Once Again in Belgium: Prosecuting a Colonial Crime – The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba In December 2024, a Belgian Court of Appeal recognised the civil liability of the Belgian State for a colonial crime committed in the Belgian Congo between 1948 and 1953. In the Métis case, as already...

Once Again in Belgium: Prosecuting a Colonial Crime – The Assassination of Patrice Lumumba | by Raphael Van Steenberghe

On My Way Out – Advice to Young Scholars IX:  Blurbs I have, as is increasingly evident, reached the final phases of my academic and professional career, though it is a pretty long and winding way out…. Be that as it may, as I look back, I want to offer...

On My Way Out – Advice to Young Scholars IX: Blurbs | by Joseph Weiler
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From Gaza to Lebanon: Forcible Displacement Dressed in Humanitarian Garb In recent hostilities, first in the Gaza Strip and now in Lebanon, the Israeli military has adopted a new modus operandi: issuing blanket relocation directives instructing millions of people to indefi...

From Gaza to Lebanon: Forcible Displacement Dressed in Humanitarian Garb www.ejiltalk.org/from-gaza-to... @ejiltalk.bsky.social

Codifying Coercion: Iran’s “New Legal Regime” and the Law of International Straits The Legal Novelty of the Proposal  International commentary on the Strait of Hormuz crisis has focused, understandably, on the lawfulness of Iran’s closure. The more legally significant development ha...

Codifying Coercion: Iran’s “New Legal Regime” and the Law of International Straits | by Safia K. Southey

From Gaza to Lebanon: Forcible Displacement Dressed in Humanitarian Garb In recent hostilities, first in the Gaza Strip and now in Lebanon, the Israeli military has adopted a new modus operandi: issuing blanket relocation directives instructing millions of people to indefi...

From Gaza to Lebanon: Forcible Displacement Dressed in Humanitarian Garb | by Eitan Diamond and Ellen Nohle

When Government Lawyers Say No There are times when government lawyers (including military legal advisors) are faced with a stark choice. Their political masters (or their superiors in the military) are clearly set on pursing a cer...

When Government Lawyers Say No | by Marko Milanovic

Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary International Law – A Reply to Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis Abstract. In his article entitled ‘Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary Internati

En esta respuesta de EJIL, Christiane Ahlborn cuestiona la interpretación de Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis sobre la relación conceptual entre la personalidad jurídica de los Estados y las organizaciones internacionales (vol. 36:3).

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Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary International Law – A Reply to Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis Abstract. In his article entitled ‘Statehood and International Organization: Rethinking Their Conceptual Relationship with Reference to Customary Internati

In this EJIL Reply, Christiane Ahlborn challenges Orfeas Chasapis Tassinis’ take on the conceptual relation between the legal personality of states and IOs (vol. 36:3).

A Commentary in International Law Abstract. Commentaries on international law are monumental books: heavy and bulky, with gold-inscribed covers, they convey the importance of the scholarshi

En este artículo de EJIL, Lianne Boer describe el encuentro de los juristas internacionales con los comentarios y las experiencias sensoriales que evoca la monumentalidad de estas obras.

When Government Lawyers Say No There are times when government lawyers (including military legal advisors) are faced with a stark choice. Their political masters (or their superiors in the military) are clearly set on pursing a cer...

Important remarks on legal advisers' duty to say no @ejiltalk.bsky.social: www.ejiltalk.org/when-governm...

I'd also encourage everyone to read David Luban's article on Lösener and von Moltke: scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/2368/

& Lavinia Parsi's excellent article: doi.org/10.1093/jicj...

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A Commentary in International Law Abstract. Commentaries on international law are monumental books: heavy and bulky, with gold-inscribed covers, they convey the importance of the scholarshi

In this EJIL article, Lianne Boer describes international laywers’ encounter with commentaries and the sensory experiences that the monumentality of these works evokes.

After Intervention: The Persistent Absent Third Party Issue in the Sapodilla Cayes Case On 19 March, the ICJ delivered a judgment allowing Guatemala to intervene as a non-party in Sovereignty over the Sapodilla Cayes/Cayos Zapotillos (Belize v. Honduras). In this case, Belize is seeking ...

After Intervention: The Persistent Absent Third Party Issue in the Sapodilla Cayes Case | by Fritz Kainz

EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 42: Russia, Imperial Continuities and Histories of International Law One feature of the turn to history in international law has been the adoption of ‘national’ traditions (here using ‘national’ very loosely) as a lens through which to explore a broader picture. This f...

How do ‘national’ traditions shape international law — and is there a distinctive Russian approach to or use of international law?

Featuring Megan Donaldson with Lauri Mälksoo, Erika de Wet & Gulnaz Sharafutdinova. 🎧

Two Weeks in Review: 23 March—3 April 2026 It is a sign of the times—or at least how we think of the times—that nearly all the posts of the last fortnight concern armed conflict. As the Iran war rumbles into its fifth week with no end in sight...

Two Weeks in Review: 23 March—3 April 2026 | by Sebastian von Massow

Announcements: Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Program; Sufficient Gravity before the ICC Book Launch; CfP The Future of International Peace and Security; CfP Absolute Rights und... 1. Academy on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of the American University Washington College of Law: Program of Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law. Registration is now open for thi...

