Leiden Journal of International Law

The ‘standard of civilization’ in international law: Intellectual perspectives from pre-war Japan

From bureaucracy to management: The International Criminal Court’s internal progress narrative

The World Bank’s Environmental and Social Safeguards and the evolution of global order

Grabbing land legally: A Marxist analysis

A false promise? Regulating land-grabbing and the post-colonial state

The invocation of the right to self-defence in response to armed attacks conducted by armed groups: Implications for attribution

Transparency and participatory aspects of investor-state dispute settlement in the EU ‘new wave’ trade agreements

Uncertainty and international adjudication

Fear and international law-making: An exploratory inquiry

India’s nuclear force doctrine: Through the lens of jus ad bellum

International economic law and the quest for universality

Pre-trial ‘Protective Measures for the Purpose of Forfeiture’ at the International Criminal Court: Safeguarding and balancing competing rights and interests

Power of discourse in free trade agreement negotiation

Mining for humanity in the deep sea and outer space: The role of small states and international law in the extraterritorial expansion of extraction

The other side of the Article 21(3) coin: Human rights in the Rome Statute and the limits of Article 21(3)

The Expressive Turn of International Criminal Justice: A Field in Search of Meaning

On being companions and strangers: Lawyers and the production of international climate law

Between life, security and rights: Framing the interdiction of ‘boat migrants’ in the Central Mediterranean and Australia

Seasteads, Land-Grabs and International Law

Effective control test at the interface between the law of international responsibility and the law of international organizations: Managing concerns over the attribution of UN peacekeepers’ conduct to troop-contributing nations

Securing human rights through risk-management methods : Breakthrough or misalignment?

The international law commission’s recent work on exceptions to immunity: Charting the course for a brave new world in international law?

Thousands on the stand: Exploring trends and patterns of international witnesses

The World Bank, human rights, and organizational legitimacy strategies: The case of the 2016 Environmental and Social Framework

Historic fishing rights in the law of the sea and Brexit

‘The different sets of ideas at the back of our heads’: Dissent and authority at the International Court of Justice

New histories and new laws: Crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda

Critical perspectives on environmental protection in non-international armed conflict: Developing the principles of distinction, proportionality and necessity

‘Targeted killing’ and the lack of acquiescence

Between show-trials and Utopia: A study of the tu quoque defence

The United States and the Coalition Provisional Authority – occupation by proxy?

Ebola and the Airplane – Securing Mobility Through Regime Interactions And Legal Adaptation

Protecting access to land for indigenous and non-indigenous communities: A new page for the World Bank?

General international law in the relations between international organizations and their members