New Issue: Chinese Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 23, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Kevin Jon Heller, The “Great Powers” and The Formation of International Law
• Prabhakar Singh, A Custom’s Nine Lives: Decolonial Continuities of Opinio Juris in Customary International Law
• S Hadi Mahmoudi & Sima Moradinasab, Global Space Governance of Remote Sensing and the Needs of Developing States
• Nan Xia, Maritime Ambitions: China’s Emerging Great Power Identity and Its Strategies in BBNJ Agreement Negotiations
• Comments
• M Behesti Aydogan, Cholera in Haiti: A Tale of Two Interventions
• Chronology
• Qisheng He, Chronology of Practice: Chinese Practice in Private International Law in 2023Get accessArrow
• Letter to the Journal
• Dong Shijie, The Decision of the Supreme Court of the Philippines on the Constitutionality of the JMSU

Lecture: Cusato on “International law, nature, and violence: Conceptualizing the ecology of war and peace”

On January 9, 2025, Eliana Cusato (Univ. of Amsterdam - Law) will give the next lecture of the TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War. The topic is: “International law, nature, and violence: Conceptualizing the ecology of war and peace.” Details are here.

Gattini: Time and International Adjudication: The Temporal Factor in Proceedings before International Courts and Tribunals

Andrea Gattini (Università degli Studi di Padova - Law) has published Time and International Adjudication: The Temporal Factor in Proceedings before International Courts and Tribunals (Brill | Nijhoff 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Time and International Adjudication fills a gap in legal literature in the field of international dispute settlement, by providing a wide selection of stimulating contributions by leading international scholars and lawyers, aimed at discussing the role of time in proceedings before international courts and tribunals.

The relevance of the temporal factor in international adjudication is assessed by considering each of the different phases of international judicial proceedings. The analysis covers inter-State proceedings before both permanent courts and tribunals (such as the ICJ, ITLOS and the DSB of the WTO) and arbitral tribunals, as well as international proceedings between individuals and States before regional human rights courts and investment tribunals.

New Issue: International & Comparative Law Quarterly

The latest issue of the International & Comparative Law Quarterly (Vol. 73, no. 4, October 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Joshua Paine, Control Mechanisms in Multilateral Investment Tribunals: Navigating Procedural Multilateralism and Substantive Bilateralism
• Neha Mishra & Kholofelo Kugler, International Community in the Global Digital Economy: A Case Study on the African Digital Trade Framework
• Audrey Macklin, Exit Rights, Seamless Borders and the New Carceral State
• Aphrodite Papachristodoulou, The Exercise of State Power Over Migrants at Sea Through Technologies of Remote Control: Reconceptualizing Human Rights Jurisdiction
• Alexander Wentker, The Armed Attack Exception to Neutrality in International Peace and Security Law
• Helen Keller & Pranav Ganesan, The Use of Scientific Experts in Environmental Cases Before the European Court of Human Rights
• Shorter Articles
• Maria Hook, The Purpose of the Gateways for Service Out of the Jurisdiction
• Uglješa Grušić, The Law Governing United Kingdom Government Tort Liability in the ‘War On Terror’
• Agnes Viktoria Rydberg, Deciphering Interim Obligations Under Articles 18 And 25 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties
• José Rogelio Gutiérrez Álvarez, A Melting Snowball—Difficulties Identifying Particular Customary International Law

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 63, no. 6, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Arbitral Award of Oct. 3, 1899 (Guy. v. Venez.) (Provisional Measures) (I.C.J.), with introductory note by Callista Harris
• Advisory Opinion on the Request for an Advisory Opinion Submitted by the Comm'n of Small Island States on Climate Change and Int'l Law (I.T.L.O.S.), with introductory note by Nathaniel Yong-Ern Khng
• Cassirer v. Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection Foundation (9th Cir.), with introductory note by Elena Baylis

