{"title":"Special Section on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: An Editorial Note","authors":"Xiaohui Wu","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad037","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Special Section on the Russia-Ukraine Conflict: An Editorial Note Get access Xiaohui Wu Xiaohui Wu Visiting Fellow, Chinese Institute of International Law at China Foreign Affairs University, and Editor of this Special Section xiaohui.wu99@gmail.com Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Chinese Journal of International Law, jmad037, https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad037 Published: 17 October 2023","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735642","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of Bogdan Aurescu (ed.), <i>Romania and the International Court of Justice</i>","authors":"Sienho Yee","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad038","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Book Review of Bogdan Aurescu (ed.), Romania and the International Court of Justice Get access Sienho Yee Sienho Yee Professor of International Law, China Foreign Affairs University, and Editor-in-Chief of this Journal E-mail: sienho@chinesejil.org Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Chinese Journal of International Law, jmad038, https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad038 Published: 23 September 2023","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135484563","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronology of Practice: Chinese Practice in Public International Law in 2021","authors":"Xiaohui Wu","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This Survey covers materials reflecting Chinese practice in 2021 relating to: treaties, agreements and other documents signed or ratified by the People’s Republic of China; national legislation; statements made by Chinese representatives at the meetings of the UN and other international organizations, international conferences, and those made by the Foreign Ministry spokespersons, with respect to various branches of international law; and judicial decisions, in particular on the applicability and application of international conventions, by Chinese courts.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135428729","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Some Geopolitical and Societal Tendencies Threatening Peace and Stability","authors":"Rein Müllerson","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad034","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Today’s world is less stable than the Cold War international system. Why the high expectations for a peaceful world that existed thirty years ago didn’t materialize? This article singles out two interrelated trends that stem from mistakes made when it seemed that the humanity, having learned from history, was stepping into a period of the “end of history”. However, this end of history mindset forms the very basis on which today’s negative tendencies are flourishing. The triumphant West tried not only to unify the whole world under a single leadership but to make it also uniform. Yet, the world is simply too big, complex and diverse to have its rich tapestry flattened into a carpet where only one pattern, be it a Judeo-Christian, Anglo-Saxon, Confucian, Muslim or secular liberal-democratic, dominates. Therefore, after a short unipolar moment, those States that couldn’t or didn’t want to follow Washington, began to claim their own place under the Sun and the right to go their own way. As long as it is not recognized that there is an intrinsic value not only in bio-diversity or in the acceptance of diverse ways of life within a society, but also in the existence of diverse political systems, economic models and societal arrangements, there will not be even a relative peace in the world. Equally, recognition and acceptance of balance of power in international relations is even more important than the adherence to the principle of separation of powers within States. The second trend is expressed in conflicts between elites and masses, whose grievances are exploited by populists. Moreover, the idea that globalisation would lead, if not to the disappearance of the State, then at least to a considerable shrinking of its role, turned out to be wrong.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135049605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Justifying the Unjustifiable: Russia’s Aggression against Ukraine, International Law, and Carl Schmitt’s “Theory of the Greater Space” (“<i>Großraumtheorie”</i>)","authors":"Peter Hilpold","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Russia’s aggression against Ukraine has been accompanied by attempts to justify this blatant violation of international law with reference to the accepted exceptions to the prohibition of the use of force. These attempts had to fail from the outset as the necessary preconditions were not given. More pernicious is, however, the endeavor to find a justification in an “alternative” system of international law. The respective arguments echo considerations popular in the first half of the 20th century, such as Carl Schmitt’s “theory of the greater space” and the “theory of encirclement”. To accept a revival of such arguments, even only in part, risks undermining the very basics of modern international law. Ultimately, to allow this “obsession with territory” (Georges Scelle) to unfold would not even be in Russia’s interest as it would deflect from this country’s real economic and societal problems that need urgent action.