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  • The ILO’s Right to Strike: Distinguishing Non-Binding Principles from Binding Conventions at the ICJ October 20, 2025
    From 6-8 October, 2025, the International Court of Justice held public hearings in response to the International Labour Organization (ILO)’s request for an advisory opinion on the following question: Is the right to strike of workers and their organizations protected under the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. […]
    Desirée Leclercq
  • The Canary in the Coal Mine: Sawalkot Dam and the Indus Waters Treaty October 20, 2025
    Introduction Six months after New Delhi unilaterally put the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty (IWT) ‘in abeyance’, India has fast-tracked the construction of the Sawalkot hydropower project on the Chenab river without conducting an effective Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA). The Environment Ministry (India) granted final approval of the project, having been informed by the Home Ministry […]
    Rishabh Bajoria
  • Announcements: The U.S. and International Law in Changing Times Conference; CfP Legitimacy of Legal Decisions Adopted Under Radical Uncertainties Conference; Yearbook on the Law of the Sea; CfP GCRCJS International Conference October 19, 2025
    1. The U.S. and International Law in Changing Times Conference. The SLS International Law section and Solon Solomon (BUL) together with Saeed Bagheri (University of Reading), are hosting a 2-day Conference on ‘The U.S. and International Law in changing times’ in London on 5 – 6 November with panels on a number of issues, spanning […]
    Mary Guest
  • ICJ Climate Change Advisory Opinion: Peoples and Individuals as Obligees October 17, 2025
    In July 2025, the International Court of Justice issued its landmark advisory opinion on climate change that is ground-breaking in many respects. Among them is the Court’s affirmation that environmental protection is a condition for the enjoyment of human rights and its recognition of the right to a clean, healthy and sustainable environment (for simplicity, […]
    Panpailin Jantarasombat
  • How Not to Trade with Occupying Powers: Western Sahara and the Amendment to the EU-Moroccan Association Agreements October 16, 2025
    On October 3 2025, the EU and Morocco concluded an amendment (‘the amendment’) to the EU-Mediterranean Agreement (‘the association agreement’). With the approval of the Council it is already being applied provisionally pending entry into force. Its purpose is to enable the continued granting of tariff preferences to products originating in occupied Western Sahara. This […]
    Andrea Maria Pelliconi
  • EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 38: Non-intervention— past, present and future October 16, 2025
    We see today flagrant breaches of the prohibitions on the threat or use of force, but also renewed pressure and scrutiny on a related but broader prohibition, the prohibition of intervention, forcible or otherwise. In some ways, it is this broader norm of non-intervention which presents the most deep-seated puzzles in international law and international […]
    Nehal Bhuta
  • Abd-Al-Rahman Trial Judgment: New Views on the Principle of Legality Applied October 15, 2025
    On 6 October, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its much-anticipated Abd-Al-Rahman trial judgment, in which the defendant was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan, between 2003 and 2004. Even before the trial judgment, the case had become paradigmatic for its decisions (here and here) scrutinizing for the first […]
    Bruno Biazatti
  • Improving Fact-Finding for IHL and Harnessing Modern Technology October 15, 2025
    In the great majority of cases, state or non-state armed forces engaging in violations of international humanitarian law (IHL) do not attempt to justify their acts by offering different interpretations of the applicable law. Rather, what they usually do is simply flat-out deny that the facts alleged actually happened. When civilians get killed in the […]
    Manuel Galvis
  • Skipping Steps at the ICJ: Pragmatism and Judicial Economy in the 12 September Order in Equatorial Guinea v. France (Return of Property) October 14, 2025
    In the aftermath of Sudan v. United Arab Emirates, debate has flared about the use of judicial economy by the International Court of Justice (ICJ). By rejecting Sudan’s request for interim protection and striking the case from the General List in one breath, the Court seemed to privilege docket discipline and efficiency over a fuller […]
    Antoine De Spiegeleir
  • The Downing of Flight MH17: A Historic Decision by the ICAO Council October 13, 2025
    On 12 May 2025, the Council of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) announced that it had adopted a decision holding the Russian Federation responsible for the downing of Malaysia Air flight MH17 in 2014. Acting under Article 84 of the Chicago Convention on International Civil Aviation (Chicago Convention) regarding the settlement of disputes, 22 […]
    David Woodworth