- General Articles
- Alejandro Rodiles, Non-Permanent Members of the United Nations Security Council and the Promotion of the International Rule of Law
- Giovanni Boggero, Without (State) Immunity, No (Individual) Responsibility
- International Legislation and Jurisprudence
- Marlitt Brandes, "All’s Well That Ends Well" or "Much Ado About Nothing"?: A Commentary on the Arms Trade Treaty
- Michael E. Kurth, The Lubanga Case of the International Criminal Court: A Critical Analysis of the Trial Chamber’s Findings on Issues of Active Use, Age, and Gravity
- Conceptional Roots and Potentials of International Investment Treaties
- Wolfgang Alschner, Americanization of the BIT Universe: The Influence of Friendship, Commerce and Navigation (FCN) Treaties on Modern Investment Treaty Law
- Lars Schönwald, The Possible Future of Promoting and Protecting European Investments in Sub-Saharan Africa
Saturday, July 19, 2014
New Issue: Goettingen Journal of International Law
Friday, July 18, 2014
New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly
The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 63, no. 3, July 2014) is out. Contents include:- Articles
- Jonathan Hill, Determining the Seat of an International Arbitration: Party Autonomy and the Interpretation of Arbitration Agreements
- Fernando Lusa Bordin, Reflections of Customary International Law: The Authority of Codification Conventions and ILC Draft Articles in International Law
- Orla Lynskey, Deconstructing Data Protection: The ‘Added-Value’ of a Right to Data Protection in the EU Legal Order
- Kasey L. McCall-Smith, Severing Reservations
- Michael Ramsden, Reviewing the United Kingdom's ICCPR Immigration Reservation in Hong Kong Courts
- Uta Kohl, Corporate Human Rights Accountability: The Objections of Western Governments to the Alien Tort Statute
- Paul David Mora, The Alien Tort Statute After Kiobel: The Possibility for Unlawful Assertions of Universal Civil Jurisdiction Still Remains
- Shorter Articles and Notes
- Lavanya Rajamani, The Warsaw Climate Negotiations: Emerging Understandings and Battle Lines on the Road to the 2015 Climate Agreement
- Fan Yang, Applicable Laws to Arbitration Agreements Under Current Arbitration Law and Practice in Mainland China
- Kristie Thomas, The Product Liability System in China: Recent Changes and Prospects
New Issue: Revista Española de Derecho Internacional
The latest issue of the Revista Española de Derecho Internacional (Vol. 66, no. 1, 2014) is out. Contents include:- Estudios
- Santiago Ripol Carulla, Un nuevo marco de relación entre el Tribunal Constitucional y el Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos
- Eduardo Javier Ruiz Vieytez, España y el Convenio marco para la protección de las minorías nacionales: una reflexión crítica
- Jesús Verdú Baeza, La controversia sobre las aguas de Gibraltar: el mito de la costa seca
- Javier Chinchón Alvarez, La competencia ratione temporis del Tribunal Europeo de Derechos Humanos sobre la obligación de investigar (art. 2 - Derecho a la vida). Teoría y práctica: de De Becker c. Bélgica a Canales Bermejo c. España
- Notas
- Mireya Castillo Daudí, Los campos de detención de la base naval de Guantánamo: aspectos de Derecho internacional humanitario
Thursday, July 17, 2014
Bartels: Social Issues in Regional Trade Agreements: Labour, Environment and Human Rights
This chapter reviews the several ways that bilateral and regional trade agreements regulate environmental and labour standards and human rights. It divides these into provisions granting the parties rights to adopt protective measures in the form of exceptions and conflicts provisions and provisions imposing on the parties obligations to take positive steps to implement certain norms. The chapter also reviews the extent to which these obligations can be enforced, if at all.
