{"title":"Editorial: Israel: Cry, the Beloved Country; Vital Statistics; Book Review EditorS; In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chad013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45535501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
The 17th ESIL Annual Conference, in Utrecht, was the first conference after the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to be held in full capacity. It was a pleasure to see so many colleagues all together in one room. The conference attracted more than 400 participants from various parts of the world. As local organizers, we are very grateful to all of them for their interest and participation. The Covid-19 pandemic and related uncertainties had a major influence on the organization of this event. Only a few months earlier, it was still forbidden to organize large events in the Netherlands. Thus, we had to improvise and adapt to ever-changing circumstances. Some participants had to cancel their trips because of re-instated travel restrictions. Sponsors were doubtful about the turnout of the event and less keen to support us. We are sorry for any inconvenience that the various changes of plans and of circumstances caused for the participants.
{"title":"The In/Ex-clusiveness of International Law: Some Remarks on the 17th Annual Conference of the European Society of International Law by the Local Organizers","authors":"Seline Trevisanut, Machiko Kanetake, Cedric Ryngaert","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chad015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad015","url":null,"abstract":"The 17th ESIL Annual Conference, in Utrecht, was the first conference after the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to be held in full capacity. It was a pleasure to see so many colleagues all together in one room. The conference attracted more than 400 participants from various parts of the world. As local organizers, we are very grateful to all of them for their interest and participation. The Covid-19 pandemic and related uncertainties had a major influence on the organization of this event. Only a few months earlier, it was still forbidden to organize large events in the Netherlands. Thus, we had to improvise and adapt to ever-changing circumstances. Some participants had to cancel their trips because of re-instated travel restrictions. Sponsors were doubtful about the turnout of the event and less keen to support us. We are sorry for any inconvenience that the various changes of plans and of circumstances caused for the participants.","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":"100 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"EJIL Roll of Honour; 2022 EJIL Peer Reviewer Prize; Desk Rejections; 10 Good Reads 2022; In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chac075","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chac075","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43994499","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article offers the first comprehensive mapping of the place of international human rights law (IHRL) in Israeli case law. It explores how Israeli courts use IHRL, based on quantitative and qualitative content analysis of all decisions, in all courts, referring to IHRL between 1990 and 2019. It reveals that Israeli courts mobilize IHRL predominantly with respect to children’s rights and due process, seldom invoking IHRL in relation to ethnic and gender equality. It further shows that a significant portion of references to IHRL serve to justify state action. We discuss possible explanations for these patterns of use of IHRL and argue that, overall, these findings illustrate the paradox of IHRL being amenable to uses that are both emancipatory and protective of power.
{"title":"Israeli Courts and the Paradox of International Human Rights Law","authors":"N. R. Davidson, Tamar Hostovsky Brandes","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chac070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chac070","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article offers the first comprehensive mapping of the place of international human rights law (IHRL) in Israeli case law. It explores how Israeli courts use IHRL, based on quantitative and qualitative content analysis of all decisions, in all courts, referring to IHRL between 1990 and 2019. It reveals that Israeli courts mobilize IHRL predominantly with respect to children’s rights and due process, seldom invoking IHRL in relation to ethnic and gender equality. It further shows that a significant portion of references to IHRL serve to justify state action. We discuss possible explanations for these patterns of use of IHRL and argue that, overall, these findings illustrate the paradox of IHRL being amenable to uses that are both emancipatory and protective of power.","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49149977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract Discourses of fear on climate change are pervasive. International human rights law frequently refers to climate change as one of the most serious threats to human rights, and this language of threat reveals a discourse of fear. Fearful representations of climate change are justified by scientific data and can be effective in drawing attention to the issue and incentivizing necessary action. However, psychologists and communications experts have demonstrated that fear can also lead to disengagement, ‘climate change fatigue’ and active opposition to climate change policies. By invoking a discourse of fear on climate change, human rights actors are not only reflecting accurate climate science but also engaging in emotional rhetoric. The discourse of fear that presents climate change itself as the main threat to human rights, moreover, contributes to framing climate change primarily as a physical and scientific problem and obscures other important dimensions of climate change. Those individuals engaging with international human rights law must acknowledge the rhetorical and emotive power of the language they speak and engage more seriously with the literature on discourses of fear and their effects on a broad general audience. Only then can we truly work towards effective action on climate change, supported by international law.
