New Volume: Irish Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Irish Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 15, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Saeed Bagheri, Military Assistance and State Responsibility for 'in Bello' Violations during Non-International Armed Conflicts
• Adedayo Akingbade, Due Diligence in International Law: Cause for Optimism?
• Eliza Walsh, The Fine Line between Non-International Armed Conflicts and Internal Disturbances and a Call for the Revival of the Concept of 'Fundamental Standards of Humanity'

New Volume: Palestine Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Palestine Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 23, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Nimer Sultany, The Question of Palestine as a Litmus Test: On Human Rights and Root Causes
• Omar Yousef Shehabi, No Alternative to Despair? Sahrawis, Palestinians, and the International Law of Nationalism
• Luisa Giannini, Non-Protection in the Name of International Law: The Principle of Self-Determination and the Palestine Situation at the International Criminal Court
• Michelle Staggs Kelsall, Between False Messiah and Symbolic Politics: The International Criminal Court and the “Situation in the State of Palestine”
• Sara Razai, The Palestine Exception to Free Speech: The Criminalization of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions in France

New Volume: Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional

The latest volume of the Anuario Mexicano de Derecho Internacional (Vol. 23, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Doctrina
• Rein Müllerson, Guerra en Ucrania: ¿cómo llegamos allí, hay forma de salir de esto?
• Paulo Borba Casella, Tendencias contemporáneas sobre la opinio juris y la prueba material del derecho internacional consuetudinario
• Carlo Carvajal Aguilar, La responsabilidad internacional de los grupos armados no estatales y el derecho de las víctimas a las reparaciones
• Adriana Fillol Mazo, Los alimentos y el empleo de veneno en situaciones de conflicto armado: análisis a la luz de los medios y métodos de guerra prohibidos en el derecho internacional humanitario
• Luciano Pezzano, La obligación de descolonizar en el derecho internacional
• Jorge Alberto López Lechuga, Las obligaciones de los Estados poseedores de armas nucleares en las aguas internacionales incluidas en zonas libres de armas nucleares
• Yovana Reyes Tagle, La influencia de la doctrina en el Tribunal de Justicia de la Comunidad Andina
• Ademar Pozzatti & Lucas Silva de Souza, A governança global da saúde entre hard e soft law: os desafios da responsabilidade social das empresas farmacêuticas
• Luis Manuel Marcano Salazar, El principio de la legalidad y el juicio de Núremberg (1946): aporte a la doctrina del derecho procesal internacional
• Comentarios
• María Laura Fornasar, A denegação de homologação de sentença arbitral estrangeira com fundamento na ausência de imparcialidade do árbitro
• Magdalena Bas Vilizzio, Reformando la solución de controversias inversor-Estado antes de la próxima sindemia
• André Ricci de Amorim, Interfaces entre o direito internacional e o direito brasileiro acerca do acesso à água e a proposta de emenda à Constituição No. 4, de 2018
• Luis Romano Damiani Pellegrini, Fundamentos teórico-conceptuales de la Convención sobre los Derechos de las Personas con Discapacidad de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas: la teoría de los derechos humanos y el modelo social de la discapacidad
• Jaime Cárdenas Gracia, Escisión y anexión de Estados. El caso de la República de Texas (1836-1845)
• Rubén Leal Buenfil, Implicaciones jurídicas de la interrelación entre competencia económica y comercio internacional en Norteamérica
• Tânia Alves Martins & Deilton Ribeiro Brasil, El desastre ecológico de la pandemia Covid-19: el cuidado de nuestra casa común desde la perspectiva de la ONU y los pueblos indígenas

New Volume: Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional

The latest volume of the Anuario Colombiano de Derecho Internacional (Vol. 16, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Carlos Soria Rodríguez, La evaluación del impacto ambiental en el esperado acuerdo para la gobernanza de la biodiversidad marina fuera de la jurisdicción nacional y su previsible aplicación a las tecnologías para la obtención de energía renovable marina
• Walter Arévalo Ramírez & Andrés Rousset Siri, Resistencia y retroceso (backlash) contra las sentencias de la Corte Interamericana de Derechos Humanos: Estudio de 11 casos de reacciones de los Estados a la autoridad del tribunal y la recusación de jueces en el caso “Bedoya Lima”
• Ignacio Perotti Pinciroli, Derecho de las relaciones exteriores, Derecho internacional comparado y el papel de los tribunales nacionales en la justicia transicional: los casos de Argentina y España
• Vanesa Menéndez Montero, Entre el mito y la legalidad: el delito de destrucción del patrimonio cultural en el derecho penal internacional
• Doris Teresita Mendoza López, El nuevo orden jurídico internacional en materia tributaria

