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- First Meeting of the EJIL Executive and Advisory Boards in Their New Composition (September 2025) novembre 12, 2025In the margins of the annual conference of the European Society of International Law, the EJIL Executive and Advisory Boards met, in hybrid format, for the first time in their new composition. Long-serving Advisory Board members who rotated off (Andrea Bianchi, Pierre d’Argent, Neha Jain, Jan Klabbers and Nico Krisch) were thanked; new members of […]Sarah Nouwen
- Non-Binding Instruments in International Economic Diplomacy: A Look at the US Critical Minerals Deals novembre 12, 2025Within ongoing great-power competition in the global economy, “critical” minerals have assumed considerable significance due to their essential role in the advanced technology, defence and green industries, and the geopolitical implications of concentration in their supply chains. As part of a global policy rush whereby large economies seek to secure their supply chains and reduce […]Lorenzo Cotula
- Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Military Personal Data Processing novembre 11, 2025Photo: Dept. of Defence This post follows on from related posts by Wojciech Wiewiórowski and Mariana Salazar Albornoz. Introduction Personal data has become an integral part of humanitarian action. Leading humanitarian actors such as the ICRC and UNHCR have reacted to this reality by developing rigorous data protection frameworks. Simultaneously, personal data has also become […]Tatjana Grote
- Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: A View from the Americas novembre 11, 2025This post follows on from Wojciech Wiewiórowski‘s introduction to Data Protection in Humanitarian Action. Personal Data at the Core of Humanitarian Action According to the UN, by the end of May 2025, nearly 300 million people around the world were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and protection. Many of the emergency response services […]Mariana Salazar Albornoz
- Leaving Out ‘Leaving it in the Ground’: The ECtHR’s Greenpeace Nordic Judgment novembre 10, 2025Introduction On 28 October 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) pronounced its judgment in the case of Greenpeace Nordic and Others v Norway, a case concerning the issuance of licenses for exploration of oil and gas reserves in the Barents Sea. This was a new type of climate case for the ECtHR since […]Pranav Ganesan
- Data Protection in Humanitarian Action novembre 10, 2025Introduction To mark ten years of progress in data protection in humanitarian action, this post is part of a special blog series accompanying the recently published Routledge volume Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Responding to Crises in a Data-Driven World. A joint initiative of the Data Protection Office of the International Committee of the Red […]Wojciech Wiewiórowski
- Announcements: CfS ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize; CfEL Armed Conflict and Climate Change Workshop; CfP Human Rights Essay Award; Year of Climate Change in International Courts Colloquium; CfA Yearbook on the Law of the Sea; JLU Online Winter University; CfP Polish Review of International and European Law novembre 9, 20251. Call for Submissions: ASIL International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize. Submissions are now being accepted for the 2025 American Society of International Law International Criminal Law Scholarship Prize. The deadline for submissions is 15 January 2026 at 5:00 p.m. EST. The winner will be announced and recognized at the ASIL Annual Meeting in April 2026. […]Mary Guest
- Anchoring Criminal Jurisdiction at Sea: The Helsinki District Court’s Eagle S Judgement and its impact for the protection of submarine cables and pipelines novembre 7, 2025The Eagle S incident – a refresher On Christmas Day 2024, the Estlink 2 electricity cable connecting Finland and Estonia was cut by the Eagle S, an oil tanker sailing under the flag of the Cook Islands and linked to the Russian ‘shadow fleet’ (the vessel was later added to the EU’s list of sanctioned […]Tom Ruys
- The EU Reparation Loan as Solutio Damni for Ukraine novembre 6, 2025At the October 2025 European Council, European leaders invited the Commission ‘to present, as soon as possible, options for financial support’ for Ukraine based on the use of immobilised Russian assets. This request followed more than three years of debate (see here, here, and here) and culminated in Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s announcement […]Davide Genini
- Casual Vacancy Elections and “Pre-Campaigning” for Permanent Elections novembre 5, 2025Following Judge Abulqawi Yusuf’s resignation from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the United Nations will hold an election on 12 November 2025, to fill his vacant seat for the remainder of his term, which was set to expire by February 2027. These elections will take place only a year before the original date of […]Noam Morris