New Issue: International Organizations Law Review

The latest issue of the International Organizations Law Review (Vol. 21, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Thematic Issue: The Love for International Organizations
• Niels Blokker & Ramses Wessel, The Love for International Organizations: Introduction to the Thematic Issue 
• Kristina Daugirdas, The Causes and Consequences of Loving International Organizations: A Reply to Jean d’Aspremont 
• Jan Klabbers, Love Is Just a Four Letter Word 
• Ian Johnstone, Informal Intergovernmental Organizations 
• August Reinisch, Do We Know What We Love When We Say that We Love International Organizations? 
• Niels Blokker, The Love for International Organizations Is Not so Much Logic; It Is Experience 
• Kirsten Schmalenbach, Can International Organizations Turn ‘Rogue’?: The Many Facets of Institutional Capture 
• Catherine Brölmann, For the Love of Structure 
• Elisabetta Morlino, Engaging with International Organizations: A Tale of Love and Darkness
• Namira Negm, Distinctively African: The Unique Appeal of the African Union to International Lawyers of African Origin 
• Anmol Gulecha, International and Regional Organizations: An Asian Perspective 
• Paolo Palchetti & Ramses A. Wessel, Our Love for the European Union: But Is It an International Organization? 
• Jean d’Aspremont, Un-Loving International Organizations 
• General Article
• Daniele Musmeci, UN Targeted Sanctions, Counter-terrorism Measures and Standing Humanitarian Carve-out: A Lesson Learned?

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 29, no. 3, Winter 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho, Armed attacks against merchant vessels: ‘Looking behind the Flag’ to find the victim State
• Emma J Breeze, Duty to act on knowledge: precautions, intelligence and the law of armed conflict
• Hiruni Alwishewa, Supranational small arms control and the challenges of dichotomization
• Sanjeet Ruhal, The evolving seascape of naval warfare: unmanned underwater vehicles and the challenges for international lawGet accessArrow
• Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga & Lowell Bautista, The law of perfidy and ruses of war at sea

Workshop: The Case of S.S. Lotus at 100

On January 9-10, 2025, the inaugural workshop of the Lotus Project will take place at the Lund University Faculty of Law. Online participation is possible. Details are here. Throughout 2025, the Lotus Project is organizing more than fifty talks related to the upcoming centenary of the case. Further information can be found here.

New Issue: Transnational Environmental Law

The latest issue of Transnational Environmental Law (Vol. 13, no. 3, November 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Thijs Etty, Josephine van Zeben, Harro van Asselt, Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, Sébastien Jodoin, & Leonie Reins, Transnational Environmental Law and the Future
• Symposium: Future Generations Litigation and Transformative Changes in Environmental Governance
• Ole W. Pedersen & Katalin Sulyok, Future Generations Litigation and Transformative Changes in Environmental Governance
• Katalin Sulyok, Transforming the Rule of Law in Environmental and Climate Litigation: Prohibiting the Arbitrary Treatment of Future Generations
• Emma Lees & Emilie Gjaldbæk-Sverdrup, Fuzzy Universality in Climate Change Litigation
• Aoife Nolan, Children and Future Generations Rights before the Courts: The Vexed Question of Definitions
• Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh & Alofipo So'o alo Fleur Ramsay, Echoes Through Time: Transforming Climate Litigation Narratives on Future Generations
• Elen Stokes & Caer Smyth, Hope-Bearing Legislation? The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
• Caroline E. Foster, Due Regard for Future Generations? The No Harm Rule and Sovereignty in the Advisory Opinions on Climate Change
• Article
• Angela Hefti, Intersectional Victims as Agents of Change in International Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation
• Case Comment
• Parul Kumar, Striving Towards ‘The Good Life’: What Environmental Litigation in India Can Tell Us About Climate Litigation in the Global South: Vedanta Ltd v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others, Supreme Court of India

Call for Submissions: The principle of non-intervention

The Polish Review of International and European Law has issued a call for submissions for a forthcoming special issue (Volume 14, no. 2, 2025) on "The principle of non-intervention." The call is here.

New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 26, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Kent McNeil, The Papal Bulls Dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal: A Reappraisal
• Page Wilson, Law Wars: Academia and the Manufacture of International Humanitarian Law
• Valentina Vadi, Taming the Leviathan? The Reason of State in International Law

New Issue: Nordic Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 93, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, Equity-Based Constructive Participation of Developing Countries in the Climate Change Legal Regime in the Post-Paris Era
• Masoud Zamani, Amirabbas Kiani, & Aghil Mohammadi, Mission Impossible: Establishing Criminal Responsibility for the Nova Kakhovka Dam’s Destruction under Article 8(2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute
• Niccolò Lanzoni, What is Acquiescence? A Theoretical Quest Grounded in Judicial Practice
• Kangle Zhang & Ukri Soirila, A New Frontier in Fighting Inequality: International Law and Finance
• Simon McKenzie, Computing the Laws of War: Investigating the Relationship between War, International Law and Military Computer Technology

Call for Papers: The Political Universes of International Courts

A call for papers has been issued for a research workshop on “The Political Universes of International Courts,” to take place May 29, 2025, at the University of Glasgow School of Law. The organizers particularly encourage the presentation of work from post-graduate and early-career researchers, as well as from more established scholars. The call is here.

Call for Submissions: Yearbook of International Disaster Law

The Yearbook of International Disaster Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming seventh volume (2024). The Yearbook welcomes abstracts related to both its thematic section on "Armed Conflicts, Armed Forces and Disasters" and its "General section" on any legal issue relevant to international disaster law, implications for international law arising from disaster scenarios, recent practice in this area (e.g. international documents; case-law) or national analysis related to disaster law. The deadline is February 15, 2025. The call is here.

