New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 42, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Lecture
• Tim McCormack, The 2023 Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: The International Criminal Court and Global Criminal Justice: Are We Making Progress?
• Articles
• Regina Jefferies & Jane McAdam, Locked Down and Locked Out: Australia’s COVID-19 Restrictions on Internal Movement
• Carina Bury, Deficient by Design? Why Australia’s Ramsar Convention Implementation Deficits are Symptomatic of Outdated Treaty Reception Mechanisms 
• Sophie Ryan, Fundamental Legal Conceptions and the International Law of (Civil) Jurisdiction 

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 41, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Lecture
• Anne Orford, The 2022 Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law: Why It’s Time to Terminate the TRIPS Agreement
• Special Issue: Four Societies Conference
• Karen N Scott, Introduction to the Special Issue
• Keith MacMaster, Sustainable Seabed Mining—The Phase 1 Environmental Draft Standards and Guidelines
• Makoto Seta, Environmental Impact Assessment of Offshore Windfarms in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction: Who Should Have Obligations?
• Norihito Samata, The Common Heritage of Humankind Principle and Marine Genetic Resources: A Critical Assessment of the BBNJ Process
• Ayako Hatano, Regulating Online Hate Speech through the Prism of Human Rights Law: The Potential of Localised Content Moderation
• José-Miguel Bello y Villarino, Global Standard-Setting for Artificial Intelligence: Para-regulating International Law for AI?
• Articles
• Regina Jefferies & Jane McAdam, Locked in: Australia’s COVID-19 Border Closures and the Right to Leave
• Georgina Clough, The Ongoing Significance of Federalism to Australian Treaty Practice
• Karen N Scott, The LOSC: ‘A Constitution for the Oceans’ in the Anthropocene?
• Rebecca Brown, Quarantine Island: Australia’s Health Policy and Its Construction of International Law

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 40, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Lecture
• Fleur Johns, International Law and the Provocations of the Digital: The 2021 Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law
• Special Issue In Honour of Judge James Crawford
• Douglas Guilfoyle, Donald R Rothwell, & Margaret A Young, James Crawford: His Legacy and Impact on International Law in Australia and Globally
• Roman Kwiecień, The Formal Sources of International Law, the Relationship between Treaties and Custom, and the International Law-Making Process
• Alex Green, The Creation of States as a Cardinal Point: James Crawford’s Contribution to International Legal Scholarship
• Chhaya Bhardwaj & Abhinav Mehrotra, Crawford, TWAIL, and Sovereign Equality of States: Similarity and Differences
• Cameron Miles, James Crawford and the Law of State Immunity
• Chester Brown, The Award in Waste Management v Mexico (No 2) and Its Influence on the Minimum Standard of Treatment
• Bill Campbell & Stephanie Ierino, James Crawford and the Australian Government
• Rose Cameron & Julia Sherman, Reflections on Judge Crawford’s Contributions to the International Court of Justice
• Matthew E.K. Neuhaus & Jarrod M. Jolly, A Race and Rage for Order: Judge James Crawford’s Legacy at the International Court of Justice
• Juliette McIntyre, Crawford’s Multilateralism and the International Court of Justice
• Article
• Amy Maguire, Alexandra Garnham, Amy Elton, & Jessica Heaney, Delivering International Criminal Justice through Domestic Law? The Case of Flight MH17

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 39, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Obituary
• HE Judge Crawford AC SC FBA
• Special Issue Covid-19 and International Law
• Imogen Saunders, David Letts, Esmé Shirlow, & Donald R Rothwell, COVID-19 and International Law: Sketching the Parameters
• David Chieng, Supply Chains, COVID-19 and the GATT Security Exception: Legal Limits of ‘Pandemic Exceptionalism’
• Kate Ogg & Chanelle Taoi, COVID-19 Border Closures: A Violation of Non-Refoulement Obligations in International Refugee and Human Rights Law?
• Jessica Hambly, International Refugee Law in Crisis: Islands, Incarceration and Neo-Refoulement during COVID-19
• Hitoshi Nasu, The ‘Infodemic’: Is International Law Ready to Combat Fake News in the Age of Information Disorder?
• Joanna Mossop, Law of the Sea and the Pandemic—Humanitarian Principles under Siege?
• Shruti Rana, Seismic Shifts: The COVID-19 Pandemic’s Gendered Fault Lines and Implications for International Law
• Robert Knox & Ntina Tzouvala, International Law of State Responsibility and COVID-19: An Ideology Critique
• Sarah Heathcote, State Responsibility, International Law and the COVID-19 Crisis
• Dilan Thampapillai & Sam Wall, Does International Law Need a Conscience? Evaluating the India–South Africa Proposal to Suspend TRIPS Obligations and the COVID-19 Vaccines
• Jonathan Liljeblad, International Human Rights Law and the Protection of Medical Scientists against State Inference during COVID-19
• Matthew Zagor, Human Rights and Structural Inequality in the Shadow of COVID-19—A New Chapter in the Culture Wars?
• Jolyon Ford, COVID-19, International Human Rights Law and the State-Corporate Complex
• Jeremy Farrall & Christopher Michaelsen, The UN Security Council’s Response to COVID-19: From the Centre to the Periphery?
• Articles
• Andreas Østhagen, Drawing Lines at Sea: Australia’s Five Decades of Maritime Boundary Delimitation
• Notes
• Daniel Kang, Navigating China’s ‘3D’ Backlash against the International Legal Order: Adapting to Displacement, Disablement and Diversion

