New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 23, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Tomas Berkmanas, (Re)Birth of a State from the Perspective of the Restoration of Lithuanian Independence: Materialism, Naturalism and Positivism Stages
• Jurgita Grigienė, Paulius Čerka, Silvija Gervienė, & Dalia Perkumienė, The Application of Universal Jurisdiction for War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in Lithuania
• Saulė Milčiuvienė, Julija Kiršienė, Darius Amilevičius, & Gailius Raškinis, The Impact of the EU Digital Strategy on the Regulation of the Lithuanian Energy Market
• Marijus Šalčius, The Influence of EU Law on the Evolution of State Tortious Liability in Lithuania: A Case of Compensation for Damage Caused in Criminal Proceedings
• Linas Meškys, The Implementation of EU Directive 2004/35/EC and the Challenges of Determining Environmental Damage in the Republic of Lithuania
• Edita Gruodytė, The Impact of EU Law on the Development of Environmental Criminal Liability: Implementation of EU Directive 2008/99/EC in Lithuania
• Evelina Žurauskaitė, Lithuania’s Membership of the ILO: Between International and Regional Labour Standards
• Albertas Milinis, Kristina Pranevičienė, & Neringa Gaubienė, Cross-Border Enforcement Involving Digital Assets: A Lithuanian Legal Perspective on International Frameworks and Challenges
• Žaneta Navickienė, Rolandas Krikščiūnas, Mindaugas Bilius, & Daiva Milienė, Modern Discourse on Financial Crime Pre-trial Investigation Planning
• Vilenas Vadapalas, Emerging Prohibition on the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 22, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Theme: ESIL Research Forum “Regional Developments of International Law in Eastern Europe and Post-Soviet Eurasia” Held in April 2023 in Tartu, Estonia
• Liliya Khasanova, Conceptual Discrepancies in Russian and Western Approaches to the International Regulation of Cyber [Information] Space
• Rustam Atadjanov, Implementation of International Human Rights Law during Situations of Violence: The Central Asian Experience
• Sara Eftekhar Jahromi, Gaps and Innovation(s) in the Aktau Convention
• Júlia Miklasová, Russian Approaches to Post-Soviet Secession: Bad Faith Argumentation and Its Limits
• Artur Simonyan, Three Patterns of Desovietizing International Law
• Miłosz Gapsa, On the Importance of Provisional Measures in Ukraine’s Cases against Russia
• Saskia Millmann & Pia Hüsch, Civilian Non-violent Defence against Russian Warfare – Eastern European Strategies and the Gap between Civilians and Combatants in Customary International Humanitarian Law
• Frederik Rogiers, There and Back Again, Russia’s Evolving Approach to the Freedom of Navigation  
• General Articles
• Edmunds Broks, Arnis Buka, Lolita Buka & Artūrs Kučs, Limiting the Right to Access Asylum: A Case Study of Latvia’s Response to the Migration Crisis on the Latvia-Belarus Border

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 21, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial Note
• Ineta Ziemele, The Baltic States and Russia’s War against Ukraine   
• Special Theme: The Baltic States and Russia’s War against Ukraine
• Vilenas Vadapalas, Use of Force and Circumstances Excluding Responsibility in International Law
• Andrew Drzemczewski & Rick Lawson, Exclusion of the Russian Federation from the Council of Europe and the ECHR: an Overview
• Janis Grasis, Old Wine in New Bottles: Latvia 1940 Compared with Crimea 2014
• Lyra Jakulevičienė, Temporary Protection of Ukrainians and Baltic Refugees in the Context of Aggression: Approaches, Challenges, Solutions   
• Meit Grossmann, The Forest Brothers in the Soviet-Occupied Baltic States
• General Articles
• Ulf Linderfalk, Justification or Discovery? – A New Way to a Fuller Understanding of the Law on Treaty Interpretation
• Sevanna Poghosyan, The Soviet View on Democracy in International Law

