New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 34, no. 2, June 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Simon Maynard, Laying the fourth arbitrator to rest: re-evaluating the regulation of arbitral secretaries
• S R Subramanian, Anti-arbitration injunctions and their compatibility with the New York convention and the Indian law of arbitration: future directions for Indian law and policy
• Constantin Calavros, The application of substantive mandatory rules in International Commercial Arbitration from the perspective of an EU UNCITRAL Model Law jurisdiction
• Stefan Pislevik, Precedent and development of law: Is it time for greater transparency in International Commercial Arbitration?
• Recent Development
• Odysseas G Repousis, The use of trusts in investment arbitration
• Case Notes
• Max Bonnell, How elastic is your preposition?
• Bajar Scharaw, The (provisional) end of debates on narrow dispute settlement clauses in PRC first-generation BITs?—China Heilongjiang et al v Mongolia
• Olga Hamama & Olga Sendetska, Interim measures in support of arbitration in Ukraine: lessons from JKX Oil & Gas et al v Ukraine and the recent reform of Ukrainian legislation

Contesse: The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Advisory Opinion on Gender Identity and Same-Sex Marriage

Jorge Contesse (Rutgers Univ. - Law) has posted an ASIL Insight on The Inter-American Court of Human Rights' Advisory Opinion on Gender Identity and Same-Sex Marriage.

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 31, no. 3, September 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Eric De Brabandere, International Dispute Settlement – from Practice to Legal Discipline
• International Legal Theory: Symposium on ‘Imperial Locations’
• Martti Koskenniemi, Less is More: Legal Imagination in Context
• Lauren Benton, Made in Empire: Finding the History of International Law in Imperial Locations
• Kerry Rittich, Occupied Iraq: Imperial Convergences?
• Rose Parfitt, Fascism, Imperialism and International Law: An Arch Met a Motorway and the Rest is History . . .
• Luis Eslava, The Moving Location of Empire: Indirect Rule, International Law, and the Bantu Educational Kinema Experiment
• Luigi Nuzzo, The Birth of an Imperial Location: Comparative Perspectives on Western Colonialism in China
• Liliana Obregon, Empire, Racial Capitalism and International Law: The Case of Manumitted Haiti and the Recognition Debt
• International Law and Practice
• Kathryn Greenman, Aliens in Latin America: Intervention, Arbitration and State Responsibility for Rebels
• Hague International Tribunals: International Court of Justice
• Massimo Lando, Plausibility in the Provisional Measures Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice
• International Criminal Courts And Tribunals
• Cheah W.L. & Moritz Vormbaum, British War Crimes Trials in Europe and Asia, 1945–1949: A Comparative Study
• Lachezar Yanev, On Common Plans and Excess Crimes: Fragmenting the Notion of Co-Perpetration in International Criminal Law

New Issue: International Interactions

The latest issue of International Interactions (Vol. 44, no. 5, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Lisa Lechner & Simon Wüthrich, Seal the Deal: Bargaining Positions, Institutional Design, and the Duration of Preferential Trade Negotiations
• Shahryar Minhas & Karen L. Remmer, The Reputational Impact of Investor-State Disputes
• Hakan Gunaydin, Who Can Reform the Labor Market? IMF Conditionality, Partisanship, and Labor Unions
• Research Notes
• Matthew S. Wells & Timothy J. Ryan, Following the Party in Time of War? The Implications of Elite Consensus
• Nam Kyu Kim, International Conflict, International Security Environment, and Military Coups
• Nina von Uexkull & Therese Pettersson, Issues and Actors in African Nonstate Conflicts: A New Data Set
• Bryan Rooney, Sources of Leader Support and Interstate Rivalry

New Issue: African Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 26, no. 3, August 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Justice Srem-Sai, Corporate Governance and the Capital Market in Ghana: The Stymieing Role of the State
• Sylvestre-José-Tidiane Manga, Post-Paris Climate Agreement UNFCCC COP-21: Perspectives on International Environmental Governance
• Derek Inman, Dorothée Cambou & Stefaan Smis, Evolving Legal Protections for Indigenous Peoples in Africa: Some Post-UNDRIP Reflections
• P. J. Badenhorst, New Order Rights to Minerals in South Africa: Ten Years after Mayday
• Emma Charlene Lubaale, The Dominant Role of Commanders in the Sudanese Military Justice System and Accountability for International Crimes
• Fonja Julius Achu, Settlement of Labour Disputes under Cameroonian Labour Law
• Ngozi Chinwa Ole, The Paris Agreement 2015 as a Primer for Developing Nigerian Off-grid Solar Electricity
• Ashraf M. A. Elfakharani, Rohana Abdul Rahman & Nor Anita Abdullah, Compatibility Between US-BIT Norms and the Need for Local Remedies Through Relevant Egyptian Investment Laws

