New Issue: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics

The latest issue of International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law and Economics (Vol. 25, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: The External Dimensions of the European Green Deal
• Goran Dominioni, Louisa Parks, & Markus Pauli, The external dimensions of the European Green Deal
• Simon Otto, The external impact of EU climate policy: political responses to the EU’s carbon border adjustment mechanism
• Kasturi Das & Kaushik Ranjan Bandyopadhyay, Impact of carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) on steel decarbonization in India: a multi-stakeholder perspective on ambition vs. equity
• Joseph Earsom, Making waves or ripples? The influence of the European Green Deal on the revised IMO GHG strategy
• Nathalie Ferré, Clara Weller, & Aron Buzogány, The development/renewable energy nexus in Georgia and Tunisia: Coalitions of support and opposition to EU energy policies
• Alina Averchenkova, Lara Lazaro, & Gonzalo Escribano, Beyond leading by example: enhanced EU-LAC climate cooperation—the case of Brazil, Chile and Mexico
• Sara de Simone, Marco Nicolò, & Louisa Parks, Exporting the just transition? The European Investment Bank, the European Green Deal and environmental and social rules for green projects outside the EU
• Reinhilde Bouckaert & Claire Dupont, Assessing the alignment of EU and member states external energy strategies with the European green deal: 2019–2024
• Morena Skalamera, The distributional effects of the EU’s and China’s climate diplomacy in Central Asia

Donaldson: Law, Legal Expertise and the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes: Revisiting early League Council practice

Megan Donaldson (Univ. College London - Law) has posted Law, Legal Expertise and the Peaceful Settlement of Disputes: Revisiting early League Council practice (in Cambridge Handbook on the League of Nations and International Law, Rasmussen, Ikonomou & van Leeuwen eds., forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Through a new account of three early disputes, this chapter revisits the novel role of the League Council in interstate dispute settlement. This role was delimited by a legal threshold: the question of whether disputes arose out of a matter purely within a state party's national jurisdiction or domaine reservé. Application of this test, nominally left to the Council, prompted considerable experimentation with institutional forms, and particularly recourse to 'committees of jurists', an understudied, flexible and protean mechanism which would go on to be deployed in many spheres of League activity. Drawing on contemporaneous legal scholarship and a range of archival materials, the chapter sketches the Council's procedural management of three key disputes, redirecting focus to the larger landscape of institutionalized dispute settlement beyond the Permanent Court of International Justice. In this larger landscape, the chapter teases out the diverse characteristics associated with recourse to avowedly 'legal' expertise and reasoning. This close reading of varied 'legal' deliberations recovers the multifaceted relationship between institutionalization and legalization of dispute settlement-and suggests the complexity of relations between legal reasoning and peaceful ordering, both for contemporaries and for us.

New Issue: GlobaLex

The latest issue of GlobaLex (May/June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Aderomola Adeola, Internally Displaced Persons
• Antonella Corradi, International Law and Consumer Protection
• Jonathan Pratter, À la Recherche des Travaux Préparatoires: An Approach to Researching the Drafting History of International Agreements

New Issue: Review of International Organizations

The latest issue of the Review of International Organizations (Vol. 20, no. 2, June 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Illiberal Regimes and International Organizations
• Christina Cottiero, Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, Stephan Haggard, Lauren Prather, & Christina J. Schneider, Illiberal regimes and international organizations
• Sarah Sunn Bush, Christina Cottiero, & Lauren Prather, Zombies ahead: Explaining the rise of low-quality election monitoring
• Kelly Morrison, Daniela Donno, Burcu Savun, & Perisa Davutoglu, Competing judgments: Multiple election observers and post-election contention
• Emilie Hafner-Burton, Jon C. W. Pevehouse, & Christina J. Schneider, Good governance in autocratic international organizations
• Jana Lipps & Marc S. Jacob, Undermining liberal international organizations from within: Evidence from the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
• Thomas Winzen, How backsliding governments keep the European Union hospitable for autocracy: Evidence from intergovernmental negotiations

Boothby & Heintschel von Heinegg: The Law on Nuclear Weapons: An International Commentary

William H. Boothby, (Univ. of Johannesburg) & Wolff Heintschel von Heinegg (Europa-Universität Viadrina - Law) have published The Law on Nuclear Weapons: An International Commentary (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

This book provides a uniquely clear and comprehensive statement of the law on nuclear weapons. It draws on the insight and input of a group of 15 experts from around the world and in so doing crafts an authoritative text that sets out not only the positions of a number of states but a carefully articulated guide to this complex area of law.

