Inaugural Conference of the Romanian Yearbook of International and European Law

Marilen Gabriel Pirtea, Rector of the West University of Timișoara

Lucian Bercea, Dean, Faculty of Law, West University of Timișoara

Marius-Gabriel Lazurca, Presidential Adviser for National Security, Foreign Policy, Strategic Partnerships, and Romanians Abroad

Joseph H. H. Weiler, New York University

Philip Alston, New York University

Mattias Guyomar, President, European Court of Human Rights

Iulia Motoc, Judge, International Criminal Court

Why a Romanian Yearbook of International and European Law?

Chin Leng Lim, Chinese University of Hong Kong; British Institute of International and Comparative Law

Identities in International Law

Thomas Skouteris, University of Khorfakkan

The Construction of National Traditions in International Legal Scholarship

Gocha Lordkipanidze, Judge, International Criminal Court

Time as Thingness: Subsequent Practice and the Ontology of International Law

Ineta Ziemele, Judge, Court of Justice of the European Union

Shift in “Center vs. Periphery” Dynamics and its Impact on International Law

Roxana Banu, University of Oxford

The History of Private International Law in Romania

Iulia Motoc, Judge, International Criminal Court

The History of Public International Law in Romania

Andrei Mamolea, Boston University

Vespasian Pella, the Uses of History, and the Future of International Law

Bogdan Iancu, University of Bucharest

Constitutional Traditions of Nationalism and Internationalism: the Incorporation of Human Rights norms in Romania

Luisa-Miriam Nicolici – Stark

The Tradition of International Law in Romania and the Limits of Territorial Stability in International Law

Malgosia Fitzmaurice, Queen Mary University of London

Reflections on ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Relation to Climate Change and its Influence on General International Law

Olufemi Elias, Queen Mary University of London; ad hoc Judge, International Court of Justice; member, UN International Law Commission

The Sources of International Law in the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change

Anne van Aaken, University of Hamburg

Rule of Law: Bandwagon Effects (authoritarian and democratic), Learning and Diffusion

Lorand Bartels, University of Cambridge

The Most Favoured Nation Principle in Trade Law: Worth Defending?

Matei Alexianu, Loyola University Chicago

Provisional Measures as Legal Statecraft

Mario Oyarzabal, Legal Adviser, Argentine Ministry of Foreign Affairs; member of the UN International Law Commission

Diplomacy and International Law

Hillary Charlesworth, Judge, International Court of Justice

Iulia Motoc, Judge, International Criminal Court

Roxana Dumitrache, Romanian Cultural Institute; West University of Timișoara

Raluca Bercea, West University of Timișoara

Edith Brown Weiss, Georgetown University

Reconsidering the Future in International Law

Ion Gâlea, judge at the General Court of the European Union

The concept of international organisation in the recent judgment IMG v Commission (C-790/24P) of the European Court of Justice

Mihai Bădescu, West University of Timișoara

Dispute Settlement Mechanisms in the European Union’s Agreements with its Eastern Neighbours as Indicators of Rule of Law Adherence: Positive Perspectives for Ukrainian and Moldovan Accession?

Eduardo-Mirel Hanes

"In Complete Independence of the Territorial Authorities”: Romania, the European Commission of the Danube, and the Origins of the Principle of Speciality

Florestan Letulle, University of Strasbourg

The Tradition of Participation in International Organizations in Central and Eastern Europe: An Inquiry into the Instrumentalisation of International Law by the Great Powers for the Exercise of Exclusive Control

Manon Laganà, University of Valencia

From Authoritarian Surveillance to The Digital Big Brother: State Surveillance and The Erosion of The Right to Respect for Private and Family Life in Eastern Europe Under the European Convention on Human Rights"

Yuval Shany, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

AI systems and the international human right to a remedy

Dana Neacșu, Columbia University

The Ideology of Generative AI: Technology, Authority, and Power in Law

David Mark, UNDP Expert | Researcher, West University of Timișoara

The European AI Act in the Age of Agentic AI: The Alignment Challenge and the Limits of Human Oversight.

