New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 23, no. 3, November 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Trade and the Environment at WTO+20
• Aaron Cosbey & Petros C. Mavroidis, Heavy Fuel: Trade and Environment in the GATT/WTO Case Law
• Margaret A. Young, Trade Measures to Address Environmental Concerns in Faraway Places: Jurisdictional Issues
• Gabrielle Marceau, A Comment on the Appellate Body Report in EC-Seal Products in the Context of the Trade and Environment Debate
• Laura Manson & Tracey Epps, Water Footprint Labelling and WTO Rules
• Original Articles
• Kati Kulovesi, International Trade Disputes on Renewable Energy: Testing Ground for the Mutual Supportiveness of WTO Law and Climate Change Law
• Marjan Peeters & Sandra Nóbrega, Climate Change-related Aarhus Conflicts: How Successful are Procedural Rights in EU Climate Law?
• Jeffrey McGee & Joseph Wenta, Technology Transfer Institutions in Global Climate Governance: The Tension between Equity Principles and Market Allocation

Roman: La Convention pour l'élimination des discriminations à l'égard des femmes

Diane Roman (Université François-Rabelais de Tours - Law) has published La Convention pour l'élimination des discriminations à l'égard des femmes (Pedone 2014). Here's the abstract:

La Convention sur l'élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination à l'égard des femmes de 1979 est paradoxalement un des traités internationaux parmi les plus ratifiés et peut-être un des plus méconnus. Ses stipulations couvrent pourtant de nombreux pans de la vie des femmes : santé et contrôle des naissances ; famille et état civil, travail et égalité professionnelle, éducation et participation politique... Plus encore, en 25 ans, la CEDEF a fait l'objet d'une interprétation dynamique, qui intègre désormais la lutte contre les violences à l'égard des femmes et la nécessité de combattre les stéréotypes de genre. Parité, égalité salariale, statut personnel, droits reproductifs ou prostitution: les sujets abordés par la convention sont d'une actualité certaine. Cet ouvrage, le premier en langue française, retrace l'histoire de la CEDEF et analyse le contenu et la portée de cette convention, outil indispensable pour atteindre l'égalité entre les femmes et les hommes, à la fois sur la scène internationale et en droit interne.

Hamilton: The ICC's Exit Problem

Rebecca J. Hamilton (Columbia Univ. - Law) has posted The ICC's Exit Problem (New York University Journal of International Law and Politics, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

The International Criminal Court (ICC) was never meant to supplant the domestic prosecution of international crimes. And yet the Court is now entering its second decade of operations in four African nations, with no plan for exit in sight. This Article identifies the looming need for the ICC to consider when and how to exit situations in which it is currently active. In addition to the normative concern that a failure to start planning for exit undercuts the Court’s placement within a system of complementarity, the need to consider exit is also driven by a financial imperative. The Court’s caseload is expanding at a radically faster rate than its budget, and there has already been a detrimental impact on the quality of the Court’s work. However consideration of exit reveals an immediate problem: While the Court’s constitutive document, the Rome Statute, provides much guidance on when the Court may enter a new situation, it offers no explicit guidance on exit whatsoever. This Article fills that lacuna, proposing a novel framework to guide exit decision-making that draws on both statutory and policy prescriptions, as well as insights from analogous international institutions. This Article’s focus on exit represents a new direction within the literature on the ICC which, for the first decade of the Court’s existence has focused almost exclusively on issues related to the entry of the Court into new situations. Yet two of the dimensions involved in exit decision-making, prosecutorial discretion and complementarity, are issues that the ICC has been grappling with since its inception. Consideration of exit provides a new opportunity to assess and extend our understanding of issues.

Jacobs: The Frog that Wanted to Be an Ox: The ICC’s Approach to Immunities and Cooperation

Dov Jacobs (Leiden Univ. - Law) has posted The Frog that Wanted to Be an Ox: The ICC’s Approach to Immunities and Cooperation (in The Law and Practice of the International Criminal Court, C. Stahn ed., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This Chapter addresses the question of the obligations of States to cooperate with the International Criminal Court in relation to the execution of arrest warrants. More particularly, the chapter discusses the difficult case, that of the obligation of States to cooperate in relation to arrest warrants issued against nationals of non-State parties who might be said to benefit from diplomatic immunity, as recognised by Article 98 of the Rome Statute.

