Tuesday, September 10, 2019
Conference: States, Corporations and Commons - Dissonance and Accord
On September 11, 2019, the American Society of International Law's Interest Group of International Environmental Law will hold a conference on "States, Corporations and Commons - Dissonance and Accord" at the Faculty of Law of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. The program is here.
Call for Papers: Reassessing the Truth: The Role of Scientific and Technological Progress, the Business Sector, the Sustainable Economic and Community Development in the Energy Transition
A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "Reassessing the Truth: The Role of Scientific and Technological Progress, the Business Sector, the Sustainable Economic and Community Development in the Energy Transition," to take place November 5-6, 2019, at West Virginia University. The call is here.
Kjeldgaard-Pedersen: The International Court of Justice and the Individual
Astrid Kjeldgaard-Pedersen (Univ. of Copenhagen - Law) has posted The International Court of Justice and the Individual (in Research Handbook on the International Court of Justice, Achilles Skordas ed., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:
This chapter studies the relationship between the ICJ and ‘the individual’ in a broad sense, including both human beings and private companies. It argues that there is a gap between, on one hand, the most famous dicta by the ICJ and its predecessor, the PCIJ, about the concept of international legal personality, and, on the other hand, the Court’s interpretation and application of treaty provisions that govern individuals directly. Indeed, the Court seems to have consistently invoked a more progressive view of the international legal personality of non-State entities, including individuals and private companies, than it is given – and has taken – credit for. As the chapter illustrates, how-ever, the Court’s favourable approach to ‘individual rights’ under international law has not prompt-ed it to be particularly accommodating towards ‘human rights’. Although there has unquestionably been a development in the way in which the ICJ takes account of human rights, its practice above all indicates that does not strive to be a court of human rights, but emphatically a court of international law.
New Issue: Revue de Droit International et de Droit Comparé
- S. Toe, L’exclusion d’un associé en droit OHADA des sociétés commerciales
- V. Bakréo, Les motifs en droit des contrats : étude des droits québécois, français et camerounais
- J. Liu, La représentation par le représentant légal en droit des sociétés chinois
- B. Belbara, La protection de la famille depuis la loi camerounaise n° 2016/007 du 12 juillet 2016 portant Code pénal : constance et croissance d’une philosophie
- H. Alrashidi, La distinction entre la clause d’exclusion et la clause de déchéance dans le contrat d’assurance selon le droit koweïtien
New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross
- Vincent Bernard, The International Review of the Red Cross: Witness to the humanitarian revolution
- Three short essays in honour of the 150th anniversary of the International Review of the Red Cross
- A brief history of the International Review of the Red Cross
- The editors-in-chief of the Review, 1869–2019
- David P. Forsythe, The ICRC as seen through the pages of the Review, 1869–1913: Personal observations
- Daniel Palmieri, To inform or govern? 150 years of the International Review of the Red Cross, 1869–2019
- Annette Becker, From the Bulletin International des Sociétés de la Croix Rouge to the International Review of the Red Cross: The Great War as a revelator
- Ben Holmes, The International Review of the Red Cross and the protection of civilians, c. 1919–1939
- Ismaël Raboud, Matthieu Niederhauser, & Charlotte Mohr, Reflections on the development of the Movement and international humanitarian law through the lens of the ICRC Library's Heritage Collection
- Jeffrey Biller, Cyber operations and the Second Geneva Convention
- Étienne Chénier-Laflèche, The prevention of torture in Rio de Janeiro: A study on the role of public defenders
- Sharon Weill, French foreign fighters: The engagement of administrative and criminal justice in France
- Alon Margalit, Still a blind spot: The protection of LGBT persons during armed conflict and other situations of violence
- Sabrina Henry, Exploring the “continuous combat function” concept in armed conflicts: Time for an extended application?
