New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 17, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Articles and Commentaries
• Lisa Rösler, The Interrelationship of International Anti-Corruption Policies in Europe
• Susanne Reindl-Krauskopf, The Role of the EC/EU in European Anti-Corruption Policy
• Natacha Wisstt, Anti-Corruption Initiatives in the Pacific Islands: The Effectiveness of International, Regional, and Domestic Frameworks for Anti-corruption in the Pacific
• Hannah Harris, Illegal Logging, Corruption and the Limitations of Destination Country Laws in the Pacific Context
• Jernej Letnar Černič & Christian Bukor, The Potential United Nations Business and Human Rights Treaty: Turning of the Tides of Justice?
• Otto Spijkers, Participation of Local Actors in the Governance of the Silala
• Claire McGeorge, Crimes against Humanity? A Critical Analysis of Article 1F(A) of the Refugee Convention in New Zealand
• Donna Lyons, Uncharted Waters: Navigating the Human Rights Committee’s Engagement of Article 6 in the Context of Climate Degradation
• The South Pacific
• Tony Angelo, Pacific Islands Forum 2019

Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume 18 (2020). The call is here.

Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume 17 (2019). Here's the call:

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Brill), launched in June 2004, is an annual, internationally refereed publication intended to stand as a reference point for legal materials and critical commentary on issues of public and private international law. The Yearbook serves as a valuable tool in the determination of trends, state practice and policies in the development of international law with particular regard to New Zealand, the Pacific region, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.

Editors call for both short notes and commentaries, and longer in-depth articles, for publication in next volume of the Yearbook, which will be published in early 2021.

Notes and commentaries should be between 3,000 to 7,000 words. Articles may be from 8,000 to 15,000 words.

The Editors seek contributions on any current topic in public or private international law. The Editors particularly encourage submissions that are relevant to the Pacific, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, and New Zealand.

Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis. However, the *closing date for submissions for Volume 17 is 15 June 2020.

Contributions must be original unpublished works and submission of contributions will be held to imply this. Manuscripts must be word-processed and accepted papers should comply with the fourth edition of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation. The Guide is available online here.

Submissions should be provided in English, using MS Word-compatible word processing software, and delivered by email to the General Editor at janjakob.bornheim@canterbury.ac.nz

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 16, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Articles and Commentaries
• Ashley Chandler, Investor-State Dispute Settlement in the CPTPP: Perspectives from Australia, Japan and New Zealand
• José-Miguel Bello y Villarino, Will the Anti-corruption Chapter in the TPP11 Work?: Assessing the Role of Trade Law in the Fight Against Corruption Through International Law
• Umair Ghori, The Confluence of International Trade and Investment: Exploring the Nexus between Export Controls and Indirect Expropriation
• Tracey Epps & Danae Wheeler, Subsidies and “New Industrial Policy”: Are International Trade Rules Fit for the 21st Century?
• Imogen Little, Out with the Old Approach: A Call to Take Socio-Economic Rights Seriously in Refugee Status Determination
• James C. Fisher, A Critical Re-analysis of Whaling in the Antarctic: Formalism, Realism, and How Not to Do International Law
• Gino Naldi & Konstantinos Magliveras, Jurisdictional Aspects of Dispute Settlement under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea: Some Recent Developments
• Jared Papps, State Immunity and the Application of Customary International Law in New Zealand: The Young v Attorney-General Litigation
• Roger S. Clark, The Human Rights Committee, the Right to Life and Nuclear Weapons: The Committee’s General Comment No 36 on Article 6 of the Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
• The South Pacific
• Tony Angelo, Pacific Islands Forum 2018

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 15, 2017) is out. Contents include:

• Articles and Commentaries
• Graham Hassall, Law, Culture, and Corruption in the Pacific Islands
• S. Reindl-Krauskopf, Anti-corruption Measures from a European and Austrian Perspective: Concepts – Control – Concerns
• Farsam Salimi, Cybercrime Threats, Offences and Special Investigation Measures from a European Perspective
• Harmen van der Wilt, The European Arrest Warrant: A Blueprint for International Cooperation in Criminal Matters in Other Regions?
• Liz Campbell, Brexit and the Policing of Transnational Organised Crime in Europe
• Ray Murphy, Command Responsibility after Bemba
• Matt Bartlett, Standard Deviation: Global Standardisation and Implications for International Law
• The South Pacific
• Tony Angelo, Pacific Islands Forum 2017

Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume 16 (2018). Here's the call:

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Brill), launched in June 2004, is an annual, internationally refereed publication intended to stand as a reference point for legal materials and critical commentary on issues of public and private international law. The Yearbook serves as a valuable tool in the determination of trends, state practice and policies in the development of international law with particular regard to New Zealand, the Pacific region, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.

Editors call for both short notes and commentaries, and longer in-depth articles, for publication in Volume 16 of the Yearbook (2018), which will be published in 2019.

Notes and commentaries should be between 3,000 to 7,000 words. Articles may be from 8,000 to 15,000 words.

The Editors seek contributions on any current topic in public or private international law. The Editors particularly encourage submissions that are relevant to the Pacific, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica, and New Zealand.

Submissions will be considered on a rolling basis. However, the closing date for submissions for Volume 16 is 31 May 2019.

Contributions must be original unpublished works and submission of contributions will be held to imply this. Manuscripts must be word-processed and in compliance with fourth edition of the Australian Guide to Legal Citation. The Guide is available online here.

Submissions should be provided in English, using MS Word-compatible word processing software, and delivered by email to the General Editor at janjakob.bornheim@canterbury.ac.nz.

Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume. The call is here.

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 14, 2016) is out. Contents include:

• Articles and Commentaries
• Ozlem Ulgen, “World Community Interest” Approach to Interim Measures on “Robot Weapons”: Revisiting the Nuclear Test Cases
• Salar Abbasi, Democracy in International Law-making: An Unfilled Lacuna
• Naporn Popattanachai, Environmental Disputes from Regional Sea Programmes before itlos: Its Potential Role, Contribution, and the Challenges it Would Face in a Land-based Pollution Case
• Ana Lenard, The Nascent Law of Cyber Blockades and Zones
• Selma Kafedžić, Determining Modes of Liability in International Criminal Law: Why the Common Purpose Doctrine is the Strongest Legal Response to Mass Atrocity Crimes
• Sami Thamir Alrashidi, Challenging Cultural Backgrounds and Vernacularizing Human Rights
• The South Pacific
• Tony Angelo, The Pacific Islands Forum 2016

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 13, 2015) is out. Contents include:

• Articles and Commentaries
• Amos Enabulele, Multilateral Treaties and the Effects of the Universality of Customs on State Consent
• Kate Deere, Investment in China’s FTAs: How Well has the FTA with New Zealand Held Up?
• Saeed Bagheri, Iran’s Attitude to Security in the Strait of Hormuz: An International Law Perspective
• Geoffrey Palmer, Whales and Humans: How Whaling went from being a Major Industry to a Leading Environmental Issue then Landed Japan in the International Court of Justice for the First Time
• Gillian Triggs, Human Rights Across the Tasman: A Widening Gulf – Hotung Fellowship Public Lecture, 6 April 2016
• The South Pacific
• Joanna Siekiera, The Pacific Islands Forum 2015, Port Moresby
• Charles Hulley, TPPA No ... Wait: The Scope of Fair and Equitable Treatment
• Tracey Whare, Customary Law and Human Rights in the Pacific – Potential for Convergence or Inevitable Conflict?

Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (which is now associated with Brill) has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume. Here's the call:

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Brill), launched in June 2004, is an annual, internationally refereed publication intended to stand as a reference point for legal materials and critical commentary on issues of public international law. The Yearbook serves as a valuable tool in the determination of trends, state practice and policies in the development of international law in New Zealand, the Pacific region, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica and to generate scholarship in those fields. In this regard the Yearbook contains an annual ‘Year in Review’ of developments in international law of particular interest to New Zealand as well as a dedicated section on the South Pacific.

