hold humans responsible for war crimes that AWS commit. The section demonstrates not only that the problem of “accountability gaps” is significantly overstated, but also that there is no significant difference between human soldiers and autonomous weapons in terms of criminal responsibility.

Finally, Section V explores the implications of the idea that it is highly likely autonomous weapons will eventually be able to comply with IHL as well as — if not better than — human soldiers. It argues that consequentialist critics are not primarily concerned AWS will be worse soldiers than humans. Instead, their real worry is that they will be better ones, because the more humane war becomes, the more difficult it will be to eliminate war itself. This, the section argues, is actually the most powerful argument against autonomous weapons — but one that applies to most of the weapons developed over the past century.

New Issue: International Peacekeeping

The latest issue of International Peacekeeping (Vol. 30, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Adam Day & Charles T. Hunt A Perturbed Peace: Applying Complexity Theory to UN Peacekeeping
• Anurug Chakma, Leadership Changes and Civil War Peace Agreements: Does Who Comes to Power Influence the Implementation?

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: a lecture on Sexual Violence and other Gender-based Crimes in the Jurisprudence of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals by Valerie Oosterveld and an Introductory Note on the Declaration on the Rights of Persons Belonging to National or Ethnic, Religious and Linguistic Minorities General Assembly resolution 47/135, New York, 18 December 1992 by Heiner Bielefeldt and Michael Wiener.

The Audiovisual Library of International Law is also available as a podcast on SoundCloud and can also be accessed through the relevant preinstalled applications on Apple or Google devices, or through the podcast application of your preference by searching “Audiovisual Library of International Law.”

New Issue: La Comunità Internazionale

The latest issue of La Comunità Internazionale (Vol. 78, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli e Saggi
• Maria Chiara Vitucci, Le ciberoperazioni e il diritto internazionale, con alcune considerazioni sul conflitto ibrido russo-ucraino
• Michele Nino, The Freedom of Expression and Hate Speech in Cyberspace
• Martina Di Lollo, Alla ricerca di una crescita economica inclusiva: il ruolo delle IFI nell’attuazione delle politiche gender sensitive
• Osservatorio Europeo
• Claudia Morini, Alcune riflessioni sulla non neutralità dei bilanci: focus su Unione europea e gender budgeting
• Osservatorio Diritti Umani
• Vincenzo Lorubbio, Prevenzione della tortura in Europa: la complessa triangolazione istituzionale tra CPT, SPT e NPMs. Cui prodest?

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 97, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• ‘There is great chaos under heaven’ but the situation does not seem ‘excellent’ at all. A reassessment of the Taiwan question, from statehood to the rules on the use of force
• Introduced by Marco Pertile
• Tarcisio Gazzini, Statehood in troubled waters: The international status of the Republic of China and the rules on the use of force
• Matthias Hartwig, How many Chinas exist in International Law?

New Issue: Military Law and the Law of War Review / Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre

The latest issue of the Military Law and the Law of War Review / Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre (Vol. 60, no. 2, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Françoise J Hampson, The role of military legal advice
• Peter Rowe & Caroline Kittelmann, The British witnesses at the Leipzig War Crimes Trials of 1921
• Ori Pomson, Civilian use of a military objective as incidental harm in a proportionality assessment?
• James Patrick Sexton, How does the obligation to investigate alleged serious violations of international humanitarian law apply in ad hoc military coalitions?
• Yutaka Arai-Takahashi, In the shadow of settlement – the Israeli Progressive Scholars’ critical analyses of the decision-making policies of the Israeli Supreme Court sitting as the High Court of Justice
• Franklin D Rosenblatt, Action Pénale et Action Disciplinaire: the origins and current activities of the Criminal and Disciplinary Law Committee of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War

