Conference: IX Jornadas Chileno-argentinas de Derecho Internacional

On October 12-13, 2023, the IX Jornadas Chileno-argentinas de Derecho Internacional will take place in Santiago. The theme is: "La persona humana en el Derecho Internacional Público a la luz del 75 aniversario de la Declaración Universal de los Derechos Humanos." Details are here.

Call for Submissions: Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law

The Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume 12 (2024). The call is here.

Conference: Resort to international advisory proceedings

On October 20, 2023, the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law will host a conference, in the hybrid format, on "Resort to international advisory proceedings." Details are here.

New Volume: Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law

The latest volume of the Hungarian Yearbook of International Law and European Law (Vol. 11, 2023) is out. The table of contents is here. The volume includes a thematic chapter on "European Citizenship: Past, Present, and Future."

New Issue: Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy

The latest issue of the Asian Journal of WTO & International Health Law and Policy (Vol. 18, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Chang Hwan Choi, Is an Anti-Circumvention System of Anti-Dumping Duty Needed? Evidence from the Korea Import Case
• Tsai-fang Chen, Non-Discrimination Under the Most-Favoured-Nation Obligation and Adequacy Decisions in the General Data Protection Regulation
• Hsien Wu, The Forgotten Cog in the Dispute Settlement Machine: An Analysis of the Underappreciated Roles and Mandates of the Dispute Settlement Body in the Dispute Settlement Process
• Sadiya S. Silvee & Ximei Wu, Examining the Contemporary International Food Instruments and Framework
• Tsung-Ling Lee, Pandemic Accord, Digital Health Literacy, and Human Rights in the Era of Infodemic
• Shuwen Xu, To Waive or Not to Waive: The Debate and Analysis of TRIPS Waiver

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 38, no. 2, Spring 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Lecture
• Alexis Mourre, For a Universal Standard for Conflicts Disclosures
• Case Comments
• John R Crook, Kimberly-Clark Dutch Holdings, BV, Kimberly-Clark SLU, and Kimberly-Clark BVBA v Venezuela
• Andrés Mazuera, Glencore v Colombia: A Tale of Legally Coerced Evidence
• Patrick Leonard, Patrick Costello v the Government of Ireland, Ireland and the Attorney General: Obstacles to the Ratification of CETA in the Irish Constitutional Context
• Laura Rees-Evans & Rhys Carvosso, ‘Maduro Board’ of the Central Bank of  Venezuela v ‘Guaidó Board’ of the Central Bank of  Venezuela
• Practice Notes
• Mélanie Riofrio Piché, Document Production: The Armesto Schedule
• Mallory Silberman, Using PowerPoint in ISDS Hearings
• Articles
• Simon Batifort & Andrew Larkin, The Meaning of Silence in Investment Treaties
• Caroline Henckels, Justifying the Protection of Legitimate Expectations in International Investment Law: Legal Certainty and Arbitrary Conduct
• Saudin J Mwakaje & Taragwa M Nyang’anyi, Reclaiming Sovereignty over Natural Wealth and Resources in Tanzania: Legal and Regulatory Implications on Investments
• Crina Baltag, Riddhi Joshi, & Kabir Duggal, Recent Trends in Investment Arbitration on the Right to Regulate, Environment, Health and Corporate Social Responsibility: Too Much or Too Little?
• Arman Sarvarian, Invoking the Paris Agreement in Investor-State Arbitration
• Notes
• Barton Legum & Clara Motin, The Essential Qualities for an Arbitrator
• Tobias Ackermann & Sebastian Wuschka, The Applicability of Investment Treaties in the Context of Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine
• Zachary Douglas, The Umbrella Clause Revisited

