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International Law in the Current Moment: Radically Different or Much the Same, and Then What? | by Sarah Nouwen
International Law in the Current Moment: Radically Different or Much the Same, and Then What?
The language of ‘crisis‘, ‘collapse‘, ‘destruction‘, ‘dystopia‘, and even ‘death‘ is surrounding the words international law at the moment. For international lawyers, including those involved in publi...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
International Law in the Current Moment: Radically Different or Much the Same, and Then What? | by Sarah Nouwen
The Erosion of Women’s Rights and the ECtHR’s Judgment in A.R. v. Poland | by Hanna Welte
The Erosion of Women’s Rights and the ECtHR’s Judgment in A.R. v. Poland
Reproductive rights have become an increasingly central dimension of the contemporary human rights landscape, shaping the evolution of both general human rights doctrine and the specific trajectory of...
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November 25, 2025 at 3:16 PM
The Erosion of Women’s Rights and the ECtHR’s Judgment in A.R. v. Poland | by Hanna Welte
“Intent to Destroy”: Reflections on the Swedish Yazidi Genocide Case | by Paola Gaeta
“Intent to Destroy”: Reflections on the Swedish Yazidi Genocide Case
Reading the Swedish judgments in the Lina Ishaq case is an unsettling experience. The description of the atrocities inflicted on the Yazidi community by ISIS is presented with a level of factual preci...
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November 24, 2025 at 12:34 PM
“Intent to Destroy”: Reflections on the Swedish Yazidi Genocide Case | by Paola Gaeta
¿Es la regla de Monetary Gold un obstáculo para el litigio de interés público ante la CIJ? Robert Stendel y Alexander Wentker muestran en este nuevo artículo de EJIL que depende de la estructura de la obligación subyacente cuya violación está en cuestión.
Monetary Gold in the Age of Public Interest Litigation
Abstract. This article develops an analytical framework for applying the Monetary Gold rule in public interest litigation before the International Court of
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November 24, 2025 at 7:34 AM
¿Es la regla de Monetary Gold un obstáculo para el litigio de interés público ante la CIJ? Robert Stendel y Alexander Wentker muestran en este nuevo artículo de EJIL que depende de la estructura de la obligación subyacente cuya violación está en cuestión.
Is the Monetary Gold rule an obstacle to public interest litigation at the ICJ? Robert Stendel and Alexander Wentker show in this new EJIL article that it depends on the structure of the underlying duty whose violation is in question.
Monetary Gold in the Age of Public Interest Litigation
Abstract. This article develops an analytical framework for applying the Monetary Gold rule in public interest litigation before the International Court of
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November 24, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Is the Monetary Gold rule an obstacle to public interest litigation at the ICJ? Robert Stendel and Alexander Wentker show in this new EJIL article that it depends on the structure of the underlying duty whose violation is in question.
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This was one of the most interesting scholarly articles I have read in a long time. A whole new way to think about collective harm and how urban space can be the object of violence and harm, opening up the obvious question of how to remedy. @ejiltalk.bsky.social
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Urban Collectives as Victims of International Human Rights Violations
Abstract. Cities are places where people experience human rights violations collectively. Disputes arising from such experiences are increasingly percolati
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November 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
This was one of the most interesting scholarly articles I have read in a long time. A whole new way to think about collective harm and how urban space can be the object of violence and harm, opening up the obvious question of how to remedy. @ejiltalk.bsky.social
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¿Pueden las ciudades ser sujetos de violaciones de derechos humanos? Marius Pieterse expone las vías para el reconocimiento del daño colectivo en los tribunales de derechos humanos.
Urban Collectives as Victims of International Human Rights Violations
Abstract. Cities are places where people experience human rights violations collectively. Disputes arising from such experiences are increasingly percolati
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November 22, 2025 at 12:52 PM
¿Pueden las ciudades ser sujetos de violaciones de derechos humanos? Marius Pieterse expone las vías para el reconocimiento del daño colectivo en los tribunales de derechos humanos.
Can cities be subjects of human rights violations? Marius Pieterse lays out the pathways for the recognition of collective harm in human rights courts.
Urban Collectives as Victims of International Human Rights Violations
Abstract. Cities are places where people experience human rights violations collectively. Disputes arising from such experiences are increasingly percolati
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November 22, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Can cities be subjects of human rights violations? Marius Pieterse lays out the pathways for the recognition of collective harm in human rights courts.
Eighty Years Ago, At Nuremberg: By Their Fruits We Best Know Them | by Marko Milanovic
Eighty Years Ago, At Nuremberg: By Their Fruits We Best Know Them
An event, and a speech, always deserving of reflection – eighty years ago, Justice Robert Jackson (who never finished college and did only one year of law school), on leave from the US Supreme Court w...
