New Issue: Nordic Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Nordic Journal of Human Rights (Vol. 31, no. 4, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Special Section: Fragile Democracies
• Leiry Cornejo Chavez & Andreas Føllesdal, Fragile Democracies, Strong Human Rights Courts? Comparing European and Inter-American Cases - Special Section Introduction
• Cecilia M Bailliet, Measuring Compliance with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights: The Ongoing Challenge of Judicial Independence in Latin America
• Kjetil Mujezinović Larsen, Compliance with Judgments from the European Court of Human Rights: The Court’s Call for Legislative Reforms
• Leiry Cornejo Chavez, The Claude-Reyes Case of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights - Strengthening Chilean Democracy?
• Ramute Remezaite, The Impact of the European Court of Human Rights on Democratisation in Azerbaijan: Securing Freedom of the Press

New Issue: Global Trade and Customs Journal

The latest issue of Global Trade and Customs Journal (Vol. 9, no. 1, 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Susan Ning, Liu Jia, & Sun Yiming, A Practitioner’s Look at National Security Review in China
• David Leys, Does a Theory of Causation Exist under the WTO Safeguards Agreement?
• Hossein Rahmanseresht & Sahar Ahmadi Partovi, Factors Affecting the Effectiveness and Success of International Road Freight Transit from Iran
• Bernd G. Janzen & Jean-Rene Broussard, New Directions in the Perennial Struggle to Detect and Fight the Evasion of Antidumping and Countervailing Duties
• Jeremy Zucker & Hrishikesh Hari, Gone with the Wind II: The Ralls Decision and Lessons for Foreign Investors

New Issue: Ethics & International Affairs

The latest issue of Ethics & International Affairs (Vol. 27, no. 4, Winter 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Essay
• David Scheffer, The Ethical Imperative of Curbing Corporate Tax Avoidance
• Roundtable: The Ethics of Rebellion
• James Turner Johnson, Ad Fontes: The Question of Rebellion and Moral Tradition on the Use of Force
• John Kelsay, Muslim Discourse on Rebellion
• Nigel Biggar, Christian Just War Reasoning and Two Cases of Rebellion: Ireland 1916–1921 and Syria 2011–Present
• Valerie Morkevicius, Why We Need a Just Rebellion Theory
• Features
• Chris Armstrong, Sovereign Wealth Funds and Global Justice
• Margaret Moore, On Rights to Land, Expulsions, and Corrective Justice
• Review Essay
• Edward Skidelsky, The Touch of Midas: Money, Markets, and Morality

New Issue: Law and Development Review

The latest issue of Law and Development Review (Vol. 6, no. 2, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Special Issue: Integrating Africa into the World Economy through International Economic Law
• James Thuo Gathii, Tomer Broude, & Laurence Boulle, Integrating Africa into the World Economy through International Economic Law: An Introduction
• Olabisi Delebayo Akinkugbe, The Dilemma of Public–Private Partnerships as a Vehicle for the Provision of Regional Transport Infrastructure Development in Africa
• Senai W. Andemariam, The Missed and Missing Benefits to Africa in the Absence of Harmonized International Regulation of Traditional Medicinal Knowledge
• Lorand Bartels, Making WTO Dispute Settlement Work for African Countries: An Evaluation of Current Proposals for Reforming the DSU
• Ciaran Cross & Christian Schliemann-Radbruch, When Investment Arbitration Curbs Domestic Regulatory Space: Consistent Solutions through Amicus Curiae Submissions by Regional Organisations
• Isabelle Deschamps, Assessing the Organisation pour l’harmonisation en Afrique du droit des affaires’s Contributions to Poverty Reduction in Africa: A Grounded Outlook
• Malebakeng Forere, Revisiting African States Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement through Intra-Africa RTA Dispute Settlement
• Dennis Ndonga, Increasing Africa’s Share of Vertical Investments through Single Window Systems
• Priscilla Schwartz, Capitalism, International Investment Law and the Development Conundrum
• Regis Y Simo, Integrating African Markets into the Global Exchange of Services: A Central African Perspective