New Issue: Humanity

The latest issue of Humanity (Vol. 13, no. 3, Winter 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Jean-Michel Turcotte, The Major Humanitarian Dilemma of Neutrality: The International Committee of The Red Cross and Prisoners of War in Korea, 1950–1953
• Pedro Silva Rocha Lima, A Managerial Humanitarianism: The International Committee of the Red Cross and The Risk Management of Armed Violence in Greater Rio De Janeiro
• Malay Firoz, Epistemics of Aid: Toward a Liminal Critique of Resilience in the Syrian Crisis
• Alexandra S. Moore, Cultural Renditions of Guantánamo and the War on Terror
• Mansoor Adayfi, The Beautiful Guantánamo
• Kalyan Nadiminti, The Detainee's Two Bodies: Intellectual Property and Fugitivity at Guantánamo Bay
• Esther Whitfield, From Guantánamo to The Global South: Mohammed El-Gharani in Literature and Art
• Safiyah Rochelle, This Is What It Looks Like: Searching for Law's Afterlife in Guantánamo
• Mohamedou Ould Salahi, My Guantánamo Writing Seminar

Jones: Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives

Emily Jones (Newcastle Univ. - Law) has published Feminist Theory and International Law: Posthuman Perspectives (Routledge 2023). Here's the abstract:

Feminist approaches to international law have been mischaracterised by the mainstream of the discipline as being a niche field that pertains only to women’s lived experiences and their participation in decision-making processes. Exemplifying how feminist approaches can be used to analyse all areas of international law, this book applies posthuman feminist theory to examine the regulation of new and emerging military technologies, international environmental law and the conceptualisation of the sovereign state and other modes of legal personality in international law.

Noting that most posthuman scholarship to date is primarily theoretical, this book also contributes to the field of posthumanism through its application of posthuman feminism to international law, working to bridge the theory and practice divide by using posthuman feminism to design and call for legal change. This interdisciplinary book draws on an array of fields, including philosophy, queer and feminist theories, postcolonial and critical race theories, computer science, critical disability studies, science and technology studies, marine biology, cultural and media studies, Indigenous onto-epistemologies, critical legal theory, political science and beyond to provide a holistic analysis of international law and its inclusions and exclusions.

New Issue: Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé

The latest issue of the Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé (2022, no. 4) is out. Contents include:

• S. Karagiannis, Les diasporas en droit constitutionnel comparé
• F. Seatzu, Le rôle du Comité des Nations unies pour l’élimination de la discrimination à l’égard des femmes dans l’interprétation et l’évolution de la Convention des Nations unies relative aux discriminations envers les femmes
• A. Bounjoua, L’harmonisation des infractions de « l’entraînement au terrorisme » et du « voyage à des fins de terrorisme » en droit pénal européen à l’aune des départs et des retours de zones de conflits au sein d’États tiers à l’Union
• G.W. Wairou, Internet et la protection du droit à la vie privée au Cameroun
• S. Tametong Nguemo Tsidié, À quoi sert le Sénat ? Réflexion sur les fortunes du bicaméralisme au Gabon et au Cameroun à l’ère des nouveaux défis étatiques

Tams, Schill, & Hofmann: International Investment Law and General International Law: Radiating Effects?

Christian J. Tams (Univ. of Glasgow - Law), Stephan W. Schill (Univ. of Amsterdam - Law), & Rainer Hofmann (Univ. of Frankfurt - Law) have published International Investment Law and General International Law: Radiating Effects? (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This book questions whether investment law influences the wider field of general international law, and more specifically, whether approaches adopted by tribunals in investment arbitrations have radiated, or should radiate, into other fields of international law.

To answer this question, the book engages in a detailed analysis of pronouncements by investment tribunals on state responsibility, the law of treaties, and general principles of dispute resolution, and evaluates their impact beyond the narrow field of investment law. The perspectives provided in the book highlight how rules of general international law are concretised, specified, and at times moulded in investment arbitration practice. By doing so, the book enhances our understanding of the relationship between general international law and one its most dynamic sub-disciplines.

Combining conceptual and practical perspectives, and offering a detailed analysis of the pertinent case law, the book is a plea for a fuller engagement directed at both general international lawyers and international investment lawyers.

