Conference: International Law and Distribution: Sustainable Development, Security, and the Governance of Resources

On May 13-14, 2021, the Glasgow Centre for International Law and Security will host online a conference on "International Law and Distribution: Sustainable Development, Security, and the Governance of Resources." The conference is the second in a collaboration between the Law Schools of the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh. The program is here. Registration is here.

New Issue: Revista de Direito Internacional

The latest issue of Revista de Direito Internacional (Vol. 17, no. 3, 2020) is out. This is a special issue on "Art Law and Cultural Heritage Law / Direito da Arte e do Patrim." The table of contents is here.

Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law

The New Zealand Yearbook of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its forthcoming volume 18 (2020). The call is here.

de Guttry, Post, & Venturini: The 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia War and Its Aftermath in International Legal Perspective - From the 2000 Algiers Agreements to the 2018 Peace Agreement

Andrea de Guttry (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa), Harry Post (Université Catholique de Lille), & Gabriella Venturini (Università degli Studi di Milano) have published The 1998-2000 Eritrea-Ethiopia War and Its Aftermath in International Legal Perspective - From the 2000 Algiers Agreements to the 2018 Peace Agreement (Asser Press 2021, 2d ed.). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

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This book centres on the war that raged between Eritrea and Ethiopia from 1998 to 2000, a war that caused great loss of life and tremendous devastation. It analyses the war in great detail from an international legal perspective: the nature and the state of the boundary conflict preceding the actual armed conflict, the military actions themselves, the role of the UN peacekeeping mission, the responsibility for the multitude of explosive remnants of the war left behind. Ample attention is paid to the decisions of the Eritrea-Ethiopia Claims Commission and the Eritrea-Ethiopia Boundary Commission.

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This study is not limited to the war and the period immediately following it, it also examines its more extended aftermath prolonging the analysis as far as the more recent improvement in the relations between Eritrea and Ethiopia, away from a situation of ‘no war, no peace’ that prevailed after the armed conflict ended. The analysis of the war and its aftermath is not only in terms of international legal issues, it has been placed in a wider than strictly legal perspective.

Event: EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Conversation with European Commission Vice President Schinas

On April 22, 2021, the British Institute of International and Comparative Law will host online "EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: Conversation with European Commission Vice President Schinas." This event is co-sponsored by the War Crimes Research Group in the Department of War Studies and the Society, Culture and Law Research Theme in the School of Security Studies, King's College London. Detaisl and registration are here.

Call for Papers: Penalization of international crimes in national law

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "Penalization of international crimes in national law," to take place online on June 14-15, 2021. The call is here. The deadline is May 25, 2021.

Le Floch & Lemey: Le revirement de jurisprudence en droit international

Guillaume Le Floch (Université Rennes 1) & Marie Lemey (Université Rennes 1) have published Le revirement de jurisprudence en droit international (Pedone 2021). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

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Le revirement de jurisprudence cristallise une tension classique du droit entre la nouveauté et la sécurité. D’un côté, il permet au juge d’adapter sa jurisprudence à l’évolution de la société. C’est un élément inhérent à la fonction de juger. Mais, de l’autre côté, en prenant le contrepied de la position qui était jusqu’alors la sienne, le juge porte inéluctablement atteinte au principe de sécurité juridique. Le revirement altère la confiance des justiciables et risque de remettre en cause l’autorité des décisions voire in fine de compromettre leur exécution. Si l’équation est de manière générale fort délicate, elle l’est d’autant plus dans l’ordre juridique international que la justice, en dépit des évolutions les plus récentes, y demeure largement consensuelle.

Le présent ouvrage se propose d’analyser la question du revirement de jurisprudence à travers l’étude de la pratique de plusieurs organes juridictionnels réunis autour de grands ensembles : l’arbitrage (tribunaux interétatiques, CIRDI), les juridictions interétatiques (CIJ, TIDM, ORDOMC), les juridictions des droits de l’homme (CEDH, CIDH), les juridictions d’intégration (CJUE, juridictions d’intégration africaines, juridictions d’intégration latino-américaines), les juridictions pénales internationales (CPI, tribunaux pénaux internationaux ad hoc, tribunaux pénaux internationalisés) et les juridictions administratives internationales.

