Harvard International Law Journal

SUBMISSIONS CALL: We're incredibly excited to collaborate with the Harvard Art Law Review to publish short-form online scholarship at the intersection art and international law. We welcome submissions focusing on cultural heritage, artificial intelligence, art crime/anti-money laundering, and much more. Please spread the word — submissions are due January 5th!

Finally, Vol 65(2)'s print edition ends with a note by Shayla Birath on how ECOWAS and Africa shape international law. Birath explains that ECOWAS’s repeated use of force in the region, coupled with both ensuing state silence and explicit endorsement, gradually but profoundly develops jus ad bellum for the rest of the international legal order. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/e7xHGJu9

Next in Volume 65(2): Moria Paz suggests that international human rights tribunals would be more receptive to refugee and asylum claims if applicants could identify one discrete state duty-holder. When demarcating a single duty-holder is not feasible, as is often the case, migrants are in fact better off seeking remedy in the political arena. Read More Here: https://lnkd.in/eczqnrCH

Next in Vol. 65(2): Adi Gal explores the failure of the human rights movement to secure remedies for victims. The international regime preserves this right-remedy chasm, Gal maintains, by conditioning a remedy on the adjudication of a right, and by rejecting a state’s responsibility to remediate in no-fault cases. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eueWdjSj

Next up in Print Vol. 65(2): Professor Eliav Lieblich examines the phenomenon of whataboutism in global legal discourse. Drawing on informal logic and notions of fairness, he argues that whataboutism is not pure fallacy, but rather a valid argumentative scheme worthy of intellectual consideration in the international legal arena. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eGUjThru

We're excited to highlight the articles in Volume 65(2) of the Harvard International Law Journal print edition, which has now been published! Professor Kishanthi Parella commences the Issue with an article illuminating the role of international law in global corporate governance. She contends that in today’s era of hyperattention to environmental-social-governance problems, corporate stakeholders are well situated to nudge corporations to comply with international law. Read more here: https://shorturl.at/2WYtd For more information about our Print submissions process: https://shorturl.at/8UlH4

We are back! Submissions for Perspectives is now OPEN. Submit your short-form scholarship today: https://lnkd.in/eyB75ZUH HILJ Online: Perspectives publishes short-form academic scholarship on all areas of international law. See our past Perspectives publications here: https://lnkd.in/e7NnrZqm If you would like us to consider your long-form scholarship for Volume 66(2) of our Print Publication, please find instructions here for submission via Scholastica: https://lnkd.in/eW5ijFwi #internationallaw #internationallawjournal #lawjournal #ilj #hilj

Our friends at Harvard International Arbitration Law Students Association (HIALSA) have just published the inaugural HIALSA Arbitration Review, featuring some of the best entries from the HILJ-HIALSA collaboration on international arbitration alongside practice tips and profiles from some of the industry’s leading lawyers. Take a look!

We are thrilled to announce the publication of two pieces through our partnership with the Harvard International Law Journal! We would like to thank the Georgetown Law Center on Inclusive Trade and Development for the generous support that made this collaboration possible. The published works contribute to the growing international law narrative on the importance of trade in the realms of emerging technologies, climate change, and human rights. Read the enlightening works selected for the partnership on the GJIL website: https://lnkd.in/eCXe6qVS

New in HILJ x Harvard International Arbitration Law Students Association (HIALSA): Valeria Arroyo surveys challenges and opportunities for the arbitration landscape in #Ecuador. https://lnkd.in/eka8X5F2