Conference: Cambridge International Law Journal 15th Annual Conference

On April 23-24, 2026, the Cambridge International Law Journal will hold its 15th Annual Conference at the University of Cambridge. The theme is: "Reimagining International Law: Critical, Regional, and Trans-Disciplinary Perspectives." Details are here.

Webinar: Movies, TV Series and Teaching International Law

On March 30, 2026, the European Society of International Law will host a webinar on "Movies, TV Series and Teaching International Law." This event, part of the ESIL Teaching Corner Webinar Series, will discuss how films and TV series interact with international law and how they can be used in class for teaching purposes. Details are here.

Call for Contributions: Oxford Reports on International Law (UN Treaty Body Case Law Reporters)

Oxford University Press, together with the editors of the Oxford Reports on International Law: International Human Rights Law – UN Human Rights Bodies module, invites applications for Human Rights case law reporters to contribute to the analysis of decisions by UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies. Reporters contribute to OUP’s leading case law reporting service, receive feedback from senior scholars, and build a publication record in the field. The deadline for applications is April 20, 2026. Further details can be found here.

Call for Panel Proposals: International Law Weekend 2026

The American Branch of the International Law Association has issued a call for panel proposals for International Law Weekend 2026, which will take place in New York City on October 22-24. The theme is "[R]evolution in the International Legal Order." The call is here. The deadline is April 10, 2026.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: The Challenges and Prospects of Novel Types of Business and Human Rights Litigation

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “The Challenges and Prospects of Novel Types of Business and Human Rights Litigation.” The symposium includes an introduction by Ekaterina Aristova, Hassan Ahmad, Rachel Chambers, and Sergio Puig, and contributions by Georgia Greville and Jean-Pierre Gauci , Christopher Patz and Sekar Banjaran Aji, Arturo J. Carrillo, Jonathan Lowy, and Emily Fallin, Bridget Mafusire, and Florence Shako.

New Issue: La Comunità Internazionale

The latest issue of La Comunità Internazionale (Vol. 80, no. 4, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Ottantesimo Anniversario Dell’entrata In Vigore Della Carta Dell’ONU (24 ottobre 1945-24 ottobre 2025)
• Pietro Gargiulo, L’ONU e il mantenimento della pace e della sicurezza internazionali: 80 anni di (diverse) ombre e (poche) luci
• Maria Rosaria Mauro, Le Nazioni Unite e la cooperazione economica e sociale: dalla cooperazione allo sviluppo alla promozione dello sviluppo sostenibile
• Laura Pineschi, 80 anni di tutela dei diritti umani nelle Nazioni Unite: un pilastro di vetro (in)frangibile?
• Cinquantesimo Anniversario Dell’adozione Dell’atto Finale Di Helsinki (1° agosto 1975-1° agosto 2025)
• Ivan Ingravallo, Il (mesto) cinquantesimo anniversario dell’Atto Finale di Helsinki
• Interventi
• Gabriella Arrigo & Maria Chiara Noto, Lo Spazio e il Piano Mattei per l’Africa
• Note e Commenti
• Alessia Preti, “It’s Genocide” – Remarks on the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory’s Latest Report

Call for Contributions: Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective

Völkerrechtsblog has issued a call for contributions on "Arms Exports Unbound? The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Gaza Case in Perspective." The call is here.

Hilpold: Neutralität im Zeitalter des UN-Rechts: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Ukrainekonflikts

Peter Hilpold (Universität Innsbruck) has published Neutralität im Zeitalter des UN-Rechts: Unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Ukrainekonflikts (Nomos 2026). Here's the abstract:

Der Ukraine-Konflikt hat viele Elemente des modernen Völkerrechts auf den Prüfstein gestellt. In diesem Zusammenhang ist auch die Frage wieder aktuell geworden, ob das völkerrechtliche Neutralitätsrecht noch mit dem modernen Völkerrecht in Einklang zu bringen ist.