New Issue: Transnational Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the Transnational Criminal Law Review (Vol. 3, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium on the European Arrest Warrant: Two Decades of Visions and Legal Reality
• Masha Fedorova & Sabine Gless, The European Arrest Warrant: Two Decades of Visions and Legal Reality: Introduction to Symposium of EAW 20 Years On
• Miguel João Costa, Raquel Cardoso, & Vânia Costa Ramos, The Second Life of the European Arrest Warrant: An Analysis of the Protective Potential of Mutual Recognition against Extradition to Third States
• Ralf Riegel & Thomas Wahl, Twenty Years of the European Arrest Warrant From a German Viewpoint: Experiences, Challenges, Perspectives
• Gellér, Are the Principles of Mutual Trust and Recognition in Danger of Being Eroded by the Recent Jurisprudence of the ECJ Concerning the EAW?
• Rebecca Niblock, Post-Brexit extradition arrangements: the UK perspective on the TCA
• David J Dickson, The European Arrest Warrant in Scots Law

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (Vol. 34, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Andrea Bonomi, La révision du chapitre 6 LDIP sur les successions internationales – une meilleure coordination avec l’étranger et plus d’autonomie pour le disposant
• Lorène Anthonioz & Niklaus Meier, Le conflit de normes en droit international privé, entre iura novit curia et maxime de disposition

Fortuna, et al.: Customary International Law and Its Interpretation by International Courts: Theories, Methods and Interactions

Marina Fortuna (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Kostia Gorobets (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Panos Merkouris (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Andreas Føllesdal (Universitetet i Oslo), Geir Ulfstein (Universitetet i Oslo), & Pauline Westerman (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) have published Customary International Law and Its Interpretation by International Courts: Theories, Methods and Interactions (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

It is notorious that international courts and tribunals have greatly contributed to the development of customary international law (CIL) by, for instance, articulating the constituent elements of custom and clarifying the conditions required for its modification. This volume demonstrates that they have also been actively engaged in the interpretation of CIL. In elucidating CIL interpretation before and by international courts and tribunals, the volume chooses three focal points: theory, method and normative interactions. Viewing CIL and its interpretation from these vantage points leads to a more complete picture of the role and function of CIL interpretation in international courts. The volume encourages readers to question orthodox theories on CIL and its interpretation, to look anew at what has long been labelled mere identification of custom, and to take a systemic approach to CIL, which, even in the process of interpretation, remains unwaveringly connected to treaties and general principles of law.

New Issue: Journal of Human Rights Practice

The latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Vol. 16, no. 3, November 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Maja Janmyr, ‘Disturbing the Work of the Office’: The Limits of Refugee Collective Action on ‘UNHCR Territory’ in Beirut
• Mirjam van Schaik & Lynn Hillary, Conceptualization Shapes Practice: Apostasy-Based Refugee Claims and International Human Rights Law
• Lukasz Dziedzic, Administrative Lawfare at the European Union’s External Borders: Some Perspectives on Administrative Regulation of NGO Search and Rescue Activities in Italy and the Situation at the Polish-Belarusian Border
• Nicolás Buitrago-Rey, Paloma Núñez-Fernández, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, & Angélica Suárez-Torres, Specificity in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Andrew Chubb & Kirsten Roberts Lyer, Transnational Human Rights Violations: Addressing the Evolution of Globalized Repression through National Human Rights Institutions
• Sangeeta Shah & Sandesh Sivakumaran, Complementing UN Human Rights Efforts Through Universal Periodic Review
• James Harrison, Mark Wielga, & Margarita Parejo, In Search of Effective Corporate Grievance Mechanisms: Can Mandatory Due Diligence Laws be a Progressive Force?
• Camila Gianella, Jasmine Gideon, Mariana Salas, Kate Bayliss, Rossella De Falco, María José Romero, & Ruth Iguiñiz, A ‘Common Sense’ Response to Health Inequalities in Peru? Public-Private Partnerships in Health and the Implications for the Right to Health and Economic Inequality
• Katherine Mayall, Christina Zampas, & Rosario Grimà Algora, Mapping the Cross-Border Influence of Regional and International Reproductive Rights Cases
• Faraz Shahlaei, A Jurisdictional Vertigo: Compulsory Arbitration, Sports and the European Court of Human Rights
• Caroline Sweeney, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within Ireland’s Police Service, An Garda Síochána: Bridging the Gap between Commitments and Reality
• Kurt Mills & Andrea Birdsall, Human Rights in Scottish Foreign Policy: Constructing Scotland as Good Global Citizen
• Nimra Ali, Zainab Iqbal, & Nadia Khadam, Forced Marriages in Times of Armed Conflict: An Implicit Paradox of Modern Slavery under International Humanitarian Law
• Farah Mihlar, Global Models, Victim Disconnect and Demands for International Intervention: The Dilemma of Decoloniality and Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka
• Cher Weixia Chen, Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron, & Julie E . Owen, The Emotional Labour of College Student Activism: An Interview-Based Study
• Policy and Practice Notes
• Kathleen Gu, Dylan K . Kim, Lauren E . Kleidermacher, Anne D . Berhe, Alexander D . Sanjurjo, Ryan M . Leone, Simone R . Dreux, Allison P . Lin, Mina Yuan, Eunice Yang, Ashwin Viswanathan, Isabella M . Lorence, Melissa Wang, Kevin Molyneux, Prantik Saha, & Michael J . Devlin, Operations of a Student-Run Asylum Clinic: Frameworks, Challenges, and Recommendations
• Sheena Swemmer, Challenging Consent—Applicant Versus Amicus Curiae Interventions in Sexual Violence Cases in South Africa
• Jöran Lindeberg & Martin Henkel, A Shared Data Model for Improved Documentation of Human Rights Violations

Holloman: Digest of United States Practice in International Law, 2023

Tiffany Holloman (Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State) has published Digest of United States Practice in International Law, 2023.

New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 40, no. 3, September 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Ceyda Knoebel & Stephanie Collins, Enforcing intra-EU ICSID arbitration awards in a post-Achmea world in Europe: could the European Court of Human Rights assist in resolving the deadlock?
• Nobumichi Teramura & Leon Trakman, Confidentiality and privacy of arbitration in the digital era: pies in the sky?
• Mir-Hossein Abedian & Reza Eftekhar, Reasonableness: a guiding light—A probe into the World Court’s landmark judgment on substantive standards of investment protection and its takeaways for investment treaty tribunals
• Alexander Ferguson, Trade secrets at risk—the protection against expropriation of a trade secret
• Ben Steinbrück & Justin Friedrich Krahé, Isolated court determinations on the admissibility of arbitration: a case study of the German Federal Court of Justice’s recent decision on intra-EU ICSID proceedings
• Ksheeraja Satish & Harshitha Satish, A ‘withdrawal’ syndrome: counsel resignations in international arbitrations
• Case Note
• Ada Yee Lam Leung & Samuel Yee Ching Leung, The temptation of Occam’s Razor: jurisdiction, admissibility and party autonomy

New Issue: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

The latest issue of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (Vol. 24, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Tamara Grigoras, Should we regulate forests through free trade agreements?
• Nsikan-Abasi Odong, Reconciling the Incongruence between the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the GATT/WTO Rules
• Çağdan Uyar & Osman Devrim Elvan, Legal analysis of the CITES convention in terms of Turkish administrative and judicial processes
• Kyle S. Herman, Intermediaries and complexity: assessing emissions-based governance in the European Union’s EU-ETS
• Robert Bergsvik, Aarti Gupta, & Ina Möller, Is transparency furthering clarity in multilateral climate governance? The case of climate finance
• Caroline Bertram & Hermine Van Coppenolle, Strengthening the Paris Agreement through trade? The potential and limitations of EU preferential trade agreements for climate governance

