Monday, August 3, 2026

New Issue: Journal of Global Health Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Global Health Law (Vol. 3, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Lina De Witte, The PFAS Restriction Proposal: the first step towards a new era of chemicals regulation?
  • Chidi Oguamanam, Re-inventing global public health in the shadow of COVID-19: decentring intellectual property in International Health Regulations (IHR) and the Pandemic Agreement for SDGs
  • Sylvain Aubry, Pierre Walckiers, & Christine Frison, Keep talking while everything gets sequenced: how the Pandemic Agreement, global health, and genetic resource governance are keeping pace with digitisation?
  • Siobhán Wills, Diogo Cabral, & Ulisses Terto Neto, Racialised police violence and states’ obligation to respect the human right to the social, psychosocial and environmental determinants of mental health
  • Kailing Marcus & Stéphanie Dagron, Achieving Universal Health Coverage as a practical expression of the right to health: what can China’s legal framework tell us?
  • David W Patterson, The climate crisis is a right to health crisis: lessons from the HIV pandemic for the UN General Assembly and UN system-wide climate action
  • Milou Vlaskamp, The ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion: engagement with One Health approaches

Call for Contributions: Old Doctrines, New Battles: The Future of the Rules-Based International Order in Latin America and the Caribbean

Völkerrechtsblog has issued a call for contributions on "Old Doctrines, New Battles: The Future of the Rules-Based International Order in Latin America and the Caribbean." The call is here.

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 116, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Foreign investment in occupied territories: What lessons from current practice?
    • Introduced by Carlo de Stefano
    • Erik W. Brouwer, The territorial scope of bilateral investment agreements in the context of occupied territories: The quest for a bigger picture
    • Marco Argentini, The circulation of the Crimea Awards: Annulment, enforcement and State immunity pleas
    • Mirko Camanna, Denial of benefits clauses in wartime: From prevention of treaty shopping to geopolitical function?
    • Fabrizio Marrella, Armed Conflicts in International Investment Arbitration
    • Marco Longobardo & Federica Violi, Foreign Investment in Occupied Territory: The Role of Third States and Non-State Actors in International Humanitarian Law, Investment Law, and Business and Human Rights
    • Alessandra Arcuri, Jus Cogens and International Investment Law in Occupied Territories: Dangerous Relations

Saturday, August 1, 2026

Job Opening: LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center

The LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center seeks to hire tenure-track or tenured faculty, including in the area of international law. Applications from both entry-level and lateral candidates are welcome. The job posting is here.

New Issue: Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 14, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Seokwoo Lee & Jeong Woo Kim, Introduction to the Special Section: UN Security Council Sanctions Against North Korea in Comparative Perspective
  • Suk Kyoon Kim, Understanding the Security of Submarine Cables in the East Asian Context: Status and the Way Forward
  • Munkh-Aldar Inguun & Jaengsaeng Bae, Evolving Digital Trade Norms in the Korea–Mongolia EPA: Comparative Insights and Policy Implications
  • Seokwoo Lee, Yen-Chiang Chang, & Jie Sun, Recent Jurisprudence on Title and Effectivités
  • Bernard Duhaime, Special Procedures and Transitional Justice in the Korean Peninsula
  • Francesco Seatzu, Overlapping Mandates and Institutional Comity: The EBRD and the World Bank in Shared Operational Spaces
  • James Kraska, U.S. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Measures for North Korea Maritime Sanctions Enforcement
  • Yen-Chiang Chang & Jie Sun, Cooperative Enforcement of UN Sanctions at Sea: An Analysis Based on China’s Practice
  • Suzanne Lalonde, Canada’s Contribution to the Sanctions Regime Against North Korea
  • Clive Schofield, Maritime Interdiction Under United Nations Sanctions on North Korea: A Case Study of Australia’s Contributions

