New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 38, no. 2, Summer 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: The Problem with International Order
• Ian Hurd, Introduction: The Problem with the Problem of Order
• Trine Flockhart, Order as Resilience-Governance of Sameness and Diversity
• Ian Hurd, World Order from Birmingham Jail
• Lina Benabdallah, The Liberal International Order as an Imposition: A Postcolonial Reading
• Jennifer Mitzen, The Politics of Pedagogy: The Problem of Order in the IR Classroom
• Owen R. Brown, The International Order of White Sovereignty and the Prospect of Abolition
• Ayşe Zarakol, Rethinking International Order
• Features
• Benoît Pelopidas & Neil C. Renic, The Tragedy Trap: On the Tragicized Politics of Nuclear Weapons and Armed Drones and the Making of Unaccountability

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 78, no. 3, Summer 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Soyoung Lee, Resources and Territorial Claims: Domestic Opposition to Resource-Rich Territory
• Sara M.T. Polo & Blair Welsh, Violent Competition and Terrorist Restraint
• Meicen Sun, Damocles's Switchboard: Information Externalities and the Autocratic Logic of Internet Control
• Janina Beiser-McGrath, Sam Erkiletian, & Nils W. Metternich, The Role of Pan-African Ideology in Ethnic Power Sharing
• Matt Malis, Foreign Policy Appointments
• Review Essay
• Haoming Xiong, David A. Peterson, & Bear F. Braumoeller, Reconceptualizing International Order: Contemporary Chinese Theories and Their Contributions to Global IR
• Research Notes
• David A. Steinberg & Daniel McDowell, Race, Representation, and the Legitimacy of International Organizations
• Chase Bloch & Roseanne W. McManus, Denying the Obvious: Why Do Nominally Covert Actions Avoid Escalation?

New Issue: Human Rights Law Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Law Review (Vol. 24, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Renana Keydar, Vera Shikhelman, Tomer Broude, & Jonathan Elkobi, The Discursive Evolution of Human Rights Law: Empirical Insights from a Computational Analysis of 180,000 UN Recommendations
• Lee Hansen & Renginee G Pillay, Filling the Accountability Gap: Misleading Conduct Law in Business and Human Rights
• Michelle Bruijn, X Factors and Tipping Points in Eviction Cases: A Statistical Analysis of Eviction Litigation of the European Court of Human Rights

Bhat, Ukey, & Variath: International Space Law in the New Space Era: Principles and Challenges

Sandeepa Bhat B. (West Bengal National Univ. of Juridical Sciences - Law), Dilip Ukey (Maharashtra National Law Univ. - Law), & Adithya Variath (Maharashtra National Law Univ. - Law) have published International Space Law in the New Space Era: Principles and Challenges (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

The increasingly commercial nature of space activities and the intent of States to expand space travel have spawned renewed attempts of changing the foundations of space law, most of which originated in the twentieth century. Understanding the principles of international space law is essential for ensuring a sustainable future for all in outer space.

International Space Law in the New Space Era addresses the international legal and regulatory aspects of outer space that govern developments in the field worldwide. It covers the five United Nations' space treaties along with soft law and other policies. With contributions from established experts in the domain of space law, the volume encompasses the entire gamut of international space law while simultaneously addressing inadequacies that have arisen in light of current developments such as space commercialization, space tourism, and space mining.

Pagallo: The New Laws of Outer Space: Ethics, Legislation, and Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Ugo Pagallo (Univ. of Turin - Law) has published The New Laws of Outer Space: Ethics, Legislation, and Governance in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Hart Publishing 2024). Here's the abstract:

Humanity is on the brink of a new space era in which projects for permanent human colonies on the Moon and space missions with autonomous AI systems will soon become a reality. Principles and provisions of international space law fall increasingly short in tackling this scenario. Experts and institutions have recommended improvements to the legal framework, such as new international agreements, or policies that would not require any amendment to conventional law. Most of the time, such proposals and recommendations overlook the challenges posed by technology and how autonomous and intelligent systems in outer space require moral and legal standards of their own.

This book argues that the traditional focus on satellite communications, space-related services, and the appropriability of celestial resources needs to be integrated by new laws of outer space regulating cybersecurity law and environmental law, data governance and consumer protection. The new laws of outer space will increasingly concern the development of new standards for the behaviour and decision-making of AI systems and smart robots, with and without humans aboard deep space missions and in next-generation colonies.

