Call for Papers: Sanctions and Africa: an International Law and Politics Conference

Coventry University, the Graduate Institute Geneva, and the University of Pretoria have issued a call for papers for a conference on “Sanctions and Africa: An International Law and Politics Conference,” to be held December 9-10, 2021, in person in London and online. The call is here.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: The Anthropology of International Law

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on "The Anthropology of International Law." The symposium includes an introduction by Annelise Riles and contributions by Rachel Sieder, Galit A. Sarfaty, Miia Halme-Tuomisaari, Mark Goodale, and Maria Sapignoli.

Webinar Series: Biodiversity Law and Governance

The Centre for Environmental Law of Macquarie University has announced the second session of its webinar series on "Biodiversity Law and Governance." The program is here. The first lecture will be delivered by Holly Doremus (Univ. of California, Berkeley - Law) on August 25, 2021. Details and registration are here.

Call for Papers: Business and Human Rights (Early Career Scholars)

The IFIM Law School has issued a call for papers for early career scholars for a research colloquium on "Business and Human Rights," to take place virtually on October 23, 2021. The call is here.

Zeller, Mohanty, & Garimella: Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and the Public Policy Exception

Bruno Zeller (Univ. of Western Australia - Law), Gautam Mohanty (Jindal Global Law School), & Sai Ramani Garimella (South Asian Univ. - Law) have published Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards and the Public Policy Exception: Including an Analysis of South Asian State Practice (Springer 2021). Here's the abstract:

The book presents arguments derived from primary sources related to international arbitration in South Asian jurisdictions, a list of the same is made available therein. The book is a research statement on the contemporary concerns within international commercial arbitration, especially related to enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. Importantly, the book through a unique methodology of interface, presents the gratuitous nature of Article 34 of the UNCITRAL Model Law when read with Article V of the New York Convention, especially the plea to the States within Article VII of the same Convention to ease the restrictions and the process of enforceability of foreign arbitral awards. The book also articulates another important and immediate need with regard to international arbitration – the delimitation of public policy exception to recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards. It critiques the jurisprudence related to arbitration in jurisdictions spread across different geographic regions, thereby enabling the reader to gain an insight into their practices, apart from ensuring a comparative perspective. The book addresses the primary concern related to international arbitration – enforcement of foreign arbitral awards and the grounds for challenges articulated within the New York Convention and the UNCITRAL Model Law. It addresses these grounds, and articulates the necessity for carving the criteria for the application of public policy exception.

Call for Papers: Challenges and Trends on Migration

IFIM Law School, in collaboration with Centre for Peace Studies, Bangladesh, has issued a call for papers for an online conference on "Challenges and Trends on Migration." The call is here.

Soirila: The Law of Humanity Project: A Story of International Law Reform and State-making

Ukri Soirila (Univ. of Helsinki - Law) has published The Law of Humanity Project: A Story of International Law Reform and State-making (Hart Publishing 2021). Here's the abstract:

This book provides the first comprehensive introduction to the role of humanity in international law, offering a fresh perspective to a discussions with global implications. The 1990s and the first decade of the twenty-first century witnessed the sporadic emergence of a new vision of global law. Although the vision has taken many different forms, all instances of it have been uniform in the attempt of radically altering how we understand international law by seeking to posit the human as the primary subject of the international legal order and humanity as its main source of legitimacy. Together, this book calls these instances “the law of humanity project”. In so doing, it also paints a picture of and critically assesses a particular moment in the history of international law – a moment which may have already come to a sudden end as a consequence of the current populist backlash in world politics, but during which it seemed inevitable that the law of humanity vision would come to play an increasingly important role in world affairs.