Friday, July 31, 2026

New Issue: International Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the International Criminal Law Review (Vol. 26, no. 3, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Zhanat Zhailau, Marina Chokina, Balgyn Torgautova, Karlygash Baizhomartova, & Kanat Karbekov, Crimes Against Sexual Integrity of Minors: Criminal-Legal and Penitentiary Aspects
  • Oanh Thi Cao, Vuong Van Nguyen, & Tuan Van Vu, Vietnam’s Legal Obligations Under the United Nations Convention Against Corruption Regarding Non-Conviction-Based Confiscation of Assets
  • Franka Pues, The Paradox of Digital Empowerment: Content Producers and the International Criminal Court
  • Moussa Theodore Zidouemba, Constructing ‘Victim-Centred Peace’: The Contribution of the International Criminal Court’s Reparations to Victims in the Al-Mahdi Case in Timbuktu
  • Ben Gerstein, The Srebrenica Paradoxes: Definitional Indeterminacy and Denialism

Thursday, July 30, 2026

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 40, no. 1, Spring 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Essay Series: EIA Volume 40
    • David Schlosberg, Revisiting Capabilities and Climate Justice: How Climate Turbulence Undermines Capabilities, and How to Design Just Adaptation in Response
  • Special Section: The Ethics and Experience of War
    • Cian O’Driscoll & Sian Troath, Introduction: Ethics, Experience, and War
    • Cian O’Driscoll, Just War Theory Today: Experience Required?
    • Thomas Gregory, Craig Jones, Helen M. Kinsella, Nisha Shah, & Lina Aburas, Enumerating Civilian Harm: Experience, Ethics, and Erasure
    • Jessica Wolfendale, Collateral Voices: Civilian Perspectives, Moral Injury, and the Ethics of War
    • Sian Troath, he Intellectual Inheritance of Machine Learning and the Ethics of Algorithmic War
    • Beth Rowan, Soldiers of the Law: How Military Lawyers Made Law Useful to War

Wednesday, July 29, 2026

New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 25, no. 3, July 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Siyu Bao, Public Policy Defences in the Name of Security: Unconventional Security Claims in WTO General Exceptions Jurisprudence
  • Mariagrazia Alabrese, Francesca Coli, Giorgio Comai, Emile van Ommeren, & Stefano Schiavo, Regulatory Alignment or Divergence? Food Security Provisions in the Agreement on Agriculture and in Preferential Trade Agreements
  • Ji Yeon Park, The Impact of Information Provided by Political Elites on Individual Trade Policy Preferences: A Result of Political Knowledge or Interest?
  • Sebastien Bradley, Javier Flórez Mendoza, Mario Larch, & Yoto Yotov, The Granular Trade and Production Activities (GRANTPA) Database
  • Aydin Baris Yildirim, Border Regions and Attitudes towards International Trade in the European Union
  • Nicolas Albertoni & Rupert Schlegelmilch, EU–Mercosur: Negotiating and Concluding a Trade Agreement in an Age of Trade Uncertainty

Davis: Constitutional Indifference: How U.S. Courts Violate the Rights of America’s Children

Jeffrey Davis
(Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County - Political Science) has published Constitutional Indifference: How U.S. Courts Violate the Rights of America’s Children (Palgrave Macmillan). Here's the abstract:
This book shows how U.S. courts have failed to protect the human rights of America’s children. The Supreme Court has constructed a constitutional identity rooted in American exceptionalism and libertarianism. It has used this identity to disregard human rights law, claiming it is foreign to uniquely American constitutional values and that the very nature of the Constitution is restrictive. Children in the United States suffer as a result. Compared to other democracies, the United States has the highest or nearly the highest rates of under-five mortality, child poverty, juvenile incarceration, and child deaths by homicide. Through interviews with advocates, case studies, and a comparative analysis of other democracies, the book shows how the Court has marginalized the rights of children and it contrasts this to the human rights-centered approach taken by other national and regional courts. Chapter by chapter it demonstrates how U.S. courts consistently fail to protect children’s rights to life and safety, their rights in the criminal justice system, and their rights to an education, health, and housing. Human rights are completely consistent with the U.S. Constitution, and the book sets out a plan to incorporate human rights into U.S. law.

