New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 29, no. 4, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Justice for Atrocities: Dialogues and Encounters between Latin America and Europe
• Marco Longobardo & Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue
• Harmen van der Wilt, Leadership responsibility in non-state criminal organisations. The rediscovery of indirect perpetration through an organisation by Latin American courts and the ICC
• Elena Maculan, The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways
• Valeria Vegh Weis, The ping-pong strategy: confronting atrocities from the exile
• Harold Bertot Triana & Elena C. Díaz Galán, Impunity in cases of serious human rights violations: three relevant aspects of contention in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Marco Longobardo & Federica Violi, Access to justice for atrocities in the comparison of land-mark cases on state immunity in Brazil and Italy
• Alexandra Fowler, Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: a vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?
• Ioanna Pervou, The intercontinental dialogue on enforced disappearances: the case of massive disappearances during hostilities

Pejic & Kotlik: Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues

Jelena Pejic (Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare) & Margaret Kotlik (U.S. Military Academy) have published Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Protecting civilians who have fallen into enemy hands or are just about to come under the adversary's control is a constant challenge in the application of international humanitarian law (IHL) and the law of armed conflict (LOAC). Despite many decades of scholarship, military operational practice, and advocacy, certain legal questions remain unresolved, while others have been insufficiently examined or are newly emerging due to technological, societal, and cultural developments.

Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict explores a range of longstanding, current, and new legal and practical issues in the interpretation and application of IHL/LOAC related to civilian protection. The subjects selected are based on the experiences or observations of repeated dilemmas about the extent of legal protections owed and actually extended to civilians in military operations.

These include the protection of unprivileged belligerents and civilians in the invasion phase of international armed conflict, the law underlying civilian “screening” operations, and the challenges of setting up humanitarian corridors. Responding to recent armed conflicts including in Ukraine, Gaza, and Sudan, renewed attention is also paid to the rules governing deportation and forced conscription, and to the evolving area of civilian data protection and extraterritorial data migration. Developing interfaces between IHL/LOAC and other legal regimes, including environmental concerns, gender considerations, emerging technologies, and forensic science considerations are likewise explored. In all cases, accountability for non-respect of IHL/LOAC remains a fundamental legal obligation.

Call for Papers: "Post the UN Summit of the Future": Towards a (Re-)Consideration of the Right to Self-Determination, Sovereign Equality and Sustainable Development in a Divided and Transforming Global Legal Order

A call for papers has been issued for a conference, co-organized by the University of Namibia and Leuphana University Lüneburg, on "'Post the UN Summit of the Future': Towards a (Re-)Consideration of the Right to Self-Determination, Sovereign Equality and Sustainable Development in a Divided and Transforming Global Legal Order," to be held September 18-19, 2025, in Windhoek. The call is here.

New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly

The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 47, no. 2, May 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Human Rights, Neoliberalism, and the UN's Balancing Act
• Shreya Atrey, Grounds of Affirmative Action
• Daan Bronkhorst, For the Victims: Six Decades of Theo van Boven's Human Rights Work
• Mark Gibney, Taking Human Rights Obligations (More) Seriously
• Kate McInnes, An Evaluation of the First Decade of the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: From Social Development to Human Rights
• Heidar Piri & Niaz A Shah, The Application of Human Rights Treaties as Domestic Law in the Islamic Republic of Iran

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 119, no. 2, April 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Pierre-Hugues Verdier, International Finance and the Return of Geopolitics
• Editorial Comment
• Monica Hakimi & Jacob Katz Cogan, The End of the U.S.-Backed International Order and the Future of International Law
• International Decisions
• Marco Longobardo, Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem
• Diego Mejía-Lemos, Westmoreland Mining Holdings LLC v. Government of Canada, Case No. UNCT/20/3
• Ori Pomson, Arbitral Award of 3 October 1899 (Guyana v. Venezuela)
• Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
• President Trump Begins Second Term by Withdrawing the United States from International Agreements and Institutions and Contravening U.S. International Legal Obligations
• The United States Sanctions Georgians Overseeing Crackdown
• The Department of Justice Issues Regulations to Prevent Access to Americans’ Bulk Sensitive Personal Data by Foreign Adversaries
• Secretary of State Blinken Concludes that the Rapid Support Forces Have Committed Genocide in Sudan
• The United States and France Facilitate Cessation of Hostilities Between Israel and Hezbollah
• Recent Books on International Law
• Sannoy Das, reviewing States-in-Waiting: A Counternarrative of Global Decolonization, by Lydia Walker
• Taylor St John, reviewing The Many Paths of Change in International Law, edited by Nico Krisch and Ezgi Yildiz
• Oliver Diggelmann, reviewing Law for Leviathan: Constitutional Law, International Law, and the State, by Daryl J. Levinson
• Julian Ku, reviewing China's Diplomacy and International Law, by Huikang Huang

