Tuesday, August 11, 2020

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 31, no. 1, February 2020) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • COVID-19 and EJIL; The Self-Asphyxiation of Democracy; Publishers, Academics and the Battles over Copyright and Your Rights I; Festschrift? ‘That Which Is Hateful to You, Do Not Do to Your Fellow! That is the Whole Torah; The Rest is Interpretation’ (from the Elder Hillel in Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 31a); Vital Statistics; A Less Exclusive Submission Process; In this Issue
  • The EJIL Foreword
    • André Nollkaemper, Jean d’Aspremont, Christiane Ahlborn, Berenice Boutin, Nataša Nedeski, & Ilias Plakokefalos, with the collaboration of Dov Jacobs, Guiding Principles on Shared Responsibility in International Law
  • Articles
    • Ezgi Yildiz, A Court with Many Faces: Judicial Characters and Modes of Norm Development in the European Court of Human Rights
    • Tilmann Altwicker, Non-Universal Arguments under the European Convention on Human Rights
    • Eyal Benvenisti & Doreen Lustig, Monopolizing War: Codifying the Laws of War to Reassert Governmental Authority, 1856–1874
  • Focus: Interpretation and Custom
    • Danae Azaria, ‘Codification by Interpretation’: The International Law Commission as an Interpreter of International Law
    • Kristina Daugirdas, International Organizations and the Creation of Customary International Law
    • Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis, Customary International Law: Interpretation from Beginning to End
    • Jan Klabbers, The Cheshire Cat That Is International Law
  • Roaming Charges: Death Wall
  • EJIL: Debate!
    • Ivar Alvik, The Justification of Privilege in International Investment Law: Preferential Treatment of Foreign Investors as a Problem of Legitimacy
    • Jürgen Kurtz, On Foreign Investor ‘Privilege’ and the Limits of the Law: A Reply to Ivar Alvik
  • Critical Review of Governance
    • Dai Tamada, The Timor Sea Conciliation: The Unique Mechanism of Dispute Settlement
  • Changing the Guards
    • Michael Waibel, The EU’s Most Influential Economic Policy-maker: Mario Draghi at the European Central Bank
  • Review Essay
    • Lorenzo Cotula, Investment Contracts and International Law: Charting a Research Agenda. Review of Rudolf Dolzer, Petroleum Contracts and International Law; Jola Gjuzi, Stabilization Clauses in International Investment Law: A Sustainable Development Approach
  • Book Reviews
    • Jan Klabbers, reviewing Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism
    • Alina Miron, reviewing Stephen Fietta and Robin Cleverly, A Practitioner’s Guide to Maritime Boundary Delimitation; Alex G. Oude Elferink, Tore Henriksen and Veierud Busch (eds), Maritime Boundary Delimitation: The Case Law. Is It Consistent and Predictable?
    • Joshua Paine, reviewing Rodrigo Polanco, The Return of the Home State to Investor-State Disputes: Bringing Back Diplomatic Protection?
  • The Last Page
    • Theodor W. Adorno, ... nach Auschwitz