New Issue: Chicago Journal of International Law
- International Law and Economics Conference
- Katerina Linos & Jerome Hsiang, Modeling Domestic Politics in International Law Scholarship
- Daniel Abebe, Egypt, Ethiopia, and the Nile: The Economics of International Water Law
- Anu Bradford, How International Institutions Evolve
- Rachel Brewster, The Domestic and International Enforcement of the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
- Adam S. Chilton, The Influence of International Human Rights Agreements on Public Opinion: An Experimental Study
- Tom Ginsburg, Chaining the Dog of War: Comparative Data
- Joel P. Trachtman, The Economic Structure of the Law of International Organizations
- Eric A. Posner & Alan O. Sykes, Voting Rules in International Organizations
Ramji-Nogales: Bespoke Transitional Justice at the International Criminal Court
This chapter grapples with the question of whether the International Criminal Court should be conceptualized as a mechanism of transitional justice. Most schools of thought insist that transitional justice is either an inappropriate or an unrealistic goal for the Court. Some scholars have proposed that the Court might more accurately be theorized as seeking to achieve political goals through “juridified diplomacy”. Others suggest that the Court should speak primarily to a global, rather than local, audience. A third school of thought criticizes international criminal law as insufficiently focused on the preferences of societies affected by mass violence. Going one step further, some theorists suggest that the Court should be set aside in favor of mechanisms that are more responsive to local preferences. Though the incorporation of the International Criminal Court into a “locally owned” transitional justice paradigm faces substantial challenges, this chapter draws on a theory of bespoke transitional justice to suggest ways in which this knotty relationship might be better designed.
New Issue: Rivista di Diritto Internazionale
The latest issue of the Rivista di Diritto Internazionale (Vol. 97, no. 2, 2014) is out. Contents include:- Articoli
- G. Rossolillo, Cooperazione rafforzata e Unione economica e monetaria: modelli di flessibilità a confronto
- F. Bassan, Le operazioni non convenzionali della BCE al vaglio della Corte costituzionale tedesca
- O. Lopes Pegna, Riforma della filiazione e diritto internazionale privato
- Note e Commenti
- C. Contartese, La prassi successiva come metodo per modificare un trattato nella giurisprudenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo
- F. Andreoli, Immunità delle Nazioni Unite e protezione equivalente: l’affare Associazione madri di Srebrenica
- C. Cipolletti, Cittadinanza statale e cittadinanza europea: il caso della legge maltese
- Panorama
- S. Forlati, L’affare del Sequestro di documenti e dati (Timor-Leste c. Australia): fra tutela dell’integrità del processo internazionale e diritto degli Stati alla riservatezza delle comunicazioni
- P. Pustorino, Immunità dello Stato, immunità degli organi e crimine di tortura: la sentenza della Corte europea dei diritti dell’uomo nel caso Jones
- F. Palombino, Quali limiti alla regola sull’immunità degli Stati? La parola alla Consulta
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
Kaye: Archiving Justice: Conceptualizing the Archives of the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) will complete its proceedings over the coming years, leaving behind an enormous collection of records. The ICTY archive provides a record of conviction and acquittal, prosecution case and defense response – a vast series of contested facts and arguments. The ICTY winds down with a decidedly mixed reputation, especially among the communities of the Balkans, doing damage to the already-discredited idea of a Tribunal capable of aiding the processes of reconciliation. And yet the UN still speaks of the reconciliatory purposes the ICTY archives may serve. Pursuing reconciliation, however, sets up the archive for failure. It would be better for those establishing the archives to focus on other, attainable goals, taking into account Martha Minow’s (1998) caution against judicial records that merely “speak for themselves”. This essay provides historical context for the development of the ICTY archive, outlining its two decades of work, and emphasizes the political context from and into which the archive will emerge.
Schüttpelz: Witness Preparation in International and Domestic Criminal Proceedings
The study provides a practicable solution to the question whether and how witnesses can be pre-pared for their testimony before the International Criminal Court (ICC). For that purpose, the book highlights and analyses relevant judicial decisions of international tribunals as well as selected domestic decisions, especially from the USA and UK. It establishes an interdisciplinary approach by paying much needed attention to psychological pitfalls that arise from the interrogation setting of witness preparation sessions. Finally, the study concludes with a draft rule for ICC witness prepa-ration. Thus, it is of interest to scholars and practitioners of international criminal law alike.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014
New Issue: Questions of International Law
- Is there a gap between principles and practices in using the ECHR to set limits to States’ discretion in the management of migration flows?