The Editor of the Yearbook is currently Dr Roisin Burke (University of Canterbury, NZ) and the Associate Editor is Dr Christian Riffel (University of Canterbury, NZ). The Book Reviews Editor is Prof Annick Masselot. The Editorial Team is advised by members of the Advisory Board who are leading New Zealand-based and international academics and practitioners within the field of international law.

The Editors call for both short notes and commentaries and longer in-depth articles for publication in the 2016 edition of the Yearbook (volume 14). Notes and commentaries should be between 3,000–7,000 words (including footnotes). Articles may be from 8,000 to 15,000 words (including footnotes).

The Editors seek contributions on any issue of public international law and are particularly interested in receiving submissions that are relevant to New Zealand, Australasia, the Pacific, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.

The closing date for submissions is 30 May 2017. Submissions before that date are encouraged. 

Submissions should be provided in English, using MSWord-compatible word processing software, and delivered by email to the Editor at roisin.burke@canterbury.ac.nz.  

Contributions must be original unpublished works and submission of contributions will be held to imply this. We do not consider submission that are currently under review with another publisher. Manuscripts must be word-processed and in compliance with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation (3rd edition).The Guide is available online here.

Further details on the Yearbook and the table of contents for volumes 1–13 are available online here.

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 12, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Articles and Commentaries
• Sanja Nenadic, The Lawfulness of New Zealand’s Military Deployment to Iraq: “Intervention by Invitation” Tested
• Stephen Eliot Smith, Reviving the Obligatory Abstention Rule in the UN Security Council: Reform from the Inside Out
• Hugh Goodwin, Jurisdictional Headache: Finding a Solution to the Layers of Trade Governance between New Zealand and China
• Mariela Maidana-Eletti, The Promises and Perils of the TBT Agreement: Food Quality, Food Labelling and Market Access
• Jia Meng, Holding Sovereignty Ransom: The German Constitutional Court and a Sovereign’s Inability to Act During Financial Crises
• Amy Maguire, The UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Self-Determination in Australia: Using a Human Rights Approach to Promote Accountability

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 11, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Elisabeth Perham, A Solution for the Third International Decade for the Eradication of Colonialism: A ‘Fourth’ Option to Obviate the Need for a Fourth Decade?
• Andrew Erueti & Joshua Pietras, Extractive Industry, Human Rights and Indigenous Rights in New Zealand’s Exclusive Economic Zone
• Susan O’Connor, Up in Arms: A Humanitarian Analysis of the Arms Trade Treaty and its New Zealand Application
• Brian Drummond, Is the United Kingdom Nuclear Deterrence Policy Unlawful?
• Commentaries and Notes
• Elana Geddis & Penelope Ridings, Whaling in the Antarctic: Some Reflections by Counsel
• Claire Breen, The Arab Spring: A Testing Time for the Application of International Humanitarian Law

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 10, 2012) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Treasa Dunworth, The Silent Killer: Toxic Chemicals for Law Enforcement and the Chemical Weapons Convention
• Ottavio Quirico, Amidst Fragmentation and Coherence: A Systemic Interpretation of the World Heritage Convention and the UNFCCC Regime
• Michelle Limenta, Open Trade Negotiations as Opposed to Secret Trade Negotiations: From Transparency to Public Participation
• Fleur Adcock, The UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and New Zealand: A Study in Compliance Ritualism
• Commentaries and Notes
• Amy Laird, Mali: A Legally Justifiable Intervention by France?
• Daniel Scherr, Jurisdictional Immunities of the State (Germany v Italy: Greece intervening): A Case Note
• Viviana Zanetti, Maybe there is a Judge in Strasbourg? The European Court of Human Rights and Torture in Italy

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 9, 2011) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• C. Brighton, Speculation and Significance: Japan’s Scientific Whaling Before the International Court of Justice
• Lewis Mills, Bereft of Life? The Charter Prohibition on the Use of Force, Non-state Actors and the Place of the International Court of Justice
• Patrick C.R. Terry, The War in Afghanistan – Was the Use of Force Legal and/or Wise?
• Kate Neilson, Ending Impunity: Bringing Superiors of Private Military and Security Company Personnel to Justice
• Andreas Schloenhardt & Ellen Bevan, To Ratify or Not to Ratify? Exploring the Barriers to Wider Ratification of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol
• Commentaries and Notes
• Alex Conte, Reflections and Challenges: Entering into the Second Cycle of the Universal Periodic Review Mechanism/li>
• Elana Geddis, “Moving Forward – But Where is it Heading?” A Comment on Developments in the UN Sixth Committee’s Discussions on Universal Jurisdiction

