Introduction
On 9 June 2026, Pre-Trial Chamber II of the International Criminal Court issued a decision in response to a request by a State for consultations under Article 97 of the Rome Statute. Article 97 provides an avenue for
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Must States Control Their Borders? The Ceuta Crisis and International Law
Ceuta, a Spanish city on the North African coast with a population of approximately 80,000, experienced an unprecedented mass influx of people during the last week of July. Around 70,000 people, mostly Moroccan nationals but also persons from other countries,…
The Removal of the ICC Prosecutor and the Edge of the ICC’s Political Universe
By Yuval Shany
“…I understood that I had collided with the edge of the political universe in which the Tribunal was allowed to function” (Carla Del Ponte, Madame Prosecutor: Confrontations with Humanity’s Worst Criminals and the Culture of Impunity (2009), p. 60)
The…
Standing and Remedies in Climate Litigation: How TotalEnergies Echoes KlimaSeniorinnen
By Aminta Ossom
The TotalEnergies climate case, whose merits were partially decided by the Paris Judicial Court in June, illustrates how associations may be the gateway through which rights-based climate cases survive. In that case, local governments and NGOs originally brought claims…
Announcements: Postdoctoral Fellow Vacancy Chinese University of Hong Kong; CfL The African Court at 20; CfA Kırımlı Dr. Aziz Bey International Humanitarian Law Competition & School; CfP Cambridge Forum on Corporate Climate Governance; CfA Max Planck Yearbook of United Nations Law
By Mary Guest
1. Postdoctoral Fellow Vacancy: Chinese University of Hong Kong. CUHK LAW is seeking one outstanding Postdoctoral Fellow with a strong interest and expertise in the legal and political history of war crimes and crimes against humanity, ideally with a particular
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EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 45: The Nuclear Order Under Threat
By Anna Hood
The international nuclear realm is under severe strain. Since the 1960s, the international community has constructed a dense web of laws to govern nuclear matters. However, over the past decade, a wave of nuclear weapons activity has sparked concerns that…
Sudan’s Death Sentences Against RSF Leaders: Complementarity and Accountability Under International Law
Ensuring Accountability and Remedy for Victims of Mercenarism: Colombia at an Inflection Point
In March 2026, the Colombian Parliament and then-President Petro agreed to accede to the International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries (International Convention). With the deposit of the accession instruments, Colombia will end a multi-year gap…
Two Weeks in Review: 27 July—7 August 2026
‘We like lists, because we don’t want to die.’ At least according to Umberto Eco. He had in mind our love of all things limitless when confronted with our own very discouraging, humiliating limit: death. But it applies equally to…
Location, Location, Location: The UK Supreme Court’s Judgment in Shehabi v. Bahrain
In August 2022, I co-authored a post on the English case of Al-Masarir v. Saudi Arabia [2022] EWHC 2199, where Knowles J held that Saudi Arabia had no immunity under Section 5 of the UK State Immunity Act 1978…