New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 26, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Dominic Bielby, An Analysis of the Potential Jurisdiction of an International Criminal Tribunal for the Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in the Russo-Ukrainian War
• Başak Çali & Laurence R Helfer, Rethinking Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach
• Peter G Danchin, Jeremy Farrall, Jolyon Ford, Shruti Rana & Imogen Saunders, Reconceiving Engagement with International Law and Institutions in a Populist Era
• François Delerue, States’ Discourse on Third-Party and Collective Countermeasures in Cyberspace: An Evolution of Opinio Juris on Countermeasures
• Keri van Douwen, ‘What’s A Guideline Anyway?’, Or Rather: The Function of ‘Form’ in the Work of the International Law Commission

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 25, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Michael A. Becker, Crisis in Gaza: South Africa v Israel at the International Court of Justice (or the Unbearable Lightness of Provisional Measures)
• Christopher M. Roberts, Re-Covering Forced Labour: Colonial Foreclosures and Forgotten Potentials
• Maria Sjoholm, Framing Obstetric Violence and Associated Rights to Respectful Care in Childbirth through International Human Rights Law
• Cait Storr, Common Heritage or Commonwealth: Australia's Role in Negotiations over Resource Extraction in Domains beyond National Jurisdiction, 1958-91
• Yueming Yan & Xinhui Hong, 'Resolving Doors' and the CICC's One-Stop Platform: Reflections on Institutional Design
• Juliette McIntyre, Pyrrhic Victory or Inconsequential Loss? The International Court of Justice Judgment on Preliminary Objections in Ukraine v Russia

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 25, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Philippa Webb, From Crisis to Epoch: How to Understand This Era of International Law?
• Tom Frost & C.R.G. Murray, The Mists of Time: Intertemporality and Self-Determination's Territorial Integrity Rule in the ICJ's Chagos Advisory Opinion
• Ben Hines, Reinterpreting the Legality of Forcible Self-Defence in Response to Non-Kinetic Cyber Attacks
• Alison McCook & Donald R. Rothwell, Territorial Disputes and Deep-Sea Mining in the South China Sea
• Samuel Berhanu Woldemariam, Amy Maguire, & Jason von Meding, A Centenary of Multilateral Response to Forced Human Displacement: Legacies, Limitations and the Future

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 24, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Kate Gauld, How Is the Crime against Humanity of Gender Persecution Being Litigated before the International Criminal Court, and What Are Its Implications?
• Maria Gudzenko, An Impossible Dream: Using the Standard of Free and Fair Elections for Government Recognition
• Joanna Jarose, Giving Due Regard to the Obligation of 'Due Regard' under Article IX of the Outer Space Treaty

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 24, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Jonathan Kwik, The Conceptual Roots of the Criminal Responsibility Gap in Autonomous Weapons Systems
• Charles Lawson, Fran Humphries & Michelle Rourke, Genetic Resources as Culture and Heritage: Repatriation and Benefit Sharing
• Yuliya Mik, 'More Justice, Less Truth' at the STL? Decoupling Individual Accountability from Collective Truth-Telling in International Criminal Law
• Daniel Rühmann, Conflating Trade with Policy: The Role of International Trade Frameworks in Australia-China Relations
• Laura Schuijers, Australia's Inaction on Climate Change is a Violation of Torres Straight Islanders' Human Rights: Billy v Australia

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 23, no. 2, December 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Bruno Arpi, Jeffrey McGee, Andrew Jackson & Indi Hodgson-Johnston, Legal Analysis of the Argentine and Australian Titles to Territory in Antarctica
• David Keane, Palestine v Israel and the Collective Obligation to Condemn Apartheid under Article 3 of ICERD
• Eve Massingham & Dale Stephens, Autonomous Systems, Private Actors, Outer Space and War: Lessons for Addressing Accountability Concerns in Uncertain Legal Environments
• Ash Murphy, Climate Insecurity: The Promise and Peril of Securitising Climate Change before the UN Security Council
• Andreas Schloenhardt & Madeleine Pitman, A New International Instrument against Wildlife Trafficking? An Appraisal of Current Proposals

