EJIL: Talk!

• Erga omnes nature of human rights obligations in respect of climate change: A preliminary survey of the positions in the ICJ Climate Change advisory proceedings janvier 16, 2025
  Amongst the many legal issues arising from the ICJ advisory proceedings in Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change, the erga omnes nature of the obligations involved has a particular significance. This nature comprises not only strictly environmental obligations, but also human rights obligations related to climate change. The issue presents a singular opportunity […]
  Luciano Pezzano
• ‘Hybrid threats, ‘grey zones’, ‘competition’, and ‘proxies’: When is it actually war? janvier 15, 2025
  In the last few months, suspicious fires in warehouses and aboard aircraft, the severing of undersea power and Internet cables, GPS jamming, cyber operations against critical civilian infrastructure, and allegations of influence operations and election interference have been depicted as ‘hybrid warfare’ by both politicians and the media. So-called ‘hybrid threats’ or ‘hybrid attacks’, as […]
  Samit D’Cunha
• Kerajaan Malaysia v. Lawyers for Liberty: At the Confluence of Fake News and Extraterritoriality janvier 14, 2025
  The dangers caused by the proliferation of misinformation – or ‘fake news’ – via social media platforms and instant messaging services are not easy to counteract. By the internet’s very nature, online communications are difficult to regulate as information shared by users in one jurisdiction can be easily made available to users in many others. […]
  Dominic Bielby
• Trump’s Coercion of America’s Allies and the Prohibition of Intervention janvier 13, 2025
  Next week, Donald Trump will become President of the United States. Again. Even before his assumption of the presidency, he seems to have started setting his country’s foreign policy. Among the many items on his agenda, we have witnessed all these ideas and proposals about making Canada the 51st state, seizing the Panama Canal and […]
  Marko Milanovic
• Announcements: Ghandhi Research Seminar Series; CfS ASIL Interest Group; CfA Nordic Symposium on the Law of Armed Conflict; CfP Causal Inquiry for Finding Breaches of Human Rights Obligations ECHR; CfP ILA Committee on ADR in International Law; Economic, Social and Cultural Rights Seminar & Book Launch; CfP Polish Review of International & European Law; Research Methods in Fundamental Rights Workshop janvier 12, 2025
  1. Ghandhi Research Seminar Series 2024- 2025. Global Law at Reading (GLAR) is Reading’s research hub for public international law, EU law and human rights law, and it has a proud international reputation for research excellence in these areas. The Ghandhi Research Seminar Series was launched in 2015, named in honour of Professor Sandy Ghandhi, […]
  Mary Guest
• Two Weeks in Review, 30 December 2024 – 12 January 2025 janvier 12, 2025
  International Humanitarian Law Anna-Christina Schmidl and Eitan Diamond assess the legality of Israel’s conduct in North Gaza, focusing on both the law of occupation and the rules governing siege warfare under international humanitarian law (IHL). The authors find Israel’s actions in Northern Gaza likely violate multiple IHL provisions, including those against the starvation of civilians […]
  Tal Gross
• Evaluating Bangladesh’s Legal Framework for Rohingya Refugees: Gaps and Solutions janvier 10, 2025
  “Shoot all you see and all you hear” – after receiving this order from his commanding officer in August 2017, Pvt. Myo Win Tun confessed in a video confession years later to having participated in the killings of 30 Rohingya Muslims and burying them in a mass grave close to a cell tower and a […]
  Manzoor Hasan
• Argentina v Venezuela? Notes on Diplomatic Tensions and International Dispute Settlement janvier 9, 2025
  On 8 December 2024, Venezuelan authorities detained Argentine military police officer Nahuel Agustín Gallo after he entered the country from Colombia. According to Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Gallo first travelled by car to Chile, then by plane to Bogotá, and finally by taxi to the Venezuelan border in order to reunite with his Venezuelan […]
  Francisco-José Quintana
• Lithuania’s Constitutional Court Rules Seeing Same-Sex Relationships Won’t Turn Kids Gay janvier 8, 2025
  On 18 December 2024, the Lithuanian Constitutional Court held that the law, prohibiting the dissemination of public information depicting same-sex relationships is unconstitutional as it violates the freedom of thought of children and the right to found a family under the Constitution of Lithuania. The decision follows the rationale of the European Court of Human […]
  Sarthak Gupta
• The Other ‘Transitioning Away’ Imperative: Meat as the Next Frontier in Global Climate Change Policy janvier 7, 2025
  In November 2024, deep in the corridors of the climate change COP 29 in Baku, the True Animal Protein Price (TAPP) Coalition worked tirelessly to collect signatures on a document that many observers may have considered quixotic. The document called on states to commit to ‘transitioning away from animal protein overconsumption’ through implementing greenhouse gas […]
  André Nollkaemper