Call for Papers: Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law," to take place August 28-29, 2025, in Singapore (in person only). The conference will be hosted by the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore in partnership with Durham University's Centre for Sustainable Development Law and Policy. The call is here.

New Issue: Michigan Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Michigan Journal of International Law (Vol. 46, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Bryan Druzin, Anatole Boute, & Michael Ramsden, Confronting Catastrophic Risk: The International Obligation to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
• J. Benton Heath, Economic Sanctions as Legal Ordering
• Jeffrey Kucik, Lauren Peritz, & Sergio Puig, Rewriting Precedent: How International Adjudicators Influence Compliance

Calls for Papers: IG Workshops – 2025 ESIL Annual Conference (Updated)

In the context of the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin, ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for their pre-conference workshops. The calls currently open include:

• IG on Energy and International Law: Reconstructing International Energy Law in Times of Crisis (deadline: 25 April 2025)
• IG on the Law of the Sea: Reconstructing International Law of the Sea (deadline: 25 April 2025)
• IG on Critical Approaches to International Law: Critical Methodologies for Reconstructing International Law: Rethinking Legitimacy, Authority, and Inclusion (deadline extended: 27 April 2025)
• IG on the European and International Rule of Law: Reevaluating the Rule of Law in an Era of Geopolitical Tensions: Necessity and Prospects for Reform (deadline: 30 April 2025)
• IG on International Organizations: (Re-)constructing International Organizations in the Work of the United Nations International Law Commission (deadline extended: 5 May 2025)
• IG on International Health Law: Global Health Law under Pressure: Facing Acute and Chronic Challenges (deadline: 10 May 2025)

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 56, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Zhen Sun, Coastal State Jurisdiction over Acts against Transiting Submarine Pipelines in the Exclusive Economic Zone and on the Continental Shelf—The Case of the Nord Stream Incidents
• Osvaldo Urrutia S., Andrew Friedman & Adriana Fabra, Untangling Squid: Regulatory Gaps and Opportunities to Improve High Seas Squid Fisheries Management
• Klaas Willaert & Anemoon Soete, The Interaction Between the BBNJ Agreement and the International Deep Sea Mining Regime: More Questions than Answers?
• Iva Parlov, Remotely Controlled Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships (MASS), the “Genuine Link” Requirement, and the “Effectiveness” of Flag State Jurisdiction: Key Problems and Prospects
• Julian Roberts, Joanna Mossop & M. Rezah Badal, Planning for the Management of the Extended Continental Shelf: The Unique Situation of the Mascarene Plateau Region of the Western Indian Ocean

Rieu-Clarke: Implementing Transboundary Water Agreements

Alistair Rieu-Clarke (Northumbria Univ. - Law) has published Implementing Transboundary Water Agreements (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

Interdisciplinary and international in scope, this detailed book examines the types of compliance and implementation mechanisms that can support transboundary water cooperation.

Alistair Rieu-Clarke draws upon a range of theoretical accounts, case studies from the Danube, Orange-Senqu and Mekong rivers, and treaty practice to provide recommendations for the design and revision of transboundary water agreements. Delving into the role of international law in promoting treaty implementation and compliance, Rieu-Clarke reviews the extent to which these mechanisms are considered within the text of over 400 transboundary water agreements.

Wirthle: Immediate and Progressive Realisation in International Human Rights Law

Tobias Wirthle has published Immediate and Progressive Realisation in International Human Rights Law (Hart Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

This book makes a new and original contribution to the old debate about differences between socio-economic and civil and political rights, which has engaged human rights discourse over several decades.

