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

New Issue: Asian Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (Vol. 16, no. 1, January 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Notes and Comments
• Vincenzo ELIA, Ecocide to Effectively Stimulate the Integration of International Environmental and Criminal Laws
• Jason HAYNES, Revisiting the Trafficking–Sex Tourism Nexus: Reflections on the Approach of Treaty Bodies
• Article
• André-Philippe OUELLET, A Transcivilizational Call to Factor in the Practice of Asian States and Peoples in Customary International Law and Treaty Interpretation: Conscientious Objection as a Case Study
• Thematic Symposium: Judicial Constitutional Engagement with International Law in Asia
• Son NGOC BUI & Maartje DE VISSER, Introduction: Judicial Constitutional Engagement with International Law in Asia
• Carole J. PETERSEN, International Law in Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal: An “Apex Court” Operating in the Shadow of Beijing
• Melissa LOJA, Riding the Cappelletti Waves: The Philippine Supreme Court and the Sources of International Law
• Simon BUTT, BISARIYADI & Fritz SIREGAR, International Law in the Indonesian Constitutional Court: A Typology of Use
• Yu-Jie CHEN, The Taiwan Constitutional Court’s Evolving Engagement with International Law
• Benjamin Joshua ONG, International Law, the Courts, and the Political Branches of Singapore: Painting a Complete Picture

Call for Papers: The Law and Reality of the Responsibility to Maintain International Peace and Security

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "The Law and Reality of the Responsibility to Maintain International Peace and Security," to take place June 8, 2026, at the University of Liverpool. Here's the call:

Call for papers

You are warmly invited to submit proposals for a workshop as part of the research project: The Law and Reality of the Responsibility to Maintain International Peace and Security, which will take place at the University of Liverpool on 8th June 2026.

We are seeking proposals for chapters to contribute to an edited collection in the following areas:

• The legal nature of the responsibility to maintain international peace and security in the UN Charter, whether under Article 24(1) of the Charter or elsewhere
• Other legal sources of the responsibility to maintain international peace and security
• Political commitments outlining states’ or the UN’s responsibilities to maintain peace and security including, but not limited to, the responsibility to protect
• The overlap, if any, between human rights obligations and the responsibility to maintain peace and security
• The practical application of the responsibility to maintain peace and security within the United Nations, including informal working methods, guidance, or practices
• Policy and practitioner perspectives of the reality of the nature of the responsibility to maintain international peace and security
• Formal or informal structures that influence the content and implementation of the responsibility to maintain international peace and security

To submit a proposal, please send a proposed title, a 300-word abstract and short biography to:

Dr Patrick Butchard, email: butcharp@edgehill.ac.uk and
Dr Ben Murphy, email: hsbmurph@liverpool.ac.uk

Timeline

Call deadline 31st March 2026
Decision on participation by 10th April 2026
Publication workshop 8th June 2026
Submission of full paper 1st December 2026

Call for Papers: ESIL Interest Groups Workshops Preceding 2026 ESIL Conference (Updated)

In the context of the 2026 ESIL Annual Conference in Málaga, ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for their pre-conference workshops. Here are the calls that are currently open:

• IG on International Courts and Tribunals: Conflicts before Courts: Revisiting ‘Uneven Judicialization in Global Order’ Fifteen Years On (deadline: 31 March 2026)
• IG on Critical Approaches to International Law: Conflict and International Law: Beyond the Promise of Peace (deadline: 1 April 2026)
• IG on International Criminal Justice: Is the International Criminal Court in Conflict? (deadline: 7 April 2026)
• IG on International Economic Law: International Economic Law and Conflict (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on International Organisations: Conflict Unbound? Revisiting International Organizations and Contestation (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on Migration and Refugee Law: Asylum in Times of Conflict: Unsettling the Boundaries of Refugee Protection (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on International Law of Culture: The International Law of Culture at a Crossroads: Past Developments and Future Directions (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on Social Sciences and International Law: Contestation in international law (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on the EU as a Global Actor: The EU as Global Peace Actor: Rhetoric or Reality? (deadline: 15 April 2026)
• IG on International Legal Theory and Philoosophy: A World without Rules? The Responsibility of International Law Scholars in Times of Fatigue (deadline: 30 April 2026)

Call for Papers: Law and Security

The Centre for Law and Security at the University of Copenhagen has issued a call for papers for a conference on "Law and Security," to take place August 27-28, 2026, in Copenhagen, The call is here.

