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

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 28, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include:

• Elia Alexiou, The Revival of the ICJ’s Advisory Function: Enhanced or Contested Legitimacy?
• Jennifer Buckesfeld, Cooperating by Means of Collective Countermeasures? Examining States’ Obligations Regarding Grave Human Rights Violations
• Zuzanna Pepłowska-Dąbrowska, Krzysztof Wróbel, Mateusz Gil, & Ryszard Wawruch, Collisions at Sea Involving Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: Notes on Prevention and Liability Rules

Call for Submissions: International Community Law Review

The International Community Law Review has issued an open call for submissions. The ICLR welcomes papers that examine how different traditions of international law — and prevailing trends — shape the concept of an international community. The journal examines how the international community applies and adapts international law to address new and emerging global challenges. Today, many actors influence international law — non-state groups, international and non-governmental organisations, individuals, communities, corporations, and civil society — alongside States. The ICLR’s focus is multicultural rather than regional, exploring how these different actors shape and engage with international law. The journal encourages alternative or critical perspectives and welcome contributions from scholars around the world, at all stages of their career. The call is here.

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, no. 6, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Child and International Law
• Elżbieta Karska & Karol Karski, The Child and International Law: General Remarks
• Krzysztof Orzeszyna, Child as a Special Subject of Rights and Freedoms in International Human Rights Law
• Elżbieta Hanna Morawska, Legal Aspects of the Vulnerable Situation of Unaccompanied and Separated Children on the Move: Key Elements of the Approach of the European Court of Human Rights in Light of the Convention on the Rights of the Child
• Karol Karski & Konrad Wnorowski, Engineered Migrations on the Eastern Border of the European Union: Belarusian Hybrid Activities and Children’s Rights
• Karolina Kiernozek, The Role of International Business in Eliminating Child Labour
• Bartosz Ziemblicki, The Deficiencies of the Rights of the Child in Labour Relations from the Perspective of International Law
• Maria Skwarcan, Between Principle and Practice: Children’s Rights in Light of the EDPB’s Stance on Personal Data as a Non-tradable Commodity
• Jakub Ali Farhan, ‘After the 4th Month’: Questionable Food Labelling for Infant Products under EU Food Law
• Paweł Bucoń, Children’s Rights in Poland

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, nos. 4-5, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The European Union Response to Armed Conflicts
• Cezary Mik, The EU and the International Humanitarian Law
• Marek Rzotkiewicz, The European Union’s Reactions to Russia’s Wars
• Łukasz Kułaga, The European Union Response to Armed Conflicts in Africa
• Marek Jaśkowski, Formal and Procedural Aspects of Individual Sanctions Adopted by the European Union in Reaction to Armed Conflicts: Analysis of Recent Case Law
• Agnieszka Wicha, European Union Restrictive Measures against Russian Banks from the Perspective of International Financial System
• Katarzyna Urszula Gałka, Making Exceptions Not Exceptional: Humanitarian Exemptions in Sanctions Regimes under International and EU Law
• Krzysztof Masło, Selected Conceptual and Legal Aspects of EU Military Operations
• Radoslaw Kolatek, The European Union’s Response to Challenges of Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in View of International and EU Law

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Laura Di Gianfrancesco, Questioning the Use of the Veto: The Veto Initiative and the General Assembly’s Role as an Accountability Forum for the Security Council
• Henrique Marcos, Lex Specialis as a Reason-Giving Norm: Balancing Norm Specificity and Individual Rights in Times of Crisis
• Abdullah Abdullatif, Jamal Barafi, Salam Al Kasem, & Suhaib H. Anagreh, Safety Zones in Outer Space: A Means Towards Achieving Sustainability and Preventing Conflicts in Space Activities
• Marco Longobardo, The Monetary Gold Principle and States’ Obligations Triggered by a Serious Risks of Atrocities Being Committed by Another State: The Cases of the Duty to Prevent Genocide and the Duty to Ensure Respect for IHL

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 27, nos. 1-2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Evolving Role of International Judicial Advisory Opinions
• Kathryn Allinson & Beril Sogut, Editorial: Special Issue on the Evolving Role of International Judicial Advisory Opinions
• Christoph U. Priess, Parallel Advisory Proceedings: The Climate Change Advisory Proceedings Before the ICJ, the ITLOS and the IACtHR
• Andreas Kulick, Between Advice and Miracle: Expectations and Persuasiveness of ICJ Advisory Opinions
• Walter Arévalo-Ramírez & Andrés Rousset-Siri, Measuring the Impact of Advisory Opinions in the Inter-American Human Rights System Categorizing the Effects of Advisory Opinions in States and the Organs Involved in Their Implementation
• Anna Rubbi, Laura Behre, & Natalia Ameen-Rey, Upcoming Advisory Opinions of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Analysing the Trajectory of the Court’s Advisory Opinions
• Andrea Longo, Beyond Climate Change Obligations: Which Lessons from the ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and Ocean Acidification for the Progressive Development of the Law of the Sea?
• Muyiwa Adigun, Climate Change Litigation before International Human Rights Tribunals in Africa: The Role of Advisory Opinions
• Sarah Thin, The Benefits of an Open-Door Policy: International Organisations and the Promotion of Common and Community Interests in ICJ Advisory Proceedings