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 23, no. 1, July 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Lucas Lixinski, Jane McAdam, & Patricia Tupou, Ocean Cultures, the Anthropocene and International Law: Cultural Heritage and Mobility Law as Imaginative Gateways
• Ayşe Didem Sezgin & Ashleigh Best, Re-Imagining International Law's Environment: An Ecological Critique of International Food Law and International Disaster Law
• Tania Voon & Dean Merriman, Is Australia's Foreign Investment Screening Policy Consistent with International Investment Law?
• Yucong Wang, The Protection of Public Morals as an Exception to Indirect Expropriation: Opening the Floodgates to New, Eclectic Moral Crusades?
• Asad G Kiyani, Prosecutor v Abd-Al-Rahman: Human Rights, Customary International Law and the ICC's Non-Retroactivity Problem
• Emily Crawford & Aaron Fellmeth, The Brereton Report and the Fissures in the Law of Command Responsibility
• Josh T Taylor, The Ascendency of Diplomatic Expertise and Decline of Heritage Knowledge in World Heritage Decision-Making: The Curious Case of the Roşia Montană Mining Landscape's Dual World Heritage Inscription

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 22, no. 2, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Margaret A. Young, Judge James Crawford AC SC FBA (1948-2021) In Memoriam
• Frances Anggadi, Reconceptualising the 'Ambulatory Character' of Baselines: The International Law Commission's Work on Sea-Level Rise and International Law
• Juan Auz, 'So, This Is Permanence': The Inter-American Human Rights System as a Liminal Space for Climate Justice
• Malcolm Jorgensen, The Jurisprudence of the Rules-Based Order: The Power of Rules Consistent with but Not Binding under International Law
• Callum Musto & Efthymios Papastavridis, Tackling Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing through Port State Measures
• Penelope J. Ridings, Labour Standards on Fishing Vessels: A Problem in Search of a Home?
• Donald R. Rothwell, The Antarctic Treaty at Sixty Years: Past, Present and Future
• Michel Rouleau-Dick, Competing Continuities: What Role for the Presumption of Continuity in the Claim to Continued Statehood of Small Island States?

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 22, no. 1, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, From Aspirational Politics to Soft Law? Exploring the International Legal Effects of Sustainable Development Goal 7 on Affordable and Clean Energy
• Padraig McAuliffe, Programmatic Approaches to Realising Socio-Economic Rights: Debates, Definitions and Trends
• Aaron Moss, Asset Preservation, State Cooperation and the International Criminal Court
• Melanie K. Saunders, Conference Diplomacy as the Machinery for Manufacturing Consent: Pax Americana and the Case of the Outer Space Treaty and the World Trade Organization
• Floris Tan & Marten Zwanenburg, One Step Forward, Two Steps Back? Georgia v Russia (II), European Court of Human Rights, APPL No 38263/08 Case Note
• Edward Guntrip, War and Peace: Alberico Gentili and the Early Modern Law of Nations Book Review

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 21, Special Issue, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: National Encounters with the International Court of Justice
• Hilary Charlesworth & Margaret A Young, National Encounters with the International Court of Justice: Introduction to the Special Issue
• Kenneth Keith, New Zealand and the International Court of Justice
• Richard Rowe, The Diplomatic Dimension: Australia and the Nuclear Tests Case
• Emma Nyhan, A Latent Encounter with the Court: How Australia and Japan Settled a Pearl Fisheries Dispute
• Shirley V Scott, National Encounters with the International Court of Justice: Avoiding Litigating Antarctic Sovereignty
• Bill Campbell, Australia's Engagement with the International Court of Justice: Practical and Political Factors
• Natalie Klein, Iran and Its Encounters with the International Court of Justice
• Tim Stephens, Environmental Litigation by Asia Pacific States at the International Court of Justice
• Karen J Alter, The International Court of Justice in Comparison: Understanding the Court's Limited Influence
• Hilary Charlesworth & Margaret A Young, Australian Encounters with the Advisory Jurisdiction of the International Court of Justice
• Philippa Webb, The United Kingdom and the Chagos Archipelago Advisory Opinion: Engagement and Resistance
• Douglas Guilfoyle, The Chagos Archipelago before International Tribunals: Strategic Litigation and the Production of Historical Knowledge
• Henry Burmester, Civil Society and the Instigation of International Court Litigation: The Australian Experience
• Victor Kattan, The United Kingdom's Views on Elections to the International Court of Justice during the Cold War