New Volume: Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal

The latest volume of the Anuario Iberoamericano de Derecho Internacional Penal (Vol. 10, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Sección de Artículos de Investigación desde el Derecho Internacional Penal
• Yoveslav Radoslavov Yordanov, Los Acuerdos sobre el Estatuto de las Fuerzas Armadas Extranjeras como límite a la actividad jurisdiccional de la Corte Penal Internacional
• Ana Isabel Carreras Presencio, Esperanza en el sistema jurídico de Derecho Penal de la comunidad internacional.
• Michael Méndez, Proceso de constitucionalización del sistema internacional: discusión teórica sobre sus avances y conclusiones
• Maria Alejandra Pabon Acevedo, La limitada aplicación de la responsabilidad del superior jerárquico y sus consecuencias al derecho a la verdad en Colombia
• Ensayos seleccionados del XI Certamen Blattmann, Odio Benito y Steiner
• João Pedro de Souz, aExclusión de pruebas ilícitas e integridad de los procesos una interpretación del artículo 69(7)(b) del Estatuto de Roma y los precedentes de la Corte Penal Internacional
• David Estévez Lledó, Los Derechos Humanos internacionalmente reconocidos ante la Corte Penal Internacional
• Damaris Eliana Martinez Acosta, ¿Todos los caminos conducen a La Haya? Reflexiones de política criminal tras 17 años de examen preliminar en Colombia
• Elena Carolina Diaz Galan, Matrimonio forzado y crimen internacional: una nueva tendencia normativa y jurisprudencial
• Laura Cristina Acosta Reaza, Herramientas de la justicia penal internacional en la investigación local de graves violaciones a los derechos humanos
• Ensayos seleccionados del V Certamen de Estudios Críticos sobre la Justicia
• Miguel Alfredo Ledesma Chavarro, De la interdicción a la plena capacidad jurídica

New Volume: Asian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Asian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 26, 2020) is out. Contents include:

• Seokwoo Lee & Hee Eun Lee, Korea: From Norm Taker to Norm Maker in International Law
• Le Thi Anh Dao & Vu Quoc Tuan, Building an Agreement on Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction: What Are the Positions of Asian States?

New Volume: Yearbook of Polar Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of Polar Law (Vol. 14, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Gudmundur Alfredsson, Country Visits: Report on a Visit to the Ainu and Lessons for the Arctic
• Yota Negishi, Jus Pro Homine, Natura et Animalis: Dignifying the Right to Life of Arctic Indigenous Peoples
• Alexander Sergunin & Akiho Shibata, Implementing the 2017 Arctic Science Cooperation Agreement: Challenges and Opportunities as regards Russia and Japan
• Apostolos Tsiouvalas, Recalcitrant Materialities of a Liminal Ocean: Deconstructing the ‘Arctic Nomos’
• Yuanyuan Ren, U.S.-China Arctic Cooperation in a New Era of Great Power Competition: Opportunities and Challenges
• Trevor Daya-Winterbottom, Legal Personality in Antarctica
• Hanne Nielsen & Gabriela Roldan, Polar Policy in Practice: Tour Guiding in Antarctica
• Gustavo Ramírez Buchheister, The 2018 Judgment by the European Court of Justice on Antarctic MPAS and Its Possible Significance to the Antarctic Treaty System
• Marcelo Molina Villalobos, Antarctic Maritime Zones in the Era of Climate Change: ILC, ILA and the Long Road Ahead
• Eva-Maria Svensson, Hjalti Ómar Ágústsson, & Embla Eir Oddsdóttir, The Pan-Arctic Report on Gender Equality in the Arctic: Moving Forward!  