Although scholars and practitioners now agree that these categories are more alike than originally assumed, they continue to delineate them based on the alleged difference between immediate and progressive realisation. The book asks whether this differentiation is still valid by exploring the historical and theoretical background, the text of relevant UN human rights treaties, and the practice of the UN human rights committees. By so doing, it shows that the standards of realisation converge more than diverge and that this last remaining distinction should be abandoned.

New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 41, no. 1, March 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Eugene Thong & Yvonne Guo, Reasons and reasoning in arbitral awards
• Lucas Clover Alcolea, ‘The King[’s] Courts as the fountain of justice’ and the supremacy of ordinary law: implications for English arbitration
• Dominik Stefer & Victoria Fricke, From algorithms to awards: exploring the technological and legal boundaries of AI’s contributions to the work of arbitrators
• João Ilhão Moreira & Jiawei Zhang, ChatGPT as a fourth arbitrator? The ethics and risks of using large language models in arbitration
• Markus Burgstaller & Auriane Negret, Investment protection standards: Can EU law fill the shoes of investment treaties?
• Aleksander Godhe, Tribunal duties and the exclusion of evidence in international arbitration: the tug-of-war of fairness and efficiency
• Sebastián Mantilla Blanco, Eduardo Zuleta Jaramillo, & Santiago Zuleta Ríos, The rise and fall of parochialism: Colombia and the New York Convention
• M Emirhan Havan, How to approach expropriation risk as a controversial component of country risk in investment arbitration
• Vladimir Kostcov, Is it just about the parties? A social welfare approach to familiar problems of international arbitration
• Jagriti Vij, Singapore’s stance on enforcement of foreign awards set aside at the seat: some recent developments
• Case Note
• Kanishka Bhukya, From inconsistency to coherence: examining the SGCA’s quest for a comprehensive approach to determining pre-award arbitrability

Azaria: State Silence Across International Law: Meaning, Context, and Developments

Danae Azaria (Univ. College London - Law) has published State Silence Across International Law: Meaning, Context, and Developments (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The words and actions of states have a significant influence on international law. But what of silence and inaction? During the twentieth and twenty-first century, the framework of international law underwent profound transformation. As a result, the contexts in which State silence may be interpreted have become complex and are not well understood. In light of these new realities, this ground-breaking volume explores the evolving legal meaning and effects of State silence in international law-making.

Across sixteen chapters, this book questions the circumstances that necessitate a State's reaction, the factors influencing a State's ability to respond, and how a period of silence should be assessed. It also investigates whether and how the shift in international law from bilateralism towards community interests, multilateralism, intergovernmental institutions, and expert bodies, including international courts and tribunals, affect the interpretation of State silence. Furthermore, it probes whether and how advancements in communication, the increased number of States, and their diverse characteristics influence this interpretation.

Examining these issues across multiple facets of international law, the book demonstrates the ubiquity of State silence and its legal significance in different fields, and the contextual factors that come together to interpret State silence in a particular instance. Through this exploration, the broad question of state silence's role in either maintaining stability or enabling change is scrutinised.

Sarvarian: The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice

Arman Sarvarian (Univ. of Surrey - Law) has published The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Arman Sarvarian's The Law of State Succession: Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive, practical, and empirical overview of the topic, establishing State succession as a distinct field with a cohesive set of rules.

From the secession of the United States of America in 1784 to that of South Sudan in 2011, the book digests and analyses State practice spanning more than two centuries. It is based on research into a wide and diverse range of case studies, including archival and previously unpublished data. Reconstructing the intellectual foundation of the field, the book offers a vision for its progressive development - one that is rooted in an interpretation of State practice that transcends the politics of the codification projects in the decolonization and desovietization eras.

The book examines international law on State succession with respect to territorial rights and obligations, State property (including archives) and debt, treaties, international claims and responsibility, as well as nationality and private property (including concessions and investments). Its central focus is identifying the general rules of international law in order to guide States in the negotiation of succession agreements, the interpretation of ambiguous or incomplete provisions, and the regulation of succession in default of specific agreement.

