Special Issue: The African Union, Pan-Africanism, and the Liberal World (Dis)Order

The latest issue of Global Studies Quarterly (Vol. 3, no. 3, July 2023) includes a special issue on "The African Union, Pan-Africanism, and the Liberal World (Dis)Order." Contents include:

• Rita Abrahamsen, Barbra Chimhandamba, & Farai Chipato, Introduction: The African Union, Pan-Africanism, and the Liberal World (Dis)Order
• Oumar Ba, Exit from Nuremberg to the Hague: The Malabo Protocol and the Pan-African Road to Arusha
• Farai Chipato, The Global Politics of African Identity: Pan-Africanism and the Challenge of Afropolitanism
• Samuel Ojo Oloruntoba, (Re)Negotiating Existence: Pan-Africanism and the Role of African Union in a Changing Global Order
• Antonia Witt, Forging an African Union Identity: The Power of Experience
• Kathryn Nash, The African Union and Emerging Patterns of Global Health Governance
• Thomas Kwasi Tieku & Afua Boatemaa Yakohene, Analyzing the African Continental Free Trade Area (the AfCFTA) from an Informality Perspective: A Beautiful House in the Wrong Neighborhood

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Saunders's “Constitution-Making as a Technique of International Law: Reconsidering the Post-War Inheritance”

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on Anna Saunders's “Constitution-Making as a Technique of International Law: Reconsidering the Post-War Inheritance.” The symposium includes an introduction by Gráinne de Burca and contributions by Babatunde Fagbayibo, Michele Krech, Gaurav Mukherjee, Hannah Birkenkötter, Bojan Bugaric, and David Dyzenhaus.

Symposium: Accountability and Power in the Law of International Organizations

On November 4-5, 2023, the Centre for International Law and Policy at Tohoku University and the Faculty of Law at Teikyo University will hold a symposium, in the hybrid format, on "Accountability and Power in the Law of International Organizations," in Tokyo. Details are here.

Roundtable: Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz and the Future of International Law

On September 29, 2023, Westminster Law School will hold a roundtable, in-person and online, on "Gaetano Arangio-Ruiz and the Future of International Law." Details are here.

Launch of the Maynooth University Research Centre in International Justice

On October 6, 2023, the Research Centre on International Justice will be launched at Maynooth University. Two keynote speakers will mark the launch: Caoilfhionn Gallagher and Kristian Lasslett (Ulster Univ.). Details are here.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: 150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “150 Years of the Institut de Droit International and the International Law Association.” The symposium includes an introduction by Jeffrey L. Dunoff and contributions by Xiaohang Chen, Sara Dezalay, Georges Abi-Saab, Julia Emtseva, Juan Pablo Scarfi, and Dire Tladi.

Symposium: The Statutory Foreign Affairs Presidency

On October 13, 2023, the University of Pennsylvania Law Review will hold symposium on "The Statutory Foreign Affairs Presidency." Details are here.

Special Issue: Transboundary Waters: The Río Silala & the International Court of Justice

The current issue of the Wyoming Law Review (Vol. 23, no. 2, 2023) is a special issue on "Transboundary Waters: The Río Silala & the International Court of Justice." The table of contents is here. All contributions are open access.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: UN Recognition of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “UN Recognition of the Human Right to a Healthy Environment.” The symposium includes an introduction by John H. Knox and contributions by Philip Alston, Carmen G. Gonzalez, Hélène Tigroudja, Maria Antonia Tigre, Rosemary Mwanza, and Louis J. Kotzé.

Special Issue: International Law Dis/oriented: Sparking Queer Futures in International Law

The latest issue of the Australian Feminist Law Journal (Vol. 49, no. 1, 2023) focuses on "International Law Dis/oriented: Sparking Queer Futures in International Law." Contents include:

• Special Issue: International Law Dis/oriented: Sparking Queer Futures in International Law
• Lena Holzer, Bérénice K. Schramm, Juliana Santos de Carvalho & Manon Beury, An Introduction to International Law Dis/oriented: Sparking Queer Futures in International Law
• Claerwen O’Hara, In Search of a Queerer Law: Two People’s Tribunals in 1976
• Giovanna Gilleri, Human Rights Discourses and Subject Formations: Tainting Queer Theory with Psychoanalysis
• Kseniya A. Kirichenko, Queer Intersectional Perspective on LGBTI Human Rights Discourses by United Nations Treaty Bodies
• Odette Mazel, The Texture of ‘Lives Lived with Law:’ Methods for Queering International Law
• David Ikpo, Advancing Queer-inclusive International Human Rights Law Education in Nigerian Classrooms through Indigenous Storytelling: Stories from a Law Classroom at Eko (Lagos, Nigeria)
• Shaimaa Abdelkarim, Farnush Ghadery, Rohini Sen & Lena Holzer, A Roundtable Conversation: Feminist Collaborative Ethos in International Law
• Samuel Ballin, Four Challenges, Three Identities and a Double Movement in Asylum Law: Queering the ‘Particular Social Group’ after Mx M
• Leonam Lucas Nogueira Cunha, Queer Methodologies in the Study of Law: Notes about Queering Methods

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Critical International Law and Technology

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Critical International Law and Technology.” The symposium includes an introduction by Fleur Johns and Gregor Noll and contributions by Geoff Gordon, Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, and Dimitri Van Den Meerssche, Dorothea Endres, Luisa Hedler, and Kebene Wodajo, Gabriela Argüello, Matilda Arvidsson, and Niels Krabbe, Lovisa Häckner Posse and Hedvig Lärka, and Priya S. Gupta.