The chapter takes issue with the current approach adopted by International Criminal Law practice as relying unconvincingly either on customary international law or the powers of the United Nations Security Council, and tries to untangle two very distinct questions which are often confused: 1) whether the ICC can exercise jurisdiction against nationals of non-State parties that might benefit from immunities and 2) whether State parties are under an obligation to arrest and surrender them to the Court.

Ultimately, the chapter argues that the ICC has lost sight of its jurisdictional limitations when trying to claim that immunities are generally irrelevant, therefore resembling the Frog that wanted to be an ox, which exploded prematurely before seeing if it had succeeded.

New Volume: Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal

The latest volume of the Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal (Vol. 2, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Sección de Investigación
• Carlos Villán Durán, El derecho humano a la paz
• Josep Tamarit Sumalla, Memoria histórica y justicia transicional en España: el tiempo como actor de la justicia penal
• Javier Chinchón Álvarez, Lydia Vicente Márquez, & Alicia Moreno Pérez, La posición del Tribunal Supremo respecto a la aplicación del derecho internacional a los crímenes del pasado en España: Un análisis jurídico tras los informes del Grupo de Trabajo sobre Desapariciones Forzadas, el Comité contra la Desaparición Forzada y el Relator Especial sobre Justicia Transicional de las Naciones Unidas
• Sección de Ensayos de Investigación
• Leandro Alberto Dias, Violencia sexual contra niños y niñas menores de quince años en el caso Lubanga: análisis crítico y una propuesta de solución
• Giovanna María Frisso, El estatus de víctima en el tribunal penal internacional: la importancia de una perspectiva comunicativa
• Sección de Reseñas Jurisprudenciales
• María Paula López Velásquez, Situación en la República de Costa de Marfil, caso de la Fiscalía c . Laurent Gbagbo, decisión de la Sala de Cuestiones Preliminares I sobre la audiencia de confirmación de cargos en relación con artículo 61(7)(c)(i) del Estatuto de Roma
• María Paula López Velásquez, Caso de la Fiscalia c . Hassan Habib Merhi, Sala de Primera Instancia, decisión para llevar a cabo el juicio In Absentia, 20 de diciembre de 2013

Call for Submissions: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The Melbourne Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for the first issue of its sixteenth volume. Here's the call:

CALL FOR PAPERS

MELBOURNE JOURNAL of INTERNATIONAL LAW

The Editors of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (‘MJIL’) invite submissions on areas of interest in international law for the first issue of their 16th volume. MJIL will also consider submissions that do not necessarily fall neatly into the traditional public/private international law categories, including transnational law issues, domestic court interpretations of international law and submissions that adopt a comparative law approach to analyse international law. Issue 16(1) will be published in June 2015.

MJIL, Australia’s premier generalist international law journal, is a peer-reviewed academic journal run through the Melbourne Law School at the University of Melbourne. MJIL’s objective is to facilitate scholarly research and critical discussion of private and public international law issues.

SUBMISSIONS:

MJIL publishes articles, commentaries, case notes and book reviews. Articles for 16(1) should be in the vicinity of 10,000 to 15,000 words in length and be an original and detailed contribution to international and/or transnational law scholarship. Commentaries should explore recent developments in a specific field and their practical applications, and should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length. For more details, please visit our website.

SUBMISSION PROCESS:

All articles, case notes, commentaries and review essays published in MJIL are subjected to a double-blind refereeing process, involving at least two specialists in the field. Once accepted for publication, submissions will then be edited for compliance with the Australian Guide to Legal Citation. Authors have an opportunity to review the final version of the piece prior to publication. Our publication policy can be accessed here.

All submissions should be sent to law-mjil@unimelb.edu.au in Word format, together with a signed publication policy.

The submission deadline for 16(1) is 31 January 2015.