- Introduced by Francesca De Vittor and Cesare Pitea
- Andrea Saccucci, The protection from removal to unsafe countries under the ECHR: not all that glitters is gold
- Emanuele Nicosia, Massive immigration flows management in Italy between the fight against illegal immigration and human rights protection
New Issue: Nordic Journal of Human Rights
The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 32, no. 2, 2014) is out. Contents include:- Special Issue: Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law - Beyond Conflict of Laws
- Marjan Ajevski, Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law – Beyond Conflict of Laws
- Lucas Lixinski, Comparative International Human Rights Law: An Analysis of the Right to Private and Family Life across Human Rights “Jurisdictions”
- Marjan Ajevski, Freedom of Speech as Related to Journalists in the ECtHR, IACtHR and the Human Rights Committee – a Study of Fragmentation
- Orsolya Salát, Comparative Freedom of Assembly and the Fragmentation of International Human Rights Law
- Svetlana Tyulkina, Fragmentation in International Human Rights Law: Political Parties and Freedom of Association in the Practice of the UN Human Rights Committee, European Court of Human Rights and Inter-American Court of Human Rights
- Knut Vollebæk & Ingvill Thorson Plesner, Constitutional Protection of National Minorities' Rights in Norway: Does It Matter?
Blokker: Constituent Instruments - Creating a Genie that May Escape from the Bottle?
This paper presents an analysis of constituent instruments of international organizations. Following an overview of the different names of these instruments, their content and the parties to such instruments, the main part discusses the legal characteristics of constituent instruments and their interpretation. Particular emphasis is put on the creation of a new legal person and constitutional development through 'practice of the organization'.
New Issue: Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme
The latest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme (No. 99, July 2014) is out. Contents include:- Jean Waline & Jean-Paul Costa, In memoriam – Le Doyen Gérard Cohen-Jonathan (1936-2014)
- Pierre Lambert, Éditorial
- David Szymczak, Le préjudice important… Un critère inquiétant ? - Retour sur les premières années d’application de la nouvelle condition de recevabilité par la Cour de Strasbourg
- Martial Jeugue Doungue, La garantie des droits de la femme par le Protocole de Maputo comme condition du développement durable en Afrique
- Elisabeth Lambert-Abdelgawad, L’exécution des arrêts de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme par le Comité des ministres (2013) : bilan et perspectives d’avenir
- Institut de droit européen des droits de l'homme (I.D.E.D.H.), Christophe Maubernard, Hélène Surrel, Laure Milano, Romain Tinière, & Katarzyna Blay-Grabarczyk, Les juridictions de l’Union européenne et les droits fondamentaux - Chronique de jurisprudence (2013)
- Xavier Delgrange & Mathias El Berhoumi, Pour vivre ensemble, vivons dévisagés : le voile intégral sous le regard des juges constitutionnels belge et français (obs/s. Cons. const. fr., n° 2010-613 DC, 7 octobre 2010; Cour const. b., n° 145/2012, 6 décembre 2012)
- Maïté De Rue, Les peines de perpétuité réelle sont contraires à la dignité humaine : la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme consacre un droit à l’espoir pour tous les condamnés (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt Vinter e.a. c. Royaume-Uni, 9 juillet 2013)
- Damien Scalia, L’application du principe de légalité des peines aux crimes (les plus) graves : l’orthodoxie retrouvée (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt Maktouf et Damjanović c. Bosnie-Herzégovine, 18 juillet 2013; Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt Del Río Prada c. Espagne, 21 octobre 2013)
- Julie Tavernier, La loi interprétative devant la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme - Une illustration des conséquences des arrêts pilotes dans l’ordre juridique italien (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt M.C. et autres c. Italie, 3 septembre 2013)
