Clark: Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance

Richard Clark (Univ. of Notre Dame - Political Science) has published Cooperative Complexity: The Next Level of Global Economic Governance (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Over the course of the twentieth century, states engaged in cooperation through international organizations at unprecedented levels. However, the twenty-first century has featured the emergence of next-level forms of cooperation: international organizations working together. This pattern is especially apparent among economic international organizations, which often pool resources and expertise to jointly implement programs in member state territories. Cooperative Complexity argues that such cooperation is politically efficient but not necessarily economically efficient; it helps geopolitically aligned organizations enforce their preferred policies but can drive inefficient economic outcomes. Combining a general theoretical model with quantitative, qualitative, and experimental research designs, this book disentangles the complex ties that connect international organizations. In doing so, it reveals how a deeper understanding of the supply side of international finance is critical for gaining insights about the form, effectiveness, and likely future of global economic governance.

Cohen: The International Order, International Law, and the Definition of Security

Harlan Grant Cohen (Fordham Univ. - Law) has posted The International Order, International Law, and the Definition of Security (Michigan Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

As economic security has seemingly moved to the center of American and European foreign policy, both the United States and the European Union have broadened their interpretation of international law rules governing security, coercion, and intervention. But these interpretations are not exactly new, echoing developing state interpretations of international law that developed states had long ago seemingly rejected. How are these once moribund interpretations of security, force, and coercion being brought back to life?

This essay argues that these interpretative shifts highlight the role of the international order as an interpretative mechanism within international law. Borrowing from the work of Robert Cover, it explains the ways that the international order acts as a jurispathic agent within the system, judging which interpretations live on and which are cast aside. As global power shifts, the international order shifts with it, potentially reopening interpretative fights over international law. Today’s fights over the meaning of security, force, and coercion thus reflect both the realities of a changing order and the battle to shape the one to come.

Landefeld: Individuals in International Humanitarian Law: A Historical Analysis

Sarina Landefeld (Univ. of Leicester - Law) has published Individuals in International Humanitarian Law: A Historical Analysis (Hart Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

This book offers a new, more critical perspective on the regulation and protection of individuals under international humanitarian law.

Providing a historical account of the changing conceptualisation of individuals since 1864, the study draws on social constructivism. This approach casts light on the struggle of making sense of, and agreeing on, the position of individuals in armed conflicts during the law-making process, often hidden by international humanitarian law's conventional narratives. This intriguing study grapples with a difficult and disputed area of the law of armed conflict, making a singular and significant contribution which will be welcomed by all scholars in the field.

Navarro: The Effectiveness of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Case of Indigenous Territorial Rights

Gabriela CB Navarro (Federal Univ. of Minas Gerais - Law) has published The Effectiveness of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Case of Indigenous Territorial Rights (Hart Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

The Inter-American Court of Human Rights has the most developed jurisprudence on indigenous rights, yet this case law is understudied. This book addresses this gap by exploring the Court and its cases from both the perspective of international law and the legal protection of indigenous territories.

Setting out the network of actors and institutions involved in such litigation, it examines the motivations and constraints in domestic politics affecting international orders (and by extension the impact of the Court). It provides both an important statement on the effectiveness of international tribunals and a fascinating insight into the evolution of indigenous rights.

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

The latest issue of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (Vol. 25, no. 1, March 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Tibebu Shito Kebede, The influence of domestic politics on the transboundary water interactions in the Eastern Nile
• Huseyin Caliskan, Ustuner Birben, & Sezgin Ozden, Forest management in Türkiye: economic pressures, legal frameworks, and ecological consequences
• Faradj Koliev & Karin Bäckstrand, Citizen preferences for climate policy implementation: the role of multistakeholder partnerships
• So Yeon Kim & Hyun Jung Kim, ‘Common but differentiated’ motivations? Requests for advisory opinions concerning climate change and the law of the sea
• Kalia Ruth Barkai & Harald Winkler, Developing a framework for assessing equity in national contributions to the global goal on adaptation
• Okechukwu Enechi & Philipp Pattberg, Stakeholder motivations for participation in partnerships for the SDGS: the case of Nigeria
• Luciana C. Silvestri & Marisa Roig-Cerdeño, Genetic resources are, above all, information: perspectives from law, biology and economics
• Liliana Lizarazo-Rodriguez, Alice Lopes Fabris, & Doreen Montag, Indigenous peoples as trustees of forests: a bio-socio-cultural approach to international law

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, nos. 1-2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Evolving Role of International Judicial Advisory Opinions
• Kathryn Allinson & Beril Sogut, Editorial: Special Issue on the Evolving Role of International Judicial Advisory Opinions
• Christoph U. Priess, Parallel Advisory Proceedings: The Climate Change Advisory Proceedings Before the ICJ, the ITLOS and the IACtHR
• Andreas Kulick, Between Advice and Miracle: Expectations and Persuasiveness of ICJ Advisory Opinions
• Walter Arévalo-Ramírez & Andrés Rousset-Siri, Measuring the Impact of Advisory Opinions in the Inter-American Human Rights System Categorizing the Effects of Advisory Opinions in States and the Organs Involved in Their Implementation
• Anna Rubbi, Laura Behre, & Natalia Ameen-Rey, Upcoming Advisory Opinions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Analysing the Trajectory of the Court’s Advisory Opinions
• Andrea Longo, Beyond Climate Change Obligations: Which Lessons from the ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Ocean Acidification for the Progressive Development of the Law of the Sea?
• Muyiwa Adigun, Climate Change Litigation before International Human Rights Tribunals in Africa: The Role of Advisory Opinions
• Sarah Thin, The Benefits of an Open-Door Policy: International Organisations and the Promotion of Common and Community Interests in ICJ Advisory Proceedings

Call for Papers: Narratives in International Courts and Tribunals

The Latin American Society of International Law's Interest Group on International Courts and Tribunals has issued a call for papers for a workshop on "Narratives in International Courts and Tribunals," to take place online on June 25, 2025. The call is here.

Mayer: Environmental Assessment as a Tool for Climate Change Mitigation

Benoit Mayer (Univ. of Reading - Law) has published Environmental Assessment as a Tool for Climate Change Mitigation (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Most governments have established procedures to appraise the environmental impacts of proposed activities. The focus of these environmental assessment procedures has long been on local environmental issues, such as air, water, and land pollution, which have a direct and concrete effect on communities. In recent years, however, these procedures have increasingly been used to consider how activities could result in the emission of greenhouse gases and exacerbate climate change.

