Leiden Journal of International Law

Papers
(The median citation count of Leiden Journal of International Law is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
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LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Front matter52
Recent developments in reliance upon third-party fact-finding at the International Court of Justice31
The third wave of critical minerals25
China in the UNCLOS and BBNJ negotiations, yesterday once more?25
Legal measures to preserve lunar security and safety in the context of China–US competition to the Moon: An appraisal from China’s perspective12
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Back matter12
Jens Steffek, International Organizations as Technocratic Utopia, Oxford University Press, 2021, ISBN 9780192845573, 256pp, $10012
Judicial Dissent at the International Criminal Court: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis11
The Hawija airstrike: Reverberating effects on civilians under international humanitarian law10
Eradicating the exceptional: The role of territory in structuring international legal thought10
The ‘imbroglio’ of ecocide: A political economic analysis9
From soft law to hard law in business and human rights and the challenge of corporate power9
On consular internationalism9
On the punitive nature of ICC reparations orders9
Climate tipping points: Tracing the limits of political discretion9
National climate litigation and the international rule of law8
Revisiting Jessup and the imperial origins of transnational law8
Mapping representation before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea8
Subsidiarity does not win cases: A mixed methods study of the relationship between margin of appreciation language and deference at the European Court of Human Rights8
State responsibility in relation to military applications of artificial intelligence7
Digital evidence and fair trial rights at the International Criminal Court7
Entangled harms: A reparative approach to climate justice7
Francisco de Paula Santander and Haiti, 1824–5: Non-solidarity, neocolonialism, and the Haitian Revolution in the origins of Latin American international law7
LJL volume 37 issue 1 Cover and Front matter6
The effects of international judges’ personal characteristics on their judging6
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Ukri Soirila, The Law of Humanity Project A Story of International Law Reform and State-making, Hart, 2021, 208pp, £80.006
Seventeen men at Lake Success: In search of the International Law Commission5
Fela Aníkúlápó Kútì’s ‘cross-examination’ of the international system5
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America – ERRATUM5
Gaza Marine: The facts and the law – ADDENDUM5
LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Back matter5
LJL volume 35 issue 3 Cover and Front matter5
Toward a new field of comparative regional human rights systems5
What we talk about when we talk about ‘human shields’: Reading international law through images4
The powers of silence: Making sense of the non-definition of gender in international criminal law4
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Dislodging the compulsory dispute settlement mechanism: Analysis of Article 281 of UNCLOS4
In what sense are international organizations ‘public’? A plea for an international public law of organization4
Victim assistance under the Rome Statute: Approach and effectiveness of the Trust Fund for Victims assistance activities4
Andrew Clapham, War, Oxford University Press, 2021, 624pp, £29.99 (pb)4
The formative international law studies of Judge Shi Jiuyong3
Ian Johnstone and Steven Ratner (eds.), Talking International Law: Legal Argumentation Outside the Courtroom, Oxford University Press, 2021, 368pp, £80.003
Seeing Santurbán through ISDS: A sociolegal case study of Eco Oro v. Colombia3
LJL volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
Reconsidering ‘Sook Ching’ victimhood: A microhistory of Singapore’s Nishimura trial3
To divide or not to divide: Innovations on liability for reparations in the Ntaganda case3
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The concept of sustainable development in investment arbitration: A disconnect from investment policymaking and international adjudication3
The fragmentation of international investment and tax dispute settlement: A good idea?3
Customary international law: Formation, identification, and narrative construction3
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Prometheus caged: The exiling of Napoleon and the Law of Nations, 1814–18213
Mandatory human rights due diligence laws in Europe: A mirage for rightsholders?3
Reflections on our article ‘Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field’3
Andrew Fitzmaurice, King Leopold’s Ghostwriter: The Creation of Persons and States in the Nineteenth Century, Princeton University Press, 2021, 592pp, ISBN: 9780691148694, $39.952
Deciphering l’esprit d’internationalité: The 1872 Alabama arbitration and the pacifist antithesis of modern international law profession2
The two faces of Franco-Sudanian Treaties: The peripheral practice of ratification as evidence of transregional international law in the nineteenth century2
Regionalism as development: The Lomé Conventions I and II (1975–1985)2
Beyond the machinery metaphors: Towards a theory of international organizations as machines2
Marine genetic resources, who owns and who owes what? A Hohfeldian mapping of legal positions on MGRs2
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Developments in Canada on business and human rights: One step forward two steps back2
Legal challenges of attributing malicious cyber activities against space activities2
Self-judgment in international law: Between judicialization and pushback2