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 21, no. 2, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Feature: The League of Nations Decentred
• LuÍs Bogliolo, Kathryn Greenman, Anne Orford & Ntina Tzouvala, Foreword
• Robert Knox, Haiti at the League of Nations: Racialisation, Accumulation and Representation
• Aliki Semertzi, Modernist Violence: Juxtaposing the League's Permanent Mandates Commission over the Bondelzwarts Rebellion and the US–Mexico Special Claims Commission over the Mexican Revolutions
• Christopher Szabla, Entrenching Hierarchies in the Global Periphery: Migration, Development and the 'Native' in ILO Legal Reform Efforts
• Articles
• Simon McKenzie, When Is a Ship a Ship? Use by State Armed Forces of Uncrewed Maritime Vehicles and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Andrew D Mitchell & Paula O'Brien, New Directions in Trade and Investment Agreements for Public Health: The Case of Alcohol Labelling
• Case Note
• Michael A Becker, The Plight of the Rohingya: Genocide Allegations and Provisional Measures in The Gambia v Myanmar at the International Court of Justice
• Commentary
• Frédéric Mégret, The Changing Face of Protection of the State's Nationals Abroad

Call for Submissions: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The Melbourne Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for the second issue of its twenty-second volume. The call is here.

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 21, no. 1, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Rafael Braga da Silva, Synergies between Core and Transnational Crimes: An Analysis from the Perspective of the Rome Statute
• Christopher P Evans, Remedying the Limitations of the CTBT? Testing under the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons
• Kathryn Greenman, Common Article 3 at 70: Reappraising Revolution and Civil War in International Law
• Rachel Killean & Luke Moffett, What’s in a Name? ‘Reparations’ at the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia
• Jessica C Lai & Shmuel I Becher, Front-of-Pack Labelling and International Trade Law: Revisiting the Health Star Rating System
• Asli Ozcelik, Entrenching Peace in Law: Do Peace Agreements Possess International Legal Status?

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 20, no. 2, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• John Bennett, Reaping the Whirlwind: The Norm of Reciprocity and the Law of Aerial Bombardment during World War II
• Luke Chircop, Territorial Sovereignty in Cyberspace after Tallinn Manual 2.0
• Matilda Gillis, Shell Companies and Exposing Beneficial Ownership: Testing the Boundaries of the International Commitment to Fight Corruption
• Douglas Guilfoyle, Lacking Conviction: Is the International Criminal Court Broken? An Organisational Failure Analysis
• Benoit Mayer, A Review of the International Law Commission's Guidelines on the Protection of the Atmosphere
• Rowan Nicholson, Was the Colonisation of Australia an Invasion of Sovereign Territory?
• Alberto Pecoraro, Law of the Sea and Investment Protection in Deep Seabed Mining
• Nicola Strain, Regulating Collective Resource Management under Multilateral Treaties: The Decision in Whaling in the Antarctic (Australia v Japan)
• Stephen Young, The Material Costs of Claiming International Human Rights: Australia, Adani and the Wangan and Jagalingou

Call for Submissions: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The Melbourne Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for the second issue of its twenty-first volume. The call is here.

Call for Submissions: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The Melbourne Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for the first issue of its twenty-first volume. The call is here.

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 20, no. 1, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Special Focus — Law and Technology
• Melissa de Zwart & Dale Stephens, The Space (Innovation) Race: The Inevitable Relationship between Military Technology and Innovation
• Matthijs M Maas, International Law Does Not Compute: Artificial Intelligence and the Development, Displacement or Destruction of the Global Legal Order
• Carrie McDougall, Autonomous Weapon Systems and Accountability: Putting the Cart before the Horse
• Andrew D Mitchell, Tania Voon & Jarrod Hepburn, Taxing Tech: Risks of an Australian Digital Services Tax under International Economic Law
• Arvin Kristopher Razon, Liberalising Blockchain: An Application of the GATS Digital Trade Framework
• Lecture
• Adam Roberts, Foundational Myths in the Laws of War: The 1863 Lieber Code, and the 1864 Geneva Convention
• Articles
• Toni Collins & Shea Esterling, Fluid Personality: Indigenous Rights and the Te Awa Tupua (Whanganui River Claims Settlement) Act 2017 in Aotearoa New Zealand
• Ingrid Landau, Human Rights Due Diligence and the Risk of Cosmetic Compliance
• Samuel Berhanu Woldemariam, Amy Maguire & Jason von Meding, Forced Human Displacement, the Third World and International Law: A TWAIL Perspective
• Commentary
• Jeremy J Kingsley & Melinda Heap, Dubai: Creating a Global Legal Platform?
• Review Essay
• Daniela Alaattinoğlu, Odette Mazel, Claerwen O’Hara & Dianne Otto, Fearless Speech: Seeking Freedom beyond the (Liberal) Fishbowl