- Natalie Klein-Kelly, More humanitarian accountability, less humanitarian access? Alternative ideas on accountability for protection activities in conflict settings
- Helene Højfeldt Jakobsen, Returning foreign fighters: The case of Denmark
- Françoise Bouchet-Saulnier & Jonathan Whittall, An environment conducive to mistakes? Lessons learnt from the attack on the Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan
- Valérie McKnight Hashemi, A balancing act: The revised rules of access to the ICRC Archives reflect multiple stakes and challenges
Conference: 15th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law
Call for Papers: ESIL 2020 Research Forum (Reminder)
Abi-Saab, Keith, Marceau, & Marquet: Evolutionary Interpretation and International Law
This unique book brings together leading experts from diverse areas of public international law to offer a comprehensive overview of the approaches to evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes. It begins by asking what interpretation is, offering the views of expert authors on the question, its components and definitions. It then comments on situations that have called for evolutionary interpretation in different international legal regimes, including general international law, environmental law, human rights law, EU law, investment law, international trade law, and how domestic courts have, on occasions, interpreted treaties and other international legal instruments in an evolutionary manner.
New Volume: Recueil des Cours
Volume 399 of the Recueil des Cours, Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law is out. Contents include:- Volume 399
- Atsuko Kanehara, Reassessment of the Acts of the State in the Law of State Responsibility – A Proposal of an Integrative Theoretical Framework of the Law of State Responsibility to Effectively Cope with the Internationally Harmful Acts of Non-State Actors
- Hannah L. Buxbaum, Public Regulation and Private Enforcement in a Global Economy: Strategies for Managing Conflict
Monday, September 9, 2019
New Issue: Air & Space Law
- Cyril-Igor Grigorieff & Dimitri De Bournonville, The 1952 Rome Convention on Surface Damage and Its Application in the Case of Aircraft Noise Emission: The Example of Belgium
- Antigoni Lykotrafiti, A Comprehensive Study of Air Transport Liberalization Through the Lens of Strategic Airline Alliances
- Daniela María Rojas García, Out-of-State Solutions for Outer Space Disputes: Delocalizing the Troubles of the Province of Mankind
- Stamatis Varsamos, Single till v. Dual till and the Paradox of Airport Competition
- Dimitra Stefoudi, The Relevance and Applicability of Cybersecurity Laws with Regard to Data Storage on Board Satellites and on the Ground
- Charlotte Thijssen & Lisa Williams, Could Confirmation from the UK Court of Appeal Allowing Airlines to Compensate Passengers Directly Help Stamp Out Ambulance-Chasing over Passenger Rights Claims in the EU?
Conference: Atrocity Prevention: The Role of International Law and Justice
On September 20, 2019, Case Western Reserve University School of Law will host a conference on "Atrocity Prevention: The Role of International Law and Justice." The program is here.
Conference: Thirty-Third Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference
Call for Submissions: Military Law and the Law of War Review
The Military Law and the Law of War Review
Call for Papers
The Military Law and the Law of War Review / Revue de Droit Militaire et de Droit de la Guerre is a journal specialised in matters of interest for both civilian and military legal advisors as well as legal scholars and academics. Published since 1962, it is among the oldest publications at the international level in the areas of military/security law and the law of war. For decades, the Review has been an important forum of discussion for scholars and practitioners from all over the world.
The Review is published under the auspices of the International Society for Military Law and the Law of War. It features original and challenging articles, case notes, commentaries of the latest legal developments, as well as book reviews.
For its coming issue, the Review’s editorial board welcomes submissions from scholars and practitioners that come within the broader scope of the Review (including military law, law of armed conflict, law on the use of force, as well as international criminal law and human rights law (inasmuch as related to situations of armed conflict)). The deadline for submission is 5 November 2019.
Submissions should be sent by e-mail to mllwr@ismllw.org and will be subject to double-blind peer review. Articles should normally not be longer than 15.000 words (footnotes included), although longer pieces may exceptionally be considered. Inquiries as to whether a possible submission comes within the scope of the Review can be sent to the abovementioned e-mail address.