The (un)changing face of ICJ advocacy2
Beyond rhetoric: Interrogating the Eurocentric critique of international criminal law’s selectivity in the wake of the 2022 Ukraine invasion2
The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: From governance gaps to root causes2
Lessons to learn? Using the Inter-American Court of Human Rights’ jurisprudence on amnesties and pardons in the context of the Russo-Ukrainian War2
An International Ombudsman to make non-governmental organizations more accountable? Too good to be true …2
Collateral kids: Weighing the lives of children in targeting2
Dokhtaran -e- khiyaban -e- Enghelab [The Girls of Revolution Street]2
Legal status of abiotic resources in outer space: Appropriability, ownership, and access2
International law and time between three paradigms2
Processing state’s regulatory responsibility for seafood legality: An age-long vacuum in international law?2
LJL volume 36 issue 3 Cover and Back matter2
The armed conflict in Gaza, and its complexity under international law: Jus ad bellum, jus in bello, and international justice2
Patryk I. Labuda, International Criminal Tribunals and Domestic Accountability: In the Court’s Shadow, Oxford University Press, 20231
A critical analysis of the work of the ILC on ‘State Succession in Matters of State Responsibility’: A missed opportunity1
From international to imperial: The Indian princely states, international law, and the ends of empire in South Asia1
International law-making and the Geneva Declaration on Human Rights at Sea1
Responses of international legal academia to the Russian invasion of Ukraine1
Repaired but poor victims? The post-conflict encounter with transitional justice and the remaking of the field1
Regulating carbon emissions from international aviation through air services agreements: Lessons from aviation safety enforcement1
Against impact1
Imperialism through adjudication in Latin America1
LJL volume 36 issue 1 Cover and Back matter1
The ECtHR’s suitability test in national security cases: Two models for balancing human rights and national security1
Living with impunity versus living in fear: Universal jurisdiction defendants, due process, and the use of democracies by autocracies to prosecute their opponents1
LJL volume 37 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Gravity of the crime and early release: A comparative study of early release practices in international tribunals1
Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field – EXPRESSION OF CONCERN1
The challenge of phasing out fossil fuels for highly fossil fuel-dependent countries in international law1
LJL volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Back matter1
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LJL volume 37 issue 3 Cover and Front matter1
Climate-related vulnerabilities and the European Court of Human Rights: Reimagining victim status through intersectional thinking1
Kent Roach , Remedies for Human Rights Violations – A Two Track Approach to Supra-National and National Law, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 632 pp., ISBN 978-1-108-41787-7, £99.991
In search of well-crafted amnesties: The emergence of a new jurisprudence on amnesty1
The demographics of victim participation at the International Criminal Court1
The indictments against Adolf Hitler, their endorsement by the UNWCC, the IMT judgment and a twenty-first century immunity myth1
All those goings without you1
Judge Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade: An unwavering quest for international justice and for the universalization and humanization of international law1
Fin de siècle international law1
Inside the treaty interpreter’s mind: An experimental linguistic approach to international law1
Sinja Graf , The Humanity of Universal Crime. Inclusion, Inequality, and Intervention in International Political Thought, Oxford University Press, 2021, 256pp, £47.991
International law: A discipline of ambition1
LJL volume 36 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
From migration crisis to migrants’ rights crisis: The centrality of sovereignty in the EU approach to the protection of migrants’ rights1
LJL volume 37 issue 2 Cover and Back matter1
Prolonged occupation of Palestine by Israel: A violation of occupation law or an abuse of it?1
Tom Ginsburg, Democracies and International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2021, 329pp, £29.99 (hb) doi: 10.1017/97811089148711
Going Open Access1
International courts and sovereignty politics: Design, shielding, and reprisal at the African Court1
Pricing and distribution in global value chain regulation1
Caroline E. Foster, Global Regulatory Standards in Environmental and Health Disputes: Regulatory Coherence, Due Regard, and Due Diligence, Oxford University Press, 20211
Logistics as jurisdiction: International development, the energy transition and legal ordering through supply chains0
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Mind the gap: The determination, legality and consequences of implicit threats of force0
Conferences of the Parties beyond international environmental law: How COPs influence the content and implementation of their parent treaties0
The global distribution of COVID-19 vaccines by the public-private partnership COVAX from a public-law perspective0
Emancipating human rights: Capitalism and the common good0
Russia’s expulsion: The Council of Europe as the guardian of European imperialism0
States as bystanders of legal change: Alternative paths for the human rights to water and sanitation in international law0
Characterization of the violence between Türkiye and the PKK0
Killing it softly? The effect of common values of the international community on the role of consent in questions of jurisdiction0