New Issue: World Politics

The latest issue of World Politics (Vol. 66, no. 1, January 2014) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: The Regime for International Investment—Foreign Direct Investment, Bilateral Investment Treaties, and Trade Agreements
• Helen V. Milner, Introduction: The Global Economy, FDI, and the Regime for Investment
• Beth A. Simmons, Bargaining over BITs, Arbitrating Awards: The Regime for Protection and Promotion of International Investment
• Todd Allee & Clint Peinhardt, Evaluating Three Explanations for the Design of Bilateral Investment Treaties
• Tim Büthe & Helen V. Milner, Foreign Direct Investment and Institutional Diversity in Trade Agreements: Credibility, Commitment, and Economic Flows in the Developing World, 1971–2007
• Research Articles
• Daniel W. Drezner, The System Worked: Global Economic Governance during the Great Recession

New Issue: Chinese Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the Chinese Journal of International Law (Vol. 12, no. 4, December 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Articles
• Ralph Wilde, Human Rights Beyond Borders at the World Court: The Significance of the International Court of Justice's Jurisprudence on the Extraterritorial Application of International Human Rights Law Treaties
• José Manuel Cortés Martín, The Responsibility of Members Due to Wrongful Acts of International Organizations
• Henry Hailong Jia, Entangled Relationship between Article 2.1 of the TBT Agreement and Certain Other WTO Provisions
• Comments
• Jianjun Gao, The Responsibilities and Obligations of the Sponsoring States Advisory Opinion
• Erika de Wet, From Kadi to Nada: Judicial Techniques Favouring Human Rights over United Nations Security Council Sanctions
• Jun Zhao, Developed Countries' Cap-and-Trade Border Measures: China's Possible Reactions

New Issue: Journal of World Investment & Trade

The latest issue of the Journal of World Investment & Trade (Vol. 14, no. 6, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Robert Ginsburg, Political Risk Insurance and Bilateral Investment Treaties: Making the Connection
• Tarcisio Gazzini & Attila Tanzi, Handle with care: Umbrella clauses and MFN treatment in investment arbitration
• Alphanso Williams & William A. Kerr, Investment and Trade in Biofuels: Will there be a Market in the US for Developing Country Ethanol?
• Charles B. Rosenberg & Peter D. Fox, Leveraging the Trade Preference Program to Secure a State’s Compliance with International Law Obligations
• Srikanth Hariharan, Distinction between Treaty and Contract The Principle of Proportionality in State Contractual Actions in Investment Arbitration

New Issue: Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen

The latest issue of Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (Vol. 20, no. 2, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Aufsätze
• Sophie Eisentraut, Autokratien, Demokratien und die Legitimität internationaler Organisationen: Eine vergleichende Inhaltsanalyse staatlicher Legitimationsanforderung an die UN-Generalversammlung
• Konstanze Jüngling, Großmächtige Worte?: Zur Wirkung verbaler Menschenrechtskritik auf Russland im Falle des Grosny-Ultimatums
• Literaturbericht
• Philipp Brugger, Andreas Hasenclever, & Lukas Kasten, Vertrauen lohnt sich: Über Gegenstand und Potential eines vernachlässigten Konzepts in den Internationalen Beziehungen
• Forum
• Maximilian Terhalle, Kritische Anmerkungen zur „Politisierung internationaler Institutionen“
• Mathias Albert & Michael Zürn, Über doppelte Identitäten: Ein Plädoyer für das Publizieren auch auf Deutsch

New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 73, no. 4, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Diane A. Desierto & Colin E. Gillespie, Evolutive interpretation and subsequent practice: Interpretive communities and process in the Optional Protocol to the ICESCR
• Ulf Linderfalk, The principles of rational decision-making: As applied to the indentification of normative conflicts in international law
• Cameron A. Miles, The origins of the law of provisional measures before international courts and tribunals

