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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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Symposium: The Theory, Practice and Interpretation of Customary International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Methodologies for the identification of customary international law from the perspective of a government legal advisor By Kristi How Published on 23 November 2022 In this short blog post, I aim to provide my views on the methodologies for the identification of …

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Symposium: The Theory, Practice and Interpretation of Customary International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Between theory, practice, and ‘interpretation’ of customary international law by Michael Wood and Omri Sender Published on November 2022 Customary international law remains a principal source of international law, and it comes therefore as no surprise that it continues to capture the …

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Symposium: The Theory, Practice and Interpretation of Customary International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Conceptual and Practical Problems in the Change or Termination of Rules of Customary International Law by Alvin Yap Published on 18 November 2022 Once in existence, how do rules of customary international law change or terminate? This topic was intentionally not dealt …

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Symposium: The Theory, Practice and Interpretation of Customary International Law (Cambridge University Press, 2022) Treaties and Determination of Customary International Law by Courts and Tribunals: Are There Limits to the Use of Methodological Shortcuts? by Xuexia Liao (Peking University Law School) Published on 16 November 2022 The significance of treaties for the identification of customary …

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