This issue features two review essays and one regular (in-depth) review. We begin with Rián Derrig’s detailed engagement with International Law as Behavior (Harlan Grant Cohen and Timothy Meyer, eds.), an ‘agenda-setting’ collection of essays that reflects on the rise of behaviouralism in international legal studies. In his essay, ‘What Can a Few Make of Mankind?’, Derrig agrees…

As in previous years, we are marking the end of 2022 with a series of posts highlighting ‘favourite readings‘ of the year: recommendations that celebrate authors and their books, and that reflect the pleasure of engaging with them. As EJILTalk! regulars will know, this series has become a bit of a tradition; having run, discounting the occasional break,…

This issue features reviews of three monographs, two engaging with non-Western approaches to international law, the other with a central question of the jus ad bellum. We begin with Lauri Mälksoo’s review of Russian Contributions to International Humanitarian Law by Michael Riepl. Published on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this is a timely book if ever there was one, and it…