New Volume: German Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the German Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 64, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• FORUM – Debating a WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
• Pedro A. Villarreal, The Law of the WHO and COVID-19 Pandemic Reformism
• Silvia Behrendt & Amrei Müller, Do We Need to Protect the Entire World Population from Health Threats Through One Global Biomedical Surveillance and Response System? A Human Rights-Based Comment on the Proposed WHO Treaty on Pandemic Preparedness and Response
• FOCUS – China and International Law
• Kerstin von der Decken, Introduction
• Björn Ahl, China’s Perspectives on Public International Law: Selective Adaptation of International Treaties and the Community of Common Destiny Concept
• Congyan Cai, China and International Security: How Law and Politics Work
• Sarah Biddulph, The Chinese Approach to Human Rights
• Yuhong Zhao, The Chinese Approach to International Environmental Law
• Moritz Rudolf, China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) and Public International Law
• Matthieu Burnay & Florian Couveinhes-Matsumoto, One Country, Two International Status? The Evolution of Hong Kong’s International Positioning from Western Imperialism to Chinese Authoritarianism
• Walther Schücking Lecture
• Daniel McCarthy, Professor Bruno Simma’s Reflections on Dispute Resolution at the Peace Palace
• General Articles
• Julien Berger, The End of Intra-EU Investor-State Arbitration
• Henning Goeke, Moria 2.0 – Systemic Human Rights Violation and the Chance of a Pilot Decision
• Silvia Venier, The International Regime Governing Notification, Information-Sharing and Early Warning Applicable to Epidemic Outbreaks
• Apollin Koagne Zouapet, Turning Fantasy into Inclusion … Regional Approaches and Unity of International Law
• German Practice
• Helen Arling, The German Federal Constitutional Court’s Climate Decision and its Implications for International Law
• Phillip Eschenhagen, Germany’s Strategy for Promoting World Peace: Rule of Law, Locality, and the Berlin Process on Libya
• Leonard Amaru Feil, Criminal Procedural Law Interacting with International Criminal Law and Human Rights in the Context of Military Operations Abroad: The European Court of Human Rights’ Judgment in the Case of Hanan v. Germany
• Philip Nedelcu & Stefan Schäferling, The Act on Corporate Due Diligence Obligations in Supply Chains – An Examination of the German Approach to Business and Human Rights
• Rico Neidinger, German Transparency and Anti-Corruption Regulations for Members of Parliament in the 19th Legislative Period (2017–2021) in Light of GRECO Evaluation
• Richard Schmidt, Sovereignty Decoupled from Human Rights: The German Position Paper on the Application of International Law in Cyberspace
• Hannah Sophie Strewe, Functional Immunity Before the Federal Court of Justice
• Sara Wissmann & Julius Adler, Good Things Come to Those Who Wait? The Joint Reconciliation Declaration of Germany and Namibia for the Herero and Nama Genocide

New Volume: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (Vol. 24, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Cultures of International Humanitarian Law
• Alonso Gurmendi Dunkelberg, Des-Encanto: Latin America and International Humanitarian Law
• Rotem Giladi, Rites of Affirmation: The Past, Present, and Future of International Humanitarian Law
• Juana Inés Acosta-López & Ana Idárraga, Prisoners of War, Taking of Hostages and the Colombian Armed Conflict: Challenges Arising Out of Conflictive Understandings of IHL by Different Actors in Particular Contexts
• Rebecca Sutton, Read the Room: Legal and Emotional Literacy in Frontline Humanitarian Negotiations
• Focus Section: Samuel Moyn’s Humane: How the United States Abandoned Peace and Reinvented War (2021)
• Jolanda Jackelien Andela, Examining a Norm of Customary International Law that Criminalises the Intentional Use of Starvation of the Civilian Population as a Method of Warfare
• Craig Jones & Nisha Shah, Wars with and for Humanity
• Doreen Lustig, The Peace Movement and Grassroots International Law
• Samuel Moyn, Emancipation, Humanity, and Peace: A Response
• Year in Review
• James Patrick Sexton, Florent Beurret, & Nathan O’Regan, Year in Review 2021

