New Issue: Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international

The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 27, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Julia Klaus, ‘The Right of Existence of Peoples as Independent Nations’: Raphael Lemkin, the Tokyo Tribunal, and Aggression
• Rishabh Bajoria, Kashmir’s Erasure from International Law: David Lilienthal and the Forgotten Pre-History of the Indus Waters Treaty (1948–1951)
• Maria Adele Carrai, China Unbounded: Extraterritoriality, Nationality, and the Late Qing’s Engagement with International Law

New Issue: Harvard International Law Journal

The latest issue of the Harvard International Law Journal (Vol. 66, no. 2, Spring 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Keynote Address
• Hassane Cissé, Global Governance at a Crossroads: Incremental Reform or Fundamental Transformation?
• Articles
• Anu Bradford, Adam Chilton & Katerina Linos, The Limits and Promise of Global Antitrust Law
• Alejandro Chehtman, Combatant Privilege in Asymmetrical Warfare: A Reexamination of Belligerent Equality
• Jill I. Goldenziel, Sean Michael Blochberger & Tyler Granholm, Weapon of the Weak: Lawfare and State Power in the International Court of Justice
• Pratyush Panjwani, Fiscal Sovereignty and Investor-State Dispute Settlement

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 112, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• The influence of security concerns on the fulfilment of climate-related obligations in contemporary international law: A virtu-ous or vicious dynamic?
• Introduced by Angelica Bonfanti
• Antonio Mariconda, Advancing climate-related obligations through security concerns: Lessons from the Falepili Union Treaty
• Giorgia Pane, Budgeting for war: The climate-security trade-off and profiles of responsibility in international law

New Issue: Chinese Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 24, no. 3, September 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial Comment
• Sienho Yee, Self-drive, Inducement, or Compulsion: Co-progressive Climate Change Solutions and the Advisory Proceedings before the ITLOS and the ICJ
• Articles
• Upasana Dasgupta & Biswanath Gupta, Duty to Notify an Impending Disaster on Earth and in Outer Space: Obligation on Third-Party States
• Olga Starshinova & Elena Murashko, Empowering the WTO Appellate Body to Render Advisory Opinions: a Solution to the Crisis or its Aggravation?
• Comment and Review Essay
• Rein Müllerson, Revolutions in “Superpowers” and Their Impact on Geopolitical Reconfiguration of the World and International Law

New Issue: Global Constitutionalism

The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 14, no. 3, November 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Danny Schindler, Constitutionalizing dissent: The universe of opposition rules in African constitutions
• Whitney K. Taylor, Embedding constitutional rights
• M. Victoria Kristan, The Day After a Broken Democratic Polity
• Ron Levy & Ian O’Flynn, Vetoes, deadlock and deliberative umpiring: Toward a proportionality doctrine for power-sharing constitutions
• Svenja Ahlhaus, Boundary assembly: An institutional proposal for democratizing membership politics
• Nicola Sharman, Recognising differentiated affectedness within a global demos: promoting the democratic legitimacy of the UNFCCC
• Maxim van Asseldonk, Claude Lefort in the age of the total constitution
• Emilia Justyna Powell & Joshua Paldino, The Taliban, Afghan constitutionalism and modern Islamic law states: renegotiating the balance of religious and secular law

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 39, no. 2, Summer 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Roundtable: Global Governance in Hard Times
• Benjamin Faude & John Karlsrud, The Institutional Dynamics of Global Governance in Hard Times: Innovation or Decline?
• Yoram Z. Haftel & Stephanie C. Hofmann, Under Cover: Substituting Formal IOs during Hard Times
• Matthew D. Stephen, The Diffusion of Global Power and the Decline of Global Governance
• Julia C. Morse, Information Fragmentation and Global Governance in Hard Times
• Nina Reiners, Hard(er) Times for Human Rights Advocacy in Global Governance: Ideological Capture and Illiberal Interests
• Review Essay
• Abraham Singer, The Politics and Morality of Transnational Corporate Accountability

Call for Papers: Securing justice for the planet: Opportunities for, and barriers to, course correction

Macquarie University’s Environmental Law Research Centre and the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Regional Office for the Pacific have issued a call for papers for a conference on "Securing justice for the planet: Opportunities for, and barriers to, course correction," to take place March 18-19, 2026, in Sydney. The call is here.

Conference: International Law Weekend 2025

The American Branch of the International Law Association will hold International Law Weekend 2025 in New York City on October 23-25. The theme is "Crisis as Catalyst in International Law." The program is here. Registration is here.

