Saturday, August 8, 2026

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 51, no. 2, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Leo You Li, The Faces of Judicial Data Governance
  • Cody Corliss, The War Crime of Spreading Terror
  • Ding Yuan, The Legitimacy Lever in Africa-ICC Politics Note

Friday, August 7, 2026

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 80, no. 3, Summer 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Articles
    • Megan A. Stewart, Revolutionizing Time, Reforging Social Orders: State-Building Success and the Enforcement of Symbolic Programs in Revolutionary France
    • Daniel B. Jones, Erica Owen, & Rena Sung, Relative Exposure to Negative Economic Shocks, Racial Animus, and Voting
    • Alejandro Milcíades Peña & Thomas Davies, Social Movements and International Order Formation
    • Monica Widmann, Democracy, Debt, and the Bench: Political Ideology in Sovereign Immunity Cases
    • Scott Wolford, Joshua Landry, & Kevin Galambos, Collective Deterrence
    • Boyd van Dijk, Norm Making from the Margins: Armed Groups, the Algerian War, and South–South Legal Politics
  • Research Notes
    • Jessica S. Sun, Protecting at Home or Providing Abroad: Refugee Policy in Civil Conflicts
    • Santi Foncillas, Erasmus Kersting, & Christopher Kilby, Dirty Work and the Domestic Politics of Aid

Thursday, August 6, 2026

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 65, no. 4, August 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Advisory Opinion AO-32/25 Requested by Chile and Colom. – Climate Emergency & H.R. (Inter-Am. Ct. H.R.), with introductory note by Rosa Celorio & Naomi Adefris
  • Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (I.C.J.), with introductory note by Nathaniel Khng & Bryce Rudyk
  • Convention on the Protection of the Environment Through Criminal Law (Council Eur.), with introductory note by Anne Dienelt

Wednesday, August 5, 2026

New Issue: Military Law and the Law of War Review / Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre

The latest issue of the Military Law and the Law of War Review / Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre (Vol. 64, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Winthrop Wells, Military information and accountability for international crimes in Ukraine
  • Winthrop Wells, Battlefield evidence in Syria/Iraq and Ukraine: legal and strategic implications
  • Quinten DeGroote, Preparing Europe for cyber warfare: applying peacetime International Humanitarian Law to the European Union’s Readiness 2030 Initiative
  • Ronald Alcala & Hitoshi Nasu, On the purpose limb of the military objective test under the law of targeting
  • Loïc Vandeput, White lie or IHL violation? An IHL analysis of the disinformation campaign against Syria Civil Defence (the White Helmets)

New Issue: Asian Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (Vol. 16, no. 2, July 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Notes and Comments
    • Kai Tik AU YEUNG, Significance of Coordination: A Comparison between the Cape Town Convention and Hague Securities Convention
  • Invited Article
    • Sundaresh MENON, International Law in Unprecedented Times – and Our Role in Shaping It
  • Articles
    • Sijie WANG, “Legislative Power”of the United Nations Security Council: A Step Too Far?
    • Nina ARANETA-ALANA, Jeremy FARRALL, Jolyon FORD & Imogen SAUNDERS, Populism and Institutional Fortitude: Philippine Engagement aith International Law and Institutions During the Duterte Administration
    • Javier Sebastian ESKAURIATZA, An Evaluation of the“Legacy Jurisdiction”of the International Criminal Court: The Philippines Investigation
    • Hojjat SALIMI TURKAMANI, Climate Finance for Energy Transition with Focus on Cost of Phasing Out Fossil Fuel
    • Ashkan SHOKRI, Sovereignty in Cyberspace from the Viewpoint of International Law
    • Pouria ASKARY & Katayoun HOSSEINNEJAD, Beginning of International Armed Conflict in the Case of Targeted Killing of Military Personnel in a Third State
    • Antal BERKES, International Law without Statehood: The Outlier Application of International Law by Eurasian De Facto Regimes

