Conference: Re-Conceptualizing International Economic Law: Bridging the Public/Private Divide

The International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law will hold its 2012 Biennial Interest Group Conference on November 29-December 1, at George Washington University Law School, in Washington, DC. The theme is: "Re-Conceptualizing International Economic Law: Bridging the Public/Private Divide." The program is here.

New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Goettingen Journal of International Law (Vol. 4, no. 2, 2012) is out. Contents include:

• Precursors to International Constitutionalism: The Development of the German Constitutional Approach
• Introduction
• Tomer Broude & Andreas L. Paulus, Introduction
• The Historical and Philosophical Background of International Constitutionalism
• Dirk Hanschel, German Federalist Thinking and International Law
• Thomas Kleinlein, Alfred Verdross as a Founding Father of International Constitutionalism?
• Reut Yael Paz, Making it Whole: Hersch Lauterpacht’s Rabbinical Approach to International Law
• Rotem Giladi, Francis Lieber on Public War
• Phillip-Alexander Hirsch, Legalization of International Politics: On the (Im)Possibility of a Constitutionalization of International Law from a Kantian Point of View
• Global Constitutionalism: The Role of International Tribunals and Democracy
• Tomer Broude, The Constitutional Function of Contemporary International Tribunals, or Kelsen’s Visions Vindicated
• Christian Volk, Why Global Constitutionalism Does not Live up to its Promises
• A Fragmented Constitutionalism or a Pluralistic Postnational Order?
• Geir Ulfstein, The Relationship Between Constitutionalism and Pluralism
• Markus Kotzur, Overcoming Dichotomies: A Functional Approach to the Constitutional Paradigm in Public International Law
• Lars Viellechner, Constitutionalism as a Cipher: On the Convergence of Constitutionalist and Pluralist Approaches to the Globalization of Law
• Clemens Mattheis, The System Theory of Niklas Luhmann and the Constitutionalization of the World Society

Proulx: Transnational Terrorism and State Accountability: A New Theory of Prevention

Vincent-Joël Proulx has published Transnational Terrorism and State Accountability: A New Theory of Prevention (Hart Publishing 2012). Here's the abstract:

Every State has an obligation to prevent terrorist attacks emanating from its territory. This proposition stems from various multilateral agreements and UN Security Council resolutions. This study exhaustively addresses the scope of this obligation of prevention and the legal consequences flowing from its violation, so as to provide greater clarity on governments' counterterrorism duties and to enhance State accountability for preventable wrongs. It defines the contents and contours of the obligation while placing critical emphasis on the mechanics of State responsibility. Whether obscured by new technologies like the Internet, the sophisticated cellular structure of some terrorist organisations or convoluted political realities, the level of governmental involvement in terrorist activities is no longer readily discernible in every instance. Furthermore, the prospect of governments waging surrogate warfare through proxies also poses intractable challenges to the mechanism of attribution in the context of State responsibility.

This monograph sets out the shortcomings of the extant scheme of State responsibility while identifying a paradigm shift towards more indirect modes of accountability under international law, a trend corroborated by recent State and institutional practice. Drawing on varied legal and theoretical influences, the study devises and prescriptively argues for the implementation of a strict liability-inspired model grounded in the logic of indirect responsibility with a view to enhancing State compliance with counterterrorism obligations. This shifts the policy focus squarely to prevention, while promoting multilateralism and transnational cooperation. Ultimately, the legal and policy sensibilities underlying the book converge into a new theory of prevention in counterterrorism contexts.

Borg: Conservation on the High Seas: Harmonizing International Regimes for the Sustainable Use of Living Resources

Simone Borg (Univ. of Malta - Law) has published Conservation on the High Seas: Harmonizing International Regimes for the Sustainable Use of Living Resources (Edward Elgar Publishing 2012). Here's the abstract:

This timely book discusses various international norms that qualify the right, which all states have, to access and exploit living resources in marine areas beyond national jurisdiction, in order to promote the conservation of such species.

It highlights current trends and developments which aim at better coherence, and discusses legal techniques that could serve to harmonize both the objectives of these international norms and their scope of applicability. The author also demonstrates that in some cases, gaps and conflicts in the existing legal framework cannot be simply ‘interpreted away’ but require the further development of International law in order to be resolved.

