EJIL: Talk!
- Sudan v UAE: Where Legal Categories could have met Fluid Identities May 7, 2025Sudan v. United Arab Emirates is no more before the International Court of Justice. Not only did the Court reject Sudan’s request for provisional measures against the UAE due to a lack of prima facie jurisdiction; it controversially – nine judges voted in favour; seven against – removed the case from its general list, arguing […]Edward Thomas
- Litigating The Maputo Protocol in relation to Conflict-related Sexual Violence Before the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights – Two Steps ahead and One Step Back May 7, 2025In a landmark decision adopted in 2024 and disclosed in April 2025 in Communication No. 700/18 dealing with the Minova case v. Democratic Republic of Congo (only available in French), the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (“the Commission”) concluded to the responsibility of the DRC in the grave and massive violations of rights […]Hélène Tigroudja
- The Latest Trump Threat to International Law: Unilaterally Mining the Area May 6, 2025On 24 April 2025, the White House issued an Executive Order (“Unleashing America’s Offshore Critical Minerals and Resources”) directing the Administrator of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to “expedite the process for reviewing and issuing seabed mineral exploration licenses and commercial recovery permits in areas beyond national jurisdiction under the Deep Seabed […]Coalter Lathrop
- Four new editors appointed to EJIL:Talk! May 6, 2025EJIL is delighted to announce that Julian Arato, Wanshu Cong, Miles Jackson and Justina Uriburu have joined Nehal Bhuta, Devika Hovell and Marko Milanovic as editors of EJIL:Talk! Julian is professor of law at the University of Michigan; Wanshu a lecturer at the Law School of the Australian National University; Miles an associate professor of […]Nehal Bhuta
- Is ‘prolonged occupation’ still ‘military occupation’ governed by IHL? May 5, 2025Article 42 of the Hague Regulations (HR), annexed to the 1907 Hague Convention IV, provides that a territory is considered occupied ‘when it is actually placed under the authority of the hostile army.’ In such circumstances, the relevant provisions governing military occupation become applicable, as codified in the HR (Articles 42-56), the Fourth Geneva Convention […]Georges Abi-Saab
- Critical Minerals, Environmental Harm and the Unspoken Rights of Nature: The Kafue River Spill in Zambia May 5, 2025The global demand for critical minerals has intensified as part of the clean energy transition in line with goals outlined in the Paris Agreement. The environmental costs of extracting and processing these minerals, however, are increasingly borne by mineral-rich but ecologically and socially vulnerable regions. The 2024 Guiding Principles on Critical Energy Transition Minerals establish […]Malavika Rao
- Two Weeks in Review, 21 April – 4 May 2025 May 4, 2025International Criminal Law Hugo Relva and Vito Todeschini critically analyze draft article 10 of the ILC Draft Articles on immunity of state officials, which would require a forum state to notify the official’s state before initiating criminal proceedings or taking coercive measures. The authors argue that this prior notification lacks a legal basis, risks hindering […]Tal Gross
- Announcements: Utrecht Summer School in Public International Law; CfA CIL Conference; CfP Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law; CfP Early Career Conference on Humanitarian Disarmament; Post the UN Summit of the Future Conference; Rosalyn Higgins Prize May 4, 20251. Utrecht Summer School in Public International Law. The Utrecht School of Law will host its Summer School Introduction to Public International Law from 7 – 11 July 2025. The course will critically examine the nature and function of international law, its sources and subjects, dispute settlement, jurisdiction, use of force, state responsibility, enforcement, and its ability to address challenges of global interest, such […]Mary Guest
- EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 33: Owning the Future? International Law and Technology as a Critical Project May 2, 2025International law operates in a world of rapid technological transformation. From the battlefield to the border, from online content moderation to open-source investigation, from humanitarianism to development, from counterterrorism to migration management, practices of central concern to international lawyers are progressively altered by the introduction of new technological tools. Many of these developments are troubling. […]Dimitri Van Den Meerssche
- The Destruction of Indigenous Communities’ Landscapes, an Aggravated Form of Ecocide? May 2, 2025As Indigenous peoples face the deliberate destruction and loss of their ancestral lands—through deforestation, mining, oil exploitation, and other industrial activities that threaten their identity and, ultimately, their survival—it is essential to assess whether International Criminal Law (ICL) can provide effective protection to these peoples. In particular, this involves examining whether such acts could be […]Jérôme de Hemptinne