Environmental Assessment as a Tool for Climate Change Mitigation builds on a broad survey of over one hundred national environmental assessment practices - legislation, guiding documents, cases, and administrative practice - to reflect on the main conceptual and practical issues facing climate assessment. By presenting and discussing jurisdictional developments and national debates in a global comparative perspective, this book aims to enrich our collective understanding of the modalities of and, ultimately, the mitigation opportunities arising from, the use of climate assessment in relation to proposed activities. The author concludes this timely and forward-looking volume by identifying good practices that lawmakers, regulators, national agencies, judges, and lawyers should consider when developing and applying the law on climate assessment.

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 106, no. 927, 2024) is out. The theme is: "IHL & Peace." Contents include:

• The ICRC's approach to peace: Interview with Eva Svoboda: Director of International Law, Policy and Archives, ICRC
• Cordula Droege, International humanitarian law and peace: A brief overview
• Ignazio Cassis, Wars have limits
• Interview with Franz Perrez: Director-General, Directorate of International Public Law, Swiss Ministry of Foreign Affairs
• Interview with Itonde Kakoma: President and CEO, Interpeace
• Daniel Palmieri, “Si vis pacem, impera bellum”: The ICRC, international humanitarian law and peace
• Evelyne Schmid, Optional but not qualified: Neutrality, the UN Charter and humanitarian objectives
• Diego Stöcklin, Redefining the neutral intermediary role: Balancing theoretical ideas with practical realities through the ICRC's experience in Yemen
• Rebecca Brubaker, Will Bennett & Hannah Ajelet Eriksen, Towards common ground: Strategies for effective collaboration between the humanitarian and peacebuilding communities
• Simon Robins & Jill Stockwell, Addressing missing persons arising from armed conflict as a driver of peace: Towards a research agenda
• Juana Inés Acosta López, Seeking balance: The role of Article 6(5) of Additional Protocol II in balancing justice and peace in transitions from armed conflict to peace
• Benjamin R. Farley & Alka Pradhan, Establishing a practical test for the end of non-international armed conflict
• Steven van de Put & Magdalena Pacholska, Beyond retribution: Individual reparations for IHL violations as peace facilitators
• Arnaaz Nizami Ameer, Whose war is it anyway? Proportionate reparations in wars of aggression
• Luke Moffett & Nikhil Narayan, Provisional justice in protracted conflicts: The place of temporality in bridging the international humanitarian law and transitional justice divide
• Noël Mfuranzima, Jus post bellum: Scope and assessment of the applicable legal framework
• Wendy Lambourne, International humanitarian law, jus post bellum and transformative justice

New Issue: Transnational Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the Transnational Criminal Law Review (Vol. 3, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Gordon Hook, Express Trusts and Beneficial Ownership in the Financial Action Task Force Recommendations: Conceptual Distortions
• Sam Hickey, Compensating the Victims of Foreign Bribery
• Deborah Nidel, Structural Ambiguity: Typologising Joint Investigation Teams
• Notes and Comments
• Dao Le Thu & Yvon Dandurand, International Cooperation in Combating Transnational Crime in Southeast Asia: Why has progress been so slow?

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 79, no. 1, Winter 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Caleb Pomeroy, The Damocles Delusion: The Sense of Power Inflates Threat Perception in World Politics
• Tessa Devereaux, The Determinants of Insurgent Gender Governance
• Casey Crisman-Cox & Michael Gibilisco, Tug of War: The Heterogeneous Effects of Outbidding Between Terrorist Groups
• Essay
• Stacie E. Goddard & Colleen Larkin, Nuclear Shibboleths: The Logics and Future of Nuclear Nonuse
• Research Notes
• Nikhar Gaikwad, Federica Genovese, & Dustin Tingley, Climate Action from Abroad: Assessing Mass Support for Cross-Border Climate Transfers
• Jason Lyall & Yuri Zhukov, Fratricidal Coercion in Modern War

New Issue: Chicago Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chicago Journal of International Law (Vol. 25, no. 2, Winter 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Richard Albert, Decolonial Constitutionalism
• Vivek Krishnamurthy, Anchoring Digital Sovereignty
• Gabriele Wadlig, The International Law of Land (Grabbing): Human Rights and Development in the Context of Racial Capitalism

New Issue: Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 25, no. 1, March 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Spyridoula Katsoni, Is the Obligation Not to Refoule a Positive Obligation? An Intermediate Approach Toward the Classification Dilemma
• Samantha Besson, The Institutional Guarantee of the Human Right to Science
• Short Articles & Recent Developments
• Patrick Leisure, Does the Osman Test Go to School? Recent Developments Concerning States’ Positive Obligations to Protect Children in School

Murphy: The Human Right to Resist in International and Constitutional Law

Shannonbrooke Murphy (St Thomas Univ.) has published The Human Right to Resist in International and Constitutional Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

The human right to resist is a contemporary legal concept with an ancient pedigree. Although it has received recognition in constitutions, customary international law and human rights treaties, and acknowledgment by leading publicists of international law, it remains obscure compared to other human rights. In this innovative and comprehensive book, Shannonbrooke Murphy addresses the perennial question of who has a 'right' to resist – and what, when, why, and how, from a legal perspective. Using a systematic and comparative approach to analyzing both the theoretical concept and the provisions in positive law, this study aims to establish that a 'right to resist' can be recognized and codified as an enforceable 'human right', proposing a common conceptual language and an analytical framework for evaluating the legal basis of claims. Murphy makes a strong and detailed case for a firmer place for the 'right to resist' in the human rights lexicon.

New Issue: Military Law and the Law of War Review / Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre

The latest issue of the Military Law and the Law of War Review / Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre (Vol. 62, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Samuel White & Ikhwan Fazli, Pax Britannica: a case study of pre-Hague Imperial laws of war
• Mateusz Piątkowski, Depictions of war crimes and international humanitarian law in video games
• Helen Stamp, Corporate data enablers: a missing piece in the regulatory response to the military use of artificial intelligence

Chapdelaine-Feliciati: The Status of the Girl Child under International Law: A Semioethic Analysis

Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool Univ.) has published The Status of the Girl Child under International Law: A Semioethic Analysis (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Clara Chapdelaine-Feliciati offers the first comprehensive study of the status of the girl child under international law. This book significantly contributes to bridging two fields usually studied separately: law and semiotics. The author engages in the novel legal semiotics theory to decode the meaning of international treaties (mainly the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, and International Covenants) and assess whether the provisions, as formulated, clearly identify the girl child and take into account the obstacles she faces as a result of sexism, childism, and intersectional discrimination. This is also the first book to apply The Significs Meaning Triad – Sense, Meaning, Significance – in international law, and Semioethics for both a diagnosis and prognosis of problematic signs in view of modifying the wording of relevant treaties.