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 26, no. 6, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, The Trend of Changes in the Differentiation in Climate Change Law: Towards Intensifying, Not Weakening
• Giorgia Pane, Litigating the Climate between National and International Human Rights Regimes Judicial Complementarity?
• Antal Berkes, The Obligation to Cooperate to Protect Against Serious Breaches of the European and American Conventions on Human Rights
• Edyta Lis, Gender Perspective in the Recent Case Law of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 26, no. 5, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Sofia Neto Oliveira, The Role of General Assembly Resolutions in the Identification of Customary International Law and the Chagos Archipelago Advisory Opinion
• Eliezer Sanchez-Lasaballett & Ybiskay Gonzalez T., Government Recognition and the Dispute over the Venezuelan Gold Reserves in the Bank of England
• Chloe Goldthorpe, The Imbalanced Geography of the Law on Use of Force in Self-Defence
• Roman Kwiecień, Reflections on the Role of Fairness for the Sources of International Law

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 26, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability
• Kamrul Hossain, An Indigenous Cosmovision for Earth-Centric Governance: Deconstructing the Normative Structure of International Law?
• Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Human Right to a Clean Environment: General Reflections
• Agnes Viktoria Rydberg, Climate Change Litigation: General Perspectives and Emerging Trends
• Pauline Martini, International Criminal Law and the Environment: A Few Reflections

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 26, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Elżbieta Karska & Bartłomiej Oręziak, European Paradigm of the Protection of Aliens: Categorisation of Foreigners Seeking International Protection in the European Union
• Ludovica Di Lullo, Striving for Fairness: A Critical Examination of the ‘Common but Differentiated Responsibilities and Capabilities’ Principle in International Health Law
• Maciej Oksztulski, Maciej Perkowski, & Wojciech Zoń, Person on the Autism Spectrum on (the margin of) the Labour Market: The Nominal International Standard versus the Reality of a European Union Member State – (The Example of Poland)
• Maria Oluyeju & Olufemi Oluyeju, Normative Framework for the Regulation of Holdout Creditors in the Sovereign Debt Market

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 26, nos. 1-2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The War in Ukraine and International Law
• Dai Tamada, Editorial: Special Issue on the War in Ukraine and International Law
• Masahiko Asada, The War in Ukraine under International Law: Its Use of Force and Armed Conflict Aspects
• Dai Tamada, War in Ukraine and the International Court of Justice: Provisional Measures and the Third-Party Right to Intervene in Proceedings
• Mika Hayashi & Akihiro Yamaguchi, Economic Sanctions against Russia: Questions of Legality and Legitimacy
• Kazuhiro Nakatani, Freezing, Confiscation and Management of the Assets of the Russian Central Bank and the Oligarchs: Legality and Possibility under International Law
• Fujio Kawashima, Trade Sanctions against Russia and their WTO Consistency: Focusing on Justification under National Security Exceptions
• Satoru Taira, WTO Dispute Settlement and Trade Sanctions as Permissible Third-Party Countermeasures under Customary International Law
• Dai Tamada, War in Ukraine and Implications for International Investment Law

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 25, no. 6, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Current Challenges of International and European Human Rights Law
• Elżbieta Karska & Karol Karski, Current Challenges of International and European Human Rights Law: Introductory Remarks
• Maciej Oksztulski, Maciej Perkowski, & Wojciech Zoń, Autistic Persons in the Labour Market in the Light of ECtHR Case-law
• Krzysztof Orzeszyna, The Common Core of the Fundamental Standards of International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law
• Jakub J. Czepek, ECtHR Case-law Concerning Russian Aggression on Ukraine and the Events Taking Place after 2014
• Bartosz Ziemblicki, Modern Technologies as a Challenge for the Right to Privacy under the European Convention on Human Rights
• Elżbieta Karska, Karol Karski, & Konrad Wnorowski, The Status of Women in the Armed Forces: Polish Solutions in the Light of Human Rights Standards Defined by Selected International Organizations
• Paweł Bucoń, The Right to Marry and the Right to Establish a Family in the Universal, European and Polish Dimension
• Katarzyna Grzelak-Bach, The Role of Soft Law of the Council of Europe in Polish Court Proceedings: A Historical Overview

Call for Submissions: The evolving role of international judicial advisory opinions

The International Community Law Review has issued a call for submissions for a special issue on "The evolving role of international judicial advisory opinions." The call is here.

