Recognition Without Release

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Recognition Without Release

23.10.2026

Ratyansh Garg

Four states have set out to hold Afghanistan to account under CEDAW for the Taliban’s systematic discrimination against women and girls. The initiative now appears stalled, perhaps partly over fears...

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Can Nuremberg Survive AI?

22.10.2026

Gurgen Petrossian

Eighty years after the Nuremberg Judgment, artificial intelligence may challenge an assumption of international criminal law that has rarely needed to be questioned, namely that behind an international crime stands...

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Towards a Fourth Digital Empire?

21.10.2026

Chiara Spiniello

On 6 and 7 July 2026, representatives of UN Member States met in Geneva with civil society, academia, business and the technical community for the first United Nations Global Dialogue...

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Buying Out a Toll, or Paying One

21.10.2026

Hashim Mohamed

The maritime powers have met a toll on a natural strait once before. They neither litigated it nor regularised it. They bought it out, and they framed the purchase so...

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Solving the Wrong Problem?

20.10.2026

Areena Ansari

On January 1, 2025, the Basel Convention’s amendments on e-waste took effect, extending the Prior Informed Consent (PIC) procedure to non-hazardous e-waste for the first time. Yet, they regulate e-waste...

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Interpreting Treaties in Domestic Courts

19.10.2026

Mikko T. Huttunen

Conflicting Rulings The application of public international law in domestic courts is a theme that causes much trepidation in litigants yet has been a treasure trove for academics. This is no less true for treaty...

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Islands Held in Trust

19.10.2026

Kazi Ayman Awsaf

On 1 September 2026, Vanuatu asked the International Court of Justice to settle a dispute with France “concerning Vanuatu’s sovereignty over Umaenupne (Matthew) and Umaeneg/Leka (Hunter) Islands” and to draw...

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Against the Suspicion of Machines

16.10.2026

Jean d’Aspremont

Fifteen years ago, on EJIL:Talk!, I mulled over what was then an emerging but hugely growing practice: academic expert blogging. I called it, only half-ironically, a “hazardous tool”. The hazard,...

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Reparations by Another Name

15.10.2026

Francois Naaman

On June 17, 2026, the United States (U.S.) and Iran signed a fourteen-point Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that formally ends military operations and establishes a sixty-day framework for negotiating a...

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Self-Determination and Judicial Silence

14.10.2026

Yasir Abbas

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has long recognised self-determination, including in its Western Sahara opinion of 1975 (para. 162) and Chagos opinion of 2019 (paras. 144–160). Recent decisions build...

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The Last Knight of International Law

13.10.2026

Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz

Don Quixote's first mistake is not to attack a windmill. It is to believe that the world still speaks the language of the books from which he learned how a...

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Protecting States, Not People

12.10.2026

Andrea Maria Pelliconi

Like all “landmark” pieces of international jurisprudence, the closer one reads the International Court of Justice (ICJ)’s advisory opinion on the Obligations of States in respect of Climate Change of July 2025,...

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Ending War, Deferring Justice?

09.10.2026

Heybatollah Najandimanesh

Can peace be durable when justice is deferred? The Islamabad Memorandum of Understanding between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States offers a timely opportunity to revisit this...

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Four Petals, One Owner?

08.10.2026

Doudou Huang

In July 2026, a Chinese court held that Molly Tea’s use of a four-petal floral sign infringed seven registered Louis Vuitton trademarks, ordering the company to cease using the sign...

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Finding the Truth After Fifty Years

06.10.2026

Brian Dooley Suchita Uppal

Time has made killings from the Northern Ireland conflict difficult to adjudicate, but recent inquests show that coroners can still establish what happened more than 50 years ago. On April 30...

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Can International Law Form Its Own General Principles?

05.10.2026

Merlin Alexander Weinem

General principles of law are the third primary source of international law, alongside treaties and customary international law. However, there is disagreement among states and scholars regarding the method by...

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Legal Vacuum or Legal Uncertainty in Strasbourg

01.10.2026

Işıl Kurnaz

On 2 July 2026, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered one decision and one judgment in two cases which, whilst resting on different facts, raised the same legal...

