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The Legality of the Use of Interstate Force during the 2026 Israel/US-Iran Hostilities: What States Said and did not Say
3+ day, 14+ hour ago (203+ words) The Asymmetry in Condemnation The Weight of Silence? Silence and the 2026 Hostilities As mentioned above, in the context of the 2026 hostilities, most international actors were silent with regard to at least two instances of uses of force: As a cornerstone…...
At Peace, Yet Under Fire – Blockade Enforcement against Third State Vessels and the U.N Charter
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (309+ words) Attacks on Ships as a use of force The relationship of the Law of Naval Warfare (LNW) and the UN Charter The U.S use of force against the Marivex, Settebello and Jalveer – attacks that resulted in 3 Indian deaths, has focused…...
A “Free Economic Zone” as an Element of Peace for Ukraine?
5+ day, 2+ hour ago (272+ words) “Free Economic Zone” components in peace plans and related documents The “Free Economic Zone” as just another SEZ? Reasons for Scepticism: Lessons from History in the Light of Current Developments The “free economic zone” proposal resonates with certain ideas of…...
International Courts Against the Defunding of Climate Science? Revisiting the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion
1+ week, 4+ day ago (63+ words) Obligations to ‘actively pursue’ science as a corollary of prevention The pursuit of what science? Pluralism and hegemony in climate science Anna Saunders is a Lecturer in Law at the Australian National University. She researches in international law, the history…...
Beyond Strasbourg: The Chișinău Declaration in Europe’s Multi-Level Human Rights Architecture – EJIL: Talk!
5+ day, 20+ hour ago (138+ words) Beyond the Convention System The Chișinău Declaration engages with substantive interpretative outcomes across multiple levels of rights adjudication. Yet it neither determines the meaning of Convention rights nor legally binds courts to particular interpretative results. Whether the expectations it expresses…...
Who Pays for Aggression? Ukraine’s Reparation Claims and Russian Frozen Assets – EJIL: Talk!
1+ week, 1+ day ago (421+ words) Costs of Reconstructing Ukraine: Not Only Rebuilding but Also Guaranteeing a Long-term Economic Recovery Among the requirements applicable to countermeasures, three are particularly problematic in the context of the potential use of the RCB assets for Ukraine’s reconstruction: (i) the…...
Christopher Nolan and International Law
1+ week, 4+ day ago (379+ words) Tomorrow, Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey will come clattering into cinemas around the world. There will no doubt be talk of plotlines, performances, accents, and fidelity to the source text—perhaps even some mentions of the curious absence of Greek actors....
How the war in Ukraine impacts the law and politics of security guarantees
1+ week, 4+ day ago (116+ words) Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 has revived the concept of security guarantees. Their content and scope have been central to scholarly and political debates about Kyiv’s resistance to the Russian aggression (see here and here). As States attempt to…...
Two Weeks in Review: 29 June—10 July 2026
1+ week, 6+ day ago (410+ words) UNCLOS in times of war and its quiet renegotiation Continued statehood under water Pope Leo and AI governance Rwanda v. United Kingdom, PCA Medical advances and the principle of unnecessary suffering The Board of Peace and the London Committee Mini-symposium: a…...
Announcements: The Human Right to Peace Webinar; CfP The Daily Life of International Law
2+ week, 16+ hour ago (314+ 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… No comments to display 1. Call for Papers: Journal of…...