New Issue: International Journal of Refugee Law

The latest issue of the International Journal of Refugee Law (Vol. 36, no. 3, October 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Colin Grey, Cosmopolitan Pariahs: The Moral Rationale for Exclusion under Article 1F
• Júlia Zomignani Barboza, International Protection for Criminals: To Grant or Not to Grant? Lessons from Australia, Belgium, and Canada
• Pia Zambelli, Internal Flight Anarchy: Points of Divergence from UNHCR Guidelines in Canadian Decision Making
• Sophie Capicchiano Young, In Continuation of a ‘Unified Immigration Agenda’: The End of Asylum at the United States Southwest Border

New Issue: Revue Générale de Droit International Public

The latest issue of the Revue Générale de Droit International Public (Vol. 128, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Francesco Seatzu, Par-delá les casernes: sur l'iilegitimité des juridictions militaires dans le cadre du droit international contemporain
• Daniel Ventura, Réconsiderer les discours de légitimation des états sur les mesures de réaction à l'illicite adptées par les tiers: quel espace pour la dialectique du constitutionnalisme global?

New Issue: International Organizations Law Review

The latest issue of the International Organizations Law Review (Vol. 21, no. 3, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Thematic Issue: The Love for International Organizations
• Niels Blokker & Ramses Wessel, The Love for International Organizations: Introduction to the Thematic Issue 
• Kristina Daugirdas, The Causes and Consequences of Loving International Organizations: A Reply to Jean d’Aspremont 
• Jan Klabbers, Love Is Just a Four Letter Word 
• Ian Johnstone, Informal Intergovernmental Organizations 
• August Reinisch, Do We Know What We Love When We Say that We Love International Organizations? 
• Niels Blokker, The Love for International Organizations Is Not so Much Logic; It Is Experience 
• Kirsten Schmalenbach, Can International Organizations Turn ‘Rogue’?: The Many Facets of Institutional Capture 
• Catherine Brölmann, For the Love of Structure 
• Elisabetta Morlino, Engaging with International Organizations: A Tale of Love and Darkness
• Namira Negm, Distinctively African: The Unique Appeal of the African Union to International Lawyers of African Origin 
• Anmol Gulecha, International and Regional Organizations: An Asian Perspective 
• Paolo Palchetti & Ramses A. Wessel, Our Love for the European Union: But Is It an International Organization? 
• Jean d’Aspremont, Un-Loving International Organizations 
• General Article
• Daniele Musmeci, UN Targeted Sanctions, Counter-terrorism Measures and Standing Humanitarian Carve-out: A Lesson Learned?

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 29, no. 3, Winter 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho, Armed attacks against merchant vessels: ‘Looking behind the Flag’ to find the victim State
• Emma J Breeze, Duty to act on knowledge: precautions, intelligence and the law of armed conflict
• Hiruni Alwishewa, Supranational small arms control and the challenges of dichotomization
• Sanjeet Ruhal, The evolving seascape of naval warfare: unmanned underwater vehicles and the challenges for international lawGet accessArrow
• Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga & Lowell Bautista, The law of perfidy and ruses of war at sea

Workshop: The Case of S.S. Lotus at 100

On January 9-10, 2025, the inaugural workshop of the Lotus Project will take place at the Lund University Faculty of Law. Online participation is possible. Details are here. Throughout 2025, the Lotus Project is organizing more than fifty talks related to the upcoming centenary of the case. Further information can be found here.

New Issue: Transnational Environmental Law

The latest issue of Transnational Environmental Law (Vol. 13, no. 3, November 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Thijs Etty, Josephine van Zeben, Harro van Asselt, Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, Sébastien Jodoin, & Leonie Reins, Transnational Environmental Law and the Future
• Symposium: Future Generations Litigation and Transformative Changes in Environmental Governance
• Ole W. Pedersen & Katalin Sulyok, Future Generations Litigation and Transformative Changes in Environmental Governance
• Katalin Sulyok, Transforming the Rule of Law in Environmental and Climate Litigation: Prohibiting the Arbitrary Treatment of Future Generations
• Emma Lees & Emilie Gjaldbæk-Sverdrup, Fuzzy Universality in Climate Change Litigation
• Aoife Nolan, Children and Future Generations Rights before the Courts: The Vexed Question of Definitions
• Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh & Alofipo So'o alo Fleur Ramsay, Echoes Through Time: Transforming Climate Litigation Narratives on Future Generations
• Elen Stokes & Caer Smyth, Hope-Bearing Legislation? The Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015
• Caroline E. Foster, Due Regard for Future Generations? The No Harm Rule and Sovereignty in the Advisory Opinions on Climate Change
• Article
• Angela Hefti, Intersectional Victims as Agents of Change in International Human Rights-Based Climate Litigation
• Case Comment
• Parul Kumar, Striving Towards ‘The Good Life’: What Environmental Litigation in India Can Tell Us About Climate Litigation in the Global South: Vedanta Ltd v. State of Tamil Nadu and Others, Supreme Court of India

