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. 27, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The Turn to Historiography in International Law
• Thomas Kleinlein & Jean d’Aspremont, The Turn to Historiography in International Law: Limitations and New Horizons
• Felix Lange, The ‘Narrative Turn’ and Its Limits
• Ryan Martínez Mitchell, The Narrative Fragmentation of International Legal History
• Tor Krever, Recovering the Radical Tradition in the International Legal History of Decolonisation
• Michele Tedeschini, Authorial Labour in the Postcolonial Historiography of International Law
• Rebecca Mignot-Mahdavi, Futurism: Neglected Histories of International Law

New Volume: Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law

The latest volume of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (Vol. 26, 2023) is out. Contents include:

• Humanitarian Actors
• David Matyas, Humanitarians and Their Law(s): A Comprehensive Inquiry
• Oscar A. Gómez, The State as a Humanitarian Actor: Opportunities and Challenges in Decolonizing Humanitarianism
• Other Articles
• Neil Davison, Nerve Agents by Another Name: The Thirty-Year Effort to Close a Loophole on Chemical Weapons
• Robin Sebastiaan David Sinnige, On the Sideline or on the Pitch? The Classification of Third States Supporting Active Belligerents in an International Armed Conflict with Satellite Imagery
• Year in Review
• Belén Guerrero Romero, Wamika Sachdev, & Baptitste Beurrier, Year in Review 2023

Kysar: The Stakes of the Global Tax Deal for International Economic Governance

Rebecca M. Kysar (Fordham Univ. - Law) has posted The Stakes of the Global Tax Deal for International Economic Governance. Here's the abstract:

These remarks, prepared for the Richard Crawford Pugh Lecture on Tax Law & Policy at the University of San Diego Law school, tell the story of how the global tax deal, which was agreed upon by over 140 countries in 2021, came to be. Specifically, they explore a new version of international economic governance--one aimed at a more equitable distribution of the gains from globalization from both international and intranational perspectives--that ultimately propelled its success. Importantly, however, the story of the global tax deal is a contingent one. The dissatisfaction with globalization that led towards tax multilateralism can just as easily lead to nations to turn inwards, away from all forms of international economic governance, as we are now seeing. And given today’s fraught political moment, these remarks also explore the alternative, and darker, geopolitical vision with which opponents of the global tax deal are aligning themselves, perhaps unknowingly.

New Issue: Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies

The latest issue of the Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (Vol. 16, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Aneta Peretko, States of Silence: The Growing Influence of Human Rights Courts in Interpreting International Humanitarian Law in the Absence of Opinio Juris
• Samuel Hartridge & Brendan Walker-Munro, Autonomous Weapons Systems and the ai Alignment Problem
• Mohammed R. M. Elshobake & Alaa Sakka, Forced Returns and Fragile LivesStrategies for Safeguarding Syrian Refugees and Ensuring Their Protection
• Caroline Sweeney, The International Response to the Humanitarian Crisis in Syria: A Socio Legal Critique
• Pratik Purswani & Adithi Rajesh, Beyond Bombs and Bullets: Natural Resource Management in the Indo-Naxalite Non-International Armed Conflict
• J. P. Vallejo, Manipur: a Genocide?

Gidney: An International Anomaly: Colonial Accession to the League of Nations

Thomas Gidney has published An International Anomaly: Colonial Accession to the League of Nations (Cambridge Univ. Press 2025). Here's the abstract:

It is often assumed that only sovereign states can join the United Nations. But this was not always the case. At the founding of the United Nations, a loophole drafted by British statesmen in its predecessor organisation, the League of Nations, was carried forward, allowing colonies to accede as member-states. Colonies such as India, Ireland, Egypt, and many more were afforded a tokenistic representation at the League in Geneva during the interwar years, decades before their independence. Thomas Gidney unites three geographically distinct case studies to demonstrate the evolution of Britain's policy from a range of different viewpoints, exploring how this policy came into being, and why it was only exploited by the British Empire. He argues that this membership shaped colonial norms around sovereignty and international recognition in the interwar period and to the present day.

Conference: The COE Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law: Comparative, EU, and International Law Perspectives

On May 29, 2025, a conference on "The COE Framework Convention on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights, Democracy and the Rule of Law: Comparative, EU, and International Law Perspectives" will be held at the University of Trieste, Gorizia Campus, and virtually. Details are here.

