EJIL: Talk!

• “To Release or not to Release, that is the Question”: Detention Pending Trial at the International Criminal Court after the Gicheru Case mars 8, 2021
  On 29 January this year, the Pre-Trial Chamber A of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided to grant interim release to Paul Gicheru, a lawyer suspected of offences against the administration of justice under Article 70(1)(c) of the Rome Statute, consisting in corruptly influencing ICC witnesses in cases from the Kenyan situation in 2013 (Decision). […]
  Diletta Marchesi
• Announcements: Thessaloniki Summer Courses; Customary IHL Research Vacancy; Law Not War Event; Nuclear Law and Policy Research Associate; SIEL March Conversation; Rule of Law at Sea Lecture; Due Diligence in International Law Panel; Unpacking Transitional Justice Series; Roundtable Prosecutorial Discretion at the ICC; Spanish International Legal Podcast mars 7, 2021
  1. Thessaloniki Summer Courses on International Law and Human Rights. The Kalliopi Koufa Foundation for the Promotion of International Law and Human Rights organizes the 6th session of the Thessaloniki Summer Courses on International Law and Human Rights from 23 June – 2 July 2021, on the topic of “Social Rights in International Law: From […]
  Mary Guest
• EJIL:The Podcast! Episode 7: “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?” ‬ mars 6, 2021
  In this episode of the podcast, Sarah Nouwen is in conversation with Laurence Helfer (Harry R. Chadwick, Sr. Professor of Law, Duke Law School) and Erik Voeten (Peter F. Krogh Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs, Georgetown University) about their article “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?” which was published in the latest […]
  Dapo Akande
• Don’t Leave Me This Way: Regulating Treaty Withdrawal in the Inter-American Human Rights System mars 5, 2021
  What happens after a state party denounces a human rights treaty? Which legal obligations continue and how should other member states react? On December 16, 2020, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) addressed those central questions in a much-anticipated advisory opinion on the procedure for and effects of withdrawal from the American Convention on […]
  Silvia Steininger
• Unpacking Sovereignty and Self-determination in ITLOS and the ICC: A Bundle of Rights? mars 4, 2021
  In a short space of time, two international courts have handed down rather dramatic decisions related to the contested issues of self-determination and sovereignty of the Chagos Archipelago and Palestine, which have, for a very long time now, been under the UK and Israeli occupation respectively. On 28 January 2021, an ITLOS Special Chamber found […]
  Volker Roeben
• Proposed EU Sanctions Against Uganda: Thoughts on This New Extraterritorial Human Rights Regime mars 3, 2021
  On 11 February 2021, the European parliament adopted three resolutions on human rights situations in Uganda, Rwanda and Kazakhstan. Notably, for Uganda, it called for sanctions against individuals and entities responsible for human rights violations. My claim is that sanctions are an interplay between international relations and international human rights law regimes. Whereas they have […]
  Tonny Raymond Kirabira
• “Solid jurisdictional basis”? The ICC’s fragile jurisdiction for crimes allegedly committed in Palestine mars 2, 2021
  On 5 February 2021, Pre-Trial Chamber I issued its long-awaited decision regarding the ICC’s jurisdiction for possible war crimes committed in the occupied Palestinian territories (Gaza and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem) since 13 June 2014 (for an academic analysis, see the symposium here). The decision was requested by the Office of the Prosecutor […]
  Kai Ambos
• Collaborative Governance and Dispute Resolution: EU-UK vs. EU-Switzerland mars 1, 2021
  In view of current and upcoming bilateral challenges for partnership agreements between the EU and third countries, this blog post aims at analysing the dispute resolution provisions of (i) both the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) and the Withdrawal Agreement (WA) between the EU and the United Kingdom (UK), and the (ii) Draft Institutional […]
  Thomas Bickl
• Diplomats or fonctionnaires? The Contested Status of the EU’s ‘Embassy’ in the UK mars 1, 2021
  May the European Union have a full diplomacy, on a par with States? This issue has been problematic since 1954, when the European Coal and Steel Community opened its first delegation – in London. Already in 1961, Pescatore wrote that ‘it is clear why the use of the term “diplomatic” to designate the Community’s missions […]
  Mauro Gatti
• Two Weeks in Review, 15 – 28 February 2021 février 28, 2021
  Diane Desierto compares and contrasts the jurisdictional methodologies employed by the International Court of Justice in its Iran v. US and Qatar v. UAE judgments. Desierto compares how the Court characterised the ratione materiae in each dispute and the Court’s treaty interpretation under Article 31 of the VCLT, given the Court favoured a textualist reading of the 1955 Treaty of […]
  Gail Lythgoe