Call for Submissions: The principle of non-intervention

The Polish Review of International and European Law has issued a call for submissions for a forthcoming special issue (Volume 14, no. 2, 2025) on "The principle of non-intervention." The call is here.

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. 26, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Kent McNeil, The Papal Bulls Dividing the Americas between Spain and Portugal: A Reappraisal
• Page Wilson, Law Wars: Academia and the Manufacture of International Humanitarian Law
• Valentina Vadi, Taming the Leviathan? The Reason of State in International Law

New Issue: Nordic Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 93, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Hojjat Salimi Turkamani, Equity-Based Constructive Participation of Developing Countries in the Climate Change Legal Regime in the Post-Paris Era
• Masoud Zamani, Amirabbas Kiani, & Aghil Mohammadi, Mission Impossible: Establishing Criminal Responsibility for the Nova Kakhovka Dam’s Destruction under Article 8(2)(b)(iv) of the Rome Statute
• Niccolò Lanzoni, What is Acquiescence? A Theoretical Quest Grounded in Judicial Practice
• Kangle Zhang & Ukri Soirila, A New Frontier in Fighting Inequality: International Law and Finance
• Simon McKenzie, Computing the Laws of War: Investigating the Relationship between War, International Law and Military Computer Technology

Call for Papers: The Political Universes of International Courts

A call for papers has been issued for a research workshop on “The Political Universes of International Courts,” to take place May 29, 2025, at the University of Glasgow School of Law. The organizers particularly encourage the presentation of work from post-graduate and early-career researchers, as well as from more established scholars. The call is here.

Call for Submissions: Yearbook of International Disaster Law

The Yearbook of International Disaster Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming seventh volume (2024). The Yearbook welcomes abstracts related to both its thematic section on "Armed Conflicts, Armed Forces and Disasters" and its "General section" on any legal issue relevant to international disaster law, implications for international law arising from disaster scenarios, recent practice in this area (e.g. international documents; case-law) or national analysis related to disaster law. The deadline is February 15, 2025. The call is here.

New Issue: Transnational Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the Transnational Criminal Law Review (Vol. 3, no. 1, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium on the European Arrest Warrant: Two Decades of Visions and Legal Reality
• Masha Fedorova & Sabine Gless, The European Arrest Warrant: Two Decades of Visions and Legal Reality: Introduction to Symposium of EAW 20 Years On
• Miguel João Costa, Raquel Cardoso, & Vânia Costa Ramos, The Second Life of the European Arrest Warrant: An Analysis of the Protective Potential of Mutual Recognition against Extradition to Third States
• Ralf Riegel & Thomas Wahl, Twenty Years of the European Arrest Warrant From a German Viewpoint: Experiences, Challenges, Perspectives
• Gellér, Are the Principles of Mutual Trust and Recognition in Danger of Being Eroded by the Recent Jurisprudence of the ECJ Concerning the EAW?
• Rebecca Niblock, Post-Brexit extradition arrangements: the UK perspective on the TCA
• David J Dickson, The European Arrest Warrant in Scots Law

New Issue: Swiss Review of International and European Law

The latest issue of the Swiss Review of International and European Law (Vol. 34, no. 4, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Andrea Bonomi, La révision du chapitre 6 LDIP sur les successions internationales – une meilleure coordination avec l’étranger et plus d’autonomie pour le disposant
• Lorène Anthonioz & Niklaus Meier, Le conflit de normes en droit international privé, entre iura novit curia et maxime de disposition

