Friday, November 7, 2014

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 27, no. 4, December 2014) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • Ingo Venzke, What Makes for a Valid Legal Argument?
  • International Legal Theory
    • Kalkidan Obse, The Arab Spring and the Question of Legality of Democratic Revolution in Theory and Practice: A Perspective Based on the African Union Normative Framework
  • International Law and Practice
    • Nico Schrijver, A Portrait of Judge P. H. Kooijmans – A Passionate Advocate of the Rule of Law in International Affairs
    • Phil C.W. Chan, China’s Approaches to International Law since the Opium War
    • Melissa H. Loja, Who Owns the Oil that Traverses a Boundary on the Continental Shelf in an Enclosed Sea? Seeking Answers in Natural Law through Grotius and Selden
  • Hague International Tribunals: International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
    • Tilman Rodenhauser, Beyond State Crimes: Non-State Entities and Crimes Against Humanity
    • Ingrid Kost, Books and Articles in the Field of the Prevention and Peaceful Settlement of International Disputes (Autumn 2014)
    • Marko Divac Oberg, International Criminal Procedure – A Comparative Book Review
  • Reading Unruly Law
    • Richard Joyce, Law’s Outside
    • Roberto Vilchez Yamato, On the Question of the Negative and the Politics of International Legal Language
    • Mariana Valverde, ‘Non-Legality’ and Society
    • Fleur Johns, Author’s Response