New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 79, Special Issue 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Future of Global Governance and World Order
• Brett Ashley Leeds, Layna Mosley, B. Peter Rosendorff, & Ayşe Zarakol, The Future of Global Governance and World Order
• Stacie E. Goddard & Abraham Newman, Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System
• Julia C. Morse & Tyler Pratt, Information Disorder and Global Politics
• C. Nicolai L. Gellwitzki & Jeremy F.G. Moulton, The New Age of Myth: Political Narratives and the Reconstitution of World Order
• Stephen Weymouth, Digital Disintegration: Techno-Blocs and Strategic Sovereignty in the AI Era
• Susan D. Hyde & Elizabeth N. Saunders, The Unconstrained Future of World Order: The Assault on Democratic Constraint and Implications for US Global Leadership
• Jeff Colgan & Federica Genovese, Global Climate Politics after the Return of President Trump
• Austin Carson, Rachel Metz, & Paul Poast, Allies and Access: Implications of an American Turn Away from Alliances
• Tobias Pforr, Fabian Pape, & Johannes Petry, Dollar Diminished: The Unmaking of US Financial Hegemony Under Trump
• Dongan Tan, The Decoupling Dilemma: How US Sanctions Erode Global Economic Governance
• Bryce W. Reeder, The Future of United Nations Peacekeeping in a Fragmenting World
• Rebecca Cordell & Alex Dukalskis, Authoritarianism, Global Politics, and the Future of Human Rights
• Perisa Davutoglu, The Architecture of Containment: Refugee Protection in a Postliberal Order
• Andreas Dür & Alessia Invernizzi, Weathering the Storm: US Trade Policy Beyond Trump
• Kenneth A. Schultz, Holding the World Together? The Future of Territorial Order
• Sarah Sunn Bush, Daniela Donno, Jon C.W. Pevehouse, & Christina J. Schneider, The End of Autocratic Norm Adaptation? US Retrenchment and Liberal Norms in Illiberal Regimes

Squatrito: Judging under Constraint: The Politics of Deference by International Courts

Theresa Squatrito (London School of Economics - International Relations) has published Judging under Constraint: The Politics of Deference by International Courts (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

As international courts have risen in prominence, policymakers, practitioners and scholars observe variation in judicial deference. Sometimes international courts defer, whereby they accept a state's exercise of authority, and other times not. Differences can be seen in case outcomes, legal interpretation and reasoning, and remedial orders. How can we explain variation in deference? This book examines deference by international courts, offering a novel theoretical account. It argues that deference is explained by a court's strategic space, which is structured by formal independence, seen as a dimension of institutional design, and state preferences. An empirical analysis built on original data of the East African Court of Justice, Caribbean Court of Justice, and African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights demonstrates that robust safeguards to independence and politically fragmented memberships lend legitimacy to courts and make collective state resistance infeasible, combining to minimize deference. Persuasive argumentation and public legitimation also enable nondeference.

New Issue: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 43, no. 4, December 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Column
• Ann Skelton, Cash strapped! Can the multi-lateral human rights system survive the UN financial crisis?
• Articles
• Ben TC Warwick, Temporalised international human rights: Complicated times
• Anna Arden, Intersecting enforced disappearance and migration: The creation of a new legal tool against pushbacks within WGEID and CED
• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, Paradoxical human rights implications of phasing out fossil fuels for highly fossil fuel-dependent countries in the climate change law

Call for Contributions: Digital Solidarity and International Law: Collective Action and Human Rights in the Digital Age

A call has been issued for contributions to the forthcoming volume "Digital Solidarity and International Law: Collective Action and Human Rights in the Digital Age," which is to be published in the Routledge Research in International Law series. The book will examine how solidarities are formed and expressed in the digital sphere and their implications for international law in areas including human rights, trade, environment, health, and peace and security. The editors invite contributions that engage with doctrinal, empirical, or critical approaches (e.g., TWAIL, feminist, or interdisciplinary perspectives). The call is here.

