New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 25, no. 4, October 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Yasmine Eissa & Chahir Zaki, Competitiveness vs. Compliance: How Trade Provisions Affect Micro, Small, and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Global Value Chains?
• Marc-Antoine Couet, Normative Framework for Subsidies and Countervailing Measures in Addressing Global Challenges: The Renewed Net Subsidy Approach
• Andrew Lugg & Jared Oestman, Reciprocity in International Law: Evidence from Investor-State Dispute Settlement
• Fang Gu, When TRIPS Takes Trips: Rethinking the Territoriality Requirement in China – Enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights
• Zihan Chen, Data Infrastructure and Industrial Policy: How WTO Subsidy Rules Address State-Led Digital Innovation
• David Fadiran, Institutions, Governance, and Intra-regional Trade Margins: Complementarities or Reciprocity in the Economic Community of West African States?
• María Vásquez Callo-Müller, Regulating Source Code in Trade Agreements: Between Protection and Disclosure

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 18, no. 3, November 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Emma Hutchison & Roland Bleiker, Ritual, emotion, and change in world politics
• Chengxin Pan & Nahui Chen, Globalizing International Relations from within: discovering globality in Chineseness in Chinese International Relations theory
• Christian Elliott, Hype cycles or norm cascades? Making sense of the Glasgow Financial Alliance for Net Zero
• Krzysztof Pelc, Accidental architects: self-effacing objectives in international relations
• Benjamin Banta, From democratic peace theory to a Kantian critical cosmology of peace
• Benjamin Martill & Tobias Wille, Brexit and the trust paradox of sovereigntist internationalism

Call for Papers: The Board of Peace and its role in international law: Challenge, continuity or a new global legal order?

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law has issued a call for papers for a workshop on "The Board of Peace and its role in international law: Challenge, continuity or a new global legal order?," to take place February 5, 2027, in Heidelberg. The call is here.

Call for Submissions: The Americas and the New World Order (AJIL Unbound)

AJIL Unbound has issued a call for submissions for a symposium on "The Americas and the New World Order." The symposium will be a companion to an agora in the October 2026 issue of the American Journal of International Law on "Latin America and the New World Order." Abstracts may be submitted in English, Spanish, Portuguese, or French. The call is here.

New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 86, no. 3, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Comment
• Christine Langenfeld, The Justiciability of Article 2 TEU and Domestic Constitutional Autonomy
• Re-Reading Historic Articles in the ZaöRV: Anniversary Series
• Monica Hakimi, International Law and Power Politics: On Koskenniemi’s Perceptions of Justice
• Max Planck-Cambridge Prize for International Law
• Interview with Professor Eliav Lieblich on the Occasion of the 3rd Max Planck-Cambridge Prize Ceremony
• Impulses from the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War
• Anne Peters, Climate Change and the Law Surrounding Armed Conflict – The Climate of War
• Mario Pasquale Amoroso, Climate Change and Warfare as Interconnected Concerns in International Legal Negotiations
• Giorgia Berrino, Climate Change and Armed Conflict Beyond the Crisis Paradigm
• Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, Self-Determination, Jus Cogens, and the Climate/Security Nexus
• Leonie Brassat, Climate Change as a Threat to International Peace and Security?
• Niklas Reetz, Security, with Caveats
• Jérôme de Hemptinne, From Tactical Law of Armed Conflict to Macro- Perspective of Climate Law
• Romina Pezzot, Wartime GHG Emissions as Widespread, Long-Term and Severe Damage to the Environment
• Amanda Kron, Stringent Due Diligence and Corporate Climate Harm in Conflict-Affected Contexts
• Britta Sjöstedt, The Lived Experiences of Wars in a Climate Crisis
• Madara Melnika, NATO’s Responsiveness to Climate Change
• Leon Seidl, Climate Adaptation in a Changing Peacebuilding Environment
• Moritz Vinken, The Enlightened Uncanny and International Law
• Abhandlungen
• Paul Gragl, Die EU auf dem Weg zu einer resilienten Sicherheits- und Verteidigungspolitik
• Muhammad Asif Khan, Participation as an Obligation? Rethinking Investment Practices Through the Right to Development
• Kevin Grimmeiß, Independent Justice in the Name of His Holiness? Vatican Tribunals and International Law Requirements
• Juliane Bertram, Die Voraussetzung gescheiterter Verhandlungen in der Streitbeilegungsklausel der UN-Frauenrechtskonvention
• Johann Remé, The German Doctrine of Normative Authorisation as an Inspiration for US Administrative Law after Loper Bright