Mbengue & Akinkugbe: The Criticism of Eurocentrism and International Law: Countering and Pluralizing the Research, Teaching, and Practice of Eurocentric International Law

Makane Moïse Mbengue (Univ. of Geneva - Law) & Olabisi D. Akinkugbe (Dalhousie Univ. - Law) have posted The Criticism of Eurocentrism and International Law: Countering and Pluralizing the Research, Teaching, and Practice of Eurocentric International Law (in The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe, Anne Van Aaken, Pierre D'Argent, & Lauri Mäl eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This Chapter draws on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) in examining the question: how does the research and teaching of international law in the Global South challenge Eurocentrism in international law. The Chapter focuses on the emergent activities within Global South that pluralize Eurocentric international law’s dominance in the research production, teaching, and practice arenas. The Chapter pushes against the unfair over-representation of European countries in the scholarly production and institutions of international law. To illustrate the often-underexplored regional diversity of international law outside Europe, the Chapter reflects on the contemporary roles of critical Global South scholars and scholarship in international law, and the sub-fields of international investment law and international human rights law to pluralize the epistemological foundations of the substantive field of international law.

New Issue: Journal of Conflict Resolution

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution (Vol. 67, nos. 2-3, February-March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Michal Smetana & Michal Onderco, From Moscow With a Mushroom Cloud? Russian Public Attitudes to the Use of Nuclear Weapons in a Conflict With NATO Serhat Doğan, Emin Karagözoğlu, Kerim Keskin, & Hüseyin Çağrı Sağlam, Titans that Clash and a State that Buffers
• Allison Carnegie, Joshua D. Kertzer, & Keren Yarhi-Milo, Democratic Peace and Covert Military Force: An Experimental Test
• Hoon Lee, David Lektzian, & Glen Biglaiser, The Effects of Economic Sanctions on Foreign Asset Expropriation
• Ryan Yu-Lin Liou, Amanda Murdie, & Dursun Peksen, Pressures From Home and Abroad: Economic Sanctions and Target Government Response to Domestic Campaigns
• Anna Getmansky & Chagai M. Weiss, Interstate Conflict Can Reduce Support for Incumbents: Evidence from the Israeli Electorate and the Yom Kippur War
• Min Ye & Quan Li, Examining UN PKO contributions at multiple levels
• Moritz Schmoll & Wang Leung Ting, Explaining Physical Violence in Parliaments
• Daniel Krcmaric & Abel Escribà-Folch, I’ll Be Back? Exiled Leaders and Political Instability
• Sharan Grewal & Matthew D. Cebul, Can Religious Reinterpretations Bridge the Secular-Religious Divide? Experimental Evidence from Tunisia
• Travers B Child, Losing Hearts & Minds: Aid and Ideology
• Johannes Karreth, Jason Quinn, Madhav Joshi, & Jaroslav Tir, International Third Parties and the Implementation of Comprehensive Peace Agreements After Civil War
• Data Set Feature
• Charles Miller & K. Shuvo Bakar, Conflict Events Worldwide Since 1468BC: Introducing the Historical Conflict Event Dataset

New Issue: Revista romana de drept international

The latest issue of Revista romana de drept international (No. 27, January-June 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Articole
• Felix Zaharia, O interpretare a Protocolului privind evaluarea strategică de mediu la Convenția Espoo (I)
• Studii și comentarii de jurisprudență și legislație
• Bogdan Biriș & Rodica Deaconu, Compatibilitatea dintre legislația europeană și prevederile asupra protecției investițiilor cuprinse în Tratatului privind Carta Energiei
• Radu Mihai Şerbănescu, Evoluții în jurisprudența europeană cu privire la sancționarea terorismului: un nou caz LTTE
• Contribuţia doctorandului şi masterandului
• Filip-Andrei Lariu, Imunitatea ca o circumstanță care înlătură obligația de a extrăda sau judeca – Partea I: Principiul aut dedere aut judicare
• Bianca-Gabriela Neacșa, O reevaluare a principiului autodeterminării în contextul internațional actual
• Raluca-Andreea Șolea, Un tribunal pentru ISIS – un instrument legitim și potrivit pentru a combate terorismul în baza dreptului internațional?