Schwenzer, Fountoulakis, & Dimsey: International Sales Law: A Guide to the CISG (Second Edition)

Ingeborg Schwenzer (Univ. of Basel - Law), Christiana Fountoulakis (Univ. of Fribourg - Law), & Mariel Dimsey have published the second edition of International Sales Law: A Guide to the CISG (Hart Publishing 2012). Here's the abstract:

Written for international trade lawyers, practitioners and students from common and civil law countries, this casebook is an excellent starting point for learning about the CISG, providing an article-by-article analysis of the Convention. The commentary on each article is accompanied by extracts from cases and associated comparative materials, as well as references to important trade usages such as the INCOTERMS® 2010. The book features a selection of the most significant cases, each of which has been abridged to enable the reader to focus on its essential features and the relevant questions arising from it. The case extracts are accompanied by a comprehensive overview of parallel provisions in other international instruments, uniform projects and domestic laws.

Alston & Goodman: International Human Rights

Philip Alston (New York Univ. - Law) & Ryan Goodman (New York Univ. - Law) have published International Human Rights (Oxford Univ. Press 2012). Here's the abstract:

A successor to the widely acclaimed International Human Rights in Context, this book is written by Philip Alston and Ryan Goodman who are both world-leading human rights scholars. They have chosen a wide selection of materials from primary and secondary materials to demonstrate and illuminate key themes and carefully guide the reader through each extract with thoughtful and lucid commentary.

New Issue: Les Cahiers de l'Arbitrage

The latest issue of Les Cahiers de l'Arbitrage (2012, no. 3) is out. Contents include:

• Doctrine
• Juan Fernández-Armesto, The time has come – A plea for abandoning secrecy in arbitration
• Paula Hodges, The perils of complete transparency in international arbitration – should parties be exposed to the glare of publicity?
• Michael Polkinghorne & Pauline Dépinay, Récusation des arbitres et indépendance des barristers : la fin de l’exception anglaise ?
• Walid Benhamida, La participation des personnes publiques subsahariennes à l’arbitrage relatif aux investissements

Onguene Onana: La compétence en arbitrage international relatif aux investissements

Dieudonné Édouard Onguene Onana (Université Laval - Law) has published La compétence en arbitrage international relatif aux investissements: Les conditions d'investissement et de nationalité devant le CIRDI (Bruylant 2012). Here's the abstract:

Le présent ouvrage offre une réelle synthèse de deux notions importantes en droit des investissements : la notion d’investissement et la notion d’investisseur. Il décrit de manière exhaustive la jurisprudence arbitrale développée en la matière.

Au travers de cette synthèse, l’auteur y étudie de manière plus approfondie le processus de qualification de l’investissement étranger devant le Centre international pour le règlement des différends relatifs aux investissements (CIRDI). Chaque instrument normatif s’applique à un champ précis et limité. Et pour déterminer sa compétence – élément décisif pour connaitre ou non de l’affaire – ,l’arbitre du CIRDI doit, d’une part, différencier les opérations de contrôle des conditions d’investissement et celles des conditions de nationalité, et d’autre part, distinguer les normes à l’origine de la compétence arbitrale, celles issues des Traités bilatéraux d’investissements (TBI) et celles venant de la Convention de Washington, les unes ne supplantant pas les autres.

Gortsos: Fundamentals of Public International Financial Law

Christos Gortsos has published Fundamentals of Public International Financial Law: International Banking Law within the system of Public International Financial Law (Nomos 2012). Here's the abstract:

Diese in drei Kapiteln aufgegliederte Studie zielt auf die Einführung des Lesers in das internationale öffentliche Finanzrecht, wobei der Schwerpunkt auf dem internationalen öffentlichen Bankrecht liegt, das einen seiner Zweige darstellt. Das erste Kapitel gewährt eine Einführung in die Funktionen und Infrastrukturen des Finanzsystems, als Grundlage für das internationale öffentliche Finanzrecht, und enthält auch eine Analyse der Ziele der Regulierung des Finanzsystems. Das zweite Kapitel enthält:

• Eine Definition des internationalen öffentlichen Finanzrechts, seine konzeptionelle Abgrenzung gegenüber anderer Zweige des internationalen öffentlichen Rechts, als auch einen Überblick über seine Zweige.
• Eine Schilderung der geschichtlichen Entwicklung seiner Institutionen.
• Eine Analyse der vier Ebenen seiner Verabschiedung und Durchsetzung, die den vom Autor vorgeschlagenen konzeptuellen Ansatz zu diesem Zweig des internationalen öffentlichen Wirtschaftsrechts darstellt.
• Eine Darstellung der Fora, in deren Rahmen internationale Finanznormen (Standards) entstehen. Das letzte Kapitel beinhaltet:
• Einen Überblick über die Hauptquellen des internationalen öffentlichen Finanzrechts.
• Die Bestimmungen der zwei Hauptquellen des internationalen öffentlichen Bankrechts, einschließlich der „Basel III“-Vorschriften des Basler Ausschusses für Bankenaufsicht.

Baik: Emerging Regional Human Rights Systems in Asia

Tae-Ung Baik (Univ. of Hawaii, Manoa - Law) has published Emerging Regional Human Rights Systems in Asia (Cambridge Univ. Press 2012). Here's the abstract:

Asia is the only area in the world that does not have a human rights court or commission covering the region as a whole. However, a close look at recent developments in the region, especially in East Asia, shows that a human rights system is emerging. Various activities and initiatives for human rights cooperation are developing in Asia at the regional, sub-regional and national levels. Since the establishment of the ASEAN human rights body (AICHR) in 2009, the need for a review of the regional human rights mechanisms in Asia is stronger than ever. With a primary focus on twenty-three East Asian states, Tae-Ung Baik highlights the significant changes that have taken place in recent decades and demonstrates that the constituent elements of a human rights system (norms, institutions and modes of implementation) are developing in Asia.

Pedersen: An International Environmental Court and International Legalism

Ole W. Pedersen (Newcastle Univ. - Law) has published An International Environmental Court and International Legalism (Journal of Environmental Law, Vol. 24, no. 3, pp. 547-558, Nov. 2012). Here's the abstract:

This essay offers an assessment of the most recent attempt lead by the International Court for the Environment (ICE) Coalition to garner support for an international environmental court. The essay argues that the concept of legalism, as developed by Judith Shklar and more recently advanced by Eric Posner, offers us a conceptual background against which to view this campaign. In doing so, the essay argues that a narrow focus on legal solutions, which emphasise legal responsibility and blameworthiness, is likely to prove insufficient. Despite this, it is argued that the ICE Coalition’s contribution to the debate on how to best address collective action problems harming the environment may in the long run assist us in developing viable solutions.

New Volumes: Recueil des Cours

Volumes 351 and 352 of the Recueil des Cours, Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law are out. Contents include:

• Volume 351
• W. Michael Reisman, The Quest for World Order and Human Dignity in the Twenty-first Century: Constitutive Process and Individual Commitment. General Course on Public International Law
• Volume 352
• Angelo Davì, Le renvoi en droit international privé contemporain

Conference: New Directions in Global Thought: IGLP at Five

The Institute for Global Law and Policy at Harvard Law School has issued a call for papers for a conference on "New Directions in Global Thought: IGLP at Five," to take place June 3-4, 2013. Here's the call:

On June 3-4, 2013, the Institute for Global Law and Policy (IGLP) at Harvard Law School will convene its first biannual international conference on New Directions in Global Thought. The Conference is made possible by a generous grant from our Leading Sponsors, Santander Universities and Sovereign Bank.

In celebration of IGLP’s first five years, we invite new and returning members of the IGLP network to present and discuss innovative research in the Institute’s core areas. The 2013 IGLP Conference will be held directly following the 2013 Law and Society Association conference, which will be convened in Boston.

Founded in 2009, the Institute is an international, interdisciplinary, and collaborative center working to foster innovative research and policy dialogue about the modes and structures of global governance. Scholars associated with the Institute are working to understand the levers of political, economic and legal authority in the world today. Global poverty, conflict, injustice, and inequality are also legal regimes. The IGLP explores the ways they are reproduced, sustained by professional practices, and reinforced by a common sense of expertise. In addition, we ask what might be done in response. We are particularly focused on the relationship between the transnational regulatory environment and the potential for sound economic development. A core aim going forward will be to interrogate the distinction between global and local as an idea, as the effect of professional practice, and as an institutional structure for global governance.

