EJIL: Talk!

• Were the Israeli Pager and Walkie-Talkie Attacks on Hezbollah Indiscriminate? septembre 20, 2024
  There is much that we still don’t know about the attacks that Israel has conducted against Hezbollah in Lebanon by detonating hundreds of pagers and walkie-talkies rigged with explosives. This type of attack is genuinely unprecedented – I can’t recall any sufficiently close analogue, but maybe others can. This novelty poses some difficulty in understanding […]
  Marko Milanovic
• A Legal Perspective on the Term “Lethal” septembre 20, 2024
  The deliberations of the Group of Governmental Experts (GGE) on Emerging Technologies in the Area of Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems (LAWS) underscore the critical importance of legally defining or characterising the term “lethal” in the context of autonomous weapon systems (AWS). The Report of the Secretary General on LAWS stated that some “States considered the […]
  Varun VM
• Navigating France’s Views on Sovereignty in Cyberspace: Why Might France Not Be in the “Sovereignty-As-A-Rule” and in the “Pure Sovereignty” Camps septembre 19, 2024
  Since 2013, States have repeatedly reaffirmed in multilateral institutions that the principle of sovereignty applies in cyberspace, and in particular that “in their use of ICTs, States must observe, among other principles of international law, State sovereignty, sovereign equality” (A/70/174). As more and more states publish their views on the application of international law in […]
  Aude Géry
• 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