Mapping interpretation by the International Criminal Court0
A game of cat and mouse: Human rights protection and the problem of corporate law and power0
Policies on foreign investment in National Action Plans on BHR: Transformative change or reproduction?0
Yuji Iwasawa, Domestic Application of International Law: Focusing on Direct Applicability, Brill | Nijhoff, 2022, 314 pp, ISBN 9789004509863 – CORRIGENDUM0
No one is coming to save you — A quest for Africanizing Business and Human Rights0
Wilhelmstraße 92, 10117 Berlin: German Memory Culture in the Heart of Empire0
The Paris Agreement’s temperature goal: An obligation of due diligence to protect the 1.5°C threshold0
Human dignity at crossroads: Navigating Eurocentrism in Sharia punishments in Prosecutor v. Al Hassan0
Global (re-)framing of cybercrime: An emerging common interest in flux of competing normative powers?0
The ambiguity of colonial international law: Three approaches to the Namibian Genocide0
The 2003 Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention in Armed Conflict: An integrated reading of obligations towards culture in conflict0
Election hacking, the rule of sovereignty, and deductive reasoning in customary international law0
The dark legacy of Nuremberg: Inhumane air warfare, judicial desuetudo and the demise of the principle of distinction in International Humanitarian Law0
Social memory and the impact of commemorative remedies ordered by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights0
The legacy of Antônio Augusto Cançado Trindade to contemporary international law0
The exclusive making of space law0
Competing interpretations of international law: Law and politics in the war crimes trials of Nationalist China, 1946–19490
Between mother and father: Gender in personal narratives of children born of war in the context of international criminal justice0
Protection of LGBTQIA+ rights in armed conflict: How (and whether) to ‘queer’ the crime against humanity of persecution in international criminal law?0
Chagos in the South Pacific? The principle of self-determination and the France-Vanuatu dispute over the Matthew and Hunter Islands0
Delimitation methodology for the continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles: Three-stage approach as a way forward?0
Conceptualizing legal change as ‘norm-knitting’ through the example of the environmental human right0
The chivalric pursuit of coherence in international law0
International treaty law and contested statehood: Managing bilateral relations in multilateral treaties0
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Weaponizing rescue: Law and the materiality of migration management in the Aegean0
Treaty amendment procedures: A typology from a survey of multilateral environmental agreements0
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International order and racial capitalism: The standardization of ‘free labour’ exploitation in international law0
Rethinking international law along with Amazonian ontologies: problematizing human-non-human divisions0
Self-determination in territorial disputes before the International Court of Justice: From rhetoric to reality?0
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A coherence framework for fact-finding before the International Court of Justice0
The Committee on the Rights of the Child and Article 12: Applying the Lundy model to treaty body recommendations0
Seeking victim-centred accountability for violence against persons with disabilities at the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry for Ukraine0
Exploiting the deep seabed for the benefit of humankind: A universal ideology for sustainable resource development or a false necessity?0
International human rights law’s complicity in status subordination: A postcolonial critique of treaty bodies’ engagement with human trafficking – CORRIGENDUM0
The Polar Silk Road and the future governance of the Northern Sea Route0
Lobbying, civil society organizations, and the international law of tobacco control0
Addressing issues and concerns raised by the publication of the ‘Gaza Marine article’0
Challenging punishment as the justice norm in the face of ongoing atrocities0
Extending universal jurisdiction to the crime of aggression: An empirical-legal analysis of the status of customary international law0
Does international law prohibit the facilitation of money laundering?0
Gender at the LJIL0
Living up to obligations through the International Red Cross? A critique of states’ attempts to shift obligations when addressing missing persons0
Jean d’Aspremont , The Epistemology of the Secret: International Law as Revelation, Cambridge University Press, 2025.0
From treaty to custom: Shifting paths in the recent development of international humanitarian law0
Navigating transformations: Climate change and international law0
Sisyphus in robes: International law, legal interpretation and the absurd0
LJL volume 35 issue 4 Cover and Back matter0
The choice before us: International law or a ‘rules-based international order’?0
Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field – CORRIGENDUM0
General and particular regimes of international law on investment and investor-State dispute settlement: Interacting regimes in quest of their identities0
International sports federations as de facto lawmakers: Queer-feminist explorations of the gendered power of sports law0
The social field of international adjudication: Structures and practices of a conflictive professional universe0
The population growth discourse in the first decades of the United Nations: Interpretations of global economic inequality and the struggles for a just international legal order0
Gaza Marine: The facts and the law0
Trade-related environmental leverage and its limits: Is the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism incompatible with common but differentiated responsibilities and respective capabilities?0
You were bombed and now you have to pay for it: Questioning the positive obligations in the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons0
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Caste discrimination, international human rights, and Hinduism0
Digital industrial policy through data security? – China’s approach and security exceptions under trade agreements0
At war? Party status and the war in Ukraine0
In praise of multiplicity: Suspending the desire to change the world0
Closing cases with open-source: Facilitating the use of user-generated open-source evidence in international criminal investigations through the creation of a standing investigative mechanism0
On reading travaux: Factors to consider when interpreting a treaty’s preparatory work0
Self-defence in outer space: Anti-satellite weapons and the jus ad bellum0
‘A Plea of Humanity to Law’: In Memoriam for Benjamin Berell Ferencz (1920–2023)0
Reproductive violence against child soldiers0
The Law and Political Economy of Business and Human Rights: A turn to root causes? An Introduction to the Symposium0
In search of Paulus Vladimiri: Canon, reception, and the (in)conceivability of an Eastern European ‘founding father’ of international law0
Ableism in the college of international lawyers: On disabling differences in the professional field0
Postwar development of offshore energy resources: Legal and political models for developing the Gaza Marine gas field0
Kai Ambos (ed.), Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court: Article-by-Article Commentary, Beck, Hart, and Nomos, 4th ed., 2022, 3,064 pp., ISBN 9781509944057, £4750
In the name of nature: Making the League of Nations, the International Rights of Nature Tribunal and international law0
LJL volume 36 issue 2 Cover and Back matter0
International law in the minds: On the ideational basis of the making, the changing, and the unmaking of international law0
The phantom menace: Effects and legitimacy of informal international instruments0
Between ideology, strategy, and diplomacy: The political economy of Yugoslavia’s investment treaties0
Arrested norm development: The failure of legislative-judicial dialogue in the WTO0
The ‘ideal victim’: A cage for victims’ narratives at the International Criminal Court0
A peopled Peace Palace0
Hayek’s dream: International investment law and the denigration of politics0
Between commodification and data protection: Regulatory models governing cross-border information transfers in regional trade agreements0
The situated and bounded rationality of international courts: A structuralist approach to international adjudicative practices0
From Business and Human Rights to entangled accumulation: Making sense of violence along global value chains0
Unwholesome marriages and diamond drills: The making of the UN Marriage Convention (1962)0
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Gender and the international judge: Towards a transformative equality approach0
Under the shadow of legality: A shadow hauntology on the legal construction of the Women, Peace and Security agenda0
BinaryTech in motion: The sexgender in the European Court of Human Rights jurisprudence0
Chien-Huei Wu, Law and Politics on Export Restrictions: WTO and Beyond, Cambridge University Press, 2021, ISBN 9781108953566 (e-pub), doi:10.1017/97811089535660
Unwritten European rules in international law: From Eurocentric to regional international law?0
Legal technologies: Conceptualizing the legacy of the 1923 Hague Rules of Aerial Warfare0
The 2022 Russian intervention in Ukraine: What is its impact on the interpretation of jus contra bellum?0
Post-jurisdiction (The erosion of jurisdiction doctrine)0
The fight for humane war0
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Leaning from the steep slope: On coherence in response to Professor Jean d’Aspremont0
The settlement of tax disputes by the International Court of Justice0
(Il)legitimacy of international intellectual property regime?0
Erin Pobjie, Prohibited Force: The Meaning of ‘Use of Force’ in International Law, Cambridge University Press, 2024, Online ISBN: 97810090228970
Global norms, organizational action: Leveraging international children’s rights law to advance child safeguarding0
International legal scholarship and the making of a ‘scientific self’0
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Seizing stateless smuggling vessels on the Mediterranean High Seas0
Remembering Judge Cançado Trindade’s voice, faith, and integrity0
Beyond the res judicata doctrine: The nomomechanics of ICJ interpretation judgments0
The relevance of the African regional human rights system in the urban age0
International human rights law’s complicity in status subordination: A postcolonial critique of treaty bodies’ engagement with human trafficking0
In someone else’s words: Judicial borrowing and the semantic authority of the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights0
The French Bataclan Trial as a judicial experiment: What lessons for the prosecution of mass crimes?0
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Science, epistemology and legitimacy in environmental disputes – The epistemically legitimate judicial argumentative space0
Global south perspectives on methodology and critique in international law0
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Yuji Iwasawa, Domestic Application of International Law: Focusing on Direct Applicability, Brill | Nijhoff, 2022, 314 pp, ISBN 9789004509863*0
Avoiding the semantic conundrum of the Race Convention through the forms of racial discrimination0
Coming to terms with the SDGs: A perspective from legal scholarship0
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