Lesaffer & Peters: The Cambridge History of International Law: Volume 1. The Historiography of International Law

Randall Lesaffer (KU Leuven & Tilburg Univ.) & Anne Peters (Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) have published The Cambridge History of International Law: Volume 1. The Historiography of International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Volume I of The Cambridge History of International Law introduces the historiography of international law as a field of scholarship. After a general introduction to the purposes and design of the series, Part 1 of this volume highlights the diversity of the field in terms of methodologies, disciplinary approaches, and perspectives that have informed both older and newer historiographies in the recent three decades of its rapid expansion. Part 2 surveys the history of international legal history writing from different regions of the world, spanning roughly the past two centuries. The book therefore offers the most complete treatment of the historical development and current state of international law history writing, using both a global and an interdisciplinary perspective.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: New Pathways Toward Supply Chain Accountability

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “New Pathways Toward Supply Chain Accountability.” The symposium includes an introduction by León Castellanos-Jankiewicz, Tibisay Morgandi, and Sergio Puig, and contributions by Carsten Koenig, Tibisay Morgandi, Humberto Cantú Rivera, Jason Rudall, Jowita Mieszkowska, and Sarah Vandenbroucke.

Call for Papers: 32nd Annual ANZSIL Conference

The Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 32nd Annual Conference, to be held July 2-4, 2025, at Australian National University. The theme is: "International Law: Silence, Forgetting and Remembrance." The call is here.

Ruys, Ryngaert, & Rodríguez Silvestre: The Cambridge Handbook of Secondary Sanctions and International Law

Tom Ruys (Ghent Univ.), Cedric Ryngaert (Utrecht Univ.), & Felipe Rodríguez Silvestre (Ghent Univ.) have published The Cambridge Handbook of Secondary Sanctions and International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

We live in an age of sanctions. For geopolitical reasons, powerful states and economic blocks increasingly impose unilateral measures restricting economic transactions with certain target states. These sanctions may apply to transactions between the sanctioning state and a target country but may at times also extend to transactions between third states and the target state. By imposing such 'secondary' sanctions, states aim to further isolate the target state. The extraterritorial character of secondary sanctions makes them controversial, as they impinge on third states' economic sovereignty and the latter's operators' freedom to conduct international business. This book addresses the legality of secondary sanctions from multiple legal perspectives, such as general international law, international economic law, and private law. It examines how third states and operators can legally react against secondary sanctions, e.g. via blocking legislation or litigation. It also provides economic and political perspectives on secondary sanctions.

Ho: New Property in International Law

Jean Ho (National Univ. of Singapore - Law) has published New Property in International Law (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). Here's the abstract:

Until now, the definition of property in international law has been poorly addressed. It is assumed that international law possesses sufficient content to regulate property, that provisions in international instruments addressing property rights are shown to act, and that resolutions of property disputes are claimed to be in accordance with international law. Yet, when asked to define key attributes of property in international law are, the legal world draws a collective blank.

New Property in International Law examines how international law consistently falls short when it comes to new property regulation, because key stakeholders have failed to define what property is. The book considers and categorises new property into three areas; cultural property, common property, and contingent property, aiming to carve out, update, and impart coherence to international property law. By sketching the contours of new property in international law through a rigorous analytical comparison of property concepts in the Western, Soviet, post-Soviet, Chinese and Islamic juristic traditions, this work enables a balanced distillation of core attributes of new property from diverse property concepts that can then be woven into a broadly acceptable and broadly applicable definition.

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 39, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Robin Churchill, Dispute Settlement in the Law of the Sea: Survey for 2023
• Peter Ehlers, Maritime Pilotage from the Perspective of the International Law of the Sea
• Andrew Friedman, The International Maritime Organization’s Revised Greenhouse Gas Strategy: A Political Signal of Shipping’s Regulatory Future
• Martin Ratcovich Leopardi, International Law and Ocean Nuclear Power Plants in the Arctic
• Klaas Willaert, The Interests of Developing States in the Area: Promoted or Neglected?
• Kimberley J Graham, Turning the Tide on Remnants of War at Sea? Toward the Principles for Protection of the Environment in Relation to Armed Conflicts
• Chuxiao Yu, Can and Should an International Court or Tribunal Define the Term ‘Marine Scientific Research’ under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea
• Klaas Willaert, Protest at Sea against Deep Sea Mining Revisited: the MV Coco Case
• David Freestone, Clive Schofield, Richard Barnes, & Payam Akhavan, Request for an Advisory Opinion Submitted by the Commission of Small Island States on Climate Change and International Law, Case 31

