So, you want to do a PhD in international law? I’ve become frustrated recently at the lack of practical information for those contemplating PhD level study, especially in my own field. Information about the practical pitfalls, perils and joys of further study. So I decided to write a series of blog posts on the topic, [...]
Bailliet: Non-State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes: From the Margins Cecilia M. Bailliet (Univ. of Oslo – Law) has published Non-State Actors, Soft Law and Protective Regimes: From the Margins (Cambridge Univ. Press 2012). The table of contents is here. Here’s the abstract: By offering critical perspectives of normative developments within international law, this [...]
A New Deal to Help Save the EuroThe rescue package for Portugal and the recent electoral success of the populist True Finns party shows that the euro crisis is not over. Even if the current support mechanisms stabilise the markets, they will not be sufficient in the long term: growing economic divergence between the eurozone’s [...]
The ICTY Appeals Judgment in the Haradinaj caseDr. Gentian Zyberi was co-ordinator of the Albanian legal team in the ICJ’s Advisory proceedings on the Accordance with International Law of the Unilateral Declaration of Independence in Respect of Kosovo. He worked for the Defence in the Haradinaj case discussed below.Introduction In its judgment dated 19 July [...]
A Preemptive Strike against European Federalism: The Decision of the Bundesverfassungsgericht Concerning the Treaty of Lisbon.Julian Arato is a J.D. candidate and Institute of International Law and Justice Scholar at the New York University School of Law . His article on Subsequent Practice and Evolutive Interpretation: Techniques of Treaty Interpretation over Time and Their Diverse Consequences, 9 Law [...]
New Issue: European Human Rights Law ReviewThe latest issue of the European Human Rights Law Review (2010, no. 4) is out. Contents include:Andrew Drzemczewski, Election of Judges to the Strasbourg Court: An OverviewElisabeth Lambert Abdelgawad, Emilie Becue, Julie Tavernier & Line Lecerre, French Law on the Detention and Return of Irregular Migrants and the European [...]
New Issue: Journal of World TradeThe latest issue of the Journal of World Trade (Vol. 43, no. 5, October 2010) is out. Contents include:Jun Kazeki, Anti-dumping Negotiations under the WTO and FANsMichael E.S. Hoffman, Job Losses and Perceptions of GlobalizationSachin Chaturvedi & S.K. Mohanty, Assessing the Market Openness Effects of Regulation in India: An Overview [...]
New Issue: Journal of International Dispute SettlementThe latest issue of the Journal of International Dispute Settlement (Vol. 1, no. 2, August 2010) is out. Contents include:Emmanuel Gaillard, The Representations of International ArbitrationGabrielle Kaufmann-Kohler, Soft Law in International Arbitration: Codification and NormativityDaniel Shapiro & Adam Kinon, The Prevention Principle: A Pragmatic Framework to Prevent Destructive ConflictWendy [...]
New Issue: Journal of the History of International LawThe latest issue of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d’histoire du droit international (Vol. 12, no. 2, 2010) is out. Contents include:Ian Hunter, Kant’s Regional CosmopolitanismManuel Jiménez Fonseca, The Colonization of American Nature and the Early Development of International LawDzovinar Kévonian, Les [...]
New Issue: International OrganizationThe latest issue of International Organization (Vol. 64, no. 3, July 2010) is out. Contents include:Branislav L. Slantchev, Feigning WeaknessSonal S. Pandya, Labor Markets and the Demand for Foreign Direct InvestmentCristina Bodea, Exchange Rate Regimes and Independent Central Banks: A Correlated Choice of Imperfectly Credible InstitutionsMatthew A. Baum & Tim Groeling, Reality [...]
New Issue: International Community Law ReviewThe latest issue of the International Community Law Review (Vol. 12, no. 3, September 2010) is out. Contents include:Attila Tanzi, Reducing the Gap between International Water Law and Human Rights Law: The UNECE Protocol on Water and HealthStefania Negri, Waterborne Disease Surveillance: The Case for a Closer Interaction between the [...]
New Issue: Journal of International Maritime LawThe latest issue of the Journal of International Maritime Law (Vol. 16, no. 1, 2010) is out. Contents include:Karen N. Scott, Safety of shipping in the Southern OceanThomas M. Brown, For the “round and top of sovereignty”: boarding foreign vessels at sea on terror-related intelligence tips[via International Law Reporter]
Weinberg: Non-State Actors and Global Informal Governance – The Case of ICANNJonathan Weinberg (Wayne State Univ. – Law) has posted Non-State Actors and Global Informal Governance – The Case of ICANN (in International Handbook on Informal Governance, Thomas Christiansen & Christine Neuhold eds., forthcoming). Here’s the abstract:This chapter examines the history of the Internet Corporation [...]
New Volume: Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law Volume 2 (2008) of the Select Proceedings of the European Society of International Law (Hart Publishing 2010), edited by Hélène Ruiz Fabri (Univ. of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne) – Law), Rüdiger Wolfrum (Judge, International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea & Director, Max Planck [...]
New Issue: Journal of International PeacekeepingThe latest issue of the Journal of International Peacekeeping (Vol. 14, nos. 3-4, September 2010) is out. Contents include:Bryn Hughes & Charles Hunt, Making Sense of Peace and Capacity-building Operations: Rethinking Policing and BeyondOtwin Marenin, Understanding Mission Environments: Local Contexts and the Legitimation of ReformsEric Scheye, Redeeming Statebuilding’s Misconceptions: Power, [...]