New Issue: World Trade Review

The latest issue of the World Trade Review (Vol. 22, no. 2, May 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Weihuan Zhou, Huiqin Jiang, & Zhe Chen, Trade vs. Security: Recent Developments of Global Trade Rules and China's Policy and Regulatory Responses from Defensive to Proactive
• Jian Zheng, Shudong Zhou, Xingzi Li, Antonio Domingos Padula, & Will Martin, Effects of Eliminating the US–China Trade Dispute Tariffs
• Scott Falls, Barriers to Panel Composition in RTA Dispute Settlement: Evaluating Solutions to a Perennial Problem
• Adrien Bussy & Mehtab Ahmed Jagil, Export Fraud in India
• From the Trenches Uri Dadush & Enzo Dominguez Prost, Preferential Trade Agreements, Geopolitics, and the Fragmentation of World Trade
• Pasha L. Hsieh, New Investment Rulemaking in Asia: Between Regionalism and Domestication

New Issue: Journal of Conflict & Security Law

The latest issue of the Journal of Conflict & Security Law (Vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Hanna Bourgeois & Patryk I Labuda, When May UN Peacekeepers Use Lethal Force to Protect Civilians? Reconciling Threats to Civilians, Imminence, and the Right to Life
• David McKeever, Repatriating Foreign Terrorist Fighters and Their Family Members: What International Law Requires, and What National Courts Will Do
• Jakob M Reynolds, Plague, Pestilence and the Peninsula: International Humanitarian Law Concerns of North Korea’s Biological Weapons Program
• Joshua G Hughes, Learning from Automation in Targeting to Better Regulate Autonomous Weapon Systems: Target Lists, the Electronic Battlefield and Automation in Mines
• Catherine Turner, International Law and the Securitisation of Peacemaking: On Chapter VII, the Security Council and the Mediation Mandate in Yemen

New Issue: Journal of World Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 57, no. 3, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Gabrielle Marceau, Rebecca Walker, & Andreas Oeschger, The Evolution of Labour Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements
• Christian Delev, Regulating TRQ Schemes Under WTO Law: Time to Throw Away Old Bananas?
• Yuanyuan Zhang, Tensions Between International Economic Law and the EU Energy Security Regulations During the Securitization of EU-Russian Gas Relations: Way Forward?
• Nu Ri Jung, Are There ‘Exceptions’ to the SCM Agreement? Applicability of the GATT Exceptions Vis-à-Vis the International Rules on Subsidies
• Ram Singh, Exploring Dichotomy in India’s Agricultural Export Policy
• Greg Anderson, Did Labour Norms Save the NAFTA?: Sort of, Accidentally, Depends
• Xueji Su, From Effect to Behaviour: Regulating State-Owned Enterprises as Competitors in Trade Agreements

New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 117, no. 2, April 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Samuel L. Aber, Worldmaking at the End of History: The Gulf Crisis of 1990–91 and International Law
• Anna Saunders, Constitution-Making as a Technique of International Law: Reconsidering the Post-war Inheritance
• International Decisions
• Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho, Karla Christina Azeredo Venâncio da Costa and Others v. Federal Republic of Germany
• Daniele Amoroso & Riccardo Pavoni, Stergiopoulos v. Iran. Order No. 39391/2021. 105 Rivista di diritto internazionale 620 (2022)
• Weihuan Zhou, Turkey – Certain Measures Concerning the Production, Importation and Marketing of Pharmaceutical Products, WT/DS583/ARB25
• Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law
• The United States Agrees to Loss and Damage Fund at COP27
• The Treasury Department Implements Security Council Resolution Establishing a Humanitarian Carveout for UN Sanctions
• President Biden Issues Executive Order on Ensuring Robust Consideration of Evolving National Security Risks by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States
• The United States and the European Union Begin Implementation of the European Union-U.S. Data Privacy Framework
• The Department of Defense Issues Civilian Harm Mitigation and Response Action Plan
• The Justice for Victims of War Crimes Act
• Recent Books on International Law
• José E. Alvarez, reviewing Capitalism as Civilisation A History of International Law, by Ntina Tzouvala
• Melissa Stewart, reviewing Statelessness: A Modern History, by Mira L. Siegelberg
• Randall Lesaffer, reviewing To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth: Legal Imagination and International Power, 1300–1870, by Martti Koskenniemi
• Werner Scholtz, reviewing Animals in International Law, by Anne Peters
• Vaughan Lowe, reviewing The UN Security Council and International Law, by Michael Wood and Eran Sthoeger