Building upon the platform of Boothby and Heintschel von Heinegg’s earlier work, this book addresses in much greater depth and detail, and with the authority endowed by the team of experts, how international law deals with the possession and use of nuclear weapons, as well as the deterrence policies associated with them. It presents an in-depth exploration of the law, detailing its implications and providing practical guidance on challenging issues. The book examines sovereignty, the threat or use of force, the conduct of nuclear hostilities, neutrality, weapons law, and war crimes, considering the impact of recent events and trends.

Orakhelashvili: Research Handbook on Jurisdiction and Immunities in International Law

Alexander Orakhelashvili (Univ. of Birmingham - Law) has published the second edition of Research Handbook on Jurisdiction and Immunities in International Law (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). Here's the abstract:

This updated Research Handbook presents a comprehensive analysis of the international law of jurisdiction and immunities, examining the mutual interdependence between the two as well as shedding light on the implications. Featuring diverse contributions from leading experts, emerging scholars, and practitioners, it provides an impartial perspective on the applicable international law.

Incorporating novel insights and recent developments, the Research Handbook covers key topics including the concept of universal jurisdiction, the differentiation of immunities from jurisdiction, and immunity claims in various types of judicial proceedings. It discusses the complex legal questions that arise when a state asserts its jurisdiction over persons that are based abroad or are not citizens of that state, and analyzes the immunity of foreign states and international organizations. Considering the impact of recent legislation, court cases and events, this revised second edition highlights ongoing trends and controversies surrounding jurisdiction and immunities in the context of international law.

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 29, no. 6, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz, Willingness, capacities and (non)compliance with human rights norms
• Rebecca Nhep, Impact of clientelism on the rights of children in residential care: Cambodia and Myanmar
• Matthew Gillett, Ecocide, environmental harm and framework integration at the International Criminal Court
• Danendri L. Senanayake, Search the landfill: obligation of the Canadian Government to bring stolen sisters home
• Afroza Anwary, Political, physical, and cultural techniques of genocide against the Rohingyas of Myanmar
• Pietro de Perini, Genuine commitment or search for prestige? Italy’s ambiguous foreign policy discourse on human rights
• Maria Eduarda Tomaz Luiz, Carolina Girola, Samara Escobar Martins, Beatriz Freitas da Cunha & Alcyane Marinho, Guaranteeing the rights of children and adolescents in Brazilian foster care institutions
• Cristina Cocito, Paul De Hert & Thomas Marquenie, Do human rights frameworks identify AI’s problems? The limits of a burgeoning methodology for AI problem assessment

Conference: SLADI/LASIL 7th Biennial Conference

The Sociedad Latinoamericana de Derecho Internacional/Latin American Society of International Law will hold its seventh biennial conference on July 31-August 2, 2025, at the Universidad de la República, in Montevideo. The theme is: “América Latina en un mundo en vertiginosa transformación/América Latina em um mundo em vertiginosa transformação/Latin America in a Rapidly Changing World.” The program is here.

New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following materials to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law: lectures in English and French on “The Role of the Office of Public Counsel for Victims in the Framework of the Rome Stature of the International Criminal Court” by Paolina Massidda; lectures in English and French on “The Prevention Principle in International Environmental Law” by Leslie-Anne Duvic-Paoli; and a lecture in English on “Joint Interpretative Agreements in International Law” by Fuad Zarbiyev.

The Audiovisual Library of International Law is also available as an audio podcast on Apple, SoundCloud, and other platforms.

Call for Papers: Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750-2000) (Junior Researchers)

A call for papers for junior researchers has been issued for a conference on "Invisible Actors in the Making of International Law (1750-2000)," to be held Novemeber 27-28, 2025, in Paris. The call is here.