Klostermann: Durchsetzung humanitären Völkerrechts durch und gegenüber nicht-staatlichen Akteuren

Regina Klostermann has published Durchsetzung humanitären Völkerrechts durch und gegenüber nicht-staatlichen Akteuren: Nichtregierungsorganisationen im Spannungsfeld notwendiger Zusammenarbeit mit bewaffneten nicht-staatlichen Gruppen und staatlichen Sicherheitsinteressen (Duncker & Humblot 2021). Here's the abstract:

NGOs, die bei der Durchsetzung humanitären Völkerrechts tätig sind und humanitäre Hilfe leisten, arbeiten in einem Spannungsfeld: Ihre Arbeit ist dringend notwendig, um das Leiden der Zivilbevölkerung in einem bewaffneten Konflikt zu lindern und die Konfliktparteien zur Einhaltung des Rechts zu bewegen. Eine interdisziplinäre Betrachtung verdeutlicht, dass NGOs durchaus geeignet sind, die Durchsetzung des humanitären Völkerrechts auch gegenüber nicht-staatlichen bewaffneten Gruppen zu fördern. Verschiedene NGOs wie beispielsweise Geneva Call nutzen dabei innovative Instrumente, die umfassend untersucht werden. Gleichzeitig hindern zunehmend internationale und nationalstaatliche Regeln, insbesondere im Bereich der Terrorismusbekämpfung, die Zusammenarbeit der NGOs mit bewaffneten nicht-staatlichen Gruppen. Die Autorin zeigt auf, dass es auch auf dieser Ebene neue Mechanismen braucht, die die Arbeit der humanitären Organisationen insgesamt und die Einhaltung humanitärer Prinzipien sichern.

Kumar: Trial as a tool of Colonialism: The 1858 Trial of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar

Aman Kumar (IFIM Law School) has posted Trial as a tool of Colonialism: The 1858 Trial of Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar (International Criminal Law Review, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This paper brings the 1857 trial of 82 years old Mughal Emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar into the mainstream international law. It discusses the aesthetical aspects of Zafar's trial, who was tried as a British Subject, despite being the Indian sovereign. The paper argues that the trial was used a tool to colonise India. It also points out the treatment given to Zafar post his arrest, when he was displayed to the Europeans 'like a beast in a cage'. It highlights the confusing nature of the trial which was, at times, presented as an enquiry. Moreover, it tells Zafar's story from his point of view. The paper also highlights the blind-spots in the subject of international law where Zafar's trial finds no mention. It provokes readers to question their understanding of colonialism by pointing out the well-known nature of trial of Warren Hastings, but the obscurity surrounding Zafar's trial.

New Issue: Melbourne Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Melbourne Journal of International Law (Vol. 21, no. 2, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Feature: The League of Nations Decentred
• LuÍs Bogliolo, Kathryn Greenman, Anne Orford & Ntina Tzouvala, Foreword
• Robert Knox, Haiti at the League of Nations: Racialisation, Accumulation and Representation
• Aliki Semertzi, Modernist Violence: Juxtaposing the League's Permanent Mandates Commission over the Bondelzwarts Rebellion and the US–Mexico Special Claims Commission over the Mexican Revolutions
• Christopher Szabla, Entrenching Hierarchies in the Global Periphery: Migration, Development and the 'Native' in ILO Legal Reform Efforts
• Articles
• Simon McKenzie, When Is a Ship a Ship? Use by State Armed Forces of Uncrewed Maritime Vehicles and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Andrew D Mitchell & Paula O'Brien, New Directions in Trade and Investment Agreements for Public Health: The Case of Alcohol Labelling
• Case Note
• Michael A Becker, The Plight of the Rohingya: Genocide Allegations and Provisional Measures in The Gambia v Myanmar at the International Court of Justice
• Commentary
• Frédéric Mégret, The Changing Face of Protection of the State's Nationals Abroad

Campins Eritja & Fajardo del Castillo: Biological Diversity and International Law: Challenges for the Post 2020 Scenario

Mar Campins Eritja (Univ. of Barcelona - Law) & Teresa Fajardo del Castillo (Univ. of Grenada - Law) have published Biological Diversity and International Law: Challenges for the Post 2020 Scenario (Springer 2021). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The book focuses on the interactions between international legal regimes related to biodiversity governance. It addresses the systemic challenges by analyzing the legal interactions between international biodiversity law and related international law applicable to economic activities, as well as issues related to the governance of biodiversity based on functional, normative, and geographic dimensions, in order to present a crosscutting, holistic approach. The global COVID-19 pandemic, the imminent revision of the Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011-2020, and the Aichi Targets have created the momentum to focus on the interactions between the Convention on Biological Diversity and other international environmental regimes.