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 62, no. 5, October 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Dispute Over the Status and Use of the Waters of the Silala (Chile v. Bol.) (I.C.J.), with introductory note by Komlan Sangbana
• Views adopted by the Committee under Art. 5(4) of the Optional Protocol, concerning Communication No. 3624/2019 (U.N.H.R. Committee), with introductory note by Maria Gavouneli
• The Kunming–Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, with introductory note by Tim Stephens
• The Artemis Accords, with introductory note by Balázs Bartóki-Gönczy and Boldizsár Nagy
• Legal & H.R. Centre and Centre for Reproductive Rights (on behalf of Tanzanian girls) v. Tanz. (Afr. Committee of Experts on the RTS & Welfare of the Child (ACERWC)), with introductory note by Rosa Celorio

New Issue: International Interactions

The latest issue of International Interactions (Vol. 49, no. 5, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Seulah Choi, Where You Sit Matters: The Power of Brokers in Diplomatic Networks & Interstate Conflict
• Darren Hawkins & Jay Goodliffe, “Leave It as It Is”: International Network Effects on Protected Lands
• Jerry Urtuzuastigui, American Diasporas, Homeland Human Rights Conduct, and the Onset of Human Rights-Based Economic Sanctions
• Ilayda B. Onder, Signaling Resolve through Credit-claiming
• Tanja Eschenauer-Engler, Soldiers and Protest: A Set-Theory Perspective on Military Repression of Anti-Regime Mass Mobilization in Autocracies
• Emil Petersson, Looking to the Skies: Operation Unified Protector and the Strategy of Aerial Intervention

New Issue: The World Economy

The latest issue of The World Economy (Vol. 46, no. 9, September 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: New challenges in international economics and finance
• Rebeca Jiménez-Rodríguez & María A. Prats, Introduction: New challenges in international economics and finance
• Anna Matzner, Birgit Meyer, & Harald Oberhofer, Trade in times of uncertainty
• Leticia Blázquez, Carmen Díaz-Mora, & Belén González-Díaz, Understanding digital services in GVCs: An extended gravity model through the lens of network analysis
• Alejandra Martínez-Martínez, Silviano Esteve-Pérez, Salvador Gil-Pareja, & Rafael Llorca-Vivero, The impact of climate change on international trade: A gravity model estimation
• Francisco Requena, Guadalupe Serrano, & Raúl Mínguez, The enhancing effect of imports of intermediate inputs on firms' exports
• Invited Review
• Zuzanna Helena Zarach & Aleksandra Parteka, Productivity effects of trade in natural resources—comparison with mechanisms of technological specialisation
• Articles
• Giorgio Gnecco, Federico Nutarelli, & Massimo Riccaboni, Matrix completion of world trade: An analysis of interpretability through Shapley values
• Jonas F. Rudsinske, How unilateral tariffs harm workers under oligopoly
• Juan Cristóbal Campoy & Juan Carlos Negrete, Quantitative easing rules as a means to achieve optimal levels of structural reforms and government deficits in a monetary union
• Juan F. Rendón, Lina M. Cortés, & Javier Perote, Prudential regulation and bank solvency based on flexible distributions: An example for evaluating the impact of monetary policy
• Dmitry Erokhin, Tax effects on foreign direct investment—Just a rerouting
• Isabel P. Albaladejo, Juan Gabriel Brida, María Isabel González-Martínez, & Verónica Segarra, A new look to the tourism and economic growth nexus: A clustering and panel causality analysis
• Francesco Guerra, How taste proximity affects consumer quality valuation of imported varieties: Evidence from the French food sector
• Julimar da Silva Bichara, Sandro E. Monsueto, & Ana I. Viñas, Collective bargaining and technological innovation in the EU15: An analysis at establishment level

Bradford: Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology

Anu Bradford (Columbia Univ. - Law) has published Digital Empires: The Global Battle to Regulate Technology (Oxford Univ. Press 2023). Here's the abstract:

The global battle among the three dominant digital powers—the United States, China, and the European Union—is intensifying. All three regimes are racing to regulate tech companies, with each advancing a competing vision for the digital economy while attempting to expand its sphere of influence in the digital world. In Digital Empires, her provocative follow-up to The Brussels Effect, Anu Bradford explores a rivalry that will shape the world in the decades to come.