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135588750","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of Vanda Lamm, <i>Compulsory Jurisdiction in International Law</i>","authors":"Sienho Yee","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad042","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Book Review of Vanda Lamm, Compulsory Jurisdiction in International Law Get access Book Review of Vanda Lamm, Compulsory Jurisdiction in International Law, Edward Elgar, 2014, xii, 318 pp., table of cases, appendix, index; ISBN 978-1-78347-321-2 Sienho Yee Sienho Yee Professor of International Law and Director, Chinese Institute of International Law at China Foreign Affairs University, and Editor-in-Chief of this Journal E-mail: sienho@chinesejil.org Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Chinese Journal of International Law, jmad042, https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad042 Published: 24 October 2023","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135735974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Book Review of Yuji Iwasawa, <i>Domestic Application of International Law: Focusing on Direct Applicability</i>","authors":"Chao Wang, Xin Xiang","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad032","url":null,"abstract":"Journal Article Book Review of Yuji Iwasawa, Domestic Application of International Law: Focusing on Direct Applicability Get access Book Review of Yuji Iwasawa, Domestic Application of International Law Focusing on Direct Applicability, Brill Nijhoff, 2023, xxix+314 pp., ISBN 978-90-04-52340-1(e-book) Chao Wang, Chao Wang Professor of International Law and Assistant Dean, University of Macau Faculty of Law chaowang@um.edu.mo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8687-1824 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Xin Xiang Xin Xiang PhD Candidate at the Faculty of Law, University of Macau, and Advisor to the Secretary for Administration and Justice, Government of Macao SAR, China Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Chinese Journal of International Law, jmad032, https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad032 Published: 26 August 2023","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135236202","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antisuit Injunctions in Chinese Courts","authors":"Yong Gan","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad031","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The increasingly intensified competition arose among national courts over their judicial authority to resolve standard-essential patents (SEPs) disputes. This competition drove courts and litigants to resort to antisuit injunctions (ASIs) more frequently. However, ASIs Chinese courts issued in SEP-related cases raised concerns in foreign countries. Chinese ASIs’ legal basis has evolved through decades of legislation regarding injunctions, including compulsory maritime orders, IPR preliminary injunctions, and general rules of act preservation, despite containing inherent defects that troubled the subsequent antisuit practice. Likewise, Chinese antisuit practice did not emerge overnight but took years to develop, growing from a mere sprinkle in maritime litigations to a respectable drizzle in SEP-related actions. It encompasses orders to prevent foreign collateral proceedings, the injunction to inhibit foreign antisuit orders, and orders to halt foreign substantive proceedings. Chinese antisuit practice is at its nascence and exhibits striking features in SEP cases. However, closely examining Chinese antisuit decisions in SEP cases reveals that so-called Chinese worldwide ASIs were justifiable and legitimate, in terms of substantive conditions and actual operation, even by the EU and US standards. Nevertheless, China needs to reform the relevant laws regarding antisuit relief and refine its antisuit practice in various aspects to fend off due process and other equitable concerns. Only through international coordination can national courts efficaciously tackle the proliferation of antisuit relief in SEP cases.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135571285","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On Their Sovereign’s Secret Service: Special Envoys Detained while in Transit","authors":"Rutsel Silvestre J Martha, Kit De Vriese","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad029","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The case of Mr. Saab, a Venezuelan ad hoc diplomat, raises numerous issues beyond codified international law. The issues discussed in this article are a vivid reminder of the importance of customary international law, and that its principles should not be held to have been tacitly dispensed with by any treaty in the absence of any words making clear an intention to do so. Indeed, whilst important portions of the law of diplomatic relations, including ad hoc diplomacy through special missions, are codified in the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (VCDR) and the Convention on Special Missions (Special Missions Convention), important aspects of ad hoc diplomacy remains governed by customary international law—as confirmed by the preambles of these treaties. The VCDR and the Special Missions Convention, whether collectively or separately, do not cover all issues relating to diplomacy. In this article, an attempt is made to how these issues should have been addressed in Mr. Saab’s case if the executive and judicial branches of the Government of Cabo Verde had kept this in mind.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136272321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Multilateral Diplomacy and International Law: 19th Century Great Power Concert and the United Nations in a Comparative Perspective","authors":"Alexander Orakhelashvili","doi":"10.1093/chinesejil/jmad028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/chinesejil/jmad028","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This paper focuses on the comparative analysis of 19th century great power concert and the United Nations Security Council as forms of great power management of international affairs. The analysis is conducted from a cross-disciplinary perspective of international politics and international law. The paper explores historical preconditions for each of those forms of great power management to be formed and come into operation, as well as the way in which each of them became subjected to legal restraints in relation to its activities. These historical preconditions are both those which affirmatively enable great-power cooperation through multilateral crisis management, and ones that furnish risks should they not so cooperate, including the occurrence of a general war between great powers. The inter-disciplinary focus adopted here is meant to demonstrate the legal dimension of the matter as well as lessons that could be learned from the behaviour of statesmen and policy-makers.","PeriodicalId":45438,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Journal of International Law","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44112081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}