Congratulations to the finalists of the 2018 edition!

Conference on 17-18 October 2018 (Heidelberg). Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2018

Yesterday the international Joint Investigating Team (JIT)  published its conclusion that the missile which destroyed the MH17 airliner over eastern Ukraine was fired by a Russian military unit, the 53rd

On Monday 14 May 2018 the Chinese Journal of International Law, an Oxford University Press journal, published an extraordinary 500 page “Critical Study” of the Awards on jurisdiction and the

Is international law any closer to defining the content of a “right to democratic governance”? International human rights law instruments do not prescribe a form of governance, but they do

Procedure for selection of venues for future ESIL Research Fora  Decisions on a Research Forum (RF) will in principle be taken one year in advance of the event. Thus a

ESIL Mooting Prizes – Concours René Cassin 2018 In 2015, the ESIL Board decided to award ESIL Mooting Prizes to promising students of international law each year. ESIL Mooting Prizes

The work of the NGOs rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean Sea has been the subject of much controversy. One of the most recent cases regards the NGO Proactiva Open Arms:

1. Call for Papers: Transformations of Citizenship. This conference seeks to illuminate, elucidate and review the juxtaposition and tension inherent in the concept of citizenship today in an effort to understand

Introduction Autonomous weapon systems [AWS] raise profound legal, ethical and moral concerns. Scholars have asked, for example, whether AWS can comply with international humanitarian law [IHL]; whether their use will