New Issue: Ocean Development & International Law

The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 54, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Xu Qi, Reviving the Monetary Gold Principle? A Case Note on the Judgment of Preliminary Objections in the Mauritius/Maldives Case
• Huaigao Qi, Maritime Delimitation Between China and South Korea in the South Yellow Sea
• Pierre Thévenin, Back to the USSR: The Consequences of the 1965 Soviet Decree No. 331-112 “On the Procedure for Navigation of Foreign Ships in the Straits Along the Track of the Northern Sea Route” on Today’s Navigation Through the Russian Arctic Straits
• Dawoon Jung, Ship Surveys and Certification During Global Health Pandemics; Challenges and Opportunities Presented by COVID-19

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 60, no. 4, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Anna Wyrozumska, Conflict between the Polish Constitutional Tribunal and the CJEU with regard to the reforms of the judiciary
• Jerzy Kranz, Verfassung über alles oder wohin uns die Gralshüter führen …
• Christian Schaller, Der völkerrechtliche Rahmen für Waffenlieferungen an die Ukraine
• Ulrike Will & Cornelia Manger-Nestler, Die national bestimmten Beiträge (NDCs) des Pariser Abkommens als Instrument multilateraler Kooperation

New Issue: Journal of World Investment & Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Vol. 24, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Nicolas Bueno, Anil Yilmaz Vastardis, & Isidore Ngueuleu Djeuga, Investor Human Rights and Environmental Obligations: The Need to Redesign Corporate Social Responsibility Clauses
• Anastasios Lafaras, The Assignment of Investment Treaty Claims: Doctrinal and Policy Perspectives
• Mark McLaughlin, Regulating Artificial Intelligence in International Investment Law
• Anna Panarella, Emerging from the Haziness of the Multilateral Trade Legal Regime: The Notion of State-Owned Enterprises Through Lenses of Interpretation of GATT Article XVII on ‘State Trading Enterprises’

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. 25, no. 1, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Marc de Wilde, Allying with Unbelievers: Hugo Grotius’s Letters to East-Indian Rulers
• Adam Strobeyko, The Person of the State: The Anthropomorphic Subject of the Law of Nations
• Christopher Szabla, Civilising Violence: International Law and Colonial War in the British Empire, 1850–1900
• Robert Schütze, German Idealism after Kant: Nineteenth-Century Foundations of International Law
• Book Reviews – Symposium on Symposium on Martti Koskenniemi, To the Uttermost Parts of the Earth (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
• Koen Stapelbroek, Theme: ‘Commerce, Capitalism and the Law of Nations’
• Jennifer Pitts, Theme: ‘The Struggle between Statehood and Civil Society’
• Wim Decock, Theme: ‘Theology and the Justification of Sovereignty and Property’

New Issue: Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 22, no. 2, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Daniel Connolly, Seunghyun Nam & Kirsty Goodman, Solving old problems or making new ones? Blockchain technology for the protection of refugees and migrants
• M. Rodwan Abouharb, War and infant mortality rates
• Tine Destrooper, Belgium’s “Truth Commission” on its overseas colonial legacy: An expressivist analysis of transitional justice in consolidated democracies
• Sinjae Kang, Sangmin Lee & Taehee Whang, Economic sanctions, repression capacity, and human rights
• Angélica Cocomá Ricaurte, Who is a legitimate actor under international human rights law? A story about women’s mobilization against enforced disappearances
• Jonathan Liljeblad, International human rights teachers in Myanmar universities: The individual constraints of structure on intermediaries
• Robert M. Press, Human rights activism after the movement ends: Global lessons from Kenya’s unfinished “revolution”
• Michelle Watts & Kate Brannum, Bomberos, maestros y psicólogos: Guatemalan civil society response to the Volcano of Fire disaster

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 38, no. 1, Winter 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Lectures
• Zachary Douglas, ‘Instead of Principles, Slogans’
• Jan Paulsson, Avoiding Echo Chambers? A Reaction to Professor Douglas’s Call for Conceptual Discipline
• Case Comments
• Robert Garden, Eco Oro v Colombia:The Brave New World of Environmental Exceptions
• Filip Balcerzak, Horthel v Poland: Fair and Equitable Treatment Embodies the Rule of Law, Whereas ‘Tax’ Is Not Always a Tax
• Notes
• Laura Peters & Sebastian Wuschkas, Investment Protection in Post-Brexit EU–UK Relations
• Gary J Shaw, The 2022 ICSID Rules: A Leap Toward Greater Transparency in ICSID Arbitration
• Articles
• Jason Haynes, Reforming the Bilateral Investment Treaty Landscape in the Caribbean Region: A Clarion Call
• Didem Kayalı, Third-Party Funding in Investment Arbitration: How to Define and Disclose It
• Raphael Ren, Vanishing Treaty Claims: Investors Trapped in a Temporal Twilight Zone
• Ignacio de la Rasilla, ‘The Greatest Victory’? Challenges and Opportunities for Mediation in Investor-State Dispute Settlement
• Romesh Weeramantry, Brian Chang, & Joel Sherard-Chow, Conciliation and Mediation in Investor-State Dispute Settlement Provisions: A Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis

New Issue: Human Rights Review

The latest issue of the Human Rights Review (Vol. 24, no. 1, March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• David Birchall & Nadia Bernaz, Business Strategy as Human Rights Risk: the Case of Private Equity
• Eva Maria Fjellheim, “You Can Kill Us with Dialogue:” Critical Perspectives on Wind Energy Development in a Nordic-Saami Green Colonial Context
• Amr Osman, The Right to be Forgotten: an Islamic Perspective
• Ben Jones, Death Penalty Abolition, the Right to Life, and Necessity
• Shanshan Lian, More Murder in the Middle: How Local Trust Conditions Repression Towards INGOs
• Jobair Alam & Ali Mashraf, Fifty Years of Human Rights Enforcement in Legal and Political Systems in Bangladesh: Past Controversies and Future Challenges

New Issue: Questions of International Law

The latest issue of Questions of International Law / Questioni di Diritto Internazionale (no. 98, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Science before international tribunals: Deference or distrust?
• Introduced by Lucas Lima & Chiara Ragni
• James Gerard Devaney, The role of science and expert evidence in the ICJ’s Silala judgment: How Bolivia’s incoherent claims ran up against reality
• Caroline Foster, Consulting the science in World Trade Organization dispute settlement: Structured for trust
• Katalin Sulyok, Science in inter-State arbitration: What could be there between deference and distrust?
• Giorgio Gaja, Conclusions

New Issue: Transnational Environmental Law

The latest issue of Transnational Environmental Law (Vol. 12, no. 1, March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Editorial
• Thijs Etty, Josephine van Zeben, Cinnamon Carlarne, Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli, Bruce Huber, & Leonie Reins, ‘This Battle is Hard and Huge’: Intractable Problems in Transnational Environmental Law
• Articles
• Benoit Mayer & Zhuoqi Ding, Climate Change Mitigation in the Aviation Sector: A Critical Overview of National and International Initiatives
• Alexander Zahar, Agricultural Exceptionalism in the Climate Change Treaties
• Andreas Kotsakis & Avi Boukli, Transversal Harm, Regulation, and the Tolerance of Oil Disasters
• Violetta Ritz, Towards a Methodology for Specifying States’ Mitigation Obligations in Line with the Equity Principle and Best Available Science
• Daniel Bertram, ‘For You Will (Still) Be Here Tomorrow’: The Many Lives of Intergenerational Equity
• Rebecca Nelson & L.M. Shirley, The Latent Potential of Cumulative Effects Concepts in National and International Environmental Impact Assessment Regimes
• Uzuazo Etemire, Public Voices and Environmental Decisions: The Escazú Agreement in Comparative Perspective
• Giulia Claudia Leonelli, The Glyphosate Saga Continues: ‘Dissenting’ Member States and the European Way Forward

New Issue: Business and Human Rights Journal

The latest issue of the Business and Human Rights Journal (Vol. 8, no. 1, February 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Lise Smit, Claire Bright, & Stuart Neely, Muddying the Waters: The Concept of a ‘Safe Harbour’ in Understanding Human Rights Due Diligence
• Debadatta Bose, Decentring Narratives around Business and Human Rights Instruments: An Example of the French Devoir de Vigilance Law
• James Harrison & Mark Wielga, Grievance Mechanisms in Multi-Stakeholder Initiatives: Providing Effective Remedy for Human Rights Violations?
• Akinwumi Ogunranti, Localizing the UNGPs – An Afrocentric Approach to Interpreting Pillar II
• Developments in the Field
• Gerardo Reyes Chavez, Awareness, Analysis and Action: A Rights Holder Perspective on Building the Fair Food Movement and the Way Forward for Worker-Driven Social Responsibility
• Daniel Litwin, Business Impacts on Economic Inequality: An Agenda for Defining Related Human Rights Impacts and Economic Inequality Due Diligence
• Bart-Jaap Verbeek, The Modernization of the Energy Charter Treaty: Fulfilled or Broken Promises?
• Masaki Iwasaki, Whistleblowers as Defenders of Human Rights: The Whistleblower Protection Act in Japan
• Anouska Perram & Norman Jiwan, Human Rights Violations Connected with Deforestation – Emerging and Diverging Approaches to Human Rights Due Diligence
• Jordi Vives-Gabriel & Hugo van der Merwe, Remedy and Accountability a Decade after the Marikana Massacre

