New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 74, no. 4, October 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Lord Sales, Purpose in Law and in Interpretation
• Caroline E. Foster, The 2025 International Court of Justice Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change
• Benoit Mayer, Victims in Climate Litigation
• Julien Chaisse, Investment Facilitation Agreements and Treaty Function Reordered: A Theory of Procedural Treaty Design
• Adeline Chong, ‘Salami-Slicing’ and Issue Estoppel: Foreign Decisions on the Governing Law
• Barend van Leeuwen, From Comparison to Effectiveness: The Scope and Aims of Comparative Analysis in Free Movement Judgments of the CJEU
• Shaun Matos, The Imposition of International Obligations on Domestic Non-State Actors
• Shorter Articles
• Sebastian von Massow, Using International Law in UK Courts
• Eleni Polymenopoulou, Provisional Measures in the African Human Rights System

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 74, Special Issue, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Law of the Sea: Present Challenges and Future Directions
• Malcolm Evans, Richard Barnes, Rozemarijn Roland Holst, Constantinos Yiallourides, & Jack Kenny, Foreword by the Co-Editors of the ICLQ Forum on the Law of the Sea
• Catherine Redgwell, Technological Change and the Law of the Sea: The Challenge of Marine Geoengineering
• Barbara Stępień & Mauro Arturo Rivera León, Law Enforcement in Autonomous Shipping: Rethinking Jurisdictional Challenges under UNCLOS
• Alexander Lott, Conventional Jurisdictional Approaches to Protecting Submarine Cables and Pipelines
• Christian Bueger, Timothy Edmunds, & Jan Stockbruegger, UNCLOS under Fire: Recalibrating Maritime Security Governance
• Makoto Seta, UNCLOS during Armed Conflict: Due Regard in the Exclusive Economic Zones of Neutral Coastal States
• Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho, From ‘Flags of Convenience’ to ‘Flags of Deceit’: The Future of the Law Governing the Nationality of Ships
• Yunjun Li, Constraining the Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles in Maritime Delimitation Cases
• Nilüfer Oral, Sea-Level Rise and Maritime Boundaries: From Uncertainty to Clarity?
• Eirik Bjorge, The Régime of Islands and Sea-Level Rise
• Sebastián Rioseco, The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and International Law: A Deep Dive into External Rules and Materials
• David Freestone, Fae Sapsford, & David Vousden, Navigating the BBNJ Treaty: Some Experiences from the Sargasso Sea
• So Yeon Kim & Youngdawng Moh, Due Regard Obligations in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
• Shirley V Scott & Nengye Liu, The Prospects of the High Seas Treaty Decisively Reducing the Negative Biodiversity Impacts of Distant-Water Fishing Operations
• Neil Craik, Julian Jackson, Aline Jaeckel, Hannah Lily, Pradeep Singh, & Hope Tracey, The International Seabed Authority, the Problem of Disregard and the Case for Administrative Accountability
• Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien, Negotiating Plastics Futures: The Law of the Sea and the Role of Non-State Stakeholders
• Reece Lewis & Sofia Galani, Addressing the Challenges of Applying Human Rights Law at Sea

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 74, no. 3, July 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Marko Milanovic, The Notion of an Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s Palestine Advisory Opinion
• Alex Green & Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh, State Continuity, Self-Determination and Sea-Level Rise
• Karen N. Scott, Cold Cooperation: Reconciling the Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction Agreement and the Antarctic Treaty System
• Ondřej Kadlec, Managing Judicial Legitimacy: The Role of Grand Chambers in National and International Courts
• Richard Garnett, Foreign Judgments and the Relationship between Direct and Indirect Jurisdiction
• Jessica Shurson, Investigative Jurisdiction: The Evolving Limits of Extraterritoriality in Transnational Digital Investigations
• Shorter Articles
• Matilda Gillis, Modern Slavery in Armed Conflict: Foreign ‘Forced Fighters’ in Ukraine
• Ardavan Arzandeh, Anti-Suit Injunctions in Support of Foreign Dispute-Resolution Clauses