Les différentes études qui émanent d’universitaires sont complétées par le regard de praticiens dont plusieurs membres des juridictions étudiées.

New Issue: Transnational Dispute Management

The latest issue of Transnational Dispute Management (2021, no. 3) is out. The table of contents is here.

Book Launch: Lustig's Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886-1981

On April 20, 2021, at 9:00am EST, the New York University School of Law's Institute for International Law and Justice will host a book launch for Doreen Lustig's Veiled Power: International Law and the Private Corporation 1886-1981. Participants will include Benedict Kingsbury, B.S Chimni, Megan Donaldson, Martti Koskenniemi, and Glenda Sluga. Registration is here.

Imseis: The United Nations Plan of Partition for Palestine Revisited: On the Origins of Palestine’s International Legal Subalternity

Ardi Imseis (Queen's Univ., Canada - Law) has posted The United Nations Plan of Partition for Palestine Revisited: On the Origins of Palestine’s International Legal Subalternity (Stanford Journal of International Law, Volume 57, no. 1, p. 1, 2021). Here’s the abstract:

This article critically examines the United Nations (U.N.) commitment to international law by revisiting General Assembly Resolution 181(II) of 29 November 1947 recommending the partition of Mandate Palestine into a Jewish State and an Arab State. The main claim advanced is that Resolution 181(II) was an expression of an international rule by law, rather than an international rule of law, through which law was used, abused or selectively applied with grossly iniquitous results. To this end, it undertakes a critical international legal analysis of Resolution 181(II) with specific reference to the verbatim and summary records of the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine whose report of September 1947 formed the basis of both the Resolution’s text and its underlying rationale. Rather than being governed by the objective application of international law, the Resolution was driven by distinctly European political goals, which privileged support for the European Zionist program in Palestine. The result was to legislate into U.N. law the two-state framework as the legal cornerstone of the Organization’s position on Palestine against the wishes of the country’s indigenous Arab majority. In this sense, Resolution 181(II) can be understood as the opening act of Palestine’s disenfranchisement and contingency in the U.N., a subaltern position which continues to this very day.

Call for Submissions: Goettingen Journal of International Law

The Goettingen Journal of International Law has issued a call for submissions for its volume 12, number 1 (2022). The journal in particular seeks contributions that focus on the global pandemic and its direct and indirect effects, as well as current developments in space law and the law of the sea. Apart of the focus, the journal also welcomes any contributions to the current discourse in international law. The call is here. The deadline is September 1, 2021.

New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law

The latest issue of the Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law (Vol. 30, no. 1, April 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Rakhyun E. Kim & Louis J. Kotzé, Planetary boundaries at the intersection of Earth system law, science and governance: A state‐of‐the‐art review
• Patrick Toussaint, Loss and damage and climate litigation: The case for greater interlinkage
• Delphine Misonne, The emergence of a right to clean air: Transforming European Union law through litigation and citizen science
• Carlos Soria‐Rodríguez, The international regulation for the protection of the environment in the development of marine renewable energy in the EU
• Xiaoou Zheng, Empowering indigenous peoples and local communities: A human rights‐based appraisal of the compliance mechanism of the Nagoya Protocol
• Werner Scholtz, ‘Ethical and humane use’, intrinsic value and the Convention on Biological Diversity: Towards the reconfiguration of sustainable development and use
• Ming Du, Clearing the fog: Forest Stewardship Council labelling and the World Trade Organization
• Katharine Heyl, Tobias Döring, Beatrice Garske, Jessica Stubenrauch, & Felix Ekardt, The Common Agricultural Policy beyond 2020: A critical review in light of global environmental goals
• Meelan Thondoo & Joyeeta Gupta, Health impact assessment legislation in developing countries: A path to sustainable development?
• Surasak Boonrueang & Colin Reid, Conservation agreements and environmental governance: The role of nongovernmental actors
• Sandya Nishanthi Gunasekara & Md Saiful Karim, The role of ASEAN and its members in promoting the norm of responsible governance of marine biodiversity of areas beyond national jurisdiction
• Orla Kelleher, A critical appraisal of Friends of the Irish Environment v Government of Ireland