Feihle: An International Human Rights Law of Cooperation: International Cooperation, State Responsibility and the European Convention on Human Rights

Prisca Feihle has published An International Human Rights Law of Cooperation: International Cooperation, State Responsibility and the European Convention on Human Rights (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). This is the latest volume in the Elgar International Law series. Here's the abstract:

This incisive book examines how states bear responsibility for human rights protection when they cooperate. Focusing on the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR), it explores the challenges of international cooperation to international human rights law and uncovers how, nonetheless, human rights provisions may turn into an international human rights law of cooperation and regulate inter-state interaction.

Prisca Feihle discusses the meaning of international cooperation to human rights law, engaging in detailed analysis of case-law to illustrate how the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) addresses cooperation between states in a range of areas including migration policies, surveillance measures or criminal investigations. Developing a comprehensive framework for states’ human rights responsibilities in international cooperation, she puts forward insightful recommendations on what human rights law under the ECHR demands of states beyond these specific subject matters. Suggestions concern the ECHR’s interactions with the law of international responsibility, interpretational method and the scope of application and content of human rights provisions in relation to inter-state interaction affecting individuals.

Conference: Present human rights challenges in Europe and beyond

On June 6, 2025, a conference on "Present human rights challenges in Europe and beyond" will be held in Innsbruck and virtually. Details are here.

Jeutner: The Aesthetic Authority of Law: Experiments with Legal Form

Valentin Jeutner (Lund Univ.) has published The Aesthetic Authority of Law: Experiments with Legal Form (Media-Tryck 2025). Here is the abstract:

The legal form dictates the contours of law’s appearance. Texts are neatly divided into (often) numbered paragraphs. Pages must conform to specified layouts. Conventions regulate the use of fonts, punctuation, and colours. Legal terms of art replace colloquial expressions. Human experiences enter legal texts only in mediated, sanitized forms. The dictates of legal form are all but incidental. They condition law’s authority. By repeatedly modifying the Case of the S.S. Lotus (Permanent Court of International Justice 1927), this book invites readers to consider how modifications of law’s appearance alter law’s authority.

New Issue: ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal

The latest issue of the ICSID Review: Foreign Investment Law Journal (Vol. 39, no. 3, Fall 2024) is out. Contents include:

• Agora on the 'Certain Iranian Assets' Judgment
• Jake Jerogin & Chester Brown, The Determination of Bank Markazi’s Claims and Implications for the Claims of Central Banks under Investment Treaties
• Ursula Kriebaum, Judicial Expropriation
• Daniel Purisch, Fair and Equitable Treatment, Non-Impairment and Effective Means Protections: The ICJ’s Judgment in Certain Iranian Assets
• Nartnirun Junngam, The ICJ’s Treatment of the FPS Standard in Certain Iranian Assets: A Clarifying Contribution or Unsteady Step Back into a Comfort Zone?
• Prabhash Ranjan, Essential Security Interests in International Investment Law—A Trend towards GATTization
• Carlotta Ceretelli, Mala Fides Exceptions in Certain Iranian Assets: Lessons for Inter-State and Investment Disputes
• Berk Demirkol, Local Remedies Rule and Its Application by the International Court of Justice
• Julian Arato & Fernando Lusa Bordin, Determining the Juridical Status of Companies under International Law
• Chester Brown & Jeremy K Sharpe, Certain Iranian Assets (Iran v United States) An Introduction to the Agora
• Case Comments
• Arman Sarvarian, Koch Industries, Inc. and Koch Supply & Trading, LP v Canada: Emissions Allowances as ‘Investment’?
• Alexander G Leventhal, Espíritu Santo Holdings, LP and L1bre Holding, LLC v Mexico:A New Piece of the Corpus of Interim Measures Orders in Relation to Criminal Proceedings
• Articles
• Joseph Ho, International Investment Treaty Compliance in Canadian Federalism: A Multidimensional Challenge
• Kseniia Soloveva, Instrumentalising Nationality of Natural Persons: Legitimate Strategic Planning versus Abuse of Procedural Rights
• Sara Nicola D’Sousa, The Protection of Crypto-Assets in International Investment Law
• Amr Arafa F Hasaan, A Chronicle of Building an Attractive Domestic Regulation of Foreign Direct Investment in Egypt

Call for Papers: New Tech, New Frontiers: Redefining Space Law in the Age of Technological Breakthroughs (Young Scholars)

A call for papers has been issued for the 2025 International Young Scholars Conference on Space Law, to take place September 5, 2025, in Athens at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The theme is: "New Tech, New Frontiers: Redefining Space Law in the Age of Technological Breakthroughs." The call is here.