New Issue: Journal of World Intellectual Property

The latest issue of the Journal of World Intellectual Property (Vol. 16, nos. 5-6, December 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Althaf Marsoof, The TRIPs Compatibility of Australia's Tobacco Plain Packaging Legislation
• Viola Prifti, The Breeding Exemption in Patent Law: Analysis of Compliance With Article 30 of the TRIPS Agreement
• Xavier Seuba, Intellectual Property in Preferential Trade Agreements: What Treaties, What Content?
• Matthew J. Rippon, Traditional Foods, Territorial Boundaries and the TRIPS Agreement: The Case of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie

New Issue: Legal Issues of Economic Integration

The latest issue of Legal Issues of Economic Integration (Vol. 41, no. 1, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• International Law in the Case Law of the Court of Justice: Recent Trends
• Birgitte Egelund Olsen & Karsten Engsig Sørensen, Strengthening the Enforcement of CSR Guidelines: Finding a New Balance between Hard Law and Soft Law
• Arwel Davies, Technical Regulations and Standards under the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade
• Evangelia Psychogiopoulou, The External Dimension of EU Cultural Action and Free Trade: Exploring an Interface
• Onsando Osiemo, Lost in Translation: The Role of African Regional Courts in Regional Integration in Africa

Massoud: International Arbitration and Judicial Politics in Authoritarian States

Mark Fathi Massoud (Univ. of California, Santa Cruz - Politics and Legal Studies) has posted International Arbitration and Judicial Politics in Authoritarian States (Law and Social Inquiry, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This article uses the case of Sudan to show how authoritarian regimes benefit from embracing international arbitration, allowing them to maintain domestic control and attract foreign investment. International arbitration ensures that foreign-investment disputes are resolved outside of domestic purview, obviating the need for nondemocratic states to create independent courts. Research on judicial politics in authoritarian regimes has largely overlooked those private and extra-judicial pathways—international arbitration tribunals—that illiberal regimes have been taking. Similarly, research in international commercial law has neglected domestic politics, overlooking arbitration's consequences for domestic stakeholders. Promoting international arbitration without paying heed to its side effects can unwittingly help illiberal regimes, particularly in weak states, to continue to repress their judiciaries and curtail the development of domestic legal institutions and the rule of law.

Toufayan, Tourme-Jouannet, & Ruiz Fabri: Droit international et nouvelles approches sur le tiers-monde : entre répétition et renouveau

Mark Toufayan (Univ. of Ottawa - Law), Emmanuelle Tourme-Jouannet (Université Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne) - Law), & Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Université Paris I (Panthéon Sorbonne) - Law) have published Droit international et nouvelles approches sur le tiers-monde : entre répétition et renouveau / International Law and New Approaches to the Third World : between Repetition and Renewal (Société de législation comparée 2013). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

L’objet de cet ouvrage collectif – issu d’un colloque organisé à l’Université Paris I en juillet 2010 – est de questionner l’existence présente des règles de droit international relatives au tiers-monde au regard de notre nouveau contexte mondialisé, en demandant aux représentants du courant critique anglophone TWAIL (Third World Approaches to International Law) de bien vouloir exposer leurs idées et leurs réflexions en ce domaine pour la toute première fois à un lectorat francophone. Tantôt un mouvement politique engagé, tantôt un corps d’idées et une pensée intellectuelle féconde sur les problématiques du tiers-monde, les points de vue des Nouvelles approches sur le tiers-monde en droit international ont contribué à prolonger et renouveler la réflexion en ce domaine.

Il est certain que la situation n’est pas la même dans les deux mondes francophone et anglophone. En France notamment, les recherches et enseignements juridiques sur le Tiers Monde semblent tout simplement en voie d’abandon quasi-complet au sein des Facultés de droit. Les centres de recherches se sont fermés, les crédits ont été redistribués, les revues se sont éteintes et la matière ne fait plus l’objet d’un enseignement spécialisé. Elle est désormais enseignée, au mieux, comme une sous-discipline du droit international économique, ce qui marginalise totalement sa portée et son intérêt. Face à cette situation, il est nettement temps de réagir pour relancer la réflexion et l’examiner d’un point de vue autonome et critique.