In diesem Band beleuchten Experten und Expertinnen aus Österreich, der Schweiz, Deutschland und Italien diese Frage aus völkerrechtlicher, öffentlichrechtlicher, europarechtlicher und historischer Sicht. Sie kommen zu dem Ergebnis, dass im Friedensrecht der Vereinten Nationen eine Verpflichtung zur solidarischen Parteinahme zugunsten des Opfers einer Aggression besteht. Neutralität kann letztlich auch die Sicherheit der Neutralen gefährden.

Lecture: Brunk on "War, Territory and International Law"

On March 26, 2026, Ingrid Brunk (Vanderbilt Univ.) will give the next lecture in the TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War. The topic is: “War, Territory and International Law.” Details are here.

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 80, no. 1, Winter 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Sung Eun Kim & Krzysztof Pelc, Geography of Grievance: Industrial Hubs Magnify Political Discontent
• Christina Cottiero & Christina J. Schneider, International Financial Institutions and the Promotion of Autocratic Resilience
• Jamie Hintson & Kenneth A. Schultz, Closing Pandora’s Box: Can Shared Vulnerability Underpin Territorial Stability?
• Phillip Y. Lipscy & Jiajia Zhou, Institutional Racism in International Relations
• Research Notes
• Haillie Lee & Erik Voeten, Transboundary Air Pollution and Hazy Accountability: Evidence from South Korea
• Joshua A. Schwartz & Michael C. Horowitz, Delegating Destruction: Coercive Threats and Automated Nuclear Systems
• Calvert W. Jones, Authoritarian Reforms and External Legitimacy

Jean: L'état de droit international : Voyage dans les méandres d'un concept juridique troublant

Moïse Jean has published L'état de droit international : Voyage dans les méandres d'un concept juridique troublant (Schulthess Verlag 2026). Here's the abstract:

Depuis près d’une trentaine d’années, l’état de droit occupe une place centrale dans le discours international et s’est progressivement imposé comme un modèle de référence, un point de ralliement. Mais que signifie exactement ce concept ? S’agit-il d’une obligation juridique internationale, d’un principe général du droit, ou d’un simple idéal politique ? Quel est son statut et est-il compatible avec les structures actuelles de la société internationale ?

Cet ouvrage met en évidence le décalage profond entre les proclamations solennelles entourant l’état de droit et sa réalité juridique concrète. Il montre que cette notion est encore dépourvue de définition autonome, précise et partagée, se situant aujourd’hui à mi-chemin entre projet politique et concrétisation juridique.

Dans ces conditions, parler de « respect » ou de « violation » de l’état de droit en droit international apparaît largement inapproprié. Faute de contenu normatif stabilisé, la notion tend en pratique à se confondre avec l’exigence générale de respect du droit international existant. Tout en étant encore un projet inachevé, l’état de droit est néanmoins une idée-force mobilisatrice.

L’ouvrage souligne également la tension persistante entre les exigences qu’impliquerait l’avènement d’un véritable état de droit international et la structure actuelle de la société internationale. À défaut d’une refonte profonde de l’architecture du droit international, l’état de droit demeure un horizon normatif, encore largement utopique à l’échelle universelle.

Job Opening: Full Professor of International Law (Geneva Graduate Institute)

The Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies is recruiting a full professor of international law with demonstrated potential for research leadership in international law, especially in the areas of international human rights law and international humanitarian law. Details and how to apply are here.

Workshop: State Responsibility in Crisis

On April 30-May 1, 2026, a workshop on "State Responsibility in Crisis" will take place at the University of Bristol. The program is here. The keynote, delivered by Violeta Moreno-Lax, will be streamed online (register here). The plenary panel at the end of the workshop, bringing together the expert discussants from each session, will also be streamed online (register here).

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 41, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• In Memoriam
• Kristina Maria Gjerde (1957–2025)
• Articles
• Oktawian Kuc, Dispute Settlement under the BBNJ Agreement
• Yubing Shi & Yuan Zhuang, Participation of Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities in the BBNJ Agreement: Legal Basis, Performance, and Prospects
• Jinpeng Wang & Wenqi Jiang, Interplay between the BBNJ Agreement and the Legal Regime of the Arctic High Seas
• Zakieh Taghizadeh & Hoda Asgarian, BBNJ Agreement and Intellectual Property Implications for Marine Genetic Resources Management in ABNJ
• Khaled El Mahmoud, High Sea Freedoms Walking the Plank: Can the Weaknesses of the High Seas Fisheries Regime Be Remedied by the Common Heritage of Humankind?
• Current Legal Developments
• Klaas Willaert, Thoughts on the Recent US Executive Order on Deep Sea Mining: Risky Bluff or Deliberate Violation?
• Warwick Gullett, Clive Schofield, & I Made Andi Arsana, China Declares Straight Baselines around Scarborough Reef
• Yingfeng Shao, Chinese Courts Mandate Carbon Sequestration for Marine Environmental Remediation