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 48, no. 6, December 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Shintaro Hamanaka, Finding Non-notified Trade Agreements to the WTO: Preliminary Investigation in Asia-Pacific
• Lucian Cernat & Zornitsa Kutlina-Dimitrova, Thinking in a Box: A ‘Mode 5’ Approach to Service Trade
• Ming Du, When China’s National Champions Go Global: Nothing to Fear but Fear Itself?
• Andrew Grainger, The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: Consulting the Private Sector
• Shin-yi Peng, Regulating New Services through Litigation? Electronic Commerce as a Case Study on the Evaluation of ‘Judicial Activism’ in the WTO
• Carlo Maria Cantore, ‘Shelter from the Storm’: Exploring the Scope of Application and Legal Function of the GATS Prudential Carve-Out
• Yanning Yu, Trade Remedies: China in the BRICS
• Joseph Michael Finger, The WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement: Form without Substance Again?

de Nanteuil: Droit international de l'investissement

Arnaud de Nanteuil (Université du Maine - Law) has published Droit international de l'investissement (Pedone 2014). Here's the abstract:

Le droit international de l'investissement est sans doute aujourd'hui l'une des branches les plus dynamiques du droit international. Inscrit dans le prolongement historique des principes coutumiers de protection des étrangers, il s'est largement épanoui par le recours aux techniques de l'arbitrage et offre désormais une garantie importante aux investisseurs désireux de développer une activité à l'étranger, quelle qu'en soit la nature (construction, extraction, mise en place de réseaux de distribution d'eau ou d'électricité, mais aussi assurance, tourisme, etc.). Fort d'une jurisprudence en constante expansion développée par des tribunaux arbitraux susceptibles d'être directement saisis par les opérateurs privés, il est porteur d'un enjeu considérable pour l'avenir puisque la protection de l'investissement est réputée participer au développement économique mondial. Sans doute cet enjeu n'est-il d'ailleurs pas seulement d'ordre économique, puisque seul un système normatif suffisamment protecteur et respectueux des intérêts des investisseurs comme des Etats permet d'envisager le développement d'activités « durables » mêlant performances économiques et considérations écologiques. Ce manuel, le premier en langue française en raison de la nouveauté relative de cette discipline, entend présenter le droit international de l'investissement de manière globale et synthétique. Abordant la question des sources (internes et internationales), des acteurs (l'investisseur et l'État), du contentieux arbitral (dans ses aspects institutionnels et procéduraux) et des règles substantielles de protection (traitement juste et équitable, protection contre l'expropriation, etc.), il se veut simple et accessible. Relativement bref pour demeurer abordable, ce livre s'adresse donc en priorité aux étudiants et jeunes chercheurs que la matière serait susceptible d'intéresser, mais aussi aux praticiens - de plus en plus nombreux - confrontés à la discipline dans le cadre de leur activité.

New Issue: Revue belge de droit international

The latest issue of the Revue belge de droit international (Vol. 46, no. 2, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Dossier spécial : The International Rule of Law: European and Asian perspectives
• J. Wouters & M. Burnay, Introduction — The International Rule of Law: European and Asian Perspectives
• N. Hachez, What Elements of the Rule of Law can be put to use at International Level?
• J. Hivonnet, The EU and the Promotion of Rule of Law in Postconflict Situations: the Case of Kosovo
• M. Burnay & J. Wouters, China in the UN Security Council: What are the Implications for the International Rule of Law?
• D. Vanoverbeke, Exporting the Rule of Law in East Asia: Japan’s Experiences from the 1990s to Present
• R. Sen, The Indian Perspective on the International Rule of Law: Through the Lens of International Agreements on Free Trade
• Dossier spécial : Les obligations internationales de l’Union européenne et de ses États membres concernant les relations économiques avec les colonies israéliennes
• J. Dugard, Avant-propos
• F. Dubuisson, Les obligations internationales de l’Union européenne et de ses États membres concernant les relations économiques avec les colonies israéliennes
• I. Moulter, Les implications des obligations de non-reconnaissance et de non-assistance au maintien de la situation illicite issue de la politique de colonisation d’Israël pour les États tiers
• R. Kolb, Commentaires iconoclastes sur l’obligation de faire respecter le droit international humanitaire selon l’article 1 commun des Conventions de Genève de 1949
• Études
• A. Papaux & E. Wyler, Le droit international public libéré de ses sources formelles : nouveau regard sur l’article 38 du statut de la Cour internationale de justice
• G. Albine, La doctrine de l’étranger proche et les conflits gelés
• L. Weyers, La chasse à la baleine dans l’Antarctique : une application du principe de l’exercice raisonnable des compétences discrétionnaires de l’État