Across the globe, people dependent on digital technologies have become increasingly alarmed that their rapid adoption and transformation have ushered in an exceedingly concentrated economy where a few powerful companies control vast economic wealth and political power, undermine data privacy, and widen the gap between economic winners and losers. In response, world leaders are variously embracing the idea of reining in the most dominant tech companies. Bradford examines three competing regulatory approaches—the American market-driven model, the Chinese state-driven model, and the European rights-driven regulatory model—and discusses how governments and tech companies navigate the inevitable conflicts that arise when these regulatory approaches collide in the international domain. Which digital empire will prevail in the contest for global influence remains an open question, yet their contrasting strategies are increasingly clear.

Digital societies are at an inflection point. In the midst of these unfolding regulatory battles, governments, tech companies, and digital citizens are making important choices that will shape the future ethos of the digital society. Digital Empires lays bare the choices we face as societies and individuals, explains the forces that shape those choices, and illuminates the immense stakes involved for everyone who uses digital technologies.

New Issue: Global Constitutionalism

The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 12, no. 3, November 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Feminist Manifestos and Global Constitutionalism
• Ruth Houghton & Aoife O’Donoghue, Introduction to special issue: Feminist manifestos and global constitutionalism
• Ruth Houghton & Aoife O’Donoghue, Manifestos as constituent power: Performing a feminist revolution
• Sheri Labenski, ‘The world is not organized for Peace’: Feminist manifestos and utopias in the making of international law
• Gina Heathcote & Lucia Kula, Abandoning the idealized white subject of legal feminism: A manifesto for silence in a Lusophone register
• Emily Jones, Posthuman feminism and global constitutionalism: Environmental reflections
• Articles
• Juan F González Bertomeu, A measure of last resort: Pseudo-constitutionalism and the persistence of a self-restraint slogan in Argentina
• Rouf Ahmad Dar, Constitutions and their foundational discontents: Studying the process of constitution-making in Jammu and Kashmir
• M A Sayeed & Lima Aktar, Between a republican and a Bengalee state: Confronting exclusionary constitutionalism in Bangladesh

New Issue: African Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 31, no. 3, August 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Samuel Opoku-Agyakwa, Making Ghana's Criminal Procedure Law Conform to Its Grundnorm: Decisions of the Supreme Court
• Christopher Yaw Nyinevi, Corporate Accountability to Local Communities for Investment-Related Harms: The Elusive Promise of Balanced Investment Treaties
• David Tarh-Akong Eyongndi & Adekunbi Imosemi, Aloysius V. Diamond Bank Plc: Opening a New Vista on Security of Employment in Nigeria through the Application of International Labour Organisation Conventions
• Miriam Chinyere Anozie & Emmanuel Onyedi Wingate, The Constitutionality Conundrum on Virtual Court Sittings in the Covid-19 Period in Nigeria
• Chukwuma Samuel Adesina Okoli, Abubakri Yekini & Philip Oamen, The Igiogbe Custom as a Mandatory Norm in Conflict of Laws: An Exploration of Nigerian Appellate Court Decisions
• Jamil Ddamulira Mujuzi, The Supreme Court of Uganda and the Right to Bail Pending Appeal: Understanding Nakiwuge Racheal Muleke v Uganda (Criminal Reference No.12 Of 2020) (9 September 2021)
• Paul Andries Smit, An Evaluation of South Africa's Maternity and Parental Benefits Legislation in Light of the International Labour Organisation's Maternity Protection Convention and Recommendation