New Issue: International Organizations Law Review

The latest issue of the International Organizations Law Review (Vol. 22, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: International Organizations Between Mission and Market
• Jan Klabbers, International Organizations between Mission and Market: Editor’s Introduction
• Melissa J Durkee, Privatising International (Organizations) Law
• Tleuzhan Zhunussova, Private Sector Funding in the UN System: Re-thinking the Legitimacy of International Organizations
• Marco Moraes, Legal Aspects of Innovative Finance at UNHCR: The Case of the Global Islamic Fund for Refugees
• Allison O’Neill & Jean Abboud, The Global Fund and the Private Sector: A Steady and Healthy Relationship
• Ukri Soirila, Seeing Like a Firm: International Organizations in the Era of New Public Management
• José Lobo, Through the Looking-Glass: Doing R&D Under International Law
• Sebastián Machado Ramírez, Transformation Costs: The Cases of the World Tourism Organization and Intelsat
• Ayako Hatano, Ethical AI and Business & Human Rights: A Critical Appraisal of UNESCO’s Collaboration with the Private Sector
• Jan Klabbers, Change in International Organizations: The ILO in the Global Political Economy
• Jean d’Aspremont, Some Thoughts on the Invention of Public-Private Thinking
• General Articles
• Rita Guerreiro Teixeira, Reaching Beyond Institutional Boundaries in Fisheries Management—the Case of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
• Jacqueline Wood & Domenico Carolei, The OECD Standards on Civil Society: Protecting Civic Space while Making Civil Society Organisations More Accountable
• Kaijun Pan, What’s in a Procedure(s)?—Legal Implications of the General Assembly’s Veto Initiative

New Volume: Japanese Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Japanese Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 68, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• In Memoriam
• Yuji Iwasawa, Judge Shigeru Oda (1924–2025)
• Challenges for Inter-State Dispute Settlement in the Era of Multilateral Disputes
• Dai Tamada, Introductory Note
• Dai Tamada, Inference of Disputes: A Key Element for Multilateralising Dispute Settlement
• Xinjun Zhang, The Judicial Protection of Community Interests at the World Court: Evolution, Progress, and Challenges
• Béatrice Bonafé, The Sound Administration of Justice in Multilateral Dispute Settlement
• Kei Nakajima, Multilateral Evidence-Gathering and Fact-Finding
• Christian J. Tams, Unprecedented “Waves” and “Damp Squibs”: What to Make of the Recent Surge of Interventions in ICJ Proceedings?
• Juliette McIntyre, Legal Effect of Judgments in Multilateral Dispute Settlement
• Alina Miron, The Legal Implications of Advisory Opinions on Dispute Settlement
• Current State and Issues of Japan’s Governance in a Digital and AI-Implemented Society: Focusing on Consumer, Information, and Competition Law
• Emiko Maruyama & Takami Hayashi, Introductory Note
• Takehiro Ohya, Algorithm, Society, and Consumers
• Emiko Maruyama, Personalized Pricing — Intersection of Information Law, Competition Law, and Consumer Law —
• Kaori Ishii, Regulating Dark Patterns — Current Frameworks and Future Directions in Consumer and Information Law —
• Sayako Takizawa, Abuse of a Superior Bargaining Position in Japan: Current Trends Focusing on Digital Platform Regulations
• Public International Law
• Yasue Mochizuki, Debating Universal Jurisdiction for Serious Human Rights Violations — Implications of ASEAN States’ Practices —