Mykola Gnatovsky, Judge, European Court of Human Rights

From the Periphery to Co-Authorship: Central and Eastern European Lawyers and the Future of the International Legal Order

Veronika Bílková, Charles University Prague

Central and Eastern Europe in the Practice of the Venice Commission

Bianca Guțan, „Lucian Blaga” University of Sibiu

Romania and the European Charter of Regional or Minority Languages

Hélène Ruiz Fabri, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

Roxana Dumitrache, Romanian Cultural Institute; West University of Timișoara

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Marek Wasiński, University of Łódź

SWAIL as Decoding: Conceptual Compression and the Liminal in International Law

Mārtiņš Paparinskis, University College London, former Chair of the UN International Law Commission

The International Law Commission and the Eastern Europe(an Group)

Dano Brossmann, VVGB Advocaten / Avocats

ISDS Laboratory: Central and Eastern Europe’s historic experience with investor-state dispute settlement

Anja Seibert-Fohr, Judge, European Court of Human Rights

Rule of Law Backsliding: What Role for the European Court of Human Rights?

Lorraine Schembri Orland, Judge, European Court of Human Rights

Gender Based Cyber Crime

Kanstantsin Dzehtsiarou, University of Liverpool

The Role of the Venice Commission Reports in ECtHR Case Law concerning Central and Eastern European States

Corina Corbu, former President of the Romanian High Court of Cassation and Justice

Mental Health at the European Court of Human Rights

Ioana Cismas, University of York

Compliance + restraint in armed conflict: towards full(er) protection

Cosmin Cercel, Ghent University

Between Legal Orders: Articulating Sovereignty through Emergency Powers and International Law in the Long 19th Century

Bianca Șerb, West University of Timișoara

The Changing Ambitions of International Law: From Post-Cold War Optimism to a Fragmented International Order

Pavel Šturma, Charles University Prague; former Chair of the UN International Law Commission

The Czech Contribution to International Criminal Law

Péter Paczolay, Judge, European Court of Human Rights

The Role of the ECHR in the Hungarian legal system

Ganna Yudkivska, Chair-Rapporteur, United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention; EQUITY Law Firm

Ukraine and International Law

Krzysztof Wojtyczek, Jagiellonian University; former Judge, European Court of Human Rights

Jurisdiction in European Human Rights Law

Sergey Sayapin, KIMEP University

International Law Beyond the Core: A Silk Road Perspective on Central and Eastern Europe

Lauri Mälksoo, University of Tartu

Russia and International Law

Ignacio de la Rasilla, Wuhan University

Under the Red Flag? The Rise of International Law Journals in China, 1982-2026

Răzvan-Vlăduț Cheșa

Legal Personality Without Independence, Statehood Without Effectiveness: The Montevideo Convention and Two Eastern European Anomalies, 1940–1991

Lucian Bojin, West University of Timișoara

Lean on me when you're not strong. In times of deepest crisis of International Law, its language remains unchanged

Gabriela Alexandra Oanta, University of A Coruña

Succession of States to membership of an international organization

Diana Botău, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca

Reconceptualising Territory in International Law: Beyond the Westphalian Map

Carmen Moldovan, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University of Iași

Overcoming the Impasse: New Horizons in Accountability and Reparation for Aggression

Daniela Deteșeanu, University of Bucharest

From "Outstanding Universal Value" to Jus Cogens? A Central and Eastern Europe Perspective on the Protection of World Heritage

Alina Miron, University of Angers/West University of Timișoara

Romania and the International Court of Justice

Octavia Spineanu-Matei, Judge, Court of Justice of the European Union

Romania and the Court of Justice of the European Union

Sebastian Rădulețu, Judge, European Court of Human Rights

Romania and the European Court of Human Rights

Carmen Achimescu, University of Bucharest

Nearly a Century before the World Court: Romania in Advisory and Contentious Proceedings - from Territorial to Global Concerns