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

The latest issue of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (Vol. 25, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The External Dimensions of the European Green Deal
• Goran Dominioni, Louisa Parks, & Markus Pauli, The external dimensions of the European Green Deal
• Simon Otto, The external impact of EU climate policy: political responses to the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism
• Kasturi Das & Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, Impact of carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on steel decarbonization in India: a multi-stakeholder perspective on ambition vs. equity
• Joseph Earsom, Making waves or ripples? The influence of the European Green Deal on the revised IMO GHG strategy
• Nathalie Ferré, Clara Weller, & Aron Buzogány, The development/renewable energy nexus in Georgia and Tunisia: Coalitions of support and opposition to EU energy policies
• Alina Averchenkova, Lara Lazaro, & Gonzalo Escribano, Beyond leading by example: enhanced EU-LAC climate cooperation—the case of Brazil, Chile and Mexico
• Sara de Simone, Marco Nicolò, & Louisa Parks, Exporting the just transition? The European Investment Bank, the European Green Deal and environmental and social rules for green projects outside the EU
• Reinhilde Bouckaert & Claire Dupont, Assessing the alignment of EU and member states external energy strategies with the European green deal: 2019–2024
• Morena Skalamera, The distributional effects of the EU’s and China’s climate diplomacy in Central Asia

Donaldson: Law, Legal Expertise and the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes: Revisiting early League Council practice

Megan Donaldson (Univ. College London - Law) has posted Law, Legal Expertise and the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes: Revisiting early League Council practice (in Cambridge Handbook on the League of Nations and International Law, Rasmussen, Ikonomou & van Leeuwen eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Through a new account of three early disputes, this chapter revisits the novel role of the League Council in interstate dispute settlement. This role was delimited by a legal threshold: the question of whether disputes arose out of a matter purely within a state party's national jurisdiction or domaine reservé. Application of this test, nominally left to the Council, prompted considerable experimentation with institutional forms, and particularly recourse to 'committees of jurists', an understudied, flexible and protean mechanism which would go on to be deployed in many spheres of League activity. Drawing on contemporaneous legal scholarship and a range of archival materials, the chapter sketches the Council's procedural management of three key disputes, redirecting focus to the larger landscape of institutionalized dispute settlement beyond the Permanent Court of International Justice. In this larger landscape, the chapter teases out the diverse characteristics associated with recourse to avowedly 'legal' expertise and reasoning. This close reading of varied 'legal' deliberations recovers the multifaceted relationship between institutionalization and legalization of dispute settlement-and suggests the complexity of relations between legal reasoning and peaceful ordering, both for contemporaries and for us.

New Issue: GlobaLex

The latest issue of GlobaLex (May/June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Aderomola Adeola, Internally Displaced Persons
• Antonella Corradi, International Law and Consumer Protection
• Jonathan Pratter, À la Recherche des Travaux Préparatoires: An Approach to Researching the Drafting History of International Agreements

New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 20, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations
• Christina Cottiero, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Stephan Haggard, Lauren Prather, & Christina J. Schneider, Illiberal regimes and international organizations
• Sarah Sunn Bush, Christina Cottiero, & Lauren Prather, Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring
• Kelly Morrison, Daniela Donno, Burcu Savun, & Perisa Davutoglu, Competing judgments: Multiple election observers and post-election contention
• Emilie Hafner-Burton, Jon C. W. Pevehouse, & Christina J. Schneider, Good governance in autocratic international organizations
• Jana Lipps & Marc S. Jacob, Undermining liberal international organizations from within: Evidence from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• Thomas Winzen, How backsliding governments keep the European Union hospitable for autocracy: Evidence from intergovernmental negotiations

New Issue: Journal of World Investment & Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Vol. 26, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Gabrielle Marceau, Jian Ling Teo, & Sean Rappa, Navigating the New Frontiers in International Trade: The World Trade Organization as a Global Governance Forum
• Elena Cima, ‘The Missing Link’: Integrating Investment Considerations in Trade-Related Climate Strategies
• Panagiotis Delimatsis, Service Liberalization between the EU and Switzerland under the AFMP – Assessing the Silver Jubilee of a Complex Relationship
• Lin Yating, Deciphering China’s Selective Adaptation to Investment Treaty Regime: A “Domestication” of International Investment Law Perspective
• Niels Lachmann, Chasing the Elusive Bird? The Technological Development of the Digital Economy and International Trade Law’s Susceptibility to a Pacing Problem
• Caterina Milo, Environmental and Human Rights Justifications in Investment Arbitration: Probing the Limits of ISDS for the Adjudication of Climate-Related Disputes

Boothby & Heintschel von Heinegg: The Law on Nuclear Weapons: An International Commentary

William H. Boothby, (Univ. of Johannesburg) & Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg (Europa-Universität Viadrina - Law) have published The Law on Nuclear Weapons: An International Commentary (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

This book provides a uniquely clear and comprehensive statement of the law on nuclear weapons. It draws on the insight and input of a group of 15 experts from around the world and in so doing crafts an authoritative text that sets out not only the positions of a number of states but a carefully articulated guide to this complex area of law.

Building upon the platform of Boothby and Heintschel von Heinegg’s earlier work, this book addresses in much greater depth and detail, and with the authority endowed by the team of experts, how international law deals with the possession and use of nuclear weapons, as well as the deterrence policies associated with them. It presents an in-depth exploration of the law, detailing its implications and providing practical guidance on challenging issues. The book examines sovereignty, the threat or use of force, the conduct of nuclear hostilities, neutrality, weapons law, and war crimes, considering the impact of recent events and trends.

