American Journal of International Law

We are happy to announce that the July Issue of AJIL is now available online! It’s good to be back in print after our hiatus due to a serious cyber incident at CUP! https://lnkd.in/eaJwajCr #internationallaw #openaccess

AJIL Unbound's latest symposium "International Criminal Law's Critical Aftermaths: Abolitionism, Redistribution, and Transformational Pedagogies" is now available to read and features and incredible line-up of scholars. Click the link below to access the full symposium for free: https://lnkd.in/eAVDY4td #openaccess #internationalcriminallaw #internationallaw

Congratulations to AJIL's co-EIC Monica Hakimi on receiving this prestigious award! ??

ICYMI: You can watch the video of AJIL's most recent webinar "The International Regulation of Women in Sports" here: https://lnkd.in/gukPDubn

There's a brand new AJIL Unbound sympoisum available, featuring an extremely talented line-up discussing an important and timely topic. Click the link below to begin reading! https://lnkd.in/edjkPvQP

Thank you to our speakers Andrea Carska-Sheppard, Lena Holzer, and Michele Krech and our moderator Monica Hakimi for a really great discussion on the challenges faced by women in sports and how the int'l law community is responding to those challenges. We'll have the recording of the webinar available soon and will post a link when available. Thanks to everyone who joined us this morning!

Join us tomorrow!! We're looking forward to hearing from our knowledgable panel of speakers on this timely discussion on women in sports, wage equality, the recent US executive order "Keeping Men Out of Women's Sports," and more. Register here: https://lnkd.in/eThJkSu8

There's still plenty of time to register for Wednesday's webinar. Click the link below to sign up and join this timely and important discussion. https://lnkd.in/eThJkSu8

In August 2024, the Korean Constitutional Court unanimously decided that the adopted measures to reduce greenhouse gas emissions were insufficient and, therefore, violated the plaintiffs’ constitutional environmental rights. This decision is timely and meaningful, as it was the first high court ruling on climate change in both Korea and Asia and among the few such cases outside Western countries. See: https://lnkd.in/dfqrgU9r The documents of the proceeding, including an unofficial translation of the judgment, can be found via https://lnkd.in/dy28HF_F Many thanks to the American Journal of International Law, especially Professor Olabisi D. Akinkugbe, the editor of the International Decisions section, for considering publishing this article and Professor Monica Hakimi for providing constructive editorial comments.

?????? ***NEW PAPER KLAXON*** ?????? Do *you* spend a lot of time reading treaties? Do *you* find yourself wondering about when it's permissible to read an implied term into them? Or whether the law of treaties even *conceives* of an implied term? Having spent several cases banging my head against this particular interpretive wall, I'm very pleased to have now written on it at length (and open access!) in the American Journal of International Law. Here's the abstract: "Can treaty terms be implied? And, if so, what does that mean? This Article draws on concepts from the branch of linguistics known as pragmatics to analyze how the rules on treaty interpretation allow, in exceptional cases, for the identification of implied terms in otherwise express treaty texts. Its key insight is that implied terms fit within the framework of Articles 31 and 32 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties and are derived from the associated interpretation of express terms. They cannot be derived from a separate process—and indeed such a separate process is not possible under the positive law." Thanks are owed to Professor Eirik Bjorge, Dr Tariq Baloch, Dr Massimo Lando, Dr Manuel Casas and Hana Doumal ???? ????? for looking at earlier drafts, and helping me avoid egregious errors. Any that remain are my own. Many thanks to AJIL's co-editors, Professors Monica Hakimi and Ingrid Brunk, for shepherding me through the publication process, and to Erin Lovall for superlative copyediting.