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 25, no. 5, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Ergün Cakal, Law and Torture: Contemporary Legal Scholarship on Torture, from the Doctrinal to the Critical
• Ulf Linderfalk, Neither Fish, Nor Fowl: A New Way to a Fuller Understanding of the lex specialis Principle
• Imad Antoine Ibrahim, Redefining the Principle of Permanent Sovereignty over Natural Resources from a Geographical Perspective: A Case Study of Transboundary Aquifers
• Sondra Faccio, The World Health Organization’s Response to the Health Emergency and its Impact on Investment Arbitration and Human Rights Case Law
• Tarcisio Gazzini, International Community? What International Community?

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 25, nos. 3-4, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Sustainable Development, Business and Human Rights: A Comparative Study
• Dalia Palombo, The US at the Margins of Business and Human Rights
• Pauline Martini & María Paula López Velásquez, Holding Corporations Liable for Breaches of Indigenous Peoples’ Right to a Healthy Environment in Colombia: Chimera or Reality?
• Matthieu Burnay & Bin Li, Chinese Perspectives on Sustainable Development: Discourses and Practices at National and International Levels
• Ludovica Chiussi Curzi, Climate Change and its ‘Grotian’ Effects on a Principle of Corporate Liability in International Law
• Jacinta Studdert, Valencia Govender, Johann Spies, Marta Jarque Branguli, Sofia Nievas, Maria Fernanda Roca Silva, Wen Zhu, Pryderi Diebschlag, Remi Sassine, Wim Cilliers, Kate Swart, Milena Szuniewicz-Wenzel, Sarah Hill-Smith, Saskia Wolters, & Catherine Wang, Corporate Due Diligence and Reporting Requirements for Climate Change and Human Rights

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 25, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Elisa Ruozzi, Immunities and Criminal Proceedings: The Long and Winding Road taken by the ICJ from immunity Ratione Personae to the inviolability of embassy premises (and the way back)
• Muyiwa Adigun, International Criminal Justice: TWAIL and the Rome Statute Complementarity Principle
• Alexandre Skander Galand, Victims’ Right to Justice, Immunities and New Avenues for International Criminal Justice
• Constantinos Yiallourides, The Legal Duty of States to Cooperate in the Fight Against Pandemic Disease under the International Health Regulations

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 25, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Nathanael Tilahun, The EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime: between Self Help and Global Governance
• Jamal Barafi & Ali Hadi Al-Obeidi, Legal Protection of the Right to be Forgotten on the Internet in European and Arab Legislation
• Joseph Orangias, The Nexus between International Law and Science: An Analysis of Scientific Expert Bodies in Multilateral Treaty-Making
• James R. Brakebill, Mugemangango v. Belgium: No Exceptions for “Old Democracies”

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 24, no. 5, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Romola Adeola, Bridging the Accountability Gap in the Protection of Internally Displaced Persons: Non-State Actors Under the Kampala Convention
• Mariana Clara de Andrade, General Principles of Procedural Law in the Practice of the WTO Appellate Body
• Marco Longobardo, The Standing of Indirectly Injured States in the Litigation of Community Interests before the ICJ: Lessons Learned and Future Implications in Light of The Gambia v. Myanmar and Beyond
• Christian Tomuschat, The 2030 Sustainable Development Goals: The Quest for a Perfect World Order

New Issue: International Community Law Review

The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 24, no. 4, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Regime Interaction and “Unwanted Migration”: From Hostility to Emancipation
• Violeta Moreno-Lax & Niovi Vavoula, The (Many) Rules and Roles of Law in the Regulation of “Unwanted Migration”
• Sheona York, Does the UK Home Office Care about the Rule of Law? Implications for “Unwanted Migrants”
• Andrew Pitt, Bordering Asylum in Post-Brexit Britain: Lessons from the UK’s Detained Fast Track and the Marginalisation of International Human Rights Safeguards
• Sara Palacios-Arapiles, European Divergent Approaches to Protection Claims Based on the Eritrean Military/National Service Programme
• Marta Minetti, International Legal Principles, Penal Populism and Criminalisation of ‘Unwanted Migration’: An Italian Cautionary Tale
• Maria-Louiza Deftou, The Road to the EU’s Accession to the ECHR: Reshaping the ECtHR-CJEU Judicial Interaction in Cases of ‘Unwanted Migration’?
• Nicolette Busuttil, The UN Disability Rights Convention and EU Fundamental Rights: What Role for the Convention in the Protection of ‘Unwanted Migrants’?