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The UNEP Plastics Negotiations: Is There a Will and a Way? | by Daniel Bodansky

The UNEP Plastics Negotiations: Is There a Will and a Way?

Another round of plastics negotiations, another disappointment. The negotiations, now in their third year, are already in overtime. They were supposed to wrap up last December in Busan, South Korea, a...

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The Entry into Force of the Amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations | by Gian Luca Burci

The Entry into Force of the Amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations

Introduction The International Health Regulations (IHR) are, for the moment, the sole global binding legal instrument in force for the prevention and control of the international spread of disease. T...

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Charlotte E. Blattner @charlotteblattner.bsky.social · 2d

Where do things stand with the implementation of the #KlimaSeniorinnen judgment? A brief update and analysis of the Committee of Ministers’ latest decision is now available on @ejiltalk.bsky.social @coe.int
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Another Brick in the Wall of KlimaSeniorinnen: The Committee of Ministers’ September 2025 Monitoring Decision

1. Introduction It has been more than a year since the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its groundbreaking climate judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 2d

Another Brick in the Wall of KlimaSeniorinnen: The Committee of Ministers’ September 2025 Monitoring Decision | by Corina Heri, Charlotte E. Blattner and Tobias Cadalbert

Another Brick in the Wall of KlimaSeniorinnen: The Committee of Ministers’ September 2025 Monitoring Decision

1. Introduction It has been more than a year since the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its groundbreaking climate judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 2d

Trump’s 20 Points on Gaza – Liberal peacebuilding sans liberalism, or: Capitalism without a human face | by Leon Seidl

Trump’s 20 Points on Gaza – Liberal peacebuilding sans liberalism, or: Capitalism without a human face

On 29 September 2025, Donald Trump unveiled his 20 point peace plan (20 Points) for the conflict in Gaza in a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu. The proposal has been welcomed by leaders ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 5d

Pinochet, Bashir, Putin, Netanyahu, Gallant, Herzog: Immunities for High Officials – the Importance of Getting State Practice Right | by Max Du Plessis

Pinochet, Bashir, Putin, Netanyahu, Gallant, Herzog: Immunities for High Officials – the Importance of Getting State Practice Right

Immunities are back in vogue. And the debate about them – their relevance, and whether they can shield wanted war criminals from investigation, prosecution or issued arrest warrants – is again front ...

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · 6d

This might be read alongside this excellent update bsky.app/profile/ejil...

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Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR | by Paulina Rundel

Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR

In the shadows of the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion, Strasbourg has been busy with climate cases too – busy, mostly saying no. Published on 28 August 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 6d

The Uneven Application of Universal Jurisdiction: Living with Impunity vs. Living in Fear | by Natalie Bryce, Leslie Johns and Máximo Langer

The Uneven Application of Universal Jurisdiction: Living with Impunity vs. Living in Fear

This will be a busy fall for French courts. Two major cases are testing France’s approach towards international justice. First, Roger Lumbala Tshitenga, a former Congolese warlord accused of crimes a...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 7d

Responding to the Pressing Financial Needs of the United Nations | by Hosung Ahn

Responding to the Pressing Financial Needs of the United Nations

As the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (‘GA’) high-level week draws to a close, the time has come for the GA to get busy with discussing the pressing issues on the table. Among the...

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Proving Genocide: A Follow-up to Marko Milanovic | by Kai Ambos

Proving Genocide: A Follow-up to Marko Milanovic

In his recent – as always highly inspiring – post on proving genocide, Marko Milanovic makes five points on the “correct legal position” of which I will challenge here the second and fifth one. 1. Fir...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 8d

Dystopian International Law | by Marko Milanovic

Dystopian International Law

There is now a whole genre of scholarship in which international lawyers ruminate on the disastrous state of the world – Philippa Webb and Lydia Kim recently did a good survey of it here on the blog. ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 9d

Xi’s, Putin’s and Trump’s (Not So) Competing World Orders | by Tatjana Papic

Xi’s, Putin’s and Trump’s (Not So) Competing World Orders

The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the world’s pre-eminent and most inclusive multilateral forum, started last week in New York. Rather than a cause for celebration, the g...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 9d

Announcements: Ghandhi Research Seminar Series; CfP Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and Others Workshop [...] | by Mary Guest

Announcements: Ghandhi Research Seminar Series; CfP Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and Others Workshop; CfP Knowledge of International and European Law Since 1945 Workshop; CfA GNLU-CPI...