New Issue: Nordic Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of International Law (Vol. 94, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Patient Mpunga-Biayi, The Investigative Power of the United Nations Security Council
• James Gerard Devaney, Making Sense of Transcendental Nonsense: A Functional Reframing of the Law of State Succession
• Øyvind Ravna, Indigenous Cultural Rights, the Green Transition, and the Right to a Healthy Environment
• Johan Nikolaj Lausen & Johanna Sophie Buerkert, Fragmentation Revisited: A Critical Analysis of the Effects of Introducing the BBNJ Agreement into the Ocean Governance Landscape

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. 31, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Nicholas G. Studzinski, Randolph Kent, & David Korowicz, Towards the Governance of Global Systemic Risk: Reforming the Summit of the Future
• Daniele Archibugi, Marco Cellini, & Azzurra Malgieri, The Reform of the UN Security Council: What Are the Issues?
• Tuğba Bayar & Murat Bayar, Unilateral Withdrawals from Multilateral International Treaties, 1945–2024
• Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée, Quasi-public Partnerships: Multistakeholder Governance in an International Organization
• Antonia Zervaki, The Cultural Dimension of Sustaining Peace: What Role for UN Peace Operations?

New Issue: Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy

The latest issue of the Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy (Vol. 28, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Suchita Awasthi, Aditi Patial & Ritesh Kumar, Wetland Jurisprudence in India—A Critical Appraisal
• Cuong Viet Do, Tan Ngoc Pham & Vuong Minh Vu, IMO Guidelines to Combat Wildlife Smuggling on Ships: An Analytical Perspective from Vietnam
• Noga Shanee, Amnon Keren, Evelyn D. Anca, Tamar Fredman, Omer Polansky & Yael Cohen Paran, The Dynamics of Online Wildlife Trade, Crime and Law Enforcement in Israel
• Latika Choudhary, Udit Raj Sharma & Hardik Daga, ‘Ruff’ Justice: Analysing the Right to Feed Stray Dogs in Lieu of Constitutional Provisions and Judicial Precedents in India

New Issue: Cambridge International Law Journal

The latest issue of the Cambridge International Law Journal (Vol. 14, no. 1, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Sharifah Sekalala, Ending pandemics within the shadow of trade: reconciling equity in global health with coloniality *
• Marjun Parcasio, A normative account of safety in the human right to a healthy environment
• Anna Moskal & Marcella Brandao Flores da Cunha, Is the Digital Markets Act a global standard for ex ante digital regulation? Insights from Brazil, India and Japan
• Special Section: Private Rights and Public Autonomy in a Fragmented World
• Thomas Ackermann & Henning Grosse Ruse-Khan, Private rights and public autonomy in a fragmented world: an introduction
• Francisco Beneke & Shazana Eliza Rohr, Transnational competition law rules: a political economy perspective *
• Eva Fischer & Markus W Gehring, Private rights and public autonomy in sustainable competition law and EU Green Deal measures
• Emily Hancox & Sonja Heitzer, It’s a complex world: can courts help? Judicial review and complexity in Germany, the EU and the US
• Quentin B Schäfer & Klaus Wiedemann, Article 5(2) of the Digital Markets Act and the ‘pay-or-consent’ business model at the intersection of public and private autonomy*

