Tuesday, February 12, 2019

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 32, no. 1, March 2019) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • Joseph Powderly, International criminal justice in an age of perpetual crisis
  • International Legal Theory
    • Mohammad Shahabuddin, The ‘standard of civilization’ in international law: Intellectual perspectives from pre-war Japan
    • Fuad Zarbiyev, The ‘cash value’ of the rules of treaty interpretation
    • Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Performing the rule of law in international organizations: Ibrahim Shihata and the World Bank’s turn to governance reform
  • International Law and Practice
    • Gearóid Ó Cuinn & Stephanie Switzer, Ebola and the airplane – securing mobility through regime interactions and legal adaptation
    • Erika de Wet, The invocation of the right to self-defence in response to armed attacks conducted by armed groups: Implications for attribution
    • Isha Jain & Bhavesh Seth, India’s nuclear force doctrine: Through the lens of jus ad bellum
    • Arthur Dyevre, Uncertainty and international adjudication
  • Hague International Tribunals: International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
    • Richard Clements, From bureaucracy to management: The International Criminal Court’s internal progress narrative
    • Dire Tladi, The international law commission’s recent work on exceptions to immunity: Charting the course for a brave new world in international law?