The A38 Journal of International Law (ISSN 2277-9361) currently invites submissions for Volume I, Issue 2, which will be published in July, 2012. Call for submissions are invited from academicians, students, practitioners, researchers and experts from within the legal community. There is a strong preference for articles which are not descriptive, but instead assert and defend a well-reasoned position.
This Journal is a quarterly academic journal, published online, which seeks to offer an international forum for the publication of articles in the field of International Law.
Issue 2 will be devoted to the concept of “The Use of Force” in International Law.
Analytical pieces relating, though not limited to the following issues:
- If the prohibition on the use of force is a norm of jus cogens, why is it flouted all the time?
- Can economic blockades and coercion be “force” under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter?
- Can cyber attacks be construed as an act of use of force under Article 2(4) of the UN Charter?
- Is the thin red line between an armed attack and armed conflict fast dissolving?
- Is belligerent use of military force an aggressive war?
- Does necessity justify the use of force?
- Can diplomatic coercion be construed as an element of “force”?
- Can Humanitarian Intervention be an acceptable exception to the prohibition on the use of force?
- Revisiting self-defence: Who sets the ground rules, and who evaluates them?
- What are the differences between reprisals, retorsions, countermeasures and self-defence involving the use of force?
- Does waging proxy wars violate Article 2(4) of the UN Charter?
- Does the Responsibility to Protect justify the Use of Force?
- What is the relevance of the Nicaragua judgment today?
- How does terrorism fit into the prohibition against the use of force?
- Are Article 39 and Article 42 of the UN Charter a collective monopoly of power?
- What significance do ‘aggression’ and UNGA Resolution 3314 have vis-a-vis the concept of use of force?
- How does the use of force doctrine apply in areas beyond sovereign control, such as outer space and the High Seas?
- Is it time to Rethink Article 2(4) and Article 51 of the UN Charter?
The submission deadline for Issue 2 is May 31, 2012.
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