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“Shoot-‘Em-All” Must Respect the Law

01.10.2026

Shalom Caruso

The Italian Senate recently approved an overhaul of the country’s 1992 hunting legislation n. 157, a draft bill referred to by the political opposition as “sparatutto”, meaning “shoot-them-all”, which would...

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When Death Becomes a Spectacle

30.09.2026

Andrea Farrés Jiménez

Technological battlefield innovations have been a central feature of Ukraine’s full-scale invasion by Russia in February 2022. This has been reflected in the unprecedented reliance on drones, as well as...

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The Power of ‘Constructive Misreading’

19.09.2026

Alex Green

Earlier this year, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/80/L.65, which seeks to ‘translate’ last year’s Advisory Opinion from the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on Obligations of States in...

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Water Under the Bridge

19.09.2026

Ananya Kumar

In December 2024, China approved the construction of the Medog Hydropower Station on the Yarlung Tsangpo River in Tibet, which flows on to become the Brahmaputra in India and the...

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Can the ILO Interpret Differently?

19.09.2026

Radhika Gupta

During the drafting of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties, 1969 (‘VCLT’ or ‘the Convention’), Sir Humphrey Waldock famously remarked that treaty interpretation is “to some extent an...

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Participation Without Authority?

18.09.2026

Swarna Latha R

The United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (the CRPD) transformed the disability rights movement’s demand of ‘Nothing about us, without us’ into a legal obligation. Article...

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Western Sahara, a Never-Ending Odyssey…

18.09.2026

Franco Di Pede

In July, Christopher Nolan’s latest movie, The Odyssey, was released in cinemas. Alongside the enthusiasm for what appears to be a new masterpiece – one which has conquered the box office – it has...

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Subsidiary Protection: Is It the Silver Bullet to Addressing the Plight of Climate Refugees?

04.09.2026

Greta Berardi

Over the last few decades, unsustainable human activities have led to alterations in the biosphere, oceans, atmosphere, and cryosphere, and, in such a reality, the effects of climate change are...

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(Un)Common Understandings

30.07.2026

Julius Christoph Nippert Simon Geiersbach

On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice (the Court) issued its opinion on the Right to Strike, for which the Court was concerned with the question of whether...

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Adaptation and Victim Status in ECtHR Climate Litigation

28.07.2026

Valerio Sinaj

Since 2020, 23 applications concerning climate change have been made to the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR). The ECtHR delivered its first climate decisions on April 9, 2024, when the...

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Should AI Be Organized?

24.07.2026

Jianyun Huang

Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a future possibility. It is the present reality reshaping every corner of human society. From automated decision-making in criminal justice to generative models composing legal briefs, AI systems are...

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Wind of (Nuclear) Change

23.07.2026

Gabriel H. Heyl

Under international law, Germany is not as irrevocably barred from acquiring nuclear weapons as is commonly assumed. In certain circumstances, Germany could be released from Article 3 of the Treaty on...

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Macbeth at the International Seabed Authority

22.07.2026

Gustavo Leite Neves da Luz

Macbeth begins from a problem that law also knows well: prophecy does not merely announce the future; it reorganises the present. The Weird Sisters do not place the crown on...

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Of Continuous Controversies and Unfinished Tasks

21.07.2026

Hua Deng

On 15 May 2026, the International Law Commission (ILC or Commission) considered the report of its Drafting Committee on “Immunity of State Officials from Foreign Criminal Jurisdiction” and adopted draft articles on second...

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The Trillion-Dollar Frontier

20.07.2026

Michal Saliternik Sivan Shlomo-Agon

On 12 June 2026, SpaceX completed the largest initial public offering in history, raising a reported $75 billion and attaining a valuation measured in the trillions. The offering generated extraordinary...

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Mined out of Rights

16.07.2026

Paridhi Jain

International law has long recognised the right of Indigenous peoples to be consulted before extraction proceeds on their territories. But what happens when that right comes into conflict with a...

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Amnesty or Accountability?

15.07.2026

Marina Fonsêca Thiago Moreira

More than four decades after the end of Brazil's military dictatorship (1964–1985), one fundamental question remains unanswered: can those responsible for torture, enforced disappearances, and extrajudicial killings still be shielded...

