EJIL: Talk!

• Drone Attacks on Saudi Aramco Oil Installations September 17, 2019
  Half of Saudi Arabia’s oil production has been stopped by air attacks involving drones and possibly cruise missiles on 14 September 2019. Houthi rebels in Yemen have claimed responsibility. United States Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has asserted by tweet that Iran is responsible because there is “no evidence the attacks came from Yemen” andRead […]
  Mary Ellen O'Connell
• Announcing our Second EJIL Symposium June 2020: Call for Papers on Inequality and International Law September 16, 2019
  International law in the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other foundational treaties and conventions of the multilateral system entails a premise (and promise) of equal rights, the right to self-determination, and the fundamental equality of human beings. However, during the last 10 years and in the wake of the 2008 financialRead […]
  Diane Desierto
• Announcements: CfP Revista Tribuna Internacional Law Journal; CfP The Military Law and the Law of War Review; CfP Establishing a World Court, 1920-1922; CfP ESIL Research Forum of the European Society of International Law; Hamburg Young Scholars’ Workshop in International Law September 15, 2019
  1. Call for Papers: Revista Tribuna Internacional Law Journal, Volume 8, Issue 16 (December 2019). The Revista Tribuna Internacional Law Journal is an academic publication of the International Law Department of the University of Chile’s Law School. The Journal appears online twice a year (June and December) and is available open access. This call for submissions is open to unpublished articlesRead […]
  Mary Guest
• Five Procedural Takeaways from the ICC’s 18 July 2019 Lubanga Second Reparations Judgment September 13, 2019
  On 18 July 2019, the International Criminal Court (ICC) Appeals Chamber issued a landmark judgment upholding a USD 10,000,000 collective reparations award for victims in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. In this second—and hopefully final—Appeals judgment on reparations in the Lubanga case, the Appeals Chamber largely confirmed the methodology that Trial Chamber II employedRead […]
  Marissa Brodney
• Statelessness is back (not that it ever went away…) September 12, 2019
  Citizenship deprivation and statelessness are very much back in fashion. States increasingly resort to such measures to deal with those returning from foreign wars, or as a sanction for those otherwise deemed undesirable and unwanted – it must certainly seem easier than living up to their obligations actually to combat terrorist activities or war crimesRead […]
  Guy Goodwin-Gill
• The Unseen Actor September 10, 2019
    The Unseen Actor   Smile at us, pass us or greet us; then, if you like, forget, For we are the unseen actors, that have not spoken yet. The interns, law clerks, jurists, of less than judicial rank, Whom judges and arbitrators have nonetheless reason to thank. We are the unobtrusive – we couldRead […]
  Freya Baetens
• Human Rights and the Environment: The UN Human Rights Committee Affirms the Duty to Protect September 9, 2019
  Recently, the Human Rights Committee published its views in the case Portillo Cáceres v. Paraguay (currently available only in Spanish). In this landmark decision, the Committee dealt, for the first time, with the question of the States’ duty to protect individuals from environmental degradation under articles 6 (right to life) and 17 (protection of theRead […]
  Greta Reeh
• Announcements: UN Audiovisual Library of International Law; LEES Doctoral Programme in International and Public Law, Ethics and Economics for Sustainable Development; Transnational Legal Theory Workshop September 8, 2019
  1. New Additions to the UN Audiovisual Library of International Law. The Codification Division of the Office of Legal Affairs recently added the following lectures to the Lecture Series of the United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) website: Ms Kristina Daugirdas on “How and Why International Law Binds International Organizations”, Mr. Gattās Abugattās onRead […]
  Mary Guest
• CERD Reaches Historic Decisions in Inter-State Communications September 6, 2019
  On 29 August 2019, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) concluded its 99th session, in which it reached a historic decision on jurisdiction and admissibility in two of the three inter-State communications submitted under Article 11 of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, Qatar v KingdomRead […]
  David Keane
• Hospital Targeting: A Remedy is Required, Not Counter-Effective Wishful Thinking September 5, 2019
  Though Gordon and Perugini deserve praise for casting light on the serious problem of targeting hospitals, their analysis and conclusion suffer from two ills. They misinterpret the law related to the targeting of hospitals, and they turn a blind eye to all the empirical data relating to the unacceptable hazards and damage caused to healthRead […]
  Yishai Beer