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 37, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Ingo Venzke, Against impact
• International Legal Theory: Symposium on Global South Perspectives on Methology and Critique in International Law
• Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Global south perspectives on methodology and critique in international law
• Abdelghany Sayed, What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images
• W.L. Cheah, Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial
• Idriss Paul-Armand Fofana, The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century
• Cristina Blanco Vizarreta, Rethinking international law along with Amazonian ontologies: problematizing human-non-human divisions
• Juliana Santos de Carvalho, Under the shadow of legality: A shadow hauntology on the legal construction of the Women, Peace and Security agenda
• International Law and Practice
• Lena Holzer, International sports federations as de facto lawmakers: Queer-feminist explorations of the gendered power of sports law
• Fabian Eichberger, Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback
• Géraldine Giraudeau, Lili Song, & Morsen Mosses, Chagos in the South Pacific? The principle of self-determination and the France-Vanuatu dispute over the Matthew and Hunter Islands
• Du Li, Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities
• Raphaël van Steenberghe, The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice
• International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• René Provost & Vishakha Wijenayake, Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting
• Bruno Biazatti, To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 39, no. 2, Spring 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Agora on ISDS and Armed Conflicts
• Meg Kinnear, Paul Jean Le Cannu & Pierre Nosewicz, ICSID Preface Alain Farhad, Investment Protection in Situations of Armed Conflict: Evolution, Relevance and Challenges
• Dapo Akande, Armed Conflicts and Investor-State Disputes
• Samaa Haridi & Vivasvat Dadwal, The Protection of Intangible Property during Armed Conflict
• Borzu Sabahi & Farshad Rahimi Dizgovin, International Legal Framework Governing Assessment of Damages Caused to Foreign Investors in Armed Conflict
• Mohamed Shelbaya, Security Exceptions
• Zeynep Gunday Sakarya & Isabel Manfredonia, Extra-Treaty Defenses Available to States in Investment Disputes Arising from Armed Conflicts
• Floriane Lavaud & Marta Canneri, Evidentiary Challenges in the Context of Armed Conflict
• Case Comment
• Joseph Dyke, Infrastructure Services Luxembourg Sàrl and Energia Termosolar BV v Kingdom of Spain: Spain Fails to Secure Set Aside of Registration of Intra-EU ICSID Award in the English Commercial Court
• Articles
• Luke Nottage, Australia’s Ambivalence Again Around Investor-State Arbitration: Comparisons with Europe and Implications for Asia
• Nikos Braoudakis, Rosanne Craveia, & Clémentine Baldon, Neutralising the ECT Sunset Clause Inter Se
• Margrit Trein, The Duty of Arbitrators to Raise Suspected Corruption or to Investigate Poorly Particularized Allegations of Corruption
• Qianwen Zhang, What Can IIAs Contribute to Regulating Cross-border Data Transfer: A Threshold Analysis
• Mevelyn Ong, From Aspiration to Public Policy: Imprinting UNGP-Aligned Footprints of Corporate Responsibility and Accountability into the Shifting Sands of International Arbitration Practice

Bhuta & Vallejo: Global Rights? Human Rights in Complex Governance

Nehal Bhuta (Univ. of Edinburgh - Law) & Rodrigo Vallejo (Univ. of Ambsterdam - Law) have published Global Rights? Human Rights in Complex Governance (Oxford Univ. Press 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

What is the place of human rights law within global governance? How can we safeguard human rights in various sites of global governance? What is the role of the state, non-state actors, and global governance institutions in all this? Global Rights?: Human Rights in Complex Governance interrogates how human rights and global governance interact with various sub-fields of international and transnational regulation to answer these foundational questions.