Swaine: Prohibiting Threats of Aggression

Edward T. Swaine (George Washington Univ. - Law) has posted Prohibiting Threats of Aggression. Here's the abstract:

Recent events, particularly Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, have revived worries about the international regime regulating the use of force. Vastly less attention has been paid to what often precedes such attacks—threats to use force—and the prohibition on them. While the UN Charter and other legal instruments integrate the threats regime with the regime on actual uses of force, the two regimes are increasingly decoupled, in part because only one considers gradations: the use-of-force regime now identifies more serious variants like aggression and crimes of aggression; threats rules, by contrast, do not. This decoupling reflects real differences in the underlying wrongs, but it is also due to bureaucratic history and path dependence, including reluctance to criminalize threats of aggression while the underlying concept of aggression was still being developed.

As a result, international law and its institutions fail clearly to treat more serious threats, like threats to annex another state’s territory, as graver state conduct—putting aside, that is, whether criminalization is appropriate. This artificially limits the toolkit for addressing incipient aggression of the kind patently evident before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. It has also impoverished consideration of potential aggression, such as may become inferable from U.S. policy concerning the Panama Canal and Greenland, before positions harden and avoidable consequences come to pass.

This Article proposes clearly defining and recognizing threats of aggression as prohibited state conduct. It evaluates the potential for deterring wrongdoing and proposes concrete and novel ways that institutions could develop and employ the rule. Such an initiative might discourage the most bellicose threats by states and even acts of aggression themselves.

Gift: Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity

Thomas Gift (Univ. College London) has published Killing Machines: Trump, the Law of War, and the Future of Military Impunity (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

What causes a Western democratic leader to stop even feigning to value the law of war? Unlike past US presidents, who at least paid lip service to the law of armed conflict, Donald Trump has openly flouted it: pardoning war criminals; denigrating the Geneva Conventions; praising torture; and discarding military norms of restraint. This gripping account depicts how Trump has upended assumptions about America's outward commitment to the law of war, exposing the conditions that make such defiance possible. Drawing on in-depth case studies and original survey analysis, Thomas Gift explains how Trump has relied on right-wing media and allies in Congress to attack the law of war – not in the shadows, but in broad daylight. Killing Machines cautions that Trump's approach is not an aberration – it's a playbook other leaders could follow. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

New Issue: Netherlands International Law Review

The latest issue of the Netherlands International Law Review (Vol. 72, no. 2, September 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Humoud Al-Fadhli, From Nuremberg to The Hague and Beyond: Reincorporating ‘Taking a Consenting Part’ into International Modes of Liability
• Abdata Abebe Sefara, The Ethiopian Perspective on the Civil Law Consequences of Corruption in International Contracts
• Guangjian Tu, Xiaoxuan Gu, & Weiqing Song, China’s Shift on Foreign State Immunity and Its Legal Implications for ‘One Country, Two Systems’
• Zhuo Liang, The Law of Neutrality in and after the Ukraine War: Navigating the Legal Labyrinth
• Lautaro Melcón, Covering the Expenses of Rebel Administration: Are Rebels Taxing or Pillaging Towns?

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 39, no. 3, Fall 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Book Symposium: Beyond the Law’s Reach?
• Michael Blake, In the Shadow of Democratic Violence
• Yuna Blajer de la Garza, Ambiguous Debts
• Alex Zakaras, Citizens’ Complicity in State Action: Exploring the Limits
• Shmuel Nili, Beyond the Law’s Reach? Reply to Critics
• Feature
• Tyra Lennie, Detained Migrant Children, Autonomy, and Positive Duties

Call for Papers: International & EU Law Horizons Conference

The Centre for European Research and Education at the Faculty of Law, University of Pécs, has issued a call for papers for the "International & EU Law Horizons Conference," to take place in May 2026, in Pécs. The conference particularly welcomes the participation of early-career researchers and PhD candidates. The call is here.

Colloque : De jure belli ac pacis. Grotius quatre-cents ans plus tard

Le 8 décembre prochain, l’Académie des Sciences morales et politiques et la S.F.D.I. organisent un colloque sur le thème « De jure belli ac pacis. Grotius quatre-cents ans plus tard ». Le programme peut être téléchargé en cliquant ici.