Announcements: Advanced Studies on Human Rights and Humanitarian Law Program; Sufficient Gravity before the ICC Book Launch; CfP The Future of International Peace and Security [...] | by Mary Guest

Evacuation Orders: An Unlawful Use of Precautionary Measures? Introduction Around 800,000 Lebanese residents have been displaced so far since the beginning of this round of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. On 2 March 2026, the Israeli Defense Forces (ID...

Evacuation Orders: An Unlawful Use of Precautionary Measures? | by Hussein Badreddine

Forced Sterilisation before the Inter-American Court: Between Progress and Silence in Ramos Durand v. Peru On 5 March, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACtHR) notified its long-awaited judgment in Celia Edith Ramos Durand v. Peru. The case concerns the forced sterilisation of Celia Edith Ramos Du...

Forced Sterilisation before the Inter-American Court: Between Progress and Silence in Ramos Durand v. Peru | by Anna Kohte

Stones of Memory: When the Streets of Gaza Speak the Names of Their People Introduction: Confronting the “Double Erasure”  As the dust of explosions settles over the Gaza Strip, a profound realization dawns upon the survivors: the destruction is not merely physical. It is a ...

Stones of Memory: When the Streets of Gaza Speak the Names of Their People | by Abdalrohman Khamise Rusruse

Announcements: Summer School on EU Law; CfP International Law Weekend; Cambridge International Law Conference; Nuremberg Academy Lecture; European System of Human Rights Protection Summer School; Edin... 1. Summer School on European Union Law in Corfu Island. The Summer School on European Union Law in Corfu Island will take place from 27 – 31 July 2026 in Corfu Island, with the topic ‘The EU as a glob...

Announcements: Summer School on EU Law; CfP International Law Weekend; Cambridge International Law Conference; Nuremberg Academy Lecture [...] | by Mary Guest

Impressive piece.

Imho if neutrality makes any sense in the post-Charter era, it would be with respect to a conflict in which both sides are violating the UN Charter.

War, Neutrality and the UN Charter: State Practice in the Iran Conflict Legal assessments of the ongoing Israel-US hostilities with Iran have thus far been largely characterized by a binary framework. Criticisms have focused on the manifest disregard for the UN Charter an...

War, Neutrality and the UN Charter: State Practice in the Iran Conflict | by Himanil Raina

The Court That Built the Advisory Opinion It Refused to Complete: OC-30/25 on Arms Trafficking, Corporate Immunity, and the Reach of Advisory Jurisdiction Mexico’s effort to hold the gun industry to account has now encountered an institutional setback in San José. Its request for an advisory opinion raised six questions before the Inter-American Court o...

The Court That Built the Advisory Opinion It Refused to Complete: OC-30/25 on Arms Trafficking, Corporate Immunity, and the Reach of Advisory Jurisdiction | by Thairi Nazareth Moya Sánchez

Neutrality at Sea in Practice: Rescue, Internment, and Warship Repairs in a Contemporary Naval Conflict Recent naval incidents in the Indian Ocean involving Iranian warships, the United States, and regional coastal States have drawn renewed attention to a body of law often assumed to belong to another e...

Neutrality at Sea in Practice: Rescue, Internment, and Warship Repairs in a Contemporary Naval Conflict | by Pornomo Rovan Astri Yoga

The Protection of Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna under International Humanitarian Law Viktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist whose reporting focused on crime, human rights and Russia’s actions in occupied Ukraine, died in Russian captivity. She was a freelance journalist, working ...

The Protection of Journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna under International Humanitarian Law | by Natia Kalandarishvili-Mueller

Attacks on dual-use objects and the prohibition of terrorising civilians: the attacks on Iran’s oil facilities Late on Saturday, March 7, the Israeli military conducted a series of strikes against several oil storage facilities in and around Tehran, igniting large fires at the facilities. By the following morn...

Attacks on dual-use objects and the prohibition of terrorising civilians: the attacks on Iran’s oil facilities | by Lizaveta Tarasevich

The Inter‑American Court’s Warning Shot: Illicit U.S. Firearms and the Hemispheric Duty States Keep Ignoring Criminal organizations finance, procure, broker, transport, and illegally distribute U.S.‑made weapons throughout Latin America and the Caribbean to fuel political violence in the region. Latin Americ...

The Inter‑American Court’s Warning Shot: Illicit U.S. Firearms and the Hemispheric Duty States Keep Ignoring | by Juan Carlos Portilla

Two Weeks in Review: 9—20 March 2026 For every complex problem, there is a solution that is clear, simple, and wrong. In a time of exceedingly complex problems, the last few weeks have seen some remarkably wrong “solutions”. Contribution...

Two Weeks in Review: 9—20 March 2026 | by Sebastian von Massow

Announcements: Summer School on Digital Human Rights; CfP Freedom of the Seas and Freedom of the Individual Workshop; State Responsibility in Crisis Workshop; ORIL–UN Treaty Body Human Rights Case Law... 1. Summer School on Digital Human Rights in Lund, June 2026. The Faculty of Law and the Raoul Wallenberg Institute for Human Rights at the University of Lund are hosting a Summer School in Digital Hum...

Announcements: Summer School on Digital Human Rights; CfP Freedom of the Seas and Freedom of the Individual Workshop; State Responsibility in Crisis Workshop; ORIL–UN Treaty Body Human Rights Case Law Reporters [...] | by Mary Guest