Selected papers will be published online on the Review’s website in advance access (in a non-downloadable and non-printable form) as well as on Hein Online following editing and type-setting. The print version of the issue will appear in 2020.
Conference: State Sovereignty, Climate Policy and Dispute Resolution in Environmental Law
On September 10, 2019, the American Society of International Law's Interest Group of International Environmental Law will hold a conference on "State Sovereignty, Climate Policy and Dispute Resolution in Environmental Law," at FON University, in Skopje. The program is here.
Berge & St John: Asymmetric Diffusion: World Bank 'Best Practice' and the Spread of Arbitration in National Investment Laws
Tarald Laudal Berge (Univ. of Oslo - Political Science) & Taylor St John (Univ. of St Andrews - International Relations) have posted Asymmetric Diffusion: World Bank 'Best Practice' and the Spread of Arbitration in National Investment Laws. Here's the abstract:
Globally, 74 countries have domestic investment laws that mention investor-state arbitration and 42 of these laws provide consent to this form of arbitration. That is, they give foreign investors the right to bypass national courts and bring claims directly to arbitration. What explains this variation, and why do any governments include investor-state arbitration in their domestic legislation? To explain this variation, we argue that analytic institutions within international organizations framed arbitration references as ‘international best practice’ and technical assistance carried this framing to governments. Specifically, we argue that governments who receive technical assistance from the World Bank’s Foreign Investment Advisory Service are more likely to include arbitration in their laws. In our analysis, we apply a mixed-methods research design. We first use event history analysis and find that receiving World Bank technical assistance is an exceptionally strong predictor of domestic investment laws with arbitration. Then we illustrate our argument with a case study of the Kyrgyz Republic’s 2003 law. We conclude that templates are usually not copied and pasted directly into domestic investment laws; instead, they are translated, debated, and modified. Yet the drafting of domestic investment laws is, in many countries, a process permeated by international actors.
New Issue: International Studies Review
- Tobias Ide, The Impact of Environmental Cooperation on Peacemaking: Definitions, Mechanisms, and Empirical Evidence
- Katarzyna Kaczmarska, Reification in IR: The Process and Consequences of Reifying the Idea of International Society
- Maria Mälksoo, The Transitional Justice and Foreign Policy Nexus: The Inefficient Causation of State Ontological Security-Seeking
- Rosemary Foot & Evelyn Goh, The International Relations of East Asia: A New Research Prospectus
- Joseph M Grieco, The Schools of Thought Problem in International Relations
- Quan Li, The Second Great Debate Revisited: Exploring the Impact of the Qualitative-Quantitative Divide in International Relations
- Ryan M Katz-Rosene, The Treatment of Global Environmental Change in the Study of International Political Economy: An Analysis of the Field's Most Influential Survey Texts
- Marcus Schulzke, Drone Proliferation and the Challenge of Regulating Dual-Use Technologies
- Susan T Jackson, A Turning IR Landscape in a Shifting Media Ecology: The State of IR Literature on New Media
New Volume: Recueil des Cours
Volume 398 of the Recueil des Cours, Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law is out. Contents include:- Volume 398
- T. Treves, The Expansion of International Law, General Course on Public International Law
Call for Papers: ASIL Anti-Corruption Law Interest Group Works-in-Progress Conference (Reminder)
The Anti-Corruption Law Interest Group of the American Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its first works-in-progress conference. The conference is cosponsored with the Faculty of Law at Ono Academic College and is organized in close cooperation with
the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. The conference will take place in Kiryat Ono, Israel, on December 16, 2019. The call is here. The deadline is September 13, 2019.
