EJIL: Talk!

• Announcements: CfP ESIL Interest Group on International Organizations; CfP Revista Tribuna Internacional Law Journal; State Organs’ Activities on Social Media under IL Panel; International Human Rights Standards in Disaster Settings Course; CfS Cambridge Intentional Law Journal; International Law Colloquium; CfP Reforms at the UN Book March 26, 2023
  1. Call for Papers: Whataboutism, Reciprocity, Double Standards – Towards a Theory of Fairness in International Organizations. On Thursday 31 August the ESIL Interest Group on International Organizations is organising a workshop at the 2023 ESIL Annual Conference in Aix-en-Provence. Abstracts should be between 500 and 600 words, and be submitted, alongside a short biography […]
  Mary Guest
• EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 19 – “From Russia With War: Part Deux” March 24, 2023
  In this episode Marko Milanovic, Dapo Akande and Philippa Webb are joined by Oona Hathaway (Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School) to discuss big legal issues arising from the Russian invasion of Ukraine, one year on. Some of the issues that they discussed a year ago in […]
  Philippa Webb
• The ICC Arrest Warrants against Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova – An Outline of Issues March 21, 2023
  On 17 March 2023, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court (“ICC” or “the Court”) issued arrest warrants for Vladimir Putin and Maria Lvova-Belova. Putin is the President of the Russian Federation. Lvova-Belova is the Commissioner for Children’s Rights in the Office of the President. The crimes alleged concern deportation and transfer of children […]
  Miles Jackson
• The International Criminal Court goes all-in: What now? March 20, 2023
  The bombshell announcement on 17 March 2023 of ICC arrest warrants against Russian President Putin and his Children’s Rights Ombudswoman Lvova-Belova put an end to one-year long speculations about the first cases to be brought before the ICC in relation to Ukraine. Pre-Trial Chamber II (PTC II) found reasonable grounds to believe they committed war […]
  Sergey Vasiliev
• Announcements: International Law in Courts Talk; CfP International Dispute Resolution Oversight; CfA UN Minority Rights Regime; Criminal Justice and HR E-Learning; CfP Ukraine and International Law; Shamima Begum CELI Lecture; Universal Declaration of HR Conference; Law of Council of Europe Summer School; CfP ILW; CfN Outstanding Achievement Award; CfN ABILA Book Awards; FGV Workshop; Spanish International Legal Podcast; Lund University Vacancy; Treaties & Private IL Conference; CfP International Criminal Justice March 19, 2023
  1. Fireside Talk: International Law Praxis On the Practice of International Law in Courts. In this fireside hybrid talk, the panel will discuss the importance of international law praxis – the challenges faced in its implementation, and ways to strengthen it. The following speakers will share their perspectives on the topic: Professor Dr. Attila Tanzi […]
  Mary Guest
• A litmus test for international justice: If not for the Yazidis, then for whom? March 17, 2023
  Yazidi tradition recounts that, before the Daesh attack in 2014, the Yazidis had suffered seventy-two large-scale persecutions in their history. To a large extent, in the past, they faced these attacks alone, with little hope of external support. But given that the 2014 genocide took place in the age of international justice – the age […]
  Aldo Zammit Borda
• On the ‘Suspension’ of the New START Treaty by Russia March 17, 2023
  On 21 February 2023, the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, announced to the Federal Assembly that Russia would suspend the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the ‘New START Treaty’, signed on 8 April 2010 and entered into […]
  Maria Xiouri
• What’s at Stake in the Abortion Case Before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights? March 16, 2023
  El Salvador’s punitive treatment of women through its absolute criminalization of abortion will come under scrutiny by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (the “Court”) on March 22-23, in a case involving the state’s treatment of a woman in need of a life-saving abortion. Beatriz was a young woman from the impoverished state of Usulután, […]
  Alicia Ely Yamin
• Two Weeks in Review, 27 February – 12 March March 12, 2023
  In his post, ‘Nicaragua: Expatriation as an Aggravated Form of Political Persecution‘, Kai Ambos examines Nicaragua’s decision to strip more than 300 dissident citizens of their nationality in the last two weeks. Ambos notes the removal of the nationality, first of all, violates the 1961 Convention on the Reduction of Statelessness and the right to […]
  Tal Gross
• A Few Reflections on State Responsibility or Liability for Environmental Harm March 8, 2023
  A lot has been written on the subject of State responsibility / liability for environmental harm. However, in the recent years, the debate has not been as robust as immediately after the rendering of the Judgment of the International Court of Justice in Certain Activities Carried Out By Nicaragua In the Border Area (Costa Rica […]
  Malgosia Fitzmaurice