Over the past five years, the Institute has encouraged academic collaboration among young scholars from across the world, aiming to support a network of scholars and policy makers who share our belief that ideas matter, and our commitment to new voices and viewpoints for thinking about global governance, social justice and economic policy. More than 500 scholars from scores of nations have participated in our activities. Our annual IGLP Workshop offers junior scholars from around the world the opportunity to share their research and reflect together on new thinking in the fields of international law, political economy, and global governance.

In June 2013, we invite all those who have participated in our network – and those who would like to join with us – to return to Cambridge and share your ideas. The 2013 Conference will offer the opportunity to meet others who share your intellectual passions, to present your research and to engage with innovative scholars from around the world.

We expect many of the discussions at the Conference to continue thinking spawned in streams of investigation begun at our annual Workshops or in the Pro-Seminars we have sponsored. Details on these areas of thematic focus can be found on our website at www.iglp.law.harvard.edu. They include: Comparative Legal Studies; the Corporation in Global Society; Human Rights and Social Justice; Global Science and Technology Studies; Law and Economic Development; International Economic Law and Regulation; Revitalizing Arab and Islamic Legal Traditions; Globalization and Labor; Legal Architecture of Monetary Integration; Private International as Global Governance; and Global Law and Political Economy.

We welcome proposals for individual paper presentations or panel presentations.

Travel Grants: The IGLP is pleased to be able to offer a number of modest travel grants based on need to conference participants who are unable to secure home institution or external funding.

Accommodation: The IGLP is able to offer modest, dormitory housing at a reasonable cost to conference participants.

Please submit paper or panel proposals (abstracts should not exceed 500 words) HERE

If you wish to be considered for a modest travel grant and/or dormitory housing at a reasonable cost, please indicate this in your submission.

Workshop: Doing Law Beyond the State: Research Methodologies in Comparative, EU and Public and Private International Law

On January 18-19, 2013, the University of Sheffield School of Law will host a workshop on "Doing Law Beyond the State: Research Methodologies in Comparative, EU and Public and Private International Law." The program is here. Here's the idea:

Project Workshop Overview

Doing Law Beyond the State:

Research Methodologies in Comparative, EU and Public and Private International Law

An initial, “scoping workshop” brings together established and early-career scholars to have a “cross-generation” and cross-specialisation dialogue. We will adopt a ‘what have we learned?’ approach, considering how the growing interest in method and importance of theory among traditional approaches to legal scholarship has important impacts on the academy and on legal practice. We have asked participants to frame their papers around the workshop themes:

Workshop Themes

• Learning from experience: what is/should be the role of the international/EU academic lawyer? What do recent crises (economic, military, etc.) reveal about previous disciplinary assumptions? How should we respond to the critical challenge? What do older debates have to tell us about contemporary problems (e.g. does the monism and dualism debate have any contemporary relevance in the light of the fragmentation of international law/relationship between legal orders)? How have methodological innovations in our disciplines changed over time?

• Learning from each other: How should European and international lawyers talk to each other? What can we learn from our shared legal cultures? What role for comparative method in public international law? What can private international law teach European and international public lawyers about normative coherence versus dissonance?

• Learning from outside: What can international and EU lawyers learn from other disciplines? What should they learn? Does interdisciplinarity undermine legal autonomy?

Call for Papers: ESIL 5th Research Forum (Reminder)

As noted previously, the European Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 5th Research Forum, which will take place May 23-25, 2013, in Amsterdam. The conference will be hosted by the Amsterdam Center for International Law of the University of Amsterdam and the Department of Transnational Legal Studies of the VU University Amsterdam. The conference theme is "International Law as a Profession." The call is here (English/French). The deadline for the submission of abstracts and panel proposals is November 15, 2012.