New Issue: Transnational Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the Transnational Criminal Law Review (Vol. 2, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Symposium on the Proposal to Create an International Anti-Corruption Court
• Cecily Rose, Introduction to Symposium on the Proposal to Create an International Anti-Corruption Court
• Anton Moiseienko, The Proposal for an International Anti-Corruption Court: What Law Should the Court Apply?
• Kathrin Betz, Evidentiary Aspects of an International Anti-Corruption Court
• Rosanne van Alebeek, Prosecuting Corruption Crimes before an International Court: Whither Immunity Rules?
• Daley J. Birkett, Recovering Assets at an International Anti-Corruption Court Cautionary Tales from Rome, The Hague, and the Field
• Hannah Harris, Corporate Liability within the IACC Framework A Proposal for Enhanced Corporate Accountability

Losch: Meeresspiegelanstieg und völkerrechtliche Herausforderungen für kleine Inselstaaten

Sebastian Losch has published Meeresspiegelanstieg und völkerrechtliche Herausforderungen für kleine Inselstaaten (Duncker & Humblot 2023). Here's the abstract:

Der Klimawandel ist eines der Themen, die die politischen und rechtlichen Diskussionen auf internationaler Ebene seit geraumer Zeit beherrschen. In dieser Arbeit werden seine Auswirkungen auf die wohl am stärksten Betroffenen untersucht. Einige kleine Inselstaaten haben nicht nur mit wirtschaftlichen, sondern insbesondere aufgrund des möglichen Verlusts des gesamten Staatsgebiets mit erheblichen nichtwirtschaftlichen Risiken zu kämpfen. Der Autor behandelt in einem ganzheitlichen Ansatz verschiedene rechtliche Fragen, die sich angesichts dieses beispiellosen Phänomens ergeben. Beleuchtet werden Implikationen des Flüchtlingsvölkerrechts, des Seerechts, Auswirkungen auf die Staatlichkeit, sowie die völkerrechtliche Verantwortlichkeit von Industriestaaten. Die Arbeit zeigt, dass alle adressierten Problemfelder miteinander in Verbindung stehen und sich gegenseitig beeinflussen und ihre konkrete politische und rechtliche Behandlung daher die Würdigung all dieser Aspekte erfordert.

Symposium: Accountability and Power in the Law of International Organizations

On November 4-5, 2023, the Centre for International Law and Policy at Tohoku University and the Faculty of Law at Teikyo University will hold a symposium, in the hybrid format, on "Accountability and Power in the Law of International Organizations," in Tokyo. Details are here.

Johnstone, Sukumar, & Trachtman: Building an International Cybersecurity Regime: Multistakeholder Diplomacy

Ian Johnstone (Tufts Univ. - Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy), Arun Sukumar (Leiden Univ. - The Hague Program on International Cyber Security), & Joel Trachtman (Tufts Univ. - Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) have published Building an International Cybersecurity Regime: Multistakeholder Diplomacy (Edward Elgar Publishing 2023). The table of contents is here. The volume is available open access. Here's the abstract:

Providing a much-needed study on cybersecurity regime building, this comprehensive book is a detailed analysis of cybersecurity norm-making processes and country positions, through the lens of multi-stakeholder diplomacy. Multidisciplinary and multinational scholars and practitioners use insights drawn from high-level discussion groups to provide a rigorous analysis of how major cyber powers view multi-stakeholder diplomacy.

Looking at how past cybersecurity initiatives and multi-stakeholder negotiations in other fields illuminate its dynamics, this book will help put states' approaches towards multi-stakeholder cyber diplomacy into perspective, and frame the role of private actors in cybersecurity regime building. Evaluating the most promising institutional arrangements and mechanisms for implementing cybersecurity, this book combines top-down analyses relevant to the design of international cybersecurity regimes with bottom-up case studies, tracing the approaches of important states towards multi-stakeholder participation in cyber diplomacy.

Call for Papers: 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law

The European Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 19th Annual Conference, which will take place September 5-6, 2024, in Vilnius. The theme is: "Technological Change and International Law." The call is here.

