New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly

The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 46, no. 3, August 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Chuanju Cheng, Securing the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: The Case of Taiwan and Hunting
• Kimberly Theidon, Guerrilla Governance: Troubling Gender in the FARC
• Douglas Pretsell & Timothy Willem Jones, How Human Rights Became Gay Rights: A History of Toonen v Australia
• Jenna Norosky & Charli Carpenter, The Right to Flee the Dangers of War: Rethinking Ukraine’s Gender-Based Restriction on Civilian Men’s Freedom of Movement
• Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky & Juan Cruz Goñi, Limits to Negotiated Accountability of Economic Accomplices: The Case of Volkswagen do Brasil
• Jeremy Julian Sarkin & Tatiana Morais, The Agency of Refugees and Asylum-Seeking Women in the Face of the Inability of States to Provide Protection Against Sexual and Gender-Based Violence

SFDI: La participation aux organisations internationales

The Société française pour le droit international has published La participation aux organisations internationales : Etat des lieux et perspectives - Journée de Lyon (Pedone 2024). The table of contents is here.

New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 19, no. 3, September 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Power of the Weak
• Duncan Snidal, Thomas Hale, Emily Jones, Claas Mertens & Karolina Milewicz, The power of the “weak” and international organizations
• Lauren L. Ferry & Alexandra O. Zeitz, The power of having powerful friends: Evidence from a new dataset of IMF negotiating missions, 1985-2020
• Katherine M. Beall, Empowering to constrain: Procedural checks in international organizations
• Susanna P. Campbell & Aila M. Matanock, Weapons of the weak state: How post-conflict states shape international statebuilding
• Julia C. Morse & Bridget Coggins, Your silence speaks volumes: Weak states and strategic absence in the UN General Assembly
• Andrew Lugg, Re-contracting intergovernmental organizations: Membership change and the creation of linked intergovernmental organizations
• Michael W. Manulak, The sources of influence in multilateral diplomacy: Replaceability and intergovernmental networks in international organizations
• Rafael Mesquita, The only living guerrillero in New York: Cuba and the brokerage power of a resilient revisionist state

Arimatsu & Chinkin: Gendered Peace through International Law

Louise Arimatsu (London School of Economics - Centre for Women, Peace and Security) & Christine Chinkin (London School of Economics - Centre for Women, Peace and Security) have published Gendered Peace through International Law (Hart Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

Two leading feminist lawyers reflect on gender in international law to set out what a gendered peace might look like and its impact on international law in this open access book.

In order to challenge orthodoxies, the book takes an unconventional approach, merging personal reflections, expert essays, and interviews. It throws the disciplinary net wide, drawing on international law, gender studies, international relations and history. The authors, undisputed global leaders in the field, challenge the reader to unlearn international law, in order to relearn it in a way that makes it more fit for purpose in the contemporary world. This seminal work is a clarion call to think about international law in a new and transformative way.

Oette: The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law

Lutz Oette (SOAS Univ. of London - Law) has published The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

The prohibition of torture and other cruel, inhuman, degrading treatment or punishment has a special status. It is the foremost international human rights norm protecting persons from attacks on their dignity and integrity. Consequently, it has been at the forefront of a series of developments in international human rights law and international law more broadly. Having withstood sustained challenges to its absolute nature in the 'war on terror', it has broadened its scope of application, becoming more sophisticated and complex in the process. The prohibition of torture increasingly interacts with other fields of human rights law, such as non-discrimination law, international criminal law, international humanitarian law, and international migration law.

The Transformation of the Prohibition of Torture in International Law analyses the nature and significance of this transformation and looks into the scope of the prohibition's further evolution. Empirical scholarship, innovative human rights body practice, and challenges from activists, particularly from the Global South, have focused on the relational nature of torture and other ill-treatment, its embeddedness in wider structures of power, and the role of international law in legitimizing-if not facilitating-widespread suffering, from mass incarceration to poverty and climate change. This analysis reveals an inherent tension in the prohibition between a conventional, narrow focus on direct State violence and a wide lens encompassing myriad forms of suffering. To retain its validity and effectiveness in the twenty-first century, argues Lutz Oette, the prohibition on torture must navigate this tension and successfully address and transform abusive power asymmetries.

Call for Papers: ASIL International Economic Law Interest Group Biennial Conference

The American Society of International Law International Economic Law Interest Group has issued a call for papers for its biennial conference, which will take place May 16-17, 2025, at University of Michigan Law School. The theme is: “New Tools Instead of Old Rules? The Changing Instruments of International Economic Law.” The call is here.

New Issue: Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy

The latest issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy (Vol. 9, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Clive Schofield, Yucong Wang, & I Made Andi Arsana, Drawing the Dragon’s Claw: China Declares Territorial Sea Baselines in the Gulf of Tonkin
• Long Thang Tran, ASEAN Legal Framework for Cooperation against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU): Significance, Challenges and Proposed Solutions
• Hao Shen, Towards an Integrated Legal Regime for Data and Sample Regulation under China’s Deep Seabed Mining Law
• Yu Luan, Cabotage Law Coordinately Applied Based on ‘One Country, Two Systems’ in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao GBA
• Clive Schofield & Frances AnggadiThe Australia-Tuvalu Falepili Union Treaty: Opportunities and Controversies

Call for Papers: Balancing Contradicting Human Rights Obligations in Armed Conflicts and Counter Terrorism

The Minerva Center for the Rule of Law under Extreme Conditions at the University of Haifa's Faculty of Law and School of Environmental Sciences, in collaboration with the Institute of Law and Technology at Masaryk University, have issued a call for papers for a workshop on "Balancing Contradicting Human Rights Obligations in Armed Conflicts and Counter Terrorism," to take place December 2-4, 2024, in Prague. The call is here.

New Issue: Transnational Legal Theory

The latest issue of Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 15, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Sebastian Meyer, Toleration in the European Union: a forgotten virtue
• Richard Clements, Professional field-work: constructing global health law as an ‘emerging field’
• Luiza Leite de Queiroz, A link without a right, or ubi nexus, ibi jus (?): international human rights instruments & international tax policy
• Clemens M Rieder, The construction of social Europe through transnational equality
• Franco Peirone, All in good time: temporal forms of public law decisions
• Joseph Parampathu, From securities to currencies: the regulatory consequences of adopting cryptocurrencies as legal tender

Call for Papers: EU Trade and Investment Law Workshop – "Questioning Economic Security"

The Utrecht Centre for Regulation and Enforcement in Europe has issued a call for papers for the third edition of its informal workshop on EU trade and investment policy, to take place on December 6, 2024. The topic is: "Questioning Economic Security." The call is here.

Call for Papers: 2025 ESIL Research Forum

A call for papers has been issued for the 2025 ESIL Research Forum, which will take place March 20–21, 2025, and hosted by the Department of Law of the University of Catania. The topic is: “International Law in the Age of Permacrisis.” The Forum targets scholars at an early stage of their careers. The call is here. The deadline is September 30, 2024.

Call for Papers: The Gaza War and International Law: Norms and Institutions

A call for papers has been issued for the 19th Annual Minerva Conference on International Humanitarian Law, to take place December 17-18, 2024, at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Minerva Center for Human Rights. The theme is: "The Gaza War and International Law: Norms and Institutions." The call is here.