- Anne Danis-Fâtome, Le droit des couples à un « engagement public » (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., arrêt Vallianatos et autres c. Grèce, 7 novembre 2013)
- Walter Jean-Baptiste, « L’ex-épouse devint, un jour, belle-maman et acquit le droit de le rester » (obs/s. Cass. fr., arrêt n° 1389, 4 décembre 2013)
van den Herik: Peripheral Hegemony in the Quest to Ensure Security Council Accountability for its Individualized UN Sanctions Regimes
A demand for strengthened Security Council accountability has been put forward quite vigorously in the context of the individualized UN sanctions regimes. Over the years, a great variety of actors have voiced their concerns or outright condemnation of the accountability deficit that exists for UN sanctions regimes which target individuals. This accountability gap was effectively created when the heavily critiqued Security Council policy to impose comprehensive sanctions transmuted into designs of targeted sanctions regimes in the 1990s. The traditional procedures and accountability mechanisms that controlled the comprehensive sanctions against states were overall political and diplomatic in nature and not considered fit for the new sanctions paradigm which had the individual rather than the state as its core focus. The shift to targeted sanctions thus required fresh thinking about and new approaches to Security Council accountability. External actors, including states, and particularly their courts and parliaments, but also regional courts and parliaments, UN human rights bodies and special rapporteurs, scholars and civil society took the lead in exposing the accountability deficit and through concerted efforts they created the impetus for change. The protagonist in this story is beyond any doubt the European Court of Justice (ECJ) with its legendary Kadi-case. In light of the above panorama, this article examines issues of Security Council accountability in relation to individualized UN sanctions regimes. It particularly assesses and appraises the role of external forces in bringing about change within the UN system, with a focus on the ECJ and its Kadi case.
Monday, July 14, 2014
New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht
The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 74, no. 2, 2014) is out. Contents include:- EMRK - GG - Symposium aus Anlass des Erscheinens der 2. Auflage des Konkordanzkommentars
- Heike Krieger, Positive Verpflichtungen unter der EMRK: Unentbehrliches Element einer gemeineuropäischen Grundrechtsdogmatik, leeres Versprechen oder Grenze der Justiziabilität?
- Hans-Joachim Cremer, 'Caroline II - Zwischenschritt auf dem Weg zu einem Kooperationsverhältnis Straßburg - Karlsruhe?: Eine kurze Stellungnahme
- Abhandlungen
- Sarah Schadendorf, Die EU und die menschenrechtlichen Verträge ihrer Mitgliedstaaten: Divergierende Schutzniveaus am Beispiel der CEDAW
- Armin von Bogdandy & Michael Ioannidis, Merkmale, Instrumente und Probleme am Beispiel der Rechtsstaatlichkeit und des neuen Rechtsstaatlichkeitsaufsichtsverfahrens
- Raffaela Kunz, Schweiz - EU: Wohin führt der bilaterale Weg nach der Annahme der Volksinitiative "Gegen Masseneinwanderung"?
- Christian Marxsen, The Crimea crisis: An international law perspective
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Lazar: Associative Duties and the Ethics of Killing in War
This paper advances a novel account of part of what justifies killing in war, grounded in the duties we owe to our loved ones to protect them from the severe harms with which war threatens them. It discusses the foundations of associative duties, then identifies the sorts of relationships, and the specific duties that they ground, which can be relevant to the ethics of war. It explains how those associative duties can justify killing in theory — in particular how they can justify overriding the rights to life of some of those who must be killed to win a war. It then shows how these duties can be operationalised in practice: first, showing how soldiers who fight on behalf of their community can act on reasons that apply to the members of that community; second, showing that the argument from associative duties does not prove too much — in particular, that it does not license the intentional killing of noncombatants in war.