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 20, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Lauri Mälksoo, The Estonian Tradition of International Law
• Martin Mändveer, Non-legally Binding Agreements in International Relations: An Estonian Perspective
• Sofia Bilous, Gaps and Peculiarities of Russian Legislation in Reference to International Instruments on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
• Artur Simonyan, Eurasian Supranationalism: From Academic Discourse to the Eurasian Economic Union
• Carri Ginter & Piret Schasmin, Understanding and Effects of EU Directives
• Liina Lumiste, Russian Approaches to Regulating Use of Force in Cyberspace
• Eugene EG Tan & Benjamin Ang, ASEAN Ambiguity on International Law and Norms for Cyberspace
• Daniel Álvarez-Valenzuela & Francisco Vera-Hott, Cyber Operations in South America
• Lixin Zhu & Wei Chen, Chinese Approach to International Law with Regard to Cyberspace Governance and Cyber Operation: From the Perspective of the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence
• Tal Mimran, Between Israel and Iran: Middle-East Attitudes to the Role of International Law in the Cyber-Sphere
• Uchenna Jerome Orji, Interrogating African Positions on State Sponsored Cyber Operations: A Review of Regional and National Policies and Legal Responses

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 19, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Ineta Ziemele, Latvian Tradition in International Law
• Ieva Miļūna, Latvian Tradition in State Responsibility
• Jānis Lazdiņš, Ainārs Lerhis, Jānis Pleps, & Ineta Ziemele, Legal and Historical Elements of Latvia’s Restoration of Independence
• Žaneta Mikosa, Evolution of Procedural Rights and Legal Standing in Environmental Matters in Latvia
• Edvards Kušners & Esmeralda Balode-Buraka, Behind the Scenes: EU Accession Challenges
• Christoph Schewe, Shattering the Concept of EU Citizenship? The Potential Impact of Brexit and Potential Secession of Catalonia on EU Citizenship
• Agnese Saukuma, Legal and Ethical Issues in Designing Online Courts
• George Chakhvadze, Mafruza Sultana, & Jānis Grasis, The Concept of Maritime Terrorism Between Traditionalism and Expansionism: Re-thinking Maritime Terrorism as a Transnational Crime

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 18, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Juha Raitio, The “Thick” Rule of Law and Mutual Trust in the European Union
• Thomas Hoffmann, The Impact of Digital Autonomous Tools on Private Autonomy
• Peter Rott, Powerful Private Players in the Digital Economy: Between Private Law Freedoms and the Constitutional Principle of Equality
• Juan Luis Manfredi Sánchez, Big Data and International Politics
• Éva Miskolczi-Bodnár, Big Data and Competition Policy in the European Union
• John M. Yun, Antitrust After Big Data
• Andris Tauriņš, Big Data Ownership: Do we Need a New Regulatory Framework?
• Ana Vlahek, Development of Consumer Collective Redress in the EU: a Light at the End of the Tunnel?
• Carlos Llorente, Consumer Protection in the EU Conflict-of-laws Framework
• Klemen Podobnik, Geo – blocking Regulation: Antitrust or Consumer Protection?

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 17, 2017/2018) is out. Contents include:

• Hent Kalmo, Principles and Pragmatism in State Succession: Bargaining in the Economic Affairs Commission of the Tartu Peace Conference
• Jaanika Erne, On the Borders of Law, History and Politics: Estonian Statesman Jüri Jaakson’s Views and Life in Context
• Rytis Satkauskas, One Hundred Years of Faith: The Baltic States’ Contribution to International Justice
• Gabriela Belova & Nikolay Marin, A Century of the Baltic States’ Independence: Some Similarities and Differences with Bulgaria
• Lauri Hannikainen, Finland’s Continuation War (1941–1944): War of Aggression or Defence? War of Alliance or Separate War? Analyzed from the International – Especially Legal – Perspective
• Andres Parmas, Application of Domestic Criminal Statutes in regard to International Crimes
• Ineta Ziemele, Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights as a Source of Human Rights Law
• Ozlem Ulgen, Human Dignity in an Age of Autonomous Weapons: Are We in Danger of Losing an ‘Elementary Consideration of Humanity’?
• Marion Blondel, Vulnerability as a Virtue: An Attempt to Transpose the Care Ethic in International Law