Tuesday, July 28, 2026

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 37, no. 1, February 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • Editorial: EJIL’s First Policy on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence; In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews
  • Articles
    • Negar Mansouri, The Colonial Aftertaste: Algerian Wine, the French Appellation of Origin and the European Sovereignty-Property Complex in International Law
    • Bernhard Knoll-Tudor & Marko Prelec, Sede Vacante in Sarajevo? Bosnia and Herzegovina after 30 Years under International Supervision
  • Focus: The History of International Investment Law
    • Alexis Galán & Nicolás M Perrone, The Negotiations of the OECD Draft Convention on the Protection of Foreign Property: Unpacking the Early Blueprint of International Investment Agreements
    • Wiebe Hommes & Laurens Ankersmit, Shell and the Creation of International Investment Law, 1957–1968
  • Crtical Review of Jurisprudence
    • Salvatore Fabio Nicolosi & Türkan Ertuna Lagrand, Integrating Gender Equality into International Refugee Law: The Contribution of the Court of Justice of the European Union
  • EJIL Debate!
    • Christiane Ahlborn, Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary International Law – A Reply to Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis
  • Roaming Charges
    • Places with a Soul: Life – It’s Never Black or White
  • ESIL Corner
    • Heike Krieger, International Law in 2035: Opening Remarks at the 20th ESIL Annual Conference
    • Qin (Sky) Ma, Between Hope and Constraint: The Fragile Ambition of Reconstructing International Law
    • Soheil Ghasemi, Where ‘Falls the Shadow’: The 2025 ESIL Conference in Berlin and the Disciplinary Ambivalences of ‘Reconstructing International Law’
    • Marina Aksenova, The Entropy of International Law: Reflections from ESIL Berlin
    • Kyra Wigard, Reconstructing International Law: Where to Start?
    • Gleider Hernández, On Institutional Restraints and Academic Freedoms: Reflections on Berlin
  • Book Reviews
    • Lorenzo Gradoni, reviewing Anne van Aaken, Pierre d’Argent, Lauri Mälksoo and Johann Justus Vasel (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe
    • Olivier Corten, reviewing Terry D. Gill and Kinga Tibori-Szabo, The Use of Force and the International Legal System
    • Eliana Cusato, reviewing Jonathan White, In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea
    • Sergio Puig, reviewing Natalie Jones, Self-Determination as Voice: The Participation of Indigenous Peoples in International Governance
  • The Last Page
    • William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116

Monday, July 27, 2026

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 63, no. 4, 2025) is out. Contents include:
  • Abhandlungen
    • Sabine von Schorlemer, Efficiency through Synergies?
    • Björnstjern Baade, Chancen und Risiken post- und dekolonialer Menschenrechtskritik am Beispiel der Strafverfolgung aufgrund der sexuellen Orientierung in Uganda
    • Eckart Klein, Israel vor internationalen Gerichten
    • Sven D. Dümpelmann, Transformations- und Vollzugslehre: Eine Scheindebatte

Daniele: Indiscriminate and Disproportionate Attacks in International Law: Bridging the Accountability Gap

Luigi Daniele
(Univ. of Molise - Law) has published Indiscriminate and Disproportionate Attacks in International Law: Bridging the Accountability Gap (Hart Publishing 2026). Here's the abstract:

This book unveils gaps, inconsistencies, and barriers to accountability emerging from the intersections between IHL and ICL in the definition and treatment of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks as jus in bello violations.

The book identifies and explains the unresolved legal problems surrounding the prevention and control of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks as international war crimes, and critically unpacks the macroscopic implications of these problems for international adjudications. It goes on to address the challenges posed by these attacks as key causes of civilian victimization in war.

The author demonstrates that the Rome Statute of the ICC must be either re-interpreted or amended in order to prosecute and punish the most recurring forms of indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks. Not doing so would mean impairing the ability of this institution to pursue the most important objectives declared by its founding treaty. The book concludes by offering interpretative solutions and two amendment proposals for the Rome Statute to bridge the gaps and overcome the antinomies identified.

