EJIL: Talk!
- UNSC Resolution 2803 novembre 28, 2025On 17 November, the UNSC by 13 votes passed an historic and deeply problematic Resolution relating to the future governance of Gaza. While China and Russia had expressed doubts and Russia had circulated an alternative draft in the run up to the vote, a flurry of US lobbying of non-member regional allies persuaded these two […]Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
- Five Reasons to Stay Away from the ‘Crisis and Renewal’ Narrative in International Law novembre 28, 2025Image: Place markers in preparation for the Bandung Conference, 1955 (Howard Sochurek). This post is the second in the mini symposium, International Law in the Current Moment. A couple of weeks ago I went to the post office in Florence. A friend had asked me to send an exhibition catalogue to Boston. When the […]Arnulf Becker Lorca
- Reassessing Consent in Counterclaims: Rebalancing Investment Protection and Public Interest under the UNCITRAL ISDS Reform novembre 27, 2025In mid-2025, the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Working Group III (WGIII) released a new set of Draft Provisions on Procedural and Cross-Cutting Issues, as part of its ongoing reform of investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS), which aims at addressing long-standing concerns about the fairness, balance, and effectiveness of the current system. One […]Li Yi
- On Palestine and the Death of the West’s International Legal Order novembre 26, 2025This post is the first in the mini symposium, International Law in the Current Moment. Introduction The history of international law is littered with paradigmatic signposts of change, moments of calamity and renewal, collapse and regeneration. From the Peace of Westphalia to the Congress of Vienna, the Treaty of Versailles to the San Francisco […]Ardi Imseis
- International Law in the Current Moment: Radically Different or Much the Same, and Then What? novembre 25, 2025The language of ‘crisis‘, ‘collapse‘, ‘destruction‘, ‘dystopia‘, and even ‘death‘ is surrounding the words international law at the moment. For international lawyers, including those involved in publishing international law, this raises the question whether we should be doing something differently and if so what and how. The question was put to the EJIL advisory and executive […]Sarah Nouwen
- The Erosion of Women’s Rights and the ECtHR’s Judgment in A.R. v. Poland novembre 25, 2025Reproductive rights have become an increasingly central dimension of the contemporary human rights landscape, shaping the evolution of both general human rights doctrine and the specific trajectory of women’s rights. They function not only as indicators of progressive legal development but also as sensitive barometers of broader political shifts. Across the world, resurgent right-wing movements […]Hanna Welte
- “Intent to Destroy”: Reflections on the Swedish Yazidi Genocide Case novembre 24, 2025Reading the Swedish judgments in the Lina Ishaq case is an unsettling experience. The description of the atrocities inflicted on the Yazidi community by ISIS is presented with a level of factual precision that leaves little space for abstraction. The Stockholm District Court’s account of the attacks on Sinjar and the subsequent treatment of Yazidi […]Paola Gaeta
- Eighty Years Ago, At Nuremberg: By Their Fruits We Best Know Them novembre 22, 2025An event, and a speech, always deserving of reflection – eighty years ago, Justice Robert Jackson (who never finished college and did only one year of law school), on leave from the US Supreme Court while he served as the Chief US Prosecutor at the International Military Tribunal, delivered his opening statement in courtroom 600 […]Marko Milanovic
- A Human Right to Informational Self-determination: What it is and why it matters for Digital Human Rights novembre 21, 2025On 9 October 2025, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (‘Inter-American Commission’) published a thematic report titled “The Impact of Digital Surveillance on Freedom of Expression in the Americas”. Among other things, the report called on member states to give effect to a new human right – the “right to informational self-determination”. The report comes […]Yuval Shany
- Justice Recoded? Why It Matters that the International Criminal Court Embraced Open-Source Software and Ditched Microsoft novembre 20, 2025On 31 October 2025, the International Criminal Court (Court) confirmed reports that it is replacing its Microsoft Office Suite with openDesk– open-source software (OSS) developed by Germany’s ZenDiS (Center for Digital Sovereignty). That development is hardly surprising – and, for some, “about time”. Nevertheless, it bears important implications for the Court’s daily ability to fulfill its […]Jennifer Tridgell