Thursday, August 7, 2025
Conference: Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law
On August 28-29, 2025, a conference will be held on "Systemic Integration of Climate Change in International Law," in Singapore. Details are here.
Wednesday, August 6, 2025
New Volume: German Yearbook of International Law
- FORUM – The International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territories
- Heike Krieger, Third Party Obligations and World Ordering in the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- Aeyal Gross, From Factual and Conceptualist to Normative and Functional: The Law of Occupation After the ICJ Advisory Opinion on the Israeli Occupation of the Occupied Palestinian Territory
- FOCUS - Time and International Law
- Kenneth Chan Yoon Onn & Thomas Kleinlein, The Lives and Times of International Law
- Paula Rhein-Fischer, Multi-Temporalities in International Litigation: Coinciding Times Before the International Court of Justice in Recent Genocide Cases
- Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, In Praise of Disorder: Conceptualising Events in International Law
- Jessie Hohmann, Chronotopes, International Law, and the Botanic Gardens of Empire and Colony
- Monica Garcia-Salmones Rovira, Now and Yet Not New: Principles of Global Law in UNCITRAL Working Group III
- Franziska Berg, Challenging Time(s) for Future Generations’ Human Rights
- Bérénice K. Schramm, The Haunting of International Law: ‘Making Polysense’ of our Uchronian Times of In/Justice
- Walther Schücking Lecture
- Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, Transforming United Nations and World Trade Organisation Legal Systems Through Regulatory Competition and ‘Lawfare’
- General Articles
- Nguyen Phuong Dung & Nguyen Thi Hong Yen, Environmental Protection in Response to Marine Pollution Caused by Plastic Waste: A Comparative Study in ASEAN Region
- Magne Frostad, Piracy, Terrorism, Armed Conflict, or Armed Attack? The Protection of Merchant and Naval Vessels in the Red Sea
- Henrique Marcos, Causal Loops, Ontological Crises, and Customary International Law
- German Practice
- Agata Daszko, Exploring Investment Arbitration Issues in Front of German Courts: How Far Does the Komstroy Shadow Reach?
- Alexander Elfgen, The German Position on a Possible Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in Relation to the War inUkraine: An Indecisive and Self-Contradicting Approach?
- Annika Knauer, Whose Interest is the ‘Best Interest of the Child’? – The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Decision of 1 February 2023 on the Law to Combat Child Marriage
- Cora Masche, Women’s Rights Violations in Afghanistan: Concerted Response by Germany and Three Partners
- Jasmin Oppermann, The Legalisation of Cannabis in Germany: National Ambitions Versus International Obligations
- Moritz J. Pollack, Doctrinal Approaches to Climate Change Obligations: A Comparative Analysis of Germany, the European Union, and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Advisory Proceedings
- Moritz Rhades, Weapon Export Control Before German Administrative Courts: Scrutiny or Obscurity?
- Christian J. Voss, Navigating Legal Boundaries: German Participation in the European Union Mission EUNAVFOR ASPIDES
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
von Borzyskowski & Vabulas: Exit from International Organizations: Costly Negotiation for Institutional Change
Why do states exit international organizations (IOs)? How often does exit from IOs – including voluntary withdrawal and forced suspension – occur? What are the effects of leaving IOs for the exiting state? Despite the importance of membership in IOs, a broader understanding of exit across states, organizations, and time has been limited. Exit from International Organizations addresses these lacunae through a theoretically grounded and empirically systematic study of IO exit. Von Borzyskowski and Vabulas argue that there is a common logic to IO exit which helps explain both its causes and consequences. By examining IO exit across 198 states, 534 IOs, and over a hundred years of history, they show that exit is driven by states' dissatisfaction, preference divergence, and is a strategy to negotiate institutional change. The book also demonstrates that exit is costly because it has reputational consequences for leaving states and significantly affects other forms of international cooperation.
Monday, August 4, 2025
Schäfer: Humanität als Vehikel: Der Diskurs um die Kodifikation des Kriegsrechts im Gleichgewichtssystem des europäischen Völkerrechts in den formgebenden Jahren von 1856 bis 1874
Die Arbeit nimmt eine Neubewertung der Geschichte des Kriegsrechts vor. Sie verlässt die ausgetretenen Pfade linear-progressiver Fortschrittsnarrative und rekonstruiert die Kodifizierung kriegsrechtlicher Normen durch einen interdisziplinären Ansatz, der juristische Dogmatik mit archivgestützten ideengeschichtlichen Elementen verbindet. Auf diese Weise identifiziert die Arbeit sicherheitspolitische Reaktionen auf Systemverschiebungen im europäischen Völkerrecht als Ausgangspunkt des Kodifikationsprojekts.
The study reassesses the history of the laws of war. It departs from the well-trodden paths of linear-progressive narratives of progress and reconstructs the codification through an interdisciplinary approach that combines legal doctrine with archive-based elements of the history of ideas. In this way, the study identifies security policy reactions to systemic shifts in European international law as the starting point of the codification project.
Conference: ASIL Abroad 2025
On September 3-4, 2025, the American Society of International Law will convene its second ASIL Abroad Meeting, in Singapore. The theme is: "Traditions and Transitions in International Law." Details are here.