The volume offers a detailed exploration of the role of human rights in global governance contexts, such as the sovereign debt regime, global value chains, development assistance, international food governance, and the laws of war. Through an in-depth study of several global governance regimes based on diverse theoretical and methodological approaches, this volume challenges the mainstream discourse on the evolution of human rights law and its limits. As a result, issue areas that are rarely in conversation with each other--such as the World Bank's practices and the law on the use of force--are examined through a common analytical framework that is both rich and flexible enough to shed new light on individual areas of concern and simultaneously reflect on cross-cutting themes.

Bringing human rights experts together with leading scholars in the law of international organizations, public finance, corporations, and use of force, Global Rights? thus serves as a contemporary reflection and set of arguments on how to study and productively think about human rights in complex governance settings.

New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 35, no. 3, August 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Editorial: In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews; The Three Scholars behind ScholarOne: EJIL’s Associate Editors
• Articles
• Madelaine Chiam, Monique Cormier, and Anna Hood, Law, War and Letter Writing
• Taylor St John, Malcolm Langford, Yuliya Chernykh, Øyvind Stiansen, Tarald Gulseth Berge, & Sergio Puig, Bargaining in the Shadow of Awards
• Jason Webb Yackee, The First French BIT
• Hedi Viterbo & Yulia Ioffe, No Refuge from Childhood: How Child Protection Harms Refugees
• Critical Review of Governance
• Diego Zannoni, Are We Opening Pandora’s Box? Clones, Human Spare Parts and International Law
• Cecily Rose, The Progressive Development of International Law on the Return of Stolen Assets: Mapping the Paths Forward
• Critical Review of Jurisprudence
  • Salvatore Caserta and Mikael Rask Madsen, When the Sun, the Moon and the Stars Align: Litigating LGBTQIA+ Rights and the Death Penalty in East Africa and the Caribbean
• Roaming Charges
• Things with a Soul: Low Tech
• Review Essay
• Thomas Bustamante, Taking Dworkin’s Legal Monism Seriously
• Book Reviews
• Tracy-Lynn Field & Michael Hennessy Picard, reviewing Gabrielle Hecht, Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures
• Jelena Bäumler, reviewing Ivano Alogna, Christine Bakker, & Jean-Pierre Gauci (eds), Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives
• Daniel Müller, reviewing Lukas Vanhonnaeker, Shareholders’ Claims for Reflective Loss in International Investment Law
• Diego Mejía-Lemos, reviewing Imogen Saunders, General Principles as a Source of International Law: Art 38(1)(c) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice
• Book Review Symposium: The Hague Academy (Part II)
• Moritz Koenig, Turkey, the Hague Academy and International Law in the Interwar Period: The Transnational Thinking of Ahmed Reşid
• Artur Simonyan, Russia’s Counter-revolutionary International Law in the Scholarship of Boris Mirkine-Guetzévitch
• Karin van Leeuwen, The Hague Academy as a Space of Encounter: How Scelle’s 1933 Teachings on National Courts Landed in the Netherlands
• Diane Marie Amann, A Nuremberg Woman and the Hague Academy
• The Last Page
• Adalbert Stifter, Müdigkeit (transl. Susan McClements Wyss)

Cassese: Experiencing Evil War, Torture, Genocide, Terrorism on the Dock: A conversation with Giorgio Acquaviva (English Translation)

Antonio Cassese has published Experiencing Evil War, Torture, Genocide, Terrorism on the Dock: A conversation with Giorgio Acquaviva (2011; translation by Robert Bouygue 2023). Here's the abstract:

You find here the English edition of Antonio Cassese’s book-length interview with Italian journalist Giorgio Acquaviva, originally published in Italian in 2011 (L’esperienza del male – Guerra, tortura, genocidio, terrorismo alla sbarra, Il Mulino), a few months before his passing. The book was later translated into Spanish (Pensando en derechos humanos) and German (Nachdenken über Menschenrechte). This self-published English edition, released by the Initiative, marks the first time the work is available to an English-speaking audience.

This volume is a compelling invitation to reflect on the principles of justice, human rights, and the enduring power of law to transform societies. It addresses critical questions, such as what genocide is, how to combat terrorism lawfully, and the role of human rights as a cornerstone of our lives.

The book also delves into his reflections on Palestine, including a peace plan he co-authored in the 1980s that was ultimately shelved by the Italian government. It highlights examples of courageous judges and activists and rejects the passive mindset that disasters are inevitable or that one should “mind their own business.” The book also examines the shift in global ethos over recent decades, driven by public demands for justice that were unthinkable before the 1990s—and unprecedented before the Nuremberg post World War II trial.

