New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 41, no. 3, September 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• George A Bermann, Most-favoured-nation’s false promises
• Lord Hoffmann, Richard Aikens, Salim Moollan, & Ricky Diwan, An important realignment and an opportunity missed? The law applicable to the arbitration agreement, jurisdictional re-hearings, stays to court proceedings, and the Arbitration Act 2025
• Alberto Plaza López-Berges, Arbitral tribunal-led settlement facilitation in international arbitration
• Robert Walters, Tokens and blockchain evidence in international commercial arbitration: its current status?
• Nakul Dewan & Sathvik Chandrashekar, Stretching separability to its yield point
• Phillip Landolt, EU law in international arbitration—the example of Switzerland
• Nawsheen Maghooa, Withdrawal from the Energy Charter Treaty: the Ostrich Effect?
• Katherine Reece Thomas & Doğan Gültutan, Enforcement of ICSID awards and state immunity: should immunity trump all? Analysis of the English Court of Appeal’s ISL / Border Timbers conjoined judgment, advocating for a domestic teleological interpretation
• Case Notes
• Yağmur Hortoğlu Grant, Arbitral fraud and the power of arbitrators in the Nigeria v P&ID case: all that glitters is not gold
• Beata Gessel-Kalinowska vel Kalisz, The DCF standard in the calculation of compensation—some comments in connection with the standard of compensation adopted by the tribunal in the Rockhopper v Italy Award

Gordon: Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice

Gregory S. Gordon (Peking Univ. - School of Transnational Law) has published Nuremberg's Citizen Prosecutor: Benjamin Ferencz and the Birth of International Justice (Univ. of Virginia Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

On September 29, 1947, in Courtroom 600, before the Nuremberg Military Tribunal, twenty-seven-year-old Benjamin Ferencz approached the lectern to deliver the prosecution’s opening statement against Hitler’s brutal henchmen of the Einsatzgruppen—the SS killing units responsible for more than 1.5 million deaths during the Holocaust—in what the Associated Press dubbed “the biggest murder trial in history.” As the field of international criminal justice was being born in the aftermath of World War II, only Ferencz led in all its phases: investigation, prosecution, and restitution—an extraordinary feat given his humble origins as an impoverished immigrant escaping antisemitic persecution in Eastern Europe and growing up in New York’s Hell’s Kitchen. A Harvard Law scholarship student, Ferencz had been General Patton’s lead war crimes field investigator before becoming a chief prosecutor at Nuremberg. Horrified by what he encountered, he dedicated his career to Holocaust survivors, pioneering key restitution efforts and helping negotiate the landmark reparations treaty between West Germany, Israel, and Jewish civil society. Later, he became a peace advocate and driving force behind the creation of the International Criminal Court, remarkably joining the prosecution for the Court’s first trial as the last living Nuremberg prosecutor.

Call for Papers: Colonial Mobility and Legal Encounters: Rethinking the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC)’s Role in Asia

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Colonial Mobility and Legal Encounters: Rethinking the Dutch East Indian Company (VOC)’s Role in Asia," to take place March 25-26, 2026, at the University of Amsterdam. The call is here.

Istrefi, Ratniece, & Kamber: The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights

Kushtrim Istrefi (Utrecht Univ.), Zane Ratniece (Eurojust), & Kresimir Kamber (Council of Europe) have published The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights (Brill | Nijhoff 2025). Here is the abstract:

Over time the corpus of rights and obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights has developed into and is perhaps best understood as a system of autonomous concepts, with the European Court of Human Rights acting as its master of conceptualisation. The Companion to the European Convention on Human Rights seeks to identify and explain what these concepts are, how they have evolved, and how they have been applied by the Court. The Companion presents the first compilation and analysis of nearly 300 ECHR notions on Convention rights, principles, procedures and institutions written by 89 authors, including current and former judges of the European Court of Human Rights, scholars and practitioners working on the Convention system.

