Tuesday, April 20, 2021
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
Call for Submissions: New Zealand Yearbook of International Law
Monday, April 19, 2021
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
AdvertisementThis 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.
AdvertisementThis 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
AdvertisementLe 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
Sunday, April 18, 2021
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
New Issue: Review of European, Comparative & International Environmental Law
- 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
Saturday, April 17, 2021
Besson: Reconstruire l'ordre institutionnel international
À l’heure où les États sont toujours plus concurrencés par des institutions nombreuses aux pouvoirs divers sur la scène internationale, Samantha Besson invite à re-poser la question institutionnelle en droit international pour contribuer ainsi à reconstruire l’ordre institutionnel mondial.
Les États n’agissent plus seuls sur la scène internationale. Interviennent désormais à leurs côtés, voire parfois à leur place, d’autres institutions comme les organisations internationales, les entreprises multinationales, les organisations non gouvernementales, les régions, ou encore les villes globalisées. Or, on ne dispose d’aucune indication claire, et encore moins d’un « droit international des institutions », permettant de répondre aux trois questions essentielles de l’organisation sociale et politique que sont la représentation, la règlementation et la responsabilité. Quelles institutions peuvent agir pour qui sur le plan international ? À quelles conditions leurs décisions peuvent-elles prétendre lier juridiquement, et avoir la légitimité de le faire ? Et, quelles institutions doivent répondre envers qui, et comment, de la violation du droit international ? Le temps est venu de reconstruire l’ordre institutionnel international.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Fisher & Streinz: Confronting Data Inequality
Angelina Fisher (New York Univ. - Guarini Global Law & Tech) & Thomas Streinz (New York Univ. - Guarini Global Law & Tech) have posted Confronting Data Inequality. Here's the abstract:
Data conveys significant social, economic, and political power. Unequal control over data — a pervasive form of digital inequality — is a problem for economic development, human agency, and collective self-determination that needs to be addressed. This paper takes some steps in this direction by analyzing the extent to which law facilitates unequal control over data and by suggesting ways in which legal interventions might lead to more equal control over data. By unequal control over data, we not only mean having or not having data, but also having or not having power over deciding what becomes and what does not become data. We call this the power to datafy. We argue that data inequality is in turn a function of unequal control over the infrastructures that generate, shape, process, store, transfer, and use data. Existing law often regulates data as an object to be transferred, protected, and shared and is not always attuned to the salience of infrastructural control over data. While there are no easy solutions to the variegated causes and consequences of data inequality, we suggest that retaining flexibility to experiment with different approaches, reclaiming infrastructural control, systematically demanding enhanced transparency, pooling of data and bargaining power, and differentiated and conditional access to data mechanisms may help in confronting data inequality more effectively going forward.
This paper was written as a background paper for the World Development Report 2021: Data for Better Lives.
Lecture: Knop on "Gender and the Lost Private Side of International Law"
On April 26, 2021, Karen Knop (Univ. of Toronto - Law) will deliver a lecture on "Gender and the Lost Private Side of International Law" as part of the Essex Public International Law Lecture Series. Details are here.
New Issue: Global Constitutionalism
The latest issue of Global Constitutionalism (Vol. 10, no. 1, March 2021) is out. Contents include:- Articles
- Su Bian, Political but incontestable: A review of ‘political constitutionalism’ in China
- Berihun Adugna Gebeye, Global constitutionalism and cultural diversity: The emergence of jurisgenerative constitutionalism in Africa
- Special Issue: Judicial Authority, Legitimacy and the (International) Rule of Law
- Knut Traisbach, Judicial authority, legitimacy and the (international) rule of law as essentially contested and interpretive concepts: Introduction to the special issue
- Jeremy Waldron, The rule of law and the role of courts
- Brian Z. Tamanaha, Always imperfectly achieved rule of law: Comments on Jeremy Waldron
- Andreas Follesdal, International human rights courts and the (international) rule of law: Part of the solution, part of the problem, or both?
- Gianluigi Palombella, Non-arbitrariness, rule of law and the ‘margin of appreciation’: Comments on Andreas Follesdal
- Geir Ulfstein, Transnational constitutional aspects of the European Court of Human Rights
- Wojciech Sadurski, Quasi-constitutional court of human rights for Europe? Comments on Geir Ulfstein
- Knut Traisbach, A transnational judicial public sphere as an idea and ideology: Critical reflections on judicial dialogue and its legitimizing potential
- Friedrich Kratochwil, Law as an argumentative practice: On the pitfalls of confirmatory research, false necessities, and (Kantian) stupidity – Comments on Knut Traisbach
Call for Papers: Imagining Solidarity in International and Regional Law
The TMC Asser Institute has posted a call for papers for a conference on "Imagining Solidarity in International and Regional Law" to take place online October 28-29, 2021. The call is here. The deadline is May 15, 2021.
Thursday, April 15, 2021
Meron: Standing Up for Justice: The Challenges of Trying Atrocity Crimes
This is a book about international criminal justice written by one of its foremost practitioners and academic thinkers, Judge Theodor Meron. For two decades, Judge Meron has been at the heart of the international criminal justice system, serving as President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), President of the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals, and a Judge of the Appeals Chambers of the ICTY and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Drawing on this experience, and his life and career before serving as an international judge, Judge Meron reflects on some of the key questions facing the international criminal justice system.