Tuesday, August 4, 2026

New Issue: Human Rights Quarterly

The latest issue of the Human Rights Quarterly (Vol. 48, no. 3, August 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Jessica Anania & Jamie L. Shenk, Silent Signaling: Norm Diffusion and LGBTI Rights in Transitional Justice
  • Ge Chen, Freedom of Sexual Expression Under Absorptive Censorship in China
  • Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Trans and Women's Rights
  • Patient Mpunga-Biayi, The Advisory Function of the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
  • Changfeng Yan & Li Nawen, Legal and Ethical Principles of Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection
  • Surya P. Subedi, A Cross-Cultural Understanding of Human Rights in International Legal Discourse

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

The latest issue of the Asia-Pacific Journal of Ocean Law and Policy (Vol. 11, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Yoshifumi Tanaka, Reflections on the Prevention of Vessel-Source Marine Pollution from Scrubber Discharges: Any Lessons for Green Shipping?
  • Jianping Guo & Louis McDonough Monroy, Implications of the ITLOS Climate Change Advisory Opinion on International Fisheries Law
  • Chuanliang Wang, Xinle Chen, & Zhe Yang, The Impacts of the Shiprider Agreements on the Maritime Rights: A Chinese Perspective
  • Wei-Chung Chen, A Study on the Taiwan-Japan Fisheries Agreement for Fisheries Co-management: Insights from International Law and Practice
  • Kim-Ngan Vu & Ngoc-Ha Nguyen, Vietnam’s Fisheries Subsidies Regulations: How to Contribute to the Achievement of 14.6 Sustainable Development Goal?
  • Parineeta Goswami, Nisha Sachdeva, & Aarushi Goswami, Blue Carbon Governance in the Asia-Pacific: Legal Strategies For Marine Climate Resilience
  • Ishrat Jahan, Intersection of the Legal Personhood of Rivers and the Law of the Sea in the Context of Bangladesh
  • Candice Visser & Clive Schofield, Stability and Certainty Secured?: Implications of the International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change for Baselines and Maritime Zonal Limits

Monday, August 3, 2026

New Issue: Journal of Global Health Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Global Health Law (Vol. 3, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Lina De Witte, The PFAS Restriction Proposal: the first step towards a new era of chemicals regulation?
  • Chidi Oguamanam, Re-inventing global public health in the shadow of COVID-19: decentring intellectual property in International Health Regulations (IHR) and the Pandemic Agreement for SDGs
  • Sylvain Aubry, Pierre Walckiers, & Christine Frison, Keep talking while everything gets sequenced: how the Pandemic Agreement, global health, and genetic resource governance are keeping pace with digitisation?
  • Siobhán Wills, Diogo Cabral, & Ulisses Terto Neto, Racialised police violence and states’ obligation to respect the human right to the social, psychosocial and environmental determinants of mental health
  • Kailing Marcus & Stéphanie Dagron, Achieving Universal Health Coverage as a practical expression of the right to health: what can China’s legal framework tell us?
  • David W Patterson, The climate crisis is a right to health crisis: lessons from the HIV pandemic for the UN General Assembly and UN system-wide climate action
  • Milou Vlaskamp, The ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion: engagement with One Health approaches

Call for Contributions: Old Doctrines, New Battles: The Future of the Rules-Based International Order in Latin America and the Caribbean

Völkerrechtsblog has issued a call for contributions on "Old Doctrines, New Battles: The Future of the Rules-Based International Order in Latin America and the Caribbean." The call is here.

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 116, 2026) is out. Contents include:
  • Foreign investment in occupied territories: What lessons from current practice?
    • Introduced by Carlo de Stefano
    • Erik W. Brouwer, The territorial scope of bilateral investment agreements in the context of occupied territories: The quest for a bigger picture
    • Marco Argentini, The circulation of the Crimea Awards: Annulment, enforcement and State immunity pleas
    • Mirko Camanna, Denial of benefits clauses in wartime: From prevention of treaty shopping to geopolitical function?
    • Fabrizio Marrella, Armed Conflicts in International Investment Arbitration
    • Marco Longobardo & Federica Violi, Foreign Investment in Occupied Territory: The Role of Third States and Non-State Actors in International Humanitarian Law, Investment Law, and Business and Human Rights
    • Alessandra Arcuri, Jus Cogens and International Investment Law in Occupied Territories: Dangerous Relations