New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly
The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 47, no. 3, August 2025) is out. Contents include:- Dominique Clément & Jenna Robinson, Know Your Rights: The State and Human Rights Education in Canada
- Aaron Fellmeth, Personal Self-Defense Under International Law: A Case Study of an Inferred Human Right
- Başak Çalı & Alexandre Skander Galand, A Tale of Disregard? Reception of the Jurisprudence of the United Nations Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities before the European Court of Human Rights
- Line Jespersgaard Jakobsen, Thomas Obel Hansen, & Line Engbo Gissel, "Calling for Inclusion": Negotiating Boundaries in the Transitional Justice Script
- Danny Marrero, Is the Right to a Stable Climate System Necessary for the Preservation of Our System of Rights and Liberties?
- Patricia Wiater, Bridging Human Rights and Nature Protection: Exploring the Potential of the Anthropocentric Approach
New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal
The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 40, no. 1, Winter 2025) is out. Contents include:- Practice Notes
- Sudhanshu Roy, Instructions to Expert by Counsel
- Articles
- Berfu Beysulen Angin, The Right to Regulate vs Investment Protection: Unveiling the Causes of Imbalance and the Limits of Current Reform Efforts in International Investment Law
- Shixue Hu, China’s New Arbitration Law: Friendly to International Investment Arbitration?
- Stratos Pahis, Are Investment Treaties Redundant? Evidence from Investor-State Disputes
- Edwin Vanderbruggen, Thoughts on the Interpretation and Desirability of Tax Carve-Outs in Investment Treaties
- Martin Jarrett, Introducing the Illegality-Curing Doctrine
- Joshua B Simmons, ICSID in the US Courts: The Rocks of Sovereign Immunity?
- Notes
- Emmanuel Kolawole Oke, International Intellectual Property Law as Applicable Law in Investment Disputes
- Shivani Singhal, When Should Investment Tribunals Grant Measures that Interfere with Domestic Criminal Proceedings?
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Carrington: Global Decolonisation and Non-Sovereignty: Small Island States in the Caribbean
Non-sovereign territories today account for more than half the states in the Caribbean but regional and global histories of the twentieth century tend to exclude them from narratives of protest and change. This book argues that our current understanding of global decolonisation is partial. We need a fuller picture which includes both independent and non-independent states, and moves beyond a focus on political independence, instead conceptualising decolonisation as a process of challenging and dismantling colonial structures and legacies. Decolonisation is neither an inevitable nor a linear process, but one which can ebb and flow as the colonial grip is weakened and sometimes restrengthened, often in new forms. Using the Cayman Islands, the British Virgin Islands, Martinique and Guadeloupe as case studies, Grace Carrington demonstrates that a focus on the processes of decolonisation in these non-sovereign states enriches our understanding of the global experience of twentieth century decolonisation.
New Issue: Military Law and the Law of War Review / Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre
- Laura Baron-Mendoza & Pauline Charlotte Janssens, Rebel environmental law-making in Colombia: an empirical study of non-state armed actors’ internal legitimacy
- Ori Pomson, The obligation to allow and facilitate the passage of humanitarian relief under IHL: continued relevance of Article 23(2) of the Fourth Geneva Convention?
- Peter BMJ Pijpers, Disinformation in cyberspace: principles of sovereignty and non-intervention under international law
- Dora Vanda Velenczei, Emerging state practice in the role of unmanned maritime systems in maritime blockades
- Kheda Djanaralieva, Prolonged occupation and de facto annexation, two sides of the same coin? How the time factor influences the legality of the occupation in submissions made to the International Court of Justice in the context of the Policies and Practices of Israel advisory opinion
New Issue: Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy
- Commentary
- Clive Schofield, New Diplomatic Notes, Same Old Story in the South China Sea?
- Articles
- Sabrina Hasan, Challenges to the Coastal State Jurisdiction over Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships under unclos
- Mehmet H M Bektaş & Fatih Bilal Gökpinar, Flexing the Statehood Criteria for the Island States Threatened by Sea Level Rise: A Sisyphean Task?
- Peidong Yang, Where Should China Coast Guard Go? Developments and Future of China Coast Guard Reform
- Hao Duy Phan & Yen Hoang Tran, Limitations and Exceptions to unclos Compulsory Dispute Settlement Regime: Implications for Maritime Disputes and the South China Sea
- Matteo Bedendi, ‘Schrödinger’s Areas’: The Legal Status of Areas under Submission Before the clcs and the Role of the isa
- Dieu-My Tran, Strategic Use of the Maritime Militia in the South China Sea – The Case of Vietnam
- Xiaoyi Jiang & Zipeng Huang, Improving the Management of Blue Carbon Resources through Marine Protected Areas in China under Carbon Neutrality
- Haoyu Tian & Jianping Guo, Japan’s Release of Nuclear Contaminated Water: Examination under Due Diligence Obligation to Protect and Preserve the Marine Environment
- Lowell Bautista & Jonalyn Villasante, Aligning National Law with UNCLOS: The Legal and Strategic Significance of the Philippine Maritime Zones Act
- Muhammad Farhad Hosen & Lowell Bautista, Bangladesh’s 2024 Offshore Bidding Round: A Critical Evaluation of International Oil and Gas Companies’ Non-Participation amid Regulatory and Political Instability
- Leonardo Bernard, Maritime Joint Development between China and Indonesia: A Statement with Diplomatic Rather than Legal Substance?
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