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November 22, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Eighty Years Ago, At Nuremberg: By Their Fruits We Best Know Them | by Marko Milanovic
A Human Right to Informational Self-determination: What it is and why it matters for Digital Human Rights
| by Yuval Shany and Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
| by Yuval Shany and Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
A Human Right to Informational Self-determination: What it is and why it matters for Digital Human Rights
On 9 October 2025, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (‘Inter-American Commission’) published a thematic report titled “The Impact of Digital Surveillance on Freedom of Expression in the Am...
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November 21, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A Human Right to Informational Self-determination: What it is and why it matters for Digital Human Rights
| by Yuval Shany and Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
| by Yuval Shany and Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
Justice Recoded? Why It Matters that the International Criminal Court Embraced Open-Source Software and Ditched Microsoft | by Jennifer Tridgell
Justice Recoded? Why It Matters that the International Criminal Court Embraced Open-Source Software and Ditched Microsoft
On 31 October 2025, the International Criminal Court (Court) confirmed reports that it is replacing its Microsoft Office Suite with openDesk– open-source software (OSS) developed by Germany’s ZenDiS (...
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November 20, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Justice Recoded? Why It Matters that the International Criminal Court Embraced Open-Source Software and Ditched Microsoft | by Jennifer Tridgell
Remodel the World Trade Organization: A Comparative Institutional Perspective | by Gu Bin
Remodel the World Trade Organization: A Comparative Institutional Perspective
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is under a prolonged stress test, as its Director General Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala termed recently in a Financial Times article. This stress test is not unique; it is hap...
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November 19, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Remodel the World Trade Organization: A Comparative Institutional Perspective | by Gu Bin
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The Climate Change Advisory Opinion from a space-law perspective.
From Climate to Cosmos: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and Its Implications for Sustainable Space Governance | by Yu Takeuchi and Yurika Ishii
From Climate to Cosmos: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and Its Implications for Sustainable Space Governance
Introduction Assume hypothetically a future request for an International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on States’ obligations to protect outer space. How would the ICJ draw from the Advisory...
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November 17, 2025 at 12:29 PM
The Climate Change Advisory Opinion from a space-law perspective.
Abstaining from Abstention: UNSC Resolution 2774 (2025) and Obligatory Abstention under Article 27(3) of the UN Charter | by Akira Kato
Abstaining from Abstention: UNSC Resolution 2774 (2025) and Obligatory Abstention under Article 27(3) of the UN Charter
UN Security Council resolution 2774 (2025) was a long-awaited resolution on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as non-procedural draft resolutions had been vetoed by Russia since the invasion. However, its...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Abstaining from Abstention: UNSC Resolution 2774 (2025) and Obligatory Abstention under Article 27(3) of the UN Charter | by Akira Kato
The World Court on Law of the Sea and Statehood in the Context of Climate Change-Related Sea-Level Rise | by Nathaniel Khng
The World Court on Law of the Sea and Statehood in the Context of Climate Change-Related Sea-Level Rise
On July 23, 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change (Advisory Opinion). This was the third advisory opin...
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November 18, 2025 at 11:41 AM
The World Court on Law of the Sea and Statehood in the Context of Climate Change-Related Sea-Level Rise | by Nathaniel Khng
From Climate to Cosmos: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and Its Implications for Sustainable Space Governance | by Yu Takeuchi and Yurika Ishii
From Climate to Cosmos: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and Its Implications for Sustainable Space Governance
Introduction Assume hypothetically a future request for an International Court of Justice (ICJ) Advisory Opinion on States’ obligations to protect outer space. How would the ICJ draw from the Advisory...
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November 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
From Climate to Cosmos: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and Its Implications for Sustainable Space Governance | by Yu Takeuchi and Yurika Ishii
Announcements: Obligations Erga Omnes Symposium; ELAW Fellowship; International Refugee Law Competition; CfS Cambridge International Law Journal; Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals Lecture; CfS International Criminal Law Conference | by Mary Guest
Announcements: Obligations Erga Omnes Symposium; ELAW Fellowship; International Refugee Law Competition; CfS Cambridge International Law Journal; Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals Lecture; CfS Interna...
1. Obligations Erga Omnes: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives Symposium. On 28 November 2025, from 2pm to 6pm, Bocconi University will host in hybrid format the symposium ‘Obligations Erga Omnes: ...
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November 16, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Announcements: Obligations Erga Omnes Symposium; ELAW Fellowship; International Refugee Law Competition; CfS Cambridge International Law Journal; Prohibition on Forcible Reprisals Lecture; CfS International Criminal Law Conference | by Mary Guest
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✏️ @sunayanasasmal.bsky.social and Lorenzo Cotula take a look at the US critical minerals deal and what it means to other countries: www.ejiltalk.org/non-binding-...
✏️ @sunayanasasmal.bsky.social and Lorenzo Cotula take a look at the US critical minerals deal and what it means to other countries: www.ejiltalk.org/non-binding-...
