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.

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

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.

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.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Should International Law Recognize Rights of Nature?

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Should International Law Recognize Rights of Nature?” The symposium includes an introduction by Alexandra Huneeus and John H. Knox, and contributions by John H. Knox , Jorge Calderón Gamboa and Julie Diane Recinos, Dinah L. Shelton, Julien Bétaille, Godwin E. K. Dzah, and Anne Peters.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 86, no. 2, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Comment
• Franca Maria Feisel, A ‘Whole-Of-Society Approach’ to Defending Democracy in the EU
• Nachruf
• Matthias Hartwig, Georg Nolte, Stefan Oeter, & Christian Walter, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. Jochen Abr. Frowein (1934-2026)
• Re-Reading Historic Articles in the ZaöRV: Anniversary Series
• Russell A. Miller, Professor Frowein, German Reunification, and the Tension of Modern Law
• Abhandlungen
• Florian Kriener, Mapping the International Law of Peaceful Protest
• Maria O’Sullivan, Climate Protest and the Right of Resistance in Inter- national Law
• Marcos Antonio Vela Ávalos, The Right to Protest in the Inter-American Human Rights Framework
• Dmitrii Kuznetsov, From Hope to Despair: The Evolution of Protest Rights During Russia’s Council of Europe Membership
• Zoe Louise Tongue, Protest as Counter-Hegemonic Human Rights Work: Lessons from Abortion Rights Movements
• Johanna Bücker & Lina Möller, Beyond Derogation: Context-Driven Interpretation of Migrants’ Rights as a Novel Justification under the ECHR
• Dana Burchardt, The ADBAT before the Human Rights Committee: Globalising Waite and Kennedy but Failing to Protect Judicial Independence Effectively
• Johanna Fink, Die EU-Blocking-Verordnung als Machtinstrument zwischen Völkerrecht und Geoökonomie – eine Analyse im Lichte der EU-Strategie für wirtschaftliche Souveränität

New Issue: Nordic Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 95, no. 2, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Perspectives on sustainable development in the Arctic
• Laura Létourneau-Tremblay & Charles Codère, Introduction: Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Arctic
• Florian Vidal, Security Versus Sustainability? The Regulatory Battle Behind Arctic Mining in Greenland and Norway
• Maxim Usynin, The Role of Private Law and Climate Change Mitigation Along the Northern Sea Route: A Look into the Future
• A. Stella Ebbersmeyer, Black Carbon Emissions from Arctic Shipping: Towards Captured or Common Interest Regulation?
• Marco Pertile, Three Legal Tools to Address the US ‘Proposal’ of Acquisition of Greenland: Cession, the Svalbard Treaty Model, and the Case for a Sui Generis Treaty
• Thomas Baycock, Sara Dal Monico, & Mathilde Morel, Reconsidering the Role of International Law in the Arctic: Why We Should Exercise Caution in Relying on the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement to Conserve Biodiversity in the Arctic Ocean

New Issue: Journal of World Investment & Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Vol. 27, no. 3, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: ISDS Reform: Past, Present, and Future
• Jonathan Bonnitcha & Catharine Titi, The Work of UNCITRAL Working Group III: How Process Shapes Outcomes
• Richard C. Chen, International Investment Law Reform and the Problem of Discretion
• Laura Létourneau-Tremblay, Deference, Environment and ISDS Reform
• Vy Nguyen Thao Ngo & Quyen Ngoc Phuong Nguyen, Can Data Qualify as a Protected Investment? Unlocking Digital Value under International Investment Law
• Patricia Wiater, Investor Accountability Through Counterclaims and Damage Assessment: Rebalancing ISDS
• Jonathan Bonnitcha, José Manuel Alvarez-Zárate, Marcin J Menkes, Josef Ostřanský, & Yanwen Zhang, The Assessment and Calculation of Damages in Treaty-Based ISDS
• Michele Potestà & Johannes Fahner, From Annulment to Appeal: Worlds Apart or Best of Both Worlds?

