Call for Papers: Who judges the judges? Oversight mechanisms in international dispute resolution

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "Who judges the judges? Oversight mechanisms in international dispute resolution," to take place June 21-22, 2023, at the University of Oxford. The call is here.

New Volume: Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal

The latest volume of the Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal (Vol. 10, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Sección de Artículos de Investigación desde el Derecho Internacional Penal
• Yoveslav Radoslavov Yordanov, Los Acuerdos sobre el Estatuto de las Fuerzas Armadas Extranjeras como límite a la actividad jurisdiccional de la Corte Penal Internacional
• Ana Isabel Carreras Presencio, Esperanza en el sistema jurídico de Derecho Penal de la comunidad internacional.
• Michael Méndez, Proceso de constitucionalización del sistema internacional: discusión teórica sobre sus avances y conclusiones
• Maria Alejandra Pabon Acevedo, La limitada aplicación de la responsabilidad del superior jerárquico y sus consecuencias al derecho a la verdad en Colombia
• Ensayos seleccionados del XI Certamen Blattmann, Odio Benito y Steiner
• João Pedro de Souz, aExclusión de pruebas ilícitas e integridad de los procesos una interpretación del artículo 69(7)(b) del Estatuto de Roma y los precedentes de la Corte Penal Internacional
• David Estévez Lledó, Los Derechos Humanos internacionalmente reconocidos ante la Corte Penal Internacional
• Damaris Eliana Martinez Acosta, ¿Todos los caminos conducen a La Haya? Reflexiones de política criminal tras 17 años de examen preliminar en Colombia
• Elena Carolina Diaz Galan, Matrimonio forzado y crimen internacional: una nueva tendencia normativa y jurisprudencial
• Laura Cristina Acosta Reaza, Herramientas de la justicia penal internacional en la investigación local de graves violaciones a los derechos humanos
• Ensayos seleccionados del V Certamen de Estudios Críticos sobre la Justicia
• Miguel Alfredo Ledesma Chavarro, De la interdicción a la plena capacidad jurídica

Call for Papers: Ukraine and the Post-Liberal International Order after the Zeitenwende

A call for papers has been issued for a conference, in the hybrid format, on "Ukraine and the Post-Liberal International Order after the Zeitenwende," to be held June 15-16, 2023, at the University of Zürich. The call is here.

New Issue: Asian Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of International Law (Vol. 13, no. 1, January 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Notes and Comments
• Yurika Ishii, Immunity Ratione Materiae of the Marines as Vessel Protection Detachments: A Case Note on the M/V Enrica Lexie Case
• Prabhash Ranjan & Praharsh Gour, The TRIPS Waiver Decision at the World Trade Organization: Too Little Too Late!
• Articles
• Ai Abe, An Outstanding Claim: The Ryukyu/Okinawa Peoples’ Right to Self-Determination under International Human Rights Law
• Wanshu Cong, Contesting Freedom of Information: Capitalism, Development, and the Third World
• Vasudevan Shritha, Would the “Optional Protocol” Effectuate India's Due Diligence Obligation Under the Women's Convention?
• Mohammad-Ali Bahmaei & Habib Sabzevari, Self-Judging Security Exception Clause as a Kind of Carte Blanche in Investment Treaties: Nature, Effect and Proper Standard of Review
• Huu Duy Minh Tran, The Approach of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf to Submissions Involving Unresolved Disputes: Should It Be Modified?
• Ignacio de la Rasilla, Looking Forward Through and Beyond the Western Classics of International Law
• Megumi Ochi, The New Recipe for a General Principle of Law: Premise Theory to “Fill in the Gaps”

