EDITORIAL

RESEARCH ARTICLES

ISSUE FOCUS

New Horizons in Marine Governance

• Xuan Zhu & Wei Shen, Strengthening the Ocean Carbon Sink under the UNCLOS: A Preliminary Assessment on the ITLOS Climate                  Change Advisory Opinion
• Hui Zhong & Eric Yong Joong Lee, Legal Divergence and Cooperative Governance of Underwater Cultural Heritage: A Comparative                  Study of China, Japan, and Korea

ARTICLE

• Julio C.O. Sima Nzang & Yingying Wang, Fragmentation to Coordination: Legal, Institutional, and Regulatory Dimensions of China-                  ASEAN Commercial Arbitration

NOTES & COMMENTS

• Nehaluddin Ahmad & Faizan Mustafa & Faizah Rahim, Contemporary Missile Warfare and the Use of Force: A Legal Evaluation of the                  Iran-Israel Escalation
• Soojin Nam & Jamie Yoonsoo Kim, National Courts as Enforcers of International Treaties: Analysis of “Homeward Trend” in Korea’s                  CISG Adjudication
• Xinrong Tan, Globalization of Chinese International Law Scholarship: A Bibliometric Analysis (2005-2025)

REGIONAL FOCUS & CONTROVERSIES

Digital Sovereignty and the Rule of Law in East Asia

• Phillip Y. Freiberg & Michael J. Harris & Parot Ratnapinda, Human Rights-Based AI Governance in Thailand: A Functional-Equivalence                  Approach Beyond the EU AI Act
• Nguyen Minh Tuan & Do Thi Bao Yen, Legal Reasoning in the Artificial Intelligence Era: Possibilities, Challenges, and Core                  Orientations in Domestic and International Law

EAST ASIAN OBSERVER

• Surakhbayar Galsan, Constitutional Resource Sovereignty and Critical Minerals Governance under International Law: The Case of                  Mongolia
• Yiwei Liu & Xingjun Liu, The Philippine Marcos Jr. Administration’s South China Sea Policy: An Analysis from a Neoclassical Realist                  Perspective
• Milda Istiqomah & Mohd Hazmi Mohd Rusli & Dhiana Puspitawati & Prija Djatmika, Surviving Great Powers: Kedah and the Practice of                  Sovereignty under International Law

DIGEST

• Stuart S. Malawer, Trump’s Supreme Court Tariff Case and Trade Policy: Refunds and Chaos

International Lawyer

A Dialogue with Global Wisdom

• Professor Dr. Andrew J. Harding

Cartoon

Communication

About the Authors

This issue may be cited as:
XIX JEAIL 1 (2026)

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