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 38, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• The Sir Elihu Lauterpacht International Law Lecture 2019
• Anne Orford, The Crisis of Liberal Internationalism and the Future of International Law
• Special Issue The Backlash against International Law: Australian Perspectives
• Jeremy Farrall, Jolyon Ford, & Imogen Saunders, The Backlash against International Law: Australian Perspectives
• Peter G Danchin, Jeremy Farrall, Jolyon Ford, Shruti Rana, Imogen Saunders, & Daan Verhoeven, Navigating the Backlash against Global Law and Institutions
• Christopher Michaelsen, Collective Security and the Prohibition on the Use of Force in Times of Global Transition
• Cecilia Jacob, The Status of Human Protection in International Law and Institutions: The United Nations Prevention and Protection Architecture
• Imogen Saunders, Navigating the Backlash: Re-Integrating WTO and Public International Law?
• Martin Richardson, Navigating the ‘Backlash’ against International Trade and Investment Liberalisation: Economic Perspectives on the Future of Regional Trade Agreements in Uncertain Times
• Jolyon Ford, Backlash against a Rules-Based International Human Rights Order? An Australian Perspective
• Annemarie Devereux, Amidst Simmering Tensions: Improving the Effectiveness and Coherence of the International Human Rights System’s Response to Mass Human Rights Violations
• Kate Ogg, Backlashes against International Commitments and Organisations: Asylum as Restorative Justice
• Articles
• Annie Herro & Andrew Byrnes, Transcending the Framing Contests over the Human Rights of Older Persons
• Kate Renehan, Revisiting Lockerbie: How a General Principle of Judicial Review Could Promote United Nations Security Council Reform

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 37, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• KJ Keith, Kirby Lecture in International Law 2019: New Zealand, Australia and International Human Rights: 1919–2019
• Tim McCormack, Siobhain Galea & Daniel Westbury, The Sir Elihu Lauterpacht International Law Lecture 2018: The Development of Humanity as a Constraint on the Conduct of War
• Christina Voigt, ANZSIL Conference Keynote 2019: Climate Change, the Critical Decade and the Rule of Law
• Suzanne Zhou & Jonathan Liberman, Public Health, Intellectual Property, and the Trade and Investment Law Challenges to Australia and Uruguay’s Tobacco Packaging Laws
• Benn McGrady, Tobacco Plain Packaging and the Expanding Role of the wto in Regulatory Oversight
• Tania Voon, Tobacco, Health and Investor-State Dispute Settlement: Australia’s Recent Treaty Practice
• Emma Boland & Andrea Gronke, Australia’s Approach to ISDS Reform in Light of Philip Morris Asia v Australia
• Lee Walker, Truncheons and Tenterhooks: Civil Suits against Foreign Officials in Common-law Jurisdictions
• John Abrahamson, Joint Development of Offshore Oil and Gas Resources in the South China Sea—New Contexts for Regional Cooperation Following the South China Sea Arbitration
• Jessica Reynolds, A Sinking Feeling: The Effect of Sea Level Rise on Baselines and Statehood in the Western Pacific

