EJIL: Talk!
- Can “Safety Zones” provide Safety to Critical Submarine Cables? 21/08/2026Following the submarine cable cuts in the Baltic Sea, the Australian Federal Police was urged to commence an investigation at the behest of Subco, a private submarine cable operator, concerning the damage to two submarine cables. On the second August weekend, technicians detected faults on two submarine cables in an offshore area located in Australia’s […]Natascha Gojkovic
- Institutional Discretion, Due Process and the Common Heritage of Humankind: The First Provisional Measures Orders in NORI and TOML v. the Authority 20/08/2026The first contentious proceedings ever brought before the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (the Chamber) concern far more than a procedural dispute between two contractors and the International Seabed Authority (the Authority). They represent the first judicial examination of the legal limits of the Authority’s discretion when […]Dr. M. E. Salamanca-Aguado
- The ICJ’s Unwritten Rulebook: Regional Succession and Institutional Equilibrium 19/08/2026For almost eighty years, United Nations Member States have behaved as if a mandate required them to maintain regional continuity in elections to the International Court of Justice. Yet, the Court’s Statute contains no such rule. Article 9 requires only that the Court, taken as a whole, represent “the principal legal systems and civilizations of […]Marcel Gross
- The ICC, Arrest Warrants, and Peace Negotiations 18/08/2026Introduction On 9 June 2026, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court issued a decision in response to a request by a State for consultations under Article 97 of the Rome Statute. Article 97 provides an avenue for State Parties to consult the Court where it ‘identifies problems which may impede or prevent the […]Miles Jackson
- Must States Control Their Borders? The Ceuta Crisis and International Law 18/08/2026Ceuta, a Spanish city on the North African coast with a population of approximately 80,000, experienced an unprecedented mass influx of people during the last week of July. Around 70,000 people, mostly Moroccan nationals but also persons from other countries, entered the territory irregularly. Although the precise causes remain uncertain, the immediate trigger appears to […]Carmen Pérez-Gonzalez
- The Removal of the ICC Prosecutor and the Edge of the ICC’s Political Universe 17/08/2026“…I understood that I had collided with the edge of the political universe in which the Tribunal was allowed to function” (Carla Del Ponte, Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity (2009), p. 60) The process culminating in the 24 July 2026 decision by the ICC Assembly of States Parties […]Yuval Shany
- Standing and Remedies in Climate Litigation: How TotalEnergies Echoes KlimaSeniorinnen 17/08/2026The TotalEnergies climate case, whose merits were partially decided by the Paris Judicial Court in June, illustrates how associations may be the gateway through which rights-based climate cases survive. In that case, local governments and NGOs originally brought claims together against the French oil giant. They argued that TotalEnergies’ statutorily-required due diligence plan was incomplete […]Aminta Ossom
- Announcements: Postdoctoral Fellow Vacancy Chinese University of Hong Kong; CfL The African Court at 20; CfA Kırımlı Dr. Aziz Bey International Humanitarian Law Competition & School; CfP Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance; CfA Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law 16/08/20261. Postdoctoral Fellow Vacancy: Chinese University of Hong Kong. CUHK LAW is seeking one outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow with a strong interest and expertise in the legal and political history of war crimes and crimes against humanity, ideally with a particular emphasis upon the Sri Lankan Civil War. Given the nature of the research to be […]Mary Guest
- EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 45: The Nuclear Order Under Threat 13/08/2026The international nuclear realm is under severe strain. Since the 1960s, the international community has constructed a dense web of laws to govern nuclear matters. However, over the past decade, a wave of nuclear weapons activity has sparked concerns that we have entered a new nuclear age. This episode takes a hard look at the […]Anna Hood
- Sudan’s Death Sentences Against RSF Leaders: Complementarity and Accountability Under International Law 11/08/2026On 12 July 2026, the Anti-Terrorism and Crimes Against the State Court in Port Sudan sentenced General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (‘Hemedti’), commander of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and fifteen others to death in absentia (See also here and here). The convictions relate to the killing of West Darfur Governor Khamis Abdallah Abakar in June […]Samson Ristom Asfaha