Saturday, December 10, 2016

Kamardeen: Global Trade and Sri Lanka

Naazima Kamardeen (Univ. of Colombo - Law) has published Global Trade and Sri Lanka: Which Way Forward? (Stamford Lake 2016). Here’s the abstract:

The law relating to global trade has been poorly understood in relation to the impact that it can have on the ability of developing nations to negotiate regional and free trade agreements. This book explains the main features of the WTO, including its dispute settlement mechanism, and goes on to analyse the implications for developing nations, of expanding the service and IP sectors.

The book also attempts to analyse the possible impacts of the free trade agreement currently being negotiated between Sri Lanka and India – the Indo-Sri Lanka Economic and Technology Cooperation Framework Agreement (ETCA), as well as the increased access to the domestic market proposed by mode 4 entry under the GATS. In addition, the book contains an analysis of the impact on the recently enacted Right to Information Act, and its impact on the transparency of trade agreements.

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 20, no. 8, 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • Special Section: The margin of appreciation in Europe and beyond
    • Andreas Follesdal & Nino Tsereteli, The margin of appreciation in Europe and beyond
    • Amrei Müller, Domestic authorities’ obligations to co-develop the rights of the European Convention on Human Rights
    • Matthew Saul, Structuring evaluations of parliamentary processes by the European Court of Human Rights
    • Nino Tsereteli, Emerging doctrine of deference of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights?
    • Andreas von Staden, Subsidiarity, exhaustion of domestic remedies, and the margin of appreciation in the human rights jurisprudence of African sub-regional courts
  • Regular Articles
    • Jackie Dugard, Testing the transformative premise of the South African Constitutional Court: A comparison of High Courts, Supreme Court of Appeal and Constitutional Court socio-economic rights decisions, 1994–2015
    • Alexandre Andrade Sampaio & Luís Renato Vedovato, Out for the money: a legal analysis of economic claims for secession in Brazil
    • Lauren Marie Balasco, The double transition of transitional justice in Peru: confronting the appeal of iron-fist policies
    • Janine Natalya Clark, Are there ‘greener’ ways of doing transitional justice? Some reflections on Srebrenica, nature and memorialisation
    • Meghan Campbell, The challenges of girls’ right to education: let’s talk about human rights-based sex education
    • Isobel Renzulli, A critical reflection on the conceptual and legal foundations of the duty to prevent torture
    • Andrew Molas, Defending the CRPD: Dignity, flourishing, and the universal right to mental health
    • Vera Lúcia Raposo, The convention of human rights and biomedicine revisited: Critical assessment
    • Kate Nash, Politicising human rights in Europe: Challenges to legal constitutionalism from the Left and the Right

Friday, December 9, 2016

Franzina: The External Dimension of EU Private International Law After Opinion 1/13

Pietro Franzina (Univ. of Ferrara - Law) has published The External Dimension of EU Private International Law After Opinion 1/13 (Intersentia 2017). Contents include:
  • Marise Cremona, Opinions 1/13 and 2/13 and EU External Relations Law
  • Serena Forlati, Between Mutual Trust and Respect for Fundamental Rights – Judicial Cooperation in Civil Matters and the European Convention on Human Rights After Opinion 2/13
  • Paul Beaumont, A Critical Analysis of the Judicial Activism of the Court of Justice of the European Union in Opinion 1/13
  • Giorgio Gaja, The Implications of the European Union’s Exclusive Competence with Regard to the Child Abduction Convention
  • Karen Vandekerckhove, Consequences of Opinion 1/13 on the Acceptance in the EU of Accessions to the Hague Child Abduction Convention
  • Chiara E. Tuo, International Agreements on Private International Law Matters Not Covered by EU Legislation – Which Test Should Be Adopted to Assess the Competence of the EU?
  • Alex Mills, EU External Relations and Private International Law: Multilateralism, Plurilateralism, Bilateralism, or Unilateralism?
  • Alessandra Zanobetti, EU Cooperation in Civil Matters and Multilevel Unification of Private International Law: Some Remarks
  • Chris Thomale, The Lugano Model – Cooperative Enhancement Over Enhanced Cooperation
  • Jan-Jaap Kuipers, Regulations (EC) Nos 662/2009 and 664/2009: Can Exclusivity Be Successfully Reconciled with Flexibility?
  • Pietro Franzina, The Interplay of EU Legislation and International Developments in Private International Law
  • Fabrizio Marongiu Buonaiuti, Jurisdiction Under the EU Succession Regulation and Relationships with Third Countries

Call for Applications: Berlin Potsdam Research Group "The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?" (Fellowships)

The Berlin Potsdam Research Group "The International Rule of Law – Rise or Decline?" invites applications for three fellowships. The call is here.

New Blog: The Law of Nations

Alison Macdonald and Angeline Welsh, both at Matrix Chambers, have created The Law of Nations, a new blog that focuses on English court decisions in areas where international law issues arise. Here's the idea:

Public and private international law play an increasingly important role in the decisions of the English courts. From commercial cases to human rights claims, a huge range of public and private international law principles are now regularly applied by the English courts: from state immunity to diplomatic immunity; service out of the jurisdiction; the enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments; the application of customary international law in the UK; the application of the UK’s international obligations to its conduct abroad; international sanctions; and many other aspects of international law.