New Issue: Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

The latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment (Vol. 16, no. 1, February 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Jane Bennett, William E Connolly, Dorothy Kwek, & Anna Grear, Eco-social new-materialist reflections for the Anthropocene
• Jane Bennett, Acting amidst: some concepts and practices
• William E Connolly, The Anthropocene as abstract machine
• Anna Grear, Jane Bennett, Nick Fox, Teresa Dillon, Emily Grabham, Mads Esjing, William Connolly, Andrew Vincent, Dorothy Kwek, Charlotte Wrigley, Julian Brigstocke, Branwen Gruffydd-Jones, Harshavardhan Bhat, & Alex Damianos, ‘Acting amidst’ – a conversation with Jane Bennett, facilitated by Anna Grear
• William E Connolly, Jane Bennett, Anna Grear, Teresa Dillon, Gulshan Khan, Harshavadhan Bhat, Alex Damianos, & Nick Fox, The Anthropocene as abstract machine – a conversation
• Elizabeth R Johnson, An other time
• Nick J Fox, Vital materialism from social theory to sociological lines of flight
• Julian Brigstocke, Drifting bodies, monstrous forms, cosmic meanings: a new materialist geography of Hong Kong’s sandy grounds
• Charlotte Wrigley, Discontinuity and the underground: permafrost imaginaries and subterranean worlds
• Emily Jones, Influencer
• Matilda Arvidsson, On gardens of the Anthropocene: gendered violence, colonial legal enclosures, and feminist posthuman kinship
• Sian Sullivan, On doodling and other modes of engagement in meltdown

Symposium: Artificial Intelligence and International Humanitarian Law

On April 3-4, 2025, Transnational Law & Contemporary Problems will hold its 2025 symposium on "Artificial Intelligence and International Humanitarian Law," in Iowa City. Details are here.

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 64, no. 1, February 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Verein Klimaseniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switz. (Eur. Ct. H.R.), with introductory note by Katalin Sulyok
• Rebuilding Economic Prosperity and Opportunity for Ukrainians Act (Public Law No. 118-50) (U.S.), with introductory note by Thomas Weatherall
• CASE C-873/19, Deutsche Umwelthife eV v. Bundesrepublik Deutschland (C.J.E.U.), with introductory note by Yumiko Nakanishi

Zarbiyev: Of Theory and Reality, and Airplanes and Helicopters

Fuad Zarbiyev (Geneva Graduate Institute) has posted Of Theory and Reality, and Airplanes and Helicopters (European Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

The general course on public international law delivered by Professor Alain Pellet at The Hague Academy of International Law deviates from the recent tendency indulged in by many general courses to approach the discipline from the angle of a particular theme. His is a course taking the phrase ‘general course on public international law’ quite literally. Despite the generalist outlook of the course, however, there is a guiding thread animating it – namely, Pellet’s vision of how the reality of international law should be approached by international lawyers – in particular, by international law academics. After a brief general presentation of the course, this review essay focuses on Pellet’s theory of the theory and reality of international law and attempts to offer some general observations about what such a theory means against the backdrop of the current state of the discipline.

New Issue: Journal of World Investment & Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Vol. 26, nos. 1-2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Georgios Dimitropoulos, Richard C. Chen, & Julien Chaisse, Plurilateralism: A New Form of International Economic Ordering?
• Bernard M. Hoekman & Petros C. Mavroidis, Plurilateral Agreements, Multilateralism and Economic Development
• David Collins, Plurilateralism and the New Geoeconomics of International Law
• Meredith Kolsky Lewis, Plurilateralism and Free Trade Agreements
• Georgios Dimitropoulos, Digital Plurilateralism in International Economic Law: Towards Unilateral Multilateralism?
• Maria Panezi, Good Will Hunting at the WTO: Is Plurilateralism Supporting or Undermining Multilateral Trade Governance
• Stratos Pahis, Can Plurilaterals Solve the WTO’s National Security Crisis?
• Timothy Meyer, Plurilateralism and the Future of International Investment Law
• Peter Hongler & Simon Habich, Plurilateralism in International Tax Law: a Unique Chance for the UN Framework Convention
• Weihuan Zhou & Victor Crochet, Confronting Fragmentation: a Quest for a Plurilateral Appellate Mechanism under the WTO
• Mélida Hodgson, Kabir Duggal, Katelyn Horne, & Ana S. Pirnia, The Dawn of a New Era: Advancing ESG Obligations in Arbitration through Plurilateralism

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 40, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Robert Beckman, Trung Nguyen, & Joel Ong, Possible Actions by Coastal States to Protect Their Marine Environment from Oil Tankers in the Dark Fleet
• Hilde Woker & Leonardo Bernard, A New Constraint to the Entitlement of a Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles? – Implications of the Recent Case Law
• Peter Ehlers, A Success Story? Fifty Years of MARPOL
• Samantha Robb, Contributing to Coherent Area-Based Management Tool (ABMT) Networks in ABNJ: A Comparative Analysis of the BBNJ Agreement and ISA ABMT Processes
• Juan He, Legitimising Fishing Port Use in the Information Age: Challenges and Potential in China
• Suk Kyoon Kim, An Approach to Maritime Cyber Security Risks: Nature and Countermeasures

Calls for Papers: IG Workshops – 2025 ESIL Annual Conference (Updated)

In the context of the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin, some ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for their pre-conference workshops. The calls currently open include:

• IG on International Courts and Tribunals: Reconstructing the Advisory Function of International Courts and Tribunals? (deadline: March 28, 2025)
• IG on International Criminal Justice: Reconstructing International Criminal Justice as It Unfolds (deadline: April 1, 2025)
• IG on the International Law of Culture: The Future and Past of ‘Progress’ in Cultural Heritage Law (deadline: 4 April 2025)
• IG on Migration and Refugee Law: De/Re-Constructing Asylum: New Actors, Processes and Spaces (deadline: 11 April 2025)
• IG on Feminism and International Law: Feminist Visions for Reconstructing International Law (deadline: April 15, 2025)
• IG on International Business and Human Rights: Reconstructing International Law: Structural Shifts Under the UN Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights (deadline: 15 April 2025)
• IG on International Environmental Law: Reconstructing International Environmental Law Through Adjudication (deadline: 20 April 2025)
• IG on International Human Rights Law: The Reconstruction of Victimhood in International Human Rights Law (deadline: 20 April 2025)

