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Leaving Out ‘Leaving it in the Ground’: The ECtHR’s Greenpeace Nordic Judgment | by Pranav Ganesan
Leaving Out ‘Leaving it in the Ground’: The ECtHR’s Greenpeace Nordic Judgment
Introduction On 28 October 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) pronounced its judgment in the case of Greenpeace Nordic and Others v Norway, a case concerning the issuance of licenses for...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Leaving Out ‘Leaving it in the Ground’: The ECtHR’s Greenpeace Nordic Judgment | by Pranav Ganesan
Data Protection in Humanitarian Action | by Wojciech Wiewiórowski
Data Protection in Humanitarian Action
Introduction To mark ten years of progress in data protection in humanitarian action, this post is part of a special blog series accompanying the recently published Routledge volume Data Protection i...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Data Protection in Humanitarian Action | by Wojciech Wiewiórowski
Announcements: CfS ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize; CfEL Armed Conflict and Climate Change Workshop; CfP Human Rights Essay Award; Year of Climate Change in International Courts Colloquium [...] | by Mary Guest
Announcements: CfS ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize; CfEL Armed Conflict and Climate Change Workshop; CfP Human Rights Essay Award; Year of Climate Change in International Courts Coll...
1. Call for Submissions: ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize. Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 American Society of International Law International Criminal Law Scholarship...
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November 9, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Announcements: CfS ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize; CfEL Armed Conflict and Climate Change Workshop; CfP Human Rights Essay Award; Year of Climate Change in International Courts Colloquium [...] | by Mary Guest
Anchoring Criminal Jurisdiction at Sea: The Helsinki District Court’s Eagle S Judgement and its impact for the protection of submarine cables and pipelines
| by Tom Ruys and Yiannis Bamnios
| by Tom Ruys and Yiannis Bamnios
Anchoring Criminal Jurisdiction at Sea: The Helsinki District Court’s Eagle S Judgement and its impact for the protection of submarine cables and pipelines
The Eagle S incident – a refresher On Christmas Day 2024, the Estlink 2 electricity cable connecting Finland and Estonia was cut by the Eagle S, an oil tanker sailing under the flag of the Cook Island...
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November 7, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Anchoring Criminal Jurisdiction at Sea: The Helsinki District Court’s Eagle S Judgement and its impact for the protection of submarine cables and pipelines
| by Tom Ruys and Yiannis Bamnios
| by Tom Ruys and Yiannis Bamnios
The EU Reparation Loan as Solutio Damni for Ukraine | by Davide Genini
The EU Reparation Loan as Solutio Damni for Ukraine
At the October 2025 European Council, European leaders invited the Commission ‘to present, as soon as possible, options for financial support’ for Ukraine based on the use of immobilised Russian asset...
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November 7, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The EU Reparation Loan as Solutio Damni for Ukraine | by Davide Genini
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Today is sort of the 75th birthday of the ECHR and the backlash against this achievement might never have been more widespread and organized as in this moment.
@ejiltalk.bsky.social has a carefully argued piece warning against "sleepwalking towards its demise."
www.ejiltalk.org/reinforce-re...
@ejiltalk.bsky.social has a carefully argued piece warning against "sleepwalking towards its demise."
www.ejiltalk.org/reinforce-re...
Reinforce, Reform or Rupture? The Future of the European Convention on Human Rights
Introduction If a week is a long time in politics, then two years is an eternity for the Council of Europe. At the Reykjavik summit in May 2023, European leaders across the political spectrum reaffir...
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November 4, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Today is sort of the 75th birthday of the ECHR and the backlash against this achievement might never have been more widespread and organized as in this moment.
@ejiltalk.bsky.social has a carefully argued piece warning against "sleepwalking towards its demise."
www.ejiltalk.org/reinforce-re...
@ejiltalk.bsky.social has a carefully argued piece warning against "sleepwalking towards its demise."
www.ejiltalk.org/reinforce-re...
Casual Vacancy Elections and “Pre-Campaigning” for Permanent Elections | by Noam Morris
Casual Vacancy Elections and “Pre-Campaigning” for Permanent Elections
Following Judge Abulqawi Yusuf’s resignation from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations will hold an election on 12 November 2025, to fill his vacant seat for the remainder of h...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Casual Vacancy Elections and “Pre-Campaigning” for Permanent Elections | by Noam Morris
The Security Council and the Western Sahara: Between Self-Determination and Implicit Recognition of Moroccan Sovereignty | by Kushtrim Istrefi
The Security Council and the Western Sahara: Between Self-Determination and Implicit Recognition of Moroccan Sovereignty
On 31 October 2025, the Security Council voted in favour of Resolution 2797 extending the mandate of the long-standing UN mission to Western Sahara, but this time referenced Morocco’s 2007 Autonomy Pr...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:50 AM
The Security Council and the Western Sahara: Between Self-Determination and Implicit Recognition of Moroccan Sovereignty | by Kushtrim Istrefi
The 1.5°C Temperature Target as a Means to an End: Key Implications of the ICJ’s Interpretation of the Paris Agreement’s Overall Objective | by Rita Guerreiro Teixeira, Nataša Nedeski and Gleider Hernández
The 1.5°C Temperature Target as a Means to an End: Key Implications of the ICJ’s Interpretation of the Paris Agreement’s Overall Objective
Introduction In its 2025 Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change (AO), the International Court of Justice (ICJ) gave its imprimatur to the aim of limiting global tempera...