Workshop: Liquid Authority in Global Governance

On January 11, 2014, the Institut Barcelona d’Estudis Internacionals (IBEI) will host a workshop on "Liquid Authority in Global Governance." All those wishing to attend are requested to contact Tania Foix at tfoix@ibeicampus.ibei.org. The program is here. Here's the idea:

In recent years, the study of global governance has made much progress in charting the variety of ways in which rules, norms and decisions are produced in the global realm. Yet while this work exhibits processes and institutional structures quite unlike traditional international organizations – and very different from those we know from the domestic sphere – much of the conceptual apparatus of the field remains bound up with traditional models. In theorizing authority, compliance, accountability, legitimacy or law, the focus is typically on 'solid' structures: norms and institutions of a relatively fixed and distinct nature, understood as producing independent effects on states and other actors. This orientation not only leaves out of sight large parts of governance beyond the state, but also tends to obscure the analytical, normative and institutional challenges we are facing. This workshop inquires into whether an explicit focus on 'liquid authority' might provide a better frame. Liquidity in this context is understood in four inter-related dimensions: informality, ideational character, fleetingness, and multiplicity. In its extreme form, it is reflected in governance processes without a clear center, dispersed over a multitude of actors and institutions (public and private) without a formal ascription of authority, never bundled in an identifiable decision, and achieving effects through uncoercive, often nudging or ideational means. The workshop will explore the concept of authority, the shape of liquid governance, and implications for legitimacy and accountability of a turn towards ‘liquid authority’.

Call for Papers: La Tercera Conferencia Bienal de la Sociedad Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional / La Troisième Conférence biennal de la Société latino-américaine de droit international

The Latin American Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its third biennial conference, which will be hosted by the Universidad Externado de Colombia, on August 14-16, 2014. The theme is "Latin-America and the International Jurisdiction." The call is here (Español/Français).

New Issue: International Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the International Criminal Law Review (Vol. 13, no. 5, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Anne-Marie de Brouwer & Etienne Ruvebana, The Legacy of the Gacaca Courts in Rwanda: Survivors’ Views
• Amissi M. Manirabona & Jo-Anne Wemmers, Specific Reparation for Specific Victimization: A Case for Suitable Reparation Strategies for War Crimes Victims in the DRC
• Dragana Radosavljevic, Scope and Limits of Psychiatric Evidence in International Criminal Law
• Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi, (Mis)interpreting the Statute? The International Criminal Court, the Sentence of Life Imprisonment and Other Emerging Sentencing Issues: A Comment on the Trial Chamber I Decision on the Sentence in Prosecutor v. Thomas Lubanga Dyilo

Del Vecchio: International Law of the Sea: Current Trends and Controversial Issues

Angela Del Vecchio (LUISS Guido Carli - Law) has published International Law of the Sea: Current Trends and Controversial Issues (Eleven International Publishing 2013). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

In the last few decades, the law of the sea has been affected not only by the processes of globalisation that have changed the key interests of the international community but also by natural phenomena like climate change. In addition, technological advances that have opened up new opportunities to exploit marine resources and to produce energy and which make the sea in itself a resource, have contributed to a further development of the law of the sea.

This book analyzes those areas of the law of the sea in which these transformations taking place seem to be more significant: migration by sea, the security of navigation and the fight against piracy, safety of navigation, protection of maritime labour, the legal framework governing the polar regions and some special issues relating to the harnessing of marine resources.

Ziegler: The Relationship between EU Law and International Law

Katja S. Ziegler (Univ. of Leicester - Law) has posted The Relationship between EU Law and International Law (in Blackwell Companion to EU Law and International Law, Dennis Patterson & Anna Södersten eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

How do EU law and international law interact? Is the relationship between EU law and international law different from the relationship between general international law and one of its specialised legal orders, for example the relationship between international law and the law of the sea? In other words, is the question of the relationship only one about the fragmentation of international law? Are the rules of interaction between the legal orders just ‘technical’ conflict rules in this context? Or are the rules of interaction between the international and the EU legal order which has been described as an autonomous legal order, akin to rules that govern the interaction between international law and national legal orders? Elements of both the international and the constitutional paradigms are reflected in most areas of EU law. But they are particularly prominent when analysing the relationship between international and EU law, a topic that has enjoyed increasing attention in recent years. In this paper, firstly, the more formal basis for the relationship is considered by looking at the international law framework of EU law before, secondly, looking at the relationship between the two legal orders and the realities of the relationship as expressed in the status of international law within the EU legal order.

