This issue of the Journal features four regular reviews, and the second batch of contributions to our (ongoing) Hague Academy Centenary Symposium.
Two of the reviews focus on aspects of international environmental law in a broad sense. In their enriching review of Gabrielle Hecht’s Residual Governance: How South Africa Foretells Planetary Futures, Tracy-Lynn Field and Michael Hennessy Picard point us to major problems resulting from wastes of gold and uranium mining. Hecht’s work captures these as a problem of residual governance; as the reviewers note, it ‘does not offer easy solutions but rather stays with the rubble of racial capitalism’. Jelena Bäumler‘s review centres on a topic that has entered the international law mainstream, climate change litigation. She is impressed with the ‘world map of climate change litigation’ presented in Climate Change Litigation: Global Perspectives (edited by Ivano Alogna, Christine Bakker, and Jean-Pierre Gauci), but felt the book could have offered more ‘guidance on the factors that account for the failure or success of climate change litigation’ in its very diverse contexts.