New Issue: Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional

The latest issue of Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional (Vol. 5, no. 2, October 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Estudios
• Angelo Davì &Alessandra Zanobetti, Il nuovo diritto internazionale privato delle successioni nell’unione Europea
• Lorenzo Álvarez de Toledo Quintana, La cuestión previa de la “existencia de matrimonio” en el proceso de divorcio con elemento extranjero
• Sergio Cámara Lapuente, ¿De verdad puede controlarse el precio de los contratos mediante la normativa de cláusulas abusivas? : De la STJUE de 3 junio 2010 (Caja de Madrid, C-484/08) y su impacto aparente y real en la jurisprudencia española a la STS (pleno) de 9 mayo 2013 sobr
• Beatriz Campuzano Díaz, La politica legislativa de la UE en DIPr de familia. Una valoración de conjunto
• María Asunción Cebrián Salvat, Daños causados por un Estado en la comisión de crímenes de guerra fuera de su territorio inmunidad de jurisdicción, competencia judicial internacional y tutela judicial efectiva
• Ornella Feraci, La nuova disciplina europea della competenza giurisdizionale in materia di successioni mortis causa
• Ángel García Vidal, El comercio paralelo de medicamentos
• Miguel Gómez Jene, La responsabilidad civil del árbitro: cuestiones de derecho internacional privado
• Raúl Lafuente Sánchez, Hacia un sistema unitario europeo en materia de ley aplicable a las sucesiones internacionales
• Inmaculada Llorente San Segundo, La adaptación de la normativa reguladora del derecho de desistimiento a las exigencias de la directiva 2011/83/UE sobre derechos de los consumidore
• Carolina Macho Gómez, Los ADR «alternative dispute resolution» en el comercio internacional
• Helena Mota, El ámbito de aplicación material y la ley aplicable en la propuesta de Reglamento Roma IV: algunos problemas y omisiones
• Juan Jorge Piernas López, La libre circulación de mercancías entre la Unión Europea y Turquía. Algunas consideraciones a propósito de la aplicación del principio de reconocimiento mutuo
• Luis Antonio Velasco San Pedro, La propuesta de reglamento de compraventa europea: cuestiones generales, en especial su ámbito de aplicación
• Alfonso Ybarra Bores, El sistema de notificaciones en la Unión Europea en el marco del Reglamento 1393/2007 y su aplicación jurisprudencial
• Pablo Zapatero Miguel, Long-term trends in World Bank rule-based supervision: overcoming the yes-men culture
• Pablo Zapatero Miguel, Made on Earth: environmental externalities of global supply chains
• Varia
• María Jesús Elvira Benayas, Tratamiento de la aplicación facultativa del Reglamento 1206/2001 sobre obtención de prueba en la UE
• Laura García Álvarez, Daños privados por contaminación en el tráfico externo: a propósito del caso Akpan vs. Shell (Nigeria)
• Carla Gulotta, The first two decisions of the European Court of Justice on the law applicable to employment contracts
• Mónica Herranz Ballesteros, Conflicto de jurisdicciones y declinación de la competencia: los asuntos Honeywell y Spanair
• Rosa Miquel Sala, Transformación transfronteriza: exigencias para el estado miembro de acogida Comentario a la stjue c-378/10 (vale építési kft)
• Miguel Unceta Laborda, Principios de Unidroit e ilicitud del contrato internacional

New Issue: Archiv des Völkerrechts

The latest issue of Archiv des Völkerrechts (Vol. 51, no. 3, September 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Abhandlungen
• Roman Kwiecien, On some contemporary challenges to statehood in the international law between Lotus and global administrative law
• Antje v. Ungern-Sternberg, Die Konsensmethode des EGMR: Eine kritische Bewertung mit Blick auf das völkerrechtliche Konsens- und das innerstaatliche Demokratieprinzip
• Björnstjern Baade, Eine "Charta für Kriminelle?": Zur demokratietheoretischen Kritik am EGMR und dem aktiven Wahlrecht von Strafgefangenen
• Beitrag
• Patrick Abel, Menschenrechtsschutz und Individualbeschwerdeverfahren: Ein regionaler Vergleich aus historischer, normativer und faktischer Perspektive

New Issue: Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Comercial Internacional