Koskenniemi: Vitoria and Us: Thoughts on Critical Histories of International Law

Martti Koskenniemi (Univ. of Helsinki - Law) has published Vitoria and Us: Thoughts on Critical Histories of International Law (Rechtsgeschichte, no. 22, 2014). Here's the abstract:

How to write (international) legal histories that would be true to their protagonists while simultaneously relevant to present audiences? Most of us would also want to write "critically - that is to say, at least by aiming to avoid Eurocentrism, hagiography and commitment to an altogether old-fashioned view of international law as an instrument of progress. hence we write today out histories "in context". But this cannot be all. Framing the relevant "context" is only possible by drawing upon more or less conscious jurisprudential and political preferences. Should attention be focused on academic debates, military power, class structure or assumptions about hte longue durée? Such choices determine for us what we think of as relevant "contexts", and engage us as participants in large conversations about law and power that are not only about once "was" but also what there will be in the future.

Singh & Mayer: Critical International Law: Postrealism, Postcolonialism, and Transnationalism

Prabhakar Singh (National Univ. of Singapore - Law) & Benoît Mayer (National Univ. of Singapore - Law) have published Critical International Law: Postrealism, Postcolonialism, and Transnationalism (Oxford Univ. Press 2014). Contents include:

• Simon Chesterman, Foreword
• Prabhakar Singh & Benoît Mayer, Thinking International Law Critically: One Attitude, Three Perspectives
• Hengameh Saberi, Descendants of Realism? Policy-oriented International Lawyers as Guardians of Democracy
• John R. Morss, Riddles of the Sands: Time, Power, and Legitimacy in International Law
• Rossana Deplano, The Welfarist Approach to International Law: An Appraisal
• Prabhakar Singh, Revisiting the Role of the International Courts and Tribunals?
• Antony Anghie, Towards a Post-colonial International Law
• José-Manuel Barreto, A Universal History of Infamy: Human Rights, Eurocentrism, and Modernity as Crisis
• Mark Toufayan, 'Suffering' the Paradox of Rights? Critical Subaltern Historiography and the Genealogy of Empathy
• Benoît Mayer, The 'Magic Circle' of Rights Holders: Human Rights' Outsiders
• Frédéric Mégret, The Rise and Fall of 'International Man'
• Owen McIntyre, The Human Right to Water as a 'Creature' of Global Administrative Law
• Rene Urueña, Of Precedents and Ideology: Law-making by Investment Arbitration Tribunals
• Prabhakar Singh & Sonja Kübler, Constitutionalism and Pluralism: Two Ways of Looking at Internationalism
• Sébastien Jodoin & Katherine Lofts, What's Critical about Critical International Law? Reflections on the Emancipatory Potential of International Legal Scholarship

Trachtman: The Obsolescence of Customary International Law

Joel P. Trachtman (Tufts Univ. - Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) has posted The Obsolescence of Customary International Law. Here's the abstract:

At a time when the world needs more, and more complex, international legal rules and institutions to address major cooperation problems, customary international law (“CIL”) has several important limitations: (i) it cannot be made in a coordinated manner in advance of events, (ii) it cannot be made with sufficient detail, (iii) it cannot be made with sufficiently heterogeneous reciprocity between states, (iv) it cannot be made with specifically-designed organizational support, (v) it is generally not subject to national parliamentary control, (vi) it purports to bind states that did not consent but failed to object to its formation, and (vii) it provides excessive space for auto-interpretation by states, or for sometimes insufficiently disciplined interpretation by judges.

