EJIL: Talk!

• ChatGPT in the Classroom: Creating Spaces for Critical Reflection February 21, 2025
  Introduction (Michelle) Like many teachers of international law today, I was initially a little anxious about how to confront the challenge of AI in the classroom. Almost immediately, it was clear to me that striking an ostrich stance would not work. Joseph Weiler echoes these sentiments when he suggests that it ‘we would be remiss […]
  Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
• People As Products: A Human Rights Perspective On The Transfer Of US Prisoners To Salvadoran Jails February 20, 2025
  On the 4th of February 2025, the President of El Salvador offered the United States of America ‘the opportunity to outsource part of its prison system’, transferring convicted U.S. criminals into the Salvadoran mega-prison (CECOT) ‘in exchange for a fee.’ Amidst an increasingly fragile rule of law, mounting carceral expansion and documented human rights abuses […]
  Kate Murphy
• Undoing the Grand Bargain? Pax Americana and the United Nations February 19, 2025
  Since its 3 February 2025 Executive Order, the United States has engaged in a series of decisions to either pause or entirely remove funding for various international organizations and agencies within the United Nations system, including withdrawing from the World Health Organization, withdrawing from the United Nations Human Rights Council, the 90-day pause in contributions […]
  Diane Desierto
• Bridging the Accountability Gap: Reparations for Civilians Harmed in Armed Conflict February 19, 2025
  Civilian harm in armed conflict has reached staggering levels. The United Nations recently recorded a 72% increase in civilian casualties worldwide, a stark reminder of the devastating human toll of modern warfare. Yet, mechanisms to provide justice and redress for those harmed remain inadequate. Recent developments, including the International Law Commission’s (ILC) renewed focus on […]
  Dr. Haim Abraham
• The Council of Europe’s Proposed Definition of Terrorism Infringes Human Rights February 18, 2025
  The Council of Europe (CoE) is preparing to amend its legal definition of terrorism, to largely replicate key elements of the European Union’s (EU) definition in its Counter-terrorism Directive 2017 (and previous Framework Decision on Combating Terrorism 2002). The proposed definition aims to make the CoE definition more comprehensive than the CoE’s existing Convention on […]
  Professor Ben Saul
• Trouble in Heaven: Do the Changes to the Sovereign Military of Malta’s Constitution affect its relevance for the future of Small Developing Island States February 17, 2025
  The fight of Small Island Developing States (SIDS) to maintain control of their destiny and retain their statehood needs no introduction. Threatened by the sea level rise caused by centuries of greenhouse gases, SIDSs are both among the most affected (due to their low elevation above sea levels) and the smallest contributors to climate change. […]
  Michel Rouleau-Dick
• Announcements: CfP Oxford Workshop in Honour of Sir Frank Berman; ILaW Gendered Peace Through International Law Talk; CfP International Organisations as Imperial Designs; CfP Workshop on Sociological Inquiries into International Law; Thicker Notions of Human Rights Accountabilities Conference; GMU Academy on Seabed Governance; CfP Reconstructing International Criminal Justice; Universality of International Law and its Discontent Lecture; Innovative Ways to Counter Terrorism Conference February 16, 2025
  1. Call for Papers: Oxford Workshop in Honour of Sir Frank Berman. The Oxford University Faculty of Law, the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law & Armed Conflict, All Souls College, and Wadham College will host a workshop on 17 June 2025 to honour Sir Frank Berman KCMG KC’s long personal and professional association with Oxford, including his […]
  Mary Guest
• EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 31: Gradually, then Suddenly — Climate, Trade and the Charter Order in Precarious Times February 15, 2025
  This episode draws together perspectives on where we are, and international law’s past and future, from the vantage points of the climate regime, global economic governance, and the architecture on the use of force. Christina Voigt (Professor in the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, first Co-chair of the Paris Agreement’s Compliance […]
  Megan Donaldson
• Time and Temporality before the ICJ in the Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change February 14, 2025
  The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change is one of a string of recent cases which has brought the ICJ to the centre of public discussions of international law (see coverage of proceedings on the BBC, the Guardian, and Forbes), and academic commentators have already noted the significance of […]
  David M Scott
• Some Issues in The Law Concerning Naval Auxiliaries February 13, 2025
  Introduction The use of non-warships and non-coast guard cutters for contest operations is a clear feature of current tensions at sea. The use of merchant vessels to cut cables in the Baltic Sea, along with harassment and presence operations by fishing vessels as part of the PRC maritime militia in the South China Sea and […]
  Robert McLaughlin