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When Power Asymmetries Become Evident

14.07.2026

Anny Matamoros-Pineda

International law, as a set of rules, is presumed to constitute an order in which power asymmetries are constrained. Yet, the perceived “crisis” of international law reveals its foundation in...

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Trump’s Sanctions on Cuba Are a Crime Against Humanity

13.07.2026

Aytekin Kaan Kurtul

Can economic sanctions constitute crimes against humanity (CAH)? The proposition may appear audacious to those who deny that economy can be wielded as a weapon of aggression. Yet emerging legal...

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Who Are Legitimate Targets in Modern Armed Conflicts?

13.07.2026

Feyza Gül Keskin Kalyon

On 31 March, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) of Iran declared a list of eighteen American technology companies, including Palantir, Intel, Tesla, Microsoft, and Google, as “legitimate targets”. The...

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Digital Fiefdoms and Human Rights

10.07.2026

Dila Küçükali

The unprecedented rise of artificial intelligence (AI) and data-driven digital technologies has transformed traditional capitalism (p. 66–67), constructing a structural system of exploitation termed “technofeudalism” (p. 170–175). In this novel architecture,...

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From Spectators to Stakeholders

08.07.2026

Aklavya Anand

As the United Nations moves towards negotiating the world's first Convention on Crimes Against Humanity (Cah), countries of the Global South face an important choice: either shape the convention or...

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Winning at All Costs

07.07.2026

Mustafa Topiwala

In his Opinion in the pending NV Reibel vs JSC VO Stankoimport, Case No. C-802/24 (‘Reibel’) decision, Advocate General Biondi recalled a metaphor: the relationship between European Union (‘EU’) law and...

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Rethinking Custom

06.07.2026

Aakriti Rikhi

The fair and equitable treatment (‘FET’) is a prominent protection granted to a foreign investor under investment treaties. This post focuses on the formulation of FET under Article 1105 of the...

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A Lesson Not Learned

02.07.2026

Reza Khabook

On 17 May 2026, the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General announced the outbreak of the Ebola disease, caused by the Bundibugyo virus in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)...

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In Between the Lines

01.07.2026

Gor Samvel Tejas Rao

Less than a year since the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect to Climate Change (Advisory Opinion), its wider implications for a...

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Winning the Right, Losing the Protection?

30.06.2026

Jonah Godswill

On May 21 2026, the International Court of Justice delivered its advisory opinion on the interpretation of ILO Convention No. 87, addressing whether the Convention protects a right to strike....

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Stuck in Between

30.06.2026

Seun Bakare

What happens when the International Criminal Court (ICC) concludes that the legal threshold for opening an investigation has been met, yet declines to take the procedural step required to initiate...

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Threatening the Use of Force?

29.06.2026

A Russian Human Rights Lawyer

On 5 June 2026, Law No. 149-FZ entered into force. Signed by Vladimir Putin, the law amended two foundational statutes, the Citizenship Law and the Defence Law. The amendment of the former...

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Platforms as Sites of Experimentation

29.06.2026

Maria Diory F. Rabajante

Two verdicts in the United States in March 2026 demonstrate that courts are increasingly willing to treat online platforms as designed systems rather than neutral conduits or editorial voices. In...

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Wehrhaftigkeit der EU – nach innen oder nach außen?

23.06.2026

Jakob Knapp

Die Europäische Union (EU) verhängt seit Russlands Annexion der Krim im Jahr 2014 erstmals in großem Umfang personenbezogene Sanktionen. Inzwischen sind rund 2.700 Personen und Organisationen gelistet (vgl. insbesondere Verordnung (EU)...

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Workers of the World, Unite… and Strike?

18.06.2026

Julia Emtseva

On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its long-awaited Advisory Opinion (AO) on the right to strike, by ten votes to four, affirming that the right...

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Door-in-the-Face Trade Restrictions?

17.06.2026

Alina Friedrich

After Russia´s invasion in Ukraine, the European Union (EU) aims to “put to an end […] its dependence on Russian fossil fuels” and will place solar energy at the centre...

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Fair Share in Greenpeace Bonaire

16.06.2026

Renske Natté

Both the ICJ and the ECtHR have recognized 1.5°C with no or limited overshoot as the relevant benchmark for assessing states’ climate obligations. At the same time, climate litigation aimed at mitigation...

