EJIL: Talk!

• The Discretion that Wasn’t: The ICJ’s Exercise of Judicial Propriety in its Latest Advisory Opinion septembre 18, 2024
  Some weeks ago, Nicholas Tsagourias published a piece on Articles of War blog, analysing the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) recent advisory opinion on Israel’s practices in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. While other blogposts examined the opinion in substance, Tsagourias devotes his words to the Court’s discretion. According to him, compelling reasons should have led […]
  Moritz Rhades
• EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 28: Unlawful Occupation, Annexation and Segregation: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Palestine septembre 17, 2024
  I invited three distinguished Palestinian lawyers to EJIL: The Podcast! to discuss the recent ICJ decision on Palestine. They had views. Joining me, Nehal Bhuta, on the podcast were Diana Buttu, lawyer and former PLO negotiation team member; Professor Ardi Imseis, Queen’s University Law School, Ontario; and Dr Nimer Sultany, Reader in Law, SOAS London. […]
  Nehal Bhuta
• Announcements: CfE Scope of Litigation under the UNCLOS; Legal Education During Armed Conflict Webinar; CfA European Yearbook of International Economic Law septembre 15, 2024
  1. Call for Expression of Interest – Conference: The Scope of Litigation under the UNCLOS. The Judicial Jurisdiction Project – a joint project of the Netherlands Institute for the Law of the Sea (NILOS) and the Utrecht University Centre for Water, Oceans and Sustainability Law (UCWOSL) at Utrecht University School of Law – invites expressions […]
  Mary Guest
• ECtHR’s Veil of Ignorance: Intersectionality and Indirect Discrimination in the Belgian Headscarf Ban in School septembre 13, 2024
  On April 9th, 2024, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its judgment concerning Belgium’s Hijab (Headscarf) ban on wearing visible religious symbols in Schools. The Court, following its previous notorious trial of SAS v. France, continued to allow the creeping erosion of the right to manifest religion under Article 9 of the European […]
  Sarthak Gupta
• Should Ecocide be an International Crime? It’s Time for States to Decide septembre 12, 2024
  It’s not like international criminal justice has had an easy summer. Now it has a new bone to chew on – and it’s a particularly meaty one. On Monday, 9 September 2024, Vanuatu, Fiji and Samoa jointly submitted a proposal to amend the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court to the UN Secretary-General and the […]
  Daniel Bertram
• #Workingforjustice: Victim Participation at the International Criminal Court (ICC) septembre 11, 2024
  Victims’ rights to participate in international criminal justice have long been celebrated as empowering victims to have their say, share their experiences, engage in truth-seeking, and/or receive emotional closure. For equally long, however, many lawyers and NGOs have lamented that victim participation erodes the defendant’s rights to a fair trial, creates punitive cultures and, in […]
  Leila Ullrich
• When Reinforced Self-Judgment Meets Judicial Review: Insights from Seda v. Colombia septembre 10, 2024
  On 27 June 2024, the tribunal in the investment dispute Seda v Colombia delivered a long-awaited award. The decision, hailed by Colombia as ‘historic’, represents the first publicly available award where an investment tribunal accepted the ‘self-judging’ character of a provision within an investment agreement. Additionally, it is the first public award to dismiss an […]
  Fabian Eichberger
• Really Binding? Security Council Resolution 2728 (2024) and Non-State Actors septembre 9, 2024
  There has been controversy, including on this blog, over whether the UN Security Council resolution 2728 (2024) on the Palestinian question is legally binding or not. It seems to me that while Eran Sthoeger places much emphasis on whether the Council resolution can be traced back to Chapter VII, Eirik Bjorge regards the use of […]
  Akira Kato
• Two Weeks in Review, 26 August – 8 September 2024 septembre 8, 2024
  Palestine Advisory Opinion In his post ‘Obligations Erga Omnes, Norms of Jus Cogens and Legal Consequences for “Other States” in the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) Palestine Advisory Opinion’ Eugenio Carli critiques the July 2024 ICJ Advisory Opinion, arguing that the Court’s reasoning on the legal consequences for other states is unclear. The author asserts […]
  Tal Gross
• Announcements: How and Why Do Double Standards Matter for International Law Workshop; Migrating Fears Film Premiere septembre 8, 2024
  1. How and Why Do Double Standards Matter for International Law Workshop. The upcoming event, “How and Why Do Double Standards Matter for International Law?” will be held from 15 – 17 May 2025, at the Geneva Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. This workshop aims to explore how double standards in international law […]
  Mary Guest