New Issue: Journal of International Economic Law

The latest issue of the Journal of International Economic Law (Vol. 26, no. 3, September 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Olia Kanevskaia, WTO Rules for Trade with Disputed Territories
• Giulia Claudia Leonelli, Anti-deforestation npr-PPMs and Carbon Border Measures: Thinking About the Chapeau of Article XX GATT in Times of Climate Crisis
• Jorge Miranda & Manuel Sánchez Miranda, Chronicle of a crisis foretold: how the WTO Appellate Body drove itself into a corner
• Andrew D. Mitchell, The right to regulate and the interpretation of the WTO Agreement
• Yoram Z. Haftel, Morr Link & Tomer Broude, Last year’s model? Investment arbitration, negotiation, and the gap between Model BITs and IIAs
• Runar Hilleren Lie, Treaty influencers: a computational analysis of the development of international investment law
• Fuad Zarbiyev, ‘These are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.’ On justifications of foreign investment protection under international law
• Desirée LeClercq, Integrating non-binding labour standards in binding trade agreements: The ILO’s feedback loop
• Panagiotis Delimatsis, Transnational economic activism and private regulatory power
• Robin Hui Huang & Weixia Gu, China’s recognition and enforcement of foreign securities judgments against overseas-listed Chinese companies
• Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, International Economic Law in the ‘Asian Century’

Bock & Wagner: Gerechtigkeit aus der Ferne? Herausforderungen der nationalen Verfolgung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen

Stefanie Bock (Philipps-Universität Marburg - Law) & Markus Wagner (Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn - Law) have published Gerechtigkeit aus der Ferne? Herausforderungen der nationalen Verfolgung von Völkerrechtsverbrechen (Duncker & Humblot 2023). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Nach mehr als zwanzig Jahren hat das zunächst als »Papiertiger« belächelte Völkerstrafgesetzbuch inzwischen seinen festen Platz in der deutschen Strafrechtspraxis. Auf dieser Grundlage befasst sich die deutsche Justiz unter anderem mit Staatsfolter in Syrien, dem Völkermord an den Jesid:innen und Kriegsverbrechen im Ukraine-Konflikt. Diese Verfahren stellen die beteiligten Institutionen vor zahlreiche Herausforderungen, die den meisten »regulären« nationalen Strafprozessen fremd und im Wesentlichen darauf zurückführen sind, dass zwischen Justiz und abzuurteilenden Taten eine große örtliche, kulturelle und ggf. zeitliche Distanz besteht. Der Sammelband führt Beiträge von Wissenschaftler:innen aus verschiedenen Disziplinen und Vertreter:innen aus allen Bereichen der Justizpraxis zusammen, die diese Herausforderungen aus ihren jeweiligen Perspektiven analysieren. Damit wird der Grundstock für eine empirisch und wissenschaftlich fundierte Weiterentwicklung des nationalen Völkerstrafprozessrechts gelegt.

Conference: The Rules of Interpretation of Customary International Law

On October 12-13, 2023, the TRICI-Law project and AthensPIL will hold a conference on "The Rules of Interpretation of Customary International Law" in Athens. Details are here.

New Issue: Global Responsibility to Protect

The latest issue of Global Responsibility to Protect (Vol. 15, no. 4, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Mark J. Wood, Applying Pillar Three of the Responsibility to Protect in Sudan
• Luciano Pezzano, Towards a Judicial R2P: The International Court of Justice and the Obligation to Prevent Genocide in The Gambia v. Myanmar Case
• Wisdom Oghosa Iyekekpolo, Bridging the Norms of Counter-Terrorism and Responsibility to Protect: Countering the Proliferation and Activities of Armed Groups in Nigeria
• Rebecca Barber, A Proposal for Advancing Implementation of the Responsibility to Protect

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (Vol. 33, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• 15. Aarauer Demokratietage – Der Klimawandel vor Gericht
• Lorenz Langer, Der Klimawandel vor Gericht: Klimaklagen als institutionelles Dilemma?
• Mirina Grosz, Klimaschutz vor Schweizer Gerichten
• Christian Bickenbach, Klimaschutzklagen – Herausforderung für die deutsche Judikative
• Andreas Th. Müller, Klimaklagen vor den Gerichten der EU: Der «People’s Climate»-Fall und Luxemburger «judicial self-restraint»