{"title":"Discourses of Fear on Climate Change in International Human Rights Law","authors":"Anne Saab","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chad002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad002","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Discourses of fear on climate change are pervasive. International human rights law frequently refers to climate change as one of the most serious threats to human rights, and this language of threat reveals a discourse of fear. Fearful representations of climate change are justified by scientific data and can be effective in drawing attention to the issue and incentivizing necessary action. However, psychologists and communications experts have demonstrated that fear can also lead to disengagement, ‘climate change fatigue’ and active opposition to climate change policies. By invoking a discourse of fear on climate change, human rights actors are not only reflecting accurate climate science but also engaging in emotional rhetoric. The discourse of fear that presents climate change itself as the main threat to human rights, moreover, contributes to framing climate change primarily as a physical and scientific problem and obscures other important dimensions of climate change. Those individuals engaging with international human rights law must acknowledge the rhetorical and emotive power of the language they speak and engage more seriously with the literature on discourses of fear and their effects on a broad general audience. Only then can we truly work towards effective action on climate change, supported by international law.","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":"335 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134976726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Last Page","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chad009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135146241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Roaming Charges Places with a Soul: Fashion on a Wall","authors":"","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chad006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chad006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44261737","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract After a tumultuous inception and drawn-out in absentia trial, the Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon finally handed down its key judgment in August 2020. This article offers a critical appraisal of the tribunal and the decision, first, by situating the finding within Lebanon’s political context and, second, by adopting a close narrative reading of the text itself. It argues that the judgment is structured around a series of presences and absences that build the Chamber’s narrative about post-civil war Lebanon and its need for justice. The article suggests that, while the Chamber succeeds in convicting one of the co-accused for his role in the terrorist conspiracy to assassinate Rafiq Hariri, it fails to produce a convincing narrative about the role of international criminal justice in the fractured polity of modern Lebanon.
{"title":"Time for Justice? Reflections on Narrative Absences and Presences in the Special Tribunal for Lebanon’s <i>Ayyash</i> Decision","authors":"Michelle Burgis-Kasthala","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chac067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chac067","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract After a tumultuous inception and drawn-out in absentia trial, the Trial Chamber of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon finally handed down its key judgment in August 2020. This article offers a critical appraisal of the tribunal and the decision, first, by situating the finding within Lebanon’s political context and, second, by adopting a close narrative reading of the text itself. It argues that the judgment is structured around a series of presences and absences that build the Chamber’s narrative about post-civil war Lebanon and its need for justice. The article suggests that, while the Chamber succeeds in convicting one of the co-accused for his role in the terrorist conspiracy to assassinate Rafiq Hariri, it fails to produce a convincing narrative about the role of international criminal justice in the fractured polity of modern Lebanon.","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135490800","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Future generations are invoked in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and increasingly often in climate debate, as a locus of responsibility for present generations. In this article, I argue against this framing. I look at the historical context and rhetorical effects of a generational frame for both present and future generations, dwelling in particular on guiding conceptions of sacrifice and legacy as well as on the construction of future scenarios and the practice of future discounting. I conclude that the appeal to future generations obfuscates, rendering a series of critical boundaries diffuse, and, in doing so, abjures concrete urgent existing responsibilities towards those alive today in the same gesture that nominally assumes them for an abstract unformed future.
{"title":"Against Future Generations","authors":"S. Humphreys","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chac068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chac068","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Future generations are invoked in the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and increasingly often in climate debate, as a locus of responsibility for present generations. In this article, I argue against this framing. I look at the historical context and rhetorical effects of a generational frame for both present and future generations, dwelling in particular on guiding conceptions of sacrifice and legacy as well as on the construction of future scenarios and the practice of future discounting. I conclude that the appeal to future generations obfuscates, rendering a series of critical boundaries diffuse, and, in doing so, abjures concrete urgent existing responsibilities towards those alive today in the same gesture that nominally assumes them for an abstract unformed future.","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42138030","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This review essay explores the distinction that judges and scholars have occasionally made between legal norms that they consider to be procedural and those considered to be substantive in nature. Approaching the issue from different angles, the three books under review all struggle to define procedure and substance as concepts informing a decontextualized distinction among international norms. Overall, they fail to show how this distinction is useful, either to understand what the law is or to account for its evolution. The essay argues that the concepts of ‘procedure’ and ‘substance’ hinder the clarity and, often, the soundness of the analysis presented in these books. At times, this ineffective conceptualization is an intellectual detour that hinders the development of more useful distinctions – for instance, between ‘principal’ and ‘accessory’ obligations, to determine when the breach of an obligation implies the breach of another obligation. Through this case study focused on recent publications on the distinction between procedure and substance, this essay reflects on the capacity of ineffective concepts to hinder the analysis of international law when their relevance and usefulness is too readily taken for granted.
{"title":"The Pitfalls of Ineffective Conceptualization: The Case of the Distinction between Procedure and Substance","authors":"B. Mayer","doi":"10.1093/ejil/chac073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chac073","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This review essay explores the distinction that judges and scholars have occasionally made between legal norms that they consider to be procedural and those considered to be substantive in nature. Approaching the issue from different angles, the three books under review all struggle to define procedure and substance as concepts informing a decontextualized distinction among international norms. Overall, they fail to show how this distinction is useful, either to understand what the law is or to account for its evolution. The essay argues that the concepts of ‘procedure’ and ‘substance’ hinder the clarity and, often, the soundness of the analysis presented in these books. At times, this ineffective conceptualization is an intellectual detour that hinders the development of more useful distinctions – for instance, between ‘principal’ and ‘accessory’ obligations, to determine when the breach of an obligation implies the breach of another obligation. Through this case study focused on recent publications on the distinction between procedure and substance, this essay reflects on the capacity of ineffective concepts to hinder the analysis of international law when their relevance and usefulness is too readily taken for granted.","PeriodicalId":47727,"journal":{"name":"European Journal of International Law","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.2,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49187113","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}