Opening the articles section of this issue, Negar Mansouri uses the French ‘wine laws’ of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to present a view of international economic law that challenges the neoclassical account of global economic integration. She traces a link between French efforts to protect its wine producers from the unexpected competition by wine from…

The Articles section in this issue opens with an analysis of lump sum agreements by Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen. Drawing on a compilation of almost 400 lump sum agreements from Westphalia until today, Poulsen provides a historical account of this central piece of international claims infrastructure. He highlights their role as alternatives to adjudication and their reliance on…

One of the many interesting issues raised by the ICC’s recent Ntaganda appeal judgment, and the subject of this post, is whether war crimes referring to ‘attacks’ require a nexus to hostilities. IHL has traditionally distinguished between protecting persons from the conduct of hostilities (Hague law) and protecting persons in the power of a belligerent (Geneva…