De Vido, Russo, & Tramontana: Gendering International Legal Responses to Environmental Chronic Emergencies

Sara De Vido (Ca’ Foscari Univ. of Venice), Deborah Russo (Univ. of Florence), & Enzamaria Tramontana (Univ. of Palermo) have published Gendering International Legal Responses to Environmental Chronic Emergencies (Edward Elgar Publishing 2026). The book is available open access here. Here's the abstract:

This incisive book presents a gendered perspective on chronic environmental emergencies including climate change, biodiversity loss, pollution, and environmental degradation. Derived from the innovative concept of slow violence, the phenomenon of chronic environmental emergencies considers situational vulnerabilities and the disproportionate impact of these events on women.

Providing an ecofeminist assessment of chronic emergencies, as well as their effects on actors, legal obligations, and possible remedies, the book examines the interplay between feminism, the environment, and international law. Chapters conceptualize environmental chronic emergencies, analysing their impact across time and in various contexts spanning slow-onset events, responsibility and liability, and due diligence obligations. The global contributor team uses gendered and post-colonial approaches to advance the legal debate beyond disasters to more subtle forms of oppression, particularly towards indigenous women and female health. Ultimately, the book looks ahead at new interdisciplinary avenues of research which address the gradual deterioration of ecosystems and its effect on insidious forms of oppression through deep-rooted structural inequalities.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Global Health at a Crossroads Part II

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Global Health at a Crossroads Part II.” (Part I is here.) The symposium includes contributions by Priti Patnaik, Loyce L. Pace and Ngozi A. Erondu, Benjamin Mason Meier, Judith Bueno de Mesquita, and Sharifah Sekalala, Alicia Ely Yamin, Tsung-Ling Lee and Pedro A. Villarreal, and Thana C. de Campos-Rudinsky and Daniel Wainstock.

Call for Papers: The Use of Force in Recent Conflicts

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

Ntovas: Fisheries Compatibility Disputes: Agreeing to Disagree, Committed to Conserve

Alexandros X.M. Ntovas (Univ. of Southampton - Law) has published Fisheries Compatibility Disputes: Agreeing to Disagree, Committed to Conserve (Edward Elgar Publishing 2026). Here's the abstract:

This book provides a fresh perspective on the enduring debate surrounding the sustainable regulation of straddling and highly migratory fish stocks. Alexandros X.M. Ntovas highlights how these vital fish stocks occupy a contested regulatory space where sovereignty, science and sustainability converge. Chapters explore the development of international fisheries law through key United Nations (UN) initiatives, including the 1958 UN Fishing and Conservation Convention, the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the 1995 UN Fish Stocks Agreement.

Ntovas emphasizes the need for consistent interpretation of the law and examines the role of peaceful dispute settlements in fostering international cooperation and achieving ocean sustainability. Fisheries Compatibility Disputes underscores the importance of resisting unilateralism and creeping jurisdictionalism, situating the analysis within the broader jurisprudence of treaty interpretation.

This is a vital resource for students and academics of environmental law, public international law and environmental governance and regulation, particularly the law of the sea and international dispute resolution. Legal practitioners handling compatibility-related fishery disputes will also benefit from the author’s rigorous analysis of the doctrinal complexities involved.

