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- Magnifica Humanitas and the International Legal Technocratic Imagination 06/07/2026Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is not a source of international law. It creates no treaty obligations, modifies no customary rules, and settles no legal status for artificial intelligence. However, its relevance lies not only in the fact that it exposes a difficulty that international AI governance has not fully confronted, but also […]Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz
- Announcements: CfP Journal of International Peace and Organization; Academy in Advanced Legal Research and Method; BIICL International Law Short Courses; CfP Iuris Dictio Journal 05/07/20261. Call for Papers: Journal of International Peace and Organization / Die Friedens-Warte. The Journal of International Peace and Organization / Die Friedens-Warte is inviting submissions for a special issue on the “Crisis of the International Law-Based Order?”. The special issue, edited by Professor Pierre Thielbörger (Ruhr University Bochum and Hertie School) and Professor Andreas von […]Mary Guest
- Concluding the Normative Synergy on State Continuity: The ILC, the General Assembly and the Climate Advisory Opinion 03/07/2026A month ago, the United Nations General Assembly took a position significantly less ambiguous than the ICJ on a question of existential importance to island States threatened by climate-induced sea-level rise. Referring to the Climate Change Advisory Opinion, it recalls that the Court “found that, once a State is established, the disappearance of one of […]Jean-Baptiste Dudant
- Crimean Coastal State Rights and the Resilience of International Arbitration 30/06/2026Introduction On 15 June 2026, the Permanent Court of Arbitration published its merits award in Ukraine v. the Russian Federation concerning coastal state rights in the Black Sea, Sea of Azov, and Kerch Strait (PCA Case No. 2017-06). The award itself had been issued on 22 April 2026. The case concerned an array of claims […]Michael Raff
- Two Weeks in Review: 15—26 June 2026 28/06/2026The last two weeks have primarily grappled with the implications of the Chişinău Declaration, along with Israel’s continued policies concerning occupied Palestine: the establishment of ad hod military courts and its blockade of the Sumud Flotilla. Criminal proceedings in Iranian courts around the Minab school bombing raise questions about the prosecution of war crimes in […]Sebastian von Massow
- Contracting Sovereignty? Greece’s Experiment with the Contractual Allocation of Maritime Delimitation Risk in Offshore Lease Agreements 26/06/2026In February 2026, Greece signed offshore lease agreements with a Chevron-led consortium for the exploration of oil and gas south of Crete. A month later, the agreements were ratified by the Greek Parliament, thereby acquiring binding force in domestic law. Turkey and Libya were quick to condemn the contracts as unlawful and as encroaching upon […]Aikaterini Florou
- Migration in Times of Fascization 23/06/2026In May 2025, the infamous “letter of the nine” was published. In it, the governments of nine European states laid out their vision of various anti-migrant policies and called for “a new and open minded [sic.] conversation about the interpretation of the European Convention on Human Rights”. The case-law of the European Court of Human […]Jens Theilen
- Israel’s Military Ad-hoc Court for October 7: Abdicating Truth and Justice 22/06/2026For decades, Israel prided itself on an ostensibly independent and professional civilian legal system, but when it came to prosecuting the accused of the October 7 attack, it chose to establish an ad-hoc military court. The Law for the Prosecution of October 7 Massacre was recently passed by an exceptional majority of the Israeli Knesset, […]Smadar Ben-Natan
- Announcements: CfP Austrian Review of International and European Law; CfP Solventia Journal of Insolvency & Bankruptcy Laws; Future of the United Nations Organisation Webinar; TwoLaW Lecture Series on the Laws of War 21/06/20261. Call for Papers: The Austrian Review of International and European Law. The Austrian Review of International and European Law (ARIEL) has issued a Call for Papers for its Volume 31 (2026) and is inviting all interested persons to submit contributions. The ARIEL is an annual publication that provides a scholarly forum to discuss issues of public […]Mary Guest
- The Chișinău Declaration in the Data: Non-Refoulement and States’ Insatiable Appetite for a Restrained Court 19/06/2026There is a striking hidden controversy at the heart of the recent Chișinău Declaration issued by the members of the Council of Europe on May 15, 2026. All 46 member states have adopted a coordinated demand, asking that the European Court of Human Rights (the Court, the ECtHR) in particular to narrow their interpretation of […]Ezgi Yildiz