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 19, no. 2, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Dorothea Anthony, Resolving UN Torts in US Courts: Georges v United Nations
• Eliana Cusato, From Ecocide to Voluntary Remediation Projects: Legal Responses to ‘Environmental Warfare’ in Vietnam and the Spectre of Colonialism
• Philipp Eschenhagen & Max Jürgens, Protective Jurisdiction in the Contiguous Zone and the Right of Hot Pursuit: Rethinking Coastal States’ Jurisdictional Rights
• Juliette McIntyre, Put on Notice: The Role of the Dispute Requirement in Assessing Jurisdiction and Admissibility before the International Court
• Rosemary Mwanza, Enhancing Accountability for Environmental Damage under International Law: Ecocide as a Legal Fulfilment of Ecological Integrity
• Nanda Oudejans, Conny Rijken & Annick Pijnenburg, Protecting the EU External Borders and the Prohibition of Refoulement
• Thea Philip, Climate Change Displacement and Migration: An Analysis of the Current International Legal Regime’s Deficiency, Proposed Solutions and a Way Forward for Australia
• Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh & Tess Van Geelen, Protection of Climate Displaced Persons under International Law: A Case Study from Mataso Island, Vanuatu
• Nathan Yaffe, Indigenous Consent: A Self-Determination Perspective
• Antony Anghie, Race, Self-Determination and Australian Empire
• Richard Garnett, Increasing Co-Operation between Australia and China in the Recognition and Enforcement of Judgments

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 19, no. 1, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Michael Douglas & Nicholas Loadsman, The Impact of the Hague Principles on Choice of Law in International Commercial Contracts
• Andrew Edgar & Rayner Thwaites, Implementing Treaties in Domestic Law: Translation, Enforcement and Administrative Law
• Gabrielle Holly, Transnational Tort and Access to Remedy under the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights: Kamasee v Commonwealth
• David Hughes, Investigation as Legitimisation: The Development, Use and Misuse of Informal Complementarity
• Ching-Fu Lin & Han-Wei Liu, Regulatory Rationalisation Clauses in FTAs: A Complete Survey of the US, EU and China
• Yvette Maker, Anna Arstein-Kerslake, Bernadette McSherry, Jeannie Marie Paterson & Lisa Brophy, Ensuring Equality for Persons with Cognitive Disabilities in Consumer Contracting: An International Human Rights Law Perspective
• Frédéric Mégret, The Laws of War and the Structure of Masculine Power
• Aoife O’Donoghue, ‘The Admixture of Feminine Weakness and Susceptibility’: Gendered Personifications of the State in International Law
• Ksenia Polonskaya, Diversity in the Investor–State Arbitration: Intersectionality Must Be a Part of the Conversation
• Barrie Sander, The Method is the Message: Law, Narrative Authority and Historical Contestation in International Criminal Courts
• Cait Storr, ‘Imperium in Imperio’: Sub-Imperialism and the Formation of Australia as a Subject of International Law
• Caleb H Wheeler, Re-Examining Corporate Liability at the International Criminal Court Through the Lens of the Article 15 Communication against Chiquita Brands International

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 18, no. 2, 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Tribute
• Hilary Charlesworth, Karen Engle, Aeyal Gross, Vanja Hamzić, Gina Heathcote, Wayne Morgan & Rahul Rao, A Collection of Writings in Honour of Professor Dianne Otto
• Lecture
• Stephen Mathias, UN Peacekeeping Today: Legal Challenges and Uncertainties
• Articles
• Bérénice Boutin, Attribution of Conduct in International Military Operations: A Causal Analysis of Effective Control
• Rebecca Dowd & Jane McAdam, International Cooperation and Responsibility Sharing to Combat Climate Change: Lessons for International Refugee Law
• Andrew Godwin, Ian Ramsay & Miranda Webster, International Commercial Courts: The Singapore Experience
• Etienne Henry, Alleged Acquiescence of the International Community to Revisionist Claims of International Customary Law (with Special Reference to the Jus Contra Bellum Regime)
• Rodrigo Polanco Lazo & Sebastián Gómez Fiedler, A Requiem for the Trans-Pacific Partnership: Something New, Something Old and Something Borrowed?
• Peter Tzeng, The Peaceful Non-Settlement of Disputes: Article 4 of CMATS in Timor-Leste v Australia
• Tania Voon, Balancing Regulatory Autonomy with Liberalisation of Trade in Services: An Analytical Assessment of Australia's Obligations under Preferential Trade Agreements
• Weihuan Zhou, Chinese Investment in Australia: A Critical Analysis of the China–Australia Free Trade Agreement