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- Combatting Slavery at Sea and IUU Fishing: The WCPFC Adopts Labor Standards for Fishing Crew May 28, 2025Introduction The staggering scale of modern slavery — slavery, servitude, and debt bondage —inhumane treatment, and human trafficking has been well documented. In 2022, the International Labor Organization estimated that roughly 28 million people victims of “forced labour” — labour coerced under threat — with 128,000 people trapped in force labor on fishing vessels around […]Chris Wold
- Lawyers and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order May 28, 2025Introduction In times of political crisis and attacks against the foundations of political liberalism, can we put our trust in lawyers and other legal occupations to fight for our freedoms, when they are under attack? The role of the legal profession in the rise, development, and resilience of political liberalism — basic legal freedoms, an […]Kjersti Lohne
- Vital Statistics May 27, 2025Each year the EJIL editors read and evaluate hundreds of manuscripts submitted to the journal for possible publication. The vast majority of those submissions, including the manuscripts that are accepted and then published in our pages, come to us, not by invitation, but rather through our online submission system. EJIL commissions only a very small […]Anny Bremner
- The Indus Waters Treaty ‘in abeyance’: Legal implications of India’s unilateral water releases into Pakistan-Administered Kashmir May 27, 2025On April 27, 2025, an unexpected rise in water levels of the Jhelum river in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir [‘PAK’] caused flooding in the region, with residents struggling to ‘protect lives and property’. A week later, India again released water from dams in Indian-Administered Kashmir [‘IAK’] without notifying Pakistan that water levels in the Chenab river would […]Rishabh Bajoria
- In This Issue – Reviews May 26, 2025After seven years, this is our last ‘In This Issue’. We are signing off with a bumper issue full of reviews in different shapes and sizes. Two review essays offer in-depth engagement with foundational questions. Fuad Zarbiyev reflects on Alain Pellet’s 2018 Hague Academy General Course, now published in book form. Pellet’s vision of the ‘elusive […]Gail Lythgoe
- In This Issue May 26, 2025This issue, and this volume, opens with our annual EJIL Foreword, authored this year by Susan Marks. Marks provides a critical exploration of the enduring metaphor of the world as a family, examining the ideas about family that both influence and are influenced by it. Through a careful analysis of three prominent familial tropes – […]Francisco-José Quintana
- Announcements: CfP Solventia Journal of Insolvency & Bankruptcy Laws; CfA Conference on Advancing Social, Economic, and Cultural Rights; CfP TDM Special Issue; International Boundary Conference; Erik Castrén Institute of International Law and Human Rights Seminar; International Law Stories Book Launch May 25, 20251. Call for Papers: Solventia – Journal of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Laws. This Journal, established by National Law University, Jodhpur, India, is currently accepting original, unpublished manuscripts for Volume II, Issue 2. The Journal is a bi-annual, double-blind peer-reviewed publication dedicated exclusively to research in insolvency and bankruptcy law. Submissions may be made under the […]Mary Guest
- New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 36 (2025) No. 1) – Out Next Week May 24, 2025The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law will be published next 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!: Call for Expressions of […]Mary Guest
- Renewed State Backlash Against the African Court: Tunisia is the Fifth State to Withdraw Individual and NGO Access May 23, 2025The African Union’s continental human rights court, the African Court on Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR), received a setback this past March when Tunisia withdrew its declaration, under Article 34(6) of the Court’s founding Protocol, allowing individuals and NGOs to directly access the Court. Tunisia accounts for 24 (7%) of the 371 applications to the […]Nicole De Silva
- Africa’s Turn: The African Court’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change May 22, 2025On 2 May 2025, the African Court of Human and Peoples’ Rights (AfCHPR, the Court) received a request for an advisory opinion concerning the obligations of states in the context of climate change. This development was anticipated: as early as 2023, there were indications such a request was in preparation (at 54:30) and, that same […]Yusra Suedi