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ACIL Newsletter October 2022
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Congratulations to Professor Yvonne Donders for her election to the United Nations Human Rights Committee, 2023-2026.
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Congratulations to Natasa Nedeski for receiving a KNAW Early Career Partnership. This will enable her to organize an interdisciplinary workshop on the topic ‘Translating climate science for international adjudication’.
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On 3 September, the 2022 ESIL Collaborative Book Prize was awarded to Helmut Philipp Aust and Janne E. Nijman for their book Research Handbook on International Law and Cities (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2021).
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ACIL welcomes new visiting
researchers:
Raghavi Viswanath
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Daniel Litwin
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New PhD researcher for International Criminal Law, Marta Pinto da Cruz

SGEL is hiring a Postdoc. Help spread the word!
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Events
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Translating Food Sovereignty: Rights, Regulation, and the Politics of Transnational Governance
SGEL, 15:30
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Research output
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SSRN publications
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Ducheine, P.A.L., Pijpers, Peter B.M.J. & Pouw, E.
Information Manoeuvre and the Netherlands Armed Forces: Legal Challenges Ahead

Kulamadayil, L.
Grand Theft in International Law

Petro-States’ Shaping of International Law

Placed in Between: The Natural Environment in International Law. A Review Essay of Sigrid Boysen‘s Die postkoloniale Konstellation: Natürliche Ressourcen und das Völkerrecht der Moderne (Mohr Siebeck, 2021)

Pijpers, Peter B.M.J.
Towards a Legal Framework for Influence Operations in Cyberspace

Pijpers, Peter B.M.J. & Hoyle, A.
Stemming the Narrative Flow: The Legal and Psychological Grounding for the European Union's Ban on Russian State-Sponsored Media

Venzke, I.
International Dispute Settlement During the Cold War

Foreword: Perspectives on the Principle of Equality

Venzke, I. & Gunther, P.
International Investment Protection Made in Germany? On the Domestic and Foreign Policy Dynamics Behind the First BITs
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Articles
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Cusato, E.
Of violence and (in)visibility: the securitisation of climate change in international law, London Review of International Law, 27 July

Donders, Y.
The Flexibility Device in the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights in: M. den Heijer and H. van der Wilt (eds.), Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2020, August, pp. 283-309 

Gill, T.D.
Rethinking the Scope of Application of International Humanitarian Law and Its Place in the International Legal System, in V. Koutroulis & T. Ruys (eds.) 60 The Military Law and Law of War Review, Edward Elgar Publishers (2022)

The Jus ad Bellum anno 2040: An Essay on Possible Trends and Challenges, in M. Waxman & T. Oakley (eds.) The Future Law of Armed Conflict, Lieber Studies vol. 7, OUP (2022)

Reconciling the Irreconcilable: Some Thoughts on Belligerent Equality in Non-International Armed Conflicts, Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2020, vol.51

The Jus ad Bellum and Russia’s “Special Military Operation” in Ukraine. Journal of International Peacekeeping, 25(2), 121-127. 

Oldfield, J.J.C.
Zoning Control: Revisiting the Brussels Conference Act of 1890 and Its Legacy into the Twentieth Century, African Journal of International and Comparative Law, Volume 30, Issue 3, August, 344.

Schill, S.
Scheu, J., Hofmann, R., Schill, S. & Tams, C. (eds), Investment Protection, Human Rights, and International Arbitration in Extraordinary Times (Nomos 2022) 435 pp. 

Terzieva, V.
State Immunity and Victims' Rights to Access to Court, Reparation, and the Truth, International Criminal Law Review, Vol. 22, No. 4 (2022) 

Venzke, I.
Völkerrechtlicher Investitionsschutz made in Germany? Zur Genese und Gestalt des ersten BIT zwischen Deutschland und Pakistan (1959) 82(1) Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (ZaöRV) (2022) 73-120 (together with P. Günther).

Venzke, I. & Vidigal, G.
Are Unilateral Trade Measures in the Climate Crisis the End of Differentiated Responsibilities? The Case of the EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, Netherlands Yearbook of International Law 2020, vol 51.