New Volume: Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs

The latest volume of the Chinese (Taiwan) Yearbook of International Law and Affairs (Vol. 39, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Thomas D. Grant, Rescission of the Autonomy of Hong Kong
• Volker Roeben & Sava Jankovic, Validity of Contested Title to Territory in Frozen Conflict Zones: The Case of Nagorno Karabakh with Particular Reference to the 2020 War
• Denise Cheong & S. Nivedita, Enhancing Transboundary Consultation in the Context of Nuclear Power Development in Southeast Asia
• Makoto Seta, International Framework for Cruise Vessels in the Post-Pandemic Asia-Pacific Region: Unclear Rights over Internal Waters
• Mark McLaughlin, Regulating the Corporate Governance of State-Owned Enterprises in Investment Arbitration
• Min K. Lee & Ji Hyoi Moon, The More the Merrier: Is East Asia’s ADR Scene Missing out on Expert Determination?
• Winnie Jo-Mei Ma, Institutional and Legislative Rule-Making for Taiwan’s Arbitration: CAA and Its International Arbitration Centre
• P. Brian Chen, Investigating the WHO’s Lack of Insulation from International Power Politics
• Special Reports
• Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy, The EU, China and Taiwan: Time to Embrace Change
• Siqi Zhao, Promoting and Protecting Cultural and Creative Industries through Free Trade Agreements: The Experience from Korea and Japan

New Volume: AIIB Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the AIIB Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 4, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Funding International Development Organizations
• Christopher Smith, Xuan Gao, & Thomas Dollmaier, Funding International Development Organizations
• Part 1 The Role of International Organizations in the Development of Local Capital Markets
• Development of Domestic Capital Markets Elena Sulima, The EBRD Experience
• Purva Chadha, The Role of Development Finance Institutions in Developing and Deepening Local Capital Markets: A Case Study of Masala Bonds and Maharaja Bonds Issued by the International Finance Corporation
• Yixin (Christine) Chen, Inspiring Opening-Up, Innovation and Transparency: International Organizations in the Development of China’s Debt Capital Market
• Part 2 The Legal Status of International Organizations
• Christopher P. Moore & Paul C. Kleist, Immunity for Multilateral Development Banks in the United States: Assessing Litigation Exposure Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s Decision in Jam v. International Finance Corporation
• Paul Dudek, Regulation of Offerings by International Financial Institutions under the U.S. Federal Securities Laws
• Minny Siu & James Guan, International Financial Institutions and China: The Legal Status of International Financial Institutions and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank under the Law of the People’s Republic of China
• Part 3 Innovations in Resource Mobilization
• Gerd Droesse, International Financial Institutions: Paradigms of Organizational Structures, Funding Structures and Innovative Funding Modalities
• Douglas Leys & Rosanna Anderson, The Green Climate Fund: A Unique Financing Vehicle among International Organizations
• Heikki Cantell, Developments in the Labelled Bond Concept: More than just Green
• Arthur M. Mitchell, Smart Infrastructure: The New Sustainable Development Paradigm
• Part 4 Innovations in Structure and Development
• Gayle Girod, The Flood of the Private Sector Funding in Development and USAID’s Maneuvers to Ride the Wave
• Ilias Bantekas, Multilateral Development Banks as Agents of Private Contract
• Appendices
• Xue Hanqin, 2020 AIIB Law Lecture: The Judicial Role of the International Court of Justice in the Development of International Law
• Georgia Papalexiou, 2020 AIIB Legal Conference Report

New Volume: Annuaire français de droit international

The latest volume of the Annuaire français de droit international (Vol. 67, 2021) is out. The table of contents is here.