Ruiz Fabri & Paine: The Procedural Cross-Fertilization Pull
Helene Ruiz Fabri (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law) & Joshua Paine (Max Planck Institute Luxembourg for International, European and Regulatory Procedural Law) have posted The Procedural Cross-Fertilization Pull. Here's the abstract:
This paper argues that there is a distinct ‘pull’ towards cross-fertilization on procedural questions, meaning cross-fertilization between international courts and tribunals may be more likely for procedural issues than for questions of substantive law. As well as describing in a representative manner the substantial amount of cross-fertilization between international adjudicatory bodies that is occurring in relation to procedural issues, we attempt to provide a framework that helps explain this phenomenon. Our core suggestion is that procedural cross-fertilization is an ongoing process and is not just about borrowing by adjudicators, but involves contributions by a range of other actors, including the disputing parties, counsel, administering institutions and secretariats, professional bodies (eg the International Bar Association), and states as drafters of constitutive instruments and operators of control mechanisms. We suggest that three main considerations facilitate procedural cross-fertilization and even make it somewhat likely: the broad degree of discretion afforded to adjudicators on procedural issues; adjudicators’ duty to decide numerous procedural issues that arise throughout the proceedings; and sociological considerations concerning the circulation of a small number of personnel across multiple fora. We then analyse two wide-ranging considerations that counter-balance adjudicators’ broad discretion. On the one hand, various control mechanisms can be, and are, used by states to push adjudicators to remain faithful to their mandates, thus limiting the space for procedural cross-fertilization. On the other, procedural cross-fertilization feeds, and is fed by, an emerging model of international due process that is affecting all areas of international adjudication and that, by consolidating, becomes a constraining frame. This model of international due process has many components and we analyse its influence on two cross-cutting issues: expectations around the independence and impartiality of adjudicators and expectations around the transparency of adjudicatory processes.
New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law
The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added three lectures to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. They were given by Kristina Daugirdas on “How and Why International Law Binds International Organizations,” Gattās Abugattās on “El proceso de celebración de tratados en la Convención de Viena de 1969 sobre el Derecho de los Tratados,” and Elvira Méndez Chang on “Solución de controversias internacionales.”
Conference: Les îles et le droit international
De l’île de Palmas à l’archipel des Chagos, l’île constitue un objet familier du droit international. Si sa définition a longtemps mobilisé juristes et géographes jusqu’à l’adoption de la Convention de Montego Bay en 1982, force est de constater que la production scientifique sur le sujet peine à se renouveler et avance en ordre dispersé avec une place prépondérante du droit de la mer. Pourtant, les îles cristallisent aujourd’hui un nombre croissant de problématiques intéressant plusieurs branches du droit international. Elles sont ainsi tour à tour des espaces de convoitises, des espaces à exploiter, et face aux menaces environnementales ou à la globalisation culturelle, des espaces à protéger.
Dans la jurisprudence internationale, les îles sont d’abord source de conflits. En effet, la multiplication des différends territoriaux est une des conséquences liées à la volonté continue des Etats de s’approprier de nouveaux territoires. L’île, en tant que territoire excentré, représente une occasion exceptionnelle pour les Etats d’étendre leur espace maritime autour d’enjeux stratégiques majeurs. Sur ce point, les progrès technologiques ont notamment permis de transformer artificiellement des îlots rocheux en espace insulaire, créant de nouveaux territoires avec la volonté d’échapper aux limitations conventionnelles s’appliquant aux îles artificielles et aux rochers non habitables. En la matière, la nature, elle-même, n’est pas en reste avec l’apparition de nouvelles îles volcaniques, sismiques ou sédimentaires.
Les îles sont aussi des espaces privilégiés de développement économique. A ce titre, elles sont principalement convoitées pour les ressources naturelles de leurs sols et sous-sol, pour la possibilité d’élargissement potentiel des zones de pêche et pour l’installation de régimes fiscaux et douaniers favorisant les investissements étrangers. En outre, au même titre qu’un bien immeuble, les îles peuvent être louées ou cédées en tout ou partie, gracieusement ou non ce qui n’est pas sans soulever de difficultés lorsque l’île en question est habitée.
A l’inverse, si certaines îles concentrent capitaux ou ressources naturelles, une partie conséquente des espaces insulaires souffrent au contraire de leur caractère ultrapériphérique. C’est le cas par exemple des « Petits Etats Insulaires du Pacifique Sud », selon la dénomination onusienne, dont la petite taille, la dispersion géographique, et l’isolement économique soulèvent des questions relevant du droit international du développement.