Non-Binding Instruments in International Economic Diplomacy: A Look at the US Critical Minerals Deals
Within ongoing great-power competition in the global economy, “critical” minerals have assumed considerable significance due to their essential role in the advanced technology, defence and green indus...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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✏️ @sunayanasasmal.bsky.social and Lorenzo Cotula take a look at the US critical minerals deal and what it means to other countries: www.ejiltalk.org/non-binding-...
✏️ @sunayanasasmal.bsky.social and Lorenzo Cotula take a look at the US critical minerals deal and what it means to other countries: www.ejiltalk.org/non-binding-...
“The ICC has always been close to my heart” – An interview with the President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court, Ambassador Päivi Kaukoranta | by Edward Haxton
“The ICC has always been close to my heart” – An interview with the President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court, Ambassador Päivi Kaukoranta
On 5 September 2025, I interviewed Ambassador Päivi Kaukoranta, President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court. It was a wide-ranging conversation in which we discusse...
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November 15, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“The ICC has always been close to my heart” – An interview with the President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court, Ambassador Päivi Kaukoranta | by Edward Haxton
The Prosecution ‘Gap’ for Attacks on Subsea Cables and Pipelines | by Jacques Hartmann and Alexander Lott
The Prosecution ‘Gap’ for Attacks on Subsea Cables and Pipelines
Recent incidents in the Baltic Sea and elsewhere have exposed both the vulnerability of undersea infrastructure and the fragility of the legal order meant to protect it. While recent pieces on EJIL: T...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
The Prosecution ‘Gap’ for Attacks on Subsea Cables and Pipelines | by Jacques Hartmann and Alexander Lott
Listening in Times of Crisis: Notes from the Peoples’ Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan | by Kalika Mehta
Listening in Times of Crisis: Notes from the Peoples’ Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan
In the wake of relentless violence being live-streamed onto our phones for the last two years, the international legal community has been confronted with questions about the relevance and legitimacy o...
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November 14, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Listening in Times of Crisis: Notes from the Peoples’ Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan | by Kalika Mehta
🎙️New episode of EJIL: The Podcast! – ‘Holding the Line’
Philippa Webb & Marko Milanovic speak with Nicolas Angelet and Oona Hathaway on the legality of US strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean & threats against Venezuela.
🎧 Listen here:
Philippa Webb & Marko Milanovic speak with Nicolas Angelet and Oona Hathaway on the legality of US strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean & threats against Venezuela.
🎧 Listen here:
EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 39: Holding the Line
In this episode, Philippa Webb (Oxford) and Marko Milanovic (Reading) are joined by Nicolas Angelet (Ghent) and Oona Hathaway (Yale) to discuss the legality of the US strikes against suspected drug bo...
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November 14, 2025 at 8:28 AM
🎙️New episode of EJIL: The Podcast! – ‘Holding the Line’
Philippa Webb & Marko Milanovic speak with Nicolas Angelet and Oona Hathaway on the legality of US strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean & threats against Venezuela.
🎧 Listen here:
Philippa Webb & Marko Milanovic speak with Nicolas Angelet and Oona Hathaway on the legality of US strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean & threats against Venezuela.
🎧 Listen here:
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Cannot wait to listen to Marko, Philippa, Nicolas and @oonahathaway.bsky.social at this @ejiltalk.bsky.social Podcast.
www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-pod...
www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-pod...
EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 39: Holding the Line
In this episode, Philippa Webb (Oxford) and Marko Milanovic (Reading) are joined by Nicolas Angelet (Ghent) and Oona Hathaway (Yale) to discuss the legality of the US strikes against suspected drug bo...
www.ejiltalk.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Cannot wait to listen to Marko, Philippa, Nicolas and @oonahathaway.bsky.social at this @ejiltalk.bsky.social Podcast.
www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-pod...
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First Meeting of the EJIL Executive and Advisory Boards in Their New Composition (September 2025) | by Sarah Nouwen
First Meeting of the EJIL Executive and Advisory Boards in Their New Composition (September 2025)
In the margins of the annual conference of the European Society of International Law, the EJIL Executive and Advisory Boards met, in hybrid format, for the first time in their new composition. Long-se...
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November 12, 2025 at 6:37 PM
First Meeting of the EJIL Executive and Advisory Boards in Their New Composition (September 2025) | by Sarah Nouwen
Non-Binding Instruments in International Economic Diplomacy: A Look at the US Critical Minerals Deals
| by Lorenzo Cotula and Sunayana Sasmal
| by Lorenzo Cotula and Sunayana Sasmal
Non-Binding Instruments in International Economic Diplomacy: A Look at the US Critical Minerals Deals
Within ongoing great-power competition in the global economy, “critical” minerals have assumed considerable significance due to their essential role in the advanced technology, defence and green indus...
www.ejiltalk.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Non-Binding Instruments in International Economic Diplomacy: A Look at the US Critical Minerals Deals
| by Lorenzo Cotula and Sunayana Sasmal
| by Lorenzo Cotula and Sunayana Sasmal