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 65, no. 5, October 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Obligations of Isr. in Relation to the Presence and Activities of the U.N., and Other Int’l Orgs. and Third States in and in Relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory (Advisory Opinion) (I.C.J.), with introductory note by James Gerard Devaney and Matina Papadaki
• Preliminary Objections Judgment in Chirinos Salamanca v. Venez. & Related Documents: Venezuela’s Retroactive Un-Denunciation of the American Convention on Human Rights (Inter-Am. Ct. H.R. & Inter-Am. C.H.R.), with introductory note by James L. Bischoff
• Convention for the Protection of the Profession of Lawyer (Council Eur.), with introductory note by Djurdja Lazic

Call for Papers: Empire, Colonialism and Law stream for SLSA Conference

The Empire, Colonialism and Law stream invites abstracts for the Socio-Legal Studies Association Conference 2027 at Northumbria University. The deadline is December 3, 2026. Details on submissions are here.

Mitchell: Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania

M. X. Mitchell (New Jersey Institute of Technology and Rutgers Newark - History) has published Unsettling Sovereignty: International Law, Nuclear Weapons, and US Extraterritorial Power in Postwar Oceania (Univ. of Chicago Press 2026). Here's the abstract:

Marshall Islanders and their ancestral lands and waters played important roles in reshaping the United States’ offshore power, state sovereignty, and the international politics of decolonization.

In the years following World War II, the United States conducted sixty-seven devastating nuclear blasts in the Marshall Islands—yet the archipelago was never a US territory. Working through the United Nations, US diplomats engineered a new, one-of-a-kind extraterritorial status, called strategic trusteeship, to control the Native lands, waters, and peoples of the Marshall, Caroline, and Northern Mariana Islands. Strategic trusteeship permitted the US to militarize a vast expanse of Western Oceania. This novel and racialized legal form of international dependency was integral to US nuclear weapons detonations and damage in the region.

In Unsettling Sovereignty, M. X. Mitchell recounts this untold legal history, exploring how nuclear weapons changed claims and practices of sovereignty from the 1940s to the present. US nuclear blasting in the Marshall Islands troubled conventional renderings of state sovereignty under international law. The explosions, disastrous for Marshallese communities and their ancestral atolls, also caused hazardous nuclear fallout, which spread around the globe. Islanders and their allies turned to law, using legal wrangling over blasting and fallout to raise new questions about the location, time, and subjects of state violence in a period of decolonization; the intersections between race, Indigeneity, and wide-scale technogenic harm; and the pitfalls and unfulfilled promises of international law. Mitchell shows that the Marshallese people and their lands and waters were, and remain, central to redefining sovereignty in an era of boundless pollution and climate change.

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 64, nos. 1-2, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Eva van der Zee, The Potential and Limitations of Behaviourally Informed Legal Intervention to Advance the Sustainable Development Goals
• Kai P. Purnhagen, SDG 2 – Nachhaltigkeitsziel für Private Lieferketten
• Amal Sethi, Can Universities Advance Equity Under Constraint?
• Swen Kühn, Der Zugang zu (sauberer) Energie als Voraussetzung für nachhaltiges Wachstum
• Roberto Luppi, Gemeinsame Bedürfnisse im Prekariat: Zur Rekonstruktion einer fragmentierten sozialen Kategorie
• Katharina Gelbrich, Aktuelle Entwicklungen im EU-Recht – Auf dem Weg zur Einhaltung von SDG 12?
• Manuela Niehaus, Das Nachhaltigkeitsziel Nr. 13 im Anthropozän
• Birgit Peters, Der Beitrag von SDG 15 – Leben an Land – zum globalen Biodiversitätsschutz, heute und post 2030
• Markus Kaltenborn, Multi-Stakeholder Partnerships to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals – The example of the UN Global Accelerator on Jobs and Social Protection

ILA (British Branch) Lecture Series at UCL Faculty of Laws

The UCL Faculty of Laws is organizing the following events as part of the ILA (British Branch) Lecture Series:

• Nov. 25, 2026: Manuel Casas (Twenty Essex), "Avoidance in International Dispute Settlement" (registration here)
• Dec. 9, 2026: Katie Johnston (Liverpool Law School), “Changing the Jus ad Bellum: Creation and Modification of Legal Bases for the Use of Force in International Law” (registration here)

Neri: Droit international de la police en mer

Kiara Neri (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 - Law) has published Droit international de la police en mer (Presses de la Société québécoise de droit international 2026). Here's the abstract:

La mer est un espace de liberté… et de désordre juridique. Trafics, piraterie, pollution : face à ces menaces, qui est compétent pour intervenir ? Jusqu'où peut-on intervenir ? Que faire quand plusieurs États, plusieurs régimes juridiques et plusieurs acteurs se superposent sur le même espace ?