1. Ghandhi Research Seminar Series 2025-26, Fall Semester. Global Law at Reading (GLAR) is Reading University’s research hub for public international law, EU law and human rights law, with a proud int...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 12d

Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR | by Paulina Rundel

Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR

In the shadows of the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion, Strasbourg has been busy with climate cases too – busy, mostly saying no. Published on 28 August 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 12d

Two new Associate Editors appointed to EJIL: Talk!
| by Julian Arato, Nehal Bhuta, Wanshu Cong, Devika Hovell, Miles Jackson, Marko Milanovic and Justina Uriburu

Two new Associate Editors appointed to EJIL: Talk!

We are delighted to announce that Dr Luíza Leão Soares Pereira and Dr Sebastian von Massow have been appointed as Associate Editors of EJIL: Talk!, joining Mary Guest on the team. In this role, they a...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 13d

Two Issues Concerning the French Arrest Warrant for the Algerian Diplomat: Functional Immunities and Qualification of the Crime | by Maxime Rogier

Two Issues Concerning the French Arrest Warrant for the Algerian Diplomat: Functional Immunities and Qualification of the Crime

On the 25th of July 2025, a French judge issued an international arrest warrant against a former Algerian diplomat to the embassy in Paris. According to Le Monde, the arrest warrant concerns the parti...

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Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 15d

Interesting post on UN sanctions regime compared to EU or US and other national sanctions & role of the UN Ombudsperson framework in bringing "a modicum of independence, fairness and accountability into sanctions governance"

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Fifteen Years of the UN Ombudsperson: Due Process as Competitive Advantage | by Devika Hovell

Fifteen Years of the UN Ombudsperson: Due Process as Competitive Advantage

This year marks the 15th anniversary of one of the most quietly revolutionary institutions in global governance: the Office of the United Nations Ombudsperson to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctio...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 14d

The Revised EU-Mercosur Trade Deal: Does it Adequately Address Trade-Environment-Development Interlinkages? | by James Harrison and Sophia Paulini

The Revised EU-Mercosur Trade Deal: Does it Adequately Address Trade-Environment-Development Interlinkages?

The EU has been at the forefront of efforts to consider environmental and development issues in trade agreements. EU new generation agreements include a ‘Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Chapte...

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The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Does It Throw a Wrench into the Negotiator’s Toolbox of Diplomatic Problem-Solving Techniques? | by Daniel Bodansky and Susan Biniaz

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Does It Throw a Wrench into the Negotiator’s Toolbox of Diplomatic Problem-Solving Techniques?

The International Court of Justice’s recent Advisory Opinion on Climate Change (AO) has been widely celebrated by many States, non-governmental groups, and commentators as a victory for climate ambiti...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 15d

Fifteen Years of the UN Ombudsperson: Due Process as Competitive Advantage | by Devika Hovell

Fifteen Years of the UN Ombudsperson: Due Process as Competitive Advantage

This year marks the 15th anniversary of one of the most quietly revolutionary institutions in global governance: the Office of the United Nations Ombudsperson to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctio...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 15d

Now available on the EJIL YouTube channel 🎥

Susan Marks (LSE) delivering the EJIL Foreword lecture at the EUI Law Department: ‘If the World is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?’

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EJIL Foreword Lecture / AEL Distinguished Lecture 2025

YouTube video by European Journal of International Law

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 16d

Four Key Takeaways for Deep Sea Mining from the ICJ Advisory Opinion | by Claire Robertson and Eran Sthoeger

Four Key Takeaways for Deep Sea Mining from the ICJ Advisory Opinion

Established by the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), the International Seabed Authority (ISA) is responsible for administering resources in the Area, including regulating Deep ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 16d

Announcements: CfC BSIL Symposium on ICJ Climate AO; State Succession & Investor-State Dispute Settlement Seminar; CfP Positive Obligations and Discrimination ECtHR Workshop; CfA LACJIL on Climate Emergency ... | by Mary Guest www.ejiltalk.org/announcement...

Announcements: CfC BSIL Symposium on ICJ Climate AO; State Succession & Investor-State Dispute Settlement Seminar; CfP Positive Obligations and Discrimination ECtHR Workshop; CfA LACJIL on Climate Eme...

1. Call for Contributions: BSIL Blog Symposium on ICJ Climate Advisory Opinion. The Bangladesh Society of International Law (BSIL) has launched a Call for Contributions for its inaugural BSIL Blog Sym...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 19d

International Law as a Dual State or How Not to Cope with Failure | by Fuad Zarbiyev

International Law as a Dual State or How Not to Cope with Failure

One day in May 1933, Ernst Fraenkel, a German labor lawyer, was formally notified that, being Jewish, he was prohibited from representing clients before the courts of the Third Reich. As a veteran of ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 20d

Proving Genocide | by Marko Milanovic

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