New Issue: Human Rights Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Review (Vol. 25, no. 3, September 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Lumina S. Albert & Hansa Lysander Manohar, The Complicated Web of Trauma Proliferation Experienced by ‘Un-homed’ Immigrant Women Exploited in Illicit Massage Businesses
• Niclas Rautenberg & Daragh Murray, Making Tangible the Long-Term Harm Linked to the Chilling Effects of AI-enabled Surveillance: Can Human Flourishing Inform Human Rights?
• Suzana Košir & Radhika Lakshminarayanan, Manifestation of Women’s Rights in School Textbooks? Evidence from Social Science Textbooks in India
• Martin Tarkpor & Gerard Clarke, The International Monetary Fund (IMF), Policy Conditionality and Human Rights, 2001–2021

New Issue: Business and Human Rights Journal

The latest issue of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Vol. 9, no. 2, June 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Peter Muchlinski & Denis G Arnold, Sweatshops and Labour Law: The Ethical and Legal Implications of Ignoring Labour Law in Developing Countries
• Klara Polackova Van der Ploeg, Investor Obligations: Transformative and Regressive Impacts of the Business and Human Rights Framework
• Caroline Omari Lichuma, Mandatory Human Rights Due Diligence (mHRDD) Laws Caught Between Rituals and Ritualism: The Forms and Limits of Business Authority in the Global Governance of Business and Human Rights
• Leïla Choukroune & Lorenzo Cotula, ‘Local Communities’ and the Development Conundrum: Where International Investment Law Meets Human Rights and Businesses
• Developments in the Field
• Nicolas Bueno, Nadia Bernaz, Gabrielle Holly, & Olga Martin-Ortega, The EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence (CSDDD): The Final Political Compromise
• Audrey Gaughran & Joseph Wilde-Ramsing, Fossil Fuel Industry Divestment and the Energy Transition: Lessons and Red Flags from Shell and the Niger Delta
• Emmanuel Umpula & Mark Dummett, The Blood Cobalt Narrative: Addressing Human Rights Concerns or Scaremongering?
• Daria Nagaivska & Olena Uvarova, Companies Operating in Conflict-Affected Environments Without Impacting the Conflict: Between Regular and Heightened Human Rights Due Diligence
• David Szablowski, Economic Diplomacy and Home State Responsibility for Human Rights Abuses Involving Extractive Industries Abroad: The Case of Canada
• Federico Chunga Fiestas, The Experience of Multistakeholder Dialogue in the Process of Elaboration of the National Action Plan on Business and Human Rights in Peru
• Sophia Aspesi Areias, Striving for a Rapid Transition: How Companies are Approaching Integrating Respect for Human Rights in Their Climate Action

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 28, no. 10, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Carlos Arturo Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Beyond liberal justice? Decolonising Colombian transitional justice through victims’ participation and indigenous rights
• Farah Mihlar, Contending with identity and minority rights in transitional justice: the case study of Sri Lanka
• Gillian Kane, Rachel Killean & Boravin Tann, Vernacularising human dignity in human rights education: a Cambodian case study
• Naziye Dirikgil & Charalampos Efstathopoulos, Good international citizenship and the protection of internally displaced persons: examining Kenya’s law and policy
• Jenny García Ruales, Forest moralities, kindred knowledge and Sacha Runakuna: Kawsak Sacha as law
• Sebghatullah Qazi Zada & Mohd Ziaolhaq Qazi Zada, The Taliban and women's human rights in Afghanistan: the way forward
• Shabnam Moinipour & Leila Alikarami, State obligation and landmines: human rights of the disabled in the Islamic Republic of Iran
• Hülya Kaya, The role of Turkish administrative courts in developing jurisprudence on refugee rights: review of the judgments of the administrative courts from 2014 to 2021
• Fakhrul Islam & Suzanna Fay, Intersectional challenges in post-trafficking reintegration of survivor women of trafficking

Mulgrew & Christensen: Research Handbook on the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes

Róisín Mulgrew (Univ. of Galway - Law) & Mikkel Jarle Christensen (Univ. of Copenhagen - Law) have published Research Handbook on the Punishment of Atrocity Crimes (Edward Elgar Publishing 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This Research Handbook examines the punishment of atrocity crime and presents a wide-ranging critique of post-conviction law, policy and practice. With a team of expert contributing authors, Róisín Mulgrew and Mikkel Jarle Christensen provide insights into the impact and implications of punishment models, strategies and frameworks.

Taking a multidisciplinary approach, chapters analyse the work of international criminal courts and tribunals, as well as domestic criminal, military and traditional justice systems. Authors utilise a wide range of research methods and tools to bring the impact of different penalties, sentencing policies and sentence enforcement models to light. They also outline the implications of release and post-release strategies for a variety of stakeholders, such as accused persons, courts, states and wider society. Individually and collectively, these contributions add to a growing body of literature on how punishment can prevent and address atrocity crime, while also challenging contemporary assumptions about systems of punishment.

New Issue: Transnational Legal Theory

The latest issue of Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 15, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Samantha Besson, What can public international law do against privatisation?
• Karin Buhmann & Leonard Feld, Shifting boundaries: a transnational legal perspective on the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive
• Eric Loefflad, Accumulation by reconciliation: the United States, South Africa, and peacemaking by vanquished settlers as liberal international order
• Saifuddin Patel, Hart’s fundamental rule of recognition and normativity of constitutional change in India
• Tamara Horbachevska, Josephine van Zeben & Nadia Bernaz, A capability approach to the sustainable development goals: towards positive corporate human rights obligations

New Issue: Global Constitutionalism

The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 13, no. 2, July 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Liberal Democratic Constitutionalism and the Invasion of Ukraine
• Gürkan Çapar, The paradox of global constitutionalism: Between sectoral integration and legitimacy
• Xymena Kurowska, Passionate humility for global constitutionalism in the aftermath of the Russo-Ukrainian war
• Filipe dos Reis & Janis Grzybowski, Moving ‘red lines’: The Russian–Ukrainian war and the pragmatic (mis-)use of international law
• Takao Suami, Dead or alive? Global constitutionalism and international law after the start of the war in Ukraine
• Sassan Gholiagha & Mitja Sienknecht, Between (ir)responsibility and (in)appropriateness: Conceptualizing norm-related state behaviour in the Russian war against Ukraine
• Beyond the Constitutional Trauma? Debating the Democratic Credentials of the Conference on the Future of Europe
• Ben Crum, Models of EU Constitutional Reform: What do we learn from the Conference on the Future of Europe?
• Markus Patberg, Farewell to constituent power? The Conference on the Future of Europe, citizens’ assemblies and the democratic minimum
• Sandra Seubert, The Conference on the Future of Europe as a chance for democratic catching up? Towards a citizen-centred perspective on constitutional renewal in the European Union
• Neil Walker, Europe’s constitutional retrofit

De Coninck: The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap: Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations

Joyce De Coninck (Ghent Univ.) has published The EU’s Human Rights Responsibility Gap: Deconstructing Human Rights Impunity of International Organisations (Hart Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

Can the EU be held legally responsible for its contributions to human rights harms in its Integrated Border Management policy? Or do systemic legal design flaws in the EU's human rights responsibility regime give rise to a significant responsibility gap?

