—James Fowkes, University of Münster Faculty of Law [Editor’s note: This is one of our biweekly I-CONnect columns. Columns, while scholarly in accordance with the tone

of the blog and about the same length as a normal blog post, are a bit more “op-ed” in nature than standard posts. [...]

A call for papers has been issued for the III LAwTTIP Joint Conference, which will be held March 21-22, 2019, in London. The theme is: "EU Law, Trade Agreements, and Dispute

Resolution Mechanisms: Contemporary Challenges." The call is here. [...]

The Codification Division of the UN Office of Legal Affairs recently added new lectures to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. They were given by Patrícia Galvão

Teles on “Obligations and Rights Erga Omnes in the case-law of the International Court of Justice” and Ki-Gab Park on “Lex Ferenda in International Law.” [...]

The Boundaries of Investment Arbitration analyses references to European human rights and WTO law in investor-state rulings, advances reasons for these resorts to “non-investment”

law, and puts these “boundary crossings” in broader context. It enumerates the legal gateways for these “public law” references and considers what engagement [...]

Over the years, the substantive content of international investment agreements (IIAs) has shifted to reflect political change and to respond to lessons learnt in investor-state

dispute settlement (ISDS). With a focus on eight IIAs, selected with a view to geographical representativeness, this think piece explores substantive standards in [...]

[Lieutenant Commander Yusuke Saito is a legal advisor in the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) and a military professor at Stockton Center of International Law, United

States Naval War College. The views expressed in this article are of the author alone and do not necessarily reflect the stance of the U.S. [...]

In a recent article published in AJIL, I tried to develop a coherent theory of the doctrine of specially-affected states, first articulated by the ICJ — and largely ignored

thereafter — in North Sea Continental Shelf. I concluded the article with a call to the Global South to invoke the doctrine more liberally in international litigation: [...]