The Law of Nations aims to provide timely analysis of English court decisions across the vast range of areas where international law issues arise. We aim to combine sharp analysis with lively commentary, perspectives from abroad, weekly news roundups and the occasional guest feature and interview. We welcome all comments and suggestions.

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 29, no. 4, December 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • Tarcisio Gazzini, A Fresh Look at Teaching International Law–A Few Pedagogical Considerations in the Age of Communications
  • International Legal Theory: Symposium on the Changing Role of Scholarship in International Law
    • Isabel Feichtner, Critical Scholarship and Responsible Practice of International Law. How Can the Two be Reconciled?
    • Jakob V.H. Holtermann & Mikael Rask Madsen, Toleration, Synthesis or Replacement? The ‘Empirical Turn’ and its Consequences for the Science of International Law
    • Lianne J.M. Boer, ‘The greater part of jurisconsults’: On Consensus Claims and Their Footnotes in Legal Scholarship
    • Wouter G. Werner, Justice on Screen – A Study of Four Documentary Films on the International Criminal Court
    • Andrew Mamo, Getting to Peace: Roger Fisher's Scholarship in International Law and the Social Sciences
    • Avidan Kent & Jamie Trinidad, International Law Scholars as Amici Curiae: An Emerging Dialogue (of the Deaf)?
  • Hague International Tribunals: International Court of Justice
    • Hugh Thirlway, The International Court of Justice: Cruising Ahead at 70
  • Review Essay
    • Carl Landauer, From Moore's Law to More's Utopia: The Candy Crushing of Internet Law

New Issue: Journal of International Arbitration

The latest issue of the Journal of International Arbitration (Vol. 33, no. 6, 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • Johan Tufte-Kristensen, Steffen Pihlblad, Challenge Decisions at the Danish Institute of Arbitration
  • Massimo Benedettelli, Applying the UNIDROIT Principles in International Arbitration: An Exercise in Conflicts
  • Anna O. Mitsou, Greek Debt Restructuring and Investment Treaty Arbitration: Jurisdictional Stumbling Blocks for Bondholders
  • James Morrison & Mary Flanagan, Recent Developments in International Arbitration in Australia 2015/2016

New Issue: Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 4, no. 2, 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • M. Christopher W. Pinto, The Philippine Claim Against China
  • Yingying Wu, Policy Space under the Second Clause of GATT Article XX(g)
  • Eon Kyung Park & Seokwoo Lee, Whether Korea’s Export Permit Regulations on a Strategic Good under the Foreign Trade Act is a Peremptory Norm

Thursday, December 8, 2016

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 97, no. 900, Winter 2015) is out. The theme is: "The Evolution of Warfare." Contents include:
  • Vincent Bernard, Tactics, techniques, tragedies: A humanitarian perspective on the changing face of war
  • Interview with Richard Overy: Professor at the University of Exeter
  • Daniel Palmieri, How warfare has evolved – a humanitarian organization's perception: The case of the ICRC, 1863–1960
  • Elizabeth van Heyningen, The South African War as humanitarian crisis
  • Annette Becker, The Great War: World war, total war
  • Emre Öktem & Alexandre Toumarkine, Will the Trojan War take place? Violations of the rules of war and the Battle of the Dardanelles (1915)
  • Éric Germain, Out of sight, out of reach: Moral issues in the globalization of the battlefield
  • Lindsey Cameron, The ICRC in the First World War: Unwavering belief in the power of law?
  • Heide Fehrenbach & Davide Rodogno, “A horrific photo of a drowned Syrian child”: Humanitarian photography and NGO media strategies in historical perspective
  • Rain Liivoja, Technological change and the evolution of the law of war
  • Claudia McGoldrick, The state of conflicts today: Can humanitarian action adapt?
  • Lindsey Cameron, Bruno Demeyere, Jean-Marie Henckaerts, Eve La Haye, & Heike Niebergall-Lackner, The updated Commentary on the First Geneva Convention – a new tool for generating respect for international humanitarian law
  • Tristan Ferraro, The ICRC's legal position on the notion of armed conflict involving foreign intervention and on determining the IHL applicable to this type of conflict
  • Christiane Johannot-Gradis, Protecting the past for the future: How does law protect tangible and intangible cultural heritage in armed conflict?
  • Anna Di Lellio & Emanuele Castano, The danger of “new norms” and the continuing relevance of IHL in the post-9/11 era
  • Claire Landais & Léa Bass, Reconciling the rules of international humanitarian law with the rules of European human rights law
  • Tim McFarland, Factors shaping the legal implications of increasingly autonomous military systems
  • Randolph Kent, The future of warfare: Are we ready?

