Navigating the Seas of Soft Law in the Implementation of the Law of the Sea Convention By Dita Liliansa* Published on 15 March 2023 This essay explores the role of regional soft law instruments in implementing the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) to protect endangered sea turtles and their habitats […]

Beyond a feminist approach to international law and diplomacy, reflections By Celine Lange Published on 8 March 2023 On 15 February 2023, the first Singapore Roundtable on Women Leaders in International Law and Diplomacy (‘Singapore Roundtable’) was held, gathering more than 80 law practitioners, members of the diplomatic corps and associations’ representatives. This event was […]

Might It Just Work? How To Interpret Customary International Law (Maybe) By Dr Massimo Lando Published on 6 March 2023 Green light, but only in principle The feasibility of interpreting customary international law has been a matter of much academic debate. Essentially, this debate concerns whether customary rules can be objects of interpretation, which is […]

A hollow—and slightly homophobic—victory for LGBTIQ+ rights? Fedotova and others v Russia By Professor Lucas Lixinski Published on 22 February 2023 The European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) Grand Chamber consolidated its jurisprudence on the legal recognition of same-sex relationships in Fedotova and others v Russia (Fedotova). In doing so, it advances a key cause […]

The Alibis of History, or How (not) to Do Things with Inter-temporality By Ntina Tzouvala* Published on 8 February 2023 Photo Credit Reconstruction of the Signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Marcus King, Archives New Zealand Efforts to confront the imperialist, colonial and racist foundations of contemporary wealth and prosperity in the capitalist West are […]

Concordance Legalization as an Alternative Regional Trading Arrangement to the EU and USMCA Models: ASEAN’s Intergovernmental yet Dynamically Expansive Way By Dr Tan Hsien-Li Published on 25 January 2023 This essay conceptualizes the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’ (ASEAN) integration model, which I term ‘Concordance Legalization’, in the regional trading arrangement landscape that holds two […]

The World Trade Organization Fisheries Subsidies Agreement: A Critical Assessment on the Impacts to Developing Fishing Nations and the Way Forward By Dr Trung Nguyen Published on 17 January 2023 The Fisheries Subsidies Agreement of the World Trade Organization (‘the Agreement’) was adopted at the 12th Ministerial Conference in June 2022 as part of the […]

What does the Indonesia–Vietnam EEZ Agreement mean for the region? By Aristyo Rizka Darmawan* Published on 12 January 2023 Introduction On the 23rd of December, during Vietnamese President Nguyen Xuan Phuc’s visit to Jakarta to meet President Joko Widodo, Indonesia and Vietnam finally signed an Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) delimitation agreement after 12 years of […]

Symposium: Human Rights Day 2022 Feature: Encouraging (and Personal) Counsel for Aspiring Human Rights Scholars and Practitioners in Asia Reflections for emerging scholars and practitioners working in human rights in Asia by Priya Gopalan Published on 16 December 2022 I am a Malaysian lawyer specialising in international criminal law, human rights law, and gender. Over […]

Symposium: Human Rights Day 2022 Feature: Encouraging (and Personal) Counsel for Aspiring Human Rights Scholars and Practitioners in Asia My work as a Member of the UN Human Rights Council Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances by Tae-Ung Baik Published on 13 December 2022 I just concluded my seven-year term as a member of […]

Symposium: Human Rights Day 2022 Feature: Encouraging (and Personal) Counsel for Aspiring Human Rights Scholars and Practitioners in Asia Some Reflections of Professor Surya P. Subedi KC Published on 9 December 2022 My mission in life has always been, and will remain, to promote fairness in international relations; to strengthen the rules-based international order; and […]

Symposium: The Theory, Practice and Interpretation of Customary International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Symposium Concluding Blog The Theory and Practice of Customary International Law: What’s Interpretation Got to Do with It? By Nina Mileva Published on 25 November 2022 In the introduction to this symposium, Kammerhofer and Merkouris end their post by reminding us that […]