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 36, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Melissa Perry, Kirby Lecture in International Law 2018: The Duality of Water: Conflict or Co-operation
• Ben Huntley, Amelia Telec & Justin Whyatt, The Timor Sea Treaty: An Australian Perspective
• Elizabeth Exposto, The Timor Sea Conciliation and Treaty: Timor-Leste’s Perspective
• Rebecca Strating, A ‘New Chapter’ in Australia–Timor Bilateral Relations? Assessing the Politics of the Timor Sea Maritime Boundary Treaty
• Yoshifumi Tanaka, Maritime Boundary Delimitation by Conciliation
• Jean Allain, Slavery and Its Obligations Erga Omnes
• Jennifer Daphne Lim, Social Protection as Dialogue in Transnational Legal Ordering
• Annemarie Devereux, Australia’s Journey to Ratification of the ICESCR and ICCPR
• Melanie K Saunders, Mining on Celestial Bodies: The Equitable Distribution of Benefits Doctrine and Distributive Justice

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 35, 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Kirby Lecture in International Law 2017
• Bill Campbell, International Dispute Resolution: Australian Perspectives and Approaches
• The Sir Elihu Lauterpacht International Law Lecture 2017
• James Crawford, International Law and the Public Service
• Articles
• Henry Burmester, Sir Elihu Lauterpacht QC and the Nuclear Tests Case
• George Brandis, The Right of Self-Defence Against Imminent Armed Attack in International Law
• Edmund Bao & Kath Hall, Peer Review and the Global Anti-Corruption Conventions: Context, Theory and Practice
• Robert McLaughlin, Revisiting the Red Crusader Incident
• Tanjina Sharmin, Should the MFN within Investment Treaties Exclude Dispute Resolution? An Evaluation of the Australian Approach
• Paul Taylor, Academic Freedom in Universities: Between Indispensable Right and Scenic Accessory
• Johannes Landbrecht, Advancing, Retreating or Stepping on Each Other’s Toes? The Role of Non-Governmental Organisations in United Nations Human Rights Treaty Body Reporting and the Universal Periodic Review

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 34, 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Kirby Lecture in International Law — 2016
• Justin Gleeson, Australia's Increasing Enmeshment in International Law Dispute Resolution: Implications for Sovereignty
• South China Sea Agora
• Natalie Klein, Islands and Rocks after the South China Sea Arbitration
• Imogen Saunders, The South China Sea Award, Artificial Islands and Territory
• Tim Stephens, The Collateral Damage from China's 'Great Wall of Sand': The Environmental Dimensions of the South China Sea Case
• David Letts, Rob Mclaughlin & Hitoshi Nasu, Maritime Law Enforcement and the Aggravation of the South China Sea Dispute: Implications for Australia
• Tara Davenport, Legal Implications of the South China Sea Award for Maritime Southeast Asia
• Articles
• Robin M Smith, State Responsibility and Genocidal Intent: A Three Test Approach
• Thomas Wooden, The 1954 Hague Convention: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Sacred Sites as Cultural Property
• Alison Pert, The Development of Australia's International Legal Personality

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 33, 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Kirby Lecture in International Law — 2015
• Gerry Simpson, Human Rights with a Vengeance: One Hundred Years of Retributive Humanitarianism
• Articles
• Amos O Enabulele, Judicial Lawmaking: Understanding Articles 38(1)(d) and 59 of the Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Stephanie Ierino, John Reid & Anne Sheehan, The International Law Framework Underpinning the Australian Government's Response to the Downing of MH17
• Bridget Lewis, Quality Control for New Rights in International Human Rights Law: A Case Study of the Right to a Good Environment
• Martin Ratcovich, The Concept of 'Place of Safety': Yet Another Self-Contained Maritime Rule of a Sustainable Solution to the Ever Controversial Question of Where to Disembark Migrants Rescued at Sea?
• Stephen Tully, Citizen Deleted

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 32, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Kirby Lecture in International Law — 2013
• Gillian Triggs, Freedom of Speech and Giving Offence: Can a Balance be Struck?
• Kirby Lecture in International Law — 2014
• Andrew Byrnes, The Meanings of International Law: Government Monopoly, Expert Precinct or Peoples’ Law?
• Articles
• Joyce Chia, Jane McAdam & Kate Purcell, Asylum in Australia: ‘Operation Sovereign Borders’ and International Law
• Lucas Lixinski, Sustainable Development in International Heritage Law: Embracing a Backwards Look for the Sake of Forwardness?
• Whaling Agora
• Michael Johnson, Whaling in the Antarctic – the ICJ decision and its consequences for future special permit whaling
• Penelope Ridings, The Intervention Procedure in Whaling in the Antarctic: A Threat to Bilateralism?
• Dai Tamada, On the Way to Definitive Settlement of Dispute: Lessons from the Whaling Case
• Claire Brighton, Unravelling Reasonableness: A Question of Treaty Interpretation
• Robert Kolb, Short Reflections on the ICJ’s Whaling Case and the Review by International Courts and Tribunals of ‘Discretionary Powers’
• Julian Wyatt, Should We Presume that Japan Acted in Good Faith? Reflections on Judge Abraham’s Burden of Proof Based Analysis