This book delves into these pressing questions, offering a transversal analysis of applicable legal frameworks under international and EU law. Divided into three parts, the book first analyses the international and EU human rights responsibility frameworks, revealing both 'normative incongruency' as well as 'liability incongruency'. Part two applies these frameworks to specific illustrations within the four tiers of the EU's Integrated Border Management, exposing the critical points where responsibility falters. Building on these findings and drawing from shared responsibility and relationality theories, part three briefly introduces 'Relational Human Rights Responsibility' as an alternative method to ascertaining human rights responsibility of the EU specifically, and international organisations more generally.

New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 19, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Life Cycles of International Cooperation
• Julia Gray, The life cycle of international cooperation: Introduction to the special issue
• Yoram Z. Haftel & Bar Nadel, Economic crises and the survival of international organizations
• Mette Eilstrup-Sangiovanni & Daniel Verdier, To reform or to replace? Succession as a mechanism of institutional change in intergovernmental organisations
• Alexander Baturo & Julia Gray, Leaders in the United Nations General Assembly: Revitalization or politicization?
• Henning Schmidtke & Tobias Lenz, Expanding or defending legitimacy? Why international organizations intensify self-legitimation
• Averell Schmidt, Treaty withdrawal and the development of international law
• Inken von Borzyskowski & Felicity Vabulas, Public support for withdrawal from international organizations: Experimental evidence from the US

New Issue: European Journal of International Relations

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Relations (Vol. 30, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Darshan Vigneswaran, Nora Söderberg, Natalie Welfens, & Saskia Bonjour, Capitalizing on a crisis: the European Union Trust Fund for Africa
• Sylvain Maechler & Jean-Christophe Graz, Uncertainty in times of ecological crisis: a Knightian tale of how to face future states of the world
• Joscha Abels, Private infrastructure in geopolitical conflicts: the case of Starlink and the war in Ukraine
• Ilias Alami & Jack Taggart, A partial conversion: how the ‘unholy trinity’ of global economic governance adapts to state capitalism
• Ronen Palan, Voice, exit . . . arbitrage: the politics of the modern multinational firm
• Jeffrey Ding, Keep your enemies safer: technical cooperation and transferring nuclear safety and security technologies
• Reinout van der Veer & Gustav Meibauer, Technocracy, populism, and the (de)legitimation of international organizations
• Marianna Lovato, How informality keeps multilateralism going: the role of informal groupings in EU foreign policy negotiations
• Joanna Tidy, ‘100 large fruit trees cut down by ISAF’: land, infrastructure and military violence
• Nele Kortendiek, Beyond authority: governing migration and asylum through practice on the ground

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 106, no. 925, 2024) is out. The theme is: "Fundamental Principles." Contents include:

• Interview with Nils Melzer: Director of the Department of Law, Policy and Humanitarian Diplomacy, International Committee of the Red Cross
• Marina Sharpe, It's all relative: The origins, legal character and normative content of the humanitarian principles
• Natalie Deffenbaugh, De-dehumanization: Practicing humanity
• Marc DuBois & Sean Healy, Imperfect relief: Challenges to the impartiality and identity of humanitarian action
• Pierrick Devidal, Lost in digital translation? The humanitarian principles in the digital age
• Yue Wang & Ting Fang, Translating impartiality into operations from a financial perspective: Uncertainties and solutions
• Anna Chernova, Queering the humanitarian principles of neutrality and impartiality: Implications for humanitarian action, IHL effectiveness and gender justice
• Nicole Hoagland & Magdalena Arias Cubas, Practice versus perception: A discussion of the humanitarian principle of independence in the context of migration
• Josephine Dresner & Riccardo Labianco, Humanitarian principles and humanitarian disarmament: An operator's perspective
• Marnie Lloydd, “Sticking together while standing one's own ground”: The meanings of solidarity in humanitarian action
• Cédric Cotter & Daniel Palmieri, “A season in hell”: The Rwandan genocide and the ICRC's Fundamental Principles
• Librarian's Pick: Charlotte Mohr on Immi Tallgren's Portraits of Women in International Law: New Names and Forgotten Faces?
• Beyond the Literature: Conversation with Joël Glasman on his Humanitarianism and the Quantification of Human Needs: Minimal Humanity
• Ahmed Al-Dawoody & Kelisiana Thynne, Of date palms and dialogue: Enhancing the protection of the natural environment under international humanitarian law and Islamic law
• Stavros-Evdokimos Pantazopoulos, Navigating legal frontiers: Climate change, environmental protection and armed conflict
• Sâ Benjamin Traoré & Ezéchiel Amani Cirimwami, Environmental obligations of business entities during armed conflicts
• Andrea Camacho Rincón & Germán Parra Gallego, Addressing environmental damages in contexts of armed conflict through transitional justice in Colombia
• Mais Qandeel, The protection of the natural environment in armed conflicts and agent-based modelling
• Ivon Mingashang & Christian Tshiamala Banungana, The international responsibility of a belligerent State in the event of transboundary environmental damage

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 16, no. 3, November 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Katharine M. Millar, Limitations of hypocrisy as a strategy of critique in international politics
• Brieg Powel, The ‘Mesopotamian trap’: from the ‘first’ international to dynamic multiplicity
• Gabriel Mares, Recovering African contestation and innovation in global politics: Francis Deng and sovereignty-as-responsibility
• Sean W.D. Gray & Mark E. Warren, What kind of power can citizens exercise beyond the state? Globalizing democracy through representative claim-making
• Alex Prichard, Kenneth Waltz's Kantian moral philosophy: ‘the virtues of anarchy’ reconsidered

Call for Papers: Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Armed Conflict

The Centre for Fundamental Rights at the Hertie School, the Essex Armed Conflict and Crisis Hub and the Human Rights Centre at the University of Essex, and the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights at the University of Oxford have issued a call for papers for a research workshop on "Protection of Human Rights in the Context of Armed Conflict," to be held June 13, 2025, at the Hertie School, Berlin. The call is here.