Núñez, Villa-Rosas, & Fabra-Zamora: Kelsen’s Legacy: Legal Normativity, International Law and Democracy

Jorge Emilio Núñez (Manchester Metropolitan Univ.), Gonzalo Villa-Rosas (Univ of Vienna), & Jorge Luis Fabra-Zamora (Univ. at Buffalo School of Law) have published Kelsen’s Legacy: Legal Normativity, International Law and Democracy (Hart Publishing 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This volume offers a comprehensive examination of Hans Kelsen's legal and political philosophy, focusing on four central themes. The first part analyses Kelsen's theory of norms, including its periodisation and concepts of validity and coercion. The second part explores his perspectives on international law, addressing its structural analysis, primitive law characterisation, and teleology. The third part examines Kelsen's theory of democracy, its relationship with the pure theory of law, collective will, and democratisation of the administration. The final part discusses Kelsen's influence on the Vienna School of Legal Theory and its impact on case law and jurisprudence beyond Europe. This collection is essential for scholars and practitioners seeking to understand Kelsen's legacy.

New Issue: Nordic Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 43, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Hans Morten Haugen, A Human Right to Science: Inadequate without Participation in Science? Human Rights as a Governance Tool in Scientific Fields
• Xu Kang, Navigating Tensions between Authoritarian Governance and Human Rights: Towards a Business and Human Rights Regime within China’s Dual-State Context
• Nina H. B. Jørgensen, Missing Migrants and the Right to Identification
• Gertrude Mafoa Quan & Ann Skelton, Age determination of unaccompanied migrant children: An appraisal of the jurisprudence of the Committee on the Rights of the Child
• Charles Manga Fombad, Constitutional Literacy in Africa: Imperatives for an Informed, Engaged, and Empowered Citizenry
• Daniela Alaattinoğlu, The Moment of Mobilization: The Legislative Consequences of Trans Rights Mobilization in Sweden, Norway, and Finland

New Issue: Global Constitutionalism

The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 14, no. 1, March 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Antje Wiener, Jo Shaw, Jonathan Havercroft, Susan Kang, & Stephanie Law, Contested compliance of obligations under international law: A take from Global Constitutionalism
• Special Issue: Academic Freedom: Conceptualisations, Contestations and Constitutional Challenges
• Kriszta Kovács & Janika Spannagel, Academic freedom: Global variations in norm conceptualization, diffusion and contestation – an introduction
• Katrin Kinzelbach, The origin and contested meaning of freedom in the human right to science
• Janika Spannagel, The constitutional codification of academic freedom over time and space
• Tanja A. Börzel & Janika Spannagel, The globalization of academic freedom
• Andrés Bernasconi, Latin America: Weak academic freedom within strong university autonomy
• Kwadwo Appiagyei-Atua, Coloniality and contestations over academic freedom in Africa
• Kriszta Kovács, Academic freedom in Europe: Limitations and judicial remedies
• Tamas Dezso Ziegler, Authoritarian governance of academia in Central and Eastern Europe: Chances of a European counter-culture
• Hualing Fu, Managed freedom in precarious times: Maintaining academic freedom in transitional Hong Kong

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 108, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• The latest wave of genocide cases before the International Court of Justice: Unpacking substantive and procedural issues
• Introduced by Alessandro Bufalini, Martina Buscemi and Loris Marotti
• Beatrice I. Bonafe, Impacts of substance on procedure: Genocide litigation before the ICJ
• Juliette McIntyre, The value of public hearings
• Roger O'Keefe, ‘Where is my mind?’: Locating the genocidal intent of a State
• Helen Duffy & Giulia Pinzauti, Genocide and armed conflict before the International Court of Justice

Sun: Finding a Balance in the Exclusive Economic Zone: Conflict and Stability in the Law of the Sea

Zhen Sun (World Maritime Univ. - WMU-Sasakawa Global Ocean Institute) has published Finding a Balance in the Exclusive Economic Zone: Conflict and Stability in the Law of the Sea (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Sun analyses the important and understudied subject of jurisdiction in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) over five groups of activities. It explores whether the basic premises and essential compromises of the EEZ regime established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea still hold true or whether there has been evolution in the regime in terms of accommodating the EEZ regulatory scheme to meet new needs and challenges. Significantly, the analysis of State practice indicates that coastal States have progressively asserted greater authority in defending their rights and jurisdiction in the EEZ, which have been broadly tolerated by the legal regime, and other user States. The stability of the EEZ regime is maintained by two legal doctrines that guide the attribution and exercise of the rights and freedoms of different States.

New Issue: GlobaLex

The latest issue of GlobaLex (January/Feburary 2025) is out. Congratulations to Globalex on celebrating its twentieth anniversary this year. Contents include:

• Thamil Venthan Ananthavimayagan, International Humanitarian Law

Murphy: The Human Right to Resist in International and Constitutional Law

Shannonbrooke Murphy (St Thomas Univ.) has published The Human Right to Resist in International and Constitutional Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

The human right to resist is a contemporary legal concept with an ancient pedigree. Although it has received recognition in constitutions, customary international law and human rights treaties, and acknowledgment by leading publicists of international law, it remains obscure compared to other human rights. In this innovative and comprehensive book, Shannonbrooke Murphy addresses the perennial question of who has a 'right' to resist – and what, when, why, and how, from a legal perspective. Using a systematic and comparative approach to analyzing both the theoretical concept and the provisions in positive law, this study aims to establish that a 'right to resist' can be recognized and codified as an enforceable 'human right', proposing a common conceptual language and an analytical framework for evaluating the legal basis of claims. Murphy makes a strong and detailed case for a firmer place for the 'right to resist' in the human rights lexicon.

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 31, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Tana Johnson, Revolutionary Aspects of Formal Inter-governmental Organizations
• Patrik Johansson, The UN Security Council and the Rejection of Draft Resolutions
• Andrew Harmer, Sustainably Financing the World Health Organization: A Narrative Literature Review
• Ali Kaif & Ubaid Sidique, Transnational Climate Change Governance in South Asia: Analyzing Effectiveness of Post-Paris Initiatives

Yip: Demystifying the Right to Life during the Conduct of Hostilities: Theories, Methods, Practices

Ka Lok Yip (Hamad Bin Khalifa Univ. - Law) has posted Demystifying the Right to Life during the Conduct of Hostilities: Theories, Methods, Practices (European Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

In determining the right to life under international human rights law (IHRL) during the conduct of hostilities, the traditional approach defers to the relevant rules of international humanitarian law (IHL) as ‘lex specialis’, while the ‘normative’ approach adopts an open-ended ‘contextual application’ of ‘systemic integration’. Neither approach provides a theoretical account that speaks to the heart of the matter – the just assignment of legal responsibility for the deprivation of life in war-fighting, where ‘responsibility’ implies the correct location of a ‘cause’ that is answerable, or ‘able’ to provide a ‘response’, for such deprivation. The invocation of causality in the social world in turn requires an account of social ontology, the study of what exists in society to cause anything at all. This article outlines a social ontological approach that reconnects the relevant norms under IHL and IHRL with different types of causes of deprivation of life in war-fighting in order to demystify the right to life in hostilities theoretically. It then demonstrates the proper use of systemic integration together with the legally prescribed ‘context’ and analyses concrete scenarios of deprivation of life in war-fighting in order to demystify the right to life in hostilities methodologically and practically.