Firstly, it discusses the principles that inspire biodiversity-related conventional law, the soft law that conveys targets for enforcement of the Biodiversity Convention, their structural, regulatory and implementation gaps, the systemic relations arising from national interests, and the role of scientific advisory bodies in biodiversity-related agreements. The second part then addresses interactions in specific conventional frameworks, such as the law of multilateral trade and global public health, and the participation of communities in the management of genetic resources. Lastly, the third part illustrates these issues using four case studies focusing on the challenges for sustainability and marine biodiversity in small islands, the Arctic Ocean, the Caribbean Sea, and the Mediterranean Sea, as a way to strengthen a horizontal and joint approach.

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 34, no. 3, September 2021) is out. Contents include:

• International Legal Theory
• Patrick Capps & Henrik Palmer Olsen, Explaining power and authority in international courts
• Filipe dos Reis & Janis Grzybowski, The matrix reloaded: Reconstructing the boundaries between (international) law and politics
• Arthur Roberto Capella Giannattasio, Débora Roma Drezza, & Maria Beatriz Wehby, In/on applied legal research: Pragmatic limits to the impact of peripheral international legal scholarship via policy papers
• Jessie Hohmann, Diffuse subjects and dispersed power: New materialist insights and cautionary lessons for international law
• Kathryn McNeilly, How time matters in the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review: Humans, objects, and time creation
• Daniel Ricardo Quiroga-Villamarín, Vicarius Christi: Extraterritoriality, pastoral power, and the critique of secular international law
• International Law and Practice
• Sarah Heathcote, Secession, self-determination and territorial disagreements: Sovereignty claims in the contemporary South Pacific
• Yarik Kryvoi, Private or public adjudication? Procedure, substance and legitimacy
• Mintao Nie, Divided governmental structure and state compliance with international human rights law: A reputation-based approach
• International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• Geoffrey Thomas Dancy, The hidden impacts of the ICC: An innovative assessment using Google data
• Luke Moffett & Clara Sandoval, Tilting at windmills: Reparations and the International Criminal Court

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 32, no. 2, May 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
  • Editorial: The Unequal Impact of the Pandemic on Scholars with Care Responsibilities: What Can Journals (and Others) Do?; Cancelling Carl Schmitt?; Vital Statistics; In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews
• Articles
• Andreas von Arnauld, How to Illegalize Past Injustice: Reinterpreting the Rules of Intertemporality
• Vincent Beyer, Dispute Settlement in Preferential Trade Agreements and the WTO: A Network Analysis of Idleness and Choice of Forum
• Marco Longobardo, State Immunity and Judicial Countermeasures
• Yejoon Rim, State Continuity in the Absence of Government: The Underlying Rationale in International Law
• Focus: Business and Human Rights
• Neli Frost, Out with the ‘Old’, in with the ‘New’: Challenging Dominant Regulatory Approaches in the Field of Human Rights
• Andreas Kulick, Corporate Human Rights?
• Roaming Charges: Gendering
• Symposium: Use of Force and Human Rights
• Dapo Akande & Katie A Johnston, Human Rights and Resort to Force: Introduction to the Symposium
• Eliav Lieblich, The Humanization of Jus ad Bellum: Prospects and Perils
• Kevin Jon Heller, The Illegality of ‘Genuine’ Unilateral Humanitarian Intervention
• Federica I Paddeu, Humanitarian Intervention and the Law of State Responsibility
• Dapo Akande & Katie A Johnston, Implications of the Diversity of the Rules on the Use of Force for Change in the Law
• Book Reviews
• Wouter Werner, reviewing Anton Orlinov Petrov, Expert Laws of War: Restating and Making Law in Expert Processes
• Yuliya Chernykh, reviewing Jean Ho, State Responsibility for Breaches of Investment Contracts
• Roger O’Keefe, reviewing Tom Ruys and Nicolas Angelet (eds), Luca Ferro (assistant ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Immunities and International Law
• Marco Longobardo & Marco Roscini, reviewing Giulio Bartolini (ed.), A History of International Law in Italy
• Vladyslav Lanovoy, reviewing Vincent-Joël Proulx, Institutionalizing State Responsibility: Global Security and UN Organs
• The Last Page
• The Vanity of This World