Treaty, and legislation produced by international organization voting, can perform better on all of these dimensions. Today, the vast majority of rules of CIL are codified: of 300 identified rules of CIL, only 13 have not been codified either in treaties or in International Law Commission instruments. To a remarkable extent, due to the growth of treaty law incorporating the same norms, if CIL were abolished today, most of the international legal system would remain intact. Although I cannot prove that the rise of treaty rules has resulted from the factors discussed above, those factors are a good set of reasons why states might have determined to produce treaties that include, but are not limited to, the rules that exist in CIL.

Broude: A Crafty Madness Kept Aloof: Anti-Dumping as Faulted Global Governance

Tomer Broude (Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem - Law) has posted A Crafty Madness Kept Aloof: Anti-Dumping as Faulted Global Governance (in Grey Zones of Global Governance and Trade: Anti-Dumping, Subsidies, Human Rights and Policy Spaces, Daniel Drache & Les Jacobs eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

The international regulation of anti-dumping is truly a ‘grey zone’ in the sense that it sanctions legalized yet highly discretionary trade protectionism. However, to portray anti-dumping laws and practices as a grey zone of governance is something entirely different, for that might imply that anti-dumping has economic or other public policy justifications that transcend merely politicized responsiveness to particular international trade interests. Anti-dumping reduces welfare, both locally and globally. Anti-dumping measures do not, and should not, play an active role in public policy strategies relating to issues such as labor standards, as elaborated in this article. Moreover, North-South shifts in the global political economy, evolving trends in international services trade and international investment, and the emergence of global value chains, may partly explain the proliferation of anti-dumping and the perpetuation of the GATT/WTO’s multilateral anti-dumping regime, but they cannot justify them. If anti-dumping policy is a form of global governance, it is a deeply faulted one.

Knox: Human Rights Principles and Climate Change

John H. Knox (Wake Forest Univ. - Law) has posted Human Rights Principles and Climate (in Oxford Handbook of International Climate Change Law, Cinnamon Carlarne, Kevin R. Gray, & Richard Tarasofsky eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This chapter examines whether climate change interferes with the enjoyment of human rights recognized in international law and, if so, whether and how human rights law requires States to protect human rights from such interference. Although the application of human rights law to climate change is still in its infancy, the contours of the relationship are becoming clearer. Human rights bodies are developing an environmental jurisprudence that may be brought to bear on climate change.

Jalloh: The Trial of President Charles Taylor

Charles Chernor Jalloh (Florida International Univ. - Law) has posted The Trial of President Charles Taylor (in Cambridge Companion to International Criminal Law, William A. Schabas ed., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This chapter discusses a rare successful prosecution of a head of state by a modern international criminal court. The case involved former Liberian president Charles Taylor. Taylor, who was charged and tried by the United Nations-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone (“SCSL”), was convicted in April 2013 for planning and aiding and abetting war crimes, crimes against humanity and other serious international humanitarian law violations. He was sentenced to 50 years imprisonment. The SCSL Appeals Chamber upheld the historic conviction and sentence in September 2013. Taylor is currently serving his sentence in Britain.

This paper from an insider, who worked as an interim court-appointed defense attorney during the opening of the trial in The Hague in June 2007, is the first to evaluate this significant international case since it concluded. The author exposes the numerous controversies that dogged the trial of Liberia’s former president - from the questions that arose about how best to sequence peace and justice following the prosecution’s initial unveiling of his judicially-sealed indictment through to concerns about whether he should be tried in the heart of Europe, as opposed to Africa, to the completion of appeals.

He concludes that the trial of President Taylor is significant for the SCSL because he was the most high profile and thus most elusive suspect to be indicted by the court. Although it may be too early to draw definitive conclusions, a key lesson that we can derive for international criminal justice is that the indictment of a sitting president for international crimes may sometimes help loosen his grip on power, thereby enabling his subsequent prosecution.