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Plozza: The Human Right to Science: A Framework for Justiciability

Monika Plozza
(Univ. of Bern) has published The Human Right to Science: A Framework for Justiciability (Cambridge Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:
This book delivers an in-depth doctrinal analysis of the right to science under Article 15 ICESCR, focusing on the novel concept of its core content, as well as on its rights holders and duty bearers. Monika Plozza challenges the entrenched dichotomy between economic, social and cultural rights on the one hand and civil and political rights on the other, demonstrating that the right to science is indeed justiciable. Situating it within the wider framework of international human rights law, she traces its connections with a broad range of related rights. In doing so, this book equips scholars, practitioners and policymakers with the legal tools needed to invoke and implement the right to science in judicial and policy contexts. Timely and rigorous, it establishes the right to science as a vital legal framework for confronting global challenges ranging from climate change and disinformation to artificial intelligence. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Call for Submissions: Board of Peace: Might Makes Right, Again? – Inquiries in the Current Shaping of Global Governance

The journal Athena – Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization has issued a call for submissions for a special issue on "Board of Peace: Might Makes Right, Again? – Inquiries in the Current Shaping of Global Governance." The call is here.

Monday, July 20, 2026

Lecture: Castellanos-Jankiewicz on “Rearming Europe: Accountability Gaps, War Economies, and Global Risks”

On July 27, 2026, León Castellanos-Jankiewicz (Univ. of Amsterdam - Law) will give the next lecture in the TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War. The topic is: “Rearming Europe: Accountability Gaps, War Economies, and Global Risks.” Details are here.

Webinar: Taxation, Racial Capitalism, and the International Rule of Law: From Colonial Slavery to Global Governance

On July 22, 2026, the European Society of International Law's Interest Group on European and International Rule of Law will host a websinar on “Taxation, Racial Capitalism, and the International Rule of Law: From Colonial Slavery to Global Governance.” This is the inaugural webinar in the interest group's new webinar series. Details are here.

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Call for Papers: ASIL International Law & Social Science Interest Group Biennial Conference

A call for papers has been issued for the Biennial Conference of the American Society of International Law's International Law & Social Science Interest Group, which will take place January 29-30, 2027, at UCLA School of Law. The call is here.

Call for Submissions: Irish Yearbook of International Law

The Irish Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its next volume. While the Yearbook welcomes submissions with an Irish connection, this is not a requirement. The call is here.

Saturday, July 18, 2026

Besson: Democratic Representation in International Organizations

Samantha Besson
(Collège de France) has published Democratic Representation in International Organizations (Cambridge Univ. Press 2026). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:
International organizations (IOs) play a central role in contemporary international law-making: they institutionalize most of the processes through which international law is adopted today. From the perspective of the democratic legitimacy of international law, this raises the question of the conditions under which those IOs may be regarded as democratic representatives of their Member States' peoples. Curiously, given its important international and domestic stakes, however, the democratic representativeness of IOs, but also of States and other public and private institutions within those IOs does not seem to be much of a concern in practice. Even more curiously, and by contrast to other issues of democratic legitimacy it is necessarily related to, such as participation or deliberation inside IOs, representation has only rarely been addressed as such in scholarly debates. It is this gap in theory and practice that this volume purports to fill. It is the first one bringing global democracy theorists and international lawyers into dialogue on the topic and in English language. This title is available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Friday, July 17, 2026

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 120, no. 3, July 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Rifat Azam, The United States, China, and the OECD—UN Rivalry: Asymmetric Regime Complexity in Global Tax Governance
    • Sannoy Das, Non-discrimination as Discrimination: The MFN Obligation and International Trade Law
  • International Decisions
    • Xue Feng & Xueliang Ji, United States — Certain Tax Credits Under the Inflation Reduction Act. Panel Report. WT/DS623/R
    • Marios Tokas, Hellenic Council of State, Decision A, No. 1918-20/2025
  • Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
    • The United States Takes an à la Carte Approach to the United Nations
    • President Trump Launches the Board of Peace
    • The United States and the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework Agree on a “Side-by-Side” Arrangement Exempting U.S. Multinationals from the Global Minimum Tax Regime
    • President Trump Demands that Denmark Sell Greenland to the United States, Threatening to Take It by Force
  • Recent Books on International Law
    • Chimène I. Keitner, State Responsibility as Myth and Legend
    • Anne Trebilcock, reviewing International Organization Initiatives: How and Why Organizations Adapt and Change, edited by Gabrielle Marceau and Henner Gött
    • Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, reviewing International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn, edited by Anne van Aaken and Moshe Hirsch
    • Roger O’Keefe, reviewing End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity, by Chile Eboe-Osuji

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Yale Law Journal Student Essay Competition on "Emerging Issues in International Law"

The Yale Law Journal has announced that submissions are open for its tenth annual student essay competition. This year's topic is: "Emerging Issues in International Law." Details are here.

