Erie & Lin: Inter-Asian Law

Matthew Erie (American Univ. - Law) & Ching-Fu Lin (National Tsing Hua Univ.) have published Inter-Asian Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

What happens when Western law is no longer the default referent for legal modernity? This is a deceptively simple question, but its implications are significant for such fields as comparative law, international law, and law and development. Whereas much of comparative law is predicated on the idea that modern law flows West to East and North to South, this volume proposes the paradigm of 'Inter-Asian Law' (IAL), pointing to an emerging field of comparative law that explores the legal interactions between and among Asian jurisdictions. This volume is an experimental and preliminary effort to think through other beginnings and endings for law's movement from one jurisdiction to another, laying the grounds for new interactions between legal systems. In addition to providing an analytical framework to study IAL, the volume consists of fifteen chapters written by scholars from Asia and who study Asia that provide doctrinal and empirical accounts of IAL. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 38, no. 4, December 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Joseph Powderly, Surabhi Ranganathan, Bojana Ristić, Ingo Venzke, & Rebecca O’Rourke, Going Open Access
• International Legal Theory
• Nicole Štýbnarová, Unwholesome marriages and diamond drills: The making of the UN Marriage Convention (1962)
• Rishabh Bajoria, Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism
• Jason Haynes, International human rights law’s complicity in status subordination: A postcolonial critique of treaty bodies’ engagement with human trafficking
• Tim Lindgren, In the name of nature: Making the League of Nations, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal and international law
• International Law and Practice
• Mingyan Nie, Legal measures to preserve lunar security and safety in the context of China–US competition to the Moon: An appraisal from China’s perspective
• Sava Jankovic & Volker Roeben, Mind the gap: The determination, legality and consequences of implicit threats of force
• Sandrine De Herdt, Mapping representation before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, The challenge of phasing out fossil fuels for highly fossil fuel-dependent countries in international law
• Corina Heri, Climate-related vulnerabilities and the European Court of Human Rights: Reimagining victim status through intersectional thinking
• International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• Natasa Mavronicola & Mattia Pinto, Challenging punishment as the justice norm in the face of ongoing atrocities
• Grażyna Baranowska & Nasia Hadjigeorgiou, Living up to obligations through the International Red Cross? A critique of states’ attempts to shift obligations when addressing missing persons
• Miguel Manero de Lemos, The indictments against Adolf Hitler, their endorsement by the UNWCC, the IMT judgment and a twenty-first century immunity myth

Conference: 120th ASIL Annual Meeting

On April 22-25, 2026, the American Society of International Law will hold its 120th Annual Meeting in Washington, DC. The theme is: "Advancing and Defending The Rule of Law." Registration is now open, with the early bird discount ending on Feburary 10, 2026.