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 16, 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Martins Paparinskis, We Will Always Have International Law: Editorial Note
• Enrico Milano, Territorial Conflicts and Disputes in Europe: What Role for International Law in the 21st Century?
• Przemyslaw Tacik, Attribution of Responsibility after the EU Accession to the ECHR and the “Co-Respondent Mechanism”

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 15, 2015) is out. Contents include:

• The Approaches of Liberal and Illiberal Governments to International Law
• Jose E. Alvarez, Foreword: Fifty Shades of Gray
• Bill Bowring, Did the States Which Founded the UN Have Liberal or Illiberal Governments?
• Maria Varaki, The Second Part of the Ideal Theory of John Rawls in The Law of Peoples Transplanted and Revisited
• Oleksandr Merezhko, Ideology of Liberalism and International Law
• John D. Haskell, Will the Real Transitology Please Stand Up?
• Anna Dolidze, The Non-Native Speakers of International Law: The Case of Russia
• Isobel Roele, From Illiberal to Incorrigible: A New Strategy for Humanitarian Enforcement Action in Syria
• Charlotte Steinorth, Russia, the Security Council, and the Return of History
• Kerttu Mager, Russia’s Illiberal Ideology and Its Influences on the Legislation in the Sphere of Civil and Political Rights
• Gleb Bogush, Russia and International Criminal Law
• Leonid Tymchenko, International Legal Norms in the System of the Ukrainian Constitution
• Phil C.W. Chan, A Critique of Western Discourses of International Law and State Sovereignty through Chinese Lenses
• Wim Muller, China: an Illiberal, Non-Western State in a Western-centric, Liberal Order?
• Vladislav Mulyun, Liberalism in International Trade, Illiberalism in Domestic Economic Governance and Human Rights Protection in the Context of the WTO
• Veronika Bilkova, Symbols of Illiberalism in the World of Liberal States
• Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias & Anna Śledzińska-Simon, Value Pluralism without the Value of Pluralism? “Homosexual Propaganda” Bans as a Litmus Test for the Acceptance of Liberal and International Human Rights Norms in the Post-Communist States Jernej Letnar Černič, A Glass Half Empty? Execution of Judgments of the European Court of Human Rights in Central and Eastern Europe
• Laura-Maria Crăciunean, “Transplanting” Democracy and Human Rights in a Post-communist Country: Some Comments on the Role of the Venice Commission’s Opinions with Respect to Romania
• Gerry Simpson, The End of the End of History: Some Epitaphs for Liberalism

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 14, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: Low Intensity Cyber Operations – The International Legal Regime
  • Michael N. Schmitt & M. Christopher Pitts, Cyber Countermeasures and Effects on Third Parties: The International Legal Regime
  • Karine Bannelier-Christakis, Cyber Diligence: A Low-Intensity Due Diligence Principle for Low-Intensity Cyber Operations?
  • Zhxiong Huang, The Attribution Rules in ILC’s Articles on State Responsibility: A Preliminary Assessment on Their Application to Cyber Operations
  • Eduard Ivanov, Combating Cyberterrorism under International Law
  • Eric Talbot Jensen, State Obligations in Cyber Operations
  • Andrey L. Kozik, The Concept of Sovereignty as a Foundation for Determining the Legality of the Conduct of States in Cyberspace
  • Nicholas Tsagourias, The Law Applicable to Countermeasures against Low-Intensity Cyber Operations
  • René Värk, Diplomatic and Consular Privileges and Immunities in Case of Unfriendly Cyber Activities
  • Sean Watts, Low-Intensity Cyber Operations and the Principle of Non-intervention