Darcy: Retaliation and Reprisal

Shane Darcy (National Univ. of Ireland, Galway - Irish Centre for Human Rights) has posted Retaliation and Reprisal (in Oxford Handbook on the Use of Force, Marc Weller ed., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This book chapter explores the evolution of the law on the use of force as it relates to armed reprisals and retaliation, particularly since the adoption of the Charter of the United Nations in 1945. While the preponderance of scholars, and indeed States, view armed reprisals or countermeasures involving force as prohibited under international law, the doctrine would seem to retain appeal for those seeking to legitimize force not falling within the Charter’s exceptions. The counterpart applicable in times of armed conflict, belligerent reprisal, has been restricted but not completely outlawed under international humanitarian law. The chapter examines the development of international law on the use of force relating to reprisals and consider claimed instances of State practice, as well as judicial and scholarly consideration of the lawfulness of such reprisals. It concludes with a look at calls for the revival of reprisals or retaliation as permitted exceptions to the prohibition on the use of force.

Call for Papers: Triangulating Property Rights: Governing Access to Essential Goods

The Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia University has issued a call for papers directed at junior researchers for a conference on "Triangulating Property Rights: Governing Access to Essential Goods," to take place June 20-21, 2013, in New York City. Here's the call:

Triangulating Property Rights: Governing Access to Essential Goods

Call for Governance Proposals

The Center on Global Legal Transformation at Columbia University in New York is launching a call for proposals by junior researchers on governing scarce, yet essential goods. Selected proposals shall be presented at panel sessions at a conference held in New York on 20-21 June 2013. The research project is coordinated by Prof. Katharina Pistor, the Director of the Center on Global Legal Transformation, and Prof. Olivier De Schutter, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food.

A number of factors have led to dramatically increased pressure on land and the essential resources it harbors: population growth and a corresponding rise in demand for agricultural and other commodities; competing uses of land between different forms of agriculture, resource extraction, large-scale industrial projects and urban sprawl; environmental degradation from climate change and unsustainable practices; and trade and investment liberalization, among others. As a result, water, food and shelter are increasingly considered scarce and subjected to commercial pressures that make them inaccessible to many.

Private property rights regimes have traditionally been considered the most effective institutional arrangement to allocate scarce goods and combat what has been termed the “tragedy of the commons” – the depletion of scarce common resources by actors who disregard the carrying capacity of the land and bear no costs for their actions. Individual property rights regimes lead to allocation of land to the highest bidder, who is presumed to put the land to its most efficient use. But conversion to private property regimes has also resulted in widespread displacement of small holders and indigenous people and the exclusion of many others from access to resources essential to their livelihoods.

Two well-studied alternatives to private property rights are collective governance by local authorities and centralized control. However, neither fully addresses the problems of scarce, essential goods. Collective governance is limited by a community’s ability to manage collective action problems, but the governance issues we are facing are those of a heterogeneous world with high social mobility and rapidly changing social norms. Similarly, centralized control depends on the authority and wisdom of the central decision-maker, who may lack local knowledge and accountability. Political voice might address problems of accountability, but how to organize voice in a global world remains an open question.

Proposals should suggest models for governing essential, scarce resources. They can be qualitative or quantitative; make use of empirical data and field research or suggest a new theoretical approach. They should address if and how the following three normative goals (the basis of the triangle to which the title refers) for managing scarce, essential goods can be realized:

• equity (universal access to those resources that are essential for human life);

• efficiency (in managing scarce essential goods and minimizing waste); and

• sustainability (arrangements that do not unduly interfere with future productivity or availability of essentials).

Memos should be between 5 and 10 single spaced pages and must be submitted by email to the project coordinator, Claire Debucquois, at cd2636@columbia.edu by 15 January, 2013. Any questions should be directed to the same address. Up to 10 submissions will be selected for presentation at the conference and possible inclusion in a subsequent book publication.

New Issue: Transnational Legal Theory

The latest issue of Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 3, no. 1, March 2012) is out. Contents include:

• José-Manuel Barreto, Decolonial Strategies and Dialogue in the Human Rights Field: A Manifesto
• Alexander Somek, Constituent Power in National and Transnational Contexts
• Neil Walker, Postnational Constitutionalism and Postnational Public Law: A Tale of Two Neologisms

Tougas: Droit international, sociétés militaires privées et conflit armé: Entre incertitudes et responsabilités

Marie-Louise Tougas (International Committee of the Red Cross) has published Droit international, sociétés militaires privées et conflit armé: Entre incertitudes et responsabilités (Bruylant 2012). Here's the abstract:

La privatisation du domaine militaire constitue un défi de taille pour la conception dominante du droit international, toujours largement d’inspiration westphalienne.