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 113, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Reparations for civilian victims of the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza
• Introduced by Silvia Borelli and Chiara Vitucci
• Chiara Giorgetti, Reparations for civilian victims in Ukraine and Gaza: Legal frameworks, normative debates, and implementation
• Shuichi Furuya, Reparations for Victims of the Conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza

Call for Papers: 21th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law

The European Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 21th Annual Conference, which will take place September 3-5, 2026, at the Universidad de Málaga. The theme is: "International Law and Conflict: An Enduring Tension?" The call is here. The deadline is January 31, 2026.

New Issue: Europa Ethnica

The latest issue of Europa Ethnica (Vol. 82, nos. 3/4, 2025). Contents include:

• Schwerpunkt: Heimat
• Gilbert Gornig, Das Recht auf die Heimat – erneut aufgegriffen
• Heinrich Neisser, Doris Dialer, & Annegret Eppler, Heimat und die Verwirklichung des Binnenmarktes
• Roland Benedikter, Heimat Europa. Im Zeitalter des globalen Umbruchs brauchen wir einen gemeinsamen Heimatbegriff, der uns zu den Vereinigten Staaten von Europa führt
• Margareth Lun, Die Option – ein Verrat an der Heimat?
• Rita Franceschini, Heimat – und wenn man keine hat? Ein Aufzug in fünf Akten
• Nino Aivazishvili-Gehne, Ein genauerer Blick auf die Staatsbürgerschaft: Das soziale Engagement von „Russlanddeutschen“ in Bayern
• Amal Allouch, Amazigh Identity, Indigeneity and Coloniality in Morocco – Between Resistance and Resilience

Wang: China's Approach to International AI Governance: Selective Shaping?

Heng Wang (Singapore Management Univ. - Law) has posted China's Approach to International AI Governance: Selective Shaping?. Here's the abstract:

China is rapidly solidifying its position as a key actor in the development and governance of artificial intelligence (AI). Domestically, China is exploring a comprehensive and evolving regulatory framework. Internationally, China has transitioned from a passive recipient of external norms to a proactive norm-shaper, advancing its vision of AI governance through initiatives such as the Global AI Governance Initiative. This contrasts with its earlier accession to the World Trade Organization, when it adapted to pre-existing rules. As a leading AI power, China now influences governance practice at the international level. This paper explores two important but underexplored questions: What is China’s approach to international AI governance? How to understand China’s approach? This paper argues that China pursues a strategy of selective shaping in international AI governance, resulting in a targeted reshaping of global order. By “uploading” China-proposed institutions and norms particularly in areas of strength, China leverages new initiatives and standards to shape the developing landscape of AI governance. Meanwhile, China’s approach also faces challenges such as normative ambiguity.

Call for Submissions: European Investment Law and Arbitration Review

The European Investment Law and Arbitration Review has issued a call for submissions for its spring issue (1/2026). The call is here.