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 55, no. 4, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Alan Swinbank, Some Lessons that Might Be Learnt from Brexit Britain’s Trade Negotiations with the European Union
• Hasegawa Jitsuya, Standardization of Complex and Diversified Preferential Rules of Origin
• Mandy Meng Fang, Old Wine in a New Bottle? Green Industrial Policy and the Use of Safeguards in the Solar Sector
• Fabrizio Marrella, Rafik Khammatovic Usmanov, & Patricio Ignacio Barbirotto, On Trade Liberalization for Political Ends: The Case of the EAEU
• Paitoon Varadejsatitwong, Ruth Banomyong, & Puthipong Julagasigorn, Reflexions on the Scope and Classification of Logistics Services in Trade Negotiations
• David Collins, Joo-Hyoung Lee, & Tae Jung Park, A Soft Landing for Developing Countries and Non-Discrimination in Digital Trade: Possible Lessons from Asian Countries
• I Gusti Ngurah Parikesit Widiatedja, Indonesia’s Export Ban on Nickel Ore: Does It Violate the World Trade Organization (WTO) Rules?

New Volume: Irish Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Irish Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 14, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Maria Grazia Giammarinaro, A Human Rights-Based Approach to Trafficking in Persons in Conflict Situations
• Shane Darcy, Embedding Business and Human Rights in Ireland: Legislating for Human Rights Due Diligence
• Ríán Derrig, Was Rockall Conquered? An Application of the Law of Territory to a Rock in the North Atlantic Ocean

Bagheri: International Law and the War with Islamic State: Challenges for Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello

Saeed Bagheri (Univ. of Reading) has published International Law and the War with Islamic State: Challenges for Jus ad Bellum and Jus in Bello (Hart Publishing 2021). Here's the abstract:

Armed non-state actors (ANSAs) often have economic aims that international law needs to respond to. This book looks at the aim of Islamic State to create an effective government, with an economically independent regime, which focused on key oilfields in Syria and Iraq. Having addressed Islamic State's quest for energy resources in Iraq and Syria, the book explores the lawfulness of the war with Islamic State from a variety of legal aspects. It has been attempted to make inroads into the most controversial aspects of contradictions in the application of jus ad bellum and jus in bello, particularly when discussing the use of extraterritorial armed force against ANSAs, and the obligation to protect civilian objects, including the natural environment.

The question is whether the targeting of energy resources should be regarded as a violation of the laws of armed conflict, even though the war with Islamic State being classified as a non-international armed conflict. Ambitious in scope, the study argues that legal theory and state practice are still problematic as to how and under what conditions states can justify resorting to military force in foreign territory, and to what extent they can target natural resources as being part of state property. Furthermore, it goes on to examine the differences between international and non-international armed conflicts, to establish whether there is any difference in the targeting of energy resources as part of the war-sustaining capabilities of either party.

Through an examination of the Islamic State case, the book offers a comprehensive study to close the gaps in jus in bello by contextualising the questions of civilian protection, victimisation and state responsibility by evaluating the US's war-sustaining theory as a justification for the destruction of a territorial state's natural resources that are occupied by ANSAs.