New Issue: International Journal of Transitional Justice

The latest issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Vol. 19, no. 1, February 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Kelebogile Zvobgo & Francesca Parente, The Afterlives of Transitional Justice
• Articles
• Onur Bakiner, ‘The Strength Even to Comprehend the Incomprehensible’: Rereading Adorno in the Age of Authoritarian Resurgence
• Geoff Dancy & Oskar Timo Thoms, Transitional Justice and the Problem of Democratic Decline
• Cynthia M Horne, Public Attitudes toward On-Going Transitional Justice in Latvia: Sometimes More Isn’t Better
• Sofie Budhoo, Divisive Documents: Exploring the Local Impact of Legal Documents in Transitional Justice Contexts
• Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch & Jennifer M Dixon, The State of Repair: The International Norm of Reparations between Aspirations and Expectations
• Ulrike Lühe & Erin Baines, Difficult Stories that Haunt: Towards Research Otherwise in Transitional Justice
• Noha Aboueldahab, Breaking the Echo Chambers of Transitional Justice and TWAIL: An Intellectual and Policy Exchange
• Tine Destrooper & Elke Evrard, The (Many) Afterlives of Transitional Justice: Practice-based Insights on Continuity, Impact and Evolving Justice Struggles
• Notes from the Field
• María Paula Prada Ramírez & Leslie Wingender, Listening and Preparing the Society to Engage: The Case of the Colombian Truth Commission and Its Legacy Strategy
• Review Essay
• Cath Collins & Selbi Durdiyeva, ‘Too Long a Sacrifice?’: Post-Transitional Justice and the Afterlives of Authoritarianism

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Transdisciplinary Approaches to Migrant Solidarity in Theory, Law, and Praxis

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Transdisciplinary Approaches to Migrant Solidarity in Theory, Law, and Praxis.” The symposium includes an introduction by Alexandra Délano Alonso, Violeta Moreno-Lax, and Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and contributions by Nermeen Arastu, Linda Bosniak, Barbara Buckinx, Amelia Frank-Vitale, and Shannon Gleeson, Obiora Chinedu Okafor, Gabriella Sanchez, and Sarah Soto, Çiğdem Çıdam, Luba Cortés, Ayten Gündoğdu, and Violeta Moreno-Lax, Seán Binder, Jaya Ramji-Nogales, and Isabella Trombetta, Lisa Ariemma, Cecilia Bailliet, and Nayelli Torres-Salas, and Joyce De Coninck, Alexandra Délano Alonso, and Haddy Gassama.

Call for Papers: International Law Workshop in Honour of Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC

The University of Oxford has issued a call for papers for an "International Law Workshop in Honour of Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC," to be held June 17, 2025. The theme is: "Treaty Regimes in International Law." The call is here.

Call for Papers: SLADI/LASIL 7th Biennial Conference

The Sociedad Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional/Latin American Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its seventh biennial conference, to be held July 31-August 2, 2025, at the Universidad de la República, in Montevideo, Uruguay. The theme is: “América Latina en un mundo en vertiginosa transformación/América Latina em um mundo em vertiginosa transformação/Latin America in a Rapidly Changing World.” The call is here (English/Español/Português).

New Issue: Nordic Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 94, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Security and the formation and application of international law
• Michael Wood, Confidential Practice and International Law
• Britta Sjöstedt, Protecting War’s Unseen Environmental Damage
• Marja Lehto, The Right of Self-defence and Third State Provision of Arms: Reflections on the Current Debate
• Rolf Einar Fife, Indispensability of International Law for National Security. Advice to a Prince
• Marie Jacobsson, Reflections at the Symposium “Security and the Formation and Application of International Law”

New Issue: Michigan Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Michigan Journal of International Law (Vol. 46, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Oona A. Hathaway, Maggie M. Mills, & Heather Zimmerman, Crisis and Change at the United Nations: Non-Amendment Reform and Institutional Evolution
• Veronika Fikfak & Laurence R. Helfer, Automating International Human Rights Adjudication
• Jarrod Wong & Jason Yackee, Transparency, Accountability, and Influence in the International Investment Law System

New Issue: Business and Human Rights Journal

The latest issue of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Vol. 9, no. 3, October 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Marianna Capasso, Payal Arora, Deepshikha Sharma, & Celeste Tacconi, On the Right to Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Ethical Safeguards in Algorithmic Human Resource Management
• Brian Berkey, Exploitation, Human Rights and Corporate Obligations
• Akinwumi Ogunranti, Norm Contestation in the BHR Field—The Role of Corporate Actors as Entrepreneurs, Antipreneurs, and Saboteurs
• Fanny Holm, Reparations for Corporate Involvement in War Crimes: The Lundin Trial and Prospects for Victims’ Justice

New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 24, no. 1, February 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Camille Van der Vorst, An Economic Assessment of the EU–Japan Economic Partnership Agreement with Realistic Preference Utilization Rates
• Kathleen Auld, Linda Del Savio, & Loretta Feris, An Environmental Agreement in a Trade Court – Is the WTO's Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies Enforceable?
• Jaemin Lee, Long-Term Relationship over Litigation: Mediation in WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings
• Alexandr Svetlicinii & Xueji Su, The Unsettled Governance of the Dual-Use Items under Article XXI(b)(ii) GATT: A New Battleground for WTO Security Exceptions
• Chen Yu, Disentangling Legal Stability from Legitimate Expectations: Towards Greater Deference to Regulatory Changes in Renewable Energy Transition Policies in Investment Arbitration

