New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law: lectures in English and Spanish on “Ten Years of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals: Achievements and Challenges”, by Graciela Gatti Santana; lectures in English and Spanish on “Sovereign Debt Restructuring in relation to International Law”, by Mario J. A. Oyarzábal; and lectures in English and French on “International Law and Sustainability”, by Seline Trevisanut.

The Audiovisual Library of International Law is also available as an audio podcast on Apple, SoundCloud, and other platforms.

Call for Submissions: Advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice

The Polish Review of International and European Law has issued a call for submissions for a forthcoming special issue on "Advisory proceedings before the International Court of Justice." The call is here.

Lorenzo: International Financial Institutions and Sustainable Development: Lawmaking and Accountability

Johanna Aleria P. Lorenzo (Univ. of Amsterdam - Law) has published International Financial Institutions and Sustainable Development: Lawmaking and Accountability (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

Balancing theoretical and practice-oriented elements, this book introduces researchers, teachers, and students in international sustainable development law to the IFIs' safeguard policies. It also scrutinizes the case law of independent accountability mechanisms that interpret those policies and afford recourse to individuals and communities adversely affected by development projects. The book's focus on the procedural and substantive features of IFIs' safeguard systems contributes to a more concrete understanding of these organizations' participation in the international lawmaking process on sustainable development. It puts IFIs in the spotlight and provides an international legal critique of their activities to match their notoriety in popular consciousness and to enhance their accountability to those they harm. By approaching international (economic) law and sustainable development through the lens of economic, environmental, and social issues arising in development projects primarily in the Global South, the book presents a needed counterbalance to existing literature on the topic.

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 79, no. 2, Spring 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Peter Schram, Conflicts that Leave Something to Chance
• Symposium on Climate Change
• Zuhad Hai, The Global Politics of Scientific Consensus: Evidence from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
• Sam S. Rowan, From Gridlock to Ratchet: Conditional Cooperation on Climate Change
• Justin Melnick & Alastair Smith, Shaming Paris: A Political Economy of Climate Commitments
• Research Notes
• Michaela Mattes & Jessica L.P. Weeks, Apology Diplomacy: The International Image Effects of Interstate Apologies
• Benjamin C. Krick, Jonathan B. Petkun, & Mara R. Revkin, Civilian Harm and Military Legitimacy: Evidence from the Battle of Mosul
• Michael Becher & Irene Menéndez González, Trade and the Politics of Electoral Reform

New Issue: International Review of the Red Cross

The latest issue of the International Review of the Red Cross (Vol. 107, no. 928, 2025) is out. The theme is: "The Military." Contents include:

• Rigmor Argren, What militaries need to know about data protection and the right to digital privacy/private life
• Andrew Bartles-Smith, Military chaplains and equivalent religious personnel under international humanitarian law
• Kevin Coble & John C. Tramazzo, A US perspective on special operations and the law of armed conflict
• Davide Giovannelli, Handling cyberspace's state of intermediacy through existing international law
• Nobuo Hayashi, The pseudo-kindness of wartime lawbreakers
• Denise Koecke, Merging man and machine: A legal assessment of brain–computer interfaces in armed conflict
• G. Blair Kuplic & Jonathan Sawmiller, Humanity on the final frontier: Challenges in applying international humanitarian law to modern military space operations
• Ido Rosenzweig & Magdalena Pacholska, The use of facial recognition for targeting under international law
• Noel Maurer Trew, This is who we are: The role of military ethics, culture, and religion in disseminating international humanitarian law to the armed forces
• Loren Voss, The overlooked importance of intelligence analysis in IHL
• Emily Bobenrieth & Sean Watts, US military legal doctrine and the emerging wartime cyber environment
• Samuel White, War without limits: How sharp war theory is a historical anomaly
• Safaa Jaber, Case note: The International Court of Justice’s 2022 reparations judgment in DRC v. Uganda
• Charlotte Mohr, Honest Errors? Combat Decision-Making 75 Years after the Hostage Case Edited by Nobuo Hayashi and Carola Lingaas
• Philippe Jacques, Equality of belligerents between States and armed groups: Proposal for a new definition of the principle of equality in non-international armed conflicts
• Andrea Raab-Gray & Massimo Marelli, Inviolability in the digital era: The ICRC’s Agreement on Privileges and Immunities with Luxembourg

