EJIL: Talk!

• The Gender of Treaty Withdrawal: Lessons from the Istanbul Convention novembre 28, 2022
  In the early hours of 20 March 2021 the Turkish Official Gazette announced—in a one sentence statement that offered no explanation—that the President Erdoğan had decided to withdraw from the Istanbul Convention, the Council of Europe treaty on preventing and combating violence against women. Two days later, the Communication Directorate of the President offered this […]
  Başak Çali
• Announcements: The International Criminal Court in Ukraine and Georgia Webinar; International Law and the SAARC Region in Times of Crisis Conference; Junior Fellowships Vacancies; London International Boundary Conference; Justice for Atrocities in Latin America and Europe Event; The Practice of Interpretation in International Law Conference; CfP European Yearbook on Human Rights; 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Conference; CfP Violent Turns – Sources, Interpretations, Responses novembre 27, 2022
  1. The Centre for Law and Social Justice Webinar: The International Criminal Court in Ukraine and Georgia. This webinar will cover the International Criminal Court and its role vis-à-vis the situations in Ukraine and Georgia. During the webinar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Aloka Wanigasuriya will reflect on the findings from their PhD thesis titled ‘The Impact […]
  Mary Guest
• On My Way In III: It’s Not All About Me: Writing a Cover Letter for an Academic Position novembre 25, 2022
  Some texts are key to scholarly careers – cover letters, letters of reference, curricula vitae – yet are never intended for publication. They are – perhaps in part for that reason – under-scrutinized genres of academic writing. When one serves on an appointment panel, one inevitably reads hundreds of samples of such texts, provoking reflection […]
  Sarah Nouwen
• In This Issue – Reviews novembre 25, 2022
  This issue features reviews of three monographs, two engaging with non-Western approaches to international law, the other with a central question of the jus ad bellum. We begin with Lauri Mälksoo’s review of Russian Contributions to International Humanitarian Law by Michael Riepl. Published on the eve of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, this is a timely book if ever there was […]
  Christian Tams
• In This Issue novembre 24, 2022
  This issue of EJIL opens with a call to disorder international law. Michelle Staggs Kelsall invites international lawyers to let go of liberal vocabularies and reframe how the international legal order is constituted by conceiving of norms, conventions and principles with reference to a multiplicity of spatial and temporal orders. The next article, by contrast, […]
  Ana Luisa Bernardino
• New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 33 (2022) No. 3) Out This Week novembre 24, 2022
  The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law will be published this week. Over the coming days, we will have a series of editorial posts by Sarah Nouwen, Editor-in-Chief of EJIL, and others. These posts will appear in the Editorial of the new issue.  Here is the Table of Contents for this new issue, as […]
  Mary Guest
• Corporate accountability and Iranian drones in the Ukraine war: Could sanctions lead to prosecutions for international crimes? novembre 23, 2022
  Throughout the Ukraine conflict, allegations have been made against foreign businesses for providing various types of direct or indirect support for Russia’s military attacks. Most recently, firms were placed under US sanctions on 15 November 2022 for ‘the production or ongoing transfer to Russia of Iranian unmanned aerial vehicles used by Russia [in] devastating attacks […]
  Tomas Hamilton
• Control in the context of chaos: the war in Ukraine and Russia’s jurisdiction under the ECHR novembre 22, 2022
  In January 2021, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Human Rights (the Court) issued its long-awaited judgment in Georgia v Russia (II) related to the armed conflict that took place between Georgia and Russia in August 2008, and the continued Russian presence in South Ossetia and Abkhazia. A contentious aspect of the Court’s […]
  Gaiane Nuridzhanian
• Two Weeks in Review, 7 November – 20 November novembre 20, 2022
  Javier García Olmedo and Lorenzo Gradoni offer insights on the recent events leading to the seizing of assets of AMIC Ukraine, by the Bureau of Economic Security of Ukraine (ESBU). AMIC Ukraine is the local subsidiary of AMIC Energy, an Austrian private equity firm. The Ukrainian authorities acted on charges of tax fraud, money laundering and the […]
  Tal Gross
• The Debate on the Debate on Xinjiang at the Human Rights Council: Three Framings novembre 18, 2022
  For all the nice talk about human rights and accountability, on 6 October 2022, a majority of States at the Human Rights Council (HRC) voted against even debating – let alone investigating – the findings of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) on the situation in the Xinjiang, China. On […]
  Aldo Zammit Borda