Vidigal, G.
Regional Trade Adjudication and the Rise of Sustainability Disputes: Korea—Labor Commitments and Ukraine—Wood Export Bans, 116(3) American Journal of International Law 567, 28 July

Vidigal, G. & Venzke, I.
Of False Conflicts and Real Challenges: Trade Agreements, Climate Clubs, and Border Adjustments, 116 AJIL Unbound 202, 18 July
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Books, Chapters & Book reviews
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Gill, T.D.
Book Review. R. Buchan & N. Tsagourias, Regulating the Use of Force in International Law: Stability and Change 88 British Yearbook of International Law, British Yearbook of International Law, OUP, 6 May

Lorenzo, J.A.P.
Book review. Lingliang Zeng, Contemporary International Law and China’s Peaceful Development, Asian Politics & Policy 290, 22 April

Nedeski, N.
Shared obligations in international law, Cambridge University Press, July 2022

Schill, S.
Landmark Cases on Fair and Equitable Treatment: Empowering and Controlling Arbitrators as Law-Makers' in Hélène Ruiz Fabri and Edoardo Stoppioni (eds), International Investment Law: An Analysis of the Major Decisions (Hard Publishing 2022) pp. 359-379 

Venzke, I.
Book Review. Sigrid Boysen. Die postkoloniale Konstellation: Natürliche Ressourcen und das Völkerrecht der Moderne,  European Journal of International Law (2022).

The Practice of Interpretation in International Law: Strategies of Critique, International Legal Theory: Foundations and Frontiers (Jeff Dunoff and Mark A. Pollack eds, Cambridge University Press 2022) 305-325.

Towards a New Enlightenment. The Case for Future-oriented Humanities (Bielefeld, Transcript 2022) (together with M. Gabriel, C. Horn, A. Katsman, W. Krull, A. Lippold, & C. Pelluchon), September 

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Presentations & Events
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Brölmann, C.M.
Chair. Panel on ‘Water, International Law and the role of the ‘Natural’ in ‘The Natural’ In International Law, ACIL, IHEID Geneva & The Asia School of Business, 8-9 September

Institutionalization and the disaggregation of consent, Conference Consenting to international law, Collège de France, Paris, 23 June

The Hope of Ages is in the Process of Realization - Establishing a World Court, 1920-1922, discussant, University of Glasgow and University of Nijmegen, 17-18 June

Human right to water and sanitation and contemporary interpretations in domestic case law, Presentation to SIMAVI (NGO), 20 September

Cusato, E.
The imbroglio of ecocide: a political economic critique (co-authored with Emily Jones), paper presented at the Graduate Institute, Geneva, Workshop ‘New directions in the theory and history of international law’, 2-3 June

Book launch: 'The Ecology of War and Peace. Marginalising Slow and Structural Violence in International Law.' 24 June

Participation to the roundtable ‘Critical and postcolonial perspectives on international environmental law, Global meeting of the Law and Society Association, 13-16 July

Convenor with K. Crow & L. Kulamadayil, The 'Natural' in International Law, 8-9 September

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In/exclusiveness of Diversity in International Law, ESIL Annual Conference 2022, Agora 3 Panel on International Law and Culture, Utrecht, 1 September
 
Who is the favorite child? Indivisibility and interdependence of all human rights, Are Economic, Social and Cultural Rights still/no longer the Stepchild of the Human Rights Family?, Maastricht University, 2 September

Gill, T.D.
Chair. Panel on Protecting Community Interests, 80th ILA Biennial conference, Lisbon, 23 June

Launch of Volume 23 Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law (2020) on Expert Manuals in International Humanitarian Law: Farewell of Terry Gill as Editor in Chief of the YIHL, Asser Institute, The Hague, 26 September

Lorenzo, J.A.P.
Accountability Mechanisms of Development Finance Institutions and the Law of International Responsibility, 11th Conference of the Postgraduate and Early Professionals/Academics of the Society of International Economic Law, University of Birmingham, 8-10 June

