Monday, December 21, 2015

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 109, no. 3, July 2015) is out. Contents include:
  • Exploring Comparative International Law
    • Anthea Roberts, Paul B. Stephan, Pierre-Hugues Verdier & Mila Versteeg, Comparative International Law: Framing the Field
    • Katerina Linos, How to Select and Develop International Law Case Studies: Lessons from Comparative Law and Comparative Politics
    • Neha Jain, Comparative International Law at the ICTY: The General Principles Experiment
    • Mathias Forteau, Comparative International Law Within, Not Against, International Law: Lessons from the International Law Commission
    • Pierre-Hugues Verdier & Mila Versteeg, International Law in National Legal Systems: An Empirical Investigation
    • Christopher McCrudden, Why Do National Court Judges Refer to Human Rights Treaties? A Comparative International Law Analysis of CEDAW
  • Editorial Comment
    • Michael J. Glennon, The Executive's Misplaced Reliance on War Powers “Custom”
  • Notes and Comments
    • Alain Pellet, Response to Koh and Buchwald's Article: Don Quixote and Sancho Panza Tilt at Windmills
    • Bing Bing Jia, The Crime of Aggression as Custom and the Mechanisms for Determining Acts of Aggression
  • Current Developments
    • Christine Gray, The 2014 Judicial Activity of the International Court of Justice
  • International Decisions
    • Charles Chernor Jalloh, Prosecutor v. Ruto
    • Elizabeth Trujillo, China—Measures Related to the Exportation of Rare Earths, Tungsten, and Molybdenum
    • Klaus Ferdinand Gärditz, Shepherd v. Germany
    • Dinah Shelton, Konaté v. Burkina Faso
    • Ingrid Wuerth, Zivotofsky ex rel. Zivotofsky v. Kerry
  • Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
    • Kristina Daugirdas & Julian Davis Mortenson, Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
  • Recent Books on International Law
    • José E. Alvarez, Global Judicialization Revisited, reviewing The New Terrain of International Law: Courts, Politics, Rights, by Karen J. Alter
    • Rüdiger Wolfrum, reviewing Justice Among Nations: A History of International Law, by Stephen C. Neff
    • Gian Luca Burci, reviewing Global Health Law, by Lawrence O. Gostin
    • Nancy Amoury Combs, reviewing Fraudulent Evidence Before Public International Tribunals: The Dirty Stories of International Law, by W. Michael Reisman and Christina Skinner
    • Stanimir A. Alexandrov, reviewing Corruption in International Investment Arbitration, by Aloysius P. Llamzon