New to Cambridge in 2024: Finance and Society
Cambridge University Press is pleased to announce that it will publish Finance and Society from January 2024, in partnership with the Finance and Society Network.
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2023
Why international standards are (sometimes) not set: the case of shadow banking
International standards have proliferated in many policy areas over recent decades and are a key feature of global governance. Standard-setting is particularly consequential in finance given its global reach and systemic implications for the economy.…
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The new leadership of the Asian Society of International Law
Message from the AsianSIL President Dear Honourable Members of the Executive Council of the AsianSIL and Distinguished Colleagues, It is my great honour to have gained your trust and be elected as the eighth President of the AsianSIL and it is also my privilege to inherit the success of the AsianSIL from the previous Presidents of the Society.…
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Explore the breadth of scholarship in the GLJ
This latest issue of the German Law Journal opens with a bold idea: the establishment of a ‘World Citizens’ Initiative’ as a means by which individuals would be able directly to ‘influence the agenda of the primary organs of the United Nations’.…
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Sociopolitical reputation and the reform of pharmacies in Greece and Portugal
In 2005, pharmacies in Greece and Portugal enjoyed some of the highest regulatory protections from competition in the EU. Fifteen-plus years later, Greek pharmacies are still highly protected, while Portuguese pharmacies have had to undergo several bouts of liberalization.…
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The Extractive Industry and Indigenous Rights: The Case of the Sami People in Sweden
Introduction On 12 January 2023, the Swedish mining company LKBA announced the discovery of Europe’s largest deposit of rare earth elements – materials that are crucial for the production of a variety of renewable energy technologies – in northern Sweden, in the area of the city of Kiruna.…
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Equality as a Religious Right
Read the article “Whose Equality? Freedom of Religious Associations and Gaum v. Van Rensburg” in the Journal of Law and Religion.…
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The updated draft BHR treaty: clashes with investment law
The updated draft business and human rights (BHR) treaty of July 2023, that forms the basis of negotiations for the ninth session of the Intergovernmental Working Group during the 9th session of the OEIGWG meetings beginning the week of 23rd October has had some interesting changes.…
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Cambridge University Press to publish the Law & Society Review
Cambridge University Press and the Law & Society Association (LSA) are excited to announce that, beginning in January 2024, Cambridge University Press will publish the Association’s prestigious journal the Law & Society Review (LSR).…
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Border clashes: the distributive politics of professional liberalisation in Greece
As Douwe Truijens and Marcel Hanegraaff have recently remarked (Truijens and Hanegraaff 2023), interest groups can play a very large role at the implementation stage of the policy cycle, potentially even reversing decisions made earlier in the cycle.…
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IHRL & Queer Theories: An Intersectional Interpretative Tool for Nepal Court in the Case of Queer Marriage Rights?
Part II: In the previous part, the author delved into the intersection of International Law and Queer legal theories, examining the standpoint of Indian Courts.…
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Journal of Child Language welcomes new Editors-in-Chief
The Journal of Child Language is pleased to welcome new Editors in Chief, Elma Blom and Melanie Soderstrom, from January 2024.…
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Conversations with Authors: Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German–Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Vasiliki (Vicky) Fouka and Hans-Joachim Voth about their open access article “Collective Remembrance and Private Choice: German-Greek Conflict and Behavior in Times of Crisis.”…
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Coping with the Unforeseen. Bounded Rationality and Bureaucratic responses to the Covid-19 crisis
Central aspects of governmental decision-making are veiled in secrecy. This explains why behavioral public administration has had so little to say about the behavior and decisions of top civil servants and political executives.…
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IHRL & Queer Theories: An Intersectional Interpretative Tool for India Court in the Case of Queer Marriage Rights?