New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 85, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Comment
• Gordon M. Friedrichs, The Age of the Disaffected Voter: American Democracy and US Foreign Policy under the Second Trump Presidency
• Re-Reading Historic Articles in the ZaöRV: Anniversary Series
• Felix Lange, Claiming Legality – German Lawyers under the Swastika and the Aggression against Poland
• Abhandlungen
• Letizia Lo Giacco & Brian K. McGarry, Common Interests and Common Spaces: Visions of the Past and Future of International Justice
• Sarah Thin, ‘Proxy States’ as Champions of the Common Interest? Implications and Opportunities
• Vladyslav Lanovoy & Miriam Cohen, Climate Change Before International Courts and Tribunals: Reflections on the Role of Public Interest in Advisory Proceedings
• Elisa Ruozzi, Repairing Harm to Common Interests and Common Spaces: Recent Institutional Developments Across Public Inter- national Law
• Carlos A. Cruz Carrillo, The Implementation and Compliance Committee of the ABBNJ: a Legal Prospection on Potential Modalities and Pro- cedures
• Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Bringing in Community Interests Under Inter- national Environmental Law: Substantive and Procedural Paths
• Isabel Walther, Über jeden Zweifel erhaben – Feststellung von Völker- gewohnheitsrecht in der BGH-Rechtsprechung zur funktionellen Immunität ausländischer Staatsbediensteter
• Alexander Blankenagel, Smart Sanctions gegen russische Oligarchen – weder smart noch rechtmäßig!
• Finn Preiss, Fleisch auf dem Verhandlungstisch – Die Tierhaltung im völkerrechtlichen Klimaschutzsystem des Pariser Abkommens

Mansouri & Quiroga-Villamarín: Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law

Negar Mansouri (Copenhagen Business School) & Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín (Univ. of Vienna) have published Ways of Seeing International Organisations: New Perspectives for International Institutional Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

For decades, the field of scholarship that studies the law and practice of international organisations -also known as 'international institutional law'- has been marked by an intellectual quietism. Most of the scholarship tends to focus narrowly on providing 'legal' answers to 'legal' questions. For that reason, perspectives rarely engage with the insights of critical traditions of legal thought (for instance, feminist, postcolonial, or political economy-oriented perspectives) or with interdisciplinary contributions produced outside the field. Ways of Seeing International Organisations challenges the narrow gaze of the field by bringing together authors across multiple disciplines to reflect on the need for 'new' perspectives in international institutional law. Highlighting the limits of mainstream approaches, the authors instead interrogate international organisations as pivots in processes of world-making. To achieve this, the volume is organised around four fundamental themes: expertise; structure; performance; and capital. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Call for Papers: Technology is Global

The Law and Technology Interest Group of the International Law Association - Swiss Branch has issued a call for papers for its inaugural roundtable on "Technology is Global," to take place July 3, 2025, at the University of Lausanne. The call is here.

New Issue: Netherlands International Law Review

The latest issue of the Netherlands International Law Review (Vol. 71, no. 3, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Public Interest Litigation
• Xandra Kramer, Public Interest Litigation at the Intersection of Public Law and Private Enforcement
• María Carlota Ucín, In the Name of Human Rights: Sketching a Definition of Public Interest Litigation
• Gizem Halis Kasap, Defending Privacy Across Borders: Public Interest Litigation in the Fight Against Data Exploitation
• Ignacio Vásquez Torreblanca & Pablo Neupert Kaplan, Public Interest Climate Litigation in Latin America Leading the Way in Addressing Climate Change? The New Focus on Ecocentric and Intergenerational Dimensions
• Charlotte de Meeûs, Investing in Responsible Litigation: Third-Party Funding for Public Interest Litigation

Urs: The Articulation of Obligations Erga Omnes and Erga Omnes Partes by the International Court of Justice: Coherence or Confusion?

Priya Urs (Univ. of Oxford) has posted The Articulation of Obligations Erga Omnes and Erga Omnes Partes by the International Court of Justice: Coherence or Confusion? (International and Comparative Law Quarterly, forthcoming). Here’s the abstract:

Which international obligations are characterised as obligations owed erga omnes or erga omnes partes is today a crucial question for the enforcement of international law, particularly through adjudication before the International Court of Justice. The Court, however, has not given sufficiently clear indication as to how it understands and identifies obligations erga omnes and erga omnes partes. The lack of clarity and consistency permits varied approaches to the articulation of such obligations, ultimately leaving uncertain the enforceability, through adjudication and otherwise, of a wide variety of obligations.