New Volume: The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence

The latest volume of The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (Vol. 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, The Growth Path of the GCYILJ: The “Global Communitarian Paradigm” and Its Developmental Phases
• Articles
• Jean d'Aspremont, A Phenomenology of the Law of International Organizations
• Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, The Legal Fabrique of Global Security Governance
• Ulrich Petersmann, European Economic and Environmental Constitutionalism as Driver for UN and WTO Sustainable Development Reforms
• Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Constitutionalizing Global Health: The Security Council as a “Constitutional Legislator”
• Notes and Comments
• Afia A. Amponsah-Mensah, ECOWAS Intervention in Niger
• Louis René Beres, Russian Crimes Against Humanity in Ukraine: Intersecting Backgrounds of Aggression and Genocide Under International Law
• Robert Kolb, Détermination du domaine d'application du principe dit de l'Or monétaire dans le droit de la Cour internationale de Justice
• Reparaions in International Law
• Otto Spijkers, Introduction to the Collection of Papers on Reparations
• Judith Hackmack & Sarah Imani, Reparations for European Colonialism: From the Movement to the Law and Back?
• Carola Lingaas, Reparations for Internationally Wrongful Acts Against the Sámi Indigenous People: Challenging Statehood and International Law
• Stephen Neff, Guilty Consciences and Making Good: Historical Perspectives on Reparation
• Robert G. Volterra & Florentine Vos, How (not) to Compensate for State Responsibility in Armed Conflict - the DRC v Uganda Reparations Judgment and the International Law of Reparations
• Marcela Zúñiga Reyes, Interstate Cooperation Regarding Reparations for Victims: Analysis of the Julien Grisonas v Argentina Case in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Global Policies and Law
• Peter Hough, What's Your Poison? The Global Regulation of the Trade in Hazardous Chemicals
• Ethics and Global Governance
• Anja Matwijkiw, Let There Be Light! Regime Hybridity as a Reinvention of (Different Dimensions of) the Democratic Paradox
• Global Justice and the Development of International/Global Law and Governance
• Recent Lines of Internationalist Thought
• Richard Falk, Remembering Edward Said at a Time of Palestinian Tragedy

Kwiecień & Fitzmaurice: The Legacy of the Wimbledon Case: Centenary of the First Judgment of the Permanent Court of International Justice

Roman Kwiecień (Jagiellonian Univ. - Law) & Malgosia Fitzmaurice (Queen Mary Univ. of London - Law) have published The Legacy of the Wimbledon Case: Centenary of the First Judgment of the Permanent Court of International Justice (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The book addresses the impact of the first judgment of the 'World Court' on the development of international law and its continuing relevance. The contributions to this book discuss the legal issues decided by the PCIJ in the Wimbledon case. In the Wimbledon judgment, the Court referred to the problems that are still important both for procedural and substantive international law, and which attract the attention of states, courts and the academia today. These include: state sovereignty, sources of international law, interpretation of legal rights and obligations following from treaties and custom, ‘objective regimes’, ‘self-contained regimes’, neutrality in armed conflicts, the status of international waterways, as well as the issues of jurisdiction such as third-party participation in international adjudication, or locus standi for the protection of community interests.

Call for Papers: The Law Applicable to the Use of Biometrics by Armed Forces

The NATO Cyber Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, the War Studies Research Centre of the Netherlands Defence Academy, and the Amsterdam Centre for International Law have issued a call for papers for a conference on "The Law Applicable to the Use of Biometrics by Armed Forces," to take place October 23-24, 2025, in Tallinn. The call is here.

Call for Papers: Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference

A call fror papers has been issued for the Nottingham International Criminal Justice Conference, to be held July 14-15, 2025, at the University of Nottingham. The call is here.

Call for Contributions: Genocide and the Ocean: Law, History, and Genocidal Realities Beyond Border and Beneath Waves

A call for contributions has been issued by Vicky Kapogianni (Univ. of Reading - Law) and Eric Loefflad (Univ. of Kent - Law) for an edited collection on "Genocide and the Ocean: Law, History, and Genocidal Realities Beyond Border and Beneath Waves." The call is here.

Call for Submissions: German Yearbook of International Law

The German Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume 68 (2025). The deadline is September 30, 2025. The call is here.

Hakimi & Cogan: The End of the U.S.-Backed International Order and the Future of International Law

Monica Hakimi (Columbia Univ. - Law) & Jacob Katz Cogan (Univ. of Cincinnati - Law) have posted The End of the U.S.-Backed International Order and the Future of International Law (American Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

The international order that the United States has for decades led and maintained is undergoing dramatic change. In this essay, we explain how international law was constituted with, and dependent on, U.S. power during this period, how the two became (in an odd couple fashion) entwined together, and how, as the international order changes, the international legal system, its content and its architecture, will also inevitably change.

Call for Submissions: Strategic Litigation in International Law – Concepts, Actors, and Impact

The Italian Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for a special issue on "Strategic Litigation in International Law – Concepts, Actors, and Impact." The call is here.

New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly

The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 47, no. 1, February 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Simon Greathead & Timothy McKeon, Liberating Human Rights from Group Narcissism
• Colin Luoma, Strengthening the Rights to Culture and Mental Health in the Face of Environmental Violence
• Nora Salem, Awakening of Inter-State Communications Mechanism Before the CERD & Its Potential to Enhance the Justiciability of Racial Discrimination
• Dustin N. Sharp, Comparative Frameworks for a Human Rights-Based Approach to Psychedelics
• Mengia Tschalär, Alexandra Xanthaki, & Ermioni Xanthopoulou, Human Rights Risks of Migration Flow Predictions and Policy Implications Within the EU
• Ben T C Warwick, Concepts of Non-Retrogression in Economic and Social Rights

Event: Gendered Peace through International Law

On February 19, 2025, International Law at Westminster will host a talk with Louise Arimatsu and Christine Chinkin about their book Gendered Peace through International Law. Details are here.

Sellars: A ‘Constitution for the Oceans': The Long Hard Road to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea

Kirsten Sellars has published A ‘Constitution for the Oceans': The Long Hard Road to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, signed in 1982, was the culmination of half a century of legal endeavour. Earlier attempts to create a treaty regime governing the ocean — at League of Nations and United Nations conferences in 1930, 1958 and 1960 — had all failed to settle the breadth of the territorial sea, and in two cases failed to settle anything at all. During the negotiations, legal concepts were formulated and reformulated: straight baselines inspired archipelagic baselines; fishing conservation zones became exclusive economic zones; innocent passage through straits metamorphosed into transit passage through straits; and the seabed common heritage was replaced by the parallel system of seabed exploitation. Many of the issues that animated the delegates during the negotiations — ocean pollution, over-fishing, naval mobility, continental shelf claims and the impact of seabed mining — continue to exercise policymakers and lawyers to this day.