Werle & Vormbaum: The African Criminal Court - A Commentary on the Malabo Protocol

Gerhard Werle (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Law) & Moritz Vormbaum (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Law) have published The African Criminal Court - A Commentary on the Malabo Protocol (Asser Press 2017). Contents include:
  • Gerhard Werle & Moritz Vormbaum, Creating an African Criminal Court
  • Ademola Abass, Historical and Political Background to the Malabo Protocol
  • Kai Ambos, Genocide (Article 28B), Crimes Against Humanity (Article 28C), War Crimes (Article 28D) and the Crime of Aggression (Article 28M)
  • Gerhard Kemp & Selemani Kinyunyu, The Crime of Unconstitutional Change of Government (Article 28E)
  • Florian Jeßberger, Piracy (Article 28F), Terrorism (Article 28G) and Mercenarism (Article 28H)
  • Lovell D. Fernandez, Corruption (Article 28I) and Money Laundering (Article 28Ibis)
  • Fatuma Mninde-Silungwe, Trafficking in Persons (Article 28J) and Trafficking in Drugs (Article 28K)
  • Martin Heger, Trafficking in Hazardous Wastes (Article 28L) and Illicit Exploitation of Natural Resources (Article 28Lbis)
  • Chantal Meloni, Modes of Responsibility (Article 28N), Individual Criminal Responsibility (Article 46B) and Corporate Criminal Liability (Article 46C)
  • Volker Nerlich, Preconditions to the Exercise of Jurisdiction (Article 46Ebis), Exercise of Jurisdiction (Article 46F) and the Prosecutor (Article 46G)
  • Harmen van der Wilt, Complementary Jurisdiction (Article 46H)
  • Dire Tladi, Immunities (Article 46Abis)

Call for Submissions: Trade, Law and Development

The journal Trade, Law and Development has issued a call for submissions for its Summer 2017 special issue (Vol. 9, no. 1) on "Recent Regionalism." Here's the call:

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

Special Issue on Recent Regionalism

Founded in 2009, the philosophy of Trade, Law and Development has been to generate and sustain a constructive and democratic debate on emergent issues in international economic law and to serve as a forum for the discussion and distribution of ideas. In keeping with these ideals, the Board of Editors is pleased to announce Recent Regionalism as the theme for its next Special Issue (Vol. IX, No. 1).

Recently, the world has seen a number of trading blocs negotiating various plurilateral trade agreements. Though these negotiations have been ongoing since the first decade of this century, they have been shrouded in secrecy and there were merely speculations regarding their content on the basis of “leaks”. With the official release of the text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement earlier this year, much of the hue and cry raised earlier does not seem to remain valid anymore. This agreement is a major part, but not the only component, of the classic regionalism-multilateralism debate today. This debate has evolved in recent times and incorporated some major political changes that the world has seen this year, such as Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as the President of the United States. Another important part of this debate that has come to the fore is the proposition of alternatives to the Single Undertaking of the WTO.

These events have left much to be analysed regarding the status of the multilateral trading system in contemporary times and its co-existence with the imminent enforcement of these regional trade agreements. This Special Issue, currently scheduled for publication in July, 2017, will provide an ideal platform to deliberate on the impact of this Recent Regionalism. Accordingly, the Board of Editors is pleased to invite original and unpublished submissions for the Special Issue on Recent Regionalism for publication as ‘Articles’, ‘Notes’, ‘Comments’ and ‘Book Reviews’.

Manuscripts may be submitted via e-mail, ExpressO, or the TL&D website. For further information and submission guidelines, please visit the Journal’s website.

In case of any queries, please feel free to contact us at: editors[at]tradelawdevelopment[dot]com.

LAST DATE FOR SUBMISSIONS: FEBRUARY 15, 2017

Wednesday, December 7, 2016

Call for Papers: 10th Annual Toronto Group Conference

The Toronto Group for the Study of International, Transnational and Comparative Law has issued a call for papers for its tenth annual conference. to be held April 28-29, 2017. Here's the call:

Call for Submissions for the 10th Annual Toronto Group Conference

Advancing International Law in a Global Society:
Reconciliation, Participation and Collective Action

April 28-29th, 2017 at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Toronto, Canada

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Toronto Group Conference, we ask what the future of international, transnational and comparative law could be in resolving increasing divisions in global society. In posing this question, we aim to reimagine the practice of law as, above all, providing a space for reconciliation, collective action and robust participation, that responds to and is inclusive of critical, but neglected voices.

In approaching presentation topics, applicants may consider how international, transnational and comparative law could:

  • foster relationships while connecting the values, norms and expectations of diverse groups?
  • redress injustices and be forward looking?
  • address unequal power and the exclusion of a variety of voices and stakeholders?
  • maintain self-determination and identity, while finding common ground?
  • ensure the law’s resilience and sustainability, through true participation?
The Toronto Group Conference brings together students and emerging scholars from across the globe. Papers on any subject matter in international, transnational and comparative law that address one or more of the themes above are welcome and encouraged. Interested individuals should send a short bio and an abstract of 300-500 words by January 10, 2017. Applicants will be notified of results by January 30, 2017.

Questions and abstracts should be sent to: torontogroupconference@gmail.com.

*** for more information, including a non-exhaustive list of potential topics, see here ***

Call for Papers: International Criminal Justice: Theory, Policy and Practice

A call for papers has been issued for a proposed stream on "International Criminal Justice: Theory, Policy and Practice" for the Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference, which will be held April 5-7, 2017, at Newcastle University. Here's the call:

International Criminal Justice: Theory, Policy and Practice

Socio-Legal Studies Association Annual Conference (Newcastle University) 5th-7th April 2017

Call for Papers

The international criminal justice stream at the SLSA Annual Conference contains four panel sessions and invites submissions on all areas of substantive international criminal justice, whether on theory, policy or practice. Empirical work would be particularly welcomed and papers based on “works in progress” will be considered so long as the work is sufficiently developed. Both individual papers and panel submissions (of three related papers) can be submitted for consideration. Postgraduate students are also encouraged to submit abstracts.

