Webinar: Second World Approaches to International Law (SWAIL)

On June 9, 2026, a webinar will be held on "Second World Approaches to International Law (SWAIL)." Details are here.

Research Platform: EGSTradeHub.org

Nicolette Butler (Univ. of Manchester - Law) and Jasem Tarawneh (Queen Mary Univ. of London - Law) have launched a new online repository for information related to international trade in environmental goods and services (EGS): EGSTradeHub.org. Here's a description:

EGSTradeHub.org is a new one-stop resource bringing together academic research, legal materials, policy documents, institutional resources, events, reports, and commentary relating broadly to Environmental Goods and Services (EGS), trade and environment, and climate-aligned trade governance. Developed by Dr Nicolette Butler (University of Manchester) and Dr Jasem Tarawneh (Queen Mary University of London), the platform is designed to help users navigate what is often a fragmented and difficult-to-access landscape by consolidating a wide range of materials into a single, searchable, and regularly updated resource.

The Hub serves as a key resource for academics, students, policymakers, negotiators, practitioners, NGOs, and others working across international trade, environmental governance, and sustainable development. The project team also warmly welcomes suggestions and contributions of relevant publications, reports, events, databases, and other materials to help ensure the resource remains comprehensive and up to date. The website is available here.

al Attar & Smith: Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialized Boundaries

Mohsen al Attar (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool Univ.) & Claire Smith have published Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialized Boundaries (Oxford Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:

While mainstream international legal scholarship has long treated race as a peripheral concern-or a historic injustice to be remembered but not redressed-this volume argues that racialisation is foundational to the discipline, underpinning its doctrines, epistemes, and interlocutors. Emancipating International Law explores the many ways racial hierarchy, systemic oppression, and global white supremacy shape international law. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, the collection moves beyond qualifying whether international law is racist to explore how racial hierarchies are embedded in its structures and continue to evolve through legal and institutional practice.

Divided into five sections, the book begins by situating international law's racialised boundaries within its colonial, capitalist, and chauvinist afterlives, exposing how white ignorance and race-thinking underpin legal norms, from sovereignty to jus cogens. It then examines racial stratification across legal institutions, including investment law, refugee law, and the Genocide Convention. The third section extends this critique to human rights, revealing the ways in which even an emancipatory paradigm can bolster racial injustices. The penultimate section unpacks racial hierarchies in disparate societies, including Brazil, India, and Japan, as well as the frontiers of nation-states. The volume concludes with a powerful discussion of the role of activism and alternative epistemologies in racial justice struggles, and the limits of international law's capacity for anti-racist transformation.

New Issue: Journal of Global Health Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Global Health Law (Vol. 2, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: One Health and Global Health Law
• Carmen Bullón Caro, One Health as an emerging legal principle: foundations, normative content, and regulatory implications
• Adam Strobeyko & Daniela Morich, One Health, many laws: the promise and limits of mutually supportive lawmaking in a fragmented legal landscape
• Alexandra Finch & Benjamin Mason Meier, One Health as a foundation for addressing AMR under global health law
• Gabriel Armas-Cardona & Antje Risius, Understanding barriers to One Health implementation: systematic review of One Health governance beyond the Quadripartite coalition
• Katherine Ginsbach, Stefania Negri, Kashish Aneja, Emanuele Cesta, Sandro Bonfigli, & Sam Halabi, Legal preparedness for One Health: evolving legal and institutional frameworks for improved global health security
• Voices from the field: interview with Carlos Gonçalo das Neves

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 28, nos. 2-3, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Second World Approaches to International Law
• Marek J. Wasiński & Patryk I. Labuda, Special Issue Editorial: Second World Approaches to International Law
• Eric Loefflad, Steppe and Forest between World Orders: Locating the Political Geography of Eastern Europe in the Deep Time of International Law
• Daniel R. Quiroga-Villamarín, Cuba Libre? Pan-Americanism, the 1962 Missiles Crisis, and the Geopolitical Boundaries of the “Second World”
• Tomasz Lachowski, Imperialism, Genocide and International Law in the Bloodlands in the Past and Present
• Tamás Hoffmann, A Region without Agency? Finding the Absent Eastern European Voice in the History of International Law
• Polina Kulish & Ciarán Burke, Reviving the ‘Second World’? Rethinking the Eurasian Economic Union through the SWAIL Lens
• Gor Samvel, The Soviets, Colonialism, and Legal Consciousness: Rethinking Armenia’s Relationship with International Law