Call for Papers: ESIL Interest Groups Workshops Preceding 2026 ESIL Conference

In the context of the 2026 ESIL Annual Conference in Málaga, ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for their pre-conference workshops. Here are the calls that are currently open:

• IG on International Courts and Tribunals: Conflicts before Courts: Revisiting ‘Uneven Judicialization in Global Order’ Fifteen Years On (deadline: 31 March 2026)
• IG on International Economic Law: International Economic Law and Conflict (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on International Organisations: Conflict Unbound? Revisiting International Organizations and Contestation (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on Migration and Refugee Law: Asylum in Times of Conflict: Unsettling the Boundaries of Refugee Protection (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on International Law of Culture: The International Law of Culture at a Crossroads: Past Developments and Future Directions (deadline: 10 April 2026)
• IG on Social Sciences and International Law: Contestation in international law (deadline: 10 April 2026)

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 107, no. 930, 2025) is out. The theme is: "Symposium on Colombia’s JEP & Selected Articles." Contents include:

• Juana Inés Acosta-López & Mariana Chacón Lozano, Symposium on Colombia’s special jurisdiction for peace
• Interview with Roberto Carlos Vidal López: President of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace in Colombia
• Marcela Giraldo Muñoz, Amnesties as a means of encouraging transition and strengthening the application of IHL in Colombia: The case of the Special Jurisdiction for Peace
• Julieta Lemaitre Ripoll, When is detention by non-State actors a war crime? The Special Jurisdiction for Peace's decision on hostage-taking by the FARC-EP
• Lucas Martinez-Villalba, Restoring dignity by granting rights: IHL and peacebuilding empowerment for Magdalena River fishing communities in Colombia
• Lily Rueda Guzmán & César Rojas-Orozco, Child recruitment and beyond: Prosecuting the broad spectrum of violence committed against recruited children within the former FARC-EP ranks
• Giulio Bartolini & Sofia Poulopoulou, Reporting activities under international humanitarian law
• Carmen Chas, Against the laws of humanity: Expanding bullets and the 1899 First Hague Peace Conference
• Jérôme de Hemptinne, Safeguarding rangers in conflict zones: Bridging humanitarian and environmental law
• Jessica Dorsey, The erosion of human(e) judgement in targeting? Quantification logics, AI-enabled decision support systems and proportionality assessments in IHL
• Aristide Evouna Evouna, Special agreements in non-international armed conflicts: Lessons from the practice
• Tania Ixchel Atilano, A painting and the exchange of Belgian prisoners of war during the French Intervention in Mexico (1862–1867)
• David Kaelin, Caroline Pellaton, & Tadesse Kebebew, Water and survival in war: Upholding IHL’s protective purpose and documenting the hidden toll
• Pauline Lesaffre, Analogies in the historical development of IHL (1864–2001)
• Camille Meyre, Cautious or zealous? The ICRC’s humanitarian action in Montenegro (1875–1876)
• Lisang Nyathi, When bullets threaten the pursuit of knowledge: Reclaiming children’s right to education in armed conflict through a human dignity-centred approach under IHRL and IHL
• Tilman Rodenhäuser, Civilian hackers in war: The limits that international humanitarian law imposes on volunteer IT armies, hacktivists, and other civilian hackers
• Sarah W. Spencer & Caroline Masboungi, Enabling access or automating empathy? Using chatbots to support GBV survivors in conflicts and humanitarian emergencies

Survey: How do scholars of public international law choose their research methods?

Researchers at Leiden University are conducting a new study to develop a better understanding of the methodological landscape in the field of public international law. Researchers in this field are invited to take a short survey (here). The survey takes less than ten minutes to complete and includes questions about your background, current position, research methods, and publication choices. Your participation in this study is voluntary and can be terminated at any time, for any reason. The research team consists of Cecily Rose, Misha Plagis, Johanna Trittenbach, and Nicholas McGuire, and they can be contacted at methodssurvey@law.leidenuniv.nl. Information regarding the study can be found here.

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 39, no. 4, Winter 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• Mathias Risse, Leadership on the Line: Gaslighting, Adaptive Leadership, and the Battle for the Soul of Democracy
• Feature
• Wendy H. Wong & David A. Lake, Governing Artificial Intelligence: Designing Professional Structures for the Predictive Age
• Filip J. Scherf, Responsible Peacemakers: Toward a Reframed Ethics of HUMINT
• Jamal Barnes, The Dark Side of International Cooperation: Indifference and the Psychosocial Dynamics of Cooperative Deterrence
• Review Essay
• Larissa Fast, Unfinished Critique and the Duality of Humanitarian Digital Technologies

Call for Papers: Third Transnational Criminal Law Review Conference

Saarland University’s Cluster for European Research and Faculty of Law, the Transnational Criminal Law Review, and the German national group of the International Association of Penal Law have issued a call for papers for the third Transnational Criminal Law Review Conference, to be held May 24-25, 2027, at Saarland University. The topic is: "The Borderlands of Criminal Law II." The call is here.