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Rethinking the Territorial Tort Exception in the Age of Proxy States

15.06.2026

Vaishali Patro

Recently, there has been an increase in cybercrimes (see here) and their potential to cause tortious harm. Due to the inherent nature of such actions, they have transboundary effects and...

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From Demarcation to Administration

12.06.2026

Alaa Assaf

How a sensor‑based art project in the Alps challenges the legal obsession with fixed demarcation, and what international law can learn from it. Borders between Alpine states were fixed along...

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Rationed Intelligence

08.06.2026

Shivam Kumar

Inside every modern computer, smartphone, and data centre sits a component called a semiconductor chip. It is a wafer of silicon, roughly the size of a fingernail, engraved with billions...

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From Iran to Zaporizhzhia

05.06.2026

Janakan Muthukumar

War around nuclear facilities is no longer a remote contingency. It is an emerging test of whether international humanitarian law (IHL) can restrain military operations before nuclear safety systems are...

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The Regulatory-Command Asymmetry

04.06.2026

Samuel W. Ugwumba

The urgency of reconciling the territorial limits of sovereign jurisdiction with the deterritorialised movement of data is a question of data sovereignty. Within Africa, this question is ambitiously addressed by Nigeria’s...

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When Same-Sex Marriage Crosses Borders

03.06.2026

Himani Jha

The CJEU’s judgment in Jakub Cupriak-Trojan and Mateusz Trojan v Wojewoda Mazowiecki (better known as Cupriak-Trojan) is one of those rare decisions that is not only welcomed as a rights...

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Violating Neutrality, Enabling Harm

29.05.2026

Arjun Singh Meraj Ahmad

Political neutrality occupies a central place in the constitutional architecture of international sports governance. Within the Olympic Movement, neutrality is described as a “universal fundamental ethical principle” embedded in the...

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Beyond Symbolic Recognition

28.05.2026

Sophie Girardini Veronika Stockinger Franziska Michel

Today, for the second year, Namibia commemorates 28 May as “Genocide Remembrance Day”. On this day in 1908, the last concentration camps that were part of Germany’s extermination policy in...

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One In, One Out

19.05.2026

Ganesh Prasad Manuj Gupta

Twenty-page communiqués from United Nations Special Rapporteurs loom over the United Kingdom (“UK”) and France, respectively, as the two countries advance negotiations over their reciprocal “one-in, one-out” migrant transfer agreement....

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Renouncing Your Way Out of Treaty Protection

18.05.2026

Davit Khachatryan

Can a claimant voluntarily renounce the treaty nationality that grounds his standing as a protected investor, mid-proceedings, and continue to pursue his claims? That question has been brought into sharp...

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Beyond Bilateral Notification and Consultation

15.05.2026

Advitiya Pathak

The 2025 ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change at ¶299 holds that “notification and consultation are particularly warranted when an activity significantly affects collective efforts to address harm to the climate...

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Sovereign Equality or Equal Sovereignty

14.05.2026

Sandra Werther

Fourteen years ago, the International Court of Justice, in Jurisdictional Immunities, affirmed State immunity even for cases of jus cogens violations or human rights abuses. Yet, victims of State-caused harm continue...

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An Unwarranted Free Pass for Extra-EU ISDS?

12.05.2026

Nikos Braoudakis Juliette Robert

On 31 July 2025, the German Constitutional Court (Bundesverfassungsgericht or ‘BVerfG’) delivered a decision that revived interest in the German Federal Court of Justice’s (Bundesgerichtshof or ‘BGH’) ruling of 12...

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The Limits of Liability

11.05.2026

Nigel Akilimali

Consider the following hypothetical: State A exercises jurisdiction and control over space object Ares II, which is damaged by space debris. State A seeks to attribute the damage by space...

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The Promise and the Limits of the Yves Rocher Judgement

08.05.2026

Pınar Kara

In March 2026, the Paris Judicial Court issued a landmark decision in the Yves Rocher case, marking one of the first instances in which a parent company was held liable...

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Nothing New on the Moon?

07.05.2026

Camilla S. Haake

On 2 February 2026, Elon Musk confirmed that SpaceX has acquired the billionaire’s artificial intelligence (AI) start-up xAI with the aim to ‘form an “innovation engine” putting AI, rockets, space-based...

