Friday, November 2, 2018

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 31, no. 4, December 2018) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • Seline Trevisanut, News Coverage by Scholarship
  • International Legal Theory
    • Martin Clark, Ambivalence, anxieties / Adaptations, advances: Conceptual History and International Law
    • Roger Merino, Reimagining the Nation-State: Indigenous Peoples and the Making of Plurinationalism in Latin America
    • Ming-Sung Kuo, Resolving the Question of Inter-Scalar Legitimacy into Law? A Hard Look at Proportionality Balancing in Global Governance
  • International Legal Theory: Symposium on the ‘Trajectories of International Legal Histories’
    • Gerry Simpson, Introduction to Symposium on the Trajectories of International Legal Histories: Doing Things Differently There
    • Felix Lange, Challenging the Paris Peace Treaties, State Sovereignty, and Western-Dominated International Law – The Multifaceted Genesis of the Jus Cogens Doctrine
    • Guy Fiti Sinclair, Towards a Postcolonial Genealogy of International Organizations Law
    • Julia Dehm, Highlighting inequalities in the histories of human rights: Contestations over justice, needs and rights in the 1970s
    • Jakob Zollmann, African International Legal Histories – International Law in Africa: Perspectives and Possibilities
  • International Law and Practice
    • Shu Shang & Wei Shen, When the State Sovereign Immunity Rule Meets Sovereign Wealth Funds in the Post Financial Crisis Era: Is There Still a Black Hole in International Law?
  • International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
    • Birju Kotecha, The Art of Rhetoric: Perceptions of the International Criminal Court and Legalism
    • Nora Stappert, A New Influence of Legal Scholars? The Use of Academic Writings at International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
    • Michail Vagias, The Prosecutor’s Request Concerning the Rohingya Deportation to Bangladesh: Certain Procedural Questions