Selected papers from the conference will be published in a forthcoming edition of The Hague Justice Journal.

For an informal discussion please email the convenor, Anna Marie Brennan at Anna.Marie.Brennan@liverpool.ac.uk

Abstracts must be no longer than 300 words and must include your title, name and institutional affiliation and your email address for correspondence.

The deadline for the submissions is Monday 16 January 2017.

Farah & Cima: China’s Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law

Paolo Davide Farah (West Virginia Univ. - Law) & Elena Cima (Graduate Institute of International Law and Development Studies) have published China’s Influence on Non-Trade Concerns in International Economic Law (Routledge 2017). Contents include:
  • Paolo Davide Farah, Introduction and Overview of the Book
  • Paolo Davide Farah, The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO: Multilateral Trading System through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns: An Appraisal on China’s Progress
  • Claudio Di Turi, Economic Globalization and Social Rights: the Role of the International Labor Organization and the WTO
  • Angelica Bonfanti, Multinational Corporations and Corporate Social Responsibility in a Chinese Context: An International Law Perspective
  • Leïla Choukroune, Rights Interest Litigation, Socio-Economic Rights and Chinese Labor Law Reform
  • Valentina Sara Vadi, Law, Culture, and the Politics of Chinese Outward Foreign Investment
  • Mark Klaver & Michael Trebilcock, Chinese Investment in Africa: Strengthening the Balance Sheet
  • Francesco Sindico & Julie Gibson, Soft, Complex and Fragmented International Climate Change Practice: What Implications for International Trade Law?
  • Imad Ibrahim, Thomas Deleuil, & Paolo Davide Farah, The Principle of Common but Differentiated Responsibilities in the International Regime of Climate Change
  • Marion Lemoine, The Kyoto Protocol: Carbon Pricing and Trade Prospects. The Clean Development Mechanism from the Perspective of the Developing Countries
  • Elena Cima, The Role of Domestic Policies in Fostering Technology Transfer: Evidence from China
  • He Weidong, China's Environmental Legislation and Its Trend Towards Scientific Development
  • Luo Li, Research on the Reform of the Judicial Relief System for Environmental Disputes in China
  • Carla Peng, The Impact of the Kyoto Protocol and UNFCCC on Chinese Law and the Consequential Reforms to Fight Climate Change
  • Zhixiong Huang, The Development of NGOs in China: A Case Study on Their Involvement with Climate Change
  • Paolo Farah & Riccardo Tremolada, A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
  • Jean Yves Heurtebise, Understanding Non-Trade Concerns through Comparative Chinese and European Philosophy of Law
  • Flavia Zorzi Giustiniani, The Right to Food in International Law and WTO Law: An Appraisal
  • Ning Libiao, The Right to Food in China: Cultural Foundation, Present and Future
  • James R. Simpson, Projections of China’s Food Security to 2030: Obligations as an Agricultural Superpower
  • Roberto Soprano, China and the Recognition and Protection of the Human Right to Water
  • Christophe Germann, China Meets Hollywood at WTO: Janus’ Faces of Freedom. Standards of Right and Wrong between National and International Moralities
  • Rogier Creemers, Cultural Products and the WTO: China's Domestic Censorship and Media Control Policies
  • Anselm Kamperman Sanders, Trade in Audiovisuals – The Case of China
  • Danny Friedmann, Rise and Demise of US Social Media in China. A Touchstone of WTO and BIT Regulations
  • Julien Chaisse & Xinjie Luan, Can Trade Restrictions Be Justified by Moral Values? Revisiting The Seals Disputes Through a Law and Economics Analysis
  • Denise Prévost, Health Protection Measures as Barriers to EU Exports to China in the Framework of the WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures
  • Lorenzo Di Masi, SPS, Public Health and Environmental Provisions in East Asia RTAs: ASEAN and China
  • Lukasz Gruszczynski, Tivadar Otvoes, & Paolo Davide Farah, Product Safety in the Framework of the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
  • Piercarlo Rossi, Non-Trade Concerns and Consumer Protection in China: Surrounding Issues
  • A. Rajendra Prasad, Legal Protection of Consumers in Developing Countries: An Asian Perspective
  • Hu Junhong, From Remedy of Damage to Risk Prevention. An Analysis of the New Legislative Implications of the Chapter on “Product Liability” in China’s Tort Liability Law from the Perspective of Consumer Protection
  • Nadia Coggiola, Tort Liability for the Compensation of Damages Caused by Dangerous Substances in China
  • Shujie Feng, Xin Shu & Ningning Zhang, The Protection of Biotechnological Innovation by Patent in the United States, Europe, France, and China. A Comparative Study from the Perspective of the TRIPs Agreement
  • Jayashree Watal, Public Health, Intellectual Property Rights, and Developing Countries’ Access to Medicines
  • Jianqiang Nie, The Relationship between the TRIPs Agreement and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD): Intellectual Property and Genetic Resources, Traditional Knowledge and Folk Protection from a Chinese Perspective
  • Francesca Spigarelli & Andrea Filippet, Grasping Knowledge in Emerging Markets: is this the case of Western Pharmaceutical Companies in China?