New Issue: International Criminal Law Review

The latest issue of the International Criminal Law Review (Vol. 25, nos. 2-3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Corruption and International Criminal Law
• Anja Matwijkiw, Bronik Matwijkiw, Sunčana Roksandić, & Marc Engelhart, Crime and Corruption. Serious Economic Crimes and International Criminal Law—Shaping a New Era of International Law and Justice
• Ugljesa Ugi Zvekic, For an Effective Global Anti-Crime Governance: untoc and uncac Consolidated
• Héctor Olasolo, Pablo Galain Palermo, & R.J. Blaise Maclean, The Case for Considering Corruption as a Central Element of Governance: Institutional and Organizational Corruption and Complex Corruption Networks
• Sunčana Roksandić & Marc Engelhart, Environmental Corruption: Fighting Two Evils through International Criminal Law Alongside Introducing a Special Protocol to UNCAC and UNTOC
• Anja Matwijkiw, Corruption: From International Law and Ethics to Realpolitik and Amoralism: Part 1: Perspectives on the Corruption Discourse
• Bronik Matwijkiw, Corruption: From International Law and Ethics to Realpolitik and Amoralism: Part 2: The Macro Approach
• s Andy Aydın-Aitchison, Bringing Together the Criminologies of Atrocity and Serious Economic Crimes
• Yuliya Zabyelina, Considerations of (Non)-Application of Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Jurisdiction in Cases of International and Transnational Crimes
• Annika van Baar, Theorizing and Understanding Corporate Involvement in Atrocity Crimes
• Ivana Jelić & Julia Jungfleisch, Clearing Muddied Waters: The Relationship Between the Rule of Law and the Fight against Corruption in the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
• Yudi Kristiana & Benny Hutahayan, Judicial Corruption in the Post-Reform Era: Assessing the Effectiveness of Legal Reforms in Indonesia
• Anna Oriolo, The Contribution of the European Court of Human Rights to the Construction of a Corruption-Free Society
• Sope Williams, Extricating Sexual Corruption from the Shadow of Anti-Corruption Law: The Imperative for a New Approach
• Nandor Knust, ‘ECO-COM-B: Environmental Crimes’—Steps Towards a More Holistic System of Environmental Crime Control

Perez-Leon-Acevedo: Rethinking Attribution Standards for State Responsibility Concerning Mass Atrocities

Juan Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo (Univ. of Oxford) has published Rethinking Attribution Standards for State Responsibility Concerning Mass Atrocities (San Diego International Law Journal, Vol. 26, no. 2, 2025). Here's the abstract:

Attribution of mass atrocities to states remains a central and contested issue in international law, particularly when such acts are carried out by non-state actors or through proxy forces. This Article analyzes how states may incur responsibility for mass atrocities by examining the legal standards developed in the Articles on the Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (ARSIWA) and the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice (I.C.J.). Special attention is given to developments following the adoption of ARSIWA, including the evolving relationship between Russia and the Wagner Group, to assess how legal principles apply in modern conflict settings. While the ARSIWA framework remains applicable, the nature of mass atrocities presents unique doctrinal and evidentiary challenges, particularly when foreign states exert control over militarized private actors.

Call for Session Ideas: 2026 ASIL Annual Meeting

The American Society of International Law has issued a call for session ideas for its 120th Annual Meeting, which will take place April 22-25, 2026, in Washington, DC. The conference theme is: "Advancing and Defending the Rule of Law." The deadline is July 28, 2025. The call is here.

Call for Papers: International Humanitarian Law in Times of Decline of the Rule of Law

A call for papers has been issued for the Twentieth Annual Minerva Conference on Internaitonal Humanitarian Law, to take place November 17-18, 2025, in Jerusalem. The topic is: "International Humanitarian Law in Times of Decline of the Rule of Law." The call is here. The deadline is June 22, 2025.

New Issue: Netherlands International Law Review

The latest issue of the Netherlands International Law Review (Vol. 72, no. 1, April 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Ignacio de la Rasilla, Building Up Inclusiveness for Women in the History of International Law?
• Sarah Thin, Playing Fast and Loose with Article 31(3)(c) VCLT: Lessons on Systemic Integration from the ITLOS Climate Change Opinion
• Nikolaos Gaitenidis, The Legal Landscape of Memory: Crafting Historical Narratives Through Law and Its Ramifications
• Jan Andrzej Karpiuk, Stretching the Limits of Inviolability: The Re-examination of the Inviolability of Diplomatic Premises in the Light of the Right to Life

Symposium: L’Autorité internationale des fonds marins : enjeux et persepctives

On June 19-20, 2025, the faculté de droit et de science politique de Rennes will host a symposium on "L’Autorité internationale des fonds marins : enjeux et persepctives," in Rennes. Details are here.

