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As part of the 2022 ASIL Annual Meeting, on Thursday, April 7, 2022 at 9:00 a.m., the ASIL Dispute Resolution Interest Group (DRIG) hosted a works-in-progress workshop titled "Meet the [...]

INTRODUCTION Over the past years, scholarly debates in international environmental law (IEL) have been animated by lively discussions on the overarching structure, normative architecture, and future orientation of the field [...], This article provides ethnographic insights into the making of the latest UN-backed instrument for transnational environmental law and governance: the Global Pact for the Environment (GPE). It narrates the rise and fall of a contemporary policy project designed to unify and strengthen international environmental law. The story starts in 2015 on the premises of a Parisian legal think tank and ends in May 2019 at the headquarters of the United Nations Environment Programme in Nairobi, where states ultimately decided not to adopt the GPE as a legally binding instrument but opted to prepare a political declaration to be presented in 2022 at the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the UN Conference on the Human Environment. The time between 2015 and 2019 is divided in two periods. From 2015 to 2017, the GPE was imagined, drafted, and promoted by a group of non-state actors mainly constituted by legal academics. From 2017 to 2019, the GPE was introduced in the UN machinery and turned into a state-oriented policy process. Based on original interview material and an unexplored archive of primary sources, the article traces the multiplicity of actants enrolled in the GPE, the interests that held them together, and the institutional ties they built for the project to materialize. It draws on actor-network theory's model of translation--through problematization, interessement, enrolment, and mobilization--to reassemble the bonds between human and nonhuman actants in the making of the "global," the "pact," and the "environment." The account sheds light on the informal processes and the relational and agential dynamics at play in this laboratory of transnational environmental lawmaking, thereby illuminating and questioning the politics of policy-entrepreneurship and consensus-building--the tenuous and fragile modes of existence that mark contemporary international law.

I. Introduction: Antarctic Geopolitics Over the last 60 years, the scope of international governance of Antarctica has steadily expanded in scope. In 1959, during the geopolitical tension of the early [...]

ON 7 JULY 2017, 122 STATES ADOPTED A TREATY DECLARING NUCLEAR weapons illegal under international law: the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons (NWPT). On 20 September, the [...]

I. INTRODUCTION II. PART I'S FLAWED METHODOLOGY A. Modern Professorial Debate and Unmoored Theory B. Actual Views of Founders and Framers and Trends in Judicial Decision III. Elusive Alleged "Violations" [...]

I. CONTRACT V. TREATY 'NECESSITY': REGULATORY FLEXIBILITY AND MORAL HAZARD II. CONTROLLING COMPENSATION CONSEQUENCES OF NECESSITY IN INVESTMENT TREATIES III. LIMITS TO REINTERPRETING TREATY-BASED NECESSITY IV. CONCLUSION The evolution of [...]

III. EXPANSIVE PREAMBULAR POWER IN OBJECT-AND-PURPOSE ANALYSIS In practice, although preambles possess considerable potential power under the VCLT due to their status as part of the text and context of [...]

INTRODUCTION The Supreme Court has never followed the international approach to treaty interpretation. In the over forty years since the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties (1) was signed, [...]

Abstract Article 23 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights contains an express right to marry. This article analyses this provision, other United Nations human rights treaties, and [...]