Job Opening: Teaching Fellow, International Economic Law, Business & Policy (Stanford)

Stanford Law School seeks to hire a teaching fellow for the LLM Program in International Economic Law, Business & Policy. The principal functions of the teaching fellow are to prepare and lead a colloquium on international business issues for the 15-20 students who enroll in the program annually, to advise students on their curricular choices, and to assist in the admissions and orientation process for the incoming class. The ideal candidate will be an aspiring academic with a strong interest in one or more of the core subject areas spanned by the program (including international trade, international investment law, international dispute resolution and arbitration, international business transactions and international antitrust). Details are here.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Global Health at a Crossroads Part I

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Global Health at a Crossroads Part I.” The symposium includes an introduction by Matiangai Sirleaf, and contributions by Lisa Forman, K. M. Gopakumar and Nithin Ramakrishnan, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Gian Luca Burci, and Clare Wenham, Fifa A. Rahman, Luciano Bottini Filho, Deborah Gleeson, and Pedro A. Villarreal, Roojin Habibi, Omowamiwa Kolawole and Uchechukwu Ngwaba, and Kriti Sharma, Margherita Melillo, and Robert Eckford.

Anghie, Chimni, Fakhri, Mickelson, & Nesiah: Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)

Antony Anghie (National Univ. of Singapore & Univ. of Utah), B.S. Chimni (O.P. Jindal Global Univ.), Michael Fakhri (Univ. of Oregon), Karin Mickelson (Univ. of British Columbia), & Vasuki Nesiah (New York Univ.) have published Research Handbook on Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

This Research Handbook provides a comprehensive overview of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL) with chapters exploring different facets of TWAIL scholarship. It covers major doctrines and topics of international law, as well as TWAIL perspectives on central historical and theoretical debates.

Expert authors present key insights into various themes that intersect with international law including economics, post-colonialism, religion, development, treaties, and human rights. The Research Handbook underscores the cornerstone concepts of TWAIL and examines their relationship with intellectual traditions such as Marxism and feminism. Contributing authors outline TWAIL’s perspectives on core areas of international law such as customary international law, treaties and human rights, as well as important contemporary issues, including debt, climate change, and public health. Ultimately, the Research Handbook showcases an expanded and enriched vision of international law, assessing how alternate methodologies can lead to a fairer legal system.

Ngangjoh Hodu & Ajibo: Regional Trade Agreements, Prosperity and the Global South: Normative Beliefs and Interests

Yenkong Ngangjoh Hodu (Univ. of Manchester) & Collins Chikodili Ajibo (Univ. of Nigeria) have published Regional Trade Agreements, Prosperity and the Global South: Normative Beliefs and Interests (Cambridge Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:

This book provides a thought-provoking critical analysis of the functionality of regional trade regimes in the Global South. It examines four regional trade agreements (RTAs) - the African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA), the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) and the United States-Mexico-Canada Free Trade Agreement (USMCA). Ngangjoh Hodu and Ajibo argue that while there has been immense enthusiasm amongst countries in the Global South to create RTAs, this has not translated into concerted efforts to make the RTAs work as envisaged, resulting in RTAs that are largely lacking in concreteness. In this innovative work, the authors invite international economic lawyers and other stakeholders to reflect on how normative beliefs and interests inform inter-state relations and thereby, the law of regional economic community. In so doing, it argues that the idea of prosperity underpinning RTAs as they currently exist is more of a mirage than reality.

Sanchez: Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts

Maria A. Sanchez (Colorado College - Political Science) has published Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts (Cornell Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:

In Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts, Maria A. Sanchez tackles a central tension in global governance: how international human rights courts balance their mandates with the imperative to respect national sovereignty. Despite having similar mandates, the world's three regional human rights courts—the European Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, and the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights—interpret their authority differently, leading to uneven regional enforcement of global human rights principles.