Call for Submissions: Polish Yearbook of International Law

The Polish Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume (XXXIV). Here's the call:

Polish Yearbook of International Law (PYIL) is currently seeking articles for its next volume (XXXIV), which will be published in June 2015. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers in areas connected with public and private international law, including European law. Although it is not a formal condition for acceptance, we are specifically interested in articles that address issues in international and European law relating to Central and Eastern Europe. In this context, we are particularly looking for articles that analyse different legal aspects of the current Ukrainian crisis and the new power relations that are emerging in this part of the world. Authors from the region are also strongly encouraged to submit their works.

Submissions should not exceed 15,000 words (including footnotes) but in exceptional cases we may also accept longer works. We assess manuscripts on a rolling basis and will consider requests for expedited review in case of a pending acceptance for publication from another journal.

All details about submission procedure and required formatting are available at the PYIL’s webpage.

Please send manuscripts to pyil@inp.pan.pl. The deadline for submissions is 31 January 2015.

de la Rasilla del Moral: Interdisciplinary and Critical Knowledge Creation Processes in International Human Rights

Ignacio de la Rasilla del Moral (Brunel Univ. - Law) has posted Interdisciplinary and Critical Knowledge Creation Processes in International Human Rights (in Les critiques du droit international des droits de l’homme, L. Hennebel & H. Tigroudja eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Against the background of the current difficulty and lack of incentives for engaging in a scholarship that departs from the usual parameters of recognition within a particular area or sub-discipline in international law, the first part of the chapter examines the phenomenon of hybridization of the social sciences. It also highlights the considerable intellectual and pedagogical promises of both inter-disciplinarity and trans-disciplinarity in international human rights. After introducing the notion of “deviant inter-disciplinarity” and suggesting that international human rights law should embrace its own anti-disciplinary dimension, the second part passes review to the intellectual roots and postulates of a number of schools of critical international thought and examines their background influence on the study of international human rights law today. The conclusion reviews some recent contributions to this critical “tendency in contemporary international legal thought” and reflects on the overall intellectually salutary contribution of interdisciplinary and critical-knowledge creation processes to international human rights.

Burci & Quirin: Ebola, WHO, and the United Nations: Convergence of Global Public Health and International Peace and Security

Gian Luca Burci (Legal Counsel, World Health Organization) & Jakob Quirin (World Health Organization) have posted an ASIL Insight on Ebola, WHO, and the United Nations: Convergence of Global Public Health and International Peace and Security.

New Issue: European Journal of International Relations

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Relations (Vol. 20, no. 4, December 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Daniel J. Levine & Alexander D. Barder, The closing of the American mind: ‘American School’ International Relations and the state of grand theory
• Rebecca Adler-Nissen & Vincent Pouliot, Power in practice: Negotiating the international intervention in Libya
• Matthew D. Stephen, Rising powers, global capitalism and liberal global governance: A historical materialist account of the BRICs challenge
• Ja Ian Chong, Popular narratives versus Chinese history: Implications for understanding an emergent China
• David C. Kang, Why was there no religious war in premodern East Asia?
• Mark Axelrod, Clash of the treaties: Responding to institutional interplay in European Community–Chile swordfish negotiations
• Cecilia Albin & Daniel Druckman, Procedures matter: Justice and effectiveness in international trade negotiations
• Maria Koinova, Why do conflict-generated diasporas pursue sovereignty-based claims through state-based or transnational channels? Armenian, Albanian and Palestinian diasporas in the UK compared
• John M. Owen IV & Michael Poznansky, When does America drop dictators?
• Courtney Hillebrecht, The power of human rights tribunals: Compliance with the European Court of Human Rights and domestic policy change
• Klaus Dingwerth, Global democracy and the democratic minimum: Why a procedural account alone is insufficient

New Issue: Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 14, no. 4, December 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Denise González Núñez, Peasants’ Right to Land: Addressing the Existing Implementation and Normative Gaps in International Human Rights Law
• Pok Yin S. Chow, Culture as Collective Memories: An Emerging Concept in International Law and Discourse on Cultural Rights
• Oddný Mjöll Arnardóttir, The Differences that Make a Difference: Recent Developments on the Discrimination Grounds and the Margin of Appreciation under Article 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights
• Lize R. Glas, Changes in the Procedural Practice of the European Court of Human Rights: Consequences for the Convention System and Lessons to be Drawn
• Elena Katselli Proukaki, The Right of Displaced Persons to Property and to Return Home after Demopoulos
• Debbie Sayers, Protecting Fair Trial Rights in Criminal Cases in the European Union: Where does the Roadmap take Us?

