AbstractTwo multilateral processes marked the formation and consolidation of modern international investment law: the 1965 ICSID Convention and the 1967 Organisation for
Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Draft Convention on the Protection of Foreign Property. [...]
AbstractThis article examines the contested appointment of Christian Schmidt as High Representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina and evaluates the legal claim – advanced most
vocally by the Russian Federation – that the post is vacant due to procedural irregularities. [...]
AbstractIn her opening remarks held at the 20th European Society of International Law’s Annual Conference, Heike Krieger creates a scenario of how international law and its
scholarly community will have developed by the year 2035. She focuses on possible consequences resulting from the rise of right-wing populist movements and geopolitical [...]
AbstractThis article sheds light on the role played by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in clarifying and expanding the scope of European Union (EU) asylum
legislation to accommodate gender-related claims. Through an integrated analysis of the Court’s landmark rulings in the cases of Afghan women (A.H. [...]
AbstractThe French wine laws of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, many of which were internationalized during the interwar and post-World War II eras, have been a vivid
manifestation of European ‘state capitalism’ as evolving from the ‘immature’ independence of the economic sphere from the political sphere and the persistence [...]
AbstractThis article reflects on the place of institutional neutrality in international legal scholarship at a time of heightened geopolitical conflict, the politicization
of universities and increasing demands for institutional voice. Drawing from personal reflections to revisit the 1967 Kalven Report, the article considers neutrality [...]
van AakenAnned’ArgentPierreMälksooLauriJustus VaselJohann (eds). The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024. Pp. lxxxi + 915.
US$190.00. ISBN: 9780198865315. [...]
GillTerry D.Tibori-SzaboKinga. The Use of Force and the International Legal System. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xvi + 448. €30.33 (paperback). ISBN:
9781009407359. [...]
AbstractThis article explores the role that Shell – in particular, through its legal department – played in shaping international investment law from 1957 to 1968. Drawing
on a wide range of archival sources, including personal correspondence and governmental archives, it reconstructs Shell’s strategic campaign to protect foreign [...]
JonesNatalie. Self-Determination as Voice: The Participation of Indigenous Peoples in International Governance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024. Pp. 362. €105.
ISBN: 9781009406314. [...]