EJIL: Talk!

• Announcements: The Law of the European Convention on Human Rights Event; In the Pursuit of Reparatory and Racial Justice – Reclaiming the Codification of the International Crime of the Slave Trade mai 28, 2023
  1. The Law of the European Convention on Human Rights Event. On 14 June 2023, the Human Rights Law Centre, University of Nottingham will host a roundtable discussion to commemorate the launch of the 5th edition of Harris, O’Boyle and Warbrick, The Law of the European Convention on Human Rights. The event will be in person […]
  Mary Guest
• Two Weeks in Review, 8 May – 21 May 2023 mai 21, 2023
  Pedro A. Villarreal explores the recent WHO declaration on COVID-19 no longer constituting a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Villarreal addresses the legal consequences brought upon by the end of a PHEIC and sheds light on the lack of concrete and clear criteria for doing so.  The author notes that input from medicine […]
  Tal Gross
• Announcements: International Nuremberg Principles Academy Vacancies; CfA Russia, Imperialism, and International Law; BUL Emerging Law Voices Interview Series; Remembering Karen Knop Roundtable; Massive Open Online Course mai 21, 2023
  1. International Nuremberg Principles Academy Project Officer Vacancies. The International Nuremberg Principles Academy (Nuremberg Academy) is a foundation dedicated to the advancement of international criminal law and related human rights and is located in Nuremberg, the birthplace of modern international criminal law. The Nuremberg Academy is now seeking to recruit two Project Officers available to […]
  Mary Guest
• The Moscow Mechanism Expert Report on the Forcible Transfer and Deportation of Ukrainian Children mai 17, 2023
  Before Spring 2022, only the real connoisseurs of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) were familiar with the so-called Moscow Mechanism enabling any OSCE participating State to request the establishment of an ad hoc expert mission to investigate specific questions related to the OSCE human dimension. In the first thirty years of […]
  Veronika Bilkova
• Dispute Settlement Under the BBNJ Agreement: Accepting Part XV of the UNCLOS with a Twist mai 15, 2023
  Introduction On 4 March 2023, the Implementing Agreement on the Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biological Diversity of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (BBNJ Agreement) under the United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) was adopted after nearly two decades of negotiations. As the third ‘child’ of UNCLOS, the Agreement acquires from its […]
  Lan Ngoc Nguyen
• Announcements: Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism Workshop; Russian Aggression and International Criminal Justice Symposium; PhD Scholarships on Law and Transformation; International Human Rights Standards and Systems Course; CfP European Yearbook of Constitutional Law; EU Migration and Asylum Law Summer School; SIEL Global Conference; The Monroe Doctrine Conference; Remembering Karen Knop Roundtable mai 14, 2023
  1. Countering Terrorism and Violent Extremism in the Public Interest Workshop. On 31 October – 1 November 2023, the T.M.C. Asser Instituut is organising a workshop entitled ‘Countering terrorism and violent extremism in the public interest’ in The Hague, the Netherlands, and online. There is a related call for abstracts of up to 500 words […]
  Mary Guest
• Applying International Environmental Law Conventions in Occupied Territory: The Azerbaijan v. Armenia Case under the Bern Convention mai 12, 2023
  Introduction  On 18 January 2023, Azerbaijan announced that it had launched against Armenia an inter-state case under the dispute settlement provision in the 1979 Convention on the Conservation of European Wildlife and Natural Habitats (Bern Convention).  Azerbaijan notified the Bern Convention Secretariat of the dispute by letter on 27 March 2023, stating that negotiations would […]
  Waad Abualrob
• “Failure to Act” of Mr Putin: Liability by Omission mai 10, 2023
  As announced on 17 March 2023, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for Mr Vladimir Putin (the President of the Russian Federation), who has been charged with unlawful deportation and transfer of children (Articles 8(2)(a)(vii) and 8(2)(b)(viii) of the Rome Statute) from the occupied areas of Ukraine to the Russian Federation at […]
  Ana Srovin Coralli
• “We’re In This for the Long Haul”: The End of the Public Health Emergency of International Concern Due to COVID-19 mai 8, 2023
  Last Friday, 5 May 2023, acting upon advice from an Emergency Committee, the WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus declared under Article 12 of the International Health Regulations (IHR) of 2005 that the spread of COVID-19 no longer constitutes a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). The emergency had been active since 30 January 2020. […]
  Pedro A. Villarreal
• Two Weeks in Review, 24 April – 7 May 2023 mai 7, 2023
  Marko Milanovic offers a summary of the Amicus Curiae brief he co-authored with Sangeeta Shah submitted recently to the ECtHR. The brief, regarding the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia, deals solely with the downing of the MH17 plane. The authors examine the outstanding jurisdiction issues that were not dealt with in the […]
  Tal Gross