EJIL: Talk!
- Targeting Third-State Merchant Vessels: Military Objectives and War-Sustaining Objects in the Russo-Ukrainian Armed Conflict décembre 12, 2025The Russian aggression that precipitated the Russo-Ukrainian armed conflict has long seen both states affirm the validity of forcible economic warfare at sea. Invoking the law of contraband, they have declared and to varying degrees demonstrated their intent and willingness to inspect, intercept and/or divert, capture or destroy private shipping at sea. Notably though, thus […]Himanil Raina
- Effective Opposition to Summary Executions in an Escalating Phony War at Sea décembre 12, 2025President Donald Trump’s attacks on small boats in the Caribbean and Pacific began on September 2, 2025. To date, 87 people have been killed in 23 incidents, all on the high seas. The President has justified the killings by labeling the individuals involved “narco-terrorists” and linking his policy to the terror wars of his predecessors. […]Mary Ellen O'Connell
- “The Court is not blind to the human suffering behind many of our cases” – An interview with the President of the International Court of Justice, Judge Yuji Iwasawa décembre 11, 2025Photo: The Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands – home of the International Court of Justice (Photo: Frank van Beek – Courtesy of the ICJ) On 5 November 2025, I interviewed Judge Yuji Iwasawa, President of the International Court of Justice. It was a wide-ranging conversation in which we discussed, among other things, Iwasawa’s priorities […]Edward Haxton
- A Contextual Element through the Back Door: The Swedish L.I. case and the Collective Nature of Genocide décembre 11, 2025On 11 November 2025, a Swedish Court of Appeal upheld in its entirety the Stockholm District Court’s judgment in the case of L.I., delivered in February 2025. L.I., a Swedish national, had been convicted of crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide committed against the Yazidi ethno-religious minority in Raqqa, Syria between 2014 and 2015. […]Tolga Dogan
- Thirty years from Dayton: Has the Bosnian Constitution found its legitimacy? décembre 10, 2025This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Known as the Dayton Constitution, after the city in Ohio where the final rounds of peace negotiations involving representatives from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Serbia, and Croatia took place, the Constitution was annexed to the Dayton Peace Accords (DPA) negotiated in that […]Nedim Hogic
- Reclaiming Authority: Forcing Seabed Mining Contractors to Choose between the ISA and the USA décembre 9, 2025Vouloir le beurre et l’argent du beurre Aspiring Canadian mining firm, The Metals Company, Inc. (TMC), through its wholly-owned subsidiaries (p. 10) Nauru Ocean Resources, Inc. (NORI), Tonga Offshore Mining, Ltd. (TOML), and The Metals Company USA, LLC (TMC USA) (together, the TMC Group), is pursuing two incompatible avenues to access and exploit polymetallic nodules […]Coalter Lathrop
- AI-Enabled Weapons Systems and the Environment: The Overlooked Costs of AI-Driven Warfare décembre 8, 2025Introduction The relationship between AI-enabled weapons systems and environmental harm grown in significance in contemporary society. These two areas fall within fields that have attracted increasing global attention: on the one hand, the protection of the environment, and on the other, the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI), meaning the technology that enables machines to […]Marco Di Donato
- Announcements: Legal Dimensions of Agricultural Subsidies in the WTO System Conference; Provisional Measures Before the ICJ Seminar; Empowering Through Digital Technologies Conference décembre 7, 20251. Legal Dimensions of Agricultural Subsidies in the WTO System Conference. This two day International Conference on Legal Dimensions of Agricultural Subsidies in the WTO System will be held virtually on 19 – 20 December 2025 from 10 AM- 6 PM (IST), with no registration fee. Jointly organized by the University of Mysore (India), UCLouvain […]Mary Guest
- The Corporate Identity of UNSC Resolution 2803: Trump’s Gaza Plan as a Business Strategy on New Cities Construction décembre 5, 2025Building on the excellent post by Michelle Burgis-Kasthala on UNSC Resolution 2803 and President Donald Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, annexed to this “deeply problematic Resolution”, we would like to explore here the background and context of the physical reconstruction proposals for Gaza contained in this Plan. Burgis-Kasthala rightly mentions that these […]Helmut Philipp Aust
- Legal Limits for the ICC’s Jurisdiction over International Crimes Committed in Sudan décembre 5, 2025On 3 November 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced investigations into crimes allegedly committed in Darfur since the outbreak of hostilities in April 2023. This announcement comes as reports emerged from from El-Fasher, Northern Darfur, about mass killings, rapes, and other crimes. On 7 November, UN High Commissioner […]Gabriel M. Lentner