New Volume: Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law

The latest volume of the Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law (Vol. 25, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Gabriela Argüello, The International Maritime Organization’s Contribution to Regime Interaction: Past, Present, and Future
• José-Miguel Bello y Villarino, Middle Point, End of the Road or Just the Beginning? Anticorruption Efforts, Failures and Promises at the United Nations
• Guilherme Canela, Namara Burki, & Samrita Menon, UNESCO’S Judges’ Initiative: Training the Custodians of the Legal System on Freedom of Expression, Access to Information and the Safety of Journalists
• Jacob Katz Cogan, ‘Mechanisms’ at the United Nations
• Pierre-Marie Dupuy, The Constitutional Dimension of the UN Charter Revisited: Almost One Quarter of a Century Later
• Rana Moustafa Essawy, Closing the Doors on Health Nationalism: The Non-emptiness of the Legal Duty to Cooperate in Pandemic Response under Lex Specialis
• Francesco Francioni, Cultural Heritage and Human Rights
• Michael Lysander Fremuth & Konstantina Stavrou, The Future We Want? Reflections on the Exercise of the United Nations Security Council Members’ Veto Powers towards the International Criminal Court
• Rosana Garciandia & Philippa Webb, The UN’s Work on Racial Discrimination: Achievements and Challenges
• Rainer Grote, The Human Rights Council at 15: How (Not) to Promote Human Rights in Times of Growing Political Polarization
• Tomas Hamilton & Göran Sluiter, Principles of Reparations at the International Criminal Court: Assessing Alternative Approaches
• Elena Ivanova, Intervention in Inter-State Arbitration, including the Case of UNCLOS Annex VII Arbitration
• Gerd Oberleitner, The United Nations and International Humanitarian Law: The Past 75 Years
• Sara Palacios-Arapiles, The Interpretation of Slavery before the International Criminal Court: Reconciling Legal Borders?
• Ernst-Ulrich Petersmann, The UN Sustainable Development Agenda and Rule of Law: Global Governance Failures Require Democratic and Judicial Restraints
• Yann Prisner-Levyne, Wildlife Crime: Story of an International Law Lacuna
• Anni Pues, The UN General Assembly as a Security Actor: Appraising the Investigative Mechanism for Syria
• Chie Sato, The Necessity of a Global Legal Framework for Protection of Marine Biodiversity in Areas beyond National Jurisdiction: Could the BBNJ Agreement Provide the Basis for an Integrated Framework?
• William Schabas, Race, Human Rights and the Global South at the First Session of the UN General Assembly
• Omri Sender & Michael Wood, The Work of the International Law Commission between 1997 and 2022: A Positive Assessment
• Dinah Shelton, The Development of Human Rights Law and Challenges Faced by UN Treaty Bodies 1969–2022
• Tommaso Soave, Digital Humanitarians and International Lawyers: Worlds apart or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
• Paulina Starski & Friedrich Arndt, The Russian Aggression against Ukraine – Putin and His ‘Legality Claims’
• Ramona Vijeyarasa, Three Decades of CEDAW Committee General Recommendations: A Roadmap for Domestication, Reporting and Stronger Accountability for Women’s Rights

New Volume: African Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the African Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 24, 2019) is out. Contents include:

• Special Theme / Thème spécial : African Regional Law and Health – Present Status and Prospects / Le droit régional africain et la santé – État des lieux et perspectives
• Mutoy Mubiala, Note introductive au thème spécial sur le Droit régional africain et santé – État des lieux et perspectives 
• Edefe Ojomo, From International to Regional Health Law: A West African Perspective 
• Pythagore Nono Kamgaing, La Commission africaine des droits de l’homme et des peuples et la mise en œuvre du droit à la santé 
• Karim Zaouaq, Le droit à la sante des personnes handicapées : quelle place dans le système africain des droits de l’homme ? 
• Emmanuel Guematcha, Transitional Justice and Health Protection: Assessing the Contribution of International Criminal Proceedings and Truth Commissions in Africa 
• Patrick Juvet Lowé Gnintedem, Les organisations régionales africaines de la propriété intellectuelle et l’accès aux médicaments dans des situations de pandémie 
• Mutoy Mubiala, La “responsabilité d’assister” et sa mise en œuvre dans la lutte contre les pandémies en Afrique 
• Jimmy Niamadjomi Museni, Plaidoyer pour un cadre institutionnel régional en faveur de l’action des régions et villes africaines dans le contexte des urgences de santé publique de portée internationale 
• General Articles / Articles généraux
• Dirdeiry M. Ahmed, Between Intangibility and Uti Possidetis: The Debate on Title to Territory in Africa 
• Aimé Parfait Niyonkuru, La protection africaine des droits de l’homme à l’épreuve des retraits de la déclaration faite conformément à l’article 34 (6) du protocole créant la Cour ADHP 
• Samson Mwin Sôg Mé Dabiré, La peine de mort dans le système africain de protection des droits de l’homme et des peuples : positions de la Commission et de la Cour africaines 
• Bernard Ntahiraja, Universal Jurisdiction and the Extraordinary African Chambers in the Senegalese Judicial System: Towards a Replicable Enforcement Model? 
• Catherine Maia, Recognition of Peremptory Human Rights Norms: A Dialogue to Be Revived between International and Regional Jurisdictions 
• Udoka Ndidiamaka Owie, The Precariousness of Self-Defence in International Law by the Targeted Killing of Major General Soleimani of Iran by the United States 

