Jacob Katz Cogan

@jkatzcogan.bsky.social

Professor of Law, University of Cincinnati; Co-EIC, International Organizations Law Review; Deputy Editor, Human Rights Quarterly; Series Editor, Elgar International Law Series; ILR Blog

Davis: Constitutional Indifference: How U.S. Courts Violate the Rights of America’s Children

Jeffrey Davis (Univ. of Maryland, Baltimore County - Political Science) has published Constitutional Indifference: How U.S. Courts Violate the Rights of America’s Children (Palgrave Macmillan). Here's the abstract: This book shows how U.S. courts have failed to protect the human rights of America’s children. The Supreme Court has constructed a constitutional identity rooted in American exceptionalism and libertarianism. It has used this identity to disregard human rights law, claiming it is foreign to uniquely American constitutional values and that the very nature of the Constitution is restrictive. Children in the United States suffer as a result. Compared to other democracies, the United States has the highest or nearly the highest rates of under-five mortality, child poverty, juvenile incarceration, and child deaths by homicide. Through interviews with advocates, case studies, and a comparative analysis of other democracies, the book shows how the Court has marginalized the rights of children and it contrasts this to the human rights-centered approach taken by other national and regional courts. Chapter by chapter it demonstrates how U.S. courts consistently fail to protect children’s rights to life and safety, their rights in the criminal justice system, and their rights to an education, health, and housing. Human rights are completely consistent with the U.S. Constitution, and the book sets out a plan to incorporate human rights into U.S. law.      

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New Issue: European Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law (Vol. 37, no. 1, February 2026) is out. Contents include: * Editorial * Editorial: EJIL’s First Policy on the Use of Generative Artificial Intelligence; In This Issue; In This Issue – Reviews * Articles * Negar Mansouri, The Colonial Aftertaste: Algerian Wine, the French Appellation of Origin and the European Sovereignty-Property Complex in International Law * Bernhard Knoll-Tudor & Marko Prelec, Sede Vacante in Sarajevo? Bosnia and Herzegovina after 30 Years under International Supervision * Focus: The History of International Investment Law * Alexis Galán & Nicolás M Perrone, The Negotiations of the OECD Draft Convention on the Protection of Foreign Property: Unpacking the Early Blueprint of International Investment Agreements * Wiebe Hommes & Laurens Ankersmit, Shell and the Creation of International Investment Law, 1957–1968 * Crtical Review of Jurisprudence * Salvatore Fabio Nicolosi & Türkan Ertuna Lagrand, Integrating Gender Equality into International Refugee Law: The Contribution of the Court of Justice of the European Union * EJIL Debate! * Christiane Ahlborn, Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary International Law – A Reply to Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis * Roaming Charges * Places with a Soul: Life – It’s Never Black or White * ESIL Corner * Heike Krieger, International Law in 2035: Opening Remarks at the 20th ESIL Annual Conference * Qin (Sky) Ma, Between Hope and Constraint: The Fragile Ambition of Reconstructing International Law * Soheil Ghasemi, Where ‘Falls the Shadow’: The 2025 ESIL Conference in Berlin and the Disciplinary Ambivalences of ‘Reconstructing International Law’ * Marina Aksenova, The Entropy of International Law: Reflections from ESIL Berlin * Kyra Wigard, Reconstructing International Law: Where to Start? * Gleider Hernández, On Institutional Restraints and Academic Freedoms: Reflections on Berlin * Book Reviews * Lorenzo Gradoni, reviewing Anne van Aaken, Pierre d’Argent, Lauri Mälksoo and Johann Justus Vasel (eds), The Oxford Handbook of International Law in Europe * Olivier Corten, reviewing Terry D. Gill and Kinga Tibori-Szabo, The Use of Force and the International Legal System * Eliana Cusato, reviewing Jonathan White, In the Long Run: The Future as a Political Idea * Sergio Puig, reviewing Natalie Jones, Self-Determination as Voice: The Participation of Indigenous Peoples in International Governance * The Last Page * William Shakespeare, Sonnet 116      

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New Issue: American Journal of International Law

The latest issue of the American Journal of International Law (Vol. 120, no. 3, July 2026) is out. Contents include: * Articles * Rifat Azam, The United States, China, and the OECD—UN Rivalry: Asymmetric Regime Complexity in Global Tax Governance * Sannoy Das, Non-discrimination as Discrimination: The MFN Obligation and International Trade Law * International Decisions * Xue Feng & Xueliang Ji, United States — Certain Tax Credits Under the Inflation Reduction Act. Panel Report. WT/DS623/R * Marios Tokas, Hellenic Council of State, Decision A, No. 1918-20/2025 * Contemporary Practice of the United States Relating to International Law * The United States Takes an à la Carte Approach to the United Nations * President Trump Launches the Board of Peace * The United States and the OECD/G20 Inclusive Framework Agree on a “Side-by-Side” Arrangement Exempting U.S. Multinationals from the Global Minimum Tax Regime * President Trump Demands that Denmark Sell Greenland to the United States, Threatening to Take It by Force * Recent Books on International Law * Chimène I. Keitner, State Responsibility as Myth and Legend * Anne Trebilcock, reviewing International Organization Initiatives: How and Why Organizations Adapt and Change, edited by Gabrielle Marceau and Henner Gött * Emilie M. Hafner-Burton, reviewing International Legal Theory and the Cognitive Turn, edited by Anne van Aaken and Moshe Hirsch * Roger O’Keefe, reviewing End of Immunity: Holding World Leaders Accountable for Aggression, Genocide, War Crimes, and Crimes Against Humanity, by Chile Eboe-Osuji      

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New Issue: Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht

The latest issue of the Zeitschrift für ausländisches öffentliches Recht und Völkerrecht (Vol. 86, no. 2, 2026) is out. Contents include: * Comment * Franca Maria Feisel, A ‘Whole-Of-Society Approach’ to Defending Democracy in the EU * Nachruf * Matthias Hartwig, Georg Nolte, Stefan Oeter, & Christian Walter, Prof. Dr. Dres. h. c. Jochen Abr. Frowein (1934-2026) * Re-Reading Historic Articles in the ZaöRV: Anniversary Series * Russell A. Miller, Professor Frowein, German Reunification, and the Tension of Modern Law * Abhandlungen * Florian Kriener, Mapping the International Law of Peaceful Protest * Maria O’Sullivan, Climate Protest and the Right of Resistance in Inter- national Law * Marcos Antonio Vela Ávalos, The Right to Protest in the Inter-American Human Rights Framework * Dmitrii Kuznetsov, From Hope to Despair: The Evolution of Protest Rights During Russia’s Council of Europe Membership * Zoe Louise Tongue, Protest as Counter-Hegemonic Human Rights Work: Lessons from Abortion Rights Movements * Johanna Bücker & Lina Möller, Beyond Derogation: Context-Driven Interpretation of Migrants’ Rights as a Novel Justification under the ECHR * Dana Burchardt, The ADBAT before the Human Rights Committee: Globalising Waite and Kennedy but Failing to Protect Judicial Independence Effectively * Johanna Fink, Die EU-Blocking-Verordnung als Machtinstrument zwischen Völkerrecht und Geoökonomie – eine Analyse im Lichte der EU-Strategie für wirtschaftliche Souveränität      

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