Linderfalk & De Brabandere: International Law and the Significance of Disciplinary Boundaries: Special Regimes as Communities of Practice

Ulf Linderfalk (Lunds Universitet) & Eric De Brabandere (Universiteit Leiden) have published International Law and the Significance of Disciplinary Boundaries: Special Regimes as Communities of Practice (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Over the last thirty or so years, international law and legal practice have become increasingly more specialized and diversified. These developments come with an increasingly divergent legal practice, in what has been coined as 'special regimes'. This book proposes a new understanding of the concept of a special regime to explain why specialists in different fields of international law do similar things differently. It argues that special regimes are best conceived as communities of practice, in the sense of Etienne Wenger's theory of communities of practice. It explores how the theory of communities of practice translates to the context of international law and the concept of a special regime. The authors draw up an innovative methodology to investigate their theory, focused on the conduct of community members, and apply this method to selected case studies, offering an original approach to the understanding of the special regimes in international law.

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 38, no. 2, Summer 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: The Problem with International Order
• Ian Hurd, Introduction: The Problem with the Problem of Order
• Trine Flockhart, Order as Resilience-Governance of Sameness and Diversity
• Ian Hurd, World Order from Birmingham Jail
• Lina Benabdallah, The Liberal International Order as an Imposition: A Postcolonial Reading
• Jennifer Mitzen, The Politics of Pedagogy: The Problem of Order in the IR Classroom
• Owen R. Brown, The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition
• Ayşe Zarakol, Rethinking International Order
• Features
• Benoît Pelopidas & Neil C. Renic, The Tragedy Trap: On the Tragicized Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Armed Drones and the Making of Unaccountability

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 78, no. 3, Summer 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Soyoung Lee, Resources and Territorial Claims: Domestic Opposition to Resource-Rich Territory
• Sara M.T. Polo & Blair Welsh, Violent Competition and Terrorist Restraint
• Meicen Sun, Damocles's Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control
• Janina Beiser-McGrath, Sam Erkiletian, & Nils W. Metternich, The Role of Pan-African Ideology in Ethnic Power Sharing
• Matt Malis, Foreign Policy Appointments
• Review Essay
• Haoming Xiong, David A. Peterson, & Bear F. Braumoeller, Reconceptualizing International Order: Contemporary Chinese Theories and Their Contributions to Global IR
• Research Notes
• David A. Steinberg & Daniel McDowell, Race, Representation, and the Legitimacy of International Organizations
• Chase Bloch & Roseanne W. McManus, Denying the Obvious: Why Do Nominally Covert Actions Avoid Escalation?

New Issue: Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 24, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Renana Keydar, Vera Shikhelman, Tomer Broude, & Jonathan Elkobi, The Discursive Evolution of Human Rights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations
• Lee Hansen & Renginee G Pillay, Filling the Accountability Gap: Misleading Conduct Law in Business and Human Rights
• Michelle Bruijn, X Factors and Tipping Points in Eviction Cases: A Statistical Analysis of Eviction Litigation of the European Court of Human Rights

Bhat, Ukey, & Variath: International Space Law in the New Space Era: Principles and Challenges

Sandeepa Bhat B. (West Bengal National Univ. of Juridical Sciences - Law), Dilip Ukey (Maharashtra National Law Univ. - Law), & Adithya Variath (Maharashtra National Law Univ. - Law) have published International Space Law in the New Space Era: Principles and Challenges (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

The increasingly commercial nature of space activities and the intent of States to expand space travel have spawned renewed attempts of changing the foundations of space law, most of which originated in the twentieth century. Understanding the principles of international space law is essential for ensuring a sustainable future for all in outer space.

International Space Law in the New Space Era addresses the international legal and regulatory aspects of outer space that govern developments in the field worldwide. It covers the five United Nations' space treaties along with soft law and other policies. With contributions from established experts in the domain of space law, the volume encompasses the entire gamut of international space law while simultaneously addressing inadequacies that have arisen in light of current developments such as space commercialization, space tourism, and space mining.

Pagallo: The New Laws of Outer Space: Ethics, Legislation, and Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Ugo Pagallo (Univ. of Turin - Law) has published The New Laws of Outer Space: Ethics, Legislation, and Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hart Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

Humanity is on the brink of a new space era in which projects for permanent human colonies on the Moon and space missions with autonomous AI systems will soon become a reality. Principles and provisions of international space law fall increasingly short in tackling this scenario. Experts and institutions have recommended improvements to the legal framework, such as new international agreements, or policies that would not require any amendment to conventional law. Most of the time, such proposals and recommendations overlook the challenges posed by technology and how autonomous and intelligent systems in outer space require moral and legal standards of their own.

This book argues that the traditional focus on satellite communications, space-related services, and the appropriability of celestial resources needs to be integrated by new laws of outer space regulating cybersecurity law and environmental law, data governance and consumer protection. The new laws of outer space will increasingly concern the development of new standards for the behaviour and decision-making of AI systems and smart robots, with and without humans aboard deep space missions and in next-generation colonies.

Lesaffer & Peters: The Cambridge History of International Law: Volume 1. The Historiography of International Law

Randall Lesaffer (KU Leuven & Tilburg Univ.) & Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) have published The Cambridge History of International Law: Volume 1. The Historiography of International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Volume I of The Cambridge History of International Law introduces the historiography of international law as a field of scholarship. After a general introduction to the purposes and design of the series, Part 1 of this volume highlights the diversity of the field in terms of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and perspectives that have informed both older and newer historiographies in the recent three decades of its rapid expansion. Part 2 surveys the history of international legal history writing from different regions of the world, spanning roughly the past two centuries. The book therefore offers the most complete treatment of the historical development and current state of international law history writing, using both a global and an interdisciplinary perspective.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: New Pathways Toward Supply Chain Accountability

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “New Pathways Toward Supply Chain Accountability.” The symposium includes an introduction by León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Tibisay Morgandi, and Sergio Puig, and contributions by Carsten Koenig, Tibisay Morgandi, Humberto Cantú Rivera, Jason Rudall, Jowita Mieszkowska, and Sarah Vandenbroucke.

Call for Papers: 32nd Annual ANZSIL Conference

The Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 32nd Annual Conference, to be held July 2-4, 2025, at Australian National University. The theme is: "International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance." The call is here.

