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  • The Application of International Law in Cyberspace – A Debate that is Recoding International Law mai 30, 2025
    Editor’s Note: This post is the final of three which have run over recent days as part of a book discussion on the Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States. The debate on how international law applies in cyberspace has the potential to reconfigure many […]
    Mohamed Helal
  • Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: Legal and Policy Considerations mai 30, 2025
    Editor’s Note: This post is the second of three forming a book discussion on the Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States. Background The Open-Ended Working Group on security of and in the use of information and communications technologies (“ICTs”) 2021-2015 (“OEWG”) was convened by […]
    Danielle Yeow
  • EJIL: News!: Thank you Wanshu – Welcome Abhimanyu! mai 29, 2025
    As EJIL authors and peer reviewers will know, the Associate Editors are a key part of the EJIL machinery. They receive articles, send them out for review and communicate with authors and peer reviewers. It is a lot of work and can be quite intense. The role provides great insights into the world of publishing, […]
    Sarah Nouwen
  • The Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States mai 29, 2025
    Editor’s Note: This post is the first of three which will run over the coming days as part of a book discussion on the Handbook on Developing a National Position on International Law and Cyber Activities: A Practical Guide for States. Background The internet and other information and communication technologies (ICTs) have brought about both […]
    Kubo Mačák
  • Combatting Slavery at Sea and IUU Fishing: The WCPFC Adopts Labor Standards for Fishing Crew mai 28, 2025
    Introduction The staggering scale of modern slavery — slavery, servitude, and debt bondage —inhumane treatment, and human trafficking has been well documented. In 2022, the International Labor Organization estimated that roughly 28 million people victims of “forced labour” — labour coerced under threat — with 128,000 people trapped in force labor on fishing vessels around […]
    Chris Wold
  • Lawyers and the Resilience of the Liberal International Order mai 28, 2025
    Introduction  In times of political crisis and attacks against the foundations of political liberalism, can we put our trust in lawyers and other legal occupations to fight for our freedoms, when they are under attack? The role of the legal profession in the rise, development, and resilience of political liberalism — basic legal freedoms, an […]
    Kjersti Lohne
  • Vital Statistics mai 27, 2025
    Each year the EJIL editors read and evaluate hundreds of manuscripts submitted to the journal for possible publication. The vast majority of those submissions, including the manuscripts that are accepted and then published in our pages, come to us, not by invitation, but rather through our online submission system.  EJIL commissions only a very small […]
    Anny Bremner
  • The Indus Waters Treaty ‘in abeyance’: Legal implications of India’s unilateral water releases into Pakistan-Administered Kashmir mai 27, 2025
    On April 27, 2025, an unexpected rise in water levels of the Jhelum river in Pakistan-Administered Kashmir [‘PAK’] caused flooding in the region, with residents struggling to ‘protect lives and property’. A week later, India again released water from dams in Indian-Administered Kashmir [‘IAK’] without notifying Pakistan that water levels in the Chenab river would […]
    Rishabh Bajoria
  • In This Issue – Reviews mai 26, 2025
    After seven years, this is our last ‘In This Issue’. We are signing off with a bumper issue full of reviews in different shapes and sizes. Two review essays offer in-depth engagement with foundational questions. Fuad Zarbiyev reflects on Alain Pellet’s 2018 Hague Academy General Course, now published in book form. Pellet’s vision of the ‘elusive […]
    Gail Lythgoe
  • In This Issue mai 26, 2025
    This issue, and this volume, opens with our annual EJIL Foreword, authored this year by Susan Marks. Marks provides a critical exploration of the enduring metaphor of the world as a family, examining the ideas about family that both influence and are influenced by it. Through a careful analysis of three prominent familial tropes – […]
    Francisco-José Quintana