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (Vol. 31, no. 2, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• SSDI/SVIR Annual Meeting 2020
• Andreas R. Zigler, Switzerland and International Investment Law: Why it Matters
• Krista Nadakavukaren Schefer, Sustainability in International Investment Law: Building on What Exists by Enhancing the Right to Regulate
• Rodrigo Polanco, Sustainable Development in Swiss International Investment Agreements
• Michele Potestà, Appointment of Arbitrators in the Changing ISDS Landscape
• Articles
• Andreas Bucher, L'attractivité du toilettage du chapitre 12 de la LDIP

New Volume: German Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the German Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 62, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Forum: Comparative Disciplinary Perspectives on the Challenges Facing the Human Rights Council
• Rosa Freedman & Samuel Gordon, An International Law Perspective on the Challenges Confronting the Human Rights Council
• Wolfgang S. Heinz, An International Relations Perspective on the ReformNeeds of the Human Rights Council
• Focus: The Treaty of Versailles at 100
• Andreas von Arnauld, The Treaty of Versailles at 100: By Way of Introduction
• Christian J. Tams, Experiments Great and Small: Centenary Reflections on the League of Nations
• Thomas Kleinlein, The Versailles Peace Treaty Before the Permanent Court of International Justice: Tracing the Legalism of the Paris Settlement
• Claus Kreß, The Peacemaking Process After the Great War and the Origins of International Criminal Law Stricto Sensu
• Lauri Mälksoo, The Treaties of Brest-Litovsk, Versailles and Moscow: Contesting Sovereignty and Hegemony in Eastern Europe in 1918–1939
• Jochen von Bernstorff, From Versailles to the Kellogg-Briand Pact: Prohibiting and Justifying Aggression in the Interbellum
• Markus P.Beham, A Forgotten Lighthouse of International Law: Heinrich Lammasch and the League of Nations
• Magnan Johannes Mohr, Between Pacifism and Patriotism: Walther Schücking (1875–1935)
• Walther Schücking Lecture
• Alan Boyle, Progressive Development of International Environmental Law: Legislate or Litigate?
• General Articles
• James Gerard Devaney, Reappraising the Role of Experts inRecent Cases Before the International Court of Justice
• Nikolay Marin & Bilyana Manova, The Constraints of International Courts as a Tool for Resolving the Ukrainian-Russian Conflicts
• Ulf Linderfalk, The Exercise of Discretion in International Law – Why Constraining Criteria Have a Proper Place in the Analysis of Legal Decision-Making
• Bjørn Kunoy, Sharing is Caring: Transboundary Hydrocarbon Deposits on the Continental Shelf
• Julian Scheu & Petyo Nikolov The Incompatibility of Intra-EU Investment Treaty Arbitration With European Union Law – Assessing the Scope of the ECJ’s Achmea Judgment
• Ilya Berlin, Western Sahara, Morocco, and the EU: Did the CJEU Get it Wrong? A Commentary of Advocate-General Wathelet’s Opinion and the CJEU Decision in the Western Sahara Campaign UK Case
• German Practice
• Alexander Grimmig, The German Constitutional Court’s Pronouncement on Self-Defence Against Non-State Actors in Syria
• Leander Beinlich, Drones, Discretion, and the Duty to Protect the Right to Life: Germany and its Role in the United States’ Drone Programme Before the Higher Administrative Court of Münster
• Liv Christiansen & Lilo B. Rösch, German Practice Concerning the Implementation of the 2015 Paris Agreement
• Alexandra Lily Kather & Britta Redwood, Universal Jurisdiction in Germany: Frameworks and Practice Insights

New Issue: Journal of Conflict Resolution

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution (Vol. 65, no. 7-8, August-September 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Roman Krtsch, The Tactical Use of Civil Resistance by Rebel Groups: Evidence from India’s Maoist Insurgency
• Manuel Vogt, Kristian Skrede Gleditsch, & Lars-Erik Cederman, From Claims to Violence: Signaling, Outbidding, and Escalation in Ethnic Conflict
• Andrew Cheon, Shi-Teng Kang, & Swetha Ramachandran, Determinants of Environmental Conflict: When Do Communities Mobilize against Fossil Fuel Production?
• Andrew Shaver & Jacob N. Shapiro, The Effect of Civilian Casualties on Wartime Informing: Evidence from the Iraq War
• Allan Dafoe, Remco Zwetsloot, & Matthew Cebul, Reputations for Resolve and Higher-Order Beliefs in Crisis Bargaining
• Andreas Beger, Richard K. Morgan, & Michael D. Ward, Reassessing the Role of Theory and Machine Learning in Forecasting Civil Conflict
• Robert A. Blair & Nicholas Sambanis, Is Theory Useful for Conflict Prediction? A Response to Beger, Morgan, and Ward