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 13, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Gintare Taluntyte, One Step Further: Limiting the Scope of Functional Immunity on the Basis of Universal Jurisdiction? The Khaled Nezzar Case
• Patrick Dumberry & Daniel Turp, State Succession with Respect to Multilateral Treaties in the Context of Secession: From the Principle of Tabula Rasa to the Emergence of a Presumption of Continuity of Treaties
• Jolanta Apolevic, Implementation of the Sustainable Development Principle in Nuclear Law

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 12, 2012) is out. The theme is "After the Empire: International Law and the Post-Soviet Space." Contents include:

• Rima Tkatova, Russian Spirit, Soviet Heritage and Western Temptation: “Un-‘Peaceful Coexistence’” in Russia’s International Doctrine and Practice
• Sergei Yu. Marochkin, Contemporary Approaches of the Russian Doctrine to International Law: Identical to Western Ones?
• Bakhtiyar Tuzmukhamedov, Legislative Regulation of Trans-boundary Use of Armed Force: Russian Case Study
• Levan Alexidze, Kosovo and South Ossetia: Similar or Different? Consequences for International Law
• Milena Sterio, A Tale of Two States: Territoriality and Minority Rights in Kosovo and Georgia
• Alena Douhan, CIS, CSTO and the United Nations: Could an Active Regional System of Collective Security Be Established?
• Massimo Starita, Entre contrôle du respect de la légalité conventionnelle et promotion de la légitimité démocratique : la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme face aux transitions démocratiques
• James A. Sweeney, Transitional Criminal Justice at the ECtHR: Implications for the Universality of Human Rights
• Christina M. Cerna, Comparing the Performance of the Russian Federation and the United States as regards Human Rights on the Regional and Universal Level
• Anton Burkov, Motivation for Direct Application of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms in Russian Courts
• Jénya Grigorova, Dévéloppements récents en matière de transport et de commerce de gaz en mers Noire et Baltique – un jeu de société de nouvelle génération
• Khagani Guliyev, La mer Caspienne : un espace aquatique semi-délimité?
• Anna Marhold, In Too Deep – Russia, the Energy Charter Treaty and the Nord Stream Gas Pipeline

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 11, 2011) is out. The theme is "Lithuanian School of International law: Traditions and Modern Developments." Contents include:

• Dainius Žalimas & Justinas Žilinskas, Public International Law and Lithuania (1990–2011): To Protect and to Enrich
• Justinas Žilinskas, Status of Members of Anti-Soviet Armed Resistance (Partisans’ War) of 1944–1953 in Lithuania under International Law
• Dainius Žalimas, Legal Status of Lithuania’s Armed Resistance to the Soviet Occupation in the Context of State Continuity
• Nika Bruskina, Compensation for Damages Sustained by Natural Persons during World War II on Account of Acts of Nazi Germany: Practice of Lithuanian Courts in Light of International Law and European Union Law
• Vitalius Tumonis, The Complications of Conciliatory Judicial Reasoning: Causation Standards and Underlying Policies of State Responsibility
• Justinas Linkevičius, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea: The Limits of Compulsory Jurisdiction
• Indrė Isokaitė, Response to Sea Pollution Incidents: International Framework, Regional Cooperation and National Approach
• Violeta Vasiliauskienė, Armed Conflict in the Fight against Terrorism
• Lina Urbaitė, Judicial Activism in the Approach of the European Court of Human Rights to Positive Obligations of the State
• Laima Vaigė, The Time is Ripe: Legal Recognition of Same-Sex Marriages in Lithuania
• Gintarė Makauskaitė, Public Interest in the Context of the Right to Access Official Information