Call for Submissions: International Humanitarian Law and Courts (Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law)

The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law has issued a call for submissions for its Volume 29 (2026) on the theme "International Humanitarian Law and Courts." The call is here. The deadline for abstracts is June 19, 2026.

Grant: Sovereignty disputes and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: A public order perspective

Thomas D. Grant (Univ. of Cambridge - Lauterpacht Centre for International Law) has published Sovereignty disputes and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: A public order perspective (Manchester Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:

Because maritime questions are often admixed with territorial sovereignty questions, parties sometimes seek to settle them together. Jurisdiction under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea-UNCLOS-according to the received view does not encompass disputes concerning territorial sovereignty. In this book, international law scholar and practitioner Thomas D. Grant argues that the received view overstates the exclusion of sovereignty disputes. In Coastal State Rights, UNCLOS Annex VII arbitrators overstated the scope of the term 'sovereignty dispute' as well, an error of definition compounded when they ignored evidence probative as to whether a sovereignty dispute exists. Examining UNCLOS, its drafting history, and decades of decided cases, Sovereignty Disputes and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea relates an important problem of international dispute settlement to the public order of which UNCLOS forms part.

Citeroni: Systemic Economic Offences as International Crimes: Theorising a New Paradigm of Mass Criminality

Nicole Citeroni has published Systemic Economic Offences as International Crimes: Theorising a New Paradigm of Mass Criminality (Hart Publishing 2026). Here's the abstract:

This open access book asks whether international economic crime can qualify as an international crime and be prosecuted as such.

Taking a four-part approach to the question, it traces the origins of the concept of international economic crime, and draws the line between ordinary economic crimes and economic offences of international significance. To this end, it examines six cases involving the commissions of serious economic crimes in different regions of the world, including Europe, the Americas and Africa: the crime of grand corruption in the Petrobras case; the theft of natural resources in the Niger Delta region and Liberia; the international money-laundering scheme in the Bolichicos case; the crime of financing terrorism in the Chiquita case; the Volkswagen conspiracy case in the US and the Haarde case related to gross-negligence in preventing serious economic damage. It then goes on to discuss a potential sui generis category of international economic crimes, before considering the advantages and the challenges of the multilevel enforcement system of international criminal justice in prosecuting such crimes.

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 57, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Constantinos Yiallourides, Lennart Westmark & Alexander Proelss, Cross-Border CO2 Transport and Storage Networks in Europe through “Arrangements” under the London Protocol
• Yoshifumi Tanaka, Three Functions of Due Diligence Obligations in the Prevention of Vessel-Source Marine Pollution from Arctic Shipping
• Krittika Singh, Environmental Impact Assessment for Deep-Sea Mining: From Exploration to Exploitation and Relevance of the BBNJ Agreement
• Special Section: Protection of Fishers in Southeast Asia under International Law
• Natalie Klein, Andrew Blackie & Dita Liliansa, Abuses in the Southeast Asian Fishing Industry as Violations of International Law
• Andrea Longo, Flag State Jurisdiction and the Protection of Human Rights in Southeast Asia
• Dita Liliansa, Home State Jurisdiction over Corporate Harms at Sea in Fisheries in Southeast Asia
• Natalie Klein, The Potential Role of Regional Fisheries Management Organizations in Addressing International Human Rights Violations in Fisheries in Southeast Asia
• Arron N. Honniball, Combating Forced Labour in Fisheries Through Trade Restrictions: First Steps and Their Consistency with International Law

Conference: 21st Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law

On September 3-5, 2026, the European Society of International Law will hold its 21st Annual Conference in Málaga. The theme is: "International Law and Conflict: An Enduring Tension?" The program is here. Registration is here.