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While mainstream international legal scholarship has long treated race as a peripheral concern-or a historic injustice to be remembered but not redressed-this volume argues that racialisation is foundational to the discipline, underpinning its doctrines, epistemes, and interlocutors. Emancipating International Law explores the many ways racial hierarchy, systemic oppression, and global white supremacy shape international law. Bringing together leading and emerging scholars, the collection moves beyond qualifying whether international law is racist to explore how racial hierarchies are embedded in its structures and continue to evolve through legal and institutional practice.
Divided into five sections, the book begins by situating international law's racialised boundaries within its colonial, capitalist, and chauvinist afterlives, exposing how white ignorance and race-thinking underpin legal norms, from sovereignty to jus cogens. It then examines racial stratification across legal institutions, including investment law, refugee law, and the Genocide Convention. The third section extends this critique to human rights, revealing the ways in which even an emancipatory paradigm can bolster racial injustices. The penultimate section unpacks racial hierarchies in disparate societies, including Brazil, India, and Japan, as well as the frontiers of nation-states. The volume concludes with a powerful discussion of the role of activism and alternative epistemologies in racial justice struggles, and the limits of international law's capacity for anti-racist transformation.
The latest issue of the Journal of Global Health Law (Vol. 2, no. 2, 2025) is out. Contents include: 
The latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 28, nos. 2-3, 2026) is out. Contents include: 
The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law has issued a call for submissions for its Volume 29 (2026) on the theme "International Humanitarian Law and Courts." The call is here. The deadline for abstracts is June 19, 2026. 
Because maritime questions are often admixed with territorial sovereignty questions, parties sometimes seek to settle them together. Jurisdiction under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea-UNCLOS-according to the received view does not encompass disputes concerning territorial sovereignty. In this book, international law scholar and practitioner Thomas D. Grant argues that the received view overstates the exclusion of sovereignty disputes. In Coastal State Rights, UNCLOS Annex VII arbitrators overstated the scope of the term 'sovereignty dispute' as well, an error of definition compounded when they ignored evidence probative as to whether a sovereignty dispute exists. Examining UNCLOS, its drafting history, and decades of decided cases, Sovereignty Disputes and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea relates an important problem of international dispute settlement to the public order of which UNCLOS forms part.
This open access book asks whether international economic crime can qualify as an international crime and be prosecuted as such.
Taking a four-part approach to the question, it traces the origins of the concept of international economic crime, and draws the line between ordinary economic crimes and economic offences of international significance. To this end, it examines six cases involving the commissions of serious economic crimes in different regions of the world, including Europe, the Americas and Africa: the crime of grand corruption in the Petrobras case; the theft of natural resources in the Niger Delta region and Liberia; the international money-laundering scheme in the Bolichicos case; the crime of financing terrorism in the Chiquita case; the Volkswagen conspiracy case in the US and the Haarde case related to gross-negligence in preventing serious economic damage. It then goes on to discuss a potential sui generis category of international economic crimes, before considering the advantages and the challenges of the multilevel enforcement system of international criminal justice in prosecuting such crimes.
The latest issue of Ocean Development & International Law (Vol. 57, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include: 
On September 3-5, 2026, the European Society of International Law will hold its 21st Annual Conference in Málaga. The theme is: "International Law and Conflict: An Enduring Tension?" The program is here. Registration is here. 
Die Jugend bildete bisher eine Randerscheinung in der völkerrechtswissenschaftlichen Literatur. Indes kommt ihr eine beachtliche normative und institutionelle Aufmerksamkeit in der Praxis des Völkerrechts zu. Mit dieser Arbeit werden die Begriffe der Jugend und der jungen Menschen als völkerrechtswissenschaftliche Analysekategorien eingeordnet und geformt. Sie bilden das Herzstück eines »Jugendansatzes im Völkerrecht«, der sich existierenden rechtskritischen Ansätzen zuordnet. Dieser Jugendansatz wird erstmals systematisch vorgestellt und angewendet. Es wird gezeigt, wie mit den Kategorien der Jugend und der jungen Menschen versteckte Annahmen, Interessen, Geschichten und Stimmen zum Vorschein gebracht werden können. Dabei werden völkerrechtliche Institutionen, Normen und Konzepte einer Untersuchung und Kritik zugeführt. Dies bereitet die Grundlage für einen distinkten Forschungsbereich, der sich der Jugend und jungen Menschen im Völkerrecht widmet.
The latest issue of the Michigan Journal of International Law (Vol. 47, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include: 
A Sociology of International Investment Law applies methods associated with the sociologist Max Weber to illuminate aspects of international investment law - a regime made up of thousands of treaties that protect foreign investors from state action diminishing the value of their investments. By applying many of Weber's key themes associated with legal modernity - legitimacy, rationality, domination, bureaucracy, and charisma - the book conscripts tools of analysis that enable the testing of many of investment law's operating assumptions.