Wu, Lin, & Liu: Economic Cooperation in the Shadow of Contested Sovereignty

Chien-Huei Wu (Academia Sinica), Ching-Fu Lin (National Tsing Hua Univ​.), & Han-Wei Liu (Singapore Management Univ.) have published Economic Cooperation in the Shadow of Contested Sovereignty (Hart Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

This open access book is the first of its kind to address a question of both theoretical and practical significance: how do countries or entities approach economic cooperation in the face of vexing political concerns and overlapping sovereignty claims?

Built upon three contemporary case studies on North-South Korea, China-Taiwan, and North-South Cyprus – representative pairs of 'divided nations', broadly defined – the book explores from both an empirical and a conceptual perspective the underlying factors, approaches and patterns that influence the economic relationship between the two sides.

The book examines complex dynamics and identifies critical factors across the case studies, making a timely contribution to debates surrounding sovereignty, democracy and legitimacy in the context of international economic laws given the shifting geopolitical landscape. It further informs countries that do not share the same features of divided nations but nonetheless experience diplomatic crises or military conflicts, which render their economic cooperation sensitive and strenuous.

New Issue: International Theory

The latest issue of International Theory (Vol. 17, no. 1, March 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Sinja Graf, Law, time, and (in)justice after empire: Germany's objection to colonial reparations and the chronopolitics of deflection
• Zeger Verleye, Failing the state self: on the politics of state shame
• Liam Moore, Contesting clusters: a study of norm weaving in Pacific climate mobilities policies
• Valentin Clavé-Mercier, Indigenous political theory, metaphysical revolt, and the decolonial rearticulation of political ordering
• C. Nicolai L. Gellwitzki, The positions of ontological (in)security in international relations: object relations, unconscious phantasies, and anxiety management

Calls for Papers: IG Workshops – 2025 ESIL Annual Conference

In the context of the 2025 ESIL Annual Conference in Berlin, some ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for their pre-conference workshops. The calls currently open include:

• IG on International Courts and Tribunals: Reconstructing the Advisory Function of International Courts and Tribunals? (deadline: March 28, 2025)
• IG on International Criminal Justice: Reconstructing International Criminal Justice as It Unfolds (deadline: April 1, 2025)
• IG on Feminism and International Law: Feminist Visions for Reconstructing International Law (deadline: April 15, 2025)

Call for Papers: 4th Young Sustainability Law Conference (Early Career Researchers)

A call for papers has been issued for the 4th Young Sustainability Law Conference, which will take place June 19–21, 2025, in Hamburg. The call is here.

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 119, no. 1, January 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Michele Krech, Gender Equality in World Athletics: Transnational Norm Development by Private International Organizations
• Cameron Miles, Implied Terms In Treaties
• Current Develoopments
• Charles Chernor Jalloh, The International Law Commission's Seventy-Fifth (2024) Session: Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction and Other Topics
• International Decisions
• Ole W. Pedersen, Disruption, Special Climate Considerations, and Striking the Balance
• Buhm-Suk Baek & Hosung Ahn, 2020Hun-Ma389, 2021Hun-Ma1264, 2022Hun-Ma854, 2023Hun-Ma846 (Consolidated)
• Aman Kumar, M.K. Ranjitsinh and Others v. Union of India and Others. 2024 INSC 280
• Benoit Mayer, Request for an Advisory Opinion submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law
• Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
• The United States, the European Union, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom Take Measures Against Iran for Transferring Ballistic Missiles to Russia
• The United States Takes Actions to Secure Supply Chains for Critical Minerals
• AUKUS States Advance Their Partnership with the Signing of a Naval Nuclear Propulsion Cooperation Agreement and the Easing of Export Controls on Defense-Related Trade
• Recent Books on International Law
• Karen J. Alter, U.S. Export Controls Across Time: Knowledge, Technology, and China
• Mariana Mota Prado, reviewing The Oxford Handbook of International Law and Development, edited by Ruth Buchanan, Luis Eslava, and Sundhya Pahuja
• Rangita de Silva de Alwis, reviewing Women's Property Rights Under CEDAW, by José E. Alvarez and Judith Bauder
• Obiora Chinedu Okafor, reviewing Completing Humanity: The International Law of Decolonization, 1960–82, by Umut Özsu
• Ingrid Brunk, reviewing The Rebirth of Territory, by Gail Lythgoe

New Issue: Journal of International Economic Law

The latest issue of the Journal of International Economic Law (Vol. 27, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Feature: Remaking Global Tax Governance
• Tsilly Dagan & Alice Pirlot, Global tax governance: taking stock of the past and looking forward
• John Vella, What is wrong with the international business tax system?
• Yariv Brauner, The elusive reform of international tax dispute settlement
• Philip Baker, Using multilateral instruments to preserve a bilateral system
• Miranda Stewart, International institutions in global tax governance
• Afton Titus, The role of the United Nations in ensuring equitable tax policies for developing countries
• Luís Eduardo Schoueri & Pedro Guilherme Lindenberg Schoueri, Rethinking taxing rights
• Ivan Ozai, Global justice in the reshaping of international tax
• Special Feature: Remaking the Trading System
• Joel Trachtman, Jan Yves Remy, & Daniel C Esty, Remaking trade for a sustainable future
• James Bacchus, Sustainability and the WTO trading system
• Maureen Hinman & Sarah V Stewart, First, ‘things’ first: prioritizing environmental goods tariff reductions at the WTO
• Carmel Cahill, Reforming and repurposing agricultural subsidies to facilitate trade and sustainability
• Mustaqeem De Gama, Fisheries subsidies, the WTO, and sustainability
• Sonia E Rolland, Supporting trade negotiations with sustainable development impact assessments
• Colette van der Ven, Overcoming the circularity divide: accelerating a circular apparel transition in Africa through trade
• Irfan Nooruddin & Nita Rudra, From enthusiasm to apathy: dwindling support for globalization among future generationss
• Articles
• Marta Soprana, Compatibility of emerging AI regulation with GATS and TBT: the EU Artificial Intelligence Act
• James Harrison & Sophia Paulini, Reinventing trade, environment and development interlinkages: lessons from the EU–Mercosur Association Agreement
• Nicolette Butler & Jasem Tarawneh, The trade and environment nexus: proposing a broad universal definition of environmental services