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 10, 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Tanel Kerikmäe, Katrin Nyman-Metcalf, & Mari-Liis Põder, The August 2008 Russian-Georgian War: Issues of International Law
• Dovydas Špokauskas, Suspension of the Operation of an International Treaty: Analysis of the Decision by the Russian Federation to Suspend the Implementation of Its Obligations under the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe
• Arnis Lauva, Why Soldiers Have to Perform Combat Tasks: Latvian Perspective
• Jo Stigen, The Right or Non-Right of States to Prosecute Core International Crimes under the Title of “Universal Jurisdiction”
• Carl Lebeck, Consensus not Constitutionalism: Fundamental Rights in EU law after Kadi
• Christoph Schewe, Legal Aspects of the Baltic Sea Strategy – International Law in a European Macro-Region

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 9, 2009) is out. Contents include:

• Danutė Jočienė, The Subsidiary Character of the System of the European Convention on Human Rights with Reference to Cases against Lithuania
• Vygantė Milašiūtė, History of the Communist Regime in the European Court of Human Rights Cases
• Katrīna Inkuša, Mass Deportations of 1949 in Latvia as a Crime Against Humanity – A Fair Legal Reality for Social and Political Groups in the Context of the Genocide Convention?
• Ineta Ziemele, The State Border between Latvia and Russia and the Doctrine of Continuity of the Republic of Latvia. International and Constitutional Law in Interaction
• Erki Kodar, Computer Network Attacks in the Grey Areas of Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 8, 2008) is out. Contents include:

• Arbitration in the Baltics: Contemporary Issues
• Galina Žukova, Arbitration in Three Baltic States: A Thorny Path of Learning
• Jan Ramberg, What Arbitrators Can and Cannot Do
• Asko Pohla, New Arbitration Legislation in Estonia: Role of State Courts in Arbitral Proceedings
• Inga Kačevska, An Arbitration Agreement in Latvian Arbitration Environment
• Kalvis Torgāns, Possible Solutions to Challenges of Arbitral Awards in Latvia
• Rimantas Simaitis & Renata Beržanskienė, Arbitration in Lithuania: The Matter of Fact
• Nina Vilkova, Arbitration Agreement and its Impact upon the Efficiency of Dispute Resolution in International Commercial Arbitration
• Ieva Kalniņa, Iura Novit Curia: Scylla and Charybdis of International Arbitration?
• Mārtiņš Paparinskis, Barcelona Traction: A Friend of Investment Protection Law
• Jaanika Erne, Conferral of Powers by the Estonian State on International Organisations
• Loreta Šaltinytė, Interpreting an Arbitration Clause under Lithuanian Law of 1993: Svenska Petroleum v. the Government of the Republic of Lithuania
• Rytis Satkauskas, Lithuanian-Latvian Border Arbitration 1920–1921

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 7, 2007) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: The History of International Law Scholarship in Central Eastern and Eastern Europe
• Christian Tomuschat, Foreword
• Lauri Mälksoo, Insula deserta? Thoughts on the History of International Law Scholarship in Central Eastern and Eastern Europe
• Karl-Heinz Ziegler, The International Law of Europe since the Middle Ages
• Carmen Schmidt, The Minority Protection System of the League of Nations and the Central and Eastern European States
• Vygante Milašiute & Arunas Bučnys, The Lithuanian Tradition of International Law Scholarship
• Wladyslaw Czaplinski, Paweł Włodkowic (Paulus Wladimiri) and the Polish International Legal Doctrine of the 15th Century
• Anthony Carty, Hersch Lauterpacht: A Powerful Eastern European Figure in International Law
• Karolina Wierczynska, Judge Manfred Lachs and His Role in International Adjudication
• Janne E. Nijman, Jan Amos Comenius (1592–1670): Reformer of Humanity
• Pavel Šturma, The Czech Tradition of International Legal Scholarship
• Péter Kovács, László Buza and His Heritage for Hungarian International Lawyers
• Vladimir-Djuro Degan, An Essay on the Doctrine of International Law in Croatia and the Former Yugoslavia
• Olga Bytkevich, Ukrainian Legal Science on the History of the Ancient and Medieval International Law
• William E. Butler, Russian International Legal History: A Plea for Revisionism
• Peter Holquist, The Dilemmas of an “Official with Progressive Views” - Baron Boris Nolde