Glanville: Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History

Luke Glanville (Australian National Univ. - International Relations) has published Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect: A New History (Univ. of Chicago Press 2014). Here's the abstract:

In 2011, the United Nations Security Council adopted Resolution 1973, authorizing its member states to take measures to protect Libyan civilians from Muammar Gadhafi’s forces. In invoking the “responsibility to protect,” the resolution draws on the principle that sovereign states are responsible and accountable to the international community for the protection of their populations and that the international community can act to protect populations when national authorities fail to do so. The idea that sovereignty includes the responsibility to protect is often seen as a departure from the classic definition, but it actually has deep historical roots.

In Sovereignty and the Responsibility to Protect, Luke Glanville argues that this responsibility extends back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and that states have since been accountable for this responsibility to God, the people, and the international community. Over time, the right to national self-governance came to take priority over the protection of individual liberties, but the noninterventionist understanding of sovereignty was only firmly established in the twentieth century, and it remained for only a few decades before it was challenged by renewed claims that sovereigns are responsible for protection.

Glanville traces the relationship between sovereignty and responsibility from the early modern period to the present day, and offers a new history with profound implications for the present.

New Issue: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 31, no. 4, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• A. Addis, The Role of Human Dignity in a World of Plural Values and Ethical Commitments
• J.P. Mangubhai, Human Rights as Practice: Agency, Power and Strategies of Dalit Women in Rural South India
• C.G. Ngwena, Human Right to Inclusive Education: Exploring a Double Discourse of Inclusive Education Using South Africa as a Case Study

New Issue: Human Rights & International Legal Discourse

The latest issue of Human Rights & International Legal Discourse (Vol. 7, no. 2, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• J.M. Woods, Theorizing Peace as a Human Right
• K. Van Der Borght, From Jackson-Vanik to Magnitsky: Continuing a Tradition of Ineffective Human Rights Bolt-ons to Trade Bills
• H. Morten Haugen, Deciding on Land and Resources: How Can the Influence of the Most Affected Within Communities Be Increased?

Call for Papers: Governing Intelligence: Transnational Threats and the National Security State

The Stanford Journal of International Law has issued call for papers for a symposium on "Governing Intelligence: Transnational Threats and the National Security State," to take place May 2, 2014. Here's the call:

Governing Intelligence

Transnational Threats and the National Security State

May 2, 2014 at Stanford Law School

Introduction

As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 Commission Report approaches, the recurring dispute over the boundaries of the post-9/11 national security state is once again in full swing. In the United States, legislators, academics, and commentators have put forward various proposals to rein in intelligence gathering ranging from increased transparency in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to enhanced oversight of the Intelligence Community. As a result, Senator Dianne Feinstein, Chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, has pledged to conduct a “total review” of all intelligence programs.

The goal of Governing Intelligence is to move beyond the rather narrow focus of today's debate -- largely about surveillance -- to have a much broader conversation about the power and limits of intelligence agencies. We will convene academics, policymakers, business leaders, and civil society groups to analyze the challenges of intelligence governance from a comparative and international perspective. The premise behind the symposium is that the debate to rein in intelligence gathering should occur along with an examination of the power and limits of intelligence agencies in the face of transnational threats such as terrorism, cyber-warfare, drug trafficking, and weapons proliferation. Only then will we appreciate the imperatives of freedom and security in their proper context.

Call for Papers

The Stanford Journal of International Law seeks contributions by academics, practitioners, and policymakers in the form of approx. 10-15,000-word scholarly essays or 5,000-word white papers on either of the following topics: (a) national intelligence and transnational threats; or, (b) individual rights and intelligence gathering. The following is a non-exhaustive list of sub-topics and questions meant to provide guidance on the kinds of submissions we are looking for. Preference will be given to interdisciplinary submissions and submissions that combine descriptive and normative analyses.

National Intelligence and Transnational Threats:

1. Domestic Legal Mandates and Organizational Design: What is the relationship between organizational design and an intelligence system’s ability to counter transnational threats? To what extent should the legal mandates of particular intelligence agencies be reworked in the face of transnational threats? How do states compare in this regard? Can best practices be identified?

2. Intelligence Sharing and Transnational Threats: What role does intelligence sharing play in countering transnational threats? What are the strengths and weaknesses of bilateral or multilateral intelligence sharing agreements? To what extent should international organizations engage in intelligence gathering and sharing to counter transnational threats?