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 62, no. 2, April 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Arm. v. Azer., Azer. v. Arm., & Ukr. v. Russ. (Orders on Provisional Measures) (I.C.J.), with introductory note by Eva Rieter
• Resolution 42/21 (U.N.H.R. Council), with introductory note by Philip C. Aka
• G.A. Res. 76/262 on a Standing Mandate for a General Assembly debate when aveto is cast in the Security Council (U.N.), with introductory note by Pablo Arrocha Olabuenaga
• Ministerial Decision on the Trips Agreement (WTO), with introductory note by Ana Santos Rutschman
• Documents on Russia's Exclusion from Council Eur. & U.N.H.R.C., with introductory note by James L. Bischoff
• Case C-561/20 Q v. United Airlines, Inc. (C.J.E.U.), with introductory note by Ioanna Hadjiyianni
• Climate Justice for Future Generations (Order of the First Senate) (BVerfG), with introductory note by Stefan Kirchner

New Issue: Transnational Legal Theory

The latest issue of Transnational Legal Theory (Vol. 13, no. 4, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Frédéric Mégret & Moushita Dutta, Transnational discrimination: the case of casteism and the Indian diaspora
• Enrico Partiti, Stephanie Bijlmakers & Panagiotis Delimatsis, Evolutionary dynamics of transnational private regulation
• Lys Kulamadayil, Placed in between: the natural environment in international law
• Anna Saunders, Law after dominium: thinking with Martti Koskenniemi on property, sovereignty and transformation

New Issue: Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions

The latest issue of Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Institutions (Vol. 29, no. 1, January-March 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Lise Grande, Protecting Civilians from Injury, Destruction, and Death during War and Conflict
• Julia Leib, Of Peacekeepers and Pandemics: How Covid-19 Changed Strategic Communication of the UN Mission in South Sudan
• Ricardo Martinez, City Governments as Political Actors of Global Governance: The (Winding) Road of UCLG Toward Multilateral Recognition
• Susan Park, The African Development Bank and the Accountability Policy Norm: Endogenous Change, Norm Conformance, and the Development Finance Regime Complex
• Zhongzhou Peng, A Partnership Centered on Norm Adoption: The EBRD-AIIB Collaboration on the Dushanbe-Uzbekistan Border Road Improvement Project

New Issue: African Journal of International and Comparative Law

The latest issue of the African Journal of International and Comparative Law (Vol. 31, no. 1, February 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Kuel Jok, Violation of the Constitutional Law and International Provisions in the Dismissal of Justices and Judges from South Sudan Judicial Pillar
• P. Subai & Appi K. Stephen, Between the Private Company and the LLP: Deciphering a Path for Small Businesses in Nigeria
• Francisca Kusi-Appiah, Sustainable Natural Resource Governance in Ghana: An Appraisal of Legal Provisions on Public Participation and Accountability
• Imed Eddine Bekhouche, Asmar binti Abdul Rahim & Aida binti Abdul Razak, Comparison of South African and Tunisian Franchising Laws Regarding Disclosure and their Implications for Algeria
• Paul Nkoane, A Clean Swipe: Assessing the Vulnerability of South Africa and Nigeria to Money Laundering Committed with Prepaid Cards
• Nana Charles Nguindip, Combatting Domestic Violence under International Law: Assessing the Various Legal Inconsistencies Frustrating the Protection of Women's Rights in Cameroon
• Judith N. Onwubiko, The Biafran Self-Determination Question: Challenges and Prospects

New Issue: Review of International Studies

The latest issue of the Review of International Studies (Vol. 49, no. 2, April 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Multispecies International Politics
• Matthew Leep, Introduction to the Special Issue: Multispecies security and personhood
• Anthony Burke, Interspecies cosmopolitanism: Non-human power and the grounds of world order in the Anthropocene
• Stefanie R. Fishel, The global tree: Forests and the possibility of a multispecies IR
• Rafi Youatt, Interspecies politics and the global rat: Ecology, extermination, experiment
• Matthew Leep, Toxic entanglements: Multispecies politics, white phosphorus, and the Iraq War in Alaska
• Geoffrey Whitehall, ‘When They Fight Back’: A cinematic archive of animal resistance and world wars
• Gitte du Plessis, Destructive plasticity and the microbial geopolitics of childhood malnutrition
• Joana Castro Pereira & Maria Fernanda Gebara, Where the material and the symbolic intertwine: Making sense of the Amazon in the Anthropocene

New Issue: Transnational Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the Transnational Criminal Law Review (Vol. 1, no. 2, 2022) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Roger Clark, The Concept of International Criminal Law and Its Relationship With Transnational Criminal Law and Conflict of Laws
• Robert J Currie, Admissibility of Hearsay Gathered Under MLAT: A Tempest in Canada
• Mohamed Elewa Badar & Noelle Higgins, The Challenges of Addressing Transnational Organized Maritime Crimes: A Review of Current Law and Practice in Djibouti
• Notes and Comments
• Richard Burchill, Counter-Terrorism Update
• Regional Updates
• Chat Nguyen, Regional Report: Southeast Asia/China/Pacific