New Issue: European Convention on Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the European Convention on Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 4, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, Reforming the Election Process of Judges of the European Court of Human Rights
• Hans-Jörg Behrens, The Status of Judges: Intergovernmental Work on the Evaluation of Issues Relating to the Judges of the echr
• Paul Mahoney, The Advisory Panel of Experts on Candidates for Election to the European Court of Human Rights
• Helen Keller, How to Improve Independence and Impartiality of Judges of the European Court of Human Rights
• Joëlle Trampert, The Export of Goods Used for Torture and the Applicability of Article 3 echr
• Mugambi Jouet, The Abolition and Retention of Life Without Parole in Europe: A Comparative and Historical Perspective

New Volume: The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence

The latest volume of The Global Community: Yearbook of International Law and Jurisprudence (Vol. 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo, Monitoring the Construction of the Global Community: Key Changes in Global Law and Governance
• Overview Essays: Grand Challenges of Our Time - Nuclear Weapons Threat
• Louis René Beres, Endgame- Obligations to Transform "Westphalian" International Law
• Richard Falk, Deconstructing the Struggle Against Nuclearism
• Articles
• Shane Darcy, The Contribution of the UN Treaty Bodies to Business and Human Rights
• Luis A. López Zamora, Algunos Comentarios Al Estudio De La Comisión De Derecho Internacional, Sobre Los Principios Generales Del Derecho
• Notes and Comments
• Paul Schiff Berman, Global Legal Pluralism and the Making of International Climate Change Law
• Sonja C. Grover, The Court's Role in Upholding Inter- Generational Obligations Respecting the Child's Right to Truth: Juliana v. United States as a Case in Point
• Lando Kirchmair, Information Interventions in the Twenty- First Century: Fighting Disinformation Across National Boundaries with International Information Campaigns
• Geert-Jan Alexander Knoops & Sara Pedroso, The Evidentiary Value of NGO and IO Reports in International Criminal Proceedings
• Juan-Pablo Pérez-León-Acevedo, Non- compensatory Reparation Modalities in UN Legal Sources: Focus on Gross Violations of Human Rights
• In Focus: Global Policies and Law
• Thomas G. Weiss, Protecting Heritage: Weighing Politics and Law
• Forum - Jurisprudential Cross-Fertilization: An Annual Overview
• Ravindra Pratap, Geography and Legal Culture of ICJ Judges and Their Consideration of Erga Omnes Obligations
• Yoshifumi Tanaka, Alleged Violations of Sovereign Rights and Maritime Spaces in the Caribbean Sea (Nicaragua v. Colombia): Reflections on the ICJ Judgment of 21 April 2022

New Issue: Human Rights Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Review (Vol. 24, no. 3, September 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Christopher J. Einolf, Understanding and Preventing Torture: a Review of the Literature
• Audrey Lumley-Sapanski, Katarina Schwarz, Ana Valverde Cano, Mohammed Abdelsalam Babiker, Maddy Crowther, Emily Death, Keith Ditcham, Abdal Rahman Eltayeb, Michael Emile Knyaston Jones, Sonja Miley & Maria Peiro Mir, Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan
• Nicky Deluggi & Cameran Ashraf, Liars, Skeptics, Cheerleaders: Human Rights Implications of Post-Truth Disinformation from State Officials and Politicians
• Ana Tanasoca, Local Agents of International Justice? On the Role of Subnational Units in Refugee Protection
• Elisavet Athanasia Alexiadou, Identifying a Human Rights Approach to Roma Health Vulnerabilities and Inequalities in Europe: From Concept to Action
• Michaela Guthridge, Tania Penovic, Maggie Kirkman & Melita J. Giummarra, The Role of Affective Empathy in Eliminating Discrimination Against Women: a Conceptual Proposition

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