Individual Rights and Intelligence Gathering:

1. Domestic Safeguards and Oversight Mechanisms: How do oversight and accountability systems compare in ensuring the protection of individual rights vis-à-vis intelligence gathering? Do technology-enabled enhancements in intelligence gathering and law enforcement such as data mining and biometrics call for the strengthening of safeguards to protect individual rights? Can best practices be identified?

2. Extraterritorial Intelligence Gathering and Human Rights: What is the scope of a right to privacy, if any, under international law? Who is bound by such international law norms? Is there a need for the development of additional international law rules or instruments to address the changing intelligence gathering capabilities of states?

Submissions Mechanics and Timeline

Please send a 1-2 page abstract of your essay or white paper in Word format, a C.V. of the author(s), and point of contact information to sjilboard@gmail.com by 5:00PM PST on February 1, 2014.

Decisions will be made on a rolling basis and released no later than by February 15, 2014. Shortlisted authors will be invited to make a panel presentation based on their working paper at the journal’s Symposium on May 2, 2014. Although acceptance of the invitation is not required to receive an offer of publication, priority will be given to shortlisted authors who accept the invitation to present at the Symposium. In the case of presenters, a draft presentation paper will be due by April 25, 2014.

Final drafts of approx. 10-15,000-word scholarly essays or 5,000-word white papers must be submitted for publication by August 15, 2014. Subject to customary editorial standards, the selected contributions will be published in Issue 51.1 of the Stanford Journal of International Law, which is scheduled for publication in January 2015.

Please address any questions you may have about the Call for Papers to José Alemán, Editor-in-Chief, at jaleman1@stanford.edu.

Travel and Accommodation Expenses

We anticipate paying reasonable round-trip domestic coach airfare and providing hotel accommodation for presenters.

Conference: Africans and Hague Justice: Realities and Perceptions of the International Criminal Court in Africa

On May 23-24, 2014, the Hague University of Applied Sciences will host a conference on “Africans and Hague Justice: Realities and Perceptions of the International Criminal Court in Africa.” The program is here. Here's the idea:

In light of the simmering tensions between the Court and some African leaders, ongoing protests in African countries against the ICC and the frequently heard objection that the Court has an anti-Africa bias, it seems timely to explore the perceptions and realities of the ICC in Africa. With high-level contributions from various disciplines, including international law, international relations, political science, anthropology, history and media studies the conference aims to reach a better understanding of African sentiments and insights surrounding the Court.

Kaher & MacIntyre: Integrating Regions: Asia in Comparative Context

Miles Kahler (Univ. of California, San Diego - International Relations and Political Science) & Andrew MacIntyre (Australian National Univ. - Political Science) have published Integrating Regions: Asia in Comparative Context (Stanford Univ. Press 2013). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The proliferation of regional institutions and initiatives in Asia over the past decade is unmatched in any other region of the world. The authors in this collection explore the distinctive features of these institutions by comparing them for the first time to the experience of other regions; from the elaborate institution-building of Europe to the more modest regional projects of the Americas. It is an opportune moment for this reassessment, as the European regional model faces a sovereign debt crisis while Asian economies see more secure sources of growth from their immediate neighbors. Asia's regional institutions display a distinctive combination of decision rules, commitment devices, and membership practices, shaped by underlying features of the region, the dynamics of regional integration, and the availability of institutional substitutes. Within this context, the authors propose changes that will better sustain the prosperity and peace that have marked Asia in recent decades.

