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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
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
🎙️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.

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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
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
Non-Binding Instruments in International Economic Diplomacy: A Look at the US Critical Minerals Deals
| 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...
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November 12, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Military Personal Data Processing | by Tatjana Grote
Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Military Personal Data Processing
Photo: Dept. of Defence This post follows on from related posts by Wojciech Wiewiórowski and Mariana Salazar Albornoz. Introduction  Personal data has become an integral part of humanitarian action. L...
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November 11, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: A View from the Americas | by Mariana Salazar Albornoz
Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: A View from the Americas
This post follows on from Wojciech Wiewiórowski‘s introduction to Data Protection in Humanitarian Action.   Personal Data at the Core of Humanitarian Action  According to the UN, by the end of May 202...
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November 11, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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."
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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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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