EJIL: Talk!
- “The ICC has always been close to my heart” – An interview with the President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court, Ambassador Päivi Kaukoranta November 14, 2025On 5 September 2025, I interviewed Ambassador Päivi Kaukoranta, President of the Assembly of States Parties of the International Criminal Court. It was a wide-ranging conversation in which we discussed, among other things, US sanctions, the ongoing investigation into the Prosecutor and the recent special session on the crime of aggression. The interview has been […]Edward Haxton
- EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 39: Holding the Line November 14, 2025In this episode, Philippa Webb (Oxford) and Marko Milanovic (Reading) are joined by Nicolas Angelet (Ghent) and Oona Hathaway (Yale) to discuss the legality of the US strikes against suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the additional threats made by the United States against Venezuela, which include a possible land invasion. The hosts and […]Marko Milanovic
- The Prosecution ‘Gap’ for Attacks on Subsea Cables and Pipelines November 13, 2025Recent incidents in the Baltic Sea and elsewhere have exposed both the vulnerability of undersea infrastructure and the fragility of the legal order meant to protect it. While recent pieces on EJIL: Talk! and in Ocean Development & International Law address key facets, this post takes a step back to map the wider prosecutorial gap […]Jacques Hartmann
- Listening in Times of Crisis: Notes from the Peoples’ Tribunal for Women of Afghanistan November 13, 2025In the wake of relentless violence being live-streamed onto our phones for the last two years, the international legal community has been confronted with questions about the relevance and legitimacy of international law: ‘Is international law dead?’ ‘Is it in crisis?’ ‘What is it like to teach international law in times like these?’ ‘Is Gaza […]Kalika Mehta
- First Meeting of the EJIL Executive and Advisory Boards in Their New Composition (September 2025) November 12, 2025In the margins of the annual conference of the European Society of International Law, the EJIL Executive and Advisory Boards met, in hybrid format, for the first time in their new composition. Long-serving Advisory Board members who rotated off (Andrea Bianchi, Pierre d’Argent, Neha Jain, Jan Klabbers and Nico Krisch) were thanked; new members of […]Sarah Nouwen
- Non-Binding Instruments in International Economic Diplomacy: A Look at the US Critical Minerals Deals November 12, 2025Within ongoing great-power competition in the global economy, “critical” minerals have assumed considerable significance due to their essential role in the advanced technology, defence and green industries, and the geopolitical implications of concentration in their supply chains. As part of a global policy rush whereby large economies seek to secure their supply chains and reduce […]Lorenzo Cotula
- Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Military Personal Data Processing November 11, 2025Photo: Dept. of Defence This post follows on from related posts by Wojciech Wiewiórowski and Mariana Salazar Albornoz. Introduction Personal data has become an integral part of humanitarian action. Leading humanitarian actors such as the ICRC and UNHCR have reacted to this reality by developing rigorous data protection frameworks. Simultaneously, personal data has also become […]Tatjana Grote
- Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: A View from the Americas November 11, 2025This post follows on from Wojciech Wiewiórowski‘s introduction to Data Protection in Humanitarian Action. Personal Data at the Core of Humanitarian Action According to the UN, by the end of May 2025, nearly 300 million people around the world were in urgent need of humanitarian assistance and protection. Many of the emergency response services […]Mariana Salazar Albornoz
- Leaving Out ‘Leaving it in the Ground’: The ECtHR’s Greenpeace Nordic Judgment November 10, 2025Introduction On 28 October 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) pronounced its judgment in the case of Greenpeace Nordic and Others v Norway, a case concerning the issuance of licenses for exploration of oil and gas reserves in the Barents Sea. This was a new type of climate case for the ECtHR since […]Pranav Ganesan
- Data Protection in Humanitarian Action November 10, 2025Introduction To mark ten years of progress in data protection in humanitarian action, this post is part of a special blog series accompanying the recently published Routledge volume Data Protection in Humanitarian Action: Responding to Crises in a Data-Driven World. A joint initiative of the Data Protection Office of the International Committee of the Red […]Wojciech Wiewiórowski