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

New Issue: La Comunità Internazionale

The latest issue of La Comunità Internazionale (Vol. 81, no. 2, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Interventi
    • Ugo Villani, Il problema della sanzione nel diritto internazionale
  • Articoli e Saggi
    • Nicola Colacino, Tecniche di normazione dell’intelligenza artificiale: una lettura nichilista
    • Francesco Seatzu, Rethinking Consular Protection in Times of Hybrid Conflicts: From the 1963 Vienna Framework to Emerging Normative Pathways
  • Osservatorio Diritti Umani
    • Michele Nino, La giurisprudenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo in materia di proprietà intellettuale: dal riconoscimento al consolidamento nel sistema di Strasburgo
  • Osservatorio Europeo
    • Najada Kilic, Denard Veshi, Gentjan Skara, Darlin Katundi, The Role of the EU in Promoting the Rule of Law in Albania: The Longstanding Impact of the 2016 Judicial Reform
  • Note e Commenti
    • Manfredi Marciante, Governing Alternative Marine-Fuel Releases Under International Maritime and Environmental Law
    • Amartina Mannaioli, A trent’anni da Dayton: la situazione in Bosnia ed Erzegovina tra spinte secessioniste e diritti negati

Saturday, July 11, 2026

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 57, no. 2, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Mariano J. Aznar, The Relationship Between the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and the UNESCO Convention on the Underwater Cultural Heritage
  • Louis McDonough Monroy, Fragmentation and Parallel Proceedings: Dispute Settlement under the WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies
  • Zeyad Jaffal, Safeguarding Global Connectivity: International Law and Cyber Operations Against Submarine Data Cables
  • Nicolò Andreotti, The “Investmentification” of Deep-Seabed Mining in the Area: How Investment Law Concepts Are Shaping the Law of the Sea
  • Stephen Allen, The Al Yasat Marine Protected Area and Maritime Delimitation in the Arabian Gulf
  • Frances Anggadi, Implementing Stable Maritime Zones Amid Sea-Level Rise: Lessons from Australia’s Maritime Jurisdiction
  • Andrey Todorov, Operationalizing Environmental Stewardship in the Law of the Sea: The Case of Shipborne Tourism in Antarctica

Friday, July 10, 2026

New Volume: Austrian Review of International and European Law

The latest volume of the Austrian Review of International and European Law (Vol. 29, 2024) is out. Contents include:
  • A Retrospective of Karl Zemanek’s Work on Neutrality
    • Ralph Janik, In memoriam Karl Zemanek: 70 Years of (Austrian) Neutrality
  • Articles
    • Gabriele Asta, The ITLOS’ Advisory Jurisdiction after the Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
    • Natascha Gojkovic, Advisory Proceedings before International Courts and Tribunals with regard to State’s Climate Change Obligations: A Comparative Analysis
    • Harold Bertot Triana, The Legal Effects of the Advisory Opinions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: From Conventional Indeterminacy to Diluted Consensus in Constitutional Justice within the Process of ‘Inter-Americanization’
    • Paulina Rundel, Science meets International Law – Scientific Experts’ Role in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change
    • Jane A Hofbauer, The ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion: ‘Existential Problem of Planetary Proportions’ or Disney-Style Fairy Tale Happy Ending?
    • Renata Rossi Ignácio, AO-32/25 and the IACtHR’s ‘Third Momentum’ on Climate Rights, Jus Cogens and Reparations
    • Mona Ali Khalil, The International Court of Justice and Israel’s Illegal Occupation of Palestine: An Advisory Opinion with Binding Force