Severina Melissa Hubahib Loja

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Publications

Book

Melissa Loja, INTERNATIONAL AGREEMENTS BETWEEN NON-STATE ACTORS AS A SOURCE OF INTERNATIONAL LAW (Hart, 2022) at bloomsbury.com/uk/international-agreements-betweennonstate-actors-as-a-source-of-international-law-9781509951109/   
Nominated: American Society of International Law Book Prize (2024)
Winner: Li Ka Shing Prize (2019)

Journal articles

Melissa Loja, Recent Engagement with International Human Rights Norms by the Courts of Singapore, Malaysia and Philippines, 19 International Journal of Constitutional Law I•CON 98-126 (2021) at doi.org/10.1093/icon/moab006  
Melissa Loja, International Agreements between Non-State Actors as a Source of International Law, 112 American Society of International Law Proceedings 151-156 (2019) at doi.org/10.1017/amp.2019.9  
Melissa Loja, A Critical Legal Approach to the South China Sea Territorial Dispute, 20
Journal of the History of International Law 2 198-216  (2018) at doi.org/10.1163/15718050-20001011  
Melissa Loja, Status Quo Post Bellum and the Legal Resolution of the Territorial Dispute between China and Japan over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, 27 European Journal of International Law 4, 979-1004 (2017) at doi.org/10.1093/ejil/chw050  
Melissa Loja, Spratly Islands as a Single Unit under International Law: A Commentary on the Award on Jurisdiction and Admissibility in Philippines/China Arbitration, 47 Ocean Development and International Law 4, 309-326 (2016) at doi.org/10.1080/00908320.2016.1229936   
Melissa Loja, Is the Rule of Capture Countenanced in the South China Sea? The Policy and Practice of China, the Philippines and Vietnam, 32 Journal of Energy & Natural Resources Law 4, 483-508 (2015) at dx.doi.org/10.1080/02646811.2014.11435371  
Winner: Willoughby Prize (United Kingdom Energy, Petroleum, Mineral and Natural Resources Law and Policy Education Trust
Melissa Loja, Who Owns the Oil that Traverses a Boundary on the Continental Shelf in an Enclosed Sea?, 27 Leiden Journal of International Law 4, 893-911 (2014) at doi.org/10.1017/S0922156514000405   
James Fry and Melissa Loja, The Roots of Historic Title: Non-Western Pre-Colonial Normative Systems and Legal Resolution of Territorial Disputes, 27 Leiden Journal of International Law 3, 727-754 (2014) at doi.org/10.1017/S0922156514000284

Research work in progress
Melissa Loja, International Law in Philippine Judicial Review: Riding the Cappelletti Waves, forthcoming in Harvard Human Rights Journal (N Bui and M De Visser (eds), INTERNATIONAL LAW IN ASIAN CONSTITUTIONAL COURTS)
Melissa Loja, Critical and Comparative International Law: China, Russia and the United States
Melissa Loja, Between Populism and Exceptionalism: The Law of the Sea Practices of the Philippines, China and the United States in the South China Sea
Melissa Loja, General Principles of International Procedural Law in Corruption Cases: A Case Study of Participating States in the Belt and Road Initiative