In the opening chapter, Judge Meron writes vividly about his childhood experiences in Poland during World War II, his education, career with the Israeli Foreign Ministry, and subsequent move into academia in the United States. The book continues with Meron's reflections on what it means to transform from a law professor into an international criminal judge, and shifts focus to the criminal courtroom, addressing topics such as the judicial function, the rule of law, and the principle of fairness in trying atrocity crimes: genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. Judge Meron discusses judicial independence and impartiality in international criminal courts, shedding light on the mystery of judicial decision-making and deliberations. Notably, he addresses the controversial subjects of acquittals and the early release of prisoners. Although acquittals are often seen as a failure of international justice, Judge Meron argues that legal principle must come before any extraneous purpose, however desirable that purpose may be. Finally, the book looks ahead at the challenges facing the future of international justice and accountability, and discusses the all-important question: does international criminal justice work?
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
Symposium: The Evolving Role of International Organizations and Cooperation
Tomorrow and Friday, April 15-16, 2021, the Georgetown Journal of International Law will host a virtual symposium on "The Evolving Role of International Organizations and Cooperation." The program is here. Registration is here.
New Issue: Journal of Conflict Resolution
The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict Resolution (Vol. 65, no. 5, May 2021) is out. Contents include:- Articles
- Jordan Bernhardt & Lauren Sukin, Joint Military Exercises and Crisis Dynamics on the Korean Peninsula
- J. Andrés Gannon & Daniel Kent, Keeping Your Friends Close, but Acquaintances Closer: Why Weakly Allied States Make Committed Coalition Partners
- Erin Baggott Carter & Brett L. Carter, Propaganda and Protest in Autocracies
- Anne Meng, Winning the Game of Thrones: Leadership Succession in Modern Autocracies
- Ingrid Vik Bakken & Halvard Buhaug, Civil War and Female Empowerment
- Data Set Feature
- Ryan M. Welch, Jacqueline H. R. DeMeritt, & Courtenay R. Conrad, Conceptualizing and Measuring Institutional Variation in National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs)
Webinar: European Approaches to International Law in a Historical Perspective: Taking Stock of Some Contemporary Appraisals
On May 11, 2021, the European University Institute and Roma Tre University, with the support of the European Society of International Law, will host a webinar on "European Approaches to International Law in a Historical Perspective: Taking Stock of Some Contemporary Appraisals." Details and registration (by May 8) are here.
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Webinar: Hidden Figures in International Courts and Tribunals
This spring and fall, the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies will hold a webinar series on "Women in International Law." The first session, to be held on April 21, 2021, will focus on "Hidden Figures in International Courts and Tribunals." The panelists include: Diane Marie Amann (Univ. of Georgia - Law), J. Jarpa Dawuni (Howard Univ. - Political Science), and Nienke Grossman (Univ. of Baltimore - Law). Details and registration are here.
Akinkugbe: A Critical Appraisal of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement
Olabisi D. Akinkugbe (Dalhousie Univ. - Law) has posted A Critical Appraisal of the African Continental Free Trade Area Agreement (in International Economic Law from a (South) African Perspective, Franziska Sucker & Kholofelo Kugler eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:
Despite Africa’s fragmented sub-regional economic regimes, the AfCFTA Agreement represents a significant moment for African States to harness the continent’s international trade and investment opportunities on their own terms. The AfCFTA Agreement initiates a set of complex and lengthy negotiations with a view to reducing tariffs, galvanize industrial production and boost Africa’s trade. The success of Africa’s reinvigorated liberal internationalism embodied in the AfCFTA Agreement depends on a host of factors that primarily includes its effective implementation.
This Chapter situates the AfCFTA Agreement in the historical and contemporary contexts of the mixed performance of sub-regional economic communities and other regimes in which its implementation will be embedded. The Chapter also examines the pre-existing structural deficiencies that the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore and their implications for the AfCFTA Agreement. Building on the foregoing, the Chapter also critically examines the blindspots of the pan-Africanist underpinning of the AfCFTA Agreement for the future of trade regime in Africa.
The Chapter examines the substantive provisions of the AfCFTA Agreement and its institutions focusing on the question of supranationality in the decision-making process. In the third section, I deepen the Chapter’s analysis by examining the promise of the AfCFTA in the shadow of Africa’s mixed record of economic cooperation. Based on the analyses of the systemic deficiencies in African regional trade regimes, as impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. To illustrate the latter, I draw on the finance sector - debt burden conundrum and digitalisation. The examples are selected to illustrate areas where historical deep-seated challenges exist and emerging sectors that African leaders should capitalise for a better post-pandemic Africa. I contend that a critical understanding of pan-Africanism and in a morphological sense that acknowledges its shortcomings is important to understanding the attitude of African States to the lethargic implementation of regional trade agreements. Operating with such consciousness, I contend, engenders a better understanding of the intrigues of the implementation phase, as opposed to the narrow, lack of political will arguments.
Monday, April 12, 2021
Tamada & Zou: Implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea: State Practice of China and Japan
This book analyses he implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) in the light of state practices of China and Japan. The special character of the book can be found in its structure of comparative analysis of the practices of China and Japan in each part. The focus is on historical aspects (Part I), implementation of the UNCLOS (Part II), navigation (Part III), mid-ocean archipelagos (Part IV), the marine environment (Part V), and dispute settlement (Part VI). By taking this approach, the book elucidates a variety of aspects of history, difficulties, problems, and controversies arising from the implementation of the UNCLOS by the two nations. Furthermore, contributors from China and Japan tend to show different perspectives on the UNCLOS, which, by clarifying the need for further debate, are expected to contribute to the continuing cooperation between the academics of the two states.
9th SIEL Conversation: Special and Differential Treatment under WTO
The 9th SIEL Conversation, on the topic "Special and Differential Treatment under WTO," will take place on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Registration and other details are available here.
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