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- The Corporate Identity of UNSC Resolution 2803: Trump’s Gaza Plan as a Business Strategy on New Cities Construction December 5, 2025Building on the excellent post by Michelle Burgis-Kasthala on UNSC Resolution 2803 and President Donal Trump’s Comprehensive Plan to End the Gaza Conflict, annexed to this “deeply problematic Resolution”, we would like to explore here the background and context of the physical reconstruction proposals for Gaza contained in this Plan. Burgis-Kasthala rightly mentions that these […]Helmut Philipp Aust
- Legal Limits for the ICC’s Jurisdiction over International Crimes Committed in Sudan December 5, 2025On 3 November 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced investigations into crimes allegedly committed in Darfur since the outbreak of hostilities in April 2023. This announcement comes as reports emerged from from El-Fasher, Northern Darfur, about mass killings, rapes, and other crimes. On 7 November, UN High Commissioner […]Gabriel M. Lentner
- Opinion: Bilateral Boarding Agreements are No Viable Solution for the EU to Tackle the “Dark/Shadow Fleet” Problem December 4, 2025The legal challenges created by so-called “shadow/dark vessels”, specifically by oil tankers, operating to circumvent economic and financial sanctions, has kept lawyers busy for quite some time. All related ships – which could be more than 1.000 tankers in late 2025 – are characterized by some common denominators: First, they do not follow any joint […]Henning Jessen
- Two Birds, One Bill: How BBNJ National Legislation Can Tackle UNCLOS Deep Seabed Mining Gaps December 4, 2025The Agreement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement) will enter into force on 17 January 2026, marking a pivotal moment for marine conservation, global ocean governance and multilateralism. Many States Parties will need […]Hannah Lily
- International Law, Language and Worldmaking December 3, 2025This is the final post in the mini symposium, International Law in the Current Moment. The metaphor of international law as a language is commonplace. It is intuitive to those engaged in day-to-day practice, and it is the premise for a range of critical accounts. It is implicit in many diagnoses of international law today—as […]Megan Donaldson
- Reparation for the War Expenses of States Assisting Ukraine December 2, 2025As we’re waiting to see how yet another round of Ukraine-US-Russia peace talks is going (not that I’m holding my breath), I’ve had conversations with several (very distinguished but unnamed) colleagues in the past few days on an important question of principle: do third states assisting a victim of aggression in its exercise of self-defence, […]Marko Milanovic
- Teaching International Law When the Ground Is Moving December 1, 2025This post is the third in the mini symposium, International Law in the Current Moment. Teaching international law today presents distinct challenges. A sense of crisis has gripped not only the profession but also the broader public. Its primary causes include Russia’s devastating invasion of Ukraine, Israel’s large-scale destruction of Palestinian lives and livelihoods, […]Idriss Fofana
- Two Weeks in Review: 17—28 November 2025 November 30, 2025Is law so laggard as to be utterly helpless? Despite international law’s (purported) death knell, the daily work of courts and organisations continues apace. The last two weeks have seen discussions across a range of topics, from the UN Security Council’s resolutions on Ukraine and Gaza, to the ICJ’s Climate Change Opinion. Meanwhile the International […]Sebastian von Massow
- Announcements: Regional Approaches to International Law Conference; Call for Editors Irish Yearbook of International Law; University of Edinburgh Global Law Conference; Evidence as Politics in Human Rights Courts Conference; CfP Works-in-Progress Conference; Conflict & International Law Training Course; SAIL Blog; CfA AILA Conference on International Law; CfP Climate Apartheid Conference; Digital Constitutionalism Academy; CfA Revisiting the ECHR; CfP Human Rights and the Crises of Global Order; International Protection of Socio-Economic Rights Book Launch; CfP State Responsibility in Crisis; CfA Doctoral Workshop November 30, 20251. Regional Approaches to International Law: What Role in a Dividing World? – Conference. This conference will take place on 26 – 28 August 2026, at the Federal University of Minas Gerais Law School in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, co-organized by the Brazilian Branch of the International Law Association (ILA-Brasil), the African Society of International Law […]Mary Guest
- UNSC Resolution 2803 November 28, 2025On 17 November, the UNSC by 13 votes passed an historic and deeply problematic Resolution relating to the future governance of Gaza. While China and Russia had expressed doubts and Russia had circulated an alternative draft in the run up to the vote, a flurry of US lobbying of non-member regional allies persuaded these two […]Michelle Burgis-Kasthala