Ruys, Ryngaert, & Rodríguez Silvestre: The Cambridge Handbook of Secondary Sanctions and International Law

Tom Ruys (Ghent Univ.), Cedric Ryngaert (Utrecht Univ.), & Felipe Rodríguez Silvestre (Ghent Univ.) have published The Cambridge Handbook of Secondary Sanctions and International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

We live in an age of sanctions. For geopolitical reasons, powerful states and economic blocks increasingly impose unilateral measures restricting economic transactions with certain target states. These sanctions may apply to transactions between the sanctioning state and a target country but may at times also extend to transactions between third states and the target state. By imposing such 'secondary' sanctions, states aim to further isolate the target state. The extraterritorial character of secondary sanctions makes them controversial, as they impinge on third states' economic sovereignty and the latter's operators' freedom to conduct international business. This book addresses the legality of secondary sanctions from multiple legal perspectives, such as general international law, international economic law, and private law. It examines how third states and operators can legally react against secondary sanctions, e.g. via blocking legislation or litigation. It also provides economic and political perspectives on secondary sanctions.

Ho: New Property in International Law

Jean Ho (National Univ. of Singapore - Law) has published New Property in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Until now, the definition of property in international law has been poorly addressed. It is assumed that international law possesses sufficient content to regulate property, that provisions in international instruments addressing property rights are shown to act, and that resolutions of property disputes are claimed to be in accordance with international law. Yet, when asked to define key attributes of property in international law are, the legal world draws a collective blank.

New Property in International Law examines how international law consistently falls short when it comes to new property regulation, because key stakeholders have failed to define what property is. The book considers and categorises new property into three areas; cultural property, common property, and contingent property, aiming to carve out, update, and impart coherence to international property law. By sketching the contours of new property in international law through a rigorous analytical comparison of property concepts in the Western, Soviet, post-Soviet, Chinese and Islamic juristic traditions, this work enables a balanced distillation of core attributes of new property from diverse property concepts that can then be woven into a broadly acceptable and broadly applicable definition.

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 39, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Robin Churchill, Dispute Settlement in the Law of the Sea: Survey for 2023
• Peter Ehlers, Maritime Pilotage from the Perspective of the International Law of the Sea
• Andrew Friedman, The International Maritime Organization’s Revised Greenhouse Gas Strategy: A Political Signal of Shipping’s Regulatory Future
• Martin Ratcovich Leopardi, International Law and Ocean Nuclear Power Plants in the Arctic
• Klaas Willaert, The Interests of Developing States in the Area: Promoted or Neglected?
• Kimberley J Graham, Turning the Tide on Remnants of War at Sea? Toward the Principles for Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts
• Chuxiao Yu, Can and Should an International Court or Tribunal Define the Term ‘Marine Scientific Research’ under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Klaas Willaert, Protest at Sea against Deep Sea Mining Revisited: the MV Coco Case
• David Freestone, Clive Schofield, Richard Barnes, & Payam Akhavan, Request for an Advisory Opinion Submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, Case 31

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 37, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Ingo Venzke, Against impact
• International Legal Theory: Symposium on Global South Perspectives on Methology and Critique in International Law
• Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Global south perspectives on methodology and critique in international law
• Abdelghany Sayed, What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images
• W.L. Cheah, Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial
• Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana, The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century
• Cristina Blanco Vizarreta, Rethinking international law along with Amazonian ontologies: problematizing human-non-human divisions
• Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Under the shadow of legality: A shadow hauntology on the legal construction of the Women, Peace and Security agenda
• International Law and Practice
• Lena Holzer, International sports federations as de facto lawmakers: Queer-feminist explorations of the gendered power of sports law
• Fabian Eichberger, Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback
• Géraldine Giraudeau, Lili Song, & Morsen Mosses, Chagos in the South Pacific? The principle of self-determination and the France-Vanuatu dispute over the Matthew and Hunter Islands
• Du Li, Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities
• Raphaël van Steenberghe, The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice
• International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• René Provost & Vishakha Wijenayake, Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting
• Bruno Biazatti, To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 39, no. 2, Spring 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Agora on ISDS and Armed Conflicts
• Meg Kinnear, Paul Jean Le Cannu & Pierre Nosewicz, ICSID Preface Alain Farhad, Investment Protection in Situations of Armed Conflict: Evolution, Relevance and Challenges
• Dapo Akande, Armed Conflicts and Investor-State Disputes
• Samaa Haridi & Vivasvat Dadwal, The Protection of Intangible Property during Armed Conflict
• Borzu Sabahi & Farshad Rahimi Dizgovin, International Legal Framework Governing Assessment of Damages Caused to Foreign Investors in Armed Conflict
• Mohamed Shelbaya, Security Exceptions
• Zeynep Gunday Sakarya & Isabel Manfredonia, Extra-Treaty Defenses Available to States in Investment Disputes Arising from Armed Conflicts
• Floriane Lavaud & Marta Canneri, Evidentiary Challenges in the Context of Armed Conflict
• Case Comment
• Joseph Dyke, Infrastructure Services Luxembourg Sàrl and Energia Termosolar BV v Kingdom of Spain: Spain Fails to Secure Set Aside of Registration of Intra-EU ICSID Award in the English Commercial Court
• Articles
• Luke Nottage, Australia’s Ambivalence Again Around Investor-State Arbitration: Comparisons with Europe and Implications for Asia
• Nikos Braoudakis, Rosanne Craveia, & Clémentine Baldon, Neutralising the ECT Sunset Clause Inter Se
• Margrit Trein, The Duty of Arbitrators to Raise Suspected Corruption or to Investigate Poorly Particularized Allegations of Corruption
• Qianwen Zhang, What Can IIAs Contribute to Regulating Cross-border Data Transfer: A Threshold Analysis
• Mevelyn Ong, From Aspiration to Public Policy: Imprinting UNGP-Aligned Footprints of Corporate Responsibility and Accountability into the Shifting Sands of International Arbitration Practice

Bhuta & Vallejo: Global Rights? Human Rights in Complex Governance

Nehal Bhuta (Univ. of Edinburgh - Law) & Rodrigo Vallejo (Univ. of Ambsterdam - Law) have published Global Rights? Human Rights in Complex Governance (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

What is the place of human rights law within global governance? How can we safeguard human rights in various sites of global governance? What is the role of the state, non-state actors, and global governance institutions in all this? Global Rights?: Human Rights in Complex Governance interrogates how human rights and global governance interact with various sub-fields of international and transnational regulation to answer these foundational questions.

The volume offers a detailed exploration of the role of human rights in global governance contexts, such as the sovereign debt regime, global value chains, development assistance, international food governance, and the laws of war. Through an in-depth study of several global governance regimes based on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, this volume challenges the mainstream discourse on the evolution of human rights law and its limits. As a result, issue areas that are rarely in conversation with each other--such as the World Bank's practices and the law on the use of force--are examined through a common analytical framework that is both rich and flexible enough to shed new light on individual areas of concern and simultaneously reflect on cross-cutting themes.

