ESIL Annual Conference 2025 “Reconstructing International Law.” kicks off at Freie Universität Berlin!
📅 Dates: 11–13 Sept 2025
🔗 Conference website www.esil2025.de
📘 Programme lnkd.in/djsDam_H
#ESIL2025 #InternationalLaw #ESILCommunity #ESILAnnualConference2025 #ESIL_IGs
Colonial extraction and unequal exchange have shaped two centuries of North-South inequality.
A thread on the new study written with @gatonievas.bsky.social
[A thread 1/8🧵]
Fascinating development: Danish Minister of Digitalization promises to phase out Microsoft from her ministry. (Add other reports of Copenhagen and Aarhus doing same.) Part of a trend I write about in The National Security Internet. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of International Trade ruled Trump’s emergency tariffs illegal, potentially dealing a blow to his trade leverage and ongoing negotiations with 18 countries.
TIMOTHY MEYER @timlmeyer.bsky.social breaks down the legal limits of presidential tariff power.
🚨🚨 #Russian armed forces have been “systematically” committing crimes against humanity by hunting civilians using remote-controlled drones, report by the UN’s Independent International Commission of Inquiry on #Ukraine said today. 🧵
www.politico.eu/article/russ...
A framework for a Special Tribunal for the Crime of Aggression against #Ukraine is now agreed, writes Mark Ellis
@ibanews.bsky.social
Up next: securing political approval.
He analyzes the state of play - and why a tribunal matters for #international justice.
www.justsecurity.org/110851/holdi...
This is an excellent blog, as ever by @stevepeers.bsky.social
The CJEU’s reasoning is a bit suspect, but as Professor Peers says it is what it is! I should say for the benefit of others that this has nothing to do with Brexit.
If interested in nationality law across the EU highly recommend this.
Very grateful to @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
for highlighting the important issue of treaty scrutiny, the need for reform, and my proposed Treaties Ratification (Parliamentary Consent) Bill in the Law Society Gazette today. (Short 🧵)
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This judgment undoubtedly constitutes a landmark ruling.
Its significance lies not only in the outcome—which, contrary to Advocate General Collins’s Opinion— finds Malta in breach of EU law, but also in several important aspects of the Court’s reasoning.
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Money can't buy you EU citizenship.
Today, the European Court of Justice found Malta's golden passport scheme in breach EU law. It was about time
Wow. The International Criminal Court has opened proceedings against Hungary for failing to comply with the Court's request to arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and surrender him to the Court, and invited Hungary to provide submissions by 23 May 2025.
Great piece by @alanderminna.bsky.social on Norway's EU membership calculus.
Much like Sweden and Finland's decision to join NATO, Norway increasingly sees its half-in EU ambiguity as a weakness now that it is Brussels driving the European security agenda.
www.chathamhouse.org/2025/04/join...
"No one, apparently, is willing to prevent a single man from destroying the world economy, wrecking financial markets, forcing this country and other countries into recession if that’s what he feels like doing when he gets up tomorrow morning"
www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
Those targeted by Russian authorities are still taking cases to the European Court of #HumanRights.
But do the @echr.coe.int's judgments matter?
Emphatically yes, says Philip Leach, but states must do more to bolster the #ECHR system 👇
🔗 www.ejiltalk.org/anti-war-pro... via @ejiltalk.bsky.social
Press release summary of the opinion. Full text in the link.
CJEU, rule of law
New Advocate General's opinion: lower Polish courts must ignore rulings of senior kangaroo 🦘 courts which are not judicially independent curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo...
🚨🚨Major seminal ruling today by the Grand Chamber of @eucourtofjustice.bsky.social in Case C-292/23 which pertains the nature and scope of judicial review of procedural acts by the European Public Prosecutor's Office (EPPO). Short 🧵
This spring, the Trump administration invoked the state secrets privilege in the Alien Enemies Act case over the deportation of undocumented immigrants to an El Salvador prison. @jvagle.me explains the history of the privilege and the expansion of its use and parameters.
Jack Straw seems rather muddled on this, as gently pointed out by @joshuarozenberg.bsky.social
During a Sunday morning interview Trump says he is "pissed off" with Russian President Vladimir Putin and threatens to imposed secondary tariffs on oil.
#EuropeNews
❗️Europe can send troops to Ukraine without Russia's consent, French President Macron said.
"Ukraine is sovereign. If it asks to deploy allied troops on its territory, whether it accepts it or not is none of Russia's business.
📢 The Heidelberg Declaration on Transforming Global Meat Governance is out now on @verfassungsblog.de & @ejiltalk.bsky.social!
In January, leading scholars gathered at @mpil.de to assess the urgent need for change in meat governance. Their conclusion? A major shift is essential. 🧵
🇪🇺⚖️🇵🇱 The, probably, final chapter of the Polish rule of law saga at CJEU unfolds - the 🇱🇺 AG Spielmann opinion in the case C-448/23 Commission v. Poland concerning the Constitutional Tribunal is here. It has been some time since the Commission opened the investigation into the Tribunal in 2021... 1/
Breaking 🚨: The Dutch 🇳🇱 parliament "Shoot oneself in the foot" and votes against #ReArm Europe 🇪🇺!
With 73 votes against and 71 for the Dutch are in the camp together with Orban.
Will the Dutch coalition survive this?
Important: Commission plan ‘Rearm Europe’ will not require unanimity. Hungary and Slovakia cannot block it on their own
ec.europa.eu/commission/p...
BREAKING: Luxembourg's PM Luc Frieden says he can imagine sending Luxembourgish peacekeeping troops to Ukraine.
via @wort.lu
www.wort.lu/politik/luc-...
With a key European Council vote in July, Canada must act now to preserve its authority to seize its $22bn share of Russia’s frozen state assets.
Proud to have written this with 🇨🇦 Senator Donna Dasko about how to do just that.
#MakeRussiaPay
www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...