New Issue: Journal of International Dispute Settlement

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 14, no. 1, March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Béatrice I Bonafé, Unusual Source of Inspiration: Cooking International Law
• Articles
• William Hamilton Byrne & Zuzanna Godzimirska, Pleading for international law: assessing the influence of party to proceedings on legal change in international courts
• Rachel Cahill-O’Callaghan, Anna Howard, & Stavros Brekoulakis, Influence in investor-state dispute settlement: a dynamic concept
• Kun Fan, Beyond law and politics: an empirical study of judicial mediation in China
• Current Developments
• Pietro Ortolani & Bas van Zelst, International commercial courts and EU law: easing the tension
• Benjamin Salas Kantor & Carolina Valdivia Torres, Competing over the continental shelf: the legal versus the geophysical entitlements
• Gracious Avayiwoe, Towards clarity: the ‘may be affected’ requirement and non-party intervention at the International Court of Justice

Margulis: Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security

Matias E. Margulis (Univ. of British Columbia - School of Public Policy and Global Affairs) has published Shadow Negotiators: How UN Organizations Shape the Rules of World Trade for Food Security (Stanford Univ. Press 2023). Here's the abstract:

Shadow Negotiators is the first book to demonstrate that United Nations (UN) organizations have intervened to influence the discourse, agenda, and outcomes of international trade lawmaking at the World Trade Organization (WTO). While UN organizations lack a seat at the bargaining table at the WTO, Matias E. Margulis argues that these organizations have acted as "shadow negotiators" engaged in political actions intended to alter the trajectory and results of multilateral trade negotiations. He draws on analysis of one of the most contested issues in global trade politics, agricultural trade liberalization, to demonstrate interventions by four different UN organizations—the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the World Food Programme (WFP), the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), and the Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food (SRRTF).

By identifying several novel intervention strategies used by UN actors to shape the rules of global trade, this book shows that UN organizations chose to intervene in trade lawmaking not out of competition with the WTO or ideological resistance to trade liberalization, but out of concerns that specific trade rules could have negative consequences for world food security—an outcome these organizations viewed as undermining their social purpose to reduce world hunger and protect the human right to food.

New Issue: Journal du Droit International

The latest issue of the Journal du Droit International ("Clunet") (Vol. 150, no. 1, Janvier-Février-Mars 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Doctrine
• Syméon Karaglannis, Les voies de circulation et les dispositifs de séparation du trafic dans les détroits internationaux
• Valérie Pironon, L’adaptation des règles de compétence juridictionnelle issues du règlement Bruxelles I bis aux actions en réparation des préjudices causés par une pratique anticoncurrentielle
• Variétés
• Francesco Seatzu & Paolo Vargiu, Les agences de notation de crédit et leurs activités de rating, un re gard à travers le prisme du droit international public
• Ludovic Chan-Tung, Le rôle des collectivités fédérées dans la politique climatique internationale des Etats-Unis

Smith & Klinkner: Mass Graves, Truth and Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Investigation of Mass Graves

Ellie Smith (Bournemouth Univ.) & Melanie Klinkner (Bournemouth Univ.) have published Mass Graves, Truth and Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Investigation of Mass Graves (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023). Here's the abstract:

Across the world, mass graves, often containing a multitude of human remains, are sites of human loss, suffering and unimaginable acts of cruelty. While no one mass grave or its investigation is the same, all mass graves contain evidence that is essential to the realisation of justice and accountability goals for victims, affected communities, states in transition and the international community.

This book tactfully examines this sensitive topic, demonstrating how mass grave investigations can be highly complex, context-specific, lengthy and expensive processes, requiring significant planning, coordination, expertise and resources. The book analyses the various processes involved in mass grave investigation from a number of disciplinary perspectives and a variety of geographical, cultural and political contexts, including Bosnia, Guatemala, Libya, Nepal and Rwanda. Chapters feature expert contributions from voices in the fields of forensic sciences, advocacy and the judiciary, along with world-leading international legal expertise on mass graves, their protection and investigation.

Symposium: The Legitimacy and Legality of War: From Philosophical Foundations to Emerging Problems

On April 14, 2023, the Saint Louis University School of Law will host a symposium on "The Legitimacy and Legality of War: From Philosophical Foundations to Emerging Problems." Details and registration are here.

