Seminar: The Right to Strike under International Law

On October 16, 2025, the Jack and Mae Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security at York University will host an online seminar on "The Right to Strke Under International Law." Details are here.

New Issue: Journal of International Dispute Settlement

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 16, no. 3, September 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Current Challenges in International Investment Law
• Esmé Shirlow, Transparency in investment treaty arbitration: past, present, and future
• Special issue: Justice Post-ISDS
• Francesca Farrington & Nevena Jevremović, Between a rock and a hard place: the impact of replacing or abolishing ISDS on investment-affected parties
• Special Issue: Translucent Justice
• Walter Arévalo-Ramírez & Andrés Rousset-Siri, Undermining the authority of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: cases of state’s weaponization of the value of transparency
• Suhong Yang & Shuai Guo, Selection process of judges and members at international courts and tribunals: in search of efficient transparency
• Gautam Mohanty & Alexandros Bakos, Revisiting transparency standards in investor–state dispute settlement vis-à-vis third-party funding: how much transparency is too much transparency?
• Elena Abrusci, More transparency on regional human rights courts? What we (still) need to know to understand and access regional human rights justice
• Marco Dimetto, Inscrutable procedural orders: two models of transparency in international dispute settlement (ICSID and ICJ)
• Thomas Vogt-Geisse, Three visions of transparency in international adjudication
• Letizia Lo Giacco, Rethinking transparency through the public–private prism: the case of the ICC–NGOs partnership
• Ezgi Özlü, Translucent justice: strategic transparency and the legitimacy of the ECtHR
• Hemi Mistry, Transparency as performance: the ‘As Is’ and ‘As If’ worlds of international adjudication
• Fenghua Li, Transparency as a pathway to align ICSID arbitration with sustainable development
• Irene Miano, De facto transparency? Investigating the practice of the International Court of Justice
• Danae Georgoula & Lan Ngoc Nguyen, Judicial reasoning as a mask: rationalizing the transparency of the law of the sea tribunals
• Carolina Mancuso, Procedural rules and judicial practices: a good or bad match for transparency?
• Bruno Biazatti, The backlog-driven reform of the Initial Review of petitions in the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
• Editorial
• Cédric Dupont & Thomas Schultz, Trump’s tariffs: from a trade problem into an investment problem?
• Articles
• Georgios Dimitropoulos, Investment law and the digital economy
• George Kahale, The Mobil and Conoco cases against Venezuela: the good, the bad and the ugly
• Yun Zhao & Yanru Chen, The evolving lex mercatoria: a game-changer for transparency in international commercial arbitration
• Jay Tseng, Insolvency of a party in international arbitration: considerations on staying arbitration proceedings
• Eleonora Castro, Clarifying the clean hands doctrine under general international law
• Nektarios Papadimos, A golden mean approach to independence and impartiality in investment arbitration
• Zelin Li, Inter-court competition in non-adjudicative activities: a case study of the International Court of Justice presidential speeches, 1991–2022
• Daria Levina, The myth of instant success: a historical account of the Commercial Court of England and Wales
• Current Developments
• Gabrielle Marceau & Maria George, Trade, climate and differentiation: an analysis of the interaction between the ‘Principle of Common But Differentiated Responsibilities’ and the WTO agreement
• Nikiforos Panagis, Held in suspense: the past, present, and future of the suspension of proceedings at the International Court of Justice
• Guang Ma & Hong Wu, The proliferation of unilateral trade measures and the crisis of the multilateral trading system

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

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 27, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Julia Klaus, ‘The Right of Existence of Peoples as Independent Nations’: Raphael Lemkin, the Tokyo Tribunal, and Aggression
• Rishabh Bajoria, Kashmir’s Erasure from International Law: David Lilienthal and the Forgotten Pre-History of the Indus Waters Treaty (1948–1951)
• Maria Adele Carrai, China Unbounded: Extraterritoriality, Nationality, and the Late Qing’s Engagement with International Law

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 112, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• The influence of security concerns on the fulfilment of climate-related obligations in contemporary international law: A virtu-ous or vicious dynamic?
• Introduced by Angelica Bonfanti
• Antonio Mariconda, Advancing climate-related obligations through security concerns: Lessons from the Falepili Union Treaty
• Giorgia Pane, Budgeting for war: The climate-security trade-off and profiles of responsibility in international law

New Issue: Chinese Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 24, no. 3, September 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial Comment
• Sienho Yee, Self-drive, Inducement, or Compulsion: Co-progressive Climate Change Solutions and the Advisory Proceedings before the ITLOS and the ICJ
• Articles
• Upasana Dasgupta & Biswanath Gupta, Duty to Notify an Impending Disaster on Earth and in Outer Space: Obligation on Third-Party States
• Olga Starshinova & Elena Murashko, Empowering the WTO Appellate Body to Render Advisory Opinions: a Solution to the Crisis or its Aggravation?
• Comment and Review Essay
• Rein Müllerson, Revolutions in “Superpowers” and Their Impact on Geopolitical Reconfiguration of the World and International Law

New Issue: Global Constitutionalism

The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 14, no. 3, November 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Danny Schindler, Constitutionalizing dissent: The universe of opposition rules in African constitutions
• Whitney K. Taylor, Embedding constitutional rights
• M. Victoria Kristan, The Day After a Broken Democratic Polity
• Ron Levy & Ian O’Flynn, Vetoes, deadlock and deliberative umpiring: Toward a proportionality doctrine for power-sharing constitutions
• Svenja Ahlhaus, Boundary assembly: An institutional proposal for democratizing membership politics
• Nicola Sharman, Recognising differentiated affectedness within a global demos: promoting the democratic legitimacy of the UNFCCC
• Maxim van Asseldonk, Claude Lefort in the age of the total constitution
• Emilia Justyna Powell & Joshua Paldino, The Taliban, Afghan constitutionalism and modern Islamic law states: renegotiating the balance of religious and secular law