Shereshevsky & Shany: Programmed to Obey: The Limits of Law and the Debate over Meaningful Human Control of Autonomous Weapons

Yahli Shereshevsky (Univ. of Haifa - Law) & Yuval Shany (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem - Law) have posted Programmed to Obey: The Limits of Law and the Debate over Meaningful Human Control of Autonomous Weapons (Columbia Human Rights Law Review, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

New military technologies are transforming the contemporary battlefield and raise complex ethical and legal questions previously unaddressed. This essay makes three novel contributions to the significant debate on Autonomous Weapon Systems (AWS) and military AI in the legal and ethical literature. First, it puts forward a normative argument against AWS—even if they outperform humans in adhering to the rules governing the conduct of hostilities. This argument is grounded in the critical importance of the human capacity to act beyond the strict letter of the law. The essay contends that this capacity is central to the regulation of warfare, which permits, rather than obligates, the use of force against legitimate targets. Second, it offers a doctrinal analysis of International Humanitarian Law (IHL) and International Human Rights Law (IHRL)—the two principal legal regimes that regulate armed conflicts under international law—providing a fresh perspective on how they intersect in the context of AWS. Finally, the essay explores the extent to which its normative argument is persuasive in the context of military AI beyond AWS, an area that is rapidly evolving and already extensively employed in current conflicts. It examines the similarities and differences between these emerging technologies, and reflects on the implications of those differences for the desirable regulation of both technologies.

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (2025, no. 1) is out. Contents include:

• Benjamin Meret, Les accords en matière de sécurité et coopération entre l’Ukraine et divers Etats : zoom sur des textes atypiques
• Mpoi Leuta Hilpert, Swiss Novel Foods Regulation: From Autonomous Adaptation to a Bilateral Treaty

New Issue: Asian Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (Vol. 15, no. 1, January 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Notes and Comments
• Tien-Duc Nguyen, Viet Nam’s Dynamic Approach to Lawfare
• Lixin Chen, Human rights at sea: Analyzing states’ responses to cruise ships during the COVID-19 pandemic
• Articles
• Hafiz Gaffar & Saleh Albarashdi, Copyright Protection for AI-Generated Works: Exploring Originality and Ownership in a Digital Landscape
• Ka Lok Yip, Reconceptualizing Norm Conflict in International Law
• Javier García Olmedo, In Fairness to Nottebohm: Nationality in an Age of Globalization
• Carl Landauer, C.H. Alexandrowicz's India and the Kautilyan Moment
• Champika Thushari Roshanie Dissanayake, Sri Lanka’s Sustainable Development Act (2017) on the 2030 Agenda: Lessons from Canada’s Federal Sustainable Development Act
• Rahul Mohanty, Need For Fairness In Climate Change Negotiations: A Third World Perspective

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 30, no. 1, Spring 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Akira Kato, Revitalizing the obligatory abstention rule in the UN Security Council: an interpretation of the Proviso in Article 27 (3) of the UN Charter
• Walter Rech, Indirect aggression and the North Atlantic Treaty
• Chosen Udorji, Reconceptualizing the meaning of indirect force and the scope of its regulation under international law
• Chris McQuade, The use of human shields in the jurisprudence of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
• Ilias Bantekas & Safaa S Jaber, The human rights obligations of belligerent occupiers: Israel and the Gazan population
• Elisabeth Hoffberger-Pippan & Christian Pippan, Inherited obstruction: the complaint procedure under the Biological Weapons Convention and the UN Charter rule on obligatory abstention in the Security Council
• Martin Fink, The Newport Manual: The new kid on the block on the laws of naval warfare

Lecture: Milanović on "The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ's 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion"

On April 24, 2025, Marko Milanović (Univ. of Reading - Law) will deliver a lecture on "The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ's 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion" at the Technische Universität Dresden. Details are here.

Call for Papers: The Principle of Good Faith in International and European Union Law (Young Scholars)

A call for papers has been issued for the XXII edition of the Conference of Young Scholars of International Legal Studies, to take place December 4-5, 2025, at the University of Ferrara Department of Law. The theme is: “The Principle of Good Faith in International and European Union Law.” The call is here.