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 74, no. 2, April 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Priya Urs, The Articulation of Obligations Erga Omnes and Erga Omnes Partes by the International Court of Justice: Coherence or Confusion?
• Alexandra Hofer, Third-Party Countermeasures: Making Custom Out of Ambiguous Practice?
• Massimo Lando, Provisional Measures and the End of Prima Facie Jurisdiction
• Anna Hood, The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty’s Gordian Knot: The Intractable Problem of the Legality of Nuclear Sharing
• Samuli Seppänen & Ewan Smith, The New Chinese Doctrine of Non-Intervention
• Robert Schütze, ‘Victorian’ Traditions: British International Law Scholarship, 1830–1914
• Katarzyna Kryla-Cudna, Internationality Overreach in the Interpretation of Uniform Private Law Conventions: The Contra Proferentem Rule and the CISG
• Shorter Articles
• Cleo Hansen-Lohrey, Reconciling Divergent Meanings in the Interpretation of Multilingual Treaties
• Veronika Bílková & Elīna Šteinerte, A New Era for the OSCE Moscow Mechanism Following the 2022 Invasion of Ukraine

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 74, no. 1, January 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Reece Lewis, The ‘Constitution for the Oceans’? The Law of the Sea Convention as a Living Treaty
• Sofia Galani, Human Rights Obligations in Maritime Search and Rescue
• Alberto Rinaldi & Sue Anne Teo, The Use of Artificial Intelligence Technologies in Border and Migration Control and the Subtle Erosion of Human Rights
• Matthew Parish, The Principle of Separation and the Law of Neutrality
• Federico Fabbrini, The Impact of the War in Ukraine on the Enlargement of the European Union: ‘Securing the Blessings of Liberty’ and its Challenges
• Frederick Cowell, Council of Europe Expulsion and the European Convention on Human Rights: The Foundations of Involuntary Treaty Withdrawal
• Philipp Janig, State Immunity from Non-Judicial Measures of Constraint
• Shorter Articles
• Olga Hrynkiv, Export Controls and the Green Agenda in the European Union
• Mark Konstantinidis, Intra-EU Investment Contract Arbitration after Achmea

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 73, no. 4, October 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Joshua Paine, Control Mechanisms in Multilateral Investment Tribunals: Navigating Procedural Multilateralism and Substantive Bilateralism
• Neha Mishra & Kholofelo Kugler, International Community in the Global Digital Economy: A Case Study on the African Digital Trade Framework
• Audrey Macklin, Exit Rights, Seamless Borders and the New Carceral State
• Aphrodite Papachristodoulou, The Exercise of State Power Over Migrants at Sea Through Technologies of Remote Control: Reconceptualizing Human Rights Jurisdiction
• Alexander Wentker, The Armed Attack Exception to Neutrality in International Peace and Security Law
• Helen Keller & Pranav Ganesan, The Use of Scientific Experts in Environmental Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights
• Shorter Articles
• Maria Hook, The Purpose of the Gateways for Service Out of the Jurisdiction
• Uglješa Grušić, The Law Governing United Kingdom Government Tort Liability in the ‘War On Terror’
• Agnes Viktoria Rydberg, Deciphering Interim Obligations Under Articles 18 And 25 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• José Rogelio Gutiérrez Álvarez, A Melting Snowball—Difficulties Identifying Particular Customary International Law

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 73, no. 3, July 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Richard L. Kilpatrick, Jr, Revisiting the Five-Powers War Risk Exclusion
• Kathryn Greenman, Of War and International Investment Law
• Harry Hobbs & Donald Rothwell, Towards a Legal Era of Islands: The International and Constitutional Legal Status of Island Territories
• Douglas Guilfoyle & Joanna Mossop, The Extent and Legitimacy of the Judicial Function in UNCLOS Dispute Settlement
• Delia Ferri, Iryna Tekuchova, & Eva Krolla, Between Disability and Culture: The Search for a Legal Taxonomy of Sign Languages in the European Union
• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Niccolò Ridi, The Use of Scholarship by the European Court of Human Rights
• Shorter Articles
• Mauro Arturo Rivera León, Voting Protocols as Informal Judicial Institutions: The Politics of Enforceability and Strategic Breaching
• Christian Henderson, US and UK Military Strikes in Yemen and the Jus Ad Bellum
• Yingfeng Shao, Laura Carballo Piñeiro, Maximo Q Mejia, Jr, A Newcomer to Maritime Law: The Beijing Convention on the International Effects of Judicial Sales of Ships