New Volume: Polish Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Polish Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 44, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• General Articles
• Lucas Lixinski, Resisting Chrononormative International Law
• Maurizio Arcari, Divisive Jus Cogens Reloaded. Some Remarks on the Peremptory Character of Self-determination under the ICJ Advisory Opinion of 19 July 2024
• Kristýna Urbanová, Validity of a Potential Peace Treaty Between Ukraine and Russian Federation in the Light of Article 52 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• Milan Lipovský, Suitability of the Principle of Non-intervention as a Rule Against Cybernetic Electorate Targeting Information Operations
• Hanna Kuczyńska & Andriy Kosylo, The Long-awaited Breakthrough Legislation – Changes in Ukrainian Criminal Law Due to the Ratification of the Rome Statute
• Jan Denka, The Enforcement of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights by the Administrative Courts in Poland and Czechia
• Julia Sochacka, Recognition and Enforcement of Arbitral Awards in Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iraq: Could There Be a Region-specific Approach to International Arbitration?
• Markiyan Malskyy, Current State and Future of Investor-State Mediation
• Andrzej Wróbel, An Axiological Turn in European Constitutionalism?
• Agnieszka Sołtys, Equality of Member States as a New Rationale for the Principle of Primacy and Its Significance for the Constitutionalisation of EU Law
• Patrycja Dąbrowska-Kłosińska, Exploring Asymmetries of Market Integration at the Intersection of Health Protection and Mobility During the Pandemic and the Effects on the Rights of Individuals in the EU
• Raquel Cardoso & Vasil Pavlov, The Effectiveness of the European Approach to Irregular Migration – A Legal-economic Assessment
• Ewa Bujak, Escaping into Economic Security. How Can the European Union Use Foreign Direct Investment Screening in Times of Crises? Lessons from the United States
• Edgar Drozdowski, Effectiveness and Constitutional Standards as a Barrier to the Correct Implementation of the European General Anti-abuse Rule
• Book Reviews
• Maciej Taborowski, reviewing Krystyna Kowalik, Andrzej Jakubowski, & Karolina Wierczyńska (eds.), Harmony and Dissonance in the International Legal Order. Liber Amicorum Władysław Czapliński, Wydawnictwo INP PAN, Warszawa: 2024
• Anna Czaplińska, reviewing Peter Hilpold & Richard Senti, WTO: System und Funktionsweise der Welthandelsordnung, 3rd ed., Nomos-Schulthess-Facultas, Baden Baden, Zürich, Wien: 2025
• Łukasz Gruszczyński, reviewing Peter Hilpold & Giuseppe Nesi (eds.), Teaching International Law, Brill/Nijhoff, Leiden, Boston: 2024
• Marcin Marcinko, reviewing Alberta Fabbricotti (ed.), Intentional Destruction of Cultural Heritage and the Law: A Research Companion, Routledge, London–New York: 2024

Call for Submissions: Drugs and International Law (Special Issue of Estudios Socio-Jurídicos)

The journal Estudios Socio-Jurídicos has issued a call for submissions for a special issue that will explore the intersections between drugs and international law. The call is here.

Burri: Phenomenal International Law, Part 1: Chasing Chagos

Thomas Burri (Univ. of St. Gallen) has posted Phenomenal International Law, Part 1: Chasing Chagos. Here's the abstract:

This paper is part of a series I will publish in the near future. It develops a new approach I call “phenomenal international law”. Phenomenal international law addresses two challenges international law faces today: i) International law is increasingly under pressure because some major powers, including the United States and Russia, are turning away from it, preferring the use of raw power and military force over the rule of law. ii) International lawyers, like all lawyers, are under strain as intelligent algorithms become better by the day at doing what used to be their job. Artificial intelligence writes briefs, answers complex legal questions, summarizes long court decisions, delivers crisp lectures, writes international law manuals, produces elaborate footnotes, etc, – and all that in a fraction of the time international lawyers needed to complete these tasks.

New Issue: Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy

The latest issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy (Vol. 10, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Law of the Sea in the ASEAN Maritime Domain
• Anh Vo, China’s Maritime Militia Under the Law of the Sea and the Applicability of The State Responsibility Rules
• Le Duy Tran & Thi Ha Trang Dao, Security Matters Involving Marine-Based Nuclear Power Plants: Several Regulatory Challenges and ASEAN’s Prospects
• Nguyên Thị Kim Trần, Law of the Sea and Offshore Wind Power in Vietnam
• Mónica Chinchilla-Adell, The Proliferation Security Initiative in the asean Region: a Missed Opportunity for Maritime Security?
• Faudzan Farhana & Rifki Indra Maulana, Developing Regional Norms on Protecting Migrant Fisher’s Rights at Sea: ASEAN Way
• Yulu Liu, Southeast Asian Countries at the Sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution and the Bridging with ASEAN Marine Plastic Policies
• Jacqueline Joyce F. Espenilla, Combatting iuu Fishing in Southeast Asia through Next-Generation Surveillance Cooperation
• Jeremia Humolong Prasetya, Anissa Yusha Amalia, & Fadilla Octaviani, Charting the Course for the Protection of People at Sea: Lessons Learned from ASEAN
• Halina Sapeha & Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Maritime Boundary Dispute Resolution in the ASEAN Region