New Issue: International Journal of Refugee Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Vol. 37, no. 1, March 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Antonio Fortin, More on the Meaning of ‘Protection’ in the Refugee Definition
• Christel Querton, Protection from Indiscriminate Violence in Armed Conflict: The Scope of Subsidiary Protection in the European Union
• Helge Årsheim, Finding Religion: Assessing Religion-Based Asylum Claims in Refugee Status Determination Procedures in Norway and Canada
• Pawat Satayanurug, Thailand’s National Screening Mechanism: A Case of Partial Acculturation to International Refugee Law
• Guy S Goodwin-Gill, Controlling the Discretion to Expel under Article 32 of the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees: Comments on the Meaning of Terms, particularly ‘Public Order’ and ‘Ordre Public’, and on the Importance of Judicial Control

New Issue: La Comunità Internazionale

The latest issue of La Comunità Internazionale (Vol. 80, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Interventi
• Ennio Triggiani, È ancora vivo lo «spirito di Messina»?
• Articoli e Saggi
• Francesco Seatzu, The New UN Convention on Cybercrime: Between Securing Cyberspace and Undermining Fundamental Rights and Freedoms
• Andrea Caligiuri, Il regime giuridico dello spazio aereo sopra il territorio occupato del Sahara occidentale
• Eloisa M. B. Bellucci, Stato, moneta e criptovalute: il contributo delle Organizzazioni internazionali all’esercizio della sovranità monetaria
• Mariachiara Giovinzazzo, The Content of Obligation of Non-Recognition: Developments and Challenges in the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Israeli Policies and Practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
• Adelaide Francesca Daniela Luminari, Ecocidio e Corte penale internazionale: un nuovo crimine?
• Osservatorio Diritti Umani
• Pia Acconci & Agostina Latino, L’approccio One Health nel sistema interamericano di protezione dei diritti della persona, come garantito dalla Corte di San José
• Osservatorio Europeo
• Fabrizio Vismara, Le sanzioni economiche dell’Unione europea contro la Russia nel regolamento n. 2024/1745

New Issue: International Organizations Law Review

The latest issue of the International Organizations Law Review (Vol. 22, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Francis Maupain, The Right to Strike before the icj: A Historical Challenge to the Coherence and Impact of the ilo Supervisory System
• Tsung-Ling Lee, Informal Rulemaking at the World Health Organization: Technocratic, Iterative, and Political Constraints
• Varda Mone, Rahul Tilwani, CLV Sivakumar, & Shakhlo Fayzullaeva, Evaluating the Prospects of a UN-Backed Global Data Protection Authority: A Third World Perspective
• Niko Pavlopoulos, International Organizations and the ‘Emerging Right to Democratic Governance’
• Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou & Vassilis P. Tzevelekos, “Don’t Bother Quitting, Because You’re Fired”: Russia’s Expulsion from the Council of Europe

Ochi: Reparations to Future Generation before the ICC: Intergenerational Justice Accounts

Megumi Ochi (Ritsumeikan Univ. - Graduate School of International Relations) has posted Reparations to Future Generation before the ICC: Intergenerational Justice Accounts (Journal of International Criminal Justice, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

This article argues that it is just for the International Criminal Court (ICC) to order the perpetrator of core crimes to provide reparations to those who were not yet born at the time of the commission of the crimes (‘future victims’). Responding to the criticism that future victims are not eligible to receive reparations, philosophical explanations are proposed to justify the award of reparations to future victims at the ICC using different conceptions of intergenerational justice. First, a theoretical framework is developed to divide victims into contemporary and future victims and then future victims are divided into three types: independent, dependent, and community-level future victims. Next, several existing theories of intergenerational justice are applied to each type of victims, and the different causal links required are identified. In sum, theoretical justifications for the award of reparations will differ based on the conception of harm suffered by the victims. On the one hand, relying on the proposal by Lukas H. Meyer, independent future victims should be repaired for the identity-independent harm up to the extent of the threshold of their well-being. The required causal link is between the crime and the harm suffered by the future victims. On the other hand, based on the subsequent-wrong solution proposed by George Sher, reparations to dependent future victims should be understood as reparations for the harm caused by failure to repair the harm suffered by those who existed at the time of the commission of crimes. The required causal link is between the harm suffered by contemporary victims and the harm suffered by future victims. Reparations to community-level future victims can be explained using the concept of transgenerational community proposed by Avner De-Shalit. The required causal link in this case is between the harm suffered by the community and the harm suffered by the future victims.