Bringing human rights experts together with leading scholars in the law of international organizations, public finance, corporations, and use of force, Global Rights? thus serves as a contemporary reflection and set of arguments on how to study and productively think about human rights in complex governance settings.

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 35, no. 3, August 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Editorial: In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews; The Three Scholars behind ScholarOne: EJIL’s Associate Editors
• Articles
• Madelaine Chiam, Monique Cormier, and Anna Hood, Law, War and Letter Writing
• Taylor St John, Malcolm Langford, Yuliya Chernykh, Øyvind Stiansen, Tarald Gulseth Berge, & Sergio Puig, Bargaining in the Shadow of Awards
• Jason Webb Yackee, The First French BIT
• Hedi Viterbo & Yulia Ioffe, No Refuge from Childhood: How Child Protection Harms Refugees
• Critical Review of Governance
• Diego Zannoni, Are We Opening Pandora’s Box? Clones, Human Spare Parts and International Law
• Cecily Rose, The Progressive Development of International Law on the Return of Stolen Assets: Mapping the Paths Forward
• Critical Review of Jurisprudence
  • Salvatore Caserta and Mikael Rask Madsen, When the Sun, the Moon and the Stars Align: Litigating LGBTQIA+ Rights and the Death Penalty in East Africa and the Caribbean
• Roaming Charges
• Things with a Soul: Low Tech
• Review Essay
• Thomas Bustamante, Taking Dworkin’s Legal Monism Seriously
• Book Reviews
• STracy-Lynn Field & Michael Hennessy Picard, reviewing Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
• Jelena Bäumler, reviewing Ivano Alogna, Christine Bakker, & Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds), Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives
• Daniel Müller, reviewing Lukas Vanhonnaeker, Shareholders’ Claims for Reflective Loss in International Investment Law
• Diego Mejía-Lemos, reviewing Imogen Saunders, General Principles as a Source of International Law: Art 38(1)(c) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Book Review Symposium: The Hague Academy (Part II)
• Moritz Koenig, Turkey, the Hague Academy and International Law in the Interwar Period: The Transnational Thinking of Ahmed Reşid
• Artur Simonyan, Russia’s Counter-revolutionary International Law in the Scholarship of Boris Mirkine-Guetzévitch
• Karin van Leeuwen, The Hague Academy as a Space of Encounter: How Scelle’s 1933 Teachings on National Courts Landed in the Netherlands
• Diane Marie Amann, A Nuremberg Woman and the Hague Academy
• The Last Page
• Adalbert Stifter, Müdigkeit (transl. Susan McClements Wyss)

Cassese: Experiencing Evil War, Torture, Genocide, Terrorism on the Dock: A conversation with Giorgio Acquaviva (English Translation)

Antonio Cassese has published Experiencing Evil War, Torture, Genocide, Terrorism on the Dock: A conversation with Giorgio Acquaviva (2011; translation by Robert Bouygue 2023). Here's the abstract:

You find here the English edition of Antonio Cassese’s book-length interview with Italian journalist Giorgio Acquaviva, originally published in Italian in 2011 (L’esperienza del male – Guerra, tortura, genocidio, terrorismo alla sbarra, Il Mulino), a few months before his passing. The book was later translated into Spanish (Pensando en derechos humanos) and German (Nachdenken über Menschenrechte). This self-published English edition, released by the Initiative, marks the first time the work is available to an English-speaking audience.

This volume is a compelling invitation to reflect on the principles of justice, human rights, and the enduring power of law to transform societies. It addresses critical questions, such as what genocide is, how to combat terrorism lawfully, and the role of human rights as a cornerstone of our lives.

The book also delves into his reflections on Palestine, including a peace plan he co-authored in the 1980s that was ultimately shelved by the Italian government. It highlights examples of courageous judges and activists and rejects the passive mindset that disasters are inevitable or that one should “mind their own business.” The book also examines the shift in global ethos over recent decades, driven by public demands for justice that were unthinkable before the 1990s—and unprecedented before the Nuremberg post World War II trial.

This victim-centered approach has fostered a burgeoning global public opinion. Antonio Cassese discusses the challenges and prospects of the International Criminal Court (the ICC), an institution he passionately supported yet lamented for its shortcomings. Throughout the book, he advocates for a robust international rule of law that goes beyond the ICC, emphasizing the fundamental need for every individual to assert their rights and achieve justice, even when confronting the modern Leviathan.

New Issue: Journal of International Dispute Settlement

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 15, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Costanza Margiotta Broglio & Federico Ortino, Treaty interpretation, multilinguism, and the WTO dispute settlement system: towards the comparative translation paradigm?
• Vahid Rezadoost, Unveiling the ‘author’ of international law — The ‘legal effect’ of ICJ’s advisory opinions
• Julien Chaisse, Arbitration in cross-border data protection disputes
• Juan Miguel Alvarez Contreras, The ‘no greater rights’ principle: heading to a new Calvo Clause?
• Yating Lin, ‘China’s Disequilibrium’ in ISDS: an interplay of China’s trade-offs and domestic institutions to investment treaty policy

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 55, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Enduring and Emerging Issues of the Law of the Sea: A Special Issue in Honor of Professor Ted L. McDorman
• Suzanne Lalonde, Clive Schofield & Kristin Bartenstein, Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Suzanne Lalonde & P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Moving Beyond Benign Neglect: The Beaufort Sea Dispute and the Benefits of Compromise Solutions between Salt Water Neighbors, An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Elizabeth Elliot-Meisel, Resolution at the Intersection of Sovereignty and Security in the Northwest Passage Dispute: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Erik Franckx, Arctic Straight Baselines: Time for a Revisit?—An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, Complexities and Complications: Delineating and Delimiting Russia’s Arctic Continental Shelf as the Russian Federation Wages War on Ukraine, An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Tore Henriksen, The Dispute over the Geographical Application of the Svalbard Treaty: Into a New Phase, An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Young Kil Park, Evaluation of South Korea’s Growing Activities in the Changing Arctic: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Natalie Klein, The South China Sea Code of Conduct and the Freedom of Navigation: A Proposal in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Seokwoo Lee, Evolution of the Law of the Sea and Ocean Policy in Northeast Asia
• Donald McRae & Amanda Turnbull, The 1999 Pacific Salmon Agreement: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Donald R. Rothwell, Bilateral Law of the Sea Neighbors: Australia and New Zealand’s Partnership and McDorman’s North American Rivals
• Joanna Mossop & Clive Schofield, Options for Cooperation and Joint Management in Disputed Areas of the Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Stuart Kaye, The Impact of Advisory Opinions from the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea on the Work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Nigel Bankes, The Dispute Resolution and Advisory Opinion Provisions of the BBNJ Agreement: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Clive Schofield & David Freestone, The Legal Regime of Islands after the South China Sea Award—Orphaned or Influential? An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Kuan-Hsiung Wang, From Fishery Resources Conservation to Labor Protection: RFMOs and the Development of Combating IUU, An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Kristin Bartenstein, ‘Inconvenient Conveniences’: An Essay on Extraterritorial Port State Jurisdiction, in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Aldo Chircop, Pollution Substitution? Scrubber Discharges and the Law of the Sea: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Yoshifumi Tanaka, The Concept of Adjacent Coastal States in the BBNJ Agreement: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• David L. VanderZwaag & Abdul Hafez Mahamah, International Governance of Marine Geoengineering: Sketchy Seascape, Foggy Future—An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman

New Issue: Journal on the Use of Force and International Law

The latest issue of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law (Vol. 11, nos. 1-2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Francis Grimal & Michael J. Pollard, A Blurring of Lines: The Jus ad Bellum Past, Present, and Future
• Jasmin Johurun Nessa & Agata Kleczkowska, Jus ad bellum series: self-defence against armed non-state actors in the MENA region
• Juliet Skingsley, ‘Cyber-rattling: can ‘pre-positioning’ in cyberspace amount to a threat of the use of force under Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter?
• Sava Jankovic & Volker Roeben, The threat of Russia's force in Ukraine
• Toby Fenton, An analysis of pre-attack self-defence doctrines through a risk-based lens
• Monique Cormier & Anna Hood, Breaking the impasse: the case for establishing a no first nuclear threat norm
• Ka Lok Yip, To call a spade a spade: use of force depriving a people of their right to self-determination as violation of Jus Contra Bellum
• Deyi Ma & Yanlin Zhou, Peacetime Maritime Law Enforcement by Warships
• Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, ‘Bombable geographies’ and the international Monroe: a global south history of the unwilling or unable standard
• Francis Grimal & Michael J. Pollard, Concurrent application and artificially intelligent target selection
• Jasmin Johurun Nessa, Agata Kleczkowska & Seyfullah Hasar, Digest of state practice: 1 July – 31 December 2023
• Jasmin Johurun Nessa, Agata Kleczkowska & Seyfullah Hasar, Digest of state practice: 1 January – 30 June 2024

Call for Submissions: Polish Yearbook of International Law

The Polish Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its next volume (vol. 44, 2024). The deadline is January 31, 2025. The call is here.

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 28, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Vahid Rezadoost, The Legal Policy of the International Court of Justice: A Conceptual Framework
• Muhammad Ekramul Haque & Md. Abu Bakar Siddique, Protection of Refugees in the Non-Signatory States to the 1951 Refugee Convention: Bangladesh Case Study
• R. Rajesh Babu & S. Pandiaraj, India’s Refugee Protection and Border Control: Some Reflections on State Practice
• Arie Afriansyah & Muhammad Syahravi Hatta, Dilemmatic Border Protection: Indonesia’s International Obligation for Refugees vs National Interests
• Kanami Ishibashi, Immigration Control in Japan: Can the Revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act of 2023 Justify Japan’s Policy?
• Battogtokh Javzandolgor, International Refugee Law Protection: Practice in Mongolia
• Rommel J. Casis, Refugee Protection and Border Control in the Philippines
• Kitti Jayangakula, Refugee Protection in Thailand

New Volume: Polish Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Polish Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 43, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• General Articles
• J. Kranz, Supremacy Over Primacy...? Reflections on Legal Controversies Between Poland and the European Union (2015–2023)
• E.-U. Petersmann, How to Respond to UN Governance Failures? Lessons from Europe’s Economic and Environmental Constitutionalism
• M. Sobol, The European Commission and the Establishment of the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Case-Study for Institutionalist Analysis?
• R. Cardoso, Navigating Troubled Waters: Evaluating the Function and Material Legitimacy of European Criminal Law
• J. Kociubiński, State Aid for Green Technologies in the European Union: Limitations and Risks
• N.A. Marin & B. Manova, Putin’s Russia Before the International Court of Justice
• S. Poghosyan, Russia’s Discourse on Democracy in International Law
• M. Lipovský, What is “A Certain International Criminal Court” and Does the Choice of a Fully International or Internationalized (Hybrid) Court/Chambers Matter for the Crime of Aggression Committed Against Ukraine?
• L. Lumiste, There and Back Again? Russia’s Quest for Regulating War in Cyberspace
• K. Gavrysh, Prosecuting Individuals for Environmental Harm in the Armed Conflict BetweenRussia and Ukraine: The Case of Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
• Seminar: Universal Jurisdiction and the Crime of Aggression: The Challenges and Opportunities for JIT Member States
• D. Sagatienė, Championing Accountability: Lithuania’s Leadership in Investigating Russian Crimes in Ukraine
• G. Grigaite-Daugirde, Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine: Legality and Legitimacy of Domestic Prosecutions in Third States
• M. Biszczanik, The Inadmissibility of Jurisdictional Immunity of Persons Responsible for the Commission of International Crimes in Terms of Domestic Universal Jurisdiction Proceedings
• H. Kuczyńska & Michał Nasiłowski, The Polish Investigation into Core Crimes Committed in Ukraine: Practical Aspects of the Functioning of the JIT
• Ł. Kułaga, Domestic and International Criminal Jurisdiction in the Context of the Initiative for a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression
• A. Kosylo & A. Dmytriv, Implementation and Interpretation of the Definitions of International Crimes in the National Jurisdiction of Ukraine
• A. Korynevych, O. Senatorova & M. Shepitko, Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in International and Ukrainian Jurisdiction: Challenges and Prospects
• K. Aksamitowska, International Centre for the Prosecution of Russia’s Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine and the Role of New Technologies and Justice Hubs in the Fight Against Impunity
• Polish Practice
• G. Wierczyński & K. Wierczyńska, Polish Practice on Promulgation of International Agreements Between Poland and the USSR, 1944-1960
• Book Reviews
• K. Sulyok, Lukasz Gruszczynski, Joanne Scott, The WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. A Commentary, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2023, pp. 384
• M. Safta, Aleksandra Mężykowska, Anna Młynarska-Sobaczewska, Persuasion and Legal Reasoning in the ECtHR Rulings Balancing Impossible Demands, Routledge, Oxon and New York: 2023, pp. 230
• A. Mężykowska, Jason Scott Palmer, Reparations in Domestic and International Mass Claims Processes: Justice and Money, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham: 2023, pp. 200
• A. Jakubowski, Grega Pajnkihar, State Succession to Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts, Brill- Nijhoff, Boston-Leiden: 2023, pp. xii + 389
• S. Zaręba, Mateusz Błachucki, International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks, Routledge, Oxford-New York: 2023, pp. 296