Part I: In recent times, South Asian courts have been deeply engaged in important discussions concerning fundamental aspects of Queer rights.…
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Crisis-Driven Regionalism: ASEAN’s Economic Response to Present Day Tensions
ASEAN has progressed consistently as a responsive regional actor, especially through its economic initiatives. The organization declared its commitment to regional economic integration as early as the 1976 Declaration of ASEAN Concord/Bali Concord I, and indeed, it tends to be in the economic sphere where the most detailed and formal agreements are signed.…
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Empowering plurality: voices and insights from the 8th Business and Human Rights Young Researchers’ Summit
In the heart of New York City, from August 10th to 12th, 2023, a cohort of twelve scholars hailing from multiple countries, backgrounds and disciplines converged for the 8th Business and Human Rights (BHR) Young Researchers’ Summit.…
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The Systemic and the Particular in European Law
If summer felt too short to you, we are excited to have an intellectual energizer on offer: Our latest special issue is devoted to a conceptual tension that runs through many legal fields—and that our guest editors identify as a key register for European law: the relation between an individual case, doctrine or breach and a possible systemic dimension.…
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Meet the Editors of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
On Saturday, September 2nd 2023, Christopher Towler and Benjamin Gonzalez O’Brien hosted an online meet-the-editors session for the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (JREP) during this year’s American Political Science Association conference.…
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“The best way of doing something“? – Investigating a standardization process in Norway across public and private institutions
Standards are everywhere in society. A visa card works across countries and banks because of standards. Standards developed by standard-setting organizations are also part of larger practices of governance in most societies today.…
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The Competence of the Court in the Indus Waters Treaty Arbitration
Does Article IX of the Indus Water Treaty Constitute a Multi-Tiered Arbitration Clause? Reflecting on the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s Award on the Competence of the Court in the Indus Waters Treaty Arbitration (Pakistan v.…
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Does Article IX of the Indus Water Treaty Constitute a Multi-Tiered Arbitration Clause?
Reflecting on the Permanent Court of Arbitration’s Award on the Competence of the Court in the Indus Waters Treaty Arbitration (Pakistan v.…
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Regulating Aircraft Passages in Archipelagic Sea Lanes: Is Indonesia go beyond UNCLOS?
Introduction In 2018, Indonesia introduced a new Government Regulation No 4 Year 2018 concerning the Security of the Airspace of the Republic of Indonesia.…
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Reinforcing the Bonds Between the U.N. and the Permanent Court of Arbitration
The General Assembly of the United Nations adopted on August 1, 2023 a resolution looking forward to the 125th anniversary of the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) next year and commending it for its significant contributions to world peace and justice.…
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Summer reading with the GLJ’s latest issue
This latest issue, comprising content published separately in FirstView, is wide-ranging in its scope. With articles discussing solidarity with migrants at sea, the international legal-historical insights of Charles Henry Alexandrowicz, attorney-client privilege, and European Central Bank (ECB) monetary policy, there will be something here for everyone.Our…
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Extension of Legal Personality to Ecosystems and Beyond-Human Organisms
World leading innovation is going on right now in granting legal personhood for mountains, rivers, and forests in New Zealand and elsewhere – but what will this mean for governance and how these new ‘entities’ relate with both companies, people and the law?…
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Austerity and Young People’s Political Attitudes in the U.K.
In 2012, a Conservative-led coalition implemented austerity measures to restore the UK’s finances. The measures aimed to address the increase in public spending that had occurred during the Great Recession and included significant cuts to public services in the form of the 2012 Welfare Reform Act.…
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On time or with a delay? Transposition of EU directives in the Czech Republic in relation to subsidiarity check
National parliaments had been for long time losers of European integration with only very limited competences of information on new EU initiatives and of rubber-stamping transposition law compared to the national governments, which often negotiate EU law at the supranational level and propose its transposition acts at the national level.…
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The Wagner Group and the Question of the Legal Attribution of the Acts of Private Actors to a State
Recently President Putin officially revealed that the Wagner group had been financed by the Russian State. Specifically, he declared (see also here) having financed the group for around 1bln dollars between May 2022 and May 2023.…
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Institutional Legacies and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Spending Decisions: The Case of the Freedmen’s Bureau
In 1996, then-President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) into law, with the goal to “end welfare as we know it.”…
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Law and Political Imagination: The Perspective of Paul Kahn
Moments of political and societal transformation are often generative episodes for legal thought, bringing new theories to the fore and expanding the reach and visibility of others.…
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The French law on the duty of vigilance: the challenges of the preventive approach
On June 1, 2023, Members of the European Parliament voted, with a large majority, in favour of new European rules on corporate sustainability due diligence.…
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The Return of the Palestinian Question to the International Court of Justice
Introduction On 30 December 2022, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) passed Resolution 77/247 on ‘Israeli practices affecting the human rights of the Palestinian people in the occupied territories’.…
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New legal documents on The Congo, Russia, the UK, and China
The June issue of International Legal Materials includes four international legal documents. The first is the reparations judgment from the International Court of Justice in the case concerning Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Dem.…
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Updated OECD Guidelines reconfirm downstream application of due diligence
As the European Union’s three legislative bodies sit down to reconcile their proposals for a draft directive on corporate sustainability due diligence, legislators have a brand-new tool to support their negotiation: the newly updated and renamed OECD Guidelines for Multinational Enterprises for Responsible Business Conduct (Guidelines).…
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A Regulatory Tsunami is Coming to Silicon Valley: Tech Companies Must Adopt Responsible Innovation or Risk Losing Their Competitive Edge
Earlier this year, Microsoft announced that it was laying off its AI ethics department, joining earlier cuts of ethicists at Meta, Google, Amazon and Twitter, and thereby setting a precedent for smaller tech companies with minimal financial resources that cutting corners in ethical and humane technological advancements is acceptable. …
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The EC’s draft ban on products made using forced labour: Key measures to guarantee remediation for victims
In 2022, the European Commission (EC) proposed a new Regulation to ban products made using forced labour from the EU market.…
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Rana Plaza, 10 years on: time for brands, unions and the industry to work together
On February 3, 2014, I wrote here about the hell which workers at Rana Plaza had gone through, and finished by asking ‘Where do we go from here?’…
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10 years on from Rana Plaza: Is France’s duty of vigilance law living up to its promise?