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 31, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Louise Arbour, The Laws of War: Under Siege or Gaining Ground?
• Camille Goodman, ‘Strength through Cooperation’: a 21st Century Treaty for Multilateral Maritime Enforcement in the Pacific
• Christina Trahanas, Recent Developments in the Maritime Boundaries and Maritime Zones for the Pacific
• Thilini Perera & Dalma Demeter, A Balancing Act: Retaining Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions in Investment Agreements and Balancing Stakeholder Interests

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 30, 2012) is out. Contents include:

• Alison Duxbury, International Human Rights Law and the Events of 2001: Has the World Changed Forever?
• David McBride, Who is a Member? Targeted Killings against Members of Organized Armed Groups
• Alison Pert, The Good International Citizenship of the Rudd Government
• Fanny Thornton, Climate Change, Displacement and International Law: Between Crisis and Ambiguity
• Kate Westmoreland, Sharing Evidence across Borders: the Human Rights Challenge
• Jack Williams, Biting off more than it can chew? The International Criminal Court and the Crime of Aggression

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 29, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Hilary Charlesworth, Kirby Lecture in International Law (2009) - Swimming to Cambodia: Justice and ritual in human rights after conflict
• Michael Kirby, Comment - United Nations Special Procedures: A Response to Professor Hilary Charlesworth
• Caroline E. Foster, Burden of Proof in International Courts and Tribunals
• Sophia Kopela, The Legal Value of Silence as State Conduct in the jurisprudence of International Tribunals
• Penelope Mathew, Limiting Good Faith: 'Bootstrapping' asylum seekers and exclusion from refugee protection
• Angeline Lewis, Defining the Rule of Law for Military Operations

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 28, 2010) is out. Contents include:

• James Crawford, International Law in the House of Lords and the High Court of Australia 1996-2008: A Comparison
• Katharine G. Young, The World, through the Judge's Eye
• Dylan Bushnell, Re-thinking International Criminal Law: Re-connecting Theory with Practice in the Search for Justice and Peace
• Afshin Akhtarkhavari, Power, Environmental Principles and the International Court of Justice
• Natalie Klein, Litigation over Marine Resources: Lessons for Law of the Sea, International Dispute Settlement and International Environmental Law
• Andrew Serdy, Some Views are More Equal than Others: Submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf and the Strange Loss of Confidence in Article IV of The Antarctic Treaty

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 27, 2009) is out. Contents include:

• James Hathaway, The Value of Year Books of International Law
• The Howard Government and International Law
• Donald R Rothwell & Kim Rubenstein, Introduction: Australia and International Law during the Howard Years
• Greg Carne, Neither Principled nor Pragmatic? International Law, International Terrorism and the Howard Government
• Sarah Joseph, The Howard Government's Record of Engagement with the International Human Rights System
• Stuart Kate, Australia and East Timor during the Howard Years: An International Law Perspective
• Jane McAdam & Kate Purcell, Refugee Protection in the Howard Years: Obstructing the Right to Seek Asylum
• Gregory Rose, Australian Approaches to International Environmental Law during the Howard Years
• Gerry Simpson, Warriors, Humanitarians, Lawyers: The Howard Government and the Use of Force
• Jeff Waincyme, The Howard Government's Legacy in International Trade and Investment
• Ilias Bantekas, The Foundations of Arbitrability in International Commercial Arbitration
• Alexander Kunzelmann, An Australian International Law: The Impact of Australian Courts on the Fragmentation of International Law

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 26) is out. Contents include:

• Richard Falk, Toward Global Democracy: A Plea for Moral Globalisation
• Nicole Abadee & Donald R Rothwell, The Howard Doctrine: Australia and Anticipatory Self-Defence against Terrorist Attacks
• Michael Bliss, Amity, Cooperation and Understanding(s): Negotiating Australia's Entry into the East Asia Summit
• Hitoshi Nasu, Chapter VII Powers and the Rule of Law: The Jurisdictional Limits
• Shirley V Scott, The Participation of the Australian Government in International Debate on the Composition and Voting Procedure of the Security Council, 1945-2005
• Tania Voon & Andrew D Mitchell, Achieving a Common Market for Telecommunications Services in Australia and New Zealand
• John Tasioulas, Comment: Opinio Jurs and the Genesis of Custom: A Solution to the 'Paradox'