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China's Zero-Tariff Policy for Africa: Stretching the Enabling Clause?
1+ day, 21+ hour ago (162+ words) This post examines the WTO-law basis for the measure, the harder questions raised by its extension to non-LDC African states, and the comparison with EU and US preferential schemes. It closes with a political-economy reflection on path dependency in African…...
Announcements: Cf P Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict; Cf P European Yearbook of Constitutional Law " EJIL: Talk!
23+ hour, 27+ min ago (323+ words) Mary is an Associate Editor of EJIL: Talk! She qualified and practised as a senior associate in telecoms, media and technology at Clifford Chance LLP, following which she was Head of" Your comment will be revised by the site if…...
Two Weeks in Review: 415 May 2026
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (359+ words) Israel weapons and Nord Stream in the German courts Democracy and ISDS: Ecuador-UAE Bit contd." Coercion in Zambia? Cancelling Rights Con and medicine for minerals" As ever, you can find events and news here. Sebastian von Massow is a Hauser…...
Use of third-state air bases by the United States in the conflict with Iran
4+ day, 9+ hour ago (187+ words) Spain and Italy: compliance with the law of neutrality? Therefore, for Spain and Italy, the restrictions on the use of air bases appear to be consistent with the law of neutrality. France and Portugal: two examples of states not participating…...
The ECt HR's First Victimisation Judgment" 50 years after the 1975 Equal Pay Directive
5+ day, 12+ hour ago (361+ words) Importantly, Ortega only comes half a century after EU victimisation law. Already in 1975, the Equal Pay Directive provided for protection ofemployees against dismissal "as a reaction to a complaint within the undertaking or to any legal proceedings" against discrimination. Being…...
The Twice-Coerced Zambia and the Synergy Between Human Rights Violations and Prohibited Intervention
1+ week, 1+ hour ago (1143+ words) Yet, China was not Zambia's only coercer, nor were these human rights the only ones being violated. It has been alleged that coercion orders of magnitude worse had been going on at the same time, but at the hands of…...
Functional Immunity and "Covert Violent Acts: The BGH's Progressive Development of CIL in the Nord Stream Case
6+ day, 16+ hour ago (68+ words) Functional immunity: the decision and its limits Image credit: Steffen Pr'dorf, CC BY-SA 4. 0 Przemys'aw Roguski is an assistant professor of Public International Law at Jagiellonian University. His research focuses on the law of peacetime cyber operations and different aspects of…...
Announcements: Cf P Mapping International Law's Second Worlds; Digital Battlefields Summer School; From Transitional to Transformative Justice Seminar; Law, Environment and Vulnerability Ph D Workshop; Rosalyn Higgins Prize
1+ week, 1+ day ago (322+ words) Mary is an Associate Editor of EJIL: Talk! She qualified and practised as a senior associate in telecoms, media and technology at Clifford Chance LLP, following which she was Head of" Your comment will be revised by the site if…...
Rewriting Article 422: Ecuador's Constitutional Court, ISDS, and the Limits of Judicial Constitutional Change
1+ week, 5+ day ago (142+ words) Article 422: context and purpose The first ground: whether investment disputes are "contractual or commercial" in nature The second ground: whether ISDS constitutes a "cession of sovereign jurisdiction" Implications for the international investment law debate Ladan Mehranvar is a Senior Legal…...
Process-oriented Review in German Arms Export Litigations: Beyond Victories and Defeats " EJIL: Talk!
1+ week, 6+ day ago (345+ words) Recent EJIL: Talk! Commentaries on Berlin and Frankfurt administrative court decisions characterize them as adopting a "hands-off" approach (Burck and Strobel) or erecting "almost insurmountable barriers" to judicial review (Hartmann, K'hne, and Widdig; K'hne and Widdig). Some critics argue that…...