Fortuna, et al.: Customary International Law and Its Interpretation by International Courts: Theories, Methods and Interactions

Marina Fortuna (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Kostia Gorobets (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Panos Merkouris (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen), Andreas Føllesdal (Universitetet i Oslo), Geir Ulfstein (Universitetet i Oslo), & Pauline Westerman (Rijksuniversiteit Groningen) have published Customary International Law and Its Interpretation by International Courts: Theories, Methods and Interactions (Cambridge Univ. Press 2024). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

It is notorious that international courts and tribunals have greatly contributed to the development of customary international law (CIL) by, for instance, articulating the constituent elements of custom and clarifying the conditions required for its modification. This volume demonstrates that they have also been actively engaged in the interpretation of CIL. In elucidating CIL interpretation before and by international courts and tribunals, the volume chooses three focal points: theory, method and normative interactions. Viewing CIL and its interpretation from these vantage points leads to a more complete picture of the role and function of CIL interpretation in international courts. The volume encourages readers to question orthodox theories on CIL and its interpretation, to look anew at what has long been labelled mere identification of custom, and to take a systemic approach to CIL, which, even in the process of interpretation, remains unwaveringly connected to treaties and general principles of law.

New Issue: Journal of Human Rights Practice

The latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights Practice (Vol. 16, no. 3, November 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Maja Janmyr, ‘Disturbing the Work of the Office’: The Limits of Refugee Collective Action on ‘UNHCR Territory’ in Beirut
• Mirjam van Schaik & Lynn Hillary, Conceptualization Shapes Practice: Apostasy-Based Refugee Claims and International Human Rights Law
• Lukasz Dziedzic, Administrative Lawfare at the European Union’s External Borders: Some Perspectives on Administrative Regulation of NGO Search and Rescue Activities in Italy and the Situation at the Polish-Belarusian Border
• Nicolás Buitrago-Rey, Paloma Núñez-Fernández, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, & Angélica Suárez-Torres, Specificity in the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Andrew Chubb & Kirsten Roberts Lyer, Transnational Human Rights Violations: Addressing the Evolution of Globalized Repression through National Human Rights Institutions
• Sangeeta Shah & Sandesh Sivakumaran, Complementing UN Human Rights Efforts Through Universal Periodic Review
• James Harrison, Mark Wielga, & Margarita Parejo, In Search of Effective Corporate Grievance Mechanisms: Can Mandatory Due Diligence Laws be a Progressive Force?
• Camila Gianella, Jasmine Gideon, Mariana Salas, Kate Bayliss, Rossella De Falco, María José Romero, & Ruth Iguiñiz, A ‘Common Sense’ Response to Health Inequalities in Peru? Public-Private Partnerships in Health and the Implications for the Right to Health and Economic Inequality
• Katherine Mayall, Christina Zampas, & Rosario Grimà Algora, Mapping the Cross-Border Influence of Regional and International Reproductive Rights Cases
• Faraz Shahlaei, A Jurisdictional Vertigo: Compulsory Arbitration, Sports and the European Court of Human Rights
• Caroline Sweeney, Equality, Diversity and Inclusion within Ireland’s Police Service, An Garda Síochána: Bridging the Gap between Commitments and Reality
• Kurt Mills & Andrea Birdsall, Human Rights in Scottish Foreign Policy: Constructing Scotland as Good Global Citizen
• Nimra Ali, Zainab Iqbal, & Nadia Khadam, Forced Marriages in Times of Armed Conflict: An Implicit Paradox of Modern Slavery under International Humanitarian Law
• Farah Mihlar, Global Models, Victim Disconnect and Demands for International Intervention: The Dilemma of Decoloniality and Transitional Justice in Sri Lanka
• Cher Weixia Chen, Graziella Pagliarulo McCarron, & Julie E . Owen, The Emotional Labour of College Student Activism: An Interview-Based Study
• Policy and Practice Notes
• Kathleen Gu, Dylan K . Kim, Lauren E . Kleidermacher, Anne D . Berhe, Alexander D . Sanjurjo, Ryan M . Leone, Simone R . Dreux, Allison P . Lin, Mina Yuan, Eunice Yang, Ashwin Viswanathan, Isabella M . Lorence, Melissa Wang, Kevin Molyneux, Prantik Saha, & Michael J . Devlin, Operations of a Student-Run Asylum Clinic: Frameworks, Challenges, and Recommendations
• Sheena Swemmer, Challenging Consent—Applicant Versus Amicus Curiae Interventions in Sexual Violence Cases in South Africa
• Jöran Lindeberg & Martin Henkel, A Shared Data Model for Improved Documentation of Human Rights Violations