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 8, 2010) is out. Contents include:

• Jane Kelsey, How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement Could Heighten Financial Instability and Foreclose Governments’ Regulatory Space
• Jessica Giovanelli, Australia – Apples: How the WTO Appellate Body Dealt with the Application of Jurisprudence from the Continued Suspension Dispute
• Benedetta Ubertazzi, Territorial and Universal Protection of Intangible Cultural Heritage from Misappropriation
• Mohsen al Attar, The Transnational Peasant Movement: Legalising Freedom from Want
• Justin Harder, A future Perspective on the Disposition of the Insane and the Unfit to Stand Trial in the International Criminal Court

Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its 2012 volume. Here's the call:

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, launched in June 2004, is an annual, internationally refereed publication intended to stand as a reference point for legal materials and critical commentary on issues of public international law. The Yearbook serves as a valuable tool in the determination of trends, state practice and policies in the development of international law in New Zealand, the Pacific region, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica and to generate scholarship in those fields. In this regard the Yearbook contains an annual ‘Year-in-Review’ of developments in international law of particular interest to New Zealand as well as dedicated sections to the South Pacific and to Antarctica.

The Editor of the 2012 Yearbook is Natalie Baird (University of Canterbury, NZ) (Natalie.Baird@canterbury.ac.nz) and Angela Woodward (Programme Director, VERTIC) is the Associate Editor. The Editors are advised by members of the Advisory Board who are leading New Zealand - based and international academics and practitioners within the field of international law.

The Editors call for both short notes and commentaries, and longer in-depth articles, for publication in the 2012 edition of the Yearbook (volume 10). Notes and commentaries should be between 3,000 – 7,000 words (including footnotes). Articles may be from 8,000 to 15,000 words (including footnotes).

The Editors seek contributions on any issue of public international law. The Editors are particularly interested in receiving submissions that are relevant to New Zealand, Australasia, the Pacific, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.

The closing date for submissions is 1 May 2013.

Submissions should be provided in English, using MSWord-compatible word processing software, and delivered by email to the General Editor at nzyil@canterbury.ac.nz . Contributions must be original unpublished works and submission of contributions will be held to imply this. Manuscripts must be word-processed and in compliance with the New Zealand Law Style Guide (2nd edition). The Guide is available online at http://www.lawfoundation.org.nz/style-guide/index.html.

Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its upcoming volume. Here's the call:

New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

Call for Papers for 2011 Yearbook

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law, launched in June 2004, is an annual, internationally refereed publication intended to stand as a reference point for legal materials and critical commentary on issues of public international law. The Yearbook serves as a valuable tool in the determination of trends, state practice and policies in the development of international law in New Zealand, the Pacific region, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica and to generate scholarship in those fields. In this regard the Yearbook contains an annual ‘Year-in-Review’ of developments in international law of particular interest to New Zealand as well as dedicated sections to the South Pacific and to Antarctica.

The current Editor of the Yearbook is Karen N. Scott (University of Canterbury, NZ) and Natalie Baird (University of Canterbury, NZ) is the Associate Editor. The Editors are advised by members of the Advisory Board who are leading New Zealand - based and international academics and practitioners within the field of international law.

The Editorial Board calls for both short notes and commentaries, and longer in-depth articles, for publication in the 2011 edition of the Yearbook. Notes and commentaries should be between 3,000 – 7,000 words. Articles may be from 8,000 to 20,000 words.

The Editorial Board seeks contributions on any issue of public international law. The Board is particularly interested in receiving submissions that are relevant to New Zealand, Australasia, the Pacific, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.

The closing date for submissions is 1 May 2012.