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 73, no. 2, April 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Benoit Mayer, The ‘Highest Possible Ambition’ On Climate Change Mitigation As A Legal Standard
• Corina Heri, Justice in the Liminal: The Council of Europe and the Right to a Healthy Environment
• Mario Ja Oyarzabal, Election of Judges to the International Court of Justice: Proposals for Reform Without Amending the Statute
• Kubo Mačák, Ellen Policinski, In Pursuit of a Treaty's Soul: A Study of the Object and Purpose of the Fourth Geneva Convention
• Raphael Ren, The Dichotomy Between Jurisdiction and Admissibility in International Arbitration
• Surutchada Reekie & Adam Reekie, Comparing Comparative Law: Perspectives from Thailand
• Duncan Fairgrieve, Christoph Busch, Erdem Büyüksagis, Zachary G. Garrett, Gert Straetmans, Antonios Karaiskos, Robin D. Linley, Christiana Markou, Jeannie Marie Paterson, & Catherine M. Sharkey, Product Liability and Online Marketplaces: Comparison and Reform
• Shorter Articles
• Ekaterina Aristova, Catherine Higham, Ian Higham, Joana Setzer, Corporate Climate Change Responsibilities Under The OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises
• Rachele Marconi, From Female Morality to Human Dignity: An Evolutive Interpretation of ‘Honour’ Under Article 27(2) of the Fourth Geneva Convention

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 73, no. 1, January 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Merris Amos, Democratic State, Autocratic Method: The Reform of Human Rights Law in the United Kingdom
• Toni Marzal, The Territorial Reach of European Union Law: A Private International Law Enquiry into the European Union's Spatial Identity
• Csongor Istvan Nagy, The Rebellion of Constitutional Courts and the Normative Character of European Union Law
• Sean Molloy, Child Soldiers and Peace Agreements
• Jack Kenny, Cyber Operations and the Status of Due Diligence Obligations in International Law
• Juan Pablo Ramaciotti & Jo Shaw, ‘The Transient Foreigner’: Restrictions on Citizenship Acquisition in Chile and Colombia for Those Said to Be ‘Passing Through’
• Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo, Accountability Mechanisms of Multilateral Development Banks and the Law of International Responsibility
• Shorter Articles
• Jorge E. Viñuales, Comparing Environmental Law Systems
• Siena Anstis, Regulating Transnational Dissident Cyber Espionage

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 72, no. 4, October 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Eirik Bjorge, General Principles of Law Formed Within the International Legal System
• Lawrence Hill-Cawthorne, Common Article 1 of the Geneva Conventions and the Method of Treaty Interpretation
• Abbie-Rose Hampton, Mark Eccleston-Turner, Michelle Rourke, & Stephanie Switzer, ‘Equity’ in the Pandemic Treaty: The False Hope of ‘Access and Benefit-Sharing’
• Lisa Mardikian, The Right to A Healthy Environment Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Tainá Garcia Maia, Challenging the Use of External Sources by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Pauline Martini, Joe Holt, & Maud Sarliève, Mass Deforestation as a Crime Against Humanity?
• Shorter Articles
• Eric C Ip, An Emergent Planetary Health Law
• Safaa Sadi Jaber & Ilias Bantekas, The Status of Gaza as Occupied Territory Under International Law

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 72, no. 3, July 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Catherine Redgwell & Antonios Tzanakopoulos, The Interaction of Treaty and Custom in the Concept of Offshore Archipelagos
• Victor Crochet & Weihuan Zhou, Preventing The Anti-Circumvention Instrument From Undermining Development Through Investment
• Samvel Varvastian, The Role of Courts in Plastic Pollution Governance
• Rossana Deplano, Inclusive Space Law: The Concept of Benefit Sharing in the Outer Space Treaty
• Laura Kaschny & Saskia Lavrijssen, The Independence of National Regulatory Authorities and the European Union Energy Transition
• Uta Kohl, The Right to Be Forgotten in Data Protection Law and Two Western Cultures of Privacy
• Shorter Articles
• Kaisa Huhta & Leonie Reins, Solidarity in European Union Law and Its Application in the Energy Sector
• Nikolas Feith Tan & Meltem Ineli-Ciger, Group-Based Protection of Afghan Women and Girls Under the 1951 Refugee Convention
• Daniel Franchini, State Immunity and Third-Party Limits on the Jurisdiction of Domestic Courts