Schill, S.
Chair. Russian Agression on Ukraine from the International Economic Law Perspective, Warsaw School of Economics, University of Szeged and ELKH Center for Social Sciences, 14 July

Vasiliev, S.
Der Krieg in der Ukraine: Wo bleiben Menschen-rechte und Würde? Fünf Experten im Gepräch, Bozen, Italy, 6 May

Panel on Ukraine and International Law, The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, webinar, 17 May

IX District Juridical Congress, Ordine Degli Avvocati Di Rovereto, Riva del Garda, Italy, 22-24 September

Vidigal, G.
Towards a Multilateral Climate Club?’, in Conference Remaking the Global Trading System for a Sustainable Future, 21 September, Talloires, France.

‘Including Non-Producer Interests in International Economic Law? Civil Society, Competing Industries, and the Enforcement of Sustainability Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements’, Conference ‘The Public-Private Challenge: Innovating Legal and Regulatory Paradigms’, 22 & 23 September, Rotterdam, Netherlands.

‘Beyond TRIPS and Waivers: The Interactional Law of Intellectual Property Rights and Public Health’ (with Pramiti Parwani), at American Society of International Law – International Economic Law Interest Group Biennial Conference, 24 September, Texas, United States.

‘CBAM and Climate Clubs’, in Panel ‘Recent Trends in Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanisms: Technical, Legal, Trade and Economic Policy Considerations from the Perspective of Emerging Economies’, WTO Public Forum 2022, 27 September, Geneva, Switzerland
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Op-Eds
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den Heijer, M.
Why EU Countries Should Open Their Borders to Russian Draft-Evaders, VerfBlog, 26 September

Nijman, J.
LHBTQI- en reproductieve rechten zijn geen culturele keuzes, NRC Handelsblad, 1 August

Vasiliev, S.

The Reckoning for War Crimes in Ukraine Has Begun, Foreign Policy, 17 June

Opinie: Solidariteit met Oekraïense studenten in Nederland moet verder gaan dan mooie woorden, Volkskrant (met V. de Graaf et al) 6 May
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Members in the Media
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Brölmann, C.M.
Interview ‘Internationaal Recht’ in 2022 Maatschappij & Politiek no. 3, p 12-14, with M de Hoon en I Pertijs.

Radio Interview Rusland geschorst als lid van VN mensenrechtenraad (VRT) 7 April

Donders, Y.
Yvonne Donders over haar verkiezing in het mensenrechtencomité van de VN, Mr. van de week, 28 June

Kjos, H.E.
The Ukraine Crisis and International Law, 9jaRadioNL via mArt - Multikleurrijke Amsterdamse Radio en Televisie, 8 April

Schill, S.
Payback time: The West studies how to make Russia foot the war bill, Politico, 12 April

Pluk de Russen kaal om de wederopbouw in Oekraïne te betalen, klinkt steeds vaker in de EU, NRC, 9 May

Vasiliev, S.
Ukraine: What to make of Russia's copycat justice?, JusticeInfo, 22 August

Het recht als wapen, De Groene, 3 August

Selv om Ukraine lykkes med at retsforfølge enkelte soldater, har det store retsopgør lange udsigter, Dagbladet Information, 25 July 

War in Ukraine, BBC World News, 18 May 2022

Eerste zaak tegen Russische soldaat in Oekraïne is 'laaghangend fruit', RTL Nieuws, 18 May

Ukraine begins war crime first trial against Russian soldier, Radio the World, 5 May

Venzke, I.
The ICJ: More than a dispute settlement body?, Hague Courts Dialogue Series, August

Mit CO2-Zertifikat das Klima schonen? Der große Ausgleichsschwindel beim Fliegen (Protecting the Climate with CO2-certificates?), Der Tagesspiegel, 30 July

Ingo Venzke on International Law and Semantic Authority, Borderline Jurisprudence, Episode 12, November

Vidigal, G.
National Confederation of Industry criticizes unilateralism of carbon tax at WTO, Valor, 29 September
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