Saturday, July 12, 2014
Noll: Weaponising Neurotechnology: International Humanitarian Law and the Loss of Language
Are operators of weapon systems which draw on neuroscience, or their commanders capable of applying IHL? Only at the price of a decision review system that would be so fundamental as to eradicate the temporal advantages neuroweapons create in the first place. To be meaningful, this review system would need to take the metaphysical foundations of neuroweapons into account.
New Issue: Indian Journal of International Law
The latest issue of the Indian Journal of International Law (Vol. 53, no. 4, October-December 2013) is out. Contents include:- Articles
- Tafsir M. Ndiaye, Non-Appearance before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea
- Elizabeth H. Aguiling-Pangalangan, Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Divorces: The Philippine Dilemma and Its Consequences on the Rights of Spouses and their Children
- Manoj Kumar Sinha, African Charter on Human and People's Rights and Protection of Human Rights
- Gaius E. Okwezuzu, An Appraisal of United Nations Efforts in International Environmental Protection
- Shorter Articles and Current Development
- Vageshwari Deswal, Global Commitment towards Protection of Women against Acid Violence
- Pooja Bakshi, Engaging with Security and State from a Gendered Lens in the South Asian Context: Indian State's Construction of Internal Security in 2010-2011 and State Responses to It
Friday, July 11, 2014
New Issue: Nordic Journal of Human Rights
The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 32, no. 1, 2014) is out. Contents include:- Manfred Nowak, The Right of Victims of Human Rights Violations to a Remedy: The Need for a World Court of Human Rights
- Jasper Krommendijk, Finnish Exceptionalism at Play? The Effectiveness of the Recommendations of UN Human Rights Treaty Bodies in Finland
- Margot E. Salomon & Colin Arnott, Better Development Decision-making: Applying International Human Rights Law to Neoclassical Economics
Burke: Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Military Contingents
In Sexual Exploitation and Abuse by UN Military Contingents: Moving Beyond the Current Status Quo and Responsibility under International Law Róisín Burke explores the legal, conceptual and practical difficulties of dealing with sexual offences committed by military contingent personnel deployed on UN peace operations. Some of the inadequacies of current legal frameworks for dealing with such abuses are examined. The book addresses the difficulties with applying international humanitarian law, human rights law and/or international criminal law in this context, and the broader issue of state/international organization responsibility. The book proposes policy options to increase accountability both for perpetrators and for troop contributing nations otherwise indifferent to the crimes of their national contingents.
Gerhold: Die Friedensbedrohung gemäß Art. 39 UN-Charta im Libyen-Konflikt 2011
Am 17. März 2011 erließ der UN-Sicherheitsrat Resolution 1973. In dieser Resolution ermächtigte er die UN-Mitgliedsstaaten dazu, militärisch im Libyen-Konflikt zu intervenieren. Nach Artikel 39 UN-Charta ist Voraussetzung für eine derartige Ermächtigung, dass eine Friedensbedrohung vorliegt. Aufgrund der Souveränität der Staaten ist eine solche ursprünglich nur angenommen worden, wenn zwischenstaatliche Konflikte vorlagen. Inwieweit und unter welchen Voraussetzungen mittlerweile auch innerstaatliche Konflikte als Friedensbedrohung angesehen werden können und ob der Konflikt 2011 in Libyen diese Kriterien erfüllt, ist Gegenstand dieser Untersuchung.
New Issue: Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights
The latest issue of the Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights (Vol. 32, no. 2, 2014) is out. Contents include:
- A.M. Van Kalmthout, CPT, OPCAT and the Dutch Caribbean
- F. Seatzu & A. Ubeda De Torres, The Social Charter of the OAS: A Step Forward in the Enforcement of Socio-Economic Rights in the Americas?
- E. Howard, Protecting Freedom to Manifest One’s Religion or Belief: Strasbourg or Luxembourg?