The inaugural issue of the Revista Latinoamericana de Derecho Comercial Internacional/Latin American Journal of International Trade Law (Vol. 1, no. 2, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Artículos
• Graham Cook, Razonabilidad en el derecho de la OMC
• Jan Wouters, Bregt Natens & David D’Hollander, Relaciones entre Brasil y la Unión Europea en la Organización Mundial del Comercio: el uso de la solución de controversias como influencia
• Vera Thorstensen, Daniel Ramos, Carolina Muller & Fernanda Bertolaccini, Economías de mercado y de no mercado en la OMC: El caso híbrido de China
• Natividad Martínez Aguilar, Los incidentes en el proceso de revisión por un panel binacional del artículo 1904 del Tratado de Libre Comercio de América del Norte
• Attila Tanzi, ¿Se reduce la distancia entre el Derecho Internacional de Inversión y los Derechos Humanos en el Arbitraje Internacional de Inversión?
• Manuel Conthe & Antonio Delgado, ¿Podría la remisión corregir las ineficiencias de anulaciones de laudos del CIADI?

New Issue: Revista de Derecho Económico Internacional

The latest issue of the Revista de Derecho Económico Internacional (Vol. 4, no. 1, December 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Artículos académicos
• María Fernanda Gómez, Cambio climático y ajustes fiscales en frontera: análisis jurídico y viabilidad institucional
• Yetzy Villarroel, Capacidades estratégicas de la sub-región andina para contrarrestar la dependencia en el caso alimentario
• Juan Antonio Gaviria, Una propuesta de expansión del sistema de solución de controversias de la OMC como contrapeso a la tendencia creciente de los tratados de comercio preferencial
• Comentarios
• Hugo Quiñones Pescador, Comentario sobre China – Aparatos de rayos X, Informe del Grupo Especial
• José Manuel Vargas Menchaca, Comentario sobre China – Derechos compensatorios y antidumping sobre el acero magnético laminado plano de grano orientado procedente de los Estados Unidos (GOES), Informes del Grupo Especial y del Órgano de Apelación
• Yahir Acosta, Comentario sobre Estados Unidos – EPO (COOL), Informes del Órgano de Apelación

New Issue: Journal of International Law and Diplomacy

The latest issue of the Journal of International Law and Diplomacy (Vol. 111, no. 4, March 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Kohki Abe, Human Rights-ization of International Law: A Critical Analysis of the "Ethical Turn"
• Tetsuya Nakano, Reservations to Human Rights Treaties
• Hiromi Sato, The Theory of Joint Criminal Enterprise and Customary International Law
• Donald McRae, The Interrelationship of Codification and Progressive Development in the Work of the International Law Commission

New Issue: Diritto del Commercio Internazionale

The latest issue of Diritto del Commercio Internazionale (2013, no. 2) is out. Contents include:

• Ugo Draetta, Italy as a place for international arbitrations: the myths of the “Italian torpedo”, the “irritual” arbitration et alia
• Lorenzo Melchionda, The Assignment of Claims in International Investment Arbitrations
• Paolo D. Farah & Elena Cima, L’energia nel contesto degli accordi dell’OMC: sovvenzioni per le energie rinnovabili e pratiche OPEC di controllo dei prezzi

New Issue: Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law

The latest issue of the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 46, no. 4, October 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Symposium: The Role of Non-State Actors in International Law
• Ian Smillie, Blood Diamonds and Non-State Actors
• Harlan Grant Cohen, Lawyers and Precedent
• Peter Margulies, Constraining Targeting in Noninternational Armed Conflicts: Safe Conduct for Combatants Conducting Informal Dispute Resolution
• Suzanne Katzenstein, Reverse-Rhetorical Entrapment: Naming and Shaming as a Two-Way Street
• Peter J. Spiro, Constraining Global Corporate Power: A Short Introduction
• Jean d’Aspremont, Cognitive Conflicts and the Making of International Law: From Empirical Concord to Conceptual Discord in Legal Scholarship