New Issue: Leiden Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Leiden Journal of International Law (Vol. 38, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• International Legal Theory
• Fleur Johns, On consular internationalism
• Cris van Eijk, The exclusive making of space law
• Işıl Aral, Russia’s expulsion: The Council of Europe as the guardian of European imperialism
• Dana Schmalz, The population growth discourse in the first decades of the United Nations: Interpretations of global economic inequality and the struggles for a just international legal order
• Tuomas Palosaari, The phantom menace: Effects and legitimacy of informal international instruments
• International Law and Practice
• Nengye Liu & Shirley V. Scott, China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?
• Danae Azaria, Inferring a ‘dispute’ from state silence
• Violetta Ritz, Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion
• Xin Wang, Global (re-)framing of cybercrime: An emerging common interest in flux of competing normative powers?
• Natalie Klein, International law-making and the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea
• International Court of Justice
• Iben Vagle, The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy
• International Criminal Courts and Tribunals
• Ming-hsi Chu, Competing interpretations of international law: Law and politics in the war crimes trials of Nationalist China, 1946–1949
• Natalie M. Bryce, Leslie Johns, & Máximo Langer, Living with impunity versus living in fear: Universal jurisdiction defendants, due process, and the use of democracies by autocracies to prosecute their opponents
• Sharon Weill & Sandrine Lefranc, The French Bataclan Trial as a judicial experiment: What lessons for the prosecution of mass crimes?
• Sergii Masol & Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War

New Issue: International Organization

The latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 79, no. 3, Summer 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Joshua Freedman, Can Status Competition Save the World? Grafting, Green Energy, and the Climate Crisis
• Chelsea Estancona & Lucía Tiscornia, From Cocaine to Avocados: Criminal Market Expansion and Violence
• Timm Betz & Leonhard Hummel, Supplying Influence: Domestic Production Networks in Trade Politics
• Brandon K. Yoder & Michael D. Cohen, Fighting to Be Friends: Third-Party Bargaining, Alliance Formation, and War
• Research Notes
• Mark S. Manger & Nicola Nones, Trade and Exchange Rate Competition in East Asia
• Cameron Mailhot & Sabrina Karim, International State Building and Civilian Preferences: Experimental Evidence from Liberia
• David C. Logan, Elite–Public Gaps on Nuclear Weapons: The Roles of Salience and Knowledge

New Issue: International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Marine and Coastal Law (Vol. 40, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Robin Churchill, Dispute Settlement in the Law of the Sea: Survey for 2024
• Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho, Is the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf Mandated to Consider Submissions from Non-States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea?
• Yoshifumi Tanaka, Prevention of Vessel-Source Plastic Pollution from Arctic Shipping: Some Thoughts on Normative Interactions between Treaties
• Gabriele Goettsche-Wanli & Johannes-Alexander Müller, Does ‘Ecocide’ Provide a Viable Option to Address the Gravest Crimes against the Marine Environment?
• Ruixuan Zhuo, Chunchang Zhang, & Mengqi Zhou, Reforming China’s Ship-Source Oil Pollution Compensation Fund in View of Increasingly Strict Environmental Protection What Are the Next Steps?
• Shani Friedman, Justice, Equity, and Approaches for Sharing Benefits from Deep Sea Mining Operations in the Area
• Current Legal Developments
• Goran Dominioni & Beatriz Martinez Romera, The 2023 IMO Greenhouse Gas Strategy: Considerations of Equity
• Miłosz Gapsa, The End of a Low Threshold for Granting Provisional Measures with the ‘Zheng He’ Case?
• Ríán Derrig, Reforming United Nations Ocean Governance

New Issue: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 43, no. 3, September 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Column
• Andrew Clapham, Liability for killing in war and why there is no ‘licence to kill’
• Articles
• Sarah Thin, From Paris with love: The systemic integration of environmental law in the interpretation of UN human rights treaties
• Clara Bosch March, The ECtHR jurisprudence on the prohibition of collective expulsion of aliens at land borders in the aftermath of N.D. and N.T. v Spain: Between deference and discipline

New Issue: Nordic Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 94, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• James Gerard Devaney, On Sanctions and the Enforcement of International Law: A Rule of Law Analysis
• Iryna Marchuk & Maria Dommer Nielsen, Uncharted Waters: On the Legal Reform of Danish Legislation on International Crimes and Emerging Trends in Domestic Case Law
• Ebba Lekvall, The Danish ‘Coil Campaign’ in Greenland: Indigenous Genocide Through Forced Birth Control?
• Hani Taghavi, Silent Expansion: The Role of the Living Instrument Doctrine Before and After the Verein Klimaseniorinnen Judgment Author:

Webinar: Teaching International Law through Theater Performances

On October 7, 2025, the European Society of International Law will host a webinar on "Teaching International Law through Theater Performances." This event, part of the ESIL Teaching Corner Webinar Series, will discuss theatrical portrayals of international law, involving academics, screenwriters, and students/actors, who have been involved in some recent performances (Qui a tué Patrice Lumumba?; The Ongwen Trial; This Is Not a Trial). Details are here.