Minkova: Responsibility on Trial: Liability Standards in International Criminal Law

Liana Georgieva Minkova (Univ. of Cambridge) has published Responsibility on Trial: Liability Standards in International Criminal Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2023). Here's the abstract:

Establishing individual criminal responsibility for mass atrocities is the foundational principle of international criminal justice, but this process is highly complex, and is accompanied by political and legal dilemmas about its operation. The book examines the drafting, interpretation, and application of the rules for assessing individual criminal responsibility as those rules emerge from the intense contestations among judges, lawyers, and academics within the legal field. Focusing on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the book provides a rich analysis of the international debates around questions of criminal responsibility by interrogating formal legal documents and legal scholarship alongside more candid accounts (interviews, memoirs, minutes). These debates are of key importance for international criminal law and global justice because how criminal responsibility laws are construed in practice determines which conduct merits punishment and, ultimately, demarcates the boundaries of what are considered the 'gravest' acts that 'shock' humanity.

Symposium: Queer Liberation Under International Law

On March 28, 2023, the Cardozo International & Comparative Law Review and the Cardozo Journal for Equal Rights & Social Justice will host a hybrid symposium on "Queer Liberation Under International Law." Program and registration are here.

Workshop: International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn

On March 16-17, 2023, the University of Hamburg will host a workshop on "International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn." The program is here.

Call for Papers: The EU as a Regional International Organisation

The Asser Institute and the Amsterdam Centre for European Studies have issued a call for papers on "The EU as a Regional International Organisation," to be held December 1, 2023, in The Hague. The call is here.

Conference: Thirty-Ninth Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference

The British Institute of International and Comparative Law will host in the hybrid format the Thirty-Ninth Investment Treaty Forum Public Conference on April 21, 2023. The theme is: "Energy Disputes in ISDS." The program is here.

Call for Participation: "New Voices in International Law" for ASIL Annual Meeting

The American Society of International Law has issued a call for participation for "New Voices in International Law" at the 2023 ASIL Annual Meeting. Here's the call:

The Society seeks to incorporate new voices into several of its panels for the upcoming Annual Meeting. If you are a young scholar or practitioner with particular expertise to contribute to one of the panels set out below, we would love to hear from you. By no later than Thursday, March 16th, please submit a short description of your qualifications and what you believe you could contribute substantively to the panel, (in 200 words or less) and a résumé or CV via this Google Form: https://forms.gle/wXneFBVzWEVJK5kh8. Decisions will be made no later than March 22. New voice panelists are expected to attend the Annual Meeting in person.

• Synergy or Dissonance on Business and Human Rights? The interplay between national practice and international law
• Regulating States' Sovereign Rights under Today's Global Challenges
• Beyond Greenwashing: Navigating the complex policy framework for green finance
• Managing Climate Migration: Legal and policy considerations in approaches
• Economic Statecraft or Economic Warfare?
• Artificial Intelligence and International Law: Uncharted Territory?

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 26, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Seokwoo Lee & Hee Eun Lee, Korea: From Norm Taker to Norm Maker in International Law
• Le Thi Anh Dao & Vu Quoc Tuan, Building an Agreement on Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction: What Are the Positions of Asian States?

Call for Submissions: Climate Change Law in Indonesia (Climate Law)

The journal Climate Law has issued a call for submissions for a special issue on "Climate Change Law in Indonesia." The call is here.