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November 4, 2025 at 11:22 AM
The 1.5°C Temperature Target as a Means to an End: Key Implications of the ICJ’s Interpretation of the Paris Agreement’s Overall Objective | by Rita Guerreiro Teixeira, Nataša Nedeski and Gleider Hernández
Opting Out of Accountability: The United States and the Implications of Withdrawal from the Universal Periodic Review | by Michael Lane and Alice Storey
Opting Out of Accountability: The United States and the Implications of Withdrawal from the Universal Periodic Review
On 28th August 2025, the United States of America (USA) took the step of withdrawing from the UN’s human rights monitoring process, the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The peer review process, throug...
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November 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Opting Out of Accountability: The United States and the Implications of Withdrawal from the Universal Periodic Review | by Michael Lane and Alice Storey
Announcements: CfP Business, Armed Conflict and International Law Workshop; UN Audiovisual Library of International Law; FAO Role of International Law in Shaping a Better Future Lecture; CfP Fairness and International Law; [...] | by Mary Guest
Announcements: CfP Business, Armed Conflict and International Law Workshop; UN Audiovisual Library of International Law; FAO Role of International Law in Shaping a Better Future Lecture; CfP Fairness ...
1. Call for Papers: Business, Armed Conflict and International Law Workshop at Utrecht University. This workshop is aiming to study the involvement of businesses in armed conflict, broadly defined, fr...
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November 2, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Announcements: CfP Business, Armed Conflict and International Law Workshop; UN Audiovisual Library of International Law; FAO Role of International Law in Shaping a Better Future Lecture; CfP Fairness and International Law; [...] | by Mary Guest
The Moscow Mechanism Expert Report on the Treatment of Ukrainian Prisoners of War by the Russian Federation | by Hervé Ascencio, Veronika Bilkova and Mark Klamberg
The Moscow Mechanism Expert Report on the Treatment of Ukrainian Prisoners of War by the Russian Federation
In July 2025, forty-one OSCE participating States, in cooperation with Ukraine, invoked the OSCE Moscow Mechanism to examine the treatment of Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) by the Russian Federatio...
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October 31, 2025 at 11:53 AM
The Moscow Mechanism Expert Report on the Treatment of Ukrainian Prisoners of War by the Russian Federation | by Hervé Ascencio, Veronika Bilkova and Mark Klamberg
Rethinking Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach | by Başak Çali and Laurence Helfer
Rethinking Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach
Human rights treaties embed rights in national legal systems, empowering individuals to claim their rights domestically and internationally. Yet it is exceptionally easy for states to withdraw from mo...
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October 30, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Rethinking Human Rights Treaty Withdrawals: A Process-Based Approach | by Başak Çali and Laurence Helfer
Criminal Boundaries of Being and Turkey’s Future in Europe: Penalization of Gender and “Immoral” Sexuality under Turkey’s 11th Judicial “Reform” Draft | by Bedirhan Erdem and Katrin Müller
Criminal Boundaries of Being and Turkey’s Future in Europe: Penalization of Gender and “Immoral” Sexuality under Turkey’s 11th Judicial “Reform” Draft
The 11th Judicial “Reform” Draft marks a decisive turn in Turkey’s authoritarian transformation (see here, here and here), recasting criminal law as a moral device of identity governance by penalizing...
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October 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Criminal Boundaries of Being and Turkey’s Future in Europe: Penalization of Gender and “Immoral” Sexuality under Turkey’s 11th Judicial “Reform” Draft | by Bedirhan Erdem and Katrin Müller
Reinforce, Reform or Rupture? The Future of the European Convention on Human Rights | by Alice Donald and Andrew Forde
Reinforce, Reform or Rupture? The Future of the European Convention on Human Rights
Introduction If a week is a long time in politics, then two years is an eternity for the Council of Europe. At the Reykjavik summit in May 2023, European leaders across the political spectrum reaffir...
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October 29, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Reinforce, Reform or Rupture? The Future of the European Convention on Human Rights | by Alice Donald and Andrew Forde
Further Legal Consequences of Obligations Erga Omnes (Partes) in the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion: Duty of Non-Recognition and Article 62 Intervention
| by Icarus Chan
| by Icarus Chan
Further Legal Consequences of Obligations Erga Omnes (Partes) in the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion: Duty of Non-Recognition and Article 62 Intervention
In its Climate Change Advisory Opinion, the International Court of Justice held that certain climate-related obligations of States under customary international law and climate change treaties are erg...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Further Legal Consequences of Obligations Erga Omnes (Partes) in the ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion: Duty of Non-Recognition and Article 62 Intervention
| by Icarus Chan
| by Icarus Chan
The Hyper Political Nature of International Environmental Law | by Ole W Pedersen
The Hyper Political Nature of International Environmental Law
The recent post by Daniel Bodansky and Suan Biniaz on the possible chilling effects of the ICJ’s advisory opinion on climate change, as well as the recent ruminations on the state of the world and th...