- A. Cahill-Ripley, Foregrounding Socio-Economic Rights in Transitional Justice: Realising Justice for Violations of Economic and Social Rights
Thursday, July 10, 2014
Milanovic: The Lost Origins of Lex Specialis: Rethinking the Relationship between Human Rights and International Humanitarian Law
In this paper I try to outline the current state of the debate on the relationship or interaction between international human rights law (IHRL) and international humanitarian law/law of armed conflict (IHL). The topic is well-worn and I will not recapitulate the basics. I will rather try to set out as clearly as possible the extant points of controversy, their driving factors and the logical order in which they should be addressed in order to advance the debate further. After providing a broad overview of the debate, I will look at one of its key concepts – the lex specialis principle. I will show that, despite the Latin veneer of antiquity, scholars have generally started using lex specialis to describe the relationship between IHL and IHRL only after the ICJ’s 1996 Nuclear Weapons advisory opinion.
Rather than being some kind of unassailable orthodoxy, lex specialis is a principle whose effects and utility need to be critically re-examined. Indeed, we are dealing not with one, but with three distinct versions of the principle, which rest on different rationales and produce different consequences. In that regard, there have been enthusiasts and sceptics even since the issue of the relationship between IHL and IHRL has arisen, and that is a good and natural thing. I do not propose to somehow fully reconcile these two camps, although I would submit that the differences between them are not as stark as is sometimes thought. But the main prerequisite for the debate to move forward is that we speak a common language and have conceptual clarity, and advancing this clarity is precisely this paper's primary purpose.
New Issue: World Politics
The latest issue of World Politics (Vol. 66, no. 3, July 2014) is out. Contents include:- Research Articles
- Brian Burgoon, Immigration, Integration, and Support for Redistribution in Europe
- Jennifer Fitzgerald, David Leblang & Jessica C. Teets, Defying the Law of Gravity: The Political Economy of International Migration
- Leonardo Baccini & Mathias Koenig-Archibugi, Why do States Commit to International Labor Standards? Interdependent Ratification of Core ILO Conventions, 1948–2009
- David A. Steinberg & Krishan Malhotra, The Effect of Authoritarian Regime Type on Exchange Rate Policy
- Review Article
- Anthony M. Messina, Securitizing Immigration in the Age of Terror
New Issue: Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme
The latest issue of the Revue trimestrielle des droits de l'homme (No. 98, April 2014) is out. Contents include:- Paul Martens, La nouvelle controverse de Valladolid
- Françoise Tulkens, Pour les 60 ans de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme : bilan, questions critiques et défis
- Edouard Delruelle, Quel universalisme des droits de l’homme ?
- Nathalie Droin, État des lieux de la répression du négationnisme en France et en droit comparé
- Mihaela Ailincai, Le Conseil de l’Europe et la lutte contre l’impunité
- Luis-Miguel Gutierrez Ramirez, Les réparations « transformatrices » Une nouvelle approche des réparations dans la justice transitionnelle
- Alain Ondoua, L’internationalisation des Constitutions en Afrique subsaharienne francophone et la protection des droits fondamentaux
- Valérie Junod, Lancer l’alerte : quoi de neuf depuis Guja ? (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., Bucur et Toma c. Roumanie, 8 janvier 2013)
- Yves-Marie Doublet, L’interdiction de campagnes politiques publicitaires à la télévision et à la radio n’est pas contraire à l’article 10 de la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme (obs/s. Cour eur. dr. h., Gde Ch., Animal Defenders International c. Royaume-Uni, 22 avril 2013)
- Emanuelle Bribosia, Gabrielle Caceres, & Isabelle Rorive, Les signes religieux au cœur d’un bras de fer entre Genève et Paris : la saga Singh (obs/s. Comité dr. h. Nations Unies, Shingara Mann Singh c. France, 26 septembre 2013)
- Patrick de Fontbressin, À propos de l’affaire Dieudonné : le principe du respect de la dignité humaine, ciment de l’ordre public européen (obs/s. Cons. Etat (fr.), réf., Ministre de l'intérieur c. Société Les Productions de la Plume et M. Dieudonné M’Bala M’Bala, n° 374508, 9 janvier 2014)






