Friday, November 5, 2021

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 34, no. 4, December 2021) is out. Contents include:
  • Editorial
    • Giulia Pinzauti & Philippa Webb, Litigation before the International Court of Justice during the pandemic
  • International Legal Theory
    • Peter Haggenmacher, An archaeological look at ‘international custom as evidence of a general practice accepted as law’ and Article 38 of the World Court’s Statute
    • Jens T. Theilen, The inflation of human rights: A deconstruction
    • Ardi Imseis, On membership of the United Nations and the State of Palestine: A critical account
    • Ginevra Le Moli, ‘Parity with all nations’: The ‘coolie’ trade and the quest for recognition by China and Japan
    • Jean d’Aspremont & Binxin Zhang, China and international law: Two tales of an encounter
    • Wanshu Cong & Frédéric Mégret, ‘International Shanghai’ (1863–1931): Imperialism and private authority in the Global City
    • Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik, An analysis of stagnation in multilateral law-making – and why the law of the sea has transcended the stagnation trend
  • International Law and Practice
    • Rhys Carvosso, The Reactive Model of Disaster Regulation in International Law and its Shortcomings
  • International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: International Court of Justice
    • Jessica Lynn Corsi, Legal Justifications for Gender Parity on the Bench of the International Court of Justice: An Argument for Evolutive Interpretation of Article 9 of the ICJ Statute