The Rana Plaza collapse in 2013 in Bangladesh exposed the severe safety issues and exploitative practices in global supply chains and the need for greater corporate liability.…
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Conversation with Authors: Moderates
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Anthony Fowler and Lynn Vavreck about their open access article (coauthored with Seth Hill, Jeffrey Lewis, Chris Tausanovitch, and Christopher Warshaw), “Moderates.”…
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Conversations with Authors: Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR author Jack Turner about his open access article “Whitman’s Undemocratic Vistas: Mortal Anxiety, National Glory, White Supremacy.”…
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Human Rights and Sovereign Debt Restructurings: A Proposal for an Optimal Outcome
Zambia defaulted on its debt in November 2021 but has not yet reached an agreement with its creditors. Its president recently warned that this situation is hurting its citizens and undermining its democracy because “you cannot eat democracy”.…
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Of interest: beyond the enlightened shareholder
An important case is making its way up the appellate system of England & Wales. The case, reported at its last stage asMcGaughey v USS [2022] EWHC 133 (Ch), concerns the Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS).…
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“PMSC treaty” – why we need an international legally binding instrument to regulate private military and security companies
States are currently discussing the future of one of the most important instruments for international peace and security and the room is almost empty.…
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Conversations with Authors: STADL Up! The Spatiotemporal Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model for TSCS Data Analysis
This “Conversation with Authors” features Scott J. Cook (SJC), Jude C. Hays (JCH), and Robert J. Franzese, Jr. (RJF), authors of the recent open access APSR article, “STADL Up!…
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Solar Geoengineering: Political and Security Challenges of ‘Dimming’ the Sun on the Horizon
In my open access article ‘Considering Stratospheric Aerosol Injections beyond an Environmental Frame: the ‘Emergency’ techno-fix and Preemptive Security’, I focus on a form of solar geoengineering known as Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI) which is attracting increasing attention as a potential technological response to the growing problems associated with climate change.…
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Justice Beyond the Courtroom? Residual Functions at the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia
A collaboration between CIL Dialogues and AsianSIL Voices The legacy of the Extraordinary Chambers of the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) is a hotly debated topic.…
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The ‘Things Said in Passing’: The Duterte Drug War, Philippine Presidential Foreign Policy Prerogatives, and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court in Pangilinan v Cayetano
A collaboration between CIL Dialogues and AsianSIL Voices On 16 March 2018, the Philippines formally submitted its notice of withdrawal from the Rome Statute (RS).…
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Linking the law and public advocacy: a win-win for legal scholars and activists
A collaboration between CIL Dialogues and AsianSIL Voices Lawyers and Journalists: greater than the sum of our parts The story of the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP) is a story about the confluence of international criminal law and public advocacy.…
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The right to non-discriminatory reparations for slavery crimes: Malaya Lolas secure ground-breaking CEDAW decision and holistic recommendations
A collaboration between CIL Dialogues and AsianSIL Voices On 3 March 2023, published on 8 March—International Women’s Day—2023, the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women (Committee) issued its decision in Natalie Alfonzo et.…
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The ICL Ecosystem in the Asia Pacific: The Rome Statue and Beyond
A collaboration between CIL Dialogues and AsianSIL Voices [This blogpost is based on a talk for the NUS Centre for Asian Legal Studies in November 2022, recording available here.]…
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Accountability for core international crimes in the ASEAN region: diversity in recent developments
A collaboration between CIL Dialogues and AsianSIL Voices While most ASEAN states are not parties to the Rome Statute, this fact should not distract from the region’s growing engagement with accountability for core international crimes at the domestic, regional, or international level.…
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Journal process changes from the GLJ
It is my great pleasure to introduce issue 24.2, which is the first of our issues to be composed from articles published under our new FirstView process.…
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Sweet Profits, Bitter Truth
As the sun sets over the vast cocoa plantations of Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana, the hardworking farmers who tend to the crops are left in the dark shadows of poverty and inequality.…