New Issue: Journal of International Economic Law

The latest issue of the Journal of International Economic Law (Vol. 26, no. 1, March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: 25th Anniversary
• Andrea K Bjorklund & Gabrielle Marceau, New (Paradigms In) International Economic Law
• Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, The WTO’S Contribution to the Challenges of Global Commons
• Kristalina Georgieva & Rhoda Weeks-Brown, The IMF’s Evolving Role Within a Constant Mandate
• Lisa Jorgenson & Carsten Fink, WIPO’s Contributions to International Cooperation on Intellectual Property
• Meg Kinnear, The Role of ICSID in International Economic Law
• Chiara Giorgetti, The Transformation of International Organizations—Specialization, New Initiatives, and Working Methods—Some Observations on the Work of UNCITRAL Working Group III
• Joost Pauwelyn, Taking Stakeholder Engagement in International Policy-Making Seriously: Is the WTO Finally Opening Up?
• Lucinda A Low, Corporate Power and Accountability in International Economic LawGet accessArrow
• Joel P Trachtman, Platforms and Global Governance: Globalization on Steroids
• Mira Burri, Trade Law 4.0: Are We There Yet?
• Reuven Avi-Yonah, International Taxation, Globalization, and the Economic Digital Divide
• Meredith Kolsky Lewis, International Trade Agreements: Laboratories of Innovation or Propellers of Fragmentation?
• Isabelle Van Damme, 25 Years of Law and Practice at the WTO: Did the Appellate Body Dig its Own Grave?
• Valerie Hughes, Maintaining Relevance in a Much-Changed World: Reforming WTO Dispute Settlement
• Manjiao Chi, International Regulation of Industrial Subsidy
• Petros C Mavroidis & André Sapir, State Capitalism in the GATT/WTO Legal Order
• Anne van Aaken, Investment Law in the Twenty-First Century: Things Will Have to Change in Order to Remain the Same
• Federico Ortino, ISDS and Its Transformations
• Locknie Hsu, The Evolution of the ‘Trade and …’ ‘Debate’—A View from ASEAN

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 27, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Barbara Mikołajczyk, Universal human rights instruments and digital literacy of older persons
• Klaus D. Beiter, Why neoliberal ideology, privatisation, and other challenges make a reframing of the right to education in international law necessary
• Audrey L. Comstock, The UN voluntary compact and peacekeeping abuse: assessing a soft law solution for sexual exploitation and abuse
• Mehmet Faruk Kocak, Protecting the right to housing in the era of financialisation: four principles for urban renewal
• Vera Lúcia Raposo, Health, privacy and liberty: a call for digital governance during (and after) the pandemic
• Abby Kleiman, Climate displacement and human rights: rectifying the current legal protection lacuna through international and regional solutions
• Marieke J. Hopman, The child’s right to freedom of expression in Moroccan-controlled Western Sahara

Call for Submissions: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights has issued a call for submissions. Here's the call:

The Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (NQHR) is a double-anonymized peer-reviewed journal that publishes the latest evolutions in the promotion and protection of human rights around the world. From 1 January 2023, the journal has gone completely open access! This means that authors will not have to pay a fee to publish with the journal, and nor will readers have to pay to read our articles. As you may find on the NQHR’s website, the journal welcomes articles of approximately 10,000 words addressing human rights law issues from an international perspective and also welcomes submissions that connect human rights to perspectives from international relations, history, political science, sociology, and anthropology. The NQHR Executive Board welcomes all submissions that engage with these themes. To upload your submission, please visit the NQHR author instructions and the journal’s submission site.

New Issue: International Affairs

The latest issue of International Affairs (Vol. 99, no. 2, March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• India as a ‘civilizational state’
• Emma Mawdsley, Introduction: India as a ‘civilizational state’
• Kate Sullivan de Estrada, What is a vishwaguru? Indian civilizational pedagogy as a transformative global imperative
• Jayati Srivastava, The narratives and aesthetics of the civilizational state in the ‘new’ India
• Shibashis Chatterjee & Udayan Das, India’s civilizational arguments in south Asia: from Nehruvianism to Hindutva
• Esra Elif Nartok, ‘Hindu civilization’ in business: the World Hindu Economic Forum’s intellectual project
• Rani Singh & Tim Winter, From Hinduism to Hindutva: civilizational internationalism and UNESCO
• Sebastian Haug & Supriya Roychoudhury, Civilizational exceptionalism in international affairs: making sense of Indian and Turkish claims
• Priya Chacko, Disciplining India: paternalism, neo-liberalism and Hindutva civilizationalism
• Louise Fawcett, The Iraq War 20 years on: towards a new regional architecture
• Oula Kadhum, Nation-destroying, emigration and Iraqi nationhood after the 2003 intervention
• Juliet Kaarbo, Kai Oppermann & Ryan K. Beasley, What if? Counterfactual Trump and the western response to the war in Ukraine
• Míla O’Sullivan & Kateřina Krulišová, Women, Peace and Security in central Europe: in between the western agenda and Russian imperialism
• Boaz Atzili & Min Jung Kim, Buffer zones and international rivalry: internal and external geographic separation mechanisms
• Duncan Depledge, Low-carbon warfare: climate change, net zero and military operations
• Julia Gurol, The authoritarian narrator: China’s power projection and its reception in the Gulf
• Fiona B. Adamson & Kelly M. Greenhill, Deal-making, diplomacy and transactional forced migration
• Yf Reykers, John Karlsrud, Malte Brosig, Stephanie C. Hofmann, Cristiana Maglia & Pernille Rieker, Ad hoc coalitions in global governance: short-notice, task- and time-specific cooperation
• Okechukwu C. Iheduru, The Catholic church and regional governance in west Africa
• Nicole Scicluna & Stefan Auer Europe’s constitutional unsettlement: testing the political limits of legal integration
• Thomas Peak, Halting genocide in a post-liberal international order: intervention, institutions and norms
• Daniel Fittante, Constructivist memory politics: Armenian genocide recognition in Latvia