Ce manuel répond à ces questions et à de nombreuses autres problématiques très actuelles. Fondé sur plusieurs années de recherches et sur une enquête de terrain auprès des acteurs de la police en mer, il dresse pour la première fois une cartographie complète du droit applicable aux opérations de police maritime, de l'arraisonnement à la poursuite pénale, en zone de haute mer comme dans les ports.

Loin de la fragmentation habituelle de la discipline, l'ouvrage adopte une approche transversale et traite autant du titre de compétence, des limites à l'intervention, que de coopération internationale et de responsabilité des États. Des tableaux synthétiques et des lignes directrices pratiques et des encadrés thématiques le rendent immédiatement opérationnel pour les professionnels comme pour les juristes.

Call for Submissions: New Section on "International Law and Society" in the Leiden Journal of International Law

The Leiden Journal of International Law is launching a new section on "International Law and Society." The section "seeks to de-center the traditional capitals of international law and pluralise our understanding of how global norms operate in particular contexts. The core idea is that we can learn something about the ‘global’ from the ‘local’." The new section will begin with a "rolling Symposium, aiming to capture the bidirectional dynamics of legal ordering: how local laws, social movements, and domestic courts actively shape international law, and conversely, how international legal regimes restructure local realities and domestic legal systems." The call is here.

Call for Papers: Informal International Law and Foreign Relations Law: Doctrine, Empirics, Reform

The RE_INFORM project at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law in Heidelberg and the Goethe University Frankfurt has issued a call for papers for a workshop on "Informal International Law and Foreign Relations Law: Doctrine, Empirics, Reform," which will take place April 8-9, 2027, in Frankfurt. The call is here.

Lima & Lixinski: Beyond a “Post Office”: Seven Proposals for Strengthening State Engagement with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

Lucas Carlos Lima (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais) & Lucas Lixinski (UNSW Sydney) have published Beyond a “Post Office”: Seven Proposals for Strengthening State Engagement with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights from San José (October 2026). Here's the abstract:

Drawing on field research and interviews with diplomats and other actors in San José, Costa Rica, this White Paper examines the role of diplomacy in States’ relations with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. It offers seven practical proposals to strengthen diplomatic engagement, institutional coordination, and cooperation with the Court, while safeguarding judicial independence. The White Paper is freely available in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish.

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 41, no. 3, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Reimagining Ocean Governance
• Richard Barnes, Joanna Mossop, & Ruby Moynihan Magsig, Reimagining Ocean Law
• Joanna Mossop & Bastiaan E. Klerk, The Transformative Potential of the BBNJ Agreement
• Maïa CN Perraudeau & Osvaldo Urrutia S, Regional Fisheries Management Organisations and the BBNJ Agreement: An Opportunity for Evolution in Mitigating the Ecological Impacts of Fishing?
• Ruby Moynihan Magsig, Normative Seepage: Advancing the Ecosystem Approach to Area-based Management in the South Pacific through Bridging the BBNJ Agreement and SPRFMO
• Ruby Moynihan Magsig, Carwyn Jones, & Sandra Kubalek, The Transformative Potential of Rights of Nature and Its Relationship to Indigenous Peoples’ Approaches to Ocean Law Insights from Aotearoa New Zealand
• Richard Barnes, Human Rights or Human Responsibilities: Rebalancing Ocean Governance
• Sofie Waterman Quist, Reimagining Ocean Laws from the Shore: Lessons from Indigenous Peoples’ Struggles against Salmon Farming in Sápmi and Fütawillimapu
• Bastiaan Ewoud Klerk, Ecological Dynamism and the Law of the Sea: Spatial, Ecosystemic, and Anthropogenic Variability
• César Soares de Oliveira, On the ‘Death’ of the Law of the Sea Convention: Critical Reflections on the Limits of the Living Treaty Approach

Sarkin: Intersectionality and Environmental Justice for Indigenous Peoples and Minorities: A Comparative Assessment of the Role of National Courts

Jeremy Julian Sarkin (Univ. of London - School of Advanced Study) has published Intersectionality and Environmental Justice for Indigenous Peoples and Minorities: A Comparative Assessment of the Role of National Courts (Routledge 2026). Here's the abstract:

This book presents a deeply researched, extensively referenced, innovative, and critical socio-legal analysis of how the concept of intersectionality could be used more effectively by national courts in environmental justice cases, especially concerning minorities and Indigenous Peoples.