New Volume: European Investment Law and Arbitration Review

The latest volume of the European Investment Law and Arbitration Review (Vol. 7, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Nikos Lavranos & Ahmed Mazlom, The Investment Treaty Implications of Covid-19 Responses by States
• Ronan O’Reilly, EU-China Comprehensive Agreement on Investment – A Rebalancing of Investment Relations
• Lawrence Northmore-Ball, Jennifer Harvey, & Amber Courtier, Micula v Romania – A Saga of Lasting Significance
• Ondřej Svoboda, UNCITRAL Working Group III and Multilateral Investment Court – Troubled Waters for EU Normative Power
• Samuel Pape & Alice Zhou, Investment Protection Under the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: Limited but Predictable?
• Marek Anderle & Andrej Leontiev, Here Comes Doomsday … Or Does It? – Implications of Achmea on Intra-EU Investment Arbitration in Light of Recent Case Law
• Lucian Ilie, Revisiting the Concept of Legitimate Expectations in Renewable Energy Treaty Cases
• Patrick Dumberry, Why Are Wrongful Acts Committed by Rebels during a Civil War Attributable to the State When They Are Successful? – A Critical Analysis of Theory and Practice
• Yash Shiralkar, Article 26(7) of the Energy Charter Treaty – An Analysis into Its Inadequacies and a Proposal for Potential Remedies (Winner of the Essay Competition 2021)
• Anina Liebkind, Fredrik Norburg, & Ossian Dittmer Hvarfner, The ECT, Achmea and Intra-EU Arbitration – Swedish Court Requests Preliminary Ruling from the CJEU
• Auriane Negret, Opinion of Advocate General Saugmandsgaard Øe in Anie and Others v. Italy – End of the Road for intra-EU ECT Arbitration?
• Philipp Stompfe, The Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main Is the First European Court to Declare the Achmea Case a Landmark Decision with Significance for All Intra-EU BITS
• Julien Chaisse & Arjun Solanki, Raiffeisen Bank International AG V Croatia, ICSID Case No arb/17/34
• Malcolm Robach & Velislava Hristova, The Renewed Role of States in Investment Arbitration – Report of the 6th EFILA Annual Conference 2021
• Tim Maxian Rusche, How to Enforce the Achmea Judgment – Tools for EU Member States before, during and after Investment Arbitration Proceedings Brought by an Investor from Another EU Member State
• Giammarco Rao & Caroline Croft, States’ and Investors’ Views on ISDS Reforms – Closer than One Would Expect

New Volume: Baltic Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Baltic Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 20, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Lauri Mälksoo, The Estonian Tradition of International Law
• Martin Mändveer, Non-legally Binding Agreements in International Relations: An Estonian Perspective
• Sofia Bilous, Gaps and Peculiarities of Russian Legislation in Reference to International Instruments on Indigenous Peoples’ Rights
• Artur Simonyan, Eurasian Supranationalism: From Academic Discourse to the Eurasian Economic Union
• Carri Ginter & Piret Schasmin, Understanding and Effects of EU Directives
• Liina Lumiste, Russian Approaches to Regulating Use of Force in Cyberspace
• Eugene EG Tan & Benjamin Ang, ASEAN Ambiguity on International Law and Norms for Cyberspace
• Daniel Álvarez-Valenzuela & Francisco Vera-Hott, Cyber Operations in South America
• Lixin Zhu & Wei Chen, Chinese Approach to International Law with Regard to Cyberspace Governance and Cyber Operation: From the Perspective of the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-existence
• Tal Mimran, Between Israel and Iran: Middle-East Attitudes to the Role of International Law in the Cyber-Sphere
• Uchenna Jerome Orji, Interrogating African Positions on State Sponsored Cyber Operations: A Review of Regional and National Policies and Legal Responses