Il semble y avoir un certain décalage entre la réalité de l’activité des SMP dans les zones de conflit et le cadre normatif régissant ces conflits que l’ampleur du phénomène ne permet pas d’occulter.

Cet ouvrage, qui se focalise sur le droit des conflits armés, cherche à apporter des réponses aux questions juridiques soulevées par les activités des SMP. Le droit des conflits armés ne suit pas uniquement une logique de sanction et d’imputabilité, mais cherche d’abord à limiter les dommages causés lors des conflits et à en protéger les victimes. Pour ce faire, il délimite les droits et obligations des acteurs impliqués.

Ainsi, les règles applicables doivent permettre aux acteurs concernés d’adopter le comportement requis et de connaître a priori ce que le droit leur commande. Elles doivent aussi leur offrir une protection adéquate. Elles ne peuvent donc être principalement appliquées a posteriori par une cour de justice ou suite à l’analyse poussée d’un juriste.

C’est donc cette distinction entre règles applicables a priori et mécanismes de mise en oeuvre intervenant a posteriori qui constitue la structure de cet ouvrage et lui permet de jeter un éclairage nouveau sur cette problématique.

Westendorp: The Women's Convention Turned 30: Achievements, Setbacks, and Prospects

Ingrid Westendorp has published The Women's Convention Turned 30: Achievements, Setbacks, and Prospects (Intersentia 2012). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women is a treaty for all girls and women in this world. After 30 years it is still valid and necessary both in developed and in developing States. This image is clearly conveyed by the authors of this book, who represent a wide variety of national and cultural backgrounds, and who have put the implementation of the provisions in the Convention to the test both in modern and in traditional societies. In addition, some chapters pay attention to issues that are not contained in the treaty itself but that greatly impact the realization of women’s human rights, such as gender mainstreaming, gender-based violence, and corruption. The strengths and weaknesses, and the future potential of the Convention as well as the work of its monitoring body are critically analyzed and compared to other human rights treaties and organs. It becomes clear that, irrespective of the existing flaws, the Convention is the best option for achieving women’s equality.

Call for Submissions: Art and Heritage Disputes

Transnational Dispute Management has issued a call for submissions for a TDM special issue on "Art and Heritage Disputes." Here's the call:

TDM Call for Papers "Art and Heritage Disputes"

This Special Issue aims to identify, map and critically assess the number of art and heritage disputes which have arisen in the past decades. The return of cultural artifacts to their legitimate owners, the recovery of underwater cultural heritage, the governance of sites of outstanding and universal value, the protection and promotion of artistic expressions, and the protection of cultural sites in time of war are just some of the issues which have given rise to art and heritage related disputes.

The editors of this special will be Professor Hildegard Schneider and Dr. Valentina Vadi (both Maastricht University).

Possible themes for consideration in this special issue include:

1) Cultural rights

2) Tangible cultural heritage

3) Intangible cultural heritage

4) Underwater cultural heritage

5) Art law

6) Dispute settlement mechanisms

Selected authors will also be invited to present their research at the conference / workshop on Art and Heritage Law to be held on 24-27 March 2013 at Maastricht University, the Netherlands.

Paper proposals (i.e. abstracts) of up to 500 words should be submitted as soon as possible by December 1, 2012. The Editors will select papers at their discretion. If selected, full papers of up to 5000 words including footnotes will be due by May 15, 2013. Publication is expected in the fourth quarter of 2013.

