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The journal Athena - Critical Inquiries in Law, Philosophy and Globalization will hold a webinar series, beginning on June 5, 2026, on "Board of Peace: Might Makes Right, Again? – Inquiries on the Current Shaping of Global Governance." The schedule is here. ...
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Veröffentlicht: 01.06.2026
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International Law Reporter
What does Union Values deliver for LGBTI rights, beyond its landmark reading of Article 2 TEU? A comparison with the ECtHR reveals a shared European standard on LGBTI representation — but also structural constraints that still cap the CJEU's reach as a human rights court....
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Veröffentlicht: 01.06.2026
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European Law Blog
In 2025, following the 2024 advisory opinion (AO) of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea on Climate Change (here), the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR) issued their AOs on Climate Change (here and here, respectively). These historic AOs have generated extensive commentary. This blog shifts focus from the climate change realm by extracting the ICJ and IACtHR’s findings on the Human Right to a...
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Veröffentlicht: 01.06.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
Andreas Kulick (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz - Law) has posted International Courts and World Disorder. Here's the abstract: What do international courts have to offer when faced with raw power? In a state of international disorder, respect for international law erodes and so does the respect for international courts and tribunals (ICs) and their decisions. An IC decision constitutes an international legal obligation. It binds the disputing party states as any other rule of international law...
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Veröffentlicht: 31.05.2026
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International Law Reporter
China turns on tariff-free trade for Africa, while Iran turns off the internet. The ICJ’s advisory jurisdiction is back in focus, with the Right to Strike Advisory Opinion handed down a day after the UN General Assembly’s resolution on the Climate Change Opinion. Cruise ships raise complex questions for the international laws governing public health emergencies, while ships bearing stolen Ukrainian grain get us thinking about the duty of non-recognition and the obligation not to assist an...
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Veröffentlicht: 31.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
1. Call for Abstracts: Postgraduate Research Conference on the International Law of the Sea. The International Law Department, Geneva Graduate Institute is inviting submissions for a postgraduate research conference dedicated to the international law of the sea, taking place on 30 September 2026. This conference offers a platform for PhD candidates and early-career researchers to present their work, engage in discussion, and connect with a broader academic community working on ocean governance and maritime law....
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Veröffentlicht: 31.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
In April 2026, relations between Ukraine and Israel were shaken by a considerable diplomatic crisis. In contrast to Ukraine’s recent quarrel with Hungary over the (likely illegal) interception and seizure of a Ukrainian money transport by Hungarian authorities, this dispute was not preceded by years of deteriorating bilateral relations. Since the beginning of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the relationship between Israel and Ukraine has mostly been pragmatic and cooperative—despite some tensions due...
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Veröffentlicht: 29.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
Helmut Aust (Free Univ. of Berlin - Law; Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law) & Alejandro Rodiles (Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México) have posted Carving Out the City from the State: Charter Cities and the Quest for New Urban Futures (University of Toronto Law Journal, forthcoming). Here's the abstract: The idea of building new cities from scratch is gaining new popularity. A particular form of these endeavors relates to the construction...
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Veröffentlicht: 28.05.2026
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International Law Reporter
On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice delivered its advisory opinion on the Right to Strike under ILO Convention No. 87. The question before the Court was whether the Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (Convention No. 87) protects workers’ right to strike. The core of the case concerns a question of treaty interpretation: does Convention No. 87 protect the right to strike, despite containing no express...
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Veröffentlicht: 28.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
Catalin Gabriel Stanescu, Associate Professor of Private Law at the University of Southern Denmark. His research focuses on consumer law, digital regulation, financial vulnerability, and the political economy of private law. Photo credit: David Dixon, via Wikimedia Commons The DSA Observatory recently published a thoughtful post on the General Court’s judgment in Amazon v Commission, which rejected Amazon’s argument that it should not have been listed as a ‘very large online platform’...
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Veröffentlicht: 28.05.2026
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EU Law Analysis
The times has come to do something about the scourge of war. It is shocking that, in the twenty-first century, the interacting of the minds of two men could cause a world war affecting all human beings everywhere. Despite the notoriously impulsive nature of their personalities, much analysed by commentators, these two men could have known that the Strait of Hormuz would be a crux of a war against Iran and that the tentacles flowing...
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Veröffentlicht: 28.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
Like other countries that pride themselves on upholding the rule of law, New Zealand has seen many climate change cases decided by its courts. The most significant is the 2024 judgment of the Supreme Court in Smith v Fonterra. The country’s highest court unanimously allowed an appeal against the lower courts’ decisions to strike out a tort case brought by a well-known Māori environmental activist, Mike Smith (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Kahu), against major corporate emitters of...
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Veröffentlicht: 27.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
Mario J.A. Oyarzabal (Legal Adviser, Argentine Foreign Ministry; Member, International Law Commission) has published International Law for Diplomats (Brill | Nijhoff 2026). Here's the abstract: The purpose of this book is to provide diplomats worldwide - both lawyers and non-lawyers - with basic tools to address the main international legal issues they may encounter both bilaterally and in multilateral negotiations and forums. It features chapter from current or former legal advisers to the ministries of...