Conference: "Silent leges inter arma?" Conference VIII

The International Society for Military Law and the Law of War will host the "Silent leges inter arma?" Conference VIII, on September 16-19, 2025, in Bruges. The program is here. The application form is here.

Call for Papers: Outer Space, New Tech and Future Space Settlement: Human Rights for the Final Frontier

The School of Law, Politics and Philosophy at the University of Waikato, in partnership with the AI Space Law Society, has issued a call for papers for a virtual conference on "Outer Space, New Tech and Future Space Settlement: Human Rights for the Final Frontier," to take place December 5, 2025. The call is here.

New Issue: Chinese Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 24, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Marcus Ramalho, The International Atomic Energy Agency and the “Starting Point of Safeguards”: A Case Study in Unilateral Treaty Interpretation
• Jonathan Hell, Acts of Aggression as Ipso Facto Violations of the Right to Life: Scrutinising the Human Rights Committee’s Proposed Link between Human Rights Law and the Jus ad Bellum
• Gracious Avayiwoe, Evidence and the “Gravity of the Alleged Offences” for Prompt Release of Vessels and Crews under the UNCLOS Regime
• Dan LIU, The Two Dimensions of the Post-war Territorial Status of the Ryukyu Islands
• Comment
• Marlen S Bissaliyev, Mart Susi, & Karimzhan Shakirov, Convergence between and among the Chinese, the EU and Kazakhstan Approaches towards Personal Data Protection against the AI in the Digital Sphere
• Comment and Review Essays
• Liliya Khasanova & Artur Simonyan, (Geo)politicizing International Law of Cyberspace in Post-Soviet Eurasia
• Akmal Saidov, Regionalism and Human Rights: Towards an Asian Human Rights Protection System

New Issue: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 43, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Column
• Suzanne Egan, The value of law in human rights education scholarship: A call for legal engagement
• Articles
• Carlotta Rigotti & Clare McGlynn, Online and technology-facilitated violence against women: The EDVAW Platform’s contribution to human rights protection and monitoring
• Barrie Sander, Confronting risks at the intersection of climate change and artificial intelligence: The promise and perils of rights-based approaches

Conference: Approcci e principi di diritto internazionale dell’ambiente e tutela dell’ecosistema marino

On July 10-11, 2025, a conference on “Approcci e principi di diritto internazionale dell’ambiente e tutela dell’ecosistema marino” will take place at the University of Messina. Details are here.

New Issue: Rivista di Diritto Internazionale

The latest issue of the Rivista di Diritto Internazionale (Vol. 108, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articoli
• Deborah Russo, Riserva di legge e obblighi internazionali di tutela penale
• Giovanni Zarra, I principi di diritto internazionale come fonte di obbligazioni nei rapporti di diritto civile
• Federico Travan, Sull'interesse ad agire quale condizione autonoma dell'azione nel processo davanti alla corte internazionale di giustizia
• Lorenzo Acconciamessa, L'efficacia inter-temporale dell'interpretazione evolutiva dei trattati sui diritti umani
• Note e Commenti
• Emanuele Cimiotta, Sull’autorità della corte penale internazionale nei confronti dei capi di stato e di governo di stati terzi
• Caterina Milo, L’omessa cooperazione della mongolia nell’esecuzione del mandato di arresto di putin
• Diego Zannoni, The liability of corporations for negligent governance in value chains under the eu due diligence directive: reality or illusion?

Call for Papers: 2026 ESIL Research Forum

A call for papers has been issued for the 2026 ESIL Research Forum, which will take place April 9–10, 2026, and hosted by Jagiellonian University in Kraków. The topic is: “Sustainable International Law. Reconciling Stability and Change.” The Forum promotes engagement with research in progress by members of the Society in the early stages of their careers. The call is here. The deadline is September 30, 2025.

