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EJIL: Talk!

• Gender Persecution at the International Criminal Court: The ICC Issues Arrest Warrants against Taliban Leaders for Crimes against Humanity juillet 11, 2025
  On 8 July 2025, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants against two senior Taliban leaders in the Situation in Afghanistan. The Office of the Prosecutor (OTP) hailed the warrants as an ‘important vindication and acknowledgement of the rights of Afghan women and girls’, with their issuance receiving extensive media attention […]
  Miles Jackson
• In defense of a human right to democracy: Reflections on the pending Advisory Opinion before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights juillet 11, 2025
  On the 26th of March of this year the Secretariat of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (‘IACtHR’ or ‘the Court’) issued a press release communicating the request for an advisory opinion presented by the republic of Guatemala focused on democracy and its protection in the Inter-American human rights system. Throughout their filing, Guatemala explores […]
  Ecab Amor Vázquez
• The European Court’s Merits Judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia: As Good as It Gets (Almost) juillet 10, 2025
  In a landmark ruling, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights yesterday delivered its much-anticipated merits judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia (nos. 8019/16, 43800/14, 28525/20 and 11055/22). The judgment is here; the Court’s press release summarizing it is here. For more background, see my post from last week and […]
  Marko Milanovic
• The Case for a Climate-Conscious Convention on the Protection of Persons in the Event of Disasters juillet 9, 2025
  In December 2024, the United Nations General Assembly took an extraordinary step: it adopted, by consensus, a resolution deciding to elaborate and conclude a legally binding instrument on the protection of persons in the event of disasters by 2027, based on the International Law Commission’s 2016 draft articles. This decision marks a rare instance in […]
  Panpailin Jantarasombat
• Sanctions Under Scrutiny: Towards Better Justifications in UN Sanctions Listings juillet 8, 2025
  The 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, 2025
  Introduction 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, 2025
  The 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, 2025
  Introduction 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, 2025
  1. 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, 2025
  As 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