This victim-centered approach has fostered a burgeoning global public opinion. Antonio Cassese discusses the challenges and prospects of the International Criminal Court (the ICC), an institution he passionately supported yet lamented for its shortcomings. Throughout the book, he advocates for a robust international rule of law that goes beyond the ICC, emphasizing the fundamental need for every individual to assert their rights and achieve justice, even when confronting the modern Leviathan.

New Issue: Journal of International Dispute Settlement

The latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 15, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Costanza Margiotta Broglio & Federico Ortino, Treaty interpretation, multilinguism, and the WTO dispute settlement system: towards the comparative translation paradigm?
• Vahid Rezadoost, Unveiling the ‘author’ of international law — The ‘legal effect’ of ICJ’s advisory opinions
• Julien Chaisse, Arbitration in cross-border data protection disputes
• Juan Miguel Alvarez Contreras, The ‘no greater rights’ principle: heading to a new Calvo Clause?
• Yating Lin, ‘China’s Disequilibrium’ in ISDS: an interplay of China’s trade-offs and domestic institutions to investment treaty policy

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. 23, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Letizia Lo Giacco, When a Dispute Exists: the Emerging Evidentiary Practice of the ICJ in Common Interests Proceedings
• Martina Buscemi, The Battle over Security Exceptions before the ICJ and WTO Panels: towards a Converging Posture?
• Haris Huremagić, Article 63 of the ICJ Statute and the Legal Effects of Judgments on Intervening States – an Attempt for More Clarity
• Julian Edwards, The Equal Interests of Injured and Non-Injured States for Communitarian Norms
• Federico Bonito, A New Fish in the Sea? The Collocation of the New NATO Mission Appeals Tribunal among International Administrative Tribunals

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 55, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Enduring and Emerging Issues of the Law of the Sea: A Special Issue in Honor of Professor Ted L. McDorman
• Suzanne Lalonde, Clive Schofield & Kristin Bartenstein, Introduction to the Special Issue in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Suzanne Lalonde & P. Whitney Lackenbauer, Moving Beyond Benign Neglect: The Beaufort Sea Dispute and the Benefits of Compromise Solutions between Salt Water Neighbors, An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Elizabeth Elliot-Meisel, Resolution at the Intersection of Sovereignty and Security in the Northwest Passage Dispute: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Erik Franckx, Arctic Straight Baselines: Time for a Revisit?—An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Elizabeth Riddell-Dixon, Complexities and Complications: Delineating and Delimiting Russia’s Arctic Continental Shelf as the Russian Federation Wages War on Ukraine, An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Tore Henriksen, The Dispute over the Geographical Application of the Svalbard Treaty: Into a New Phase, An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Young Kil Park, Evaluation of South Korea’s Growing Activities in the Changing Arctic: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Natalie Klein, The South China Sea Code of Conduct and the Freedom of Navigation: A Proposal in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Seokwoo Lee, Evolution of the Law of the Sea and Ocean Policy in Northeast Asia
• Donald McRae & Amanda Turnbull, The 1999 Pacific Salmon Agreement: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Donald R. Rothwell, Bilateral Law of the Sea Neighbors: Australia and New Zealand’s Partnership and McDorman’s North American Rivals
• Joanna Mossop & Clive Schofield, Options for Cooperation and Joint Management in Disputed Areas of the Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Stuart Kaye, The Impact of Advisory Opinions from the International Tribunal of the Law of the Sea on the Work of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Nigel Bankes, The Dispute Resolution and Advisory Opinion Provisions of the BBNJ Agreement: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Clive Schofield & David Freestone, The Legal Regime of Islands after the South China Sea Award—Orphaned or Influential? An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Kuan-Hsiung Wang, From Fishery Resources Conservation to Labor Protection: RFMOs and the Development of Combating IUU, An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Kristin Bartenstein, ‘Inconvenient Conveniences’: An Essay on Extraterritorial Port State Jurisdiction, in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Aldo Chircop, Pollution Substitution? Scrubber Discharges and the Law of the Sea: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• Yoshifumi Tanaka, The Concept of Adjacent Coastal States in the BBNJ Agreement: An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman
• David L. VanderZwaag & Abdul Hafez Mahamah, International Governance of Marine Geoengineering: Sketchy Seascape, Foggy Future—An Essay in Honor of Ted L. McDorman

