Call for Submissions: Drugs and International Law (Special Issue of Estudios Socio-Jurídicos)

The journal Estudios Socio-Jurídicos has issued a call for submissions for a special issue that will explore the intersections between drugs and international law. The call is here.

Burri: Phenomenal International Law, Part 1: Chasing Chagos

Thomas Burri (Univ. of St. Gallen) has posted Phenomenal International Law, Part 1: Chasing Chagos. Here's the abstract:

This paper is part of a series I will publish in the near future. It develops a new approach I call “phenomenal international law”. Phenomenal international law addresses two challenges international law faces today: i) International law is increasingly under pressure because some major powers, including the United States and Russia, are turning away from it, preferring the use of raw power and military force over the rule of law. ii) International lawyers, like all lawyers, are under strain as intelligent algorithms become better by the day at doing what used to be their job. Artificial intelligence writes briefs, answers complex legal questions, summarizes long court decisions, delivers crisp lectures, writes international law manuals, produces elaborate footnotes, etc, – and all that in a fraction of the time international lawyers needed to complete these tasks.

New Issue: Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy

The latest issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy (Vol. 10, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Law of the Sea in the ASEAN Maritime Domain
• Anh Vo, China’s Maritime Militia Under the Law of the Sea and the Applicability of The State Responsibility Rules
• Le Duy Tran & Thi Ha Trang Dao, Security Matters Involving Marine-Based Nuclear Power Plants: Several Regulatory Challenges and ASEAN’s Prospects
• Nguyên Thị Kim Trần, Law of the Sea and Offshore Wind Power in Vietnam
• Mónica Chinchilla-Adell, The Proliferation Security Initiative in the asean Region: a Missed Opportunity for Maritime Security?
• Faudzan Farhana & Rifki Indra Maulana, Developing Regional Norms on Protecting Migrant Fisher’s Rights at Sea: ASEAN Way
• Yulu Liu, Southeast Asian Countries at the Sessions of the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee on Plastic Pollution and the Bridging with ASEAN Marine Plastic Policies
• Jacqueline Joyce F. Espenilla, Combatting iuu Fishing in Southeast Asia through Next-Generation Surveillance Cooperation
• Jeremia Humolong Prasetya, Anissa Yusha Amalia, & Fadilla Octaviani, Charting the Course for the Protection of People at Sea: Lessons Learned from ASEAN
• Halina Sapeha & Emmanuel Brunet-Jailly, Maritime Boundary Dispute Resolution in the ASEAN Region

Call for Applications: Canadian Yearbook of International Law Editorial Positions

The Canadian Yearbook of International Law has issued calls for applications for the positions of Acquisitions Editor and Communications Editor. The calls are here (acquisitions) and here (communnications).

New Volume: Italian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Italian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 34, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• The United Nations at 80: Contestation, Resilience and Change
• Santiago Villalpando, How Do Nations Unite Within the United Nations? Coalitions and Divides in International Law-Making
• Christian J. Tams, Binding Settlement of Inter-State Disputes: The United Nations Between Resilience and Resignation
• Alessandra Annoni, The UN and the ICC: Navigating the Persistent Tension Between Peace and Justice
• Chiara Redaelli, The United Nations and the Reinvention of Peace: Which Peace and for Whom?
• Rosario Sapienza, Human Rights at the United Nations Between Universalism and Multiculturalism
• Elena Fasoli, Sustaining Change: The Role of the United Nations in Promoting Environmental Protection amid Rising Discontent
• Annamaria Viterbo, The Specialised Agencies and their Relationship with the United Nations: Membership and Representation Issues
• Articles, Notes and Comments
• Donato Greco & Riccardo Pavoni, Which Treaties Override Inconsistent Domestic Legislation Under Article 117(1) of the Italian Constitution? Taking Stock of a Quarter-Century of Practice
• Tullio Scovazzi, Piracy: A Notable Omnis Definitio Instance
• Cristina Campiglio, The New Challenges for International Cooperation in Healthcare and Public Health
• Federica Passarini, Cannavacciuolo v. Italy: A Cautious Step in Protecting the Right to Life Against Environmental Harm
• Alessandra Lanciotti, Confiscation of Archaeological Property: The Judgment of the European Court of Human Rights in J. Paul Getty Trust v. Italy
• Anna Fazzini, The Italy-Albania Protocol on the Extraterritorial Detention of Migrants: Critical Issues in International Law
• Practice of International Courts and Tribunals
• Serena Forlati, The Genocide Convention Before the ICJ: Judicial Protection of Fundamental Values Between Tradition, Innovation, and the Risk of Futility
• Raffaella Nigro & Emma Luce Scali, Cooperation with the ICC and Personal Immunities of Heads of State or Government of Non-Parties: Revisiting Articles 27 and 98 of the Rome Statute After the Court’s Finding on Mongolia’s Non-Compliance
• Giorgio Sacerdoti & Carlo de Stefano, The WTO Dispute Settlement System 2023–2024: Navigating the Crisis, Engaging in Reform, Addressing Trade and Climate Change
• Giuliana Lampo, The 2024 Case Law of Investment Tribunals: Early Effects of the ICSID Rules Amendments and the Issue of Security for Costs

New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 24, no. 5, December 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Fang Gu & Xu Qian, Reconstruction of the Evaluation of Legitimate Expectations within Investor–State Dispute Settlement: A Vantage Point from Fuller’s Interactional Theory
• Wentian Zu & Ying Bi, Investment Facilitation and the Structural Evolution of International Investment Law: Toward a Third Configuration
• Fenghua Li & Haibin Zhu, Embedding Conditionality in the Special and Differential Treatment in WTO Disciplines on Fisheries Subsidies to Achieve Fishery Sustainability
• Maarja Saluste, Cross-Border ‘Data Adequacy’ Frameworks under GATS Article VII: Aligning WTO Members’ Rights to Protect Personal Data with Their International Commitments
• Jeongmeen Suh, Shifting Dynamics in WTO Ministerial Statements: A Textual Analysis of Member Engagement, 1996–2024
• Christian Delev, Economic Resilience under the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework Supply Chain Agreement: Treading between Geoeconomic Ambitions and World Trade Organization Compatibility?