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 36, no. 4, November 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Editorial: EJIL: News! In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews; Guest Editorial Note: Selected Essays from the Study and Analysis of International Law (SAILS) Consortium; EJIL Roll of Honour; EJIL Peer Review Prize
• Afterword: Susan Marks and Her Critics
• Barney Afako, If the World Is Not a Family, What on Earth Is It? Afterword to the Foreword by Susan Marks
• Maria Aristodemou, The Family Lie: Afterword to the Foreword by Susan Marks
• Adom Getachew, International Interdependence beyond the Family of Nations: Afterword to the Foreword by Susan Marks
• Dianne Otto, If the World Is a Family, What Kind of Family Could It Be? Afterword to the Foreword by Susan Marks
• Umut Özsu, Forms of Families: Afterword to the Foreword by Susan Marks
• Articles
• Alice Pirlot, ‘This is Not International Law’: International Tax Law and the Disciplinary Boundaries of International Law
• Robert Schütze, Koskenniemi’s ‘Lauterpacht’ Revisited
• Andrew Chubb, International Law as a Driver of Confrontation? UNCLOS and China’s Policy in the South China Sea
• The Theatre of International Law
• Damien Charlotin and Michael Waibel, A History of The Hague Academy’s First Century: Computational Insights from the Recueil des cours
• Critical Review of Jurisprudence
• Jevgeniy Bluwstein, The Trouble with Carbon Budgets, Offsets, and Removals in Climate Litigation Against States: The Case of KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland at the ECtHR
• Roaming Charges
• Moments of Dignity: Generation Z
• Symposium: International Environmental Law after Half a Century
• Jorge E. Viñuales, International Environmental Law after Half a Century
• Edith Brown Weiss and Lydia Slobodian, Reflections on the Structure of International Environmental Law After Half a Century
• Outi Penttilä and Martti Koskenniemi, The Rise of International Environmental Law 1946-1993
• Jorge E. Viñuales, A Law of Side Effects?
• Review Essay
• Simon Chesterman, Untied Nations? Saving the UN Security Council. Review of Mona Ali Khalil & Floriane Lavaud (eds), Empowering the UN Security Council: Reforms to Address Modern Threats and Congyan Cai, Larissa van den Herik & Tiyanjana Maluwa (with Anne Peters and Christian Marxsen (eds)), The UN Security Council and the Maintenance of Peace in a Changing World
• Book Reviews
• Ville Kari, reviewing Natasha Wheatley, The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty
• Felix Lange, reviewing Thomas Gidney, An International Anomaly. Colonial Accession to the League of Nations
• Michel Erpelding, reviewing Paulo Borba Casella, International Law, History and Culture
• Natalie Jones, reviewing Shannonbrooke Murphy, The Human Right to Resist in International and Constitutional Law
• 10 Good Reads
• Joseph H.H. Weiler, My Patria is the Book: 10 Good Reads 2025
• The Last Page
• Heinrich Heine, Adam der Erste

Call for Papers: ESIL-SLADI Junior Faculty Forum

The European Society of International Law (ESIL) and the Latin American Society of International Law (SLADI) have issued a call for papers for the ESIL-SLADI Junior Faculty Forum, provisionally scheduled for October 7–9, 2026, at the European University Institute, Florence. The call is here.

Conference: International Law and Peace in Ukraine

On April 17-18, 2026, the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law will host a conference on "International Law and Peace in Ukraine." The conference will be live streamed. Details (including registration for the livestream) are here. The program is here.

New Issue: Journal of World Investment & Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Vol. 27, nos. 1-2, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: New Frontiers in Investment Screening Law
• Christoph Herrmann, New Frontiers in Investment Screening Law
• Kehinde Folake Olaoye, The Global Rise of Investment Screening Mechanisms
• Patrick Abel, International Law Limits to Investment Screening
• Xueji Su, Reframing Capital Control: Outbound Investment Screening and International Investment Law
• Junianto James Losari, Global Geoeconomics and Geopolitics Development: Comparative Analysis of Selected Asian Countries’ Investment Screening Mechanisms
• Christian Tietje & Philipp Reinhold, The Control of Foreign Investment into Maritime Infrastructure in Europe
• Jiaqi Huang, Cybersecurity across the Supply Chain in FDI Screening Mechanisms: A Comparative Governance Analysis
• Floriane Chang, Screening Investments, Pure Protectionism, or Cultural Securitisation? A Comprehensive Examination of Foreign Direct Investment Mechanisms in Canada
• Alexandr Svetlicinii, Foreign Investment Controls in the European Union: Fragmentation of the Internal Market in Four Steps
• Jochem de Kok, Investment Screening in the EU: From Liberalisation to the State of Exception