New Issue: The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals

The latest issue of The Law and Practice of International Courts and Tribunals (Vol. 22, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Fabian Simon Eichberger, Informal Communications to the International Court of Justice in Cases of Non-appearance
• Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, Compensation in Cases of Mass Atrocities at the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court
• René Figueredo Corrales, In the Pursuit of High Purposes: The International Court of Justice, Obligations Erga Omnes and the Prohibition of Genocide
• Jean-Baptiste Merlin, Unduly Indicated? Provisional Measures and Subsequent Adverse Findings at the International Court of Justice
• Kawser Ahmed, Will the ICJ Objectively Assess the Statehood of Palestine? A Brief Reflection
• Alexandre Tavadian & Clément Ducamin, Proliferation of Standards of Proof in International Administrative Tribunals
• Andreas Kulick, Meta’s Oversight Board and Beyond – Corporations as Interpreters and Adjudicators of International Human Rights
• Chen Yu, The “Externalities” of Joint Interpretations in Investment Arbitration: Learning from the Past

New Issue: Rivista di Diritto Internazionale

The latest issue of the Rivista di Diritto Internazionale (Vol. 106, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli
• Francesco Salerno, L’accertamento del fatto illecito tra diritto internazionale e diritto interno
• Leonardo Borlini, L’espulsione della Federazione russa dal Consiglio d’Europa e le conseguenze giuridiche della cessazione della qualità di membro
• Carmelo Danisi, L’applicazione della CEDU nel contesto del conflitto russo-ucraino
• Note e Commenti
• Marco Pedrazzi, Tra Marte e gli spazioporti: qual è la linea dell’Italia?
• Enrico Zannarini, Piercing the Veil of Diplomatic Immunity: Basfar v. Wong and the Rethinking of the “Commercial Activity” Exception
• Loris Marotti, L’Unione Europea e le strategie di «disconnessione» dall’Energy Charter Treaty

New Volume: German Practice in International Law

The latest volume of German Practice in International Law (Vol. 2, 2020), edited by Stefan Talmon (Univ. of Bonn - Law), is out.

Whelan: Reciprocity in Public International Law

Arianna Whelan (Department of Foreign Affairs, Ireland) has published Reciprocity in Public International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2023). Here's the abstract:

There is a common perception of reciprocity as a concept that is opposed to the communitarian interests that characterise contemporary international law, or merely a way of denoting reactions to unfriendly or wrongful conduct. This book disputes this approach, and highlights how reciprocity is instead linked to the structural characteristic of sovereign equality of States in international law. This book carries out an in-depth analysis of the concept of reciprocity and the elements that characterise it, before examining the various roles and articulations of reciprocity in a number of fields of public international law: the law of treaties, the treatment of individuals, the execution of international law, and the jurisdiction of international courts and tribunals. In all these areas, it analyses both more traditional and more contemporary examples, to demonstrate how reciprocity is closely linked to the very structure of public international law.