New Issue: Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales

The latest issue of the Revista Electrónica de Estudios Internacionales (No. 26, December 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Estudios
• María Dolores Ortiz Vidal, Distribución y venta en España de productos fabricados en el extranjero. Cuestiones de Derecho Internacional Privado
• Mariano J. Aznar Gómez, El Estado sin territorio: La desaparición del territorio debido al cambio climático
• Jordi Bonet Pérez, El sistema de control de la Organización Internacional del Trabajo (OIT) y la interpretación de los convenios de la OIT: Aproximación jurídica a una crisis institucional
• Carlos Fernández de Casadevante Romani, La obligación de investigación efectiva en el Derecho Internacional de los Derechos Humanos: Especial referencia a la práctica española
• Notas
• Enrique Fernández Masiá, Arbitraje inversor-estado: De “bella durmiente” a “león en la jungla”
• Mireia Estrada Cañamares, Coordinación vertical en la acción exterior de la UE: La dimensión jurídica
• Lourdes Dávalos León, El contrato internacional en la nueva Ley cubana de Contratación Económica
• Vicente Álvarez García, El régimen jurídico de la producción de vehículos de motor a nivel internacional: Reglamentos técnicos armonizados y homologaciones
• José Ignacio Castro Torres, La comunicación (más allá de la ruptura) cuando fallan las relaciones: Los limites de poder entre Irán, Israel, EEUU y la cuestión nuclear
• Marta Sosa Navarro, La evolución de la obligación de extraditar o juzgar a través del caso Hissène Habré
• Nicolás Carrillo Santarelli, La protección y promoción de los derechos humanos frente a violaciones no estatales por los órganos internacionales
• Carles Pérez-Desoy i Fages, La ruptura de las relaciones diplomáticas: Una aproximación sistemática con una referencia especial a las consecuencias de la entrada en vigor del tratado de Lisboa en la praxis diplomática
• Carmen López-Jurado Romero de la Cruz, La secesión de territorios no coloniales y el soberanismo catalán
• Soraya Espino García, Respuestas a las cuestiones planteadas por el Libro Verde sobre el Derecho a la Reagrupación Familiar: Revisión de la Directiva 2003/86/CE del Consejo, de 22 de septiembre de 2003, sobre el derecho a la reagrupación familiar de nacionales de terceros países residentes en la Unión Europea
• Gerardo Tripolone, ¿Es posible una teoría jurídica sobre la aplicación de normas internacionales por el Consejo de Seguridad de Naciones Unidas?

New Issue: Journal of Private International Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Private International Law (Vol. 9, no. 3, December 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Richard Garnett, Coexisting and Conflicting Jurisdiction and Arbitration Clauses
• Pippa Rogerson, Problems of the Applicable Law of the Contract in the English Common Law Jurisdiction Rules: The Good Arguable Case
• Uglješa Grušić, The Right to Strike Versus Fundamental Economic Freedoms in the English Courts, Again: Hiding Behind the “Public Law Taboo” In Private International Law
• Verity Winship, Personal Jurisdiction and Corporate Groups: Daimlerchrysler AG v Bauman
• Chukwuma Samuel Adesina Okoli, The Significance of the Doctrine of Accessory Allocation As a Connecting Factor Under Article 4 of the Rome I Regulation
• Sharon Shakargy, Marriage by the State or Married to the State? on Choice of Law in Marriage and Divorce

Friedrich: International Environmental “soft law”

Jürgen Friedrich has published International Environmental “soft law”: The Functions and Limits of Nonbinding Instruments in International Environmental Governance and Law (Springer 2013). Here's the abstract:

In international negotiations, the question of the design and the legal form of the negotiated instrument is as complex as it is often controversial. Intended as a read for both practitioners and academics, this book provides a comprehensive treatise of the characteristics, the potential and the limits of nonbinding instruments in international environmental law and governance. An extensive overview and typology of nonbinding instruments as well as several case studies from the areas of fisheries (FAO), hazardous substances (UNEP/FAO) and corporate social responsibility (OECD) provide the material for an in-depth analysis of the role of nonbinding instruments on all levels of governance. The book demonstrates the potential but also highlights the limits of nonbinding instruments in the interplay with customary and treaty law (e.g. UNCLOS, WTO) as bases for interinstitutional linkages and as tools to shape the behaviour of states and private actors. Legitimacy challenges arising from this form of exercise of authority are then discussed in the final chapter, alongside with remedies to address possible concerns.

Dolidze: The Arctic Sunrise and NGOs in International Judicial Proceedings

Anna Dolidze (Univ. of Western Ontario - Law) has posted an ASIL Insight on The Arctic Sunrise and NGOs in International Judicial Proceedings.

New Issue: Nordic Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 31, no. 4, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Special Section: Fragile Democracies
• Leiry Cornejo Chavez & Andreas Føllesdal, Fragile Democracies, Strong Human Rights Courts? Comparing European and Inter-American Cases - Special Section Introduction
• Cecilia M Bailliet, Measuring Compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Ongoing Challenge of Judicial Independence in Latin America
• Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen, Compliance with Judgments from the European Court of Human Rights: The Court’s Call for Legislative Reforms
• Leiry Cornejo Chavez, The Claude-Reyes Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights - Strengthening Chilean Democracy?
• Ramute Remezaite, The Impact of the European Court of Human Rights on Democratisation in Azerbaijan: Securing Freedom of the Press

Jain: Interpreting the 'Removal' Obligation in Article 7.8 of the WTO SCM Agreement