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 72, no. 2, April 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Lewis Graham, Liberty and Its Exceptions
• Shaun Matos, Arbitration Agreements and the Winding-Up Process: Reconciling Competing Values
• Nicola Sharman, Objectives of Public Participation in International Environmental Decision-Making
• CL Lim & Ryan Martínez Mitchell, Neutral Rights and Collective Countermeasures for Erga Omnes Violations
• Margaret A Young & Georgina Clough, Net Zero Emissions and Free Trade Agreements: Efforts at Integrating Climate Goals by the United Kingdom and Australia
• Chris Noonan & Victoria Plekhanova, Mandatory Binding Dispute Resolution in the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Two Pillar Solution
• Catherine Turner & Aisling Swaine, Aligning Participation and Protection in the Women, Peace and Security Agenda
• Shorter Articles
• Simon Camilleri, Sense and Separability
• Pearce Clancy, Neutral Arms Transfers and the Russian Invasion of Ukraine
• Ben Köhler, Applicational Ambiguity? Taiwan's Status in International Sales Law

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 72, no. 1, January 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Russell Buchan, Non-Forcible Measures and the Law of Self-Defence
• Andrew D Mitchell & James Munro, An International Law Principle of Non-Regression from Environmental Protections
• Gracia Marín Durán, Securing Compatibility of Carbon Border Adjustments with the Multilateral Climate and Trade Regimes
• Jason Haynes & Antonius Hippolyte, The Coloniality of International Investment Law in the Commonwealth Caribbean
• Adeline Chong, Characterisation and Choice of Law for Knowing Receipt
• Priyal Bunwaree, The Illegality of Fishing Vessels ‘Going Dark’ and Methods of Deterrence
• Shorter Articles
• George Politakis, The Recognition of Occupational Safety and Health as a Fundamental Principle and Right at Work
• Benoit Mayer, Prompting Climate Change Mitigation Through Litigation
• Johannes Ungerer, A Bidirectional Anglo-German Comparison of Consideration in Contract Law

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 71, no. 4, November 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Frances Anggadi, What States Say and Do About Legal Stability and Maritime Zones, and Why It Matters
• Giulia Gentile & Orla Lynskey, Deficient by Design? The Transnational Enforcement of the GDPR
• Miles Jackson, The Definition of Apartheid in Customary International Law and the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination
• Yan Xu, A Multilateral Option for VAT in International Trade?
• Han-Wei Liu & Ching-Fu Lin, Constitutional Traditions as Boundaries In Standardising Administrative Rulemaking Through Trade Agreements
• Lottie Lane, Clarifying Human Rights Standards Through Artificial Intelligence Initiatives
• Christian Riffel, Indirect Expropriation and The Protection of Public Interests
• Shorter Articles
• Michelle Foster, Jane McAdam, Analysis of ‘Imminence’ in International Protection Claims: Teitiota v New Zealand and Beyond
• Mariana de Andrade, The Two-Step Methodology for The Identification of General Principles of Law

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 71, no. 3, July 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Lord Lloyd-Jones, International Law Before United Kingdom Courts: A Quiet Revolution
• Billy Melo Araujo, A Contextual Analysis of Article 16 of the Ireland–Northern Ireland Protocol
• Clair Gammage & Philip Syrpis, Sovereignty Fictions in the United Kingdom's Trade Agenda
• Richard Garnett, Determining the Appropriate Forum by The Applicable Law
• Rebecca Barber, The Role of The General Assembly in Determining the Legitimacy of Governments
• Douglas Guilfoyle, Tamsin Phillipa Paige, & Rob McLaughlin, The Final Frontier of Cyberspace: The Seabed Beyond National Jurisdiction and the Protection of Submarine Cables
• Djakhongir Saidov, An International Convention on Expert Determination and Dispute Boards?
• Shorter Articles
• Ardavan Arzandeh, Brownlie II and the Service-Out Jurisdiction Under English Law
• Lisa Forman & Roojin Habibi, Revisiting the Legality of Travel Restrictions Under International Law During COVID-19