New Issue: Journal of Human Rights Practice

The latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Vol. 17, no. 1, February 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Juliana Jaramillo, Legal Mobilization Networks and the LGBT Rights Revolution in Colombia (1992–2022): Using Litigation and Amicus Curiae Briefs in Rights Struggles
• Julie Ada Tchoukou, Regulating Gender Violence in Postcolonial Societies: Is Legal Pluralism a Problem for Human Rights?
• Sapna Mesthrie, Interpreting the Child’s Right to Protection from Violence in the South African Context in Line with International Law Obligations
• Saumya Tripathi, Sameena Azhar, & Imtyaz Ahmad, ‘We Don’t Have Any Honor Because We Are khwaja sira’: Police Violence and Discrimination Against the Khwaja Sira Community in Swat, Pakistan
• Kristi Heather Kenyon, Saad Ahmad Khan, Fiona Vowell, & Madison Zienkiewicz, Unsettling the Familiar: Experiential Human Rights Learning through Civic Monuments at the University of Winnipeg
• Kirsten Francescone & Lisa Rankin, Knocking on a Locked Door: Assessing Canada’s Response to Attacks Against Human Rights Defenders
• Timo Istace, Establishing Neurorights: New Rights versus Derived Rights
• Marie Claire Van Hout, Ruth Kaima, Apatsa Mangwana Mhango, Vivian Kasunda, Victor Mhango, David M . Ong, & Stephanie Kewley, ‘We Fear For Our Lives’: Understanding, Responding and Mitigating the Impact of Climate Change on the Malawian Prison System
• Rosalind Turkie, Katrina Perehudoff, Jennifer Sellin, & Aldo Sainz, Ensuring Pharmaceutical Accountability for Human Rights and Access to Medicines: The Dutch Duty of Care Standard Applied to Pharmaceutical Companies
• Nathan Andrews & Raynold W Alorse, Can Voluntary Business and Human Rights Norms be Effective? Exploring a Multidimensional Perspective of Norm Effectiveness in Africa
• Policy and Practice Note
• Tamara Horbachevska, Iurii Barabash, & Olena Uvarova, The Expropriation of Sanctioned Assets: Does Ukrainian Jurisprudence Respond to Human Rights Concerns?

Calls for Papers: IG Online Workshops – 2025 ESIL Research Forum

In the context of the 2025 ESIL Research Forum in Catania, some ESIL Interest Groups are inviting submissions for their online workshops. The calls currently open include:

• IG on the Law of the Sea: Permacrisis at sea: navigating oceans dualities (deadline: 16 February 2025)
• IG on International Bio Law: The New Boundaries of Bioethics and Biolaw in the Age of Anthropocene (deadline: 23 February 2025)
• IG on International Economic Law: International Economic Law in the Age of Permacrisis (deadline: 23 February 2025)

Job Opening: Ad Astra Fellow - Lecturer/Assistant Professor in International Law and Global Justice (UCD Sutherland School of Law)

The University College Dublin's Sutherland School of Law has posted an advertisement for an Ad Astra Fellow - Lecturer/Assistant Professor in International Law and Global Justice. Details are here.

Call for Papers: Navigating the North: Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Arctic

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Navigating the North: Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Arctic," to take place August 28-29, 2025, at the University of Inland Norway, Lillehammer. The call is here.

Conference: Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism: The Role of Transitional Justice

On March 27, 2025, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut and the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast will host a conference on “Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism: The Role of Transitional Justice,” in The Hague. Details are here.

Call for Submissions: At the Vanishing Point: The Collectable College of International Lawyers

A call for submissions has been issued for the research project "At the Vanishing Point: The Collectable College of International Lawyers." The project looks at how international law is mediated through the material objects that it produces. Thus far it has yielded an exhibition, social media accounts, and a website. The call is here.

Call for Submissions: Empires, International Organizations, and Transnational Legal History (Special Issue)

A call for submissions has been issued for a special issue of the Chinese Journal of Transnational Law on "Empires, International Organizations, and Transnational Legal History." The call is here.

Conference: 2025 ESIL Research Forum

The European Society of International Law's 2025 Research Forum will take place March 20-21, in Cantania, hosted by the Department of Law of the University of Catania. The theme is: "“International Law in the Age of Permacrisis." Registration is here.

Panel: International and National Responses to Climate Change: 2024 Stocktake

On February 12, 2025, the Sheffield Centre for International and European Law will host a panel discussion on "International and National Responses to Climate Change: 2024 Stocktake," including Agnes Rydberg, Ivano Alogna, and Malgosia Fitzmaurice. Details (online participation is available) are here.

International Law and Social Science Spring 2025 Speakers Series

The International Law and Social Science Interest Group of the American Society of International Law and the Social Sciences and International Law Interest Group of the European Society of International Law have announced their "International Law and Social Science Speakers Series" for Spring 2025. The schedule is here. The series begins on February 12 with a talk by Lauge Poulsen on "Compensation, Economic Hostages, and Market Access" and commentary from Geraldo Vidigal and Joost Pauwelyn, moderated by Anne van Aaken. Details and registration are here.

Call for Papers: Beyond Development: Mapping Legal Entanglements between Africa and Europe

The Department of Legal and Constitutional History of the University of Vienna and the African Law Association have issued a call for papers for a conference on "Beyond Development: Mapping Legal Entanglements between Africa and Europe," to take place Decemeber 4–5, 2025, in Vienna. The call is here.

Call for Papers: Sixth Workshop on Sociological Inquiries into International Law

A call for papers has been issued for the Sixth Workshop on Sociological Inquiries into International Law, to take place November 13–14, 2025, at Utrecht University. The theme is: "Sociological Inquiries into International Law in a Polarized World: Markets, National Security, and Democracy." The call is here.

New Issue: La Comunità Internazionale

The latest issue of La Comunità Internazionale (Vol. 79, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli e Saggi
• Roberto Virzo, Fondamento ed esercizio della competenza consultiva del Tribunale internazionale del diritto del mare: considerazioni a margine del parere del 21 maggio 2024
• Fulvia Staiano, The Assessment of Circumstances Requiring the Indication of Provisional Measures by the International Court of Justice: Too Much, Too Soon?
• Denard Veshi, The Impact of Refugee Influx on Host Nations’ National Security: A Focus on Terrorism
• Pierluigi Salvati, The Duty of Non-Recognition of Internationally Unlawful Situations in the Face of the Current Crisis in Ukraine
• Osservatorio Europeo
• Guerino Fares, Le recenti proposte della Commissione europea in tema di proprietà intellettuale e market exclusivity nel settore farmaceutico: alla ricerca dell’interesse pubblico
• Osservatorio Diritti Umani
• Linda Cottone, Lebanon’s Resilient Approach to Migration and Security
• Note e Commenti
• Alessandra Nepa, Climate Smart Agriculture e commercio internazionale