New Volume: Canadian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Canadian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 59, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Davorin Lapaš, Climate Change and International Legal Personality: “Climate Deterritorialized Nations” as Emerging Subjects of International Law?
• Select Réflexions épistémologiques sur l’illicéité résultant de l’incompatibilité du droit interne par rapport au droit international Emmanuel Simo, Réflexions épistémologiques sur l’illicéité résultant de l’incompatibilité du droit interne par rapport au droit international
• Julia Grignon, The “General Close of Military Operations” as the Benchmark for the Declassification of Armed Conflicts and the End of the Applicability of International Humanitarian Law
• Robert J. Currie & Elizabeth Matheson, State Responsibility for International Bail Jumping
• Amara Kone, La détermination de l’objet du différend et la compétence ratione materiae dans le contentieux des mesures conservatoires devant la Cour internationale de Justice
• Gail Lythgoe, The Changing “Landscape” of Sovereignty Viewed through the Lens of International Tax: Reterritorializing the Offshore
• Bjørn Kunoy, The Delimitation of Outer Continental Shelf Areas: A Critical Analysis of Courts’ and Tribunals’ Heterogeneous Approaches
• Christian Tshiamala Banungana, Vers l’intégration de l’écocide dans le Statut de Rome
• Vonintsoa Rafaly, The Concept of “Marine Living Resources”: Navigating a Grey Zone in the Law of the Sea
• Elen De Paula Bueno, Emílio Mendonça Dias Da Silva, An International Legal Perspective on Human Dignity: The Extrinsic Recognition of an Intrinsic Condition
• Notes and Comments
• Ljiljana Biukovic, The First Challenge to Canada’s Supply Management System under CUSMA: Tweaking the Supply Management System One Dispute at a Time
• Raphaël Maurel, La confirmation des évolutions récentes du droit des mesures conservatoires par et devant la Cour internationale de Justice: remarques sur les ordonnances en indication de mesures conservatoires du 7 décembre 2021 dans les affaires relatives à l’Application de la convention internationale sur l’élimination de toutes les formes de discrimination raciale (Arménie c Azerbaïdjan et Azerbaïdjan c Arménie)
• Geneviève Dufour & Pierre-Luc Morin, Buy America and Buy American: Can Canada Expect a Deal from the Biden Administration?

New Volume: Australian Year Book of International Law

The latest volume of the Australian Year Book of International Law (Vol. 40, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Lecture
• Fleur Johns, International Law and the Provocations of the Digital: The 2021 Annual Kirby Lecture in International Law
• Special Issue In Honour of Judge James Crawford
• Douglas Guilfoyle, Donald R Rothwell, & Margaret A Young, James Crawford: His Legacy and Impact on International Law in Australia and Globally
• Roman Kwiecień, The Formal Sources of International Law, the Relationship between Treaties and Custom, and the International Law-Making Process
• Alex Green, The Creation of States as a Cardinal Point: James Crawford’s Contribution to International Legal Scholarship
• Chhaya Bhardwaj & Abhinav Mehrotra, Crawford, TWAIL, and Sovereign Equality of States: Similarity and Differences
• Cameron Miles, James Crawford and the Law of State Immunity
• Chester Brown, The Award in Waste Management v Mexico (No 2) and Its Influence on the Minimum Standard of Treatment
• Bill Campbell & Stephanie Ierino, James Crawford and the Australian Government
• Rose Cameron & Julia Sherman, Reflections on Judge Crawford’s Contributions to the International Court of Justice
• Matthew E.K. Neuhaus & Jarrod M. Jolly, A Race and Rage for Order: Judge James Crawford’s Legacy at the International Court of Justice
• Juliette McIntyre, Crawford’s Multilateralism and the International Court of Justice
• Article
• Amy Maguire, Alexandra Garnham, Amy Elton, & Jessica Heaney, Delivering International Criminal Justice through Domestic Law? The Case of Flight MH17