A Sociology of International Investment Law Law is premised on the belief that theory informs practice and that enlisting aspects of Weber's work illuminates the contemporary practice of, and debates over, international investment law. Utilizing Weber's themes and methods, results in a deeper appreciation of the connections of international investment law has with classical social theory. The book also reveals how the field fails to measure up to many of the analytical challenges that Weber's sociological interventions provoke. This book offers an exploration of the commonalities, differences, and blind spots shared by this relatively new international legal field with one of the most influential theorists of modernity.
A call for papers has been issued for the 2027 ESIL Research Forum, which will take place April 22–23, 2027, and hosted by the Faculty of Law, University of Maribor, Slovenia. The topic is: “The European Union, the Council of Europe, and Other Regional Organisations in a Changing World.” The Forum promotes engagement with research in progress by members of the Society in the early stages of their careers. The call is here. The deadline is September 30, 2026. Martti Koskenniemi wrote "Perceptions of Justice" against the backdrop of the 2003 Iraq War. The piece draws a stark distinction between American and European conceptions of justice--and approaches to international law. Over twenty years later, his distinction might still (or again) resonate. This retrospective analyzes it in light of his other work and more contemporary events, arguing that it is a mix of misguided and confused. The United States and Europe have for decades, if not centuries, been profoundly entwined; each has significantly shaped and been shaped by its relationship with the other. The urgent question now is not what our distinct, essential characteristics might be but how we will redefine ourselves going forward, given the enormous challenges that we both, and the world more generally, confront. We are unlikely to make much progress on this question so long as we imagine, as Koskenniemi and the U.S. Trump Administration both seem to do, that if law does not constrain power, it must just be the sieve through which power runs.
The International Court of Justice's 2025 Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change deploys the phrase 'trustees of humanity' in the context of intergenerational equity, offering a striking convergence with the theory of sovereignty advanced in my Sovereigns as Trustees of Humanity (2013). This essay examines the relationship between the two. It argues that the Opinion supports the earlier theory in several important respectsrejecting purely domestic conceptions of sovereign responsibility, affirming sovereignty's embedment in a broader normative order, and requiring other-regarding conduct-while also developing it in ways unforeseen by the earlier account. The essay also argues that the trusteeship framework resolves a question the Opinion leaves open: when do States' obligations with respect to greenhouse gas emissions arise? Finally, the essay reflects on the Opinion's possible significance for the evolving grammar of sovereignty in light of contemporary geopolitical challenges.
The extension of coastal state sovereign rights over the sea and seabed up to 200 nautical miles was a seismic change in global order. It nearly doubled the amount of the globe subject to state sovereignty, an equivalent change in geopolitics to that of European colonialism. This article searches for the origin of this fundamental change, going back to the first international lawyers to write about the continental shelf, and following where they found historical precedent. I find the origin of the continental shelf in a mid-19th century dispute between the British Crown and the Duchy of Cornwall, over tin mines in that county. In this dispute the legal arguments and conceptual innovations needed for the continental shelf are invented. These innovations allowed for the extension of territory and sovereignty out to sea for the first time in a way which is familiar today. The invention of the continental shelf required nothing less than to fundamentally change how territory and sovereignty are understood.
Latin America has arguably been the most affected region by the COVID-19 pandemic, yet there is no academic article or academic publication on institutional regional responses to the pandemic concerning the right to health. Hence, this article aims to fill that scholarship gap by answering the following question: how have regional bodies responded to COVID-19 concerning the right to health in Latin America? It is overall argued and found herein that: (1) there is a regional system on the right to health in pandemics such as COVID-19, about which a human rights-based approach provides a unifying standard; and (2) this system is embedded within the Organization of American States’ three-pillar framework, consisting of the Pan-American Health Organization, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights. A human rights-based approach to health, which relies on international human rights law on the right to health, is considered a key component of the conceptual general framework herein. The Article analyzes the COVID-19 related practices of the three above-mentioned bodies. A central part of this Article’s methodology utilizes findings of convergences, synergies, and divergences between those bodies regarding the right to health during pandemics like COVID-19.
The American Society of International Law has issued a call for papers for its 2026 Research Forum, a part of the Society's Midyear Meeting, which will be held November 5-7, at Santa Clara University School of Law. The deadline is June 5, 2026, at 5:00pm EDT. The call is here. Severe violations of international law tend to spread from one country to another. No country would like to be left behind while its enemies or neighbors gain an advantage through violating international law. This paper investigates three case studies of extreme cascades into blatant international law violations: the growing practice of bombing cities during the Second World War, the spreading of the practice of torture after the terrorist attack on 9/11, and the expansion of the practice of targeted killings in recent years. The goal of these case studies is to illustrate the mechanisms that make a cascade towards increasing violations of international law likely to happen. By understanding these mechanisms, it is possible to think about how such harmful cascades can be slowed down, stopped, or even reversed.
The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 25, no. 1, March 2026) is out. Contents include: 
The latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international (Vol. 28, no. 1, 2026) is out. Contents include: