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- “Suspension of Citizenship” in the Hungarian Constitution: On Statelessness, Bull**** and Authoritarian Lawmaking mars 28, 2025An ancient and beloved Hungarian folktale is the story of King Matthias and the Clever Girl. According to the story, King Matthias the Just, who often wandered about Hungary in disguise to see how the plain folk were living, was insulted by a village alderman. Matthias, upon his return to court, decreed that the alderman […]Péter Szigeti
- Context, Content, and the ‘Threshold of Severity’: ECtHR’s Jurisprudence on Satire vs Hate mars 27, 2025On 3rd December 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR/Court) delivered its decision in the case of Yevstifeyev and Others v. Russia [App. No. 226 of 2018]. In Yevstifeyev, the ECtHR addressed two distinct applications, wherein the first application involved homophobic verbal assaults and threats against LGBTI activists, which the Court deemed a violation […]Sarthak Gupta
- EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 32: No Country for Women – Lawyering for Gender Justice in Afghanistan mars 26, 2025Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban has sought to reverse Afghan women’s hard-won progress toward gender equality. Through dozens of decrees, policies, and statements, it has targeted the autonomy and rights of women and girls, barring them from public life and severely restricting their basic freedoms. Yet, Afghan women have refused to accept […]Neha Jain
- Gaza and the Collective Political Costs of Algorithmic Warfare mars 25, 2025Since Israel started its military campaigns against Gaza, Lebanon, and the West Bank after the terrorist attacks of October 7, 2023, both academia and the media have intensely debated the Israel Defence Force’s (IDF) use of so-called artificial intelligence-enabled decision-support systems (AI-DSS) for its combat operations. Controversies have mainly revolved around the staggering number of […]Henning Lahmann
- Another Genocide Convention case, another conundrum for interventions mars 24, 2025On 5 March 2025, Sudan instituted proceedings against the United Arab Emirates (UAE) before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) regarding alleged violations by the UAE of its obligations under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide (the Genocide Convention). The case concerns allegations that the UAE is supporting Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support […]Pranay Lekhi
- Two Weeks in Review, 10 – 23 March 2025 mars 23, 2025Over the past two weeks, EJIL’s contributors have offered thoughtful insights into a variety of pressing international law issues. Among the topics discussed are significant climate litigation rulings, developments in indigenous rights, challenges surrounding secondary sanctions, and the evolving role of peacekeeping forces, highlighting the dynamic nature of international legal frameworks. Climate Litigation Enikő Krajnyák […]Tal Gross
- Announcements: EU Accession to the ECHR Workshop; Sam Pegram LLM Scholarship Launch; Traditional Ecological Knowledge Forum; Beyond Disasters Conference; CfP Durham Energy Disputes Conference; CfA International Nuremberg Principles Academy Research Prize mars 23, 20251. The EU Accession to the ECHR: Procedural Hurdles and Prospects Before the ECtHR Workshop. This workshop will take place on 15 – 16 May 2025 at the Faculty of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, with the first day available in a hybrid format. The workshop will explore the procedural challenges and implications following the […]Mary Guest
- International Law as a Common Heritage of Mankind mars 21, 2025In 1990, when the European Journal of International Law (EJIL) had its first issue, its founders, including myself, obviously stressed in their first editorial the link between international law and the construction of the European Union. The socio-political context in which the Journal had just been launched was very different from that which prevails today. […]Pierre Marie Dupuy
- From the Right to be Consulted to the Right to No Contact: The Inter-American Court Faces Its First Case on Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation mars 20, 2025Yesterday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights published a landmark ruling in the case of Pueblos Indígenas Tagaeri y Taromenane v. Ecuador, the first case in its 45-year history to address the rights of Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The case concerns Ecuador’s international responsibility for the violation of the rights of the Tagaeri […]Letícia Machado Haertel
- Immunity of State Officials: A Jus Cogens Criteria for Draft Article 7? mars 19, 2025Immunities of state officials are a subject matter in international law that continues to raise tensions between States. The seventy-sixth session of the International Law Commission (ILC) will take place in Geneva from April 14 to May 30 and June 30 to July 31, 2025. One of the topics to be discussed on the agenda […]Diego Uribe Bustamante