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CDR (Carbon Dioxide Removal) Approaches: Friends or Foes?

04.05.2026

Manrique Naranjo Chavarría

The road towards the Paris Agreement was potholed, full of controversies and antagonizing positions of States. Ultimately, the normative value of some provisions of the Convention was left unclear (Rajamani,...

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From Tariffs to Sovereign Debt Distress

30.04.2026

Charles Ho Wang Mak

On 20 February 2026, the United States (‘US’) Supreme Court held in Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (‘IEEPA’) does not authorise the President...

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From Evidence to Assumption

30.04.2026

Ufuk Yeşil

In its judgments in Seyhan and Others, Karslı and Others and Bozyokuş and Others v. Türkiye, published on 16 December 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (the Court or...

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Selecting Silence? – The 2026 Secretary-General Election and Moral Authority

27.04.2026

Diliana Stoyanova

“The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the UN and what it means clearly. Everything will...

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When AI Rules Diverge

23.04.2026

Aryan Sharma

AI regulation is splitting across major jurisdictions. This post examines divergent AI regulations across jurisdictions, particularly in the EU, US, and China, and how such divergence generates compliance costs, liability uncertainty, and...

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Revisiting the UK’s 2011 Rescue of Nationals from Libya. Part II

22.04.2026

Shastikk Kumaran

The first part of this post articulated non-violent evacuation operations (NVEOs) as a specific legal category of rescue operations that are defined negatively – as those rescues which do not...

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Revisiting the UK’s 2011 Rescue of Nationals from Libya. Part I

22.04.2026

Shastikk Kumaran

In 2011, the UK, Germany and (seemingly) the Netherlands launched targeted rescue operations to rescue their nationals (before the passing of UNSC Resolution 1973, which authorised “all necessary measures [short...

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Oil Infrastructure as Military Objectives

21.04.2026

Ayesha Youssuf Abbasi

On 8 March 2026, the sky over Tehran showed almost apocalyptic scenes. Towering flames rising from fuel depots and refineries after the US-Israel-led strikes on Iranian oil infrastructure were seen...

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The Board of Peace Ltd.

20.04.2026

Julia Emtseva Leon Seidl

“We tried to structure this meeting like a proper board meeting, like we do in the private sector, where we have all the preparation, we get the right people together,...

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When Restraint Becomes Complicity

20.04.2026

Tjorben Studt

The US-Israeli attacks against Iran, launched on 28 February 2026, have plunged the Middle East into a dangerous and expanding conflict – triggering a broader factual and normative wildfire. What...

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Iran’s Legal Strategy in Hormuz

16.04.2026

Soheil Golchin

Geography remains Iran’s greatest wartime advantage and a key strategic asset in the ongoing 2026 conflict. The country’s rugged terrain, extensive coastline, and strategic depth in the Persian Gulf shape...

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The Erosion of Diplomacy, One Tweet at a Time

15.04.2026

Ananyo Mitra

It is a foundational premise of international legal theory that law between states operates through consent, reciprocity, and the sustained practice of interaction that generates customary norms. Unlike domestic legal...

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Humanitarian Exchange or Legal Normalisation?

13.04.2026

Anubhuti Raje

Since February 2022, the Russian Federation’s military action against Ukraine has been characterised, with unusual clarity, as a violation of one of the most fundamental norms of the international legal...

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The Law’s Apocalypse or the Law of Apocalypse?

10.04.2026

Soheil Ghasemi

In the early post-Cold-War years, writing about the “funeral march” of the twentieth-century history, Hungarian philosopher Ágnes Heller penned, “Man-inflicted apocalypse is the parody of apocalypse. […] Men are envious...

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Vergessene Menschenrechte

10.04.2026

Monika Plozza

In der Schweiz wird es als nahezu selbstverständlich vorausgesetzt, dass wirtschaftliche, soziale und kulturelle Rechte (WSK-Rechte) grundsätzlich nicht justiziabel sind. Während bürgerliche und politische Rechte – etwa die Meinungsfreiheit –...

