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- Process-oriented Review in German Arms Export Litigations: Beyond Victories and Defeats 05/05/2026The ongoing humanitarian situation in Gaza presents complex legal and ethical challenges. As the ICJ considers Nicaragua v. Germany, the international legal community is examining how German courts have assessed the legality of arms exports to Israel. This article aims not to present generalizable judicial principles but to demonstrate that procedural governance is key to […]Shun Oshita
- Beyond the Blockaded Area: Interdicting Iranian Oil and the Limits of Existing Maritime Legal Frameworks 04/05/2026Recent efforts by the United States to interdict Iranian oil shipments in distant waters have extended well beyond the Persian Gulf. These operations have included the interception of tankers carrying Iranian oil—often operating under neutral flags—in areas such as the Indian Ocean, far from any declared blockaded zone. In at least some instances, so-called “sanctioned” […]Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga
- Two(ish) Weeks in Review: 6 April—1 May 2026 03/05/2026In a slightly extended version of Two Weeks in Review, we take in fundamental questions about what happens when law and lawyers seek or refuse to justify illegal actions, “relocation orders” issued by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, Australian soldiers and Belgian consular officials in domestic courts for […]Sebastian von Massow
- Announcements: CfP Canadian Council on International Law Annual Conference; CfA Digital and AI Governance; CfP Political Afterlives of Sexual Violence Allegations; CfS Frankfurt Law Review; CfS International Trade and Business Law Review; CfP International Humanitarian Law Beyond States Conference; Global Health Law and Governance Webinar 03/05/20261. Call for Proposals: Canadian Council on International Law Annual Conference. The Canadian Council on International Law will hold its Annual Conference in Ottawa (CA) on 29 – 30 October 2026. The theme of the conference is “Bend, Not Break: Resilience and Evolution of International Law”. The conference seeks to challenge both the supposed post-mortem […]Mary Guest
- On Violence: Self-Defence to Self-Determination in International Law 01/05/2026There are moments when the international legal order reveals itself not through its rules but through the violence done in its name. Today’s expanding doctrine of self-defence—invoked with increasing ease, justified with decreasing care—is one such moment. It is tempting to read this as an unravelling, a slide into disorder. Yet what is unravelling here […]Michelle Staggs Kelsall
- Who cares about theorizing international organizations? A Rejoinder to Christiane Ahlborn 30/04/2026My latest article, ‘Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary International Law’, addresses whether, how, and to what extent, doctrinal propositions that we accept about the legal personality of states can be extended to international organizations. I argue that our theories would make much more sense if we let go […]Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis
- Caught in the Legal Crossfire? Critical Minerals Agreements and International Economic Law 29/04/2026Over the past few years, a rapidly expanding network of ‘critical minerals’ agreements has added further complexity to global trade and investment frameworks. The surge in deal making is driven by geopolitical rivalries among large economies to secure their supply chains as well as by mineral-rich country interest in mining sector development. At a deeper […]Jesse Coleman
- Analysing Objections to the UN Declaration on the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans 28/04/2026On 25 March 2026, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) adopted Resolution A/80/L.48 titled “Declaration on the Trafficking of Enslaved Africans and Racialised Chattel Enslavement of Africans as the Gravest Crime Against Humanity”. 123 UN member states voted in favour, 3 (the United States, Israel, and Argentina) voted against, and 52 abstained. The abstaining states included […]Jerusa Ali
- Challenging Times Ahead: Australia’s War Crimes Prosecutions 27/04/2026On Tuesday, 7 April 2026, Australia’s most decorated living soldier, Ben Roberts-Smith, was arrested and charged with five counts of the war crime of murder. He is the second soldier charged following Australia’s Brereton Inquiry, which, in November 2020, found credible information of 23 incidents of unlawful killing and two incidents of cruel treatment by […]Sarah Williams
- Announcements: Protecting the Right to Life at Sea Summer School; Law Stories Event; CfS Cambridge International Law Journal; Global Power and Technology Summer School; Crimes of Aggression and Genocide Summer School; International & Comparative Law Lecture; ESIL–SLADI Junior Faculty Forum 26/04/20261. Understanding Contemporary Challenges in Protecting the Right to Life at Sea Training School. The first BlueRights training school ‘Understanding Contemporary Challenges in Protecting the Right to Life at Sea’, organised together with the IMO International Maritime Law Institute (IMLI), will be held in Malta from 26 – 27 May 2026. This in-person training school […]Mary Guest