New Issue: Transnational Legal Theory

The latest issue of Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 9, no. 1, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, European perspectives on constitutional pluralism(s): an ontological roadmap
• Kolja Möller, From constituent to destituent power beyond the state
• Lisa Mardikian, The right to property as regional custom in Europe

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 56, no. 1, March 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Jörn Axel Kämmerer, Indigenat als Souveränitätsquelle? Kanada und Neuseeland im verfassungsrechtlichen Vergleich
• Manuel Brunner, ,,Restore Democracy": Völkerrechtliche Fragen der militärischen Beendigung der Verfassungskrise in Gambia
• Dayog Néwendé Kaboré, ECOWAS's Leadership in the 2016 Gambian Post-Electoral Crisis – Challenging the UNSC's Primacy in Providing for Peace?
• Angela Schwerdtfeger, Austritt und Ausschluss aus Internationalen Organisationen – Zwischen staatlicher Souveränität und zwischenstaatlicher Kooperation

Call for Papers: Who Is Afraid of the International Criminal Court?

iCourts – Centre of Excellence for International Courts, Faculty of Law, University of Copenhagen, has issued a call for papers for a conference on "Who Is Afraid of the International Criminal Court?," which will take place January 24-25, 2019. The call is here.

Schwöbel-Patel: The Core Crimes of International Criminal Law

Christine Schwöbel-Patel (Univ, of Liverpool - Law) has posted The Core Crimes of International Criminal Law (in The Oxford Handbook of International Criminal Law, Kevin Jon Heller, Frédéric Mégret, Sarah Nouwen, Jens David Ohlin & Darryl Robinson eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

The ‘core’ crimes enumerated in the Rome Statute - the crime of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity and aggression - are overwhelmingly assumed to be the most important international crimes. In this chapter, I aim to unsettle this assumption by revealing and problematising the civilisational, political-economic, and aesthetical biases behind designating these crimes as ‘core’. This is done by shedding light on discontinuities in the history of the core crimes, and unsettling the progress narrative from Nuremberg to Rome. More specifically, crimes associated with drug control are placed in conversation with the accepted history of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to exemplify a systematic editing of the dominant narrative of international criminal law.

New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 17, no. 3, July 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Edward D. Mansfield & Helen V. Milner, The Domestic Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements in Hard Times
• Gary Winslett, Critical Mass Agreements: The Proven Template for Trade Liberalization in the WTO
• Pamela J. Smith, Bolormaa Jamiyansuren, Akinori Kitsuki, Jooyoung Yang, & Jaeseok Lee, Determinants of Comparative Advantage in GMO Intensive Industries
• Michelle Limenta, Bayan M. Edis, & Oscar Fernando, Disabling Labelling in Indonesia: Invoking WTO Laws in the Wake of Halal Policy Objectives
• Svetlana Yakovleva, Should Fundamental Rights to Privacy and Data Protection be a Part of the EU's International Trade ‘Deals’?
• Henry Gao, Dictum on Dicta: Obiter Dicta in WTO Disputes
• Giorgio Sacerdoti, A Comment on Henry Gao, ‘Dictum on Dicta: Obiter Dicta in WTO Disputes’
• Case Summaries: WTO Disputes
• Kholofelo Kugler, China – Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Measures on Broiler Products from the United States (Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by the United States) (China–Broiler Products (Article 21.5 – United States)), DS427
• Kholofelo Kugler, European Union – Anti-Dumping Measures on Biodiesel from Indonesia (EU–Biodiesel (Indonesia)), DS488

New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently recently added a mini-series on the law of outer space to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law website by Gérardine Goh Escolar.

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 22, no. 7, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Natasha Saunders, Beyond asylum claims: refugee protest, responsibility, and Article 28 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
• Paul Arnell, The contrasting evolution of the right to a fair trial in UK extradition law
• Kevin Hearty, ‘Victims of’ human rights abuses in transitional justice: hierarchies, perpetrators and the struggle for peace
• Laetitia Fourie & Anri Botes, Disability discrimination in the South African workplace: the case of infertility
• Job Odion & Edoghogho Eboigbe, Eliminating harmful practices against women in Nigeria: an examination of the Violence against Women Persons (Prohibition) Act, 2015

New Issue: Asian Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (Vol. 8, no. 2, July 2018) is out. Contents include:

• David Collins, Government Procurement with Strings Attached: The Uneven Control of Offsets by the World Trade Organization and Regional Trade Agreements
• Umair Hafeez Ghori, “Reverse Permissibility” in the Renewable Energy Sector: Going Beyond the US-India Solar Cells Dispute
• W.L. Cheah, Dealing with Desertion and Gaps in International Humanitarian Law: Changes of Allegiance in the Singapore War Crimes Trials
• W.L. Cheah, Desertion and Gaps in International Humanitarian Law: Dealing with Changes of Allegiance in the Singapore War Crimes Trials – ADDENDUM
• Durgeshree Raman, Damming and Infrastructural Development of the Indus River Basin: Strengthening the Provisions of the Indus Waters Treaty
• Ingo Venzke, What if? Counterfactual (Hi)Stories of International Law
• Henrietta Zeffert, The Lake Home: International Law and the Global Land Grab
• Alessandro Chechi, Non-State Actors and the Implementation of the World Heritage Convention in Asia: Achievements, Problems, and Prospects

New Issue: European Journal of International Relations

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Relations (Vol. 24, no. 3, September 2018) is out. Contents include:

• J.C. Sharman, Myths of military revolution: European expansion and Eurocentrism
• André Broome, Alexandra Homolar, & Matthias Kranke, Bad science: International organizations and the indirect power of global benchmarking
• Nina Hall & Åsa Persson, Global climate adaptation governance: Why is it not legally binding?
• Robert Pye, The European Union and the absence of fundamental rights in the Eurozone: A critical perspective
• Julian Germann, Beyond ‘geo-economics’: Advanced unevenness and the anatomy of German austerity
• Christian Bueger, Territory, authority, expertise: Global governance and the counter-piracy assemblage
• Carla Winston, Norm structure, diffusion, and evolution: A conceptual approach
• Daniel H. Nexon & Iver B. Neumann, Hegemonic-order theory: A field-theoretic account
• Ted Hopf, Change in international practices
• Jérémie Cornut, Diplomacy, agency, and the logic of improvisation and virtuosity in practice

Conference: V Conferencia Bienal de la SLADI-LASIL

The Fifth Biennial Bonference of the Latin American Society of International Law will be held at the School of Law of the Torcuato Di Tella University in Buenos Aires on September 24-25, 2018. The theme is: "Diálogos sobre Derecho Internacional." The program is here.

Call for Papers: 70th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention

The Nottingham International Law and Security Centre has issued a call for papers for a conference on "70th Anniversary of the Genocide Convention." The call is here.

New Issue: International Journal of Refugee Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Vol. 30, no. 1, March 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Savitri Taylor & Klaus Neumann, Australia and the 1967 Declaration on Territorial Asylum: A Case Study of the Making of International Refugee and Human Rights Law
• Geoff Gilbert & Anna Magdalena Rüsch, Rule of Law and United Nations Interoperability
• Rebecca Dowd, Jill Hunter, Belinda Liddell, Jane McAdam, Angela Nickerson, & Richard Bryant, Filling Gaps and Verifying Facts: Assumptions and Credibility Assessment in the Australian Refugee Review Tribunal
• Moira Dustin, Many Rivers to Cross: The Recognition of LGBTQI Asylum in the UK

New Issue: Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme

The latest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme (No. 115, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• O. De Schutter, La fiscalité au service de la réalisation des droits économiques, sociaux et culturels
• A. Bailleux, Droits de l’homme à l’est des Vosges, valeurs à l’ouest ? Les récits judiciaires de l’Europe au prisme de l’article 52 de la Charte
• M. Afroukh, Les critères « Von Hannover n° 2 » dans la jurisprudence récente de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme : une attractivité équivoque
• H. Raspail, Le principe de non-refoulement en situation d’afflux massif
• Les juridictions de l’Union européenne et les droits fondamentaux. Chronique de jurisprudence (2017)
• H. Tigroudja, Chronique de la jurisprudence consultative et contentieuse de la Cour interaméricaine des droits de l’homme (2015-2017)
• L. Triaille, La détestable liberté d’expression de Fouad Belkacem devant les Hautes juridictions – Deux constructions jurisprudentielles pour la lui refuser
• J. Eynard, D’une ingérence généralisée à une autre : deux poids, deux mesures ?

New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 78, no. 2, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Matthias Goldmann: Völkerrechtliche Vereinbarungen und direkte Demokratie
• Katharina Reiling: Die Anwendung des Grundsatzes der Völkerrechtsfreundlichkeit auf rechtsunverbindliche internationale Standards
• Winfried Huck/Claudia Kurkin: Die UN-Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) im transnationalen Mehrebenensystem
• Patrick Abel: Negative Zuständigkeitskonflikte inter-nationaler Gerichte durch Subsidiaritäts-klauseln – Zur Bedeutung des Maritime Delimitation in the Indian Ocean-Urteils des IGH für die internationale Streitbeilegung
• Matthias Hartwig: Bericht zur völkerrechtlichen Praxis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland im Jahr 2015

New Issue: World Politics

The latest issue of World Politics (Vol. 70, no. 3, July 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Research Articles
• Fiona Shen-Bayh, Strategies of Repression: Judicial and Extrajudicial Methods of Autocratic Survival
• R. Daniel Kelemen & Tommaso Pavone, The Political Geography of Legal Integration: Visualizing Institutional Change in the European Union
• Cathie Jo Martin, Imagine All the People: Literature, Society, and Cross-National Variation in Education Systems
• Carlos Closa & Stefano Palestini, Tutelage and Regime Survival in Regional Organizations' Democracy Protection: The Case of MERCOSUR and UNASUR

ILR on Vacation

Light posting until August, as I'll be on vacation.