New Issue: International Journal of Transitional Justice

The latest issue of the International Journal of Transitional Justice (Vol. 19, no. 2, July 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Vasuki Nesiah, After Gaza
• Articles
• Safia K Southey, Building Reparations: Key Factors for Success in Transitional Justice Efforts
• Janine Natalya Clark, Whose Testimony? Thinking about Other-Than-Human Witnesses in Transitional Justice
• Jeremy Julian Sarkin, Why the International Criminal Court Should Apply Restorative Justice and Transitional Justice Principles to Improve the Impact of Its Criminal Trials on Societies around the World
• Azadeh Sobout, Urbicide and Coming to Terms with the Past: Everyday Acts of Return and Reconstruction in Post-war Nahr el Bared
• Sarah A Son, Nazanin Zadeh-Cummings, & Danielle Chubb, Participatory Transitional Justice as Anticipatory Project: North Korea, Diasporas and Uncertain Futures
• S Garnett Russell, Paula Mantilla-Blanco, Daniela Romero-Amaya, & Tatiana Cordero-Romero, Education and Transitional Justice: Como, Para, Sobre
• Carlos Gutiérrez-Rodríguez, Memorial Justice? Lessons from Colombia on How Memorialization Can Serve Justice in Transitional Contexts
• Claire-Anne Louise Lester, The Marikana Commission of Inquiry: An Ambiguous Experiment with ‘Truth’ and ‘Justice’
• Notes from the Field
• Tutku Ayhan, From Sexual Violence to Systemic Vulnerabilities: Ethical Considerations in Research in Post-Atrocity Settings
• Review Essay
• Emma Murphy, The Good, the Bad, and the Ideal: Towards an Embrace of Complexity in ‘Victim-Centred’ Transitional Justice

Heffes: Los grupos armados frente al derecho internacional

Ezequiel Heffes has published Los grupos armados frente al derecho internacional (Tirant Lo Blanch 2025). Here's the abstract:

La guerra, tal como fue conocida hasta la primera mitad del siglo XX, ha dejado de existir. La idea de un enfrentamiento exclusivamente entre los ejércitos de dos o más Estados, y llevado a cabo solo luego de presentada una declaración formal, parece una imagen cinematográfica o propia de los libros de historia. Hoy en día, la escena central es ocupada por actores diferentes a los Estados: los grupos armados.

En 2024, el Comité Internacional de la Cruz Roja estimó la existencia de alrededor de 450 grupos armados que causaban una "preocupación humanitaria a nivel mundial". Para octubre de ese mismo año, había al menos 210 millones de personas viviendo en áreas controladas por dichos grupos. Pero, ¿Qué tienen en común los Tigres de Liberación de Tamil Eelam, en Sri Lanka, el Ejército de Liberación Nacional, en Colombia, los grupos Mai-Mai, en la República Democrática del Congo, y la Administración Autónoma del Norte y Este de Siria? En un mundo en el que estos actores armados existen (o han existido), y participan activamente en conflictos armados, el presente libro investiga el marco jurídico que regula sus comportamientos y actividades. De esta forma, los diferentes capítulos proponen miradas alternativas al estudio de los grupos armados que, en la mayoría de los casos, son constituidos a partir de la violación al derecho doméstico del Estado.

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 64, no. 4, August 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Legal Consequences Arising from the Policies and Practices of Isr. in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Including East Jerusalem (Advisory Opinion) (I.C.J.), with introductory note by Michael A. Becker
• Best Practices for the Washington Conference Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art, with introductory note by Evelien Campfens
• Doe v. Cisco Systems, Inc. (9th Cir.), with introductory note by William S. Dodge

Call for Engaged Listeners: "International Law and Emotions" Conference (Doctoral and Postdoctoral Researchers)

The Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law invites doctoral and postdoctoral researchers to apply to be "engaged listeners" at a conference on "International Law and Emotions: Recovering Universality?," which will take place February 25-27, 2026, in Heidelberg. Engaged listeners will not give a talk but are expected to participate actively in the discussions and will be listed in the conference’s program. All accepted engaged listeners will be admitted to the conference including meals free of charge. For engaged listeners who have exhausted other potential sources of funding, travel costs and accommodation in Heidelberg could be covered upon request and depending on the availability of funds. Details are here.