Enfin, les îles sont des espaces menacés d’abord par le réchauffement climatique comme le rappelle le préambule de la Convention-cadre des Nations-Unies sur le Changement climatique adoptée en 1992, puis plus généralement, par l’exploitation d’un écosystème insulaire à la fois précieux et vulnérable. En outre, les questions liées à l’engloutissement des îles telles que l’apparition de réfugiés climatiques ou la réduction de l’espace territorial et maritime des Etats insulaires, sont autant d’inconnues dont le droit international doit se saisir sans délai. Dans le même ordre d’idée, la mondialisation menace des cultures insulaires jusque-là épargnées en raison de leur isolement. Outre la mise en place d’un régime international de protection, la préservation de ces identités peut nécessiter l’établissement de régimes juridiques dérogatoires et de modes de gouvernance à l’autonomie renforcée.
New Issue: International Affairs
- Maritime Security: The Uncharted Politics of the Global Sea
- Christian Bueger, Timothy Edmunds, & Barry J. Ryan, Maritime security: the uncharted politics of the global sea
- Aviad Rubin & Ehud Eiran, Regional maritime security in the eastern Mediterranean: expectations and reality
- Douglas Guilfoyle, The rule of law and maritime security: understanding lawfare in the South China Sea
- Elizabeth R. DeSombre, The security implications of fisheries
- Katja Lindskov Jacobsen & Jessica Larsen, Piracy studies coming of age: a window on the making of maritime intervention actors
- Barry J. Ryan, The disciplined sea: a history of maritime security and zonation
- Laura Considine, Contests of legitimacy and value: the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons and the logic of prohibition
- Clare Wenham, The oversecuritization of global health: changing the terms of debate
- Amy S. Patterson & Elizabeth Gill, Up in smoke? Global tobacco control advocacy and local mobilization in Africa
- Maha Kamel & Hongying Wang, Petro-RMB? The oil trade and the internationalization of the renminbi
New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs
- Essay
- Claudia Fuentes-Julio & Raslan Ibrahim, A Human Rights Approach to Conflict Resolution
- Roundtable: Economic Sanctions and their Consequences
- Joy Gordon, Introduction
- Dursun Peksen, Political Effectiveness, Negative Externalities, and the Ethics of Economic Sanctions
- Idriss Jazairy, Unilateral Economic Sanctions, International Law, and Human Rights
- Joy Gordon, The Not So Targeted Instrument of Asset Freezes
- Features
- Janina Dill, Distinction, Necessity, and Proportionality: Afghan Civilians’ Attitudes toward Wartime Harm
- Neil C. Renic, Battlefield Mercy: Unpacking the Nature and Significance of Supererogation in War
- Review Essay
- William Smith, The Ethics of (Un)Civil Resistance
New Issue: Journal of International Arbitration
The latest issue of the Journal of International Arbitration (Vol. 36, no. 5, 2019) is out. Contents include:- Maxi Scherer, Artificial Intelligence and Legal Decision-Making: The Wide Open?
- Peter Georg Picht & Gaspare Tazio Loderer, Arbitration in SEP/FRAND Disputes: Overview and Core Issues
- Angshuman Hazarika & Pieter Van Vaerenbergh, ‘One Rule to Rule Them All’: Rules for Article 25 DSU Arbitration
- Robert Bradshaw, How to Obtain Evidence from Third Parties: A Comparative View
- Karolina Mania, American and European Perspectives on Arbitration Agreements in Online Consumer Contracts
Call for Papers: ‘The Hope of Ages is in the Process of Realization’ Establishing a World Court, 1920-1922
A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "‘The Hope of Ages is in the Process of Realization’ Establishing a World Court, 1920-1922," which will be held June 11-12, 2020, in Nijmegen. The call is here.
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