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International Trade Law and State Intervention in the Economy in the Covid Era
It is too early to historicize the Covid years and the health crisis remains present in many parts of the World.…
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Beyond Human Rights: Recognising the Natural World
The United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (Protect, Respect, and Remedy Framework) were a breakthrough initiative. The Principles have brought considerable business attention to the issue of human rights and provided ways for businesses to begin to begin to be held accountable for egregious violations.…
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Business and Human Rights in the Metaverse
In the 1990s, author Neal Stephenson envisioned an immersive world that would be accessed by virtual reality goggles. He named the world the metaverse.…
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Conversations with Authors: Education or Indoctrination? The Violent Origins of Public School Systems in an Era of State-Building
The main goal of the paper is to explain the emergence and the expansion of public primary education systems.
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What Makes a Good Review
What makes a good review? Some advice to potential reviewers about what we hope your review will accomplish for our authors and for us.
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Conversations with Authors: Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion
In this “Conversation with Authors,” we spoke with APSR authors Florian Foos and Daniel Bischof about their article, “Tabloid Media Campaigns and Public Opinion: Quasi-Experimental Evidence on Euroscepticism in England.”…
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Five Changes I would like to see – in research
This blog post by Dr Tara Van Ho is the first in a series of blog pieces by describing a change or changes the writer would like to see in any part of the field of business and human rights. …
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Celebrating 1000 Elements: Elements in Law, Economics and Politics
We are grateful to you for sharing in our celebration of this Element series. Why write on this topic? Because we are excited about the series and what it represents to scholars.
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Internet Shutdowns in Asia: Locating the Right to the Internet a Human Right Under International Human Rights Law
On May 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) published a report which documented that the majority of the internet shutdown was reported in Asia. …
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NEW launch from Cambridge in 2023: Journal of Financial Literacy and Wellbeing
Cambridge University Press (CUP) is pleased to announce the launch of a new international gold open access journal, the Journal of Financial Literacy and Wellbeing.
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Russian Invasion of Ukraine is not an Exception or Rupture but a Continuity
The Russian invasion of Ukraine is in clear violation of the rules governing the use of force enshrined in the United Nations Charter.…
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The rocky road to vaccine equity? Big pharma vs the people
Big pharma companies have gone to extreme lengths to squeeze every last dollar out of the Covid-19 pandemic, regardless of the huge human cost.…
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NEW to Cambridge in 2023: The Economic and Labour Relations Review
Cambridge University Press is delighted to announce it will partner with the University of New South Wales, Australia (UNSW) to publish its journal The Economic and Labour Relations Review (the ELRR) from 2023.
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Will the UK break apart?
As the latest double issue of the National Institute Economic Review shows, devolution is often seen as the panacea for secession. But what economic and governance arrangements between Westminster and the UK’s constituent parts would renew the bonds binding Britain together?
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Transferring of the Ukrainian Children to Russia as Genocidal Act
Genocide is one of the most severe international crimes. The meaning of genocide and the acts that fall under it are defined in the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide or the Genocide Convention of 1948 and in Article 6 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.…
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Significance of travaux preparatoires in interpreting the New York Convention
Introduction: Since international law so often involves the application of treaties, the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (“VCLT”) serves as a key instrument governing this process.…
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Islam in Italy in the Age of Fear and Insecurity
Secularism as a principle and religious freedom as a fundamental right are qualifying elements of the modern concept of constitutional democracies: while putting emphasis on individual autonomy, habeas corpus and liberty of the one against the many, freedom of religion and secularism give special attention to religious groups.…
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The 10 most viewed BHRJ posts of 2022
As we enter 2023 here are the most read Business and Human Rights Journal blog posts of 2022: 10 Human Dignity abused is at Number 10 of our most viewed blogs.…
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