Roundtable: Advocating Against Gender-Based Violence Through International Law

On July 10, 2023, a roundtable will be held on "Advocating Against Gender-Based Violence Through International Law" at the University of Milan and online. The program is here. Registration is here.

Event: Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability

On July 21, 2023, Queen Mary University of London and the Northern Institute for Environmental and Minority Law, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland, in collaboration with the UArctic Law Thematic Network and the UArctic Chair in Arctic Legal Research and Education, will host an event, in person only, on "Indigenous Peoples and Sustainability," at QMUL School of Law. Details are here.

Call for Papers: Russia, Imperialism, and International Law

A call for papers has been issued for a symposium on "Russia, Imperialism, and International Law," to be held September 14-16, 2023, at the Walther Schücking Institute for International Law, University of Kiel. Details are here.

Panel: Rethinking the WTO Dispute Settlement System

On May 24, 2023, there will be a panel, in the hybrid format, on "Rethinking the WTO Dispute Settlement System," at the University of Ottawa. Details are here.

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Digital Trade and International Law

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Digital Trade and International Law.” The symposium includes an introduction by Anne van Aaken and contributions by Mira Burri & Anupam Chander, Simon J. Evenett, Johannes Fritz, & Tommaso Giardini, Mira Burri, María Vásquez Callo-Müller, & Kholofelo Kugler, and Shin-yi Peng.

Symposium: Russian Aggression, the War in Ukraine and the Future of International Criminal Justice

On May 22, 2023, the coordinating committee of the European Society of International Law’s Interest Group on International Criminal Justice, in conjunction with the Journal of International Criminal Justice, will hold a symposium, by Zoom, on the special issue the JICJ published last year that look at the war in Ukraine. Details are here.

Special Issue: Activists in International Court

The latest issue of the Law & Society Review (Vol. 57, no. 1, March 2023) focuses on "Activists in International Court." Contents include:

• Special Issue: Activists in International Court
• Freek van der Vet & Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Activists in international courts: Backlash, funding, and strategy in international legal mobilization
• Heidi Nichols Haddad & Lisa McIntosh Sundstrom, Foreign agents or agents of justice? Private foundations, backlash against non-governmental organizations, and international human rights litigation
• Nicole De Silva & Misha Ariana Plagis, NGOs, international courts, and state backlash against human rights accountability: Evidence from NGO mobilization against Tanzania at the African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights
• Filiz Kahraman, What makes an international institution work for labor activists? Shaping international law through strategic litigation
• Annett Bochmann, Pluralism and local law in extraterritorial spaces
• Joanna Dreby & Eric Macias, The aftermath of enforcement episodes for the children of immigrants

AJIL Unbound Symposium: Race, Racism, and International Law

AJIL Unbound has posted a symposium on “Race, Racism, and International Law.” The symposium includes an introduction by E. Tendayi Achiume and James Thuo Gathii and contributions by Henry J. Richardson III, Darin E. W. Johnson and Catherine Powell, Natsu Taylor Saito, Sarah Riley Case, Robert Knox, James Thuo Gathii, Vasuki Nesiah, Christopher Gevers, Noura Erakat, Darryl Li, and John Reynolds, E. Tendayi Achiume and Gay McDougall, and Matiangai Sirleaf.

Special Issue: The Resurgence of the State as an Economic Actor-International Trade Law and State Intervention in the Economy in the Covid Era

The latest issue of the German Law Journal (Vol. 24, no. 1, February 2023) focuses on "The Resurgence of the State as an Economic Actor-International Trade Law and State Intervention in the Economy in the Covid Era." Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Resurgence of the State as an Economic Actor-International Trade Law and State Intervention in the Economy in the Covid Era
• Leonardo Borlini, Economic Interventionism and International Trade Law in the Covid Era
• Giorgio Sacerdoti & Leonardo Borlini, Systemic Changes in the Politicization of the International Trade Relations and the Decline of the Multilateral Trading System
• Anne Orford, How to Think About the Battle for the State at the WTO
• Leonardo Borlini, The Covid 19 Exogenous Shock and the Crafting of New Multilateral Trade Rules on Subsidies and State Enterprises in the Post-Pandemic World
• Thomas J. Schoenbaum, The Biden Administration’s Trade Policy: Promise and Reality
• Ming Du, Unpacking the Black Box of China’s State Capitalism
• Nerina Boschiero & Stefano Silingardi, The EU Trade Agenda—Rules on State Intervention in the Market
• Aya Iino, Disciplining Subsidies Through Free Trade Agreements (FTAs): Emerging Developments in Japan’s FTAs and Their Implications
• Regis Y. Simo, Special Economic Zones in an Era of Multilateralism Decadence and Struggles for Post-Pandemic Economic Recovery: Perspectives from the Global South
• Petros C. Mavroidis & André Sapir, China in the WTO Twenty Years On: How to Mend a Broken Relationship?
• Mitsuo Matsushita, Interplay of Competition Law and Free Trade Agreements in Regulating State-Owned Enterprises
• Eleanor M. Fox, Blind Spot: Trade and Competition Law—the Space Between the Silos