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October 28, 2025 at 12:41 PM
The Hyper Political Nature of International Environmental Law | by Ole W Pedersen
A Follow-Up on the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion
| by Marko Milanovic
| by Marko Milanovic
A Follow-Up on the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion
In my previous post, I discussed the bottom line of the ICJ’s UNRWA advisory opinion – essentially the Court’s finding that Israel’s obligations under IHL, IHRL and the UN Charter compelled it not to ...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:05 PM
A Follow-Up on the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion
| by Marko Milanovic
| by Marko Milanovic
Announcements: Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law Book Launch; CfP Central Asia Yearbook on International Law; CfP State Responsibility in Crisis Workshop; International Law Working Group Research Exchange Forum | by Mary Guest
Announcements: Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law Book Launch; CfP Central Asia Yearbook on International Law; CfP State Responsibility in Crisis Workshop; International Law Working G...
1. Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law Book Launch. On 29 October at 5,30pm, in London, the International Law at Westminster (ILaW) centre will host the launch of the book Responsibili...
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October 27, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Announcements: Responsibility Sharing in International Refugee Law Book Launch; CfP Central Asia Yearbook on International Law; CfP State Responsibility in Crisis Workshop; International Law Working Group Research Exchange Forum | by Mary Guest
The UN Charter at 80 | by Devika Hovell
The UN Charter at 80
The United Nations Charter entered into force eighty years ago on 24 October 1945. Eighty years is a long life for a world order. Empires, like people, rarely last much longer. Every empire, every wo...
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October 24, 2025 at 10:59 AM
The UN Charter at 80 | by Devika Hovell
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Very worthwhile @ejiltalk.bsky.social blog by @deanruskintlaw.bsky.social @universityofga.bsky.social's Prof @desireelc.bsky.social on 'The ILO’s Right to Strike: Distinguishing Non-Binding Principles from Binding Conventions at the ICJ' www.ejiltalk.org/the-ilos-rig...
The ILO’s Right to Strike: Distinguishing Non-Binding Principles from Binding Conventions at the ICJ
From 6-8 October, 2025, the International Court of Justice held public hearings in response to the International Labour Organization (ILO)’s request for an advisory opinion on the following question: ...
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October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Very worthwhile @ejiltalk.bsky.social blog by @deanruskintlaw.bsky.social @universityofga.bsky.social's Prof @desireelc.bsky.social on 'The ILO’s Right to Strike: Distinguishing Non-Binding Principles from Binding Conventions at the ICJ' www.ejiltalk.org/the-ilos-rig...
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The WGIII deliberations are heading into the home strecth. As time becomes salient, parties increasingly discuss what tenable compromises look like. In this @ejiltalk.bsky.social post, we explore the dynamic of compromise in the negotiations on Security for Costs.
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Time and Compromise in UNCITRAL’s Working Group III
During the week of 22 September 2025, States once again met in Vienna under Working Group III (WGIII) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to deliberate reforms to in...
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October 22, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The WGIII deliberations are heading into the home strecth. As time becomes salient, parties increasingly discuss what tenable compromises look like. In this @ejiltalk.bsky.social post, we explore the dynamic of compromise in the negotiations on Security for Costs.
www.ejiltalk.org/time-and-com...
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The Bottom Line of the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion
| by Marko Milanovic
| by Marko Milanovic
The Bottom Line of the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion
Yesterday, the International Court of Justice delivered its advisory opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations, Other International Organiza...
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October 23, 2025 at 9:09 AM
The Bottom Line of the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion
| by Marko Milanovic
| by Marko Milanovic
Time and Compromise in UNCITRAL’s Working Group III
| by Ladan Mehranvar and Tarald Gulseth Berge
| by Ladan Mehranvar and Tarald Gulseth Berge
Time and Compromise in UNCITRAL’s Working Group III
During the week of 22 September 2025, States once again met in Vienna under Working Group III (WGIII) of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) to deliberate reforms to in...
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October 22, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Time and Compromise in UNCITRAL’s Working Group III
| by Ladan Mehranvar and Tarald Gulseth Berge
| by Ladan Mehranvar and Tarald Gulseth Berge
The Pitfalls of Addressing Rising Industrial Un-competitiveness Through Trade Remedies | by Victor Crochet and Weihuan Zhou
The Pitfalls of Addressing Rising Industrial Un-competitiveness Through Trade Remedies
Energy costs have been rising, particularly in Europe following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This price hike is a major blow to heavy industries for which energy makes up a large part of the ...
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October 21, 2025 at 11:19 AM
The Pitfalls of Addressing Rising Industrial Un-competitiveness Through Trade Remedies | by Victor Crochet and Weihuan Zhou