Blog Symposium on Steven Ratner's The Thin Justice of International Law

On his blog, James G. Stewart has been hosting a symposium on Steven R. Ratner's The Thin Justice of International Law: A Moral Reckoning of the Law of Nations (Oxford Univ. Press 2015). The symposium contains an introduction by James G. Stewart, contributions by Karen J. Alter, David Luban, Colleen Murphy, and James G. Stewart, and a response by Steven Ratner. EJIL Talk! and the Ethics & International Affairs Blog also ran a symposium on the book, as noted here.

New Issue: Global Environmental Politics

The latest issue of Global Environmental Politics (Vol. 16, no. 4, November 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • Forum
    • Jeongwon Bourdais Park, Toward the Green Comfort Zone: Synergy in Environmental Official Development Assistance
  • Research Articles
    • Leah C. Stokes, Amanda Giang, & Noelle E. Selin, Splitting the South: China and India’s Divergence in International Environmental Negotiations
    • Zoe Phillips Williams, Investor-State Arbitration in Domestic Mining Conflicts
    • Andreas Goldthau & Benjamin K. Sovacool, Energy Technology, Politics, and Interpretative Frames: Shale Gas Fracking in Eastern Europe
    • Karoline Steinbacher &Michael Pahle, Leadership and the Energiewende: German Leadership by Diffusion
    • Marissa Bongiovanni Schmitz & Erin Clover Kelly, Ecosystem Service Commodification: Lessons from California
    • Lisa Vanhala & Cecilie Hestbaek, Framing Climate Change Loss and Damage in UNFCCC Negotiations
  • Book Review Essay
    • Hamish van der Ven, Power and Authority in Global Climate Governance

New Issue: Journal of World Investment & Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Vol. 17, no. 6, 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • Legal Problems of Intra-EU BITs
    • Marc Bungenberg & August Reinisch, Introduction
    • Panos Koutrakos, The Relevance of EU Law for Arbitral Tribunals: (Not) Managing the Lingering Tension
    • Mavluda Sattorova, Investor Rights under EU Law and International Investment Law
    • Martins Paparinskis, Investors’ Remedies under EU Law and International Investment Law
    • Hanno Wehland, The Enforcement of Intra-EU BIT Awards: Micula v Romania and Beyond
    • Christina Binder, A Treaty Law Perspective on Intra-EU BITs
    • Teis Tonsgaard Andersen & Steffen Hindelang, The Day After: Alternatives to Intra-EU BITs
    • Luke Nottage, Rebalancing Investment Treaties and Investor-State Arbitration: Two Approaches

Tuesday, December 6, 2016

New Issue: Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé

The latest issue of the Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé (Vol. 93, no. 4, 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • D. Rezai Shaghaji, L'émergence des obligations erga omnes de protection des droits humains découlant des normes impératives et l'habilitation des états membres de la communauté internationale d'agir
  • J.P.B. Bidias À Mbassa, Le recours à la légitime défense par les organisations régionales dans la lutte contre le terrorisme
  • C. Monkam, Le « raisonnable » en droit OHADA : réflexion à partir du droit des contrats de transport de marchandises par route
  • G. Willems, La séparation des couples en droit anglais et belge : contribution de droit comparé à la réflexion sur l'équilibre entre équité et sécurité juridique en droit de la famille

New Issue: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 34, no. 4, 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • Y. Donders, Defending the Human Rights Defenders
  • M. Neglia, The UNGPs – Five Years On: From Consensus to Divergence in Public Regulation on Business and Human Rights
  • J. Planitzer, Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation: Can Obligatory Reporting by Corporations Prevent Trafficking?
  • E. Lambert Abdelgawad, Dialogue and the Implementation of the European Court of Human Rights’ Judgments

New Issue: Transnational Dispute Management

The latest issue of Transnational Dispute Management (2016, no. 5) is out. This is a special issue on "Latin America (Vol. 2)." The table of contents is here.

Drumbl: The Kapo on Film: Tragic Perpetrators and Imperfect Victims

Mark A. Drumbl (Washington and Lee Univ. - Law) has posted The Kapo on Film: Tragic Perpetrators and Imperfect Victims. Here's the abstract:
The Nazis compelled, enlisted, and ‘promoted’ detainees into the administration of the labor and death camps. These detainees were called Kapos. The Kapos constitute a particularly contested, and at times tabooified, element of Holocaust remembrance. Some Kapos deployed their situational authority to ease the conditions of other prisoners, while others acted cruelly and committed abuses. This project explores treatment of the Kapo on film. This paper considers two films: Kapò (1959 dir. Pontecorvo (Italy)) and Kapo (2000 dir. Setton (Israel)), and additionally one stage play, Kapo in Jerusalem (2013 dir. Lerner (Israel)) which derives from a film of the same title (2014 dir. Barbash (Israel)). While these works do not explicitly consider international criminal law, they vivify themes of agency, blame, survival, shame, sacrifice, and recrimination with which law grapples. These two films vary in genre: a pulpy feature fiction film (Kapò (1959)) and a controversially-received documentary reportage (Kapo 2000); the stageplay (Kapo in Jerusalem), itself derivative of a film of the same title, is a fictional (and gripping) drama drawn from the experiences of an actual Auschwitz Kapo. This paper interrogates how these creative works portray victim-perpetrator circularity; how they contribute to history, memory, and recollection; and didactically how they explain ‘what happened,’ ‘why,’ and ‘what to do now’. This paper additionally contrasts cinematographic accounts and criminal law’s accounts, in particular, those in Israel’s Kapo trials. In the 1950’s, the Knesset passed legislation – the Nazi and Nazi Collaboration Punishment Act – to criminally charge suspected Jewish Kapos who had emigrated to the state of Israel following the Holocaust. Authorities conducted approximately forty prosecutions. The trials were awkward, the language of judgment gnarly, the absolutes of conviction or acquittal crudely reductionist, and the judges ‘trembled’ at having to sentence. This paper contends that cinematographic depictions of victim-victimizers can sooth the criminal law’s anxieties by filling spaces ill-served by the criminal law.

