AJIL Unbound Symposium: The Future of a Melting Arctic: Challenges for International Law

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “The Future of a Melting Arctic: Challenges for International Law.” The symposium includes an introduction by Daniel Bodansky and Beatriz Martinez Romera, and contributions by Amanda H. Lynch and Charles H. Norchi , Carl Graefe and Sherri Goodman, David Balton and Timo Koivurova, Kevin A. Baumert, Romain Chuffart and Aaron M. Cooper, A. Stella Ebbersmeyer and Beatriz Martinez Romera, and Daniel Bodansky and Yoshifumi Tanaka.

Call for Papers: IHL Beyond States: New Patterns, New Spaces, and New Actors in Armed Conflicts

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "IHL Beyond States: New Patterns, New Spaces, and New Actors in Armed Conflicts," to take place October 16, 2026, at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Political Science. Topics include: The Globalization of Non-International Armed Conflicts; Civilian Protection at the Breaking Point; New Spaces of Conflict: From Cyberspace to the Global Commons; and New Actors in Armed Conflicts. Marco Sassòli (Univ. of Geneva) will deliver a keynote. The call is here.

New Issue: Business and Human Rights Journal

The latest issue of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Vol. 11, no. 1, February 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Etienne Roy Grégoire, Marc-André Anzueto, Bonnie Campbell, Mélisande Séguin, Nancy R. Tapias Torrado, & Karen Hamilton, ‘Do-it-Yourself FPIC’: The Political Grammar of Canada’s Normative Entrepreneurship in the Global Extractive Sector
• Leonard Feld, Leading the Way or Crossing the Line? The Extraterritorial Dimension of the EU Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence
• Eva Nave, Criminal Hate Speech Attributable to Online Platforms: A Call for a Thorough Corporate Remedial Responsibilities Framework in Europe
• Naphtali Ukamwa, Towards a Definition of a Sustainable Corporation Under the International Frameworks on Business and Human Rights
• Developments in the Field Symposium; Business and Human Rights and the arms industry: challenges, prospects, and current dynamics
• Valentina Azarova, León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Tomas Hamilton, Cannelle Lavite, & Chloe Bailey, Corporate Accountability in the Arms Sector: Possibilities, Limits, and Visions of Justice
• Shahd Hammouri, Reckoning With the Paradox of Regulating the Arms Industry: The Context of Palestine
• Lana Baydas, Human Rights Due Diligence Within the Arms Industry: Challenges, Practices and Opportunities
• Marina Aksenova, The Arms Industry and International Criminal Liability: Challenging the Status Quo?
• Michael Marchant & Zenkosi Mathe, ‘Offshoring’ Weapons Production and Implications for Export Controls: Lessons from South Africa
• Hiruni Alwishewa, Addressing the Human Rights Risks of Financing the Arms Industry: Insights from Banks’ Corporate Policies
• Emma Baldi, Arms Exports and the Right to Life: The RWM Italia Case
• Cynthia L. Ebbs, Advancing the Humanitarian Imperative of the Arms Trade Treaty: Public and Private Sector Engagement in Responsible Arms Transfers
• Antonio Guzmán Mutis, Corporate Duties of the Arms Industry at the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: A Tale of Risk and Attribution
• Julie Février & Sarra Dajean, Corporate Complicity in International Crimes: Implications of the Lafarge Jurisprudence for the Arms Industry

Webinar: Toward a Treaty on Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters

On April 22, 2026, a second webinar will be held in the ESIL Conversations series “Multilateralism in Times of Unilateralism.” The topic is: “Towards a Treaty on Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters.” Details are here.

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 18, nos. 1-2, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Md Syful Islam, Were Crimes Against Humanity Committed During the July 2024 Crackdown on Student Protests in Bangladesh? A Legal Analysis
• Havva Yeşil, The Compatibility of the EU-Turkey Statement with EU Law and International Human Rights Law
• Jan Hornat, Aporia and Responsibilisation in the Liberal International Order
• Intervention
• Helder Ferreira do Vale, The Venezuelan Crisis: From Multilateral R2P to US Unilateral Control