Abhimanyu George Jain (High Court of Delhi; Georgetown Univ. - Law) has posted Interpreting the 'Removal' Obligation in Article 7.8 of the WTO SCM Agreement (Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 10, No. 3, 2013). Here's the abstract:

The meaning of the phrase ‘remove the adverse effects’ as used in Art. 7.8 of the WTO Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Agreement (SCM Agreement) is unclear; it has been explored neither in the jurisprudence of the DSM, nor in academic literature. There are three fundamental principles underlying the interpretation of the SCM agreement – avoidance of economic analyses, proscription of retrospective remedies and interpretation of ‘withdrawal’ in Art. 4.7 as prospective cessation. Based on these fundamental interpretive principles, there are several possible meanings of the removal obligation, including equivalent subsidisation, price controls and quantitative restrictions. In the absence of decisive reasons to prefer one over the other, the removal obligation should be construed as a result rather than process obligation. This analytical inquiry demonstrates the problems engendered and perpetuated by the avoidance of economic analyses in interpretation of the SCM Agreement.

New Issue: Global Trade and Customs Journal

The latest issue of Global Trade and Customs Journal (Vol. 9, no. 1, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Susan Ning, Liu Jia, & Sun Yiming, A Practitioner’s Look at National Security Review in China
• David Leys, Does a Theory of Causation Exist under the WTO Safeguards Agreement?
• Hossein Rahmanseresht & Sahar Ahmadi Partovi, Factors Affecting the Effectiveness and Success of International Road Freight Transit from Iran
• Bernd G. Janzen & Jean-Rene Broussard, New Directions in the Perennial Struggle to Detect and Fight the Evasion of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
• Jeremy Zucker & Hrishikesh Hari, Gone with the Wind II: The Ralls Decision and Lessons for Foreign Investors

New Volume: Israel Yearbook on Human Rights

The latest volume of the Israel Yearbook on Human Rights (Vol. 43, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• International Law Conference: “Cyber War and International Law” United States Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island, 25 - 27 June 2012
• Michael J. Glennon, The Road Ahead; Gaps, Drips, and Cyber-Conflict
• Noam Lubell, Lawful Targets in Cyber Operations: Does the Principle of Distinction Apply?
• William C. Banks, The Role of Counterterrorism Law in Shaping ad Bellum Norms for Cyber Warfare
• Terry D. Gill & Paul A.L. Ducheine, Anticipatory Self-Defense in Cyber Context
• Laurie R. Blank, International Law and Cyber Threats from Non-State Actors
• Robin Geiss, Cyber Warfare and Non-International Armed Conflicts
• Yoram Dinstein, Concluding Remarks: Naval War College Conference on Cyber Warfare and International Law
• Air and Missile Warfare Law of Armed Conflict
• William H. Boothby, Unmanned Platforms in the Cyber Age
• Ove Bring, Target Area Bombing
• Arne Willy Dahl, Attacks in Air and Missile Warfare
• Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg, Aerial Blockades and Zones
• Christopher J. Markham & Michael N. Schmitt, Precision Air Warfare and the Law of Armed Conflict
• Special Issues
• Harry H.G. Post, International Criminal Law: Reflections on Dualism and Monism

Conference: Law of the Sea in the 21st Century: Stalemate or flexibility to address new challenges?

On March 7-9, 2014, the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel will host a conference on "Law of the Sea in the 21st Century: Stalemate or flexibility to address new challenges?" The program is here. Here's the idea:

The Walther Schücking Institute for International Law commemorates its 100th anniversary with a series of academic events throughout the year 2014. An interest in the law of the sea was one reason for founding the Institute in 1914 and research on legal regulation of the oceans is placed high on its research agenda until today.

The workshop offers a platform to identify and discuss the need for action in contemporary “Ocean Governance”. It aims at identifying the problem areas and discussing the solutions in order to develop new approaches for policy makers.

Law of the sea is a discipline that has to be flexible to change and progress. Its governance functions are put to test by the effects of climate change and the rise of new technologies for the exploitation of marine resources, as well as by well known problems such as overfishing. Still, the view prevails that any formal amendment of the Law of the Sea Convention 30 years after its adoption is hardly promising due to the Convention‘s character as a “package deal”. The workshop will thus focus on the following questions: To what extent does the current legal framework offer room for flexibility? Are the steering mechanisms adaptable to new challenges? What effective solutions can the law of the sea offer for the identified problems?