Monday, December 5, 2016

Call for Submissions: The Burden of Intra-EU Mobility on National Welfare Systems: Between Myth and Reality

The journal Politiche sociali/Social Policies has issued a call for submissions for a special issue on "The Burden of Intra-EU Mobility on National Welfare Systems: Between Myth and Reality." The call is here.

New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added two lectures to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. They were given by Daniel Bradlow on “International Law and International Financial Institutions” and Mia Swart on “Reparations in International Criminal Law.”

Call for Papers: IntLawGrrls! 10th Birthday Conference

The IntLawGrrls! blog has issued a call for papers for a conference to celebrate its tenth birthday, to take place March 3, 2017, at the Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law. Here's the call:

Since its founding a decade ago, IntLawGrrls: voices on international law, policy, practice has grown into the premier intlawblog written primarily by women – several hundred of them, plus a few men.

To help celebrate, we at the Dean Rusk International Law Center, University of Georgia School of Law, are delighted to host, at our Athens, Georgia campus, "IntLawGrrls! 10th Birthday Conference,” on March 3, 2017.

IntLawGrrls débuted on that same date in 2007. A post by founder Diane Marie Amann, who serves as Georgia Law’s Associate Dean for International Programs & Strategic Initiatives and Emily & Ernest Woodruff Chair in International Law, began:

“With great pride and joy we announce the birth, on this 3d day of the 3d month – Girls’ Day in Japan – of the newest arrival in the blogosphere. IntLawGrrls joins a world where cultures, ideas, and markets commingle, where humanity reveals both its best promise and its worst underside. It is a world where women act, as prime ministers or ministers of state, as lawmakers, as judges, and as advocates, in international organizations and in society at large. It is our hope through IntLawGrrls to strengthen our voices as we continue to teach and work in international law, policy, practice.”

The next 10 years saw thousands of pathbreaking posts (available here and here) and, at least as important, the growth of a community of scholars and practitioners. Everyone in that community is welcome to contribute to our conference (one in the law school’s series of Georgia Women in Law Lead – Georgia WILL – events) by presenting on an issue within inclusive scope of our blog.

Conference organizers: IntLawGrrls’ original editors

Diane Marie Amann
Kathleen A. Doty
Jaya Ramji-Nogales
Beth Van Schaack

Plenary panel

Strategies to promote women’s participation in shaping international law and policy amid the global emergence of antiglobalism

Who may submit

All in IntLawGrrls’ community, at all stages of their careers

Paper topics welcomed

Any aspect of international, comparative, transnational, or foreign law, policy, or practice. For an idea of the potential scope, have a look at our posts (here and here). We encourage papers in subfields that men historically have dominated.

Languages

In keeping with our blog's submissions policy, we welcome proposals in English, French, or Spanish.

How to submit

Click here to upload your:

  1. abstract, in no more than 500 words
  2. biography, in no more than 150 words
  3. CV

Please upload all three components as one file. For questions about submissions, contact Kathleen A. Doty at doty@uga.edu.

Deadlines

Submissions must be uploaded no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on January 1, 2017; speakers’ participation will be confirmed on a rolling basis, and at the latest by January 20, 2017.

Conference logistics

Preferred arrival: Thursday, March 2. Ideally, plan to arrive at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport this afternoon in order to take part fully in Friday’s daylong conference. Early arrivals are welcome to attend another Georgia WILL event – our Women Law Students Association will host the 35th annual Edith House Lecture, featuring Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, from 3:30 to 5 p.m.

Conference: all day Friday, March 3, followed by a conference dinner to be hosted by Georgia Law – a great opportunity to share birthday cake, network, catch up with old friends, and make new ones

Preferred departure: Saturday, March 4

Accommodations

Although we are unable to cover the costs of your airfare or hotel accommodations, we will offer some assistance with Atlanta-Athens ground transportation on the preferred dates described above.

We have reserved a block of Athens hotel rooms at a discounted rate, and will make this information available to participants as papers are accepted.

Hope to see you here in March!

Garred: The Persistence of Trade Policy in China after WTO Accession

Jason Garred (Univ. of Ottawa - Economics) has posted The Persistence of Trade Policy in China after WTO Accession. Here's the abstract:
Import tariffs have fallen steeply worldwide over the last several decades, but has trade policy persisted through a rise in the use of other instruments? I study this question in the context of China’s 2001 accession to the World Trade Organization, using panel data on Chinese export policies. I find that after its entry into WTO, the distribution of China’s export restrictions across industries increasingly resembles the inverse of its pre-WTO import tariff schedule. The evidence suggests that increases in export restrictions are likely to have partly restored China’s pre-WTO pattern of industrial protection.