Marceau & Gött: International Organization Initiatives: How and Why Organizations Adapt and Change

Gabrielle Marceau (Univ. of Geneva - Law) & Henner Gött (German Federal Chancellery) have published International Organization Initiatives: How and Why Organizations Adapt and Change (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

How do adaptations and changes in international organizations (IOs) come about? How do IOs respond to crises and unforeseen needs of their members? What role do the secretariats and their heads play in doing so? This volume describes how IOs and their secretariats and executive heads launch and implement innovative activities—initiatives—and adapt to respond to crises, members’ demands, internal impulses, or interactions with the outside world. It brings together distinguished scholars and experienced practitioners of IOs to showcase and investigate IOs’ adaptive capacity, their achievements, and limitations. Through case studies and conceptual frameworks, the book explores a largely uncharted world of IO evolution in which international secretariats contribute importantly to adapting the role of IOs. The volume brings to light the mechanisms used by IOs to adapt to what were, on each occasion, new challenges to their efforts to assist and respond to unprecedented needs of members faced with contemporary realities.

Roundtable: International Law in the Quest for Truth on the Battlefield

On July 4, 2025, a roundtable on “International Law in the Quest for Truth on the Battlefield” will take place at the University of Milan. Participation is both in person and online. Details are here.

Shereshevsky: Complementarity (Un)Fairness: Powerful States and their Ability to Avoid ICC Proceedings by Conducting Domestic Investigations

Yahli Shereshevsky (Univ. of Haifa - Law) has posted Complementarity (Un)Fairness: Powerful States and their Ability to Avoid ICC Proceedings by Conducting Domestic Investigations (Journal of International Criminal Justice, forthcoming). Here's the abstract:

Power has long shaped discussions in international criminal law, with many contending that powerful states evade accountability while less powerful states face disproportionate scrutiny. Although the International Criminal Court (ICC) has recently expanded its reach — investigating powerful states such as the United States and issuing arrest warrants against high-ranking officials from Russia and Israel — it has yet to prosecute anyone from a powerful state. This article provides a nuanced analysis of power, distinguishing between superpowers and other powerful states. It examines how the principle of complementarity enables the latter group, exemplified by the Iraq/UK case, to avoid ICC proceedings through informational gaps and procedural deference, despite delivering little substantive accountability. This article evaluates two alternative solutions: the ICC’s approach in the recent arrest warrants against Israeli officials and a proposed shift in the burden of proof. It argues that the latter offers a more effective balance between accountability and incentives for domestic investigations.

Charlotin & Ridi: GenAI as an International Lawyer: A Case Study with the Jessup International Law Moot Court

Damien Charlotin (HEC) & Niccolò Ridi (King’s College London) have posted GenAI as an International Lawyer: A Case Study with the Jessup International Law Moot Court. Here's the abstract:

This paper investigates the capacity of Generative Artificial Intelligence, specifically Large Language Models, to craft compelling international legal arguments. We tested the performance of two popular models, Gemini 2.0 and GPT4o, in the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition, generating ten complete written memorials with minimal human intervention. With the organisers' blessing, these AI-generated memorials were anonymously added to the pool of submissions and evaluated by judges, who remained unaware of their origins, providing a unique benchmark against humanproduced work. Our results demonstrate that LLM-generated memorials consistently achieve average to superior scores, with some submissions receiving exceptional praise and near-perfect ratings. However, a detailed analysis of judges' qualitative feedback reveals persistent shortcomings of LLMs, notably factual inaccuracies, hallucinated citations, and superficial legal analysis. This study systematically identifies the current strengths and limitations of GenAI in legal argumentation, and critically informs best practices in prompt engineering, human-AI collaboration strategies, and emerging regulatory policies for legal education and practice.

European Union Court of Justice Profiles

Katerina Linos (Univ. of California, Berkeley - Law) and Mark Pollack (Temple Univ. - Political Science and Law) have launched a unique CJEU Profiles interview series featuring judges and advocates general serving at the Court of Justice of the European Union, as a special feature on Linos’s Borderlines podcast series. As part of their ongoing project to profile the Court and its members, Linos and Pollack have interviewed 25 sitting judges and advocates general at the Court of Justice, as well as the Registrar and the President of the General Court, with each interview exploring a range of issues including each member’s background and judicial philosophy, experiences on the Court, and discussion of some of their most legally and politically significant opinions and judgments. At this writing, 10 interviews have dropped, with additional episodes scheduled in the coming weeks and months. For an introduction to the series and links to the interviews please visit here or follow the Borderlines podcast on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.