A wide range of environmental injustices are being committed against minorities and Indigenous Peoples around the world. In response, this book provides an overview of the problems faced by these groups globally, showing how an intersectional approach offers important benefits. Examining a range of environmental justice court cases - covering the United States, South Africa, Canada, Australia, and Israel - the book offers a comparative analysis of how intersectionality has been, or could be used, to approach such cases, identifying ways in which these issues can be more effectively addressed. In doing so, it demonstrates the value of intersectionality for achieving environmental justice for Indigenous Peoples and minorities. The work integrates knowledge and methods from a range of disciplines, drawing from both the social sciences and the natural sciences. The benefit of this approach is the creation of intellectual engagement across multiple disciplines, leading to a deeper understanding of the issues.

Call for Submissions: ASIL Interest Group Prizes

The American Society of International Law's International Criminal Law Interest Group and International Legal Theory Interest Group have issued their calls for submission for thier annual scholarship prizes. The International Legal Theory Interest Group's call is here. For the International Criminal Law Interest Group's call, email Mailyn.Fidler@law.unh.edu.

Expert Roundtable: US Sanctions against the ICC: Responses and Resilience

On November 9, 2026, Global Law at Reading, School of Law, University of Reading, will host an online expert roundtable on "US Sanctions against the ICC: Responses and Resilience." Details, including registration, are here.

Workshop: The EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement: Perspectives from the EU and Latin America

On November 10, 2026, a workshop on "The EU-Mercosur Partnership Agreement: Perspectives from the EU and Latin America" will be held in São Paulo and online. Details are here.

Workshop: Security Concerns in International Law: Recent Trends and Challenges

On November 30-December 1, 2026, the Italian Yearbook of International Law will hold a workshop on “Security Concerns in International Law: Recent Trends and Challenges” at the University of Milan. Details are here.

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 57, no. 4, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Holly Leung, “Peaceful Purposes” in the BBNJ Agreement: The Interpretation and Significance of Article 11(7)
• Chengyu Wang & Jinpeng Wang, Beyond Article 303 of UNCLOS: Interpreting and Reconstructing Coastal State Jurisdiction over Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Contiguous Zone
• Apostolos Tsiouvalas & Manon Rosenthal, Cryopower Unfrozen: No Carte Blanche under International Law for Sea Ice Geoengineering to Restore the Arctic Ocean
• Mehmet Odabaşı & Gökey Saraçyakupoğlu, The Overlooked Type of Piracy: An Assessment of UNCLOS Article 101(a)(ii) and its Contemporary Applicability

New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly

The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 48, no. 4, November 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat, Decline of Democracy in Class and Identity Politics: A Human Rights Theory of Democracy
• Denis G. Arnold, Structural Coercion and Sweatshop Exploitation
• Christina Zampas, Jaime M. Gher, & Fiona de Londras, The Right to Abortion in International Human Rights Law
• Margot E. Salomon, Indivisible Rights in Radically Unequal Society: Plural Epistemologies, Democratic Renewal, and the Making of a Holistic Jurisprudence
• Javeria Shams, Intersection of Gender, Caste, and Religion: Forced Religious Conversion of Hindu Women in Pakistan
• Lili Song, Skirting International Law or Unlawful? China's Pursuit of Forced Repatriation of Certain Chinese Refugees from Other Countries

Webinar: Teaching and Experiencing International Law Through Legal Clinics

On October 30, 2026, the European Society of International Law will host a webinar on "Teaching and Experiencing International Law Through Legal Clinics." This event, part of the ESIL Teaching Corner Webinar Series, will convene academics engaged in clinical legal education to explore the opportunities and challenges of using legal clinics as a participatory methodology for teaching international law. Details are here.

Sellers, Contesse, & Tourkochoriti: Comparative Enforcement of International Law

Mortimer Sellers (Univ. of Baltimore), Jorge Contesse (Rutgers Univ.), & Ioanna Tourkochoriti (Univ. of Baltimore) have published Comparative Enforcement of International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2026). Here's the abstract:

This comprehensive Research Handbook provides an outline of how the norms of international law are enforced and evaded by national and international authorities. Leading experts explore how international law is and ought to be enforced, in support of a more legitimate, effective, and just global order. The book addresses the enforcement of human rights law, the law of armed conflict, international criminal law, international environmental law, international economic law, and the law of the sea across jurisdictions, drawing on case studies from Asia, Africa, Europe, and North and South America.

Conference: 2026 ASIL Midyear Meeting

On November 5-7, 2026, the American Society of International Law will hold its Midyear Meeting in Santa Clara. Program and registration are here.