EJIL: Talk!

• Announcements: CfP Revista Tribuna Internacional Law Journal; CfP The Military Law and the Law of War Review; CfP Establishing a World Court, 1920-1922; CfP ESIL Research Forum of the European Society of International Law; Hamburg Young Scholars’ Workshop in International Law September 15, 2019
  1. Call for Papers: Revista Tribuna Internacional Law Journal, Volume 8, Issue 16 (December 2019). The Revista Tribuna Internacional Law Journal is an academic publication of the International Law Department of the University of Chile’s Law School. The Journal appears online twice a year (June and December) and is available open access. This call for submissions is open to unpublished articlesRead […]
  Mary Guest
• Five Procedural Takeaways from the ICC’s 18 July 2019 Lubanga Second Reparations Judgment September 13, 2019
  On 18 July 2019, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber issued a landmark judgment upholding a USD 10,000,000 collective reparations award for victims in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. In this second—and hopefully final—Appeals judgment on reparations in the Lubanga case, the Appeals Chamber largely confirmed the methodology that Trial Chamber II employedRead […]
  Marissa Brodney
• Statelessness is back (not that it ever went away…) September 12, 2019
  Citizenship deprivation and statelessness are very much back in fashion. States increasingly resort to such measures to deal with those returning from foreign wars, or as a sanction for those otherwise deemed undesirable and unwanted – it must certainly seem easier than living up to their obligations actually to combat terrorist activities or war crimesRead […]
  Guy Goodwin-Gill
• The Unseen Actor September 10, 2019
    The Unseen Actor   Smile at us, pass us or greet us; then, if you like, forget, For we are the unseen actors, that have not spoken yet. The interns, law clerks, jurists, of less than judicial rank, Whom judges and arbitrators have nonetheless reason to thank. We are the unobtrusive – we couldRead […]
  Freya Baetens
• Human Rights and the Environment: The UN Human Rights Committee Affirms the Duty to Protect September 9, 2019
  Recently, the Human Rights Committee published its views in the case Portillo Cáceres v. Paraguay (currently available only in Spanish). In this landmark decision, the Committee dealt, for the first time, with the question of the States’ duty to protect individuals from environmental degradation under articles 6 (right to life) and 17 (protection of theRead […]
  Greta Reeh
• Announcements: UN Audiovisual Library of International Law; LEES Doctoral Programme in International and Public Law, Ethics and Economics for Sustainable Development; Transnational Legal Theory Workshop September 8, 2019
  1. New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following lectures to the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) website: Ms Kristina Daugirdas on “How and Why International Law Binds International Organizations”, Mr. Gattās Abugattās onRead […]
  Mary Guest
• CERD Reaches Historic Decisions in Inter-State Communications September 6, 2019
  On 29 August 2019, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) concluded its 99th session, in which it reached a historic decision on jurisdiction and admissibility in two of the three inter-State communications submitted under Article 11 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Qatar v KingdomRead […]
  David Keane
• Hospital Targeting: A Remedy is Required, Not Counter-Effective Wishful Thinking September 5, 2019
  Though Gordon and Perugini deserve praise for casting light on the serious problem of targeting hospitals, their analysis and conclusion suffer from two ills. They misinterpret the law related to the targeting of hospitals, and they turn a blind eye to all the empirical data relating to the unacceptable hazards and damage caused to healthRead […]
  Yishai Beer
• Comments on Coastal and Flag State Jurisdiction in the M/T “San Padre Pio” Dispute September 3, 2019
  The M/T “San Padre Pio” dispute between Switzerland and Nigeria arose following the interception and arrest by the Nigerian navy of the M/T “San Padre Pio” – a Swiss flagged tanker – while this was engaged in one of several Ship-to-Ship (STS) transfers of gasoil in the vicinity of the Odudu Oil Field within Nigeria’sRead […]
  David Testa
• Did the US Stay “Well Below the Threshold of War” With its June Cyberattack on Iran? September 2, 2019
  On 20 June 2019, the United States conducted a major cyberattack against Iran in response to Iran’s (alleged) attacks on oil tankers in the Hormuz Strait and the downing of an American surveillance drone. The attack was widely reported at the time, but on 28 August the New York Times published important new details, whichRead […]
  Marc Schack