New Issue: Transnational Legal Theory

The latest issue of Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 5, no. 3, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Zoran Oklopcic, Provincialising Constitutional Pluralism
• Kevin B Sobel-Read, Global Value Chains: A Framework for Analysis
• 10 Years Equator Principles: A Transdisciplinary Inquiry
• Isabel Feichtner & Manuel Wörsdörfer, Introduction
• Suellen Lazarus, The Equator Principles at Ten Years
• Annegret Flohr, A Complaint Mechanism for the Equator Principles—And Why Equator Members Should Urgently Want It
• Manuel Wörsdörfer, 'Free, Prior, and Informed Consent' and Inclusion: Nussbaum, Ostrom, Sen and the Equator Principles Framework
• Michael Riegner, The Equator Principles on Sustainable Finance Assessed from a Critical Development and Third World Perspective

New Issue: International Affairs

The latest issue of International Affairs (Vol. 90, no. 6, November 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Roy Allison, Russian ‘deniable’ intervention in Ukraine: how and why Russia broke the rules
• Cornelia Navari, Territoriality, self-determination and Crimea after Badinter
• David Wedgwood Benn, On re-examining western attitudes to Russia
• Gareth Stansfield, The Islamic State, the Kurdistan Region and the future of Iraq: assessing UK policy options
• Fred H. Lawson, Syria's mutating civil war and its impact on Turkey, Iraq and Iran
• David McDowall, Clarity or ambiguity? The withdrawal clause of UN Security Council Resolution 242
• Sten Rynning, The geography of the Atlantic peace: NATO 25 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall
• Kalypso Nicolaïdis & richard Youngs, Europe's democracy trilemma
• Joachim Krause, Assessing the danger of war: parallels and differences between Europe in 1914 and East Asia in 2014

Janik: The Janus Face of Nationalism in the European Union

Ralph R.A. Janik (Univ. of Vienna - Law) has posted The Janus Face of Nationalism in the European Union (in The 17th International Conference of Young Scholars: Crucial Problems of International Relations through the Eyes of Young Scholars: Collective Memory and International Relations, pp. 128-152, 2013). Here's the abstract:

The unprecedented growth of the modern state has been deeply connected with nationalism understood as the idea that a specific territory should be composed of people sharing a distinct history, language or culture: In the period which can roughly be demarcated as ranging from the Peace of Westphalia until the two world wars, this was the main generally agreed upon concept which provided the basis for a seemingly unlimited growth of the public sector and the regulation of aspects hitherto seen as outside the ambit of the state at the expense of individual liberties and the regional and municipal administration. Beginning with the formation of the European Union, however, there has been a substantial attempt at transforming the meaning and impact of nationalism. Instead of being an essentially modern, progressive concept, it is often portrayed as backward, an obstacle in the path towards further integration and the fulfilment of peace and improved living standards. In other words, the tide has turned, the nation-state has itself become the smaller unit it used to fight against in earlier times. At the same time, however, the arguments and the general attitude in favour of further integration in the EU clearly resemble those that were asserted during the rise of the nation-state. Thus, it seems that history is substantially repeating itself as the transmission of powers has only been taken to the next level with the EU simply having replaced the old nation-state.

Conference: Reassessing International Economic Law and Development: New Challenges for Law and Policy

The International Economic Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law is meeting today through Saturday, November 13-15, at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law, for its biennial research conference. The theme is "Reassessing International Economic Law and Development: New Challenges for Law and Policy." The program is here.

New Issue: Yale Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Yale Journal of International Law (Vol. 39, no. 2, Summer 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Rachel Brewster & Adam Chilton, Supplying Compliance: Why and When the United States Complies with WTO Rulings
• Monica Hakimi, Toward a Legal Theory on the Responsibility to Protect
• Andrew Tutt, Treaty Textualism