New Issue: Review of International Political Economy

The latest issue of the Review of International Political Economy (Vol. 20, no. 6, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• IPE with China's characteristics
• Gregory Chin, Margaret M. Pearson & Wang Yong, Introduction – IPE with China's characteristics
• Wang Yong & Louis Pauly, Chinese IPE debates on (American) hegemony
• Pang Zhongying & Hongying Wang, Debating international institutions and global governance: The missing Chinese IPE contribution
• Tianbiao Zhu & Margaret Pearson, Globalization and the role of the state: Reflections on Chinese international and comparative political economy scholarship
• Xin Wang & Gregory Chin, Turning point: International money and finance in Chinese IPE
• Qingxin K. Wang & Mark Blyth, Constructivism and the study of international political economy in China

New Issue: International Legal Materials

The latest issue of International Legal Materials (Vol. 52, no. 4, 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Prosecutor v. Germain Katanga (Int’l Crim. Ct.), with introductory note by Steven Arrigg Koh
• Apotex Inc. v. United States: Award on Jurisdiction and Admissibility (NAFTA Arb.), with introductory Note by Ronald J. Bettauer
• Kiobel v. Royal Dutch Petroleum Co. (U.S. Sup. Ct.), with introductory note by Chimène I. Keitner
• The Arms Trade Treaty, with introductory note by Scott Stedjan
• Resolutions of the World Health Organization on the Election of the Director-General, with introductory note by Gian Luca Burci
• Agreement and Statute of the Extraordinary African Chambers, with introductory note by Roland Adjovi
• European Union Unitary Patent Package, with introductory note by Yohan Benizri

New Issue: Journal of International Economic Law

The latest issue of the Journal of International Economic Law (Vol. 16, no. 4, December 2013) is out. Contents include:

• Robert W. Staiger & Alan O. Sykes, Non-Violations
• Armand C. M. de Mestral, Dispute Settlement Under the WTO and RTAs: An Uneasy Relationship
• Bruce Wardhaugh, GSP+ and Human Rights: Is the EU’s Approach the Right One?
• Simon Lester & Inu Barbee, The Challenge of Cooperation: Regulatory Trade Barriers in the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership
• Federico M. Lavopa, Lucas E. Barreiros, & M. Victoria Bruno, How to Kill a BIT and not Die Trying: Legal and Political Challenges of Denouncing or Renegotiating Bilateral Investment Treaties
• Christian Vidal-León, Corporate Social Responsibility, Human Rights, and the World Trade Organization
• Dan Wei, Antidumping in Emerging Countries in the Post-crisis Era: A Case Study on Brazil and China

New Issue: Journal européen des droits de l'homme / European Journal of Human Rights

The latest issue of the Journal européen des droits de l'homme / European Journal of Human Rights (2013, no. 4) is out. Contents include:

• Dossier: L’adhésion de l’Union européenne à la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme: questions émergentes / The accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights: emerging issues
• Vasiliki Kosta, Nikos Skoutaris & Vassilis P. Tzevelekos, Introduction : the Accession of the European Union to the European Convention on Human Rights Introduction : l’adhésion de l’Union européenne à la Convention européenne des droits de l’homme
• Aida Torres Pérez, Too many voices ? The prior involvement of the Court of Justice of the European Union / Trop de voix ? L’intervention préliminaire de la Cour de justice de l’Union européenne
• Olivier De Schutter, The Two Lives of Bosphorus : Redefining the Relationships between the European Court of Human Rights and the Parties to the Convention / Les deux vies de Bosphorus : la redéfinition des rapports entre la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme et les Parties à la Convention
• Monica Claes & Šejla Imamović, Caught in the Middle or Leading the Way ? National Courts in the New European Fundamental Rights Landscape / Entre deux feux ou ouvrant la voie ? Les juridictions nationales dans le nouveau paysage européen des droits fondamentaux
• Arman Sarvarian, The Attribution of Conduct in the Law of International Reponsibility, the European Union and the Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights / L’attribution de comportement dans le droit de la responsabilité internationale, l’Union européenne et la jurisprudence de la Cour européenne des droits de l’homme