Nordic Journal of International Law
Datos de la Revista
| Tipo | JOURNAL |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Martinus Nijhoff Publishers (NL) |
| ISSN | 0902-7351 / 1571-8107 |
| Scopus | 7200153103 |
| Wikidata | Q15749882 |
| OpenAlex | S38593109 |
| MAG | 38593109 |
| Sitio web | https://api.elsevier.com/content/serial/title/issn/0902-7351 |
| Total de publicaciones | 20 |
| Periodo de cobertura | 1988 - 2026 |
| País | DK |
| Idioma | EN |
| Indexación | Indexada en Scopus |
| Citada por | 2 |
| SJR | 0.208 (Q3) |
| SNIP | 0.892 |
| CiteScore | 2.2 |
| Índice h | 1 |
| Participación femenina en la autoría | 50.0% |
This journal focuses on international law, which is a legal discipline. While some international legal issues may have social or cultural dimensions, its primary focus is not anthropological, leading to only loose intersections
Law · Political Science and International Relations · Arctic and Russian Policy Studies · Conflict of Laws and Jurisdiction · Corporate Governance and Law · Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies · Environmental law and policy · European and International Contract Law · European and International Law Studies · European Criminal Justice and Data Protection
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Black Carbon Emissions from Arctic Shipping
As Arctic warming and sea ice retreat accelerate, expanding Arctic shipping intensifies the threat posed by black carbon emissions, a short-lived but highly potent climate forcer. Despite the urgency of this issue, regulatory efforts within the International Maritime Organization (IMO) remain fragmented and slow to advance. This paper investigates whether the regulatory process on Arctic black carbon emissions reflects regulatory capture by entre…
Legislating in the Common Interest – The Legal Implications of the Åland Islands Autonomy Regime
International law provides for the autonomy of the Åland Islands. The source of this law (“the Åland Islands Autonomy Regime”) is far from clear and much debated. A literature survey furnishes five possibilities. Thus, the Regime may have been created: (i) by the conclusion of a bilateral agreement; (ii) by unilateral declaration; (iii) by the conclusion of a bilateral agreement and the tacit acceptance of third parties; (iv) by the conclusion of…
The Role of Private Law and Climate Change Mitigation Along the Northern Sea Route
The shipping industry is receiving increasing attention due to its sustainability performance, particularly in relation to climate change. While the top-down regulation spearheaded by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) sets the tone for global reforms, its practical implementation relies on contractual arrangements between shipping actors. The article first examines such sustainability contractual clauses in charterparties, focusing on…
Reconsidering the Role of International Law in the Arctic
The recently adopted Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement), represents a landmark effort to protect marine biodiversity in global commons. This paper argues that the application of the BBNJ Agreement to the Arctic Ocean may be challenging due to the region’s unique ecological vulnerab…
Three Legal Tools to Address the US ‘Proposal’ of Acquisition of Greenland
This article addresses the United States’ ‘proposal’ of acquisition of Greenland as well as the threats of coercion made by the US towards Denmark and Greenland. The article finds that international reactions have been mostly limited to some Western States. The focus then shifts on three treaty-based models that could reconcile the competing strategic and economic interests. A hypothetical treaty of cession, the application of the Svalbard model …
The Legal Validity of Treaty Rules on the Aims and Content of Education and the Nature of State Obligations in Relation to These Norms
In this article, the author sets out to consider the obligations of international law to ensure a minimum acceptable quality of the right to education. Quality education is defined as education that produces good results – namely, the ability of the education system to deliver learning outcomes in accordance with international law on the aims and content of education. The initial inquiry is whether treaty rules on the aims and content of educatio…
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Security Versus Sustainability? The Regulatory Battle Behind Arctic Mining in Greenland and Norway
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The Rebels in the Room
This article examines the contribution of separate and dissenting opinions of judges of the International Court of Justice to the development of community interest concepts in international law. While individual opinions lack formal binding force, they have long provided a site in which broader questions concerning common and community interests are articulated and contested. Through an analysis of individual opinions across a range of contentiou…
A Codification Like No Other
The article examines the Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (DARS) through an analysis of their development within the International Law Commission (ILC). Drawing on descriptive statistics, it situates the DARS in the broader institutional context of the Commission’s work and compares their duration, drafting trajectory, and outcome form with all completed ILC topics since 1947. The study demonstrates tha…
The Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine
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EU Sanctions Measures’ Increasing Extraterritoriality
The analysis of specific EU sanctions circumvention measures indicates that the EU is increasing its ‘outward extraterritoriality’, even though the EU reiterates that it does not apply extraterritorial sanctions. For certain goods, EU exporters are obliged to contractually agree on a ‘no re-export’ to Russia clause with foreign operators, which extends the reach of the EU’s sanctions. Such an ‘extraterritoriality by contract’ technique appears to…
Encoded Normativity
This article explores the methodological and normative challenges of fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) for international law. It focuses on three central architectural choices: (1) the selection of relevant domain-specific data, which raises questions related to legal sources doctrine, representativity and inclusion; (2) the integration of human expertise for reinforcement learning, and the requirement to address interpretative diversity; …
International Institutions and Information Technologies
This contribution focuses on the interoperation of analogue and digital information technologies (and techniques associated with them), to ask how their interoperation has determined (and changed) what is made legible in practices associated with international institutions. It traces how the interoperation of digital and analogue technologies has supported the intensification of efficiency-maximizing institutional routines, now expressed in the s…
International Law as a Cyborg Science
International law academics have increasingly turned to engage deliberately engage computer-oriented technologies. There is little work in the literature that reflects on how this engagement itself takes place, what it tells us about the state of the discipline, and the consequences of concentrating on the phenomena of digital technologies. This paper shares some possible conceptual taxonomies and theoretical concerns in disciplinary self-reflect…
Jus Cogens in a Time of Hegemony and Fragmentation – An Attempt at a Re-appraisal
The Justiciability of Indivisible Rights
By discussing the issue of justiciability as a general human rights issue the article seeks to get closer to an understanding of the legal implications of the notion of the indivisibility, interdependence and interrelation of all human rights – economic, social, cultural rights and civil and political rights. The article departs from the tripartite human rights obligation – to respect , to protect and to fulfil – and argues that the obligations t…
Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism? Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, and ``Peaceful Change''
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From Ethnic to Political Identity
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Beyond Colonialism and Nationalism? Ethiopia, Czechoslovakia, and ``Peaceful Change''
No Abstract
The Justiciability of Indivisible Rights
By discussing the issue of justiciability as a general human rights issue the article seeks to get closer to an understanding of the legal implications of the notion of the indivisibility, interdependence and interrelation of all human rights – economic, social, cultural rights and civil and political rights. The article departs from the tripartite human rights obligation – to respect , to protect and to fulfil – and argues that the obligations t…
Jus Cogens in a Time of Hegemony and Fragmentation – An Attempt at a Re-appraisal
International Institutions and Information Technologies
This contribution focuses on the interoperation of analogue and digital information technologies (and techniques associated with them), to ask how their interoperation has determined (and changed) what is made legible in practices associated with international institutions. It traces how the interoperation of digital and analogue technologies has supported the intensification of efficiency-maximizing institutional routines, now expressed in the s…
International Law as a Cyborg Science
International law academics have increasingly turned to engage deliberately engage computer-oriented technologies. There is little work in the literature that reflects on how this engagement itself takes place, what it tells us about the state of the discipline, and the consequences of concentrating on the phenomena of digital technologies. This paper shares some possible conceptual taxonomies and theoretical concerns in disciplinary self-reflect…
EU Sanctions Measures’ Increasing Extraterritoriality
The analysis of specific EU sanctions circumvention measures indicates that the EU is increasing its ‘outward extraterritoriality’, even though the EU reiterates that it does not apply extraterritorial sanctions. For certain goods, EU exporters are obliged to contractually agree on a ‘no re-export’ to Russia clause with foreign operators, which extends the reach of the EU’s sanctions. Such an ‘extraterritoriality by contract’ technique appears to…
Encoded Normativity
This article explores the methodological and normative challenges of fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) for international law. It focuses on three central architectural choices: (1) the selection of relevant domain-specific data, which raises questions related to legal sources doctrine, representativity and inclusion; (2) the integration of human expertise for reinforcement learning, and the requirement to address interpretative diversity; …
The Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression Against Ukraine
In June 2025, Ukraine and the Council of Europe signed an agreement on the establishment of the Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against Ukraine. The establishment of the Special Tribunal can with confidence be described a historic development. It is the first ad hoc criminal tribunal created under the auspices of the Council of Europe. The Special Tribunal is likely to become the first international court to prosecute the crime of ag…
The Rebels in the Room
This article examines the contribution of separate and dissenting opinions of judges of the International Court of Justice to the development of community interest concepts in international law. While individual opinions lack formal binding force, they have long provided a site in which broader questions concerning common and community interests are articulated and contested. Through an analysis of individual opinions across a range of contentiou…
A Codification Like No Other
The article examines the Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts (DARS) through an analysis of their development within the International Law Commission (ILC). Drawing on descriptive statistics, it situates the DARS in the broader institutional context of the Commission’s work and compares their duration, drafting trajectory, and outcome form with all completed ILC topics since 1947. The study demonstrates tha…
Perspectives on Sustainable Development in the Arctic
Security Versus Sustainability? The Regulatory Battle Behind Arctic Mining in Greenland and Norway
Framed within sustainable objectives, the dual decarbonisation and digital transitions are driving increased demand for mineral resources—an issue that has become a complex and entangled geopolitical and security concern. Within the context of a fragmented Arctic governance landscape following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, this article examines how this shift impacts mining policies in Greenland and Norway, highlighting the tension bet…
The Legal Validity of Treaty Rules on the Aims and Content of Education and the Nature of State Obligations in Relation to These Norms
In this article, the author sets out to consider the obligations of international law to ensure a minimum acceptable quality of the right to education. Quality education is defined as education that produces good results – namely, the ability of the education system to deliver learning outcomes in accordance with international law on the aims and content of education. The initial inquiry is whether treaty rules on the aims and content of educatio…
Three Legal Tools to Address the US ‘Proposal’ of Acquisition of Greenland
This article addresses the United States’ ‘proposal’ of acquisition of Greenland as well as the threats of coercion made by the US towards Denmark and Greenland. The article finds that international reactions have been mostly limited to some Western States. The focus then shifts on three treaty-based models that could reconcile the competing strategic and economic interests. A hypothetical treaty of cession, the application of the Svalbard model …
Reconsidering the Role of International Law in the Arctic
The recently adopted Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement), represents a landmark effort to protect marine biodiversity in global commons. This paper argues that the application of the BBNJ Agreement to the Arctic Ocean may be challenging due to the region’s unique ecological vulnerab…
The Role of Private Law and Climate Change Mitigation Along the Northern Sea Route
The shipping industry is receiving increasing attention due to its sustainability performance, particularly in relation to climate change. While the top-down regulation spearheaded by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) sets the tone for global reforms, its practical implementation relies on contractual arrangements between shipping actors. The article first examines such sustainability contractual clauses in charterparties, focusing on…
Legislating in the Common Interest – The Legal Implications of the Åland Islands Autonomy Regime
International law provides for the autonomy of the Åland Islands. The source of this law (“the Åland Islands Autonomy Regime”) is far from clear and much debated. A literature survey furnishes five possibilities. Thus, the Regime may have been created: (i) by the conclusion of a bilateral agreement; (ii) by unilateral declaration; (iii) by the conclusion of a bilateral agreement and the tacit acceptance of third parties; (iv) by the conclusion of…
Black Carbon Emissions from Arctic Shipping
As Arctic warming and sea ice retreat accelerate, expanding Arctic shipping intensifies the threat posed by black carbon emissions, a short-lived but highly potent climate forcer. Despite the urgency of this issue, regulatory efforts within the International Maritime Organization (IMO) remain fragmented and slow to advance. This paper investigates whether the regulatory process on Arctic black carbon emissions reflects regulatory capture by entre…
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