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- Sanctions Under Scrutiny: Towards Better Justifications in UN Sanctions Listings juillet 8, 2025The UN Security Council (UNSC) lists individuals and entities responsible for violations of sanctions regimes or international humanitarian law, resulting in asset freezes and travel bans. Those affected have two avenues for removal from the lists: the Ombudsperson (applicable to listings under the ISIL/AQAP 1267 regime), or the focal point mechanism (covering other sanctions regimes). […]Ruwanthika Gunaratne
- The Doctrine of Intertemporal Law and the Challenge of Decolonising the Law on Territorial and Boundary Issues in Africa: Gabon/Equatorial Guinea at the ICJ juillet 8, 2025Introduction On 19 May 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered judgment in Land and Maritime Delimitation and Sovereignty over Islands (Gabon/Equatorial Guinea). The Court relied on a 1900 boundary treaty between the Parties’ former colonial powers, as well as administrative and legal acts of those powers, as valid and relevant sources of law, […]Christopher Nyinevi
- Balancing Adaptation and Mitigation: The Agricultural Sector under the UN Climate Change Regime juillet 7, 2025The climate change regime has been one focal point of international law over the past year, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has undertaken the task of addressing the questions presented as part of the advisory proceedings on climate change. The proceedings, even as the final opinion remains pending, have already enhanced our understanding […]Katharina Neumann
- Reflexions on the African Commission’s Resolution 627 on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo juillet 7, 2025Introduction This article offers a critical analysis of the uniqueness, legal significance, and silences in Resolution 627 on the human rights situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) adopted by the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights (African Commission or Commission) on 11 March 2025 during its 82nd Ordinary Session. Resolution 627 is […]Trésor Muhindo Makunya
- Announcements: Iran, Israel and Gaza Lecture; Edmund Siemers Lecture; Combatant Subjectivity and the Law of War Talk; EoI Statelessness and Citizenship Review; CfP SCR; Genocide in Gaza Lecture; CfP JGLR juillet 6, 20251. An Omni-Crisis in International Law: Iran, Israel and Gaza. The Transitional Justice Institute at Ulster University is hosting an online discussion on the current omni-crisis in international law – with Prof. Marko Milanovic from Reading University, Susan Power from Al Haq, Palestinian lawyer Sahar Francis, and Dr. Thomas Hansen and Dr. Roua Al Taweel […]Mary Guest
- For an Effective and Legitimate Jurisdictional Regime on the Crime of Aggression at Last: States Parties to the Statute of the International Court to Convene on Monday for a Special Session in New York juillet 4, 2025As of Monday, a window of historic opportunity will be open for States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC Statute) for three days to provide the Court with a more effective and more legitimate legal framework for the exercise of jurisdiction over the crime of aggression. The following blogpost sets […]Astrid Reisinger Coracini
- Grand Chamber Judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia Forthcoming Next Week juillet 3, 2025This is a short post to flag to readers that on Wednesday next week, 9 July, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights will be delivering its much-anticipated merits judgment in one of the most important interstate cases ever to be decided by that Court, Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia. The case […]Marko Milanovic
- Legal Pluralism in Practice: Colombia’s New Framework for Indigenous Territorial Self-Government juillet 3, 2025In May 2025, the Colombian government took a historic step toward realising a long-delayed constitutional promise: by means of a decree, it recognised the right of indigenous peoples to establish autonomous territorial entities with their own governments, legal systems and control over land and resources. This decree operationalises Articles 7 and 246 of the Colombian […]Marzia Genovese
- Is There a Duty to Repatriate in International Law? juillet 2, 2025As thousands of foreign nationals stranded in Iran and Israel wait for repatriation flights, governments are scrambling to find safe ways to evacuate them. With airspace closed, land border crossings limited, and evacuation routes posing dangers, many people remain stuck. In addition to these obvious logistical challenges, the capacity of governments to repatriate their nationals […]Thomas Mulder
- EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 35: Human Mobility and International Law juillet 2, 2025Migration has become a defining issue of our time, visibly shaping political discourse, legal systems, and public imaginaries. Yet for all its salience, international law’s capacity to respond to the complexities of human mobility remains fractured, fragile, and often inadequate. In this episode, we take a hard look at the international legal architecture surrounding migration: […]Jaya Ramji-Nogales