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: Italian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Italian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 34, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• The United Nations at 80: Contestation, Resilience and Change
• Santiago Villalpando, How Do Nations Unite Within the United Nations? Coalitions and Divides in International Law-Making
• Christian J. Tams, Binding Settlement of Inter-State Disputes: The United Nations Between Resilience and Resignation
• Alessandra Annoni, The UN and the ICC: Navigating the Persistent Tension Between Peace and Justice
• Chiara Redaelli, The United Nations and the Reinvention of Peace: Which Peace and for Whom?
• Rosario Sapienza, Human Rights at the United Nations Between Universalism and Multiculturalism
• Elena Fasoli, Sustaining Change: The Role of the United Nations in Promoting Environmental Protection amid Rising Discontent
• Annamaria Viterbo, The Specialised Agencies and their Relationship with the United Nations: Membership and Representation Issues
• Articles, Notes and Comments
• Donato Greco & Riccardo Pavoni, Which Treaties Override Inconsistent Domestic Legislation Under Article 117(1) of the Italian Constitution? Taking Stock of a Quarter-Century of Practice
• Tullio Scovazzi, Piracy: A Notable Omnis Definitio Instance
• Cristina Campiglio, The New Challenges for International Cooperation in Healthcare and Public Health
• Federica Passarini, Cannavacciuolo v. Italy: A Cautious Step in Protecting the Right to Life Against Environmental Harm
• Alessandra Lanciotti, Confiscation of Archaeological Property: The Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in J. Paul Getty Trust v. Italy
• Anna Fazzini, The Italy-Albania Protocol on the Extraterritorial Detention of Migrants: Critical Issues in International Law
• Practice of International Courts and Tribunals
• Serena Forlati, The Genocide Convention Before the ICJ: Judicial Protection of Fundamental Values Between Tradition, Innovation, and the Risk of Futility
• Raffaella Nigro & Emma Luce Scali, Cooperation with the ICC and Personal Immunities of Heads of State or Government of Non-Parties: Revisiting Articles 27 and 98 of the Rome Statute After the Court’s Finding on Mongolia’s Non-Compliance
• Giorgio Sacerdoti & Carlo de Stefano, The WTO Dispute Settlement System 2023–2024: Navigating the Crisis, Engaging in Reform, Addressing Trade and Climate Change
• Giuliana Lampo, The 2024 Case Law of Investment Tribunals: Early Effects of the ICSID Rules Amendments and the Issue of Security for Costs

New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 24, no. 5, December 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Fang Gu & Xu Qian, Reconstruction of the Evaluation of Legitimate Expectations within Investor–State Dispute Settlement: A Vantage Point from Fuller’s Interactional Theory
• Wentian Zu & Ying Bi, Investment Facilitation and the Structural Evolution of International Investment Law: Toward a Third Configuration
• Fenghua Li & Haibin Zhu, Embedding Conditionality in the Special and Differential Treatment in WTO Disciplines on Fisheries Subsidies to Achieve Fishery Sustainability
• Maarja Saluste, Cross-Border ‘Data Adequacy’ Frameworks under GATS Article VII: Aligning WTO Members’ Rights to Protect Personal Data with Their International Commitments
• Jeongmeen Suh, Shifting Dynamics in WTO Ministerial Statements: A Textual Analysis of Member Engagement, 1996–2024
• Christian Delev, Economic Resilience under the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework Supply Chain Agreement: Treading between Geoeconomic Ambitions and World Trade Organization Compatibility?

Symposium: A Year of Climate Change in International Courts

On January 31-Feburary 1, 2026, a symposium will be held on "A Year of Climate Change in International Courts," at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, in Hamburg. The program is here. Registration is here.

Symposium: Obligations Erga Omnes: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives

On November 28, 2025, Bocconi University will host, in the hybrid format, a symposium on "Obligations Erga Omnes: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives." Details are here.

Call for Submissions: ASIL International Criminal Law IG Scholarship Prize

Submissions are now being accepted for the ASIL International Criminal Law Interest Group's International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize. Details are here.