EJIL: Talk!

• Is the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruling on granting asylum to Afghan women an implication of qualification of gender apartheid in Afghanistan? novembre 20, 2024
  Introduction From a feminist perspective, international law has frequently failed to adequately address gender issues, primarily due to the challenges posed by a male-centric discourse reflected in its organizational and normative structure. This limitation is particularly evident in refugee law, where gender-based persecution has long struggled to gain recognition as a ground on its own […]
  Shima Esmailian
• Palestinian Refugees and the Future of Asylum novembre 19, 2024
  The Palestinian refugee protection framework adopted after WWII faces a crisis of unprecedented proportions. While it remains unclear whether this framework will survive, Israel’s recent attack on it sheds new light on asylum’s oldest conundrum: the inherent tension between individual rights protection and state sovereignty. At the center of the Palestinian refugee protection framework stands […]
  Itamar Mann
• The Three Scholars behind ScholarOne: EJIL’s Associate Editors novembre 18, 2024
  Writing an article is such a personal endeavour: a struggle with questions, structure and individual sentences. And when that struggle seems to be over and the article appears ready for sharing, it can be submitted to ScholarOne, a ‘journals workflow management software’ that EJIL and many other journals use. That hugely personal product is thus […]
  Sarah Nouwen
• Two Weeks in Review, 4 – 17 November 2024 novembre 17, 2024
  Cyberspace Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew and Yuval Shany analyze the African Union’s (AU) adoption of the Common African Position (CAP) on international law in cyberspace. The authors focus on the CAP’s approach to digital human rights, including how existing human rights apply online, the potential development of new digital rights, and the obligations of both states […]
  Tal Gross
• Announcements: CfP Domestic Impact of Global and Regional Human Rights Law; CfA Juris Gentium Law Review; CfA National Security & International Business Roundtable novembre 17, 2024
  1. Call for Papers: The Domestic Impact of Global and Regional Human Rights Law. Scholars, legal practitioners, policymakers, and students have been invited to submit their abstracts for this conference “The Domestic Impact of Global and Regional Human Rights Law.” The conference aims to explore the multifaceted ways in which international human rights norms, at […]
  Mary Guest
• The 2024 AU Common Position on the Application of International Law in the Cyberspace: Some Implications for the Development of Digital Human Rights novembre 15, 2024
  Introduction The African Union Peace and Security Council (PSC) has adopted in late January 2024 its much-anticipated and first-ever Common African Position on the Application of International Law to the Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Cyberspace (‘Common African Position’ or CAP). The CAP reflects the views of the AU’s 55 member States. Given […]
  Yohannes Eneyew Ayalew
• Lost for Words, yet Grasping for Neologisms: Gaza, Genocide and the Discursive Limits of International Law novembre 14, 2024
  Image: Qassem, a Palestinian shepherd from Umm al Fugara, is being investigated by Israeli military police and army for land ownership, after a settler wrongfully accused him of assault. Philippe Pernot. Whether within the lexicon of international law or the parlance of everyday conversation, invoking ‘genocide’ is pregnant with explosive and abrasive intent. Lawyers and […]
  Michelle Burgis-Kasthala
• On My Way Out – Advice to Early Career Scholars VIII: Best Practice for Workshopping Projected Edited Collections (Books, Symposia) in 10 Not So Easy Steps novembre 13, 2024
  On my way out? It appears, you might be thinking, to be a very long and winding way, and I cannot even promise that this is the last instalment….  Still, for what it is worth, here is another of my ‘dos and don’ts’ advice on topics addressed to early career scholars on their way in, […]
  Joseph Weiler
• Whose Legal Duty to Aid? novembre 12, 2024
  On 4 November, Israel officially informed the United Nations of its decision to cut ties with the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) following the passage of two bills opposing UNRWA’s activities on Israeli territory. The new laws also designate UNRWA as a terrorist organisation and strip its staff of […]
  Cherry Tang
• Statehood as an Incidental Issue in International Adjudication: Reflections on Palestine’s Intervention Request in South Africa v Israel novembre 11, 2024
  In December 2023, South Africa instituted proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (Genocide Convention). To date, ten third-party interventions have been submitted in the case. Eight states—Bolivia, Chile, Turkey, Spain, Mexico, Libya, Colombia, and the Maldives—have filed declarations […]
  Alina Papanastasiou