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 71, no. 2, April 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Eyal Benvenisti, The Birth and Life of the Definition of Military Objectives
• Brooke Marshall, Asymmetric Jurisdiction Clauses and the Anomaly Created by Article 31(2) of the Brussels I Recast Regulation
• Bryan Mercurio & Pratyush Nath Upreti, The Legality of a TRIPS Waiver for COVID-19 Vaccines Under International Investment Law
• Raphael Ren & Soh Lip Shan, How to Identify Insiders and Intruders Disguising as Investors in the Assignment of Investments
• Danae Azaria, Trade Countermeasures for Breaches of International Law Outside the WTO
• Christel Querton, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Interpreting ‘Particular Social Group’ in the European Union
• Shorter Articles
• Miles Jackson & Dapo Akande, The Right to Life and the Jus Ad Bellum: Belligerent Equality and the Duty to Prosecute Acts of Aggression
• Duncan Fairgrieve & Rhonson Salim, Collective Redress in Europe: Moving Forward or Treading Water?
• Thomas D Grant, Arbitration, Corruption and Post-Award Control in French and English Courts

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 71, no. 1, January 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Rebecca J Barber, Cooperating Through the General Assembly to End Serious Breaches of Peremptory Norms
• John Gillespie & Ha H Do, Theorising the Local Adaptation of Transnational Certification Standards
• Zsolt Körtvélyesi, Transcending the Individual/Collective Minority Rights Divide: A Procedural Solution
• Frederick Rielaender, Aligning the Brussels Regime with the Representative Actions Directive
• Freya Baetens, Protecting Foreign Investment and Public Health Through Arbitral Balancing and Treaty Design
• Michail Risvas, International Law as the Basis for Extending Arbitration Agreements Concluded by States or State Entities to Non-Signatories
• Shorter Articles
• Trevor C Hartley, Basic Principles of Jurisdiction in Private International Law: The European Union, the United States and England
• David Birchall, Reconstructing State Obligations to Protect and Fulfil Socio-Economic Rights in an Era of Marketisation
• Maria Helen Murphy, Assessing the Implications of Schrems II for EU–US Data Flow

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 70, no. 4, October 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Mark Eccleston-Turner & Michelle Rourke, Arguments Against the Inequitable Distribution of Vaccines Using the Access and Benefit Sharing Transaction
• Carsten Gerner-Beuerle & Esin Küçük, Consistency and Coherence in Adjudicating the ECB's Unconventional Monetary Policy
• Ioanna Hadjiyianni, The CJEU As the Gatekeeper of International Law: The Cases of WTO Law and The Aarhus Convention
• Katarzyna Kryla-Cudna, Adequate Assurance of Performance Under the UN Convention on Contracts for The International Sale of Goods and The Uniform Commercial Code
• Meagan S. Wong, Aggression and State Responsibility at The International Criminal Court
• Shorter Articles
• Kaisa Huhta, The Scope of State Sovereignty Under Article 194(2) TFEU and the Evolution of EU Competences in the Energy Sector
• Andrew David Mitchell & Theodore Samlidis, The Implications of the WTO Tobacco Plain Packaging Disputes for Public Health Measures

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 70, no. 3, July 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Tim Clark, The Teleological Turn in the Law of International Organisations
• Millicent McCreath, Community Interests and the Protection of the Marine Environment Within National Jurisdiction
• Sofia Galani, Port Closures and Persons at Sea in International Law
• Arthur Poon, Determining the Place of Performance Under Article 7(1) of the Brussels I Recast
• Alison Xu, A New Solution Concerning Choice-of-Law for the Assignment of Debts
• Joshua Paine, Autonomy to Set the Level of Regulatory Protection in International Investment Law
• Salvatore Caserta & Pola Cebulak, Resilience Techniques of International Courts in Times of Resistance to International Law
• Arman Sarvarian, The Ossified Debate on A UN Convention on State Responsibility
• Shorter Articles
• Rossana Deplano, The Artemis Accords: Evolution or Revolution in International Space Law?

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 70, no. 2, April 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Paula Giliker, Codification, Consolidation, Restatement? How Best to Systemise the Modern Law of Tort
• Lutz Oette, The Prohibition of Torture and Persons Living in Poverty: From the Margins to the Centre
• Rebecca Barber, An Exploration of the General Assembly's Troubled Relationship with Unilateral Sanctions
• Heejin Kim, Global Export Controls of Cyber Surveillance Technology and the Disrupted Triangular Dialogue
• Callista Harris, Incidental Determinations in Proceedings Under Compromissory Clauses
• Rafael Lima Sakr, From Colonialism to Regionalism: The Yaoundé Conventions (1963–1974)
• Shorter Articles
• Shirley V. Scott, The Irrelevance of Non-Recognition to Australia's Antarctic Territory Title
• Marcus Teo, Narrowing Foreign Affairs Non-Justiciability