Maria A. Sanchez traces how the geopolitical dynamics of each court's founding moments have manifested in contemporary disparities across the courts' jurisprudences—focusing on disputes involving freedom of expression, personal integrity rights, and LGBTQ+ rights. Her findings expose a paradox: the courts that were founded in the most inhospitable environments for human rights have ended up asserting the most expansive authority over governments.

Deeply researched and insightful, Deference and Divergence in Regional Human Rights Courts speaks to when and how international institutions can leverage authority to intervene in domestic affairs.

Vidigal: Adjudicating over Anarchy: Judicial Remedies, Compliance, and Enforcement in International Law

Geraldo Vidigal (Univ. of Amsterdam) has published Adjudicating over Anarchy: Judicial Remedies, Compliance, and Enforcement in International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:

Geraldo Vidigal thoroughly examines the judicial powers of international courts and tribunals and how these powers are used in practice. Without access to state-backed enforcement measures, international adjudicators must rely on their authority to influence real-world outcomes. The book reviews, and offers a comprehensive theory for, the various social mechanisms that explain why and how international judicial pronouncements affect the behaviour of states, influencing the views of individuals within states as well as changing states' mutual expectations of cooperative and sanction-worthy behaviour. The book considers how judicial remedies can induce compliance by targeting specific areas of disagreement, interpreting obligations, declaring violations, and establishing how wrongdoer states must offset unlawful injury. An often untapped type of remedy relies on the ability of courts to determine permissible responses to breach: what measures other actors may take to respond to violations, compelling wrongdoers to comply with their obligations and provide redress for injury.

Marxsen: Shades of Illegality in the Law Against War

Christian Marxsen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) has published Shades of Illegality in the Law Against War (Oxford Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:

The prohibition of force is a cornerstone of the international legal order. Yet, frequent violations raise pressing questions about the resilience of the law. This monograph investigates the complex realities behind these breaches in international law, to facilitate a deeper understanding of how disputes over norms governing the prohibition of the use of force shape-and sometimes strain-the legal order.

Introducing the concept of “shades of illegality,” this book develops a typology of illegality that distinguishes between the different forms of illegality and their specific effects on international legal norms and the international legal order in general. These six types of illegality include contested applications of agreed law, emergency-driven violations, and deliberate challenges aimed at reshaping legal norms. By unpacking these categories, the book reveals how different types of illegality exert varied effects on the stability and evolution of international legal frameworks.

Shades of Illegality in the Law Against War argues that conflicts over the application and interpretation, formulation, and further development of the law are not pathological, and that illegality can even play a constructive role in the overall functioning of the international order. However, it also warns of the corrosive impact of systemic opposition-where states seek to dismantle core legal principles such as jus contra bellum. Providing nuanced analysis from both a doctrinal and theoretical perspective, this book equips readers with the conceptual tools needed to clarify the role of illegality in the international order and to critically assess the state of the prohibition of force in international law.

Call for Papers: Annual Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights

The International Law and Human Rights Unit of the University of Liverpool's School of Law and Social Justice has issued a call for papers for its Annual Postgraduate Conference in International Law and Human Rights, to take palce June 15-16, 2026, in Liverpool. The theme is: "The Future of the International Legal Order." The call is here.

New Issue: International Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the International Criminal Law Review (Vol. 26, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Mark A. Drumbl & C. William Vardy, The Lives of Fritz Haber and of International Law: Entwined Tales of Tragedy and Irony
• Natalie Hodgson, An Emerging Challenge for International Criminal Justice: Legitimacy, Pseudolaw, and the International Criminal Court
• Marina Lostal, Till the Rules of Procedure and Evidence Do Us Part: Should Deceased Persons Be Admitted as Victims before the ICC?
• Aaron Rajesh, Diplomatic Impunity: A Renewed Case for Universal Jurisdiction
• Hien Thi Thu Tran & Tuan Van Vu, Some Reflections on Pre-trial Detention: Contrasting Vietnamese Legal Provisions with Established International Instruments