New Issue: Revue Générale de Droit International Public

The latest issue of the Revue Générale de Droit International Public (Vol. 116, no. 3, 2012) is out. Contents include:

• Dossier: Actualité des organisations internationales - Questions choisies
• Raphaële Rivier, L'utilisation d'autres formes d'organisation internationale
• Alain Dejammet, Les "G": G7, G8, G20
• Gérard Cahin, L'admission aux organisations internationales
• Nicolas de Rivière, La question de la Palestine aux Nations Unies et dans les organisations internationales
• Farid Fernández, ALBA-TCP et CELAC: instruments d'une politique indépendante et souveraine
• Carlo Santulli, Retour à la théorie de l'organe commun: réflexions sur la nature juridique de l'ALBA et de la CELAC
• Jean-Louis De Bailleneix & Yves Nouvel, La personnalité des organisations internationales au crible de son énonciation
• Bérangère Taxil, Les "différendes internes" des organisations internationales
• Jean-Didier Sicault, La procédure devant le Tribunal administratif de la Banque interaméricaine de développement
• Eric Wyler, De quelques problèmes juridiques liés aux contrats des organisations internationales
• Pierre M. Reynaud, Le recours précontractuel au sein des marchés publics des organisations internationales: le cas de l'agence spatiale européene
• Serge Sur, Les organisations internationales: dynamiques et désenchantements

Call for Papers: Teaching International Law Outside Law Schools

The Teaching International Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for a conference on "Teaching International Law Outside Law Schools," to be held at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law on April 12, 2013. The call is here.

Symposium: La protección de bienes jurídicos globales

The latest volume of the Anuario de la Facultad de Derecho de la UAM (Vol. 16, 2012) focuses on the theme "La protección de bienes jurídicos globales." Contents include:

• José Luis Martí, Política y bien común global
• Gonzalo Escribano Francés, Provisión de bienes públicos globales y economía política internacional
• Caterina García Segura, La «mirada cosmopolita» como requisito político y social para la provisión de los bienes públicos globales
• Anne Peters, Bienes jurídicos globales en un orden mundial constitucionalizado
• Ignacio Gutiérrez Gutiérrez, Traducir derechos: la dignidad humana en el derecho constitucional de la comunidad internacional
• Bernardo Feijoo Sánchez, ¿Transformación del derecho penal por la protección de la estabilidad financiera como bien jurídico global?
• Adán Nieto Martín, Bases para un futuro derecho penal internacional del medio ambiente
• Bartolomé Clavero Salvador, Conocimientos tradicionales sobre recursos genéticos: ¿bien jurídico global?
• Ángel Menéndez Rexach, El agua como bien jurídico global: el derecho humano al agua(
• Alicia Campos Serrano, Los bienes globales y las fuentes de energía
• Teresa Fajardo del Castillo, Los bienes públicos del medio ambiente: el reto de la gestión sostenible de los recursos naturales en la Unión Europea
• Belén Madrazo Meléndez, Protección de los bienes jurídicos globales, el Registro y el medio ambiente
• Fernando Gascón Inchausti, Eficacia en España de sentencias y transacciones derivadas del ejercicio de una class action en Estados Unidos
• Fernando Gómez Pomar, Bienes globales y protección colectiva: el caso del derecho de consumo
• Marta Requejo Isidro, Derechos humanos y acciones colectivas
• José Manuel Calderón Carrero, La globalización económica y su incidencia sobre el derecho financiero y tributario: ¿implicaciones sobre la protección de los bienes jurídicos globales?
• Manuel López Escudero, Estabilidad económico-financiera y derecho internacional
• Félix Ovejero Lucas, Mercado financiero, responsabilidad y soluciones globales

Born: International Arbitration: Law and Practice

Gary B. Born (Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP) has published International Arbitration: Law and Practice (Wolters Kluwer 2012). Here's the abstract:

“International Arbitration: Law and Practice” provides a concise overview of the legal principles and practice of international arbitration. The book offers an accessible, straightforward introduction to the legal framework for international commercial arbitration, including discussions of international arbitration agreements, international arbitral procedures and international arbitral awards. It also provides an introduction to international investment arbitration, including a discussion of the ICSID Convention and issues arising under bilateral investment treaties, and state-to-state arbitration.

“International Arbitration: Law and Practice” also provides descriptions of the contemporary practice and tactics of international arbitration. Among other things, it addresses the drafting of arbitration clauses, selection and challenge of arbitrators, structure of arbitral proceedings, process of disclosure or discovery, witness preparation and testimony, conduct of evidentiary hearings and other key procedural steps in international arbitrations.