New Issue: Climate Law

The latest issue of Climate Law (Vol. 15, nos. 1-2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Christina Voigt, Philipp Sauter, Rita Guerreiro Teixeira, Joeri Rogelj, Carl-Friedrich Schleussner, & Katalin Sulyok, The Legal Power of Highest Possible Ambition: Setting Legal and Scientific Indicators to Assess Highest Possible Ambition under Article 4(3) of the Paris Agreement
• Pratik Purswani & Esha Rana, Mapping India’s Legislative Framework for Climate Change
• Josephine van Zeben & Mirta Alessandrini, Food ‘Securitization’ and the Climate Crisis: Lessons from the EU Response to the War in Ukraine
• Meng Zhang, Governance Innovation or Imagination? Three Storylines of Navigating the EU’s Leading Role in Green Hydrogen Deployment in a Polarized World
• Viktor Weber, The Challenges of Switching ‘Sail-Fast-then-Wait’ to ‘Sail-Slow-and-Save’ in the Decarbonization of Voyage-chartered Bulk Shipping
• A. Stella Ebbersmeyer, Transparency and Non-State Actors in the Regulation of Black Carbon Emissions from Arctic Shipping
• Jannika Jahn, A New Type of Constitutional ‘Pathway Review’ for Climate Change Mitigation: The Case of German Climate Litigation Since 2021
• Pablo Pellon Ricciardi, Lliuya v. rwe : A Leap Forward for Private Climate Litigation?

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 56, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Ethan Beringen, Exploring the Potential for Inter-Regime Learning Between the BBNJ Agreement and the Global Plastics Treaty
• Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga & Lowell Bautista, Legal Analysis of the Establishment of Exclusion Zones for Submarines in Indonesia’s Archipelagic Sea Lanes
• Laisa Branco de Almeida, The New Regulatory Framework under the BBNJ Agreement for Marine Genetic Resources and the Material Exception to Fishing and Fishing-Related Activities
• Daiana Seabra Venancio, Challenges in Defining the Legal Status of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs)
• Endalew Lijalem Enyew, Impact and Recognition of Traditional Fishing Rights in Maritime Boundary Delimitation: Overview of State Practice in Latin America and Africa
• Henrik Ringbom, New Threats—Old Rules: Law of the Sea Issues Raised by Suspected Attacks on Submarine Infrastructure in the Baltic Sea
• Tajra Smajic, Climate Change and Deep Seabed Mining: Implications of the COSIS Advisory Opinion
• Sophia Kopela, Due Diligence and the Establishment of Area-Based Management Tools Including Marine Protected Areas in the BBNJ Agreement

Seminar: State Succession and ISDS

On September 22, 2025, a seminar will be held on "State Succession and ISDS," at the University of Vienna. Details are here.

New Issue: Journal of Human Rights and the Environment

The latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment (Vol. 16, no. 1, September 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Emily Jones, No future for future generations: who is international environmental law for?
• Seth Epstein, Victoria Enkvist, & Marianne Dahlén, Contesting the national interest in Ecuador: the role of rights of nature in mining conflicts

Call for Papers: Positive Obligations and Discrimination in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights (Workshop)

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "Positive Obligations and Discrimination in the Case Law of the European Court of Human Rights," to be held June 4-5, 2026, in Lund. Details are here.

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 The UNIDROIT Principles on International Commercial Contracts, by Alejandro Garro; a lecture in English on The Principle of Non-Intervention in International Law, by Frédéric Mégret; and lectures in English on The Principle of Non-Intervention in Cyberspace and on Peaceful Settlement of Interstate Cyber Disputes, by Nicholas Tsagourias.

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

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (2025, no. 3) is out. Contents include:

• SVIR/SSDI Annual Meeting 2024
• Ramon Mabillard, Christiana Fountoulakis & Michel Heinzmann, Revision des internationalen Erbrechts
• Gerald Mäsch, Brennpunkte der EU-Erbrechtsverordnung
• Thomas M. Mayer, Einige erklärende Bemerkungen zum ominösen dritten Satz von Art. 91 Abs. 1 revIPRG
• Gian Andri Capaul, Zum revidierten Erbkollisionsrecht
• Patrick Dietrich, Positive vs. negative Zuständigkeitskonflikte im internationalen Erbrecht