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- The ECtHR’s First Victimisation Judgment… 50 years after the 1975 Equal Pay Directive 14/05/2026In December 2025, in Ortega Ortega v. Spain, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), for the first time, found that unremedied employer retaliation against a sex discrimination complainant amounted to sex discrimination. The domestic courts upheld a woman’s dismissal after she complained about unequal pay. The ECtHR found a violation of Article 14 with Article 8 […]Margarita S. Ilieva
- The Twice-Coerced Zambia and the Synergy Between Human Rights Violations and Prohibited Intervention 13/05/2026Last week, like many other scholars and activists, I was due to participate in RightsCon, the leading conference on human rights in the digital age. This year it was supposed to take place in Zambia, with thousands of participants. The conference is organised by Access Now. They had for many months directly cooperated with the […]Marko Milanovic
- Functional Immunity and “Covert Violent Acts”: The BGH’s Progressive Development of CIL in the Nord Stream Case 12/05/2026On 10 December 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) delivered its order (StB 60/25, English press release available here) in the criminal case against Serhiy K., accused of participating in the destruction of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in September 2022. K.’s defence raised functional immunity as a procedural bar, […]Przemysław Roguski
- Diriyah Meets Washington: The IMF’s Institutional Reform Dilemma 11/05/2026Amid uncertainty over the continuation of the war in the Middle East, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held its spring meetings from 13 to 18 April 2026 in Washington, D.C. As expected, the economic turbulences created by the conflict dominated the proceedings. The IMF promised to step up its support for struggling countries. In the […]Robin Beglinger
- Announcements: CfP Mapping International Law’s Second Worlds; Digital Battlefields Summer School; From Transitional to Transformative Justice Seminar; Law, Environment and Vulnerability PhD Workshop; Rosalyn Higgins Prize 10/05/20261. Call for Papers: SWAIL II – Mapping International Law’s Second Worlds: Middle Powers, Semi-Peripheries and Shifting Hierarchies in the Global Legal Order. Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, 16-17 November 2026. While international law’s role in perpetuating hierarchy, domination and exclusion are increasingly acknowledged even in mainstream disciplinary accounts, less attention […]Mary Guest
- Rewriting Article 422: Ecuador’s Constitutional Court, ISDS, and the Limits of Judicial Constitutional Change 06/05/2026Introduction On 30 March 2026, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court issued Dictamen 19-25-TI/26A, conditionally approving the Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments between Ecuador and the United Arab Emirates (the “UAE BIT”), including the investor-State dispute settlement (“ISDS”) mechanism established in Article 20. The ruling concludes a two-stage constitutional review: on 5 March 2026, the Court […]Ladan Mehranvar
- Process-oriented Review in German Arms Export Litigations: Beyond Victories and Defeats 05/05/2026The ongoing humanitarian situation in Gaza presents complex legal and ethical challenges. As the ICJ considers Nicaragua v. Germany, the international legal community is examining how German courts have assessed the legality of arms exports to Israel. This article aims not to present generalizable judicial principles but to demonstrate that procedural governance is key to […]Shun Oshita
- Beyond the Blockaded Area: Interdicting Iranian Oil and the Limits of Existing Maritime Legal Frameworks 04/05/2026Recent efforts by the United States to interdict Iranian oil shipments in distant waters have extended well beyond the Persian Gulf. These operations have included the interception of tankers carrying Iranian oil—often operating under neutral flags—in areas such as the Indian Ocean, far from any declared blockaded zone. In at least some instances, so-called “sanctioned” […]Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga
- Two(ish) Weeks in Review: 6 April—1 May 2026 03/05/2026In a slightly extended version of Two Weeks in Review, we take in fundamental questions about what happens when law and lawyers seek or refuse to justify illegal actions, “relocation orders” issued by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, Australian soldiers and Belgian consular officials in domestic courts for […]Sebastian von Massow
- Announcements: CfP Canadian Council on International Law Annual Conference; CfA Digital and AI Governance; CfP Political Afterlives of Sexual Violence Allegations; CfS Frankfurt Law Review; CfS International Trade and Business Law Review; CfP International Humanitarian Law Beyond States Conference; Global Health Law and Governance Webinar 03/05/20261. Call for Proposals: Canadian Council on International Law Annual Conference. The Canadian Council on International Law will hold its Annual Conference in Ottawa (CA) on 29 – 30 October 2026. The theme of the conference is “Bend, Not Break: Resilience and Evolution of International Law”. The conference seeks to challenge both the supposed post-mortem […]Mary Guest