New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 21, no. 2, June 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Jacque Gao & Frederick R. Chen, Less is more: Property rights and dictators’ demand for foreign direct investment
• Roman-Gabriel Olar, Locking in democracy? Transitions, returning autocratic elites, and human rights treaty commitment
• Ruixing Cao & Shane Hsuan-Yu Lin, Leaders’ educational backgrounds and Chinese official finance
• Jillienne Haglund & Francesca Parente, Balancing justice: Damages awarded by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Jan Philipp Krügel & Nicola Maaser, How do higher-order punishment institutions shape cooperation and norm-enforcement?
• Ayse Eldes, Jieun Lee, & Iain Osgood, Allied import options available? Finding friendly trade partners amidst decoupling from China
• Emilia Justyna Powell & Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Compliance with decisions of the Permanent Court of Arbitration
• Joshua Fjelstul, Simon Hug, & Christopher Kilby, Decision-making in the United Nations General Assembly: A comprehensive database of resolution-related decisions
• Bulent Aras & Burcu Fazlioglu, The brothers Karamazov go abroad: A dataset of Russian leaders’ foreign visits

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 41, no. 2, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Vasco Becker-Weinberg, Making Sense of Portugal’s Baselines around the Archipelagos of Madeira and the Azores
• Neil Craik & Karen N. Scott, Environmental Impact Assessment Under the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement and the Equivalence Exception
• Luciana Fernandes Coelho, Developing and Reframing the LOSC in Changing Circumstances: The Practice of Small Island Developing States on the Consent Regime for Marine Scientific Research
• Dawoon Jung & Nguyen Thanh Trung, Area-based Management Tools at the Interface of the BBNJ Agreement and the International Maritime Organization
• Xuexia Liao, Characterising a Dispute and the Scope of the LOSC Tribunals’ Jurisdiction Ratione Materiae
• Henok G. Gebrezgabiher, Senai W. Andemariam, & Isaias T. Berhe, Ethiopia’s Persistent Claim for Outlets to the Sea: Issues and Alternatives under International Law
• Ekaterina Antsygina, Equity in the Delimitation of Continental Shelves
• Current Legal Developments
• Jianping Guo, The 2018 Central Arctic Ocean Fisheries Agreement and the 2023 BBNJ Agreement
• Valentin Schatz, Review of Objections to RFMO Conservation and Management Measures under EU Law: Bloom v. Commission
• Nivedita S, Youna Lyons, & Denise Cheong, Floating Nuclear at IMO: Protection of the Marine Environment from Potential Releases of Radioactive Substances
• Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien & Josefa Beyer, Stalled at the Negotiating Table: Updates from INC-5.2 Towards a Global Plastics Treaty
• Hyewon Jang, Yeon S. Chang, & Young Sok Kim, Legal Frameworks of the CCUS Act and International Cooperation via the London Protocol in the Republic of Korea

Call for Papers: Society of International Economic Law Tenth Biennial Conference

A call for papers has been issued for the Society of International Economic Law's tenth biennial conference, which will take place July 7-9, 2027, in Christchurch, hosted by the University of Canterbury. The theme is: "Reimagining International Economic Law: Reasons, Challenges, and Future Directions." The call is here.

Meguro & Negishi: Histories of international legal theories in Japan: From dialogue to conversation

Maiko Meguro (Univ. of Amsterdam) & Yota Negishi (Seinan Gakuin Univ. - Law) have published Histories of international legal theories in Japan: From dialogue to conversation (Manchester Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:

This volume offers the first systematic account of Japanese international legal theory, tracing more than a century of scholarship across thirteen influential thinkers. Edited by leading Japanese scholars, it examines how theorists working outside international law's Western centre developed sophisticated frameworks to navigate tensions between Western modernity and their own legal and intellectual traditions. The book's central contribution proposes "conversation"-a mode of sustained engagement that respects irreducible differences between legal cultures-as an alternative to "dialogue," which often reinforces hierarchy by presuming full reconciliation of perspectives. Through detailed intellectual biographies spanning six historical periods, contributors show how Japanese scholars strategically adopted legal positivism, articulated transcivilizational approaches, and advanced concepts of normative multilateralism. Aimed at scholars of international law, legal theory, and comparative traditions, the volume demonstrates that the field's future depends on genuinely reciprocal, coexisting perspectives.