Submissions should be provided in English, using MSWord-compatible word processing software, and delivered by email to the General Editor at nzyil@canterbury.ac.nz.

Contributions must be original unpublished works and submission of contributions will be held to imply this. Manuscripts must be word-processed and in compliance with the New Zealand Law Style Guide. The Guide is available online here.

Further details on the Yearbook and the table of contents for volumes 1 – 7 are available online here.

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 7, 2009) is out. Contents include:

• Stefan Talmon, New Zealand’s Policy of Implied Recognition of States: One Step Ahead or Falling Behind?
• Claire Breen, Law, Policy and Practice: The United Nations Collective Security Regime and the Contribution of the New Zealand Defence Force
• Stephen R. Tully, Getting it Wrong or Being Ignored: Ten Words on Advice for Government Lawyers
• Michael Bowman, Transcending the Fisheries Paradigm: Towards a Rational Approach to Determining the Future of the International Whaling Commission
• Trevor Ryan, Sea Shepherd v Greenpeace? Comparing Anti-whaling Strategies in Japanese Courts
• Joanna Mossop, Australia v Japan: Whaling in the International Court of Justice
• Duncan French & Richard Kirkham, Complaint and Grievance Mechanisms in International Law: One Piece of the Accountability Jigsaw
• Hannah Yiu, Jus Cogens, The Veto and the Responsibility to Protect: A New Perspective
• K.J. Keith, Resolving International Disputes: The Role of the Courts

Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its upcoming volume. Here's the call:

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law is an annual, international refereed publication. The Editorial Board calls for both short notes and commentaries, and longer in-depth articles, for publication in the 2009 edition of the Yearbook. Notes and commentaries should be between 1,500 to 3,000 words. Articles may be from 6,000 to 20,000 words.The Editorial Board seeks contributions on current topics in international law. The Board is particularly interested in receiving submissions that are relevant to New Zealand, the Pacific, the Southern Ocean and Antarctica.The closing date for submissions is 1 June 2010. Submissions should be provided in English, using MSWord-compatible word processing software, and delivered by email to the General Editor at nzyil@canterbury.ac.nz.

Contributions must be original unpublished works and submission of contributions will be held to imply this.

Manuscripts must be word-processed and in compliance with the New Zealand Law Style Guide.

New Volume: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the New Zealand Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 6, 2008) is out. Contents include:

• Colloquium: Responding to Contemporary Challenges and Threats to Antarctic Security: Legal and Policy Perspectives
• Donald R. Rothwell & Hitoshi Nasu, Antarctica and International Security Discourse: A Primer
• Christopher C. Joyner, Challenges to the Antarctic Treaty: Looking Back to See Ahead
• Duncan French, Global Principles, Universal Values and the ATS: Regime Integrity as Antarctic Security
• Alan D. Hemmings, Beyond Claims: Towards a Non-Territorial Antarctic Security Prism for Australia and New Zealand
• Julia Jabour, ‘Safe Ships and Clean Seas’: Evading a Mandatory Shipping Code for Antarctic Waters
• Karen N. Scott, Marine Scientific Research and the Southern Ocean: Balancing Rights and Obligations in a Security-Related Context
• Colloquium: International Aggression as Crime: Implications for International and Domestic Law
• Neil Boister, New Zealand and the ‘Supreme International Crime’: Vengeance or Hypocrisy?
• James Potter, The Threshold in the Proposed Definition of the Crime of Aggression
• Netta Goussac, Territoriality and the Crime of Aggression
• Sascha Mueller, The Crime of Aggression under German Law
• Kennedy Graham, Stage-Fright in “Godsown”: The New Zealand Parliament and the International Non-Aggression and Lawful Use of Force Bill
• Roger S. Clark, Elements of Crimes in Early Confirmation Decisions of Pre-Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Court
• Erica Leaney, Assignment of Counsel of Choice to Indigent Accused at the ICTR: An Analysis of a Threat to Fair Trial Rights and What May Be Done About It
• Alan D. Hemmings & Tim Stephens, Reconciling Regional and Global Dispensations: The Implications of Subantarctic Extended Continental Shelf Penetration of the Antarctic Treaty Area