EJIL: Talk!
- U.S.’s moves to label Brazilian crime syndicates as “terrorist organizations”: a prelude to the use of force? 18/03/2026On March 6th, 2026, the United States re-ignited their pressure on Brazil to designate two major Brazilian crime syndicates, PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) and Comando Vermelho, as “terrorist organizations”. In this post, I will introduce the U.S. practice to label Latin American drug syndicates “terrorist organizations”, and outline how this raises issues in relation […]Luíza Leão Soares Pereira
- On Navalny, the Law, Lies, and the Attribution of Murder 18/03/2026On 14 February 2026, in a joint statement, the UK, Sweden, France, Germany and The Netherlands publicly accused the Russian Federation of assassinating the opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died on 16 February 2024 while imprisoned in a penal colony in Siberia. The five states alleged that Navalny was poisoned with epibatidine, a toxin naturally […]Marko Milanovic
- EJIL Peer Review Prize; EJIL Roll of Honour 17/03/2026EJIL Peer Review Prize The 2025 EJIL Peer Review Prize is awarded to Dr Taylor St John. Dr St John’s peer review reports combine analytical rigour with a consistently constructive tone. She identifies conceptual and structural issues early and flags potential problems directly to the editors when appropriate, while remaining attentive to how an article […]Sarah Nouwen
- Guest Editorial Note: Selected Essays from the Study and Analysis of International Law (SAILS) Consortium 16/03/2026The relationship between scholarship and practice in international law is unusually porous, yet still poorly understood. Scholarship not only informs practice – frequently being cited in international legal texts and itself constituting a secondary source of law – but is likewise shaped by the demands and experiences of practice. International law scholars routinely serve as […]Kathleen Claussen
- Key Common Provisions and Protection of Civilians in the 2025 Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention 16/03/2026As international lawyers debate the resilience of international law in the face of its most serious breaches, including aggression and mass atrocities against civilians, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has released its Updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention under the overarching title Protecting Civilians in Good Faith (the “2025 Commentary”). Grounded […]Mona Rishmawi
- Announcements: Sea-Level Rise and International Law Event; EU External Relations Law Summer School; CfA Canadian Yearbook of International Law; CfP Law and Reality of the Responsibility to Maintain International Peace and Security; CfA Is the International Criminal Court in Conflict? 15/03/20261. Sheffield Centre for International and European Law Seminar: Sea-Level Rise and International Law – The Work of the International Law Commission. Drawing on the ILC Study Group’s work, this event will explore the legal consequences of sea-level rise for baselines and the outer limits of maritime zones, maritime delimitation, and the exercise of coastal […]Mary Guest
- In This Issue – Reviews 13/03/2026In our Book Review section for this issue, we invite readers to reflect on international law’s institutions, concepts and subjects from the late Habsburg Empire, through the League of Nations, to the contemporary Security Council and the emergent language of resistance. We open with Ville Kari’s discussion of Natasha Wheatley, The Life and Death of […]Anne Lagerwall
- In This Issue 12/03/2026As is customary in our final issue of the year, EJIL 36(4) opens with the Afterwords to the annual EJIL Foreword. Published in the first issue of this volume, this year’s Foreword was authored by Susan Marks and critically explored the metaphor of the world as a family and its implications for international law. In […]Francisco J. Quintana
- New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 36 (2025) No. 4) – Out This Week 11/03/2026The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law will be published this week. We will publish a number of posts outlining the contents of this issue and the editorials over the coming week. Here is the Table of Contents for this new issue, as well as the Abstracts: Editorial: EJIL: News! In This Issue; […]Mary Guest
- ‘FL7726SH’: Between The Law of the Sea and the Jus ad Bellum? 11/03/2026In the morning of Wednesday 25 February 2026, a Cuban government vessel carrying five border guard troops approached a speedboat, registered in the U.S. as FL7726SH, after it had, according to Cuba’s Interior Ministry, entered its territorial waters in Falcones Cay, Villa Clara province. Upon being approached for identification by the Cuban vessel, the crew of […]Christian Henderson