New Volume: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional

The latest volume of the Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional (Vol. 11, 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Paula Wojcikiewicz Almeida, L’affaire des Immunités Juridictionnelles de l’Etat (Allemagne c. Italie): La Cour Internationale de Justice à contre-sens de l’évolution du Droit International
• Claudio Nash Rojas, La doctrina del margen de apreciación y su nula recepción en la jurisprudencia de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos
• Juan Sebastián Vera, ¿Por qué es importante que la Corte Penal Internacional condene más allá de toda duda razonable?
• María Carolina Romero Lares, Algunas consideraciones en torno a las deficiencias de la Convención de las Naciones Unidas sobre el Derecho del Mar para contribuir a la gobernanza sostenible de los océanos
• Erika Castro-Buitrago & Felipe Calderón Valencia, Un derecho ambiental democrático para Latinoamérica y el Caribe: los retos de la negociación del Acuerdo Regional sobre el Principio 10 de Río 92
• Juan Pablo Sarmiento Erazo, Cuando el comercio internacional se encontró con el medio ambiente, entre el soft law y la prohibición a las barreras al comercio
• María Alejandra Calle Saldarriaga, Sustainable Production and Trade Discrimination: An Analysis of the wto Jurisprudence
• Sebastián López Escarcena, Contextualizando el derecho administrativo global

Call for Papers: ESIL 2019 Research Forum

The European Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 2019 Research Forum, which will take place April 4-5, 2019, at the Institute for International Law and European Law, Faculty of Law, University of Göttingen. The theme is: "The International Rule of Law and Domestic Dimensions: Synergies and Challenges." The call is here.

New Issue: Journal of International Criminal Justice

The latest issue of the Journal of International Criminal Justice (Vol. 16, no. 2, May 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Article
• Barrie Sander, Justice as Identity: Unveiling the Mechanics of Legitimation in Domestic Atrocity Trials
• Symposium: The Intention of the Drafters - The ICC at 20
• Mark Klamberg & Göran Sluiter, Foreword
• Mark Klamberg, The Legality of Rebel Courts during Non-International Armed Conflicts
• Suzannah Linton, India and China Before, At, and After Rome
• Megan A. Fairlie, The Unlikely Prospect of Non-adversarial Trials at the International Criminal Court
• Fabricio Guariglia, ‘Admission’ v. ‘Submission’ of Evidence at the International Criminal Court: Lost in Translation?
• Silvia Fernández de Gurmendi, Enhancing the Court’s Efficiency: From the Drafting of the Procedural Provisions by States to their Revision by Judges
• Kimberly Prost, The Surprises of Part 9 of the Rome Statute on International Cooperation and Judicial Assistance
• Göran Sluiter, Enforcing Cooperation: Did the Drafters Approach It the Wrong Way?
• Anthology
• On the Establishment of Courts in Non-international Armed Conflict by Non-state Actors: Stockholm District Court Judgment of 16 February 2017
• Highlights
• Katerina I. Kappos, Current Developments at the International Criminal Court

New Issue: International Journal of Transitional Justice

The latest issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Vol. 12, no. 2, July 2018) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Marcelo Torelly, Assessing a Late Truth Commission: Challenges and Achievements of the Brazilian National Truth Commission
• Sarah Jankowitz, The ‘Hierarchy of Victims’ in Northern Ireland: A Framework for Critical Analysis
• Jessica G Mecellem, Misfortune or Injustice? The Political Work of Postconflict Narrative in Contemporary Algeria
• Hakeem O Yusuf, Colonialism and the Dilemmas of Transitional Justice in Nigeria
• Sahla Aroussi, Perceptions of Justice and Hierarchies of Rape: Rethinking Approaches to Sexual Violence in Eastern Congo from the Ground up
• Bilge Sahin & Sidonia Lucia Kula, What Women Want before Justice: Examining Justice Initiatives to Challenge Violence against Women in the DRC
• Sherin Shefik, Reimagining Transitional Justice through Participatory Art
• Barrie Sander, Unveiling the Historical Function of International Criminal Courts: Between Adjudicative and Sociopolitical Justice
• Notes from the Field
• Bronwyn Harris, John Eyles, Pascalia O Munyewende, & Jane Goudge, Something Happened: Storytelling in a Violent Field
• Review Essay
• Lauren Marie Balasco, Locating Transformative Justice: Prism or Schism in Transitional Justice?