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Who Pays? The Question the ICJ Didn’t (Adequately) Answer

09.04.2026

Haidy Ahmed

The recent Advisory Opinion delivered by the International Court of Justice (the Court) on the obligations of statBlog es in relation to climate change (AO) has been hailed by the...

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A Right to Artistic Anonymity?

08.04.2026

Vanesa Menéndez Montero

“If you want to say something and have people listen, then you have to wear a mask”. This quote, attributed to Banksy, encapsulates the street artist’s philosophy. For Banksy, anonymity...

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Lessons Learned from the Minab School Strike

07.04.2026

Natali Gbele

“We will unleash experimentation, eliminate bureaucratic barriers, focus our investments and demonstrate the execution approach needed to ensure we lead in military AI, [...] we will become an ‘AI-first’ warfighting...

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Sudanese Lion Cub Propaganda

06.04.2026

Loïc Vandeput

In early 2026, Bellingcat, an open source research collective, published an investigation regarding ‘lion cub’ propaganda in the ongoing Sudanese civil war. It shows that both parties to the conflict...

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Gendering the Law of the Sea

03.04.2026

Vashti Ortego

Over the past two years, international courts have entered the climate arena with unusual force. Advisory opinions from the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, the International Court...

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A Hungarian Bank Heist

02.04.2026

Philipp Kehl

On March 6, 2026, an incident seemingly ripped from a poorly written crime thriller created the premises for new diplomatic friction between Hungary and Ukraine. Hungarian authorities intercepted two Ukrainian armored...

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America-First Alternatives to International Law (AFAIL)

01.04.2026

Miloš Vec

In international law, the development of legal theories has always been a political weapon. The developments in recent months have further intensified the drama of the debates within the field...

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America-First Alternatives to International Law (AFAIL)

01.04.2026

Miloš Vec

Theoriebildung war im Völkerrecht schon immer ein politisches Kampfinstrument. Die Entwicklungen der vergangenen Monate haben die Dramatik der Auseinandersetzungen innerhalb der Völkerrechtswissenschaft nochmals verschärft. Eine jüngst in den USA stattgefundene,...

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In the Public Eye

30.03.2026

Sabeeh Khayyat

In recent years, the selective compliance and the repeated non-compliance of parties with provisional measures at the International Court of Justice have dented the legitimacy of the Court (see further...

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The UN in the Line of Fire

27.03.2026

Kunyang Li

On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued its advisory opinion on the Obligations of Israel in Relation to the Presence and Activities of the United Nations,...

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From Ambition to Dilution?

26.03.2026

Ysaline Reid Gauthier Michiels

On 25 October 2025, the European Commission (‘EC’) put forth a proposal to amend the EU Deforestation-Free Products Regulation 2023/115 (‘EUDR’). After two months of negotiations at the European Union...

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Tackling the Taliban’s Birth Control Ban

25.03.2026

Meraj Ahmad Arjun Singh

More than three years later, obscured by the Pakistan-Afghanistan tensions, Afghan women face a reproductive crisis that the world cannot ignore. The Taliban’s ban on access to contraceptives has had...

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Rebuilding the Ship of Theseus

24.03.2026

Mira Hamad

The remarks of US Secretary of State Marco Rubio at the Munich Security Conference illustrate contemporary anxieties about the “rules-based order” (RBO). Rubio declared that “[…] we can no longer place the so-called global order...

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Whither Rightsholders in Africa?

23.03.2026

Akinwumi Ogunranti

Globalization in the 21st century has created a governance gap that continues to have adverse effects on society, especially in Africa. Although the United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) endorsed...

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Protecting UNRWA

18.03.2026

Wang Sijie

On 22 October 2025, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) published the long-awaited Advisory Opinion on the Obligations of Israel in relation to the Presence and Activities of the United...

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On ‘Taking Back Venezuelan Oil’

17.03.2026

Lys Kulamadayil

Even though previous U.S. administrations have certainly also pursued ‘America First’ policies, defined as the advancement of national, or rather corporate interests through U.S. foreign policy, including through overt and...

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Power by Other Means

12.03.2026

Rebecca Caric

Economic violence, the systematic restriction of access to economic resources, employment, property or decision-making, constitutes one of the most insidious yet concealed forms of gender-based violence (GBV). By undermining economic...