Call for Engaged Listeners: Workshop on Armed Conflict and Climate Change

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and the Humboldt University, Berlin, are organising the Sixth Authors’ Workshop of the Max Planck Trialogues on the Law of Peace and War, to take place March 12-13, 2026, in Berlin. The workshop will explore the relationship between climate change and armed conflict and how to conceptualize it from a legal perspective. The organisers invite interested researchers, especially doctoral and early career researchers, to apply as “engaged listeners.” Engaged listeners will not give a talk but are expected to participate actively in the discussions and will be listed in the workshop’s program. Applications should be submitted through the online application system with a CV and letter of motivation (max. 500 words) by December 15. 2025. More information can be found here.

Chasapis Tassinis: A Theory of International Organizations in Public International Law

Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis (Univ. of Cambridge) has published A Theory of International Organizations in Public International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Greater, lesser, or just different than the sum of their parts? For all their prominence in global affairs, international organizations remain relative strangers from the perspective of international legal theory. Drawing insights from philosophical discourse, this book moves past binary models that would have international organizations either be nothing over and above their members or simply analogous to them. Rather than compare international organizations and their members, Chasapis Tassinis asks us to understand them both as manifestations of communal organization and what international law recognizes as 'public' authority. Theorizing international organizations as only a branch within a broader family of corporate entities, this book allows us to untangle old doctrinal puzzles. These include the extent to which international organizations are bound by customary international law and can contribute to its formation, or whether they enjoy a legal personality that is opposable to members and non-members alike.

Call for Submissions: The Impact of Climate Change on International Law in the Light of Decisions of International Bodies

The Polish Review of International and European Law has issued a call for submissions for a forthcoming special issue on "The Impact of Climate Change on International Law in the Light of Decisions of International Bodies." The call is here.

Dawuni, Grossman, Ramji-Nogales, & Ruiz Fabri: The Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law

J. Jarpa Dawuni (Howard Univ. - Political Science), Nienke Grossman (Univ. of Baltimore - Law), Jaya Ramji-Nogales (Temple Univ. - Law), & Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Sorbonne Law School) have published The Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The Oxford Handbook of Women and International Law interrogates women's interrelationship with international law's institutions, norms, and theoretical approaches. Women have made tremendous strides in international law by contributing to its development and application; wielding power as representatives and leaders in international organizations; and serving as judges, legal experts, and leaders of non-governmental organizations pushing the law in new directions. Yet, as this Handbook demonstrates, full equality remains elusive while new threats emerge. Climate change, the rise in nationalism, and anti-gender ideology pose serious challenges to multilateral institutions and norms that protect and empower women.

Featuring diverse and interdisciplinary contributions from across the globe by leading scholars, international judges, and legal practitioners, this Handbook explores the ways in which international law might meet its unmet potential for achieving gender equality for women and girls, in all their diversity, and counter these emerging challenges. All the while, the book wrestles with both who "women" are and the extent to which international law's norms and institutions are effective and worthwhile spaces for emancipatory change.

Call for Papers: Business, Armed Conflict, and International Law

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Business, Armed Conflict, and International law," to take place June 25-26, 2026, at Utrecht University. The call is here.

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 107, no. 929, 2025) is out. The theme is: "Protection of the Dead." Contents include:

• Interview with Florence Anselmo and Pierre Guyomarc’h
• Mitigating the risk of military personnel becoming unaccounted for on the battlefield: An interview with Stephen Fonseca and Vaughn Rossouw on the ICRC’s Military Personnel Identification Project
• Interview with Michael Pollanen
• Alizéa-Maïwenn Ciftcisoy, Protecting the dead against sexual violence from the perspectives of international criminal law and international humanitarian law
• Gabriella Citroni, Practical, legal and psychological issues related to the protection of the dead in cases of enforced disappearance
• Tatjana Grote, Data and the dead: How does IHL regulate data related to the identification of deceased persons?
• Mischa Gureghian Hall, The war crime of outrages against the personal dignity of the dead: Legal basis, evolution, and elements
• Thomas D. Holland, “Grant him quickly to my longing eyes”: The evolution of the US common law of sepulchre and its potential utility in interpreting the protection of the dead under IHL
• Juana María Ibáñez Rivas, The dead and missing in armed conflict: Protections set out in the judgments of the European and Inter-American Courts of Human Rights
• Melanie Klinkner, Ellen Donovan, Diego Nunez, Ian Hanson, Emily Fisher, David Biggins, & Ellie Smith, Mass grave mapping and the protection of the dead
• Janet E. Lord & Christopher J. Hart, Disabled dead bodies: Marking the intersections of international humanitarian law and international human rights law
• Helen Obregón Gieseken & Ximena Londoño, Dignity in death: International humanitarian law and the protection of the deceased in war
• Anjli Parrin, Morris Tidball-Binz, Jessica L. Garda, Allison M. Gelman, Katherine C. Kazmin, & Anna Schmitt, The protection of dead persons under international human rights law: Evaluating gaps and developing a principles framework
• Viola Santini, Visual representation of armed conflict-related deaths and the evolving standards of protecting the dignity of the deceased
• Pietro Sferrazza Taibi & Mauricio Carrasco Núñez, The search for missing persons: Comparative analysis of the incorporation of international standards into national search plans implemented in Latin American countries
• Jane Taylor, Pierre Guyomarc’h, Oran Finegan, Luis Fondebrider, Mercedes Salado Puerto, Morris Tidball-Binz, Respecting IHL obligations to the deceased does make a difference: The ICRC-led Falkland Islands/Islas Malvinas identification operation
• Angelica Widström, A case study on War Poses
• Clara Palmisano, Anthropology of violent death: Theoretical foundations for forensic humanitarian action By Roberto C. Parra and Douglas H. Ubelaker

New Issue: International Journal of Refugee Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Vol. 37, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Catherine Dauvergne, Towards a Theoretical Account of the Refugee in International Law
• Davide Tomaselli, ‘Forced’ Refugees versus ‘Voluntary’ Migrants: Deconstructing a Binary through SOGIESC Claims of Asylum
• Vasiliki Apatzidou, Bordering Asylum: Examining the EU’s Border Procedures under the Asylum Procedures Regulation (EU) 2024/1348
• Bríd Ní Ghráinne, Internally Displaced Persons and Exclusion Clauses

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, no. 6, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Child and International Law
• Elżbieta Karska & Karol Karski, The Child and International Law: General Remarks
• Krzysztof Orzeszyna, Child as a Special Subject of Rights and Freedoms in International Human Rights Law
• Elżbieta Hanna Morawska, Legal Aspects of the Vulnerable Situation of Unaccompanied and Separated Children on the Move: Key Elements of the Approach of the European Court of Human Rights in Light of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Karol Karski & Konrad Wnorowski, Engineered Migrations on the Eastern Border of the European Union: Belarusian Hybrid Activities and Children’s Rights
• Karolina Kiernozek, The Role of International Business in Eliminating Child Labour
• Bartosz Ziemblicki, The Deficiencies of the Rights of the Child in Labour Relations from the Perspective of International Law
• Maria Skwarcan, Between Principle and Practice: Children’s Rights in Light of the EDPB’s Stance on Personal Data as a Non-tradable Commodity
• Jakub Ali Farhan, ‘After the 4th Month’: Questionable Food Labelling for Infant Products under EU Food Law
• Paweł Bucoń, Children’s Rights in Poland

Chiam & Duxbury: Australia in the International Legal System: From Empire to the Contemporary World

Madelaine Chiam (La Trobe Univ. - Law) & Alison Duxbury (Univ. of Melbourne - Law) have published Australia in the International Legal System: From Empire to the Contemporary World (Hart Publishing 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

What impact has Australia had on international law and what is its significance in terms of its participation in the transnational legal system? This collection of essays delves into the history of Australia's interactions with international law and considers how its people have shaped international law. It explores key issues such as the country's imperial and settler past. It assesses how Australians have contributed to key institutions such as the ICJ, the UN and the British Commonwealth. It gives a fascinating insight into international law's impact on a domestic legal system and the complex and multifaceted nature of that relationship. Scholars from across the international spectrum, whether in the field of law, politics or history, will welcome this erudite and engaging work.