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 59, no. 2, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Michael von Landenberg-Roberg, Die Operationalisierung der 'Ambitionsspirale' des Pariser Klimaschutzabkommens
• Birgit Peters, Zur Anwendbarkeit der Europäischen Menschenrechtskonvention in Umwelt- und Klimaschutzfragen
• Beiträge und Berichte
• Eleanor Benz & Verena Kahl, Das Urteil im Fall Lhaka Honhat: Die Ausweitung der direkten Justiziabilität von DESCA und die unerfüllte Hoffnung der Konkretisierung des Rechts auf eine gesunde Umwelt

Altunjan: Reproductive Violence and International Criminal Law

Tanja Altunjan has published Reproductive Violence and International Criminal Law (Springer 2021). Here's the abstract:

This book deals with the phenomenon of conflict-related reproductive violence and explores the international legal framework’s capacity to respond to it. The international discourse on gender-based violence in conflicts tends to focus on sexualized crimes, which leads to incomplete narratives of the gendered dimensions of armed conflicts. In particular, international law has often remained silent on conflict-related violence affecting or aimed at the victim’s reproductive system.

The author conceptualizes reproductive violence as a distinct manifestation of gender-based violence and a violation of reproductive autonomy. The analysis explores the historical approaches to reproductive violence and evaluates the current potentials of international criminal law for its prosecution as genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. In this regard, it also develops proposals for a gender-sensitive interpretation of the existing legal framework as well as possible amendments to it.

Volpe, Peters, & Battini: Remedies against Immunity? Reconciling International and Domestic Law after the Italian Constitutional Court’s Sentenza 238/201

Valentina Volpe (Lille Catholic Univ. - Law), Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law), & Stefano Battini (Italian National School for Public Administration) have published Remedies against Immunity? Reconciling International and Domestic Law after the Italian Constitutional Court’s Sentenza 238/2014 (Springer 2021). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

The open access book examines the consequences of the Italian Constitutional Court’s Judgment 238/2014 which denied the German Republic’s immunity from civil jurisdiction over claims to reparations for Nazi crimes committed during World War II. This landmark decision created a range of currently unresolved legal problems and controversies which continue to burden the political and diplomatic relationship between Germany and Italy. The judgment has wide repercussions for core concepts of international law and for the relationship between different legal orders.

The book’s three interlinked legal themes are state immunity, reparation for serious human rights violations and war crimes (including historical ones), and the interaction between international and domestic institutions, notably courts.

Besides a meticulous legal analysis of these themes from the perspectives of international law, European law, and domestic law, the book contributes to the civic debate on the issue of war crimes and reparation for the victims of armed conflict. It proposes concrete legal and political solutions to the parties involved for overcoming the present paralysis with a view to a sustainable interstate conflict solution and helps judges directly involved in the pending post-Sentenza reparation cases.

After an Introduction (Part I), Part II, Immunity, investigates core international law concepts such as those of pre/post-judgment immunity and international state responsibility. Part III, Remedies, examines the tension between state immunity and the right to remedy and suggests original schemes for solving the conundrum under international law. Part IV adds European Perspectives by showcasing relevant regional examples of legal cooperation and judicial dialogue. Part V, Courts, addresses questions on the role of judges in the areas of immunity and human rights at both the national and international level. Part VI, Negotiations, suggests concrete ways out of the impasse with a forward-looking aspiration. In Part VII, The Past and Future of Remedies, a sitting judge in the Court that decided Sentenza 238/2014 adds some critical reflections on the Judgment. Joseph H. H. Weiler’s Dialogical Epilogue concludes the volume by placing the main findings of the book in a wider European and international law perspective.