New Issue: Journal on the Use of Force and International Law

The latest issue of the Journal on the Use of Force and International Law (Vol. 11, nos. 1-2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Francis Grimal & Michael J. Pollard, A Blurring of Lines: The Jus ad Bellum Past, Present, and Future
• Jasmin Johurun Nessa & Agata Kleczkowska, Jus ad bellum series: self-defence against armed non-state actors in the MENA region
• Juliet Skingsley, ‘Cyber-rattling: can ‘pre-positioning’ in cyberspace amount to a threat of the use of force under Article 2(4) of the United Nations Charter?
• Sava Jankovic & Volker Roeben, The threat of Russia's force in Ukraine
• Toby Fenton, An analysis of pre-attack self-defence doctrines through a risk-based lens
• Monique Cormier & Anna Hood, Breaking the impasse: the case for establishing a no first nuclear threat norm
• Ka Lok Yip, To call a spade a spade: use of force depriving a people of their right to self-determination as violation of Jus Contra Bellum
• Deyi Ma & Yanlin Zhou, Peacetime Maritime Law Enforcement by Warships
• Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, ‘Bombable geographies’ and the international Monroe: a global south history of the unwilling or unable standard
• Francis Grimal & Michael J. Pollard, Concurrent application and artificially intelligent target selection
• Jasmin Johurun Nessa, Agata Kleczkowska & Seyfullah Hasar, Digest of state practice: 1 July – 31 December 2023
• Jasmin Johurun Nessa, Agata Kleczkowska & Seyfullah Hasar, Digest of state practice: 1 January – 30 June 2024

New Issue: Rivista di Diritto Internazionale

The latest issue of the Rivista di Diritto Internazionale (Vol. 107, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli
• Mario Odoni, Sul fondamento giuridico delle risoluzioni del Consiglio di sicurezza che autorizzano l'uso della forza
• Ester Ferriello, Lo status delle isole Chagos dopo la risoluzione 73/295 dell'Assemblea generale
• Note e Commenti
• Matteo Sarzo, Il bombardamento della sede della missione diplomatica iraniana a Damasco e lo jus ad bellum
• Alessandra Sardu, Intervention under Article 62 of the ICJ Statute for the Protection of Erga Omnes Partes Obligations
• Tullio Scovazzi, Malibu, California: una destinazione molto improbabile per l'Atleta vittorioso

New Issue: Cambridge International Law Journal

The latest issue of the Cambridge International Law Journal (Vol. 13, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Martins Paparinskis, The vocabulary and disputes of public international law: a reflection on tensions
• David McKeever, Sustaining peace in the aftermath of armed conflicts: amnesties and the UN Security Council’s regime on terrorism – a critical analysis of how the rules interact
• Claus Kreß, Sustainability in the prosecution of the crime of aggression: reflections in the wake of Russia’s initiation of a war of aggression against Ukraine*
• Nicole Citeroni, International criminal law as a catalyst for environmental peacebuilding
• Zuzanna Buszman, The pursuit of environmental justice: the adjudicative role of advisory opinions of creating obligations on States in respect of climate change
• Annalisa Savaresi, Climate change litigation: the role of international law *
• Chung-Han Yang & Maria-Augusta Paim, Evaluating China–Brazil bilateral engagements in climate change and energy: a true sustainability partnership or green appropriation? * , **
• Magdalena Kowalczuk Asher, Peace and sustainability in reparations: an analysis of the debate on ‘capping reparations’ in relation to State responsibility due to a State’s level of wealth

Call for Submissions: Polish Yearbook of International Law

The Polish Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its next volume (vol. 44, 2024). The deadline is January 31, 2025. The call is here.

