In this occasion the focus is on Asia. The Chinese Journal of Transnational Law invites submissions for its Vol. 2 Issue 2, to be published in 2025, engaging critically with the functions, methodologies and techniques of private international law in relation to sustainability from an Asian perspective, as well as in relation to the actual and potential contributions of private international law to the SDGs in Asia.
Topics could include, but are not limited to:
- Relationships between the international and the domestic, or/and the public and the private in the pursue of the UN Agenda 2030 in Asia
- Sustainability in global supply/value chains and private international law in Asia
- Intra-regional (South-South) migration in Asia and private international law (focus on specific kinds of migration, such as labour migration, climate change migration, forced displacement, refugees, etc)
- Clean energy in Asia and private international law
- Decent work (and economic growth) in Asia, and of Asian workers beyond Asia, and private international law
- Sustainable consumption and production in Asia and private international law (focus on a specific sector, such as apparel, food, agricultural products, etc)
- Gender equality in Asia and private international law
- Sustainable Asian cities and communities and private international law
- Establishment and proof of personal identity in Asia; portability across borders of identity documents in Asia and beyond
- (Non-) recognition of foreign child marriages and forced marriages in and from Asia
- Availability and sustainable management of water (and sanitation) in Asia and the role of private international law
- Private international law and cross-border environmental damage/ adverse effects of climate change/ loss of biodiversity from an Asian perspective.
Note: The issue of transnational access to justice in relation to sustainable development has been considered extensively, including from an Asian perspective, so we suggest interested contributors to refrain from submitting contributions based exclusively on SDG 16.
An abstract of 500-800 words should be submitted by 15 March 2024 to [email protected] and [email protected] (please send the abstract to both email addresses). Please include the contributor’s last name in the email title. Selected contributors will be invited to submit a draft paper by 1 October 2024 in advance of a hybrid conference at Wuhan University in November 2024. The submission of the full article through the journal’s homepage: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/ctl is required by 1 March 2025. Accepted articles will be published online first as advanced articles. Contributors may choose between: Research articles (up to 11,000 words inclusive of footnotes) or short articles (up to 6,000 words inclusive of footnotes). The special issue will be published in September 2025.
Those interested may contact the guest editors Verónica Ruiz Abou-Nigm, Ralf Michaels and Hans van Loon at [email protected].
