EJIL: Talk!
- Remodel the World Trade Organization: A Comparative Institutional Perspective novembre 19, 2025The 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 happening also to other international economic organizations (IEOs), as globalization shrinks and unilateralism spreads. An international organization seems much too vulnerable, facing the […]Gu Bin
- Abstaining from Abstention: UNSC Resolution 2774 (2025) and Obligatory Abstention under Article 27(3) of the UN Charter novembre 18, 2025UN 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 content is very simple: it has only two preambular paragraphs and one operative paragraph, which urges a ‘lasting peace’ between Ukraine and Russia. Moreover, the vote […]Akira Kato
- The World Court on Law of the Sea and Statehood in the Context of Climate Change-Related Sea-Level Rise novembre 17, 2025On 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 opinion on climate change obligations issued by an international judicial body, with the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) and the […]Nathaniel Khng
- From Climate to Cosmos: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion and Its Implications for Sustainable Space Governance novembre 17, 2025Introduction 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 Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change (Climate Change Advisory Opinion, CCAO) of 23 July 2025? The current congested, contested, and competitive […]Yu Takeuchi
- 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 novembre 16, 20251. 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: Theoretical and Practical Perspectives’. The speakers will be Roger O’Keefe (Bocconi University), Priya Urs (St John’s College, University of Oxford), Federica Paddeu (Queens’ College, University of […]Mary Guest
- “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 novembre 14, 2025On 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 discussed, among other things, US sanctions, the ongoing investigation into the Prosecutor and the recent special session on the crime of aggression. The interview has been […]Edward Haxton
- EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 39: Holding the Line novembre 14, 2025In 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 boats in the Caribbean and the additional threats made by the United States against Venezuela, which include a possible land invasion. The hosts and […]Marko Milanovic
- The Prosecution ‘Gap’ for Attacks on Subsea Cables and Pipelines novembre 13, 2025Recent 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: Talk! and in Ocean Development & International Law address key facets, this post takes a step back to map the wider prosecutorial gap […]Jacques Hartmann
- Listening in Times of Crisis: Notes from the Peoples’ Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan novembre 13, 2025In 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 of international law: ‘Is international law dead?’ ‘Is it in crisis?’ ‘What is it like to teach international law in times like these?’ ‘Is Gaza […]Kalika Mehta
- First Meeting of the EJIL Executive and Advisory Boards in Their New Composition (September 2025) novembre 12, 2025In 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-serving Advisory Board members who rotated off (Andrea Bianchi, Pierre d’Argent, Neha Jain, Jan Klabbers and Nico Krisch) were thanked; new members of […]Sarah Nouwen