Orakhelashvili: Research Handbook on Jurisdiction and Immunities in International Law

Alexander Orakhelashvili (Univ. of Birmingham - Law) has published the second edition of Research Handbook on Jurisdiction and Immunities in International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

This updated Research Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the international law of jurisdiction and immunities, examining the mutual interdependence between the two as well as shedding light on the implications. Featuring diverse contributions from leading experts, emerging scholars, and practitioners, it provides an impartial perspective on the applicable international law.

Incorporating novel insights and recent developments, the Research Handbook covers key topics including the concept of universal jurisdiction, the differentiation of immunities from jurisdiction, and immunity claims in various types of judicial proceedings. It discusses the complex legal questions that arise when a state asserts its jurisdiction over persons that are based abroad or are not citizens of that state, and analyzes the immunity of foreign states and international organizations. Considering the impact of recent legislation, court cases and events, this revised second edition highlights ongoing trends and controversies surrounding jurisdiction and immunities in the context of international law.

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 29, no. 6, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz, Willingness, capacities and (non)compliance with human rights norms
• Rebecca Nhep, Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar
• Matthew Gillett, Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court
• Danendri L. Senanayake, Search the landfill: obligation of the Canadian Government to bring stolen sisters home
• Afroza Anwary, Political, physical, and cultural techniques of genocide against the Rohingyas of Myanmar
• Pietro de Perini, Genuine commitment or search for prestige? Italy’s ambiguous foreign policy discourse on human rights
• Maria Eduarda Tomaz Luiz, Carolina Girola, Samara Escobar Martins, Beatriz Freitas da Cunha & Alcyane Marinho, Guaranteeing the rights of children and adolescents in Brazilian foster care institutions
• Cristina Cocito, Paul De Hert & Thomas Marquenie, Do human rights frameworks identify AI’s problems? The limits of a burgeoning methodology for AI problem assessment

Conference: SLADI/LASIL 7th Biennial Conference

The Sociedad Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional/Latin American Society of International Law will hold its seventh biennial conference on July 31-August 2, 2025, at the Universidad de la República, in Montevideo. 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 program is here.

New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law: lectures in English and French on “The Role of the Office of Public Counsel for Victims in the Framework of the Rome Stature of the International Criminal Court” by Paolina Massidda; lectures in English and French on “The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law” by Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli; and a lecture in English on “Joint Interpretative Agreements in International Law” by Fuad Zarbiyev.

The Audiovisual Library of International Law is also available as an audio podcast on Apple, SoundCloud, and other platforms.

Call for Papers: Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750-2000) (Junior Researchers)

A call for papers for junior researchers has been issued for a conference on "Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750-2000)," to be held Novemeber 27-28, 2025, in Paris. The call is here.

New Issue: Nordic Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 94, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Patient Mpunga-Biayi, The Investigative Power of the United Nations Security Council
• James Gerard Devaney, Making Sense of Transcendental Nonsense: A Functional Reframing of the Law of State Succession
• Øyvind Ravna, Indigenous Cultural Rights, the Green Transition, and the Right to a Healthy Environment
• Johan Nikolaj Lausen & Johanna Sophie Buerkert, Fragmentation Revisited: A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Introducing the BBNJ Agreement into the Ocean Governance Landscape

New Issue: Global Constitutionalism

The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 14, no. 2, July 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The New Comparative Political Process Theory
• Rosalind Dixon, Courts and comparative representation-reinforcing theory
• Stephen Gardbaum, Comparative political process theory II
• Bryan Dennis G. Tiojanco, John Hart Ely would disown Comparative Political Process Theory, Dobbs, and most his other intellectual heirs (or maybe not)
• Sarah Murray, Neo-Elyian theory, therapeutic jurisprudence and the constitutional judgment
• James Fowkes, Transformative process theory
• Yvonne Tew, Reading Ely in Tokyo
• Rosalind Dixon & Po Jen Yap, Responsive judicial remedies
• Gautam Bhatia, The hydra and the sword: Constitutional amendments, political process, and the BBI case in Kenya
• Amal Sethi, The Indian Supreme Court and constitutional amendments: insights for the debate on the comparative political process theory and the comparative representative reinforcement theory
• Michaela Hailbronner & Lisa Kujus, Representation Reinforcement in the European Court of Human Rights

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. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Nicholas G. Studzinski, Randolph Kent, & David Korowicz, Towards the Governance of Global Systemic Risk: Reforming the Summit of the Future
• Daniele Archibugi, Marco Cellini, & Azzurra Malgieri, The Reform of the UN Security Council: What Are the Issues?
• Tuğba Bayar & Murat Bayar, Unilateral Withdrawals from Multilateral International Treaties, 1945–2024
• Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée, Quasi-public Partnerships: Multistakeholder Governance in an International Organization
• Antonia Zervaki, The Cultural Dimension of Sustaining Peace: What Role for UN Peace Operations?

New Issue: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

The latest issue of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy (Vol. 28, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Suchita Awasthi, Aditi Patial & Ritesh Kumar, Wetland Jurisprudence in India—A Critical Appraisal
• Cuong Viet Do, Tan Ngoc Pham & Vuong Minh Vu, IMO Guidelines to Combat Wildlife Smuggling on Ships: An Analytical Perspective from Vietnam
• Noga Shanee, Amnon Keren, Evelyn D. Anca, Tamar Fredman, Omer Polansky & Yael Cohen Paran, The Dynamics of Online Wildlife Trade, Crime and Law Enforcement in Israel
• Latika Choudhary, Udit Raj Sharma & Hardik Daga, ‘Ruff’ Justice: Analysing the Right to Feed Stray Dogs in Lieu of Constitutional Provisions and Judicial Precedents in India