Holloman: Digest of United States Practice in International Law, 2023

Tiffany Holloman (Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State) has published Digest of United States Practice in International Law, 2023.

New Issue: Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the Korean Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 12, no. 2, 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Featured Articles and Notes Seokwoo Lee, A Difficult Path, but the One We Must Take Together: Forming International Norms through Historical Dialogue between Korea and Japan
• Seokwoo Lee, Korea’s State Practice of International Law: a Multifaceted Evaluation through Regional Perspectives
• DILA’s 35th Anniversary Conference: How Would You Evaluate Korea’s State Practice of International Law?

New Issue: Arbitration International

The latest issue of Arbitration International (Vol. 40, no. 3, September 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Ceyda Knoebel & Stephanie Collins, Enforcing intra-EU ICSID arbitration awards in a post-Achmea world in Europe: could the European Court of Human Rights assist in resolving the deadlock?
• Nobumichi Teramura & Leon Trakman, Confidentiality and privacy of arbitration in the digital era: pies in the sky?
• Mir-Hossein Abedian & Reza Eftekhar, Reasonableness: a guiding light—A probe into the World Court’s landmark judgment on substantive standards of investment protection and its takeaways for investment treaty tribunals
• Alexander Ferguson, Trade secrets at risk—the protection against expropriation of a trade secret
• Ben Steinbrück & Justin Friedrich Krahé, Isolated court determinations on the admissibility of arbitration: a case study of the German Federal Court of Justice’s recent decision on intra-EU ICSID proceedings
• Ksheeraja Satish & Harshitha Satish, A ‘withdrawal’ syndrome: counsel resignations in international arbitrations
• Case Note
• Ada Yee Lam Leung & Samuel Yee Ching Leung, The temptation of Occam’s Razor: jurisdiction, admissibility and party autonomy

New Issue: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

The latest issue of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (Vol. 24, no. 4, December 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Tamara Grigoras, Should we regulate forests through free trade agreements?
• Nsikan-Abasi Odong, Reconciling the Incongruence between the Cartagena Protocol on Biosafety to the Convention on Biological Diversity and the GATT/WTO Rules
• Çağdan Uyar & Osman Devrim Elvan, Legal analysis of the CITES convention in terms of Turkish administrative and judicial processes
• Kyle S. Herman, Intermediaries and complexity: assessing emissions-based governance in the European Union’s EU-ETS
• Robert Bergsvik, Aarti Gupta, & Ina Möller, Is transparency furthering clarity in multilateral climate governance? The case of climate finance
• Caroline Bertram & Hermine Van Coppenolle, Strengthening the Paris Agreement through trade? The potential and limitations of EU preferential trade agreements for climate governance

New Issue: Human Rights Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Review (Vol. 25, no. 3, September 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Lumina S. Albert & Hansa Lysander Manohar, The Complicated Web of Trauma Proliferation Experienced by ‘Un-homed’ Immigrant Women Exploited in Illicit Massage Businesses
• Niclas Rautenberg & Daragh Murray, Making Tangible the Long-Term Harm Linked to the Chilling Effects of AI-enabled Surveillance: Can Human Flourishing Inform Human Rights?
• Suzana Košir & Radhika Lakshminarayanan, Manifestation of Women’s Rights in School Textbooks? Evidence from Social Science Textbooks in India
• Martin Tarkpor & Gerard Clarke, The International Monetary Fund (IMF), Policy Conditionality and Human Rights, 2001–2021