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 65, no. 1, Feburary 2026) is out. Contents include:

• U.N.S.C. Resolutions on The Internal Armed Conflict in Sudan, with introductory note by James L. Bischoff
• Anastasio Hernández Rojas and Family v. U.S. (Inter-Am. Comm’n H.R.), with introductory note by Therese Nicole Soriano-Franklin
• Centre For Human Rights v. Tanz. (Afr. Ct. H.P.R.), with introductory note by Uché Ewelukwa Ofodile
• Türkiye Halk Bankasi A.S. v. U.S. (U.S. Sup. Ct. and 2d Cir.), with introductory note by William S. Dodge

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 18, no. 1, March 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Liwu Gan, Weighing responsibilities: the allocation of fair refugee quotas
• Hye Yun Kang, Atmospheric violence: Fanon and postcolonial subjectivity
• Tim Rood, E. H. Carr and Alfred Zimmern: utopia, reality, and the twenty years’ crisis
• Jelena Cupać, Are international organizations agents in their own right? A plural subject perspective
• Lukas Grundsfeld, ‘The Conduct of Inquiry’ in ontological security studies: scientific methodologies and their implications
• Jason Ralph, International society as an ontological security provider: a framework for analysis

Seminar: Sea-level rise and its implications for international law

On March 18, 2026, the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law will host an online seminar on "Sea-level rise and its implications for international law." Details are here.

Klamberg, Svanberg, & Rönnelid: Reconstructing Power and Hegemony in Public International: Law Liber Amicorum Pål Wrange

Mark Klamberg (Stockholm Univ. - Law), Katinka Svanberg (Stockholm Univ. - Law), & Love Rönnelid (Stockholm Univ. - Law) have published Reconstructing Power and Hegemony in Public International Law: Liber Amicorum Pål Wrange (Asser Press 2026). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This open access book examines international law from a critical perspective, at a time when some would say that it is under an existential threat. The modern international institutions — collective security through the UN, the monetary order of the Bretton Woods system, and trade liberalisation anchored in the World Trade Organization — are all contested. Several of the contributions explore whether international lawyers might want to consider positioning themselves in opposition to this wave of contestation. While some aspects of the global system may be ripe for reform, the world stands at a crossroads: will an emerging multipolar order lead to greater instability, or might it fulfill some of the aspirations expressed in earlier critiques?

The volume is structured around six central themes: critical doctrinalism, constructing and redefining identities, the role of scholars, the politics of historicising international law, international law as an instrument and a part of warfare, and reconsidering hegemony, imperialism, and colonialism.

The aim is to deepen the understanding of what is at stake in the current state of the international world order. As such, the book is intended for scholars, students, and the general public. It is published in tribute to Pål Wrange, Professor in International Law at the Faculty of Law of Stockholm University.

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 32, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Emma Klein & Emily Paddon Rhoads, Participation as Legitimation: The Rise of Participatory Policy Norms in the ICC and UN Peacekeeping
• Thomas Biersteker & Larissa van den Herik, Enhancing the Legitimacy of UN Security Council Sanctions by Strengthening Fair and Clear Procedures
• Special Forum on Climate Governance Innovation
• David Passarelli, Túlio Andrade, & Michael Franczak, The Way Forward for Climate Cooperation: Introduction to Global Governance Special Feature: COP30 and Reforming Global Climate Governance
• Simon Sharpe & Adam Day, Complexity as a Catalyst: Adaptive Global Governance in a Deeply Divided World
• Giovanna Marques Kuele & Michael Weisberg, The Politics of Global Climate Governance Reform
• Michael Franczak & Khadeeja Naseem, Beyond the Paris Agreement: Toward Adaptive and Inclusive Climate Governance