Cremona, Hilpold, Lavranos, Schneider, & Ziegler: Liber Amicorum for Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann

Marise Cremona (European Univ. Institute - Law), Peter Hilpold (Univ. of Innsbruck - Law), Nikos Lavranos (Ministry of Foreign Affairs, The Netherlands), Stefan Staiger Schneider (European Univ. Institute - Law), & Andreas R. Ziegler (Univ. of Lausanne - Law) have published Reflections on the Constitutionalisation of International Economic Law: Liber Amicorum for Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers 2013). Contents include:

• Federico Ortino, Liberalization of Trade in Goods in the EEC: Origin and Early Evolution
• Peter Hilpold, The ‘Politicization’ of the EU’S Common Commercial Policy – Approaching the “Post-Lockean” Era
• Meinhard Hilf & Tim René Salomon, Margin of Appreciation Revisited: The Balancing Pole of Multilevel Governance
• Nikos Lavranos, The Systemic Responsibility of the ECJ for Judicial Comity towards International Courts and Tribunals
• Giuseppe Martinico, National Judges and European Laws: A Comparative Constitutional Perspective
• Ólafur Ísberg Hannesson, Legal Pluralism in the EEA Legal Order: The EFTA Court’s Role in a Broader Institutional Context
• Pedro Lomba, Constructing a ‘We’: Collective Agency and the European Union
• Christian Joerges, Conflicts-Law Constitutionalism: Ambitions and Problems
• Roland Bieber, Balancing Difference and Equality of Political Rights in the European Union – A Paradigm of Constitutional Pluralism
• Marise Cremona, International Regulatory Policy and Democratic Accountability: The EU and the ACTA
• Marco Bronckers & Sophie Goelen, Financial Liability of the EU for Violations of WTO Law – A Legislative Proposal Benefiting Innocent Bystanders
• John H. Jackson, Constitutional Treaties: Institutional Necessity and Challenge to International Law Fundamentals
• Peter-Tobias Stoll, Constitutional Perspectives on International Economic Law
• Thomas Cottier, Sovereign Equality and Graduation in International Economic Law
• Andreas R. Ziegler, International Economic Law: Still the Ugly Duckling of Public International Law?
• Petros C. Mavroidis, Justice is Coming (. . . From Behind Closed Doors: The WTO Judges)
• Gabrielle Marceau & Jennifer K. Hawkins, Panel Requests: What’s The Problem?
• Chien-Huei Wu, Legal Aspects of the WTO-IMF Relationship Revisited
• Frederick M. Abbott, Prof. Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann and the Work of the ILA Committee on International Trade Law (1993–2012)
• Antonello Tancredi, Still Going “Grey” After All These Years? Export-Restraint Agreements and the WTO
• Edwin Vermulst, Filling in the Blanks: The WTO Appellate Body’s First Two Reports concerning the NME-Related Aspects of TDI against China
• Lothar Ehring, Nature and Status of WTO Accession Commitments: “WTO-Plus” Obligations and Their Relationship to Other Parts of the WTO Agreement
• Lukasz Gruszczynski, Tobacco Products in WTO Law
• Daniel Kraus, Is TRIPS Innovative Enough? How to Reconcile IP, Innovation and Health
• Ilze Dubava, The Future of International Investment Protection Law: The Promotion of Sustainable (Economic) Development as a Public Good
• Giorgio Sacerdoti, Diplomatic Conciliation of Investment Disputes: The Italian-Swiss Controversy on Secondary Residences in Engadine (1990–1992) and Its Lessons
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• Stefan Staiger Schneider, State’s Access to Justice in a Multilevel Legal World: The Brazil Tyres Cases Revisited
• Francesco Francioni, Revisiting Sustainable Development in Light of General Principles of International Environmental Law
• Arthur E. Appleton, Product Labelling 15 Years On: The Role of the Judiciary
• Hans-Wolfgang Micklitz & Marco Rizzi, International Regulation and Control of the Production and Use of Chemicals “Revisited”
• Mary E. Footer, Righting Socio-Economic Wrongs in Times of Financial and Economic Crisis
• Christian Tietje, The Right to Development within the International Economic Legal Order
• Pierre Thielbörger, The Right to Water: Effective Multi-Level Protection of a Multi-Faceted Human Right? – An Application of the Kadi and Medellin Approaches to the Case of the Right to Water
• Friedl Weiss, Elusive Coherence in International Law and Institutions: The Labour–Trade Debate
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