New Volume: Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law

The latest volume of the Balkan Yearbook of European and International Law (Vol. 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Special Topic: 40 Years of CISG
• Ben Köhler, For an Independent Development of the CISG Beyond Article 7 (2): A Stocktake and a Proposal
• Marko Jovanović, Forever Young: The Gap-Filling Mechanism of the CISG As a Factor of Its Modernization
• Jelena S. Perović Vujačić, Anticipatory Breach of Contract in Uniform Contract Law: Overview of the Solution of the UN Convention on the International Sale of Goods
• Nevena Jevremović, CISG and Proactive Contracting: Suspending Performance Under Article 71 CISG in the Time of a Global Pandemic
• Lok Kan So, Poomintr Sooksripaisarnkit, & Sai Ramani Garimella, COVID-19 in the Context of the CISG: Reconsidering the Concept of Hardship and Force Majeure
• Agne Limante, The Western Balkans on the Way to the EU: Revisiting EU Conditionality
• Bojana Todorović, The Story of the Civil Supervisor: A Missed Opportunity to Strengthen Civil Control of Public Procurement in the Republic of Serbia
• Pavel Koukal, Tereza Kyselovská, & Zuzana Vlachová, Employment Contracts and the Law Applicable to the Right to a Patent: Czech Considerations
• Apostolos Anthimos, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Judgments in the Field of Bilateral Conventions of Greece with Balkan States
• Barbara Herceg Pakšić, Holding All the Aces? Hate Speech: Features and Suppression in Croatia
• Virdzhiniya Petrova Georgieva, The Challenges of the World Health Organization: Lessons from the Outbreak of COVID-19
• Nasir Muftić & Tahir Herenda, Sacrificing Privacy in the Fight Against Pandemics: How Far Is Too Far? Examples from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro

New Volume: Nigerian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Nigerian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 2018/2019) is out. Contents include:

• Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade, New Reflections on Humankind as a Subject of International Law
• David Baragwanath, Can the Law Respond to Threatened Apocalypse?
• Howard Morrison, The Rule of International Law: Where Are We Going?
• Osatohanmwen O. Anastasia Eruaga, Coastal State Regulation of the Use of Arms in the Private Protection of Commercial Vessels in the Gulf of Guinea: A Nigerian Perspective
• Adaeze Okoye, Mariam Masini, & Alache Fisho, Joint Development of Transboundary Natural Resources: Lessons from the Nigeria-Sao Tome and Principe Joint Development Zone
• Irekpitan Okukpon, Implementing Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR)-based Electronic Waste Institutions in Nigeria: Lessons from the Global North
• Amaka Vanni, The Participation of Pharmaceutical Drug Industry in Patent Governance and Law-Making: A Case Study of India and Nigeria
• Chile Eboe-Osuji, The International Criminal Court: What Has It Accomplished?
• Ivana Hrdličková, Adrian Plevin, & Amanda Fang, Improving the Efficiency of International Criminal Courts and Tribunals: The Paris Declaration on the Effectiveness of International Criminal Justice
• Péter Kovács, The International Criminal Court on the Rohingyas’ Situation and the Early Scholarly Echo of the Decision
• Daniel D. Ntanda Nsereko, The Law’s Response to the Plight of Victims of Trauma in the Context of International Criminal Justice
• Caroline Omari Lichuma, TWAILing the Minimum Core Concept: Re-thinking the Minimum Core of Economic and Social Rights in the Third World
• Olasupo Owoeye, Health and Development in Africa: How Far Can the Human Rights Jurisprudence Go?
• Solomon Ukhuegbe & Alero I. Fenemigho, Determining the Termination of a Non-International Armed Conflict: An Analysis of the Boko Haram Insurgency in Northern Nigeria

Kilkelly, Lundy, & Byrne: Incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into National Law

Ursula Kilkelly (Univ. College Cork - Law), Laura Lundy (Queen's Univ. Belfast - Centre for Children’s Rights), & Bronagh Byrne (Queen's Univ. Belfast - Centre for Children’s Rights) have published Incorporating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child into National Law (Intersentia 2021). Here's the abstract:

This book presents a rich and detailed analysis of the incorporation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. It combines individual contributions that address the experience of legal incorporation in countries around the world, written by individual country experts, with comparative analysis of the international landscape from the world’s leading authorities on children’s rights incorporation.