Roundtable: Technology Is Global

On July 3, 2025, the Law and Technology Interest Group of the International Law Association Swiss branch will hold its inaugural roundtable at the University of Lausanne. The theme is: "Technology is Global." The program is here. Registration (including online attendance) is here.

Perrone: International Law, Acceleration and Desynchronization

Nicolás M. Perrone (Universidad de Valparaíso - Law) has posted International Law, Acceleration and Desynchronization (European Journal of International Law, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

According to sociologist Hartmut Rosa, the genuinely new thing about present-day globalization consists not in the international exchange of capital, goods or information ‘but rather in the speed with which they transpire’. Simultaneously, Rosa and others observe that not every aspect of social life accelerates at the same speed, which creates processes of desynchronization between and within the economy, society and politics. This article suggests that the literature on acceleration provides three important lessons for international law and its relationship with globalization. First, although many scholars have argued that international trade and investment law have considerably shaped present-day globalization, the acceleration literature suggests that the international law of transportation and communication have played an equally or more important role. Second, the speed at which different areas of international law evolve is a critical factor in understanding who wins and who loses in the global arena. This adds a new angle to the literature on the fragmentation of international law, which has generally overlooked the different temporalities of international regimes. Third, this article claims that experiences of predictability vary significantly depending on each actor’s relationship to processes of acceleration. In present-day globalization, some people experience stabilization, while others stand still.

Lecture: Ambos on “Genocide in Gaza, especially the special intent requirement?”

On July 14, 2025, Kai Ambos (Georg-August-University Göttingen - Law) will give the next lecture of the TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War. The topic is: “Genocide in Gaza, especially the special intent requirement?” Details are here.

Brennan: The Future of Outer Space Law

Anna Marie Brennan (Univ. of Waikato - Law) has published The Future of Outer Space Law (Routledge 2025). Here's the abstract:

The corpus of outer space law, including the Outer Space Treaty 1967, has faced multiple challenges and critiques. In recent times, these have included advances in technology, the militarisation of outer space, space debris, and geopolitics. The prominent and emerging contributors to this collection draw on diverse research frameworks to discuss proposals for the future of outer space law and policy. These include addressing regulatory gaps and under-examined and emerging areas of the law, but also beyond, the Outer Space Treaty – especially related to potential extraterrestrial settlements, satellites technology, self-defence, self-determination, and the environment. The book discusses the tensions between universalism and localisation, as well as the regionalisation of outer space law and policy – and how these approaches might adapt to create a dynamic space industry for the future.

Call for Chapters: Sustainable Development & Trade Imbalances – Prospects for Developing Countries

A call for chapters has been issued for a forthcoming volume on "Sustainable Development & Trade Imbalances – Prospects for Developing Countries." The call is here.

New Volume: Ocean Yearbook

The latest volume of the Ocean Yearbook (Vol. 39) is out. Contents include:

• Part 1: ITLOS Advisory Opinion Commentaries
• Kristin Bartenstein, The “Integrative Approach” in the ITLOS Climate Change Advisory Opinion: An Essay in Honor of Aldo Chircop
• Lisa Benjamin & Cymie Payne, The ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and International Law: A Solid Legal Foundation for State Obligations on Climate Change
• Cecilia Engler, Strengthening the Legal Framework for the Ocean-Climate Nexus? A Commentary on the ITLOS Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and International Law
• David Freestone, Payam Akhavan, & Catherine Amirfar, The 2024 ITLOS COSIS Advisory Opinion: Delivering Climate Justice for Small Island States
• Part 2: The Law of the Sea and Ocean Governance
• Michelle Bender, Lydia Slobodian, Kristina M. Gjerde, Philippe Cullet, Pradeep Singh, & Chloe Olsen, The Rights of Nature and Legal Personhood in an Ocean Context
• Henning Dobson Fugleberg Knudsen, Michelle Campbell, & Kenneth Høegh, The 2022 Canada-Denmark/Greenland Maritime Boundary Agreement: A Model for Rules-Based International Order and a Stepping Stone to Greater Cooperation
• Michel Morin, Is the Common Heritage of Mankind Concept Obsolete or Still Relevant?
• Asia Murphy, To Freeze or Not to Freeze: An Analysis of the Approaches to Maritime Boundaries amidst Global Sea Level Rise
• Jeremy Raguain, Angelique Pouponneau, Tamara Thomas, & Sara Tjossem, Big Ocean States Leading the Way: Transitioning from Exemplars to Leaders in Ocean Governance
• Part 3: Marine Resource Management and Conservation
• Lucas Barsi, Mare Liberum to Mare Curare: The IMO’s Prospective Role in Implementing Area-Based Management Tools for the BBNJ Agreement
• Abdul Hafez Mahamah, West Africa’s Rising Tide: Shaping the Future of Marine Geoengineering Governance
• Aleke Stöfen-O’Brien & Lena Ebbinghoff, Navigating the Seas of Contamination: Regulating Forever Chemicals in the Ocean  
• Part 4: Shipping
• Youna Lyons & Sian Prior, Shipping Emissions Scrubbers and Sea Ice-Breaking in the Arctic: Reflections at the Interface of Shipping Regulations and the Law of the Sea Regime
• Sabrina Hasan, Regulating Maritime Autonomous Surface Ships: Recent Developments and Challenges
• Lamin Jawara & Tafsir Matin Johansson, Policy Response to COVID-19 in Global Shipping: Systematic Review and Analogical Application
• Desai Shan, Cory Ochs, & Evan G. MacKenzie, New Amendments to the Maritime Labour Convention, 2006: Linkages to Pandemic Lessons
• Yannick Suazo, Should Canada Allow Autonomous Ships in Its Coastal Waters?—International Context and Legal Implications
• Part 5: Maritime Crime and Security
• Kamal-Deen Ali & Emmanuel Kwabena Koomson, Gulf of Guinea Piracy: Analysis of Threats, Dynamics and Responses
• Michael Tsimplis, The Revamped EU Environmental Crime Directive and the Maritime Sector: Real Teeth or Window Dressing?
• Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga & Lowell Bautista, Humanitarian Missions at Sea: Lessons from the Deployment of Indonesia’s Military Hospital Ship for Humanitarian Aid to Palestinians in the Gaza Conflict

New Issue: Journal of Global Health Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Global Health Law (Vol. 2, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Suzanne Zhou, Gian Luca Burci, & Jonathan Liberman, The legal nature of WHO regulations
• Stephanie Switzer & Mark Eccleston-Turner, The Emperor’s New Clothes: the amendments to the World Health Organization’s International Health Regulations*, **
• Pramiti Parwani, From human rights to the pandemic agreement and beyond: reframing vaccines access through a framework of ‘States’ capabilities’
• Essays
• Matiangai Sirleaf, Coloniality and global health
• Audrey Lebret, The Council of Europe Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights: a primarily procedural step towards safeguarding health rights in the digital age
• Commentary
• Pariksha Dhakal, Abortion in Nepal: legal progress, social challenges, and the road ahead
• Carmen Bullón Caro, Maarten van der Heijden, Aitziber Echeverria, Jorge Matheu, Camille Loi, David Sherman, Kelsey Galantich, Ambra Gobena, & Teemu Viinikainen, The Quadripartite One Health Legislative Assessment Tool for Antimicrobial Resistance (OHLAT): supporting legal preparedness for AMR
• Carlotta Manz, ‘MAGA’ vs global health? The potential impact of the second Trump’s administration

Call for Papers: Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism

The ANZSIL Gender, Sexuality and International Law Interest Group has issued a call for papers for a workshop on "Feminist Approaches to International Law in Times of Atrocity, Anthropocene, and Authoritarian Capitalism," to take place October 31, 2025, at Melbourne Law School. The call is here.

Call for Chapter Proposals: Handbook on Decolonising Human Rights

Abdullahi Ahmed An-Naim (Emory Univ. - Law) has issued a call for chapter proposals for his forthcoming edited volume Handbook on Decolonising Human Rights, to be published by Edward Elgar Publishing. The call is here.