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Veröffentlicht: 27.05.2026
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International Law Reporter
On 16 March 2026, the Brussels Court of Appeal (hereafter, the “Court”) issued an interlocutory judgment in summary proceedings (référé) concerning the alleged failure of the Belgian State to comply with its international obligations in relation to the risk of genocide and serious violations of international humanitarian law (“IHL”) in Gaza (hereafter, the “Judgment”). The case was initiated on 22 July 2025 against the Belgian State by way of summary proceedings by several civil society...
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Veröffentlicht: 26.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
The post Summer School for Climate, Law & Sustainability appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog. ...
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Veröffentlicht: 25.05.2026
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In CG and YN v. Pelham GmbH and Others (C-590/23), the CJEU defined pastiche as recognisable “artistic or creative dialogue”. This post argues that the judgment resists permission-only copyright, but leaves courts to decide when copying becomes culture....
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Veröffentlicht: 25.05.2026
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European Law Blog
Despite the lessons of COVID-19, the treatment of cruise ships during public health emergencies remains governed by fragmented and incomplete rules under international law. Recent treaty reform efforts failed to resolve the structural gaps exposed both in 2020 and now again in 2026. In April and May 2026, the expedition cruise vessel MV Hondius became the site of a hantavirus outbreak that has grabbed media headlines across the world. The ship departed Ushuaia, Argentina, on...
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Veröffentlicht: 25.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
1. Webinar on Second World Approaches to International Law. Exploring international law as a complex set of practices and ideas shaped by dominant discourses and their blind spots, ‘Second Worldness’ in SWAIL functions as an analytical, diagnostic, and dialogical device that problematizes liminality, dual exclusion, and the conditions of recognition within international legal argument. Following an inaugural journal symposium in the International Community Law Review, this webinar will discuss the articles’ main themes with a...
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Veröffentlicht: 24.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
Evan J. Criddle (College of William and Mary - Law) & Evan Fox-Decent (McGill Univ. - Law) have published Mandatory Cooperation Under International Law (Cambridge Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:Humanity in the twenty-first century faces serious global challenges and crises, including pandemics, nuclear proliferation, violent extremism, refugee migration, and climate change. None of these calamities can be averted without robust international cooperation. Yet, national leaders often assume that because their states are sovereign under...
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Veröffentlicht: 24.05.2026
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International Law Reporter
The post The Impact of Neutrality on Research and Knowledge Production in Legal Scholarship appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog. ...
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Veröffentlicht: 23.05.2026
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On June 9, 2026, a webinar will be held on "Second World Approaches to International Law (SWAIL)." Details are here. ...
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Veröffentlicht: 23.05.2026
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International Law Reporter
The ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: What It Means for the Convention on Biological Diversity
This week’s General Assembly’s resolution welcoming the International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change provides significant guidance. It calls upon all States to ‘comply with their respective obligations under international law to ensure the protection of the climate system and other parts of the environment from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions’. The resolution was supported by 141 votes in favour; eight states voted against, and there were 28...
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Veröffentlicht: 22.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
[15.06.2026] The Young Belgian Association for European Union Law (Young BEDER) invites early-career scholars and practitioners to submit abstracts for a presentation at the upcoming workshop “Belgian Public Law and European Union Law: Interactions, Challenges and Perspectives”...
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Veröffentlicht: 22.05.2026
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European Law Blog
Nicolette Butler (Univ. of Manchester - Law) and Jasem Tarawneh (Queen Mary Univ. of London - Law) have launched a new online repository for information related to international trade in environmental goods and services (EGS): EGSTradeHub.org. Here's a description: EGSTradeHub.org is a new one-stop resource bringing together academic research, legal materials, policy documents, institutional resources, events, reports, and commentary relating broadly to Environmental Goods and Services (EGS), trade and environment, and climate-aligned trade governance. Developed...
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Veröffentlicht: 22.05.2026
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International Law Reporter
On 20 May 2026, the United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution A/80/L.65 welcoming the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on the Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change. The draft, tabled by Vanuatu and a cross-regional Core Group attracted 90 co-sponsors and was adopted by a recorded vote of 141 votes in favour to 8 against (Belarus, Iran, Israel, Liberia, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, United States, Yemen), with 28 abstentions. ...
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Veröffentlicht: 22.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
Mohsen al Attar (Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool Univ.) & Claire Smith have published Emancipating International Law: Confronting the Violence of Racialized Boundaries (Oxford Univ. Press 2026). Here's the abstract:While mainstream international legal scholarship has long treated race as a peripheral concern-or a historic injustice to be remembered but not redressed-this volume argues that racialisation is foundational to the discipline, underpinning its doctrines, epistemes, and interlocutors. Emancipating International Law explores the many ways racial hierarchy, systemic oppression, and...
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Veröffentlicht: 22.05.2026
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International Law Reporter
The International Law Commission (ILC), during its seventy-sixth session in May 2025, provisionally adopted the first-reading draft conclusions on Subsidiary means for the determination of rules of international law. Among these, Draft Conclusion 6 [7] addresses the use of judicial decisions, provisionally stating: Draft conclusion 6 [7] Absence of legally binding precedent in international law Decisions of international courts or tribunals may be followed on points of law where those decisions address the same or similar issues as...
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Veröffentlicht: 21.05.2026
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European Journal of International Law (EJIL)
The post Three Doctoral Candidates (x/f/m) appeared first on Völkerrechtsblog. ...
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Veröffentlicht: 21.05.2026
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Veröffentlicht: 21.05.2026
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Veröffentlicht: 21.05.2026
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