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 28, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Vahid Rezadoost, The Legal Policy of the International Court of Justice: A Conceptual Framework
• Muhammad Ekramul Haque & Md. Abu Bakar Siddique, Protection of Refugees in the Non-Signatory States to the 1951 Refugee Convention: Bangladesh Case Study
• R. Rajesh Babu & S. Pandiaraj, India’s Refugee Protection and Border Control: Some Reflections on State Practice
• Arie Afriansyah & Muhammad Syahravi Hatta, Dilemmatic Border Protection: Indonesia’s International Obligation for Refugees vs National Interests
• Kanami Ishibashi, Immigration Control in Japan: Can the Revised Immigration Control and Refugee Recognition Act of 2023 Justify Japan’s Policy?
• Battogtokh Javzandolgor, International Refugee Law Protection: Practice in Mongolia
• Rommel J. Casis, Refugee Protection and Border Control in the Philippines
• Kitti Jayangakula, Refugee Protection in Thailand

New Volume: Polish Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Polish Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 43, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• General Articles
• J. Kranz, Supremacy Over Primacy...? Reflections on Legal Controversies Between Poland and the European Union (2015–2023)
• E.-U. Petersmann, How to Respond to UN Governance Failures? Lessons from Europe’s Economic and Environmental Constitutionalism
• M. Sobol, The European Commission and the Establishment of the European Neighbourhood Policy: A Case-Study for Institutionalist Analysis?
• R. Cardoso, Navigating Troubled Waters: Evaluating the Function and Material Legitimacy of European Criminal Law
• J. Kociubiński, State Aid for Green Technologies in the European Union: Limitations and Risks
• N.A. Marin & B. Manova, Putin’s Russia Before the International Court of Justice
• S. Poghosyan, Russia’s Discourse on Democracy in International Law
• M. Lipovský, What is “A Certain International Criminal Court” and Does the Choice of a Fully International or Internationalized (Hybrid) Court/Chambers Matter for the Crime of Aggression Committed Against Ukraine?
• L. Lumiste, There and Back Again? Russia’s Quest for Regulating War in Cyberspace
• K. Gavrysh, Prosecuting Individuals for Environmental Harm in the Armed Conflict BetweenRussia and Ukraine: The Case of Destruction of the Kakhovka Dam
• Seminar: Universal Jurisdiction and the Crime of Aggression: The Challenges and Opportunities for JIT Member States
• D. Sagatienė, Championing Accountability: Lithuania’s Leadership in Investigating Russian Crimes in Ukraine
• G. Grigaite-Daugirde, Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine: Legality and Legitimacy of Domestic Prosecutions in Third States
• M. Biszczanik, The Inadmissibility of Jurisdictional Immunity of Persons Responsible for the Commission of International Crimes in Terms of Domestic Universal Jurisdiction Proceedings
• H. Kuczyńska & Michał Nasiłowski, The Polish Investigation into Core Crimes Committed in Ukraine: Practical Aspects of the Functioning of the JIT
• Ł. Kułaga, Domestic and International Criminal Jurisdiction in the Context of the Initiative for a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression
• A. Kosylo & A. Dmytriv, Implementation and Interpretation of the Definitions of International Crimes in the National Jurisdiction of Ukraine
• A. Korynevych, O. Senatorova & M. Shepitko, Prosecution of the Crime of Aggression in International and Ukrainian Jurisdiction: Challenges and Prospects
• K. Aksamitowska, International Centre for the Prosecution of Russia’s Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine and the Role of New Technologies and Justice Hubs in the Fight Against Impunity
• Polish Practice
• G. Wierczyński & K. Wierczyńska, Polish Practice on Promulgation of International Agreements Between Poland and the USSR, 1944-1960
• Book Reviews
• K. Sulyok, Lukasz Gruszczynski, Joanne Scott, The WTO Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures. A Commentary, 2nd ed., Oxford University Press, Oxford: 2023, pp. 384
• M. Safta, Aleksandra Mężykowska, Anna Młynarska-Sobaczewska, Persuasion and Legal Reasoning in the ECtHR Rulings Balancing Impossible Demands, Routledge, Oxon and New York: 2023, pp. 230
• A. Mężykowska, Jason Scott Palmer, Reparations in Domestic and International Mass Claims Processes: Justice and Money, Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham: 2023, pp. 200
• A. Jakubowski, Grega Pajnkihar, State Succession to Responsibility for Internationally Wrongful Acts, Brill- Nijhoff, Boston-Leiden: 2023, pp. xii + 389
• S. Zaręba, Mateusz Błachucki, International Cooperation, Competition Authorities and Transnational Networks, Routledge, Oxford-New York: 2023, pp. 296