New Volume: Polish Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Polish Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 41, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Karolina Wierczyńska, Łukasz Gruszczyński, & Aleksandra Mężykowska, Editorial
• Special Section: Kolloquium: 50 Jahre Deutsch-Polnischer Vertrag Und 30 Jahre Zwei-Plus-Vier Vertrag
• Christian Tomuschat, The Relevance of Time in International Law
• Stefanie Schmahl, The 1970 Warsaw Treaty and the Challenges of Interpretative Declarations in International Treaty Law
• Robert Uerpmann-Wittzack, Continuity and Succession of States: The Fate of Pre-war Germany and Its Implications for the 1970 Treaty of Warsaw
• Stephen Hobe, The German-Polish Treaties of 1970 and 1990/1991 and the Question of Reparations
• Andreas Kulick, Minority Protection in German-Polish Relations – Historical Influence and Current Relevance
• Hans-Georg Dederer & Markus P. Beham, The German-Polish Cultural Property Debate – Can Pragmatic Solutions Overcome a Convoluted Controversy
• Jan Barcz, The Polish-German Border in the Light of the 2+4 Treaty and the Polish-German Treaty on the Confirmation of the Border between Them
• Władysław Czapliński, State Boundaries and Third States – Issue of Opposability. Remarks on the Polish-West German Normalization Treaty of 1970
• Jerzy Kranz, War Reparations and Individual Claims in the Context of Polish-German Relations
• General Articles
• Patrycja Grzebyk, Escalation of the Conflict between Russia and Ukraine in 2022 in Light of the Law on Use of Force and International Humanitarian Law
• Tero Lundstedt, How to Solve the Territorial Conflicts in Ukraine: Uti Possidetis Juris and an International Law Based Proposal for Power-Sharing
• Grażyna Baranowska, Pushbacks in Poland: Grounding the Practice in Domestic Law in 2021
• Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, The Missing Post-Holocaust Traces in Recent Case Law of the European Courts
• Marek Świerczyński & Remigijus Jokubauskas, Special Jurisdiction in Infringements of Personality Rights
• Polish Practice
• Statement of Polish International Lawyers Concerning the Aggression of the Russian Federation against Ukraine
• Reviews
• Hanna Kuczyńska, reviewing Valérie V. Suhr, Rainbow Jurisdiction at the International Criminal Court. Protection of Sexual and Gender Minorities Under the Rome Statute
• Md Mustakimur Rahman, reviewing Book review: Darryl Robinson, Justice in Extreme Cases: Criminal Law Theory Meets International Criminal Law

New Volume: Italian Yearbook of International Law

The latest volume of the Italian Yearbook of International Law (Vol. 31, 2021) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: The Mediterranean Sea and International Law
• Gabriela A. Oanta, Maritime Delimitations in The Mediterranean: Current Challenges
• Giuseppe Cataldi, The Italian Law Authorizing the Creation of an Exclusive Economic Zone
• Andrea Caligiuri, On the Legal Regime of Waters Off the Disputed Territories in The Eastern Mediterranean
• Tullio Scovazzi, The Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage in the Mediterranean Sea
• Sofia Galani, Tensions and Cooperation in Realizing Maritime Security in The Mediterranean Sea: The Examples of Maritime Terrorism and Irregular Migration
• Laura Magi, The Mediterranean Sea Between Legend and Crime: The Tricky Question of Jurisdiction for Mediterranean States
• Simone Vezzani, The Conservation of Biodiversity in The Mediterranean Sea Through Marine Protected Areas: The Barcelona System Faced with The Expansion of Coastal State Jurisdiction
• Elisa Fornalé, Federica Cristani & Vilane Gonçalves Sales, Sustainable Management of Fisheries Resources in a Time of Climate Change: An Overview of Initiatives in the Mediterranean Region
• Nicola Ferri, The Legal Regime Governing Mediterranean Fisheries: The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean of the FAO and the Added-Value of Article XIV Bodies
• Eleonora Branca, The Role of International Organizations in the Mediterranean Sea: An Appraisal of the Union for the Mediterranean
• Articles, Notes and Comments
• Mirko Sossai, The Place of Cities in the Evolution of International Humanitarian Law
• Natalino Ronzitti, The Treaty of Quirinale Between Italy and France
• Marina Mancini, Italy’s Implementation of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court and Its Amendments: Unresolved Issues
• Andrea Spagnolo, State Immunity, Delegation of Public Powers to Private Actors and Access to Justice: Anything New Under the (European) Sun?
• Pierfrancesco Rossi, The New Italian Law Against Investment in Anti-Personnel Mines and Cluster Munitions: Achievements and Loopholes
• Donato Greco, Italian Legislation in Times of Pandemics and International Law: Exceptionalism, Balancing and Compliance