Friday, November 4, 2011

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 24, no. 4, December 2011) is out. Contents include:
  • Symposium: The League of Nations and the Construction of the Periphery
    • Fleur Johns, Thomas Skouteris & Wouter Werner, Introduction
    • Usha Natarajan, Creating and Recreating Iraq: Legacies of the Mandate System in Contemporary Understandings of Third World Sovereignty
    • Umot Özsu, Fabricating Fidelity: Nation-Building, International Law, and the Greek–Turkish Population Exchange
    • Rose Parfitt, Empire des Nègres Blancs: The Hybridity of International Personality and the Abyssinia Crisis of 1935–36
    • Michelle Burgis, Transforming (Private) Rights through (Public) International Law: Readings on a ‘Strange and Painful Odyssey’ in the PCIJ Mavrommatis Case
    • Michael Fakhri, The 1937 International Sugar Agreement: Neo-Colonial Cuba and Economic Aspects of the League of Nations
  • Hague International Tribunals: International Criminal Court and Tribunals
    • Markus D. Dubber, Common Civility: The Culture of Alegality in International Criminal Law
    • Gerhard Anders, Testifying about ‘Uncivilized Events’: Problematic Representations of Africa in the Trial against Charles Taylor
  • Current Legal Developments
    • Jean-Philippe Kot, Israeli Civilians versus Palestinian Combatants? Reading the Goldstone Report in Light of the Israeli Conception of the Principle of Distinction
    • Daniele Amoroso, Moving towards Complicity as a Criterion of Attribution of Private Conducts: Imputation to States of Corporate Abuses in the US Case Law
    • Christiane Ahlborn, The Normative Erosion of International Refugee Protection through UN Security Council Practice