EJIL: Talk!
- On Violence: Self-Defence to Self-Determination in International Law 01/05/2026There are moments when the international legal order reveals itself not through its rules but through the violence done in its name. Today’s expanding doctrine of self-defence—invoked with increasing ease, justified with decreasing care—is one such moment. It is tempting to read this as an unravelling, a slide into disorder. Yet what is unravelling here […]Michelle Staggs Kelsall
- Who cares about theorizing international organizations? A Rejoinder to Christiane Ahlborn 30/04/2026My latest article, ‘Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary International Law’, addresses whether, how, and to what extent, doctrinal propositions that we accept about the legal personality of states can be extended to international organizations. I argue that our theories would make much more sense if we let go […]Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis
- Caught in the Legal Crossfire? Critical Minerals Agreements and International Economic Law 29/04/2026Over the past few years, a rapidly expanding network of ‘critical minerals’ agreements has added further complexity to global trade and investment frameworks. The surge in deal making is driven by geopolitical rivalries among large economies to secure their supply chains as well as by mineral-rich country interest in mining sector development. At a deeper […]Jesse Coleman
- Analysing Objections to the UN Declaration on the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans 28/04/2026On 25 March 2026, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution A/80/L.48 titled “Declaration on the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity”. 123 UN member states voted in favour, 3 (the United States, Israel, and Argentina) voted against, and 52 abstained. The abstaining states included […]Jerusa Ali
- Challenging Times Ahead: Australia’s War Crimes Prosecutions 27/04/2026On Tuesday, 7 April 2026, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, was arrested and charged with five counts of the war crime of murder. He is the second soldier charged following Australia’s Brereton Inquiry, which, in November 2020, found credible information of 23 incidents of unlawful killing and two incidents of cruel treatment by […]Sarah Williams
- Announcements: Protecting the Right to Life at Sea Summer School; Law Stories Event; CfS Cambridge International Law Journal; Global Power and Technology Summer School; Crimes of Aggression and Genocide Summer School; International & Comparative Law Lecture; ESIL–SLADI Junior Faculty Forum 26/04/20261. Understanding Contemporary Challenges in Protecting the Right to Life at Sea Training School. The first BlueRights training school ‘Understanding Contemporary Challenges in Protecting the Right to Life at Sea’, organised together with the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI), will be held in Malta from 26 – 27 May 2026. This in-person training school […]Mary Guest
- To share or not to share: the compatibility of NATO’s nuclear sharing arrangements with the Non-Proliferation Treaty 24/04/2026Nuclear sharing at the NPT RevCon On 27 April 2026, States will gather in New York for the start of the Eleventh Review Conference of the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). The ‘RevCon’ comes at a particularly turbulent moment in time, marked by nuclear saber-rattling by Russia in the context of its war of aggression against Ukraine, […]Tom Ruys
- EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 43: Sudan — Does international law have anything to say? 23/04/2026The situation in Sudan is often described as the world’s worst humanitarian crisis. Going by the numbers, it could well be more than 150,000 people have died. More than 12 million people have been displaced. More than 21 million people are in a situation of acute food insecurity. But this framing of a humanitarian crisis, […]Sarah Nouwen
- Once Again in Belgium: Prosecuting a Colonial Crime – The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba 22/04/2026In December 2024, a Belgian Court of Appeal recognised the civil liability of the Belgian State for a colonial crime committed in the Belgian Congo between 1948 and 1953. In the Métis case, as already addressed by scholars, the Court held that the Belgian policy of systematically removing children born to a Black mother and […]Raphael Van Steenberghe
- On My Way Out – Advice to Young Scholars IX: Blurbs 21/04/2026I have, as is increasingly evident, reached the final phases of my academic and professional career, though it is a pretty long and winding way out…. Be that as it may, as I look back, I want to offer, for what it is worth, some do’s and don’ts on different topics for scholars in the […]Joseph Weiler