Call for Papers: Conceptualising International Energy Law: Shaping the Future Amidst Transition in a VUCA World

A call for papers has been issued for a conference on "Conceptualising International Energy Law: Shaping the Future Amidst Transition in a VUCA World," to take place (in person only) on September 25, 2025, and hosted by the Centre for International Law at the National University of Singapore. The call is here.

Call for Papers: After the Backlash: The Future of Arbitration in the Settlement of Investment, Trade and Human Rights Disputes

A call for papers has been issued for a workshop on "After the Backlash: The Future of Arbitration in the Settlement of Investment, Trade and Human Rights Disputes," to take place September 19-20, 2025, in Quebec City. The call is here.

New Issue: Virginia Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Virginia Journal of International Law (Vol. 65, no. 3, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Bridget Fahey, Yuping Lin, & Taisu Zhang, The Law of Information States: Evidence from China and the United States
• Rebecca Inger, The Abuse of Neutrality
• David Murphy & Christina Parajon Skinner, Sovereignty and Legitimacy in International Banking Law

New Issue: GlobaLex

The latest issue of GlobaLex (March/April 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Stephen May, Language Rights as Human Rights
• Jootaek Lee, The Human Right to Development: Definitions, Research and Annotated Bibliography
• Linda Tashbook, Nuclear Law Research

Call for Submissions: Facts in International Humanitarian Law (Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law)

The Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law has issued a call for submissions for its Volume 28 (2025) on the theme "Facts in International Humanitarian Law." The call is here. The deadline for abstracts is June 13, 2025.

Cordonier Segger, Gleason, & Stephenson: Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development

Marie-Claire Cordonier Segger (Univ. of Cambridge - Law), Ted Gleason (Grenoble Ecole de Management), & Sean Stephenson (Dentons Canada LLP) have published Research Handbook on Investment Law and Sustainable Development (Edward Elgar Publishing 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

This cutting-edge Research Handbook examines how investment law and policy can foster or frustrate sustainable development goals and accords. Expert authors explore opportunities for environmental, social, and economic rules to shape international investment flows, advancing global sustainability and justice.

Featuring contributions from leading professors and practitioners, the Research Handbook analyzes innovative legal procedures including sustainability impact assessment, examines new treaty provisions advancing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and considers emerging practices in dispute resolution. Chapters evaluate evolving international investment rules in light of recent law and policy changes, outlining strategies for incentivizing more sustainable development. Ultimately, they argue that international law can and should guide investment decisions which affect human rights, environmental protection and poverty eradication.

New Issue: International Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the International Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 29, no. 4, 2025) is out. Contents include:

• Justice for Atrocities: Dialogues and Encounters between Latin America and Europe
• Marco Longobardo & Juan-Pablo Perez-Leon-Acevedo, Justice for atrocities: dialogues and encounters between Latin America and Europe. Introduction to the special issue
• Harmen van der Wilt, Leadership responsibility in non-state criminal organisations. The rediscovery of indirect perpetration through an organisation by Latin American courts and the ICC
• Elena Maculan, The role of Criminal Justice in dealing with past atrocities in the Spanish and Argentine transitions: common grounds, but different pathways
• Valeria Vegh Weis, The ping-pong strategy: confronting atrocities from the exile
• Harold Bertot Triana & Elena C. Díaz Galán, Impunity in cases of serious human rights violations: three relevant aspects of contention in the jurisprudence of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights
• Marco Longobardo & Federica Violi, Access to justice for atrocities in the comparison of land-mark cases on state immunity in Brazil and Italy
• Alexandra Fowler, Comparing universal jurisdiction in Europe and in Latin America: a vehicle for international justice or for colonial reckoning?
• Ioanna Pervou, The intercontinental dialogue on enforced disappearances: the case of massive disappearances during hostilities

Pejic & Kotlik: Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues

Jelena Pejic (Lieber Institute for Law and Warfare) & Margaret Kotlik (U.S. Military Academy) have published Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict: Select Issues (Oxford Univ. Press 2025). The table of contents is here. Here's the abstract:

Protecting civilians who have fallen into enemy hands or are just about to come under the adversary's control is a constant challenge in the application of international humanitarian law (IHL) and the law of armed conflict (LOAC). Despite many decades of scholarship, military operational practice, and advocacy, certain legal questions remain unresolved, while others have been insufficiently examined or are newly emerging due to technological, societal, and cultural developments.

Civilian Protection in Armed Conflict explores a range of longstanding, current, and new legal and practical issues in the interpretation and application of IHL/LOAC related to civilian protection. The subjects selected are based on the experiences or observations of repeated dilemmas about the extent of legal protections owed and actually extended to civilians in military operations.

These include the protection of unprivileged belligerents and civilians in the invasion phase of international armed conflict, the law underlying civilian “screening” operations, and the challenges of setting up humanitarian corridors. Responding to recent armed conflicts including in Ukraine, Gaza, and Sudan, renewed attention is also paid to the rules governing deportation and forced conscription, and to the evolving area of civilian data protection and extraterritorial data migration. Developing interfaces between IHL/LOAC and other legal regimes, including environmental concerns, gender considerations, emerging technologies, and forensic science considerations are likewise explored. In all cases, accountability for non-respect of IHL/LOAC remains a fundamental legal obligation.

Call for Papers: "Post the UN Summit of the Future": Towards a (Re-)Consideration of the Right to Self-Determination, Sovereign Equality and Sustainable Development in a Divided and Transforming Global Legal Order

A call for papers has been issued for a conference, co-organized by the University of Namibia and Leuphana University Lüneburg, on "'Post the UN Summit of the Future': Towards a (Re-)Consideration of the Right to Self-Determination, Sovereign Equality and Sustainable Development in a Divided and Transforming Global Legal Order," to be held September 18-19, 2025, in Windhoek. The call is here.