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 50, no. 6, 2016) is out. Contents include:
  • Jaime de Melo & Laurent Wagner, Aid for Trade and the Trade Facilitation Agreement: What They Can Do for LDCs
  • Emily Lydgate, Do the Same Conditions Ever Prevail? Globalizing National Regulation for International Trade
  • Anna G. Tevini, ASEAN’s Long Journey to Effective Trade in Goods Liberalization: Scope and Depth of Integration Commitments Under the ASEAN Trade in Goods Agreement
  • Louise Curran & Andoni Maiza, Here There Be Dragons? Analysis of the Consequences of Granting Market Economy Status to China
  • Yi Shin Tang & João Paulo Hernandes Teodoro, The Politics and Outcomes of Preferential Trade Strategies: Evidence from TRIPS-Plus Provisions in US-Latin America Relations
  • Olasupo Owoeye, Regionalism and WTO Multilateralism: The Case for an African Continental Free Trade Area
  • Sannoy Das, Food Security Amendments to the WTO Green Box: A Critical Re-Examination

Call for Papers: Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law

The Centre for International Law Research and Policy has issued a call for papers for a conference on "Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law: Its Intellectual Roots, Related Limits and Potential," to be held August 25-26, 2017, in New Delhi. Here's the call:

This new research project a) analyses foundational concepts in international criminal law, b) correlates the teachings of leading philosophers of law and scholars with international criminal law, and c) explores, against this background, the potential and limits of international criminal law. By generating such knowledge and perspectives, the project i) seeks to clarify and deepen the intellectual roots of the discipline of international criminal law. Such anchoring in older and more diverse schools and traditions of thought should contribute towards maturing international criminal law as a discipline, and cement the consensus around its basic building blocks. On the basis of a) and b) above, the project also ii) aims to offer reflections on how the discipline of international criminal law should evolve further, what its perceivable outer limits may be, and which gentle civilizers other than international criminal law should begin where its reach necessarily ends. In his recent study ‘Confessions of a Born-Again Pagan’ (Yale University Press, 2016, 1,161 pp.), Professor Anthony T. Kronman, long-time Dean of Yale Law School, offers a learned lawyer’s reminder of the limits of the reach of law.

There has been an apparent flourishing of international criminal law since the early 1990s. States have led the way by establishing and sustaining special war crimes jurisdictions – international, internationalised and national – and by negotiating the legal infrastructure of the permanent International Criminal Court, setting it up, funding it, and being patient with it. Non-governmental organizations have cheered states along, advocating certain benchmarks when states designed the jurisdictions, and subsequently offering assistance to the courts and tribunals, in particular their prosecution services. Practicing judges and lawyers within the war crimes jurisdictions commenced the detailed analysis, interpretation and writing about the applicable international criminal law. It took several years for academics to catch up in what had become a rapidly expanding, state- and practice-led field. But they have since made their contributions in considerable numbers, generating a dense literature of articles, monographs, commentaries and blogs.

This body of doctrinal or dogmatic literature – texts on doctrines, rules, offences, elements or other norms and provisions of international criminal law – has not only accumulated and matured, but perhaps started to saturate in some areas of the discipline. We see early signs of a will to dogmatize that could soon go beyond the actual needs of the practice of criminal justice for core international crimes – a lawyerly inclination towards ‘Überdogmatisierung’. Similarly, the literature on the relational or socio-political role of the practice of international criminal law (that is, criminal justice for core international crimes) has become abundant, in particular in the context of so-called transitional justice. We may well be approaching a point where the world has adequate access to expertise on international criminal law and its possible application during transitions towards peace and stability, away from armed conflict. Needless to say, such adequacy of expertise does not equate with a stronger will by governments to actually use criminal justice for core international crimes.

Whereas the discipline of international criminal law could become over-dogmatised and it concurrently lacks a crystallized sub-discipline of philosophy of international criminal law, we will recognize and build on the work done by a few individual authors on more theoretical aspects of the discipline. As there is no clear line between doctrinal or dogmatic and philosophical approaches to international criminal law, our project invites contributions also on this exact question. As stated above, the latter should focus on foundational concepts or categories, including, but obviously not limited to, ‘punishment’, ‘responsibility’, ‘accountability’, ‘retribution’, ‘mental state’, ‘intent’, ‘harm’, ‘Rechtsgut’, ‘legally protected interest’, ‘humanity’, ‘humane’, ‘integrity’, ‘deterrence’, ‘prevention’, ‘sovereignty’, ‘territoriality’, and discretionary markers such as ‘reasonable’, ‘proportional’ and ‘necessity’. Emerging terms like ‘reconciliation’ and ‘unity’ are included in the project.

The rules and tests that make up legal doctrines, and are subjected to doctrinal writing, are usually built over long periods of time, with contributions from law-makers, judges, prosecutors, counsel, and publicists. The foundational concepts on which rules, tests and principles are based are older yet, and have been given meaning also by philosophical, religious and other actors, from across the globe. This project would like to correlate their relevant texts – which may at the time have addressed criminal law, public international law more broadly, or philosophy – with foundational concepts of contemporary international criminal law. Relevant thinkers include – but are not in any way restricted to – Hugo Grotius, Thomas Hobbes, Emmerich de Vattel, Immanuel Kant, Georg W.F. Hegel, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Raphael Lemkin, Hannah Arendt and Jürgen Habermas.

The announcement of this call for papers coincides with the publication of Cambridge Professor Philip Allott’s policy brief ‘How to Make a Better World: Human Power and Human Weakness’, in which he argues that the “high social function of philosophy must be restored”, a sentiment that also permeates Professor Kronman’s Confessions. Allott writes: “Law cannot be better than the society that it serves. But lawyers have a duty to try to make the law as good as it can be. Nowhere is this more necessary than in international society. We have inherited an international legal system that was rationalised in the eighteenth century as a system for the piece-meal reconciling of the self-interest of states, as represented by their governments”. The third dimension of the present research project – exploring the further potential and limitations of international criminal law – invites a future-oriented rationalisation of the discipline, assessing whether its foundational concepts impose clear limits for the further development of its content and ways of enforcement. Can and should international criminal law become a common criminal law of mankind, extending beyond wrongdoing in armed conflict and similar exceptional situations, to serious harm to, for example, the environment, public health or financial markets? Does international criminal law in its present, rudimentary form fail to protect Rechtsgüter or interests that reflect common contemporary or emerging values? Do the intellectual roots of international criminal law imply common enforcement or jurisdictional mechanisms even more binding than those already vested in the International Criminal Court?

Call for papers

The ‘Philosophical Foundations of International Criminal Law’ project seeks to address these and related questions from the perspective of multiple disciplines and angles. Papers will be discussed in a project conference to be held in New Delhi on 25-26 August 2017, and considered for publication in an anthology to be edited by a team led by Professor Morten Bergsmo. All papers will be reviewed by an editorial committee. Interested speakers should send a draft title and abstract of their proposal (500 words), written in English, together with a curriculum vitae to calls@cilrap.org. Proposals are reviewed on a rolling basis, and are due no later than 21 March 2017. Selected speakers will be notified as they are accepted, no later than 25 March 2017. Their travel to, and accommodation in, New Delhi will be covered by CILRAP. Guidance will be offered to authors during their preparation of papers, as may appropriate.

Sunday, December 4, 2016

Clarke, Knottnerus, de Volder: Africa and the ICC: Perceptions of Justice

Kamari M. Clarke (Carleton Univ.), Abel S. Knottnerus (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), & Eefje de Volder (Universiteit van Tilburg) have published Africa and the ICC: Perceptions of Justice (Cambridge Univ. Press 2016). Contents include:
  • Kamari M. Clarke, Abel S. Knottnerus & Eefye de Volder, Africa and the ICC: an introduction
  • Shamiso Mbizvo, The ICC in Africa: the fight against impunity
  • Makau W. Mutua, Africans and the ICC: hypocrisy, impunity, and perversion
  • Solomon Ayele Dersso, The ICC's Africa problem: a spotlight on the politics and limits on international criminal justice
  • Kamari M. Clarke, The ICC, affective transference and the rhetorical politics of sentimentality
  • Lee J. M. Seymour, The ICC and Africa: rhetoric, hypocrisy management and legitimacy
  • Paul D. Schmitt, France, Africa and the ICC: the neocolonist critique and the crisis of institutional legitimacy
  • Abel S. Knottnerus, The AU, the ICC and the prosecution of African presidents
  • Sammy Gakero Gachigua, Discursive reconstruction of the ICC-Kenya engagement through Kenyan newspapers' editorial cartoons
  • Thomas P. Wolf, A 'criminal investigation', not a 'political analysis'? Justice contradictions and the electoral consequences of Kenya's ICC cases
  • Patryk I. Labuda, The ICC in the Democratic Republic of Congo: a decade of partnership and antagonism
  • Stephen Smith Cody, Alexa Koenig & Eric Stover, Witness testimony, support, and protection at the ICC
  • Karin Willemse, Dafur tribal courts, reconciliation conferences and 'Judea': local justice mechanisms and the construction of citizenship in Sudan
  • Kristin C. Doughty, Interpretations of justice: the ICTR and Gacaca in Rwanda
  • Abel S. Knottnerus & Eefje de Volder, International criminal justice and the early formation of an African criminal court
  • Sara Kendall & Clare da Silva, Beyond the ICC: state responsibility for the arms trade in Africa
  • Kamari M. Clarke, Abel S. Knottnerus & Eefje de Volder, Epilogue: perceptions of justice

Cho & Kurtz: Legalizing the ASEAN Way: Adapting and Reimagining the ASEAN Investment Regime

Sungjoon Cho (Chicago Kent College of Law) & Jürgen Kurtz (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) have posted Legalizing the ASEAN Way: Adapting and Reimagining the ASEAN Investment Regime (American Journal of Comparative Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:
This article explores the legalization characteristics of the investment rules of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN). Measured against orthodox and external benchmarks, ASEAN’s investment regime is relatively limited. We make the following two arguments in this article. First, we argue that while ASEAN members have subscribed to global norms in their own collective investment rules, they have done so in an intentionally selective manner shaped fundamentally by key contextual dynamics. These encompass a complex combination of ASEAN members’ unique deliberation modality (the “ASEAN Way”) informed by their shared historical experience coupled with negative social learning. Using those insights, we suggest that is both possible and desirable to understand the ASEAN approach as an independent and legitimate form of legalization, rather than as a failed or flawed model. Second and relatedly, we argue that the idiographic nature of legalization in ASEAN compels us to rethink the conventional universal (nomothetic) approach to legalization and embrace a more nuanced conception.