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The Downing of Flight MH17: A Historic Decision by the ICAO Council | by David Woodworth

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Announcements: Right to Strike under International Law Seminar; BUL Law Talk Series; If the World is Family Event; CfS Cyber Law Toolkit [...] | by Mary Guest

Announcements: Right to Strike under International Law Seminar; BUL Law Talk Series; If the World is Family Event; CfS Cyber Law Toolkit; Human Rights and Freedoms under Pressure from Algorithms Confe...

1. International Seminar on The Right to Strike under International Law. On 8 October 2025, the International Court of Justice closed the public hearings for its advisory opinion on the “Right to Stri...

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Lupaka Gold v. Peru (2025) at ICSID: Indigenous Self-Determination and State Responsibility in International Investment Law | by José Saldaña

Lupaka Gold v. Peru (2025) at ICSID: Indigenous Self-Determination and State Responsibility in International Investment Law

On June 30th 2025, an international arbitration tribunal at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) held that Peru had breached its obligations under the Canada – Peru F...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 4d

The US Proposal to Reinvent International Refugee Law
| by Sophie Capicchiano Young

The US Proposal to Reinvent International Refugee Law

Several weeks ago, it was reported by Reuters (here) that the United States would seek to radically reshape the 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees (1951 Convention) at a side event it ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 4d

Colombia’s Peace Process: an unprecedented tribunal hands down its first convictions | by Elie Tassel-Maurizi and Mateo Merchán Duque

Colombia’s Peace Process: an unprecedented tribunal hands down its first convictions

The Special Jurisdiction for Peace (Jurisdicción Especial para la Paz, JEP) issued its first convictions on September 16 and 18, 2025. The JEP forms part, alongside other bodies, of the Comprehensive ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 5d

The UNEP Plastics Negotiations: Is There a Will and a Way? | by Daniel Bodansky

The UNEP Plastics Negotiations: Is There a Will and a Way?

Another round of plastics negotiations, another disappointment. The negotiations, now in their third year, are already in overtime. They were supposed to wrap up last December in Busan, South Korea, a...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 6d

The Entry into Force of the Amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations | by Gian Luca Burci

The Entry into Force of the Amendments to WHO’s International Health Regulations

Introduction The International Health Regulations (IHR) are, for the moment, the sole global binding legal instrument in force for the prevention and control of the international spread of disease. T...

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Charlotte E. Blattner @charlotteblattner.bsky.social · 7d

Where do things stand with the implementation of the #KlimaSeniorinnen judgment? A brief update and analysis of the Committee of Ministers’ latest decision is now available on @ejiltalk.bsky.social @coe.int
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Another Brick in the Wall of KlimaSeniorinnen: The Committee of Ministers’ September 2025 Monitoring Decision

1. Introduction It has been more than a year since the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its groundbreaking climate judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 7d

Another Brick in the Wall of KlimaSeniorinnen: The Committee of Ministers’ September 2025 Monitoring Decision | by Corina Heri, Charlotte E. Blattner and Tobias Cadalbert

Another Brick in the Wall of KlimaSeniorinnen: The Committee of Ministers’ September 2025 Monitoring Decision

1. Introduction It has been more than a year since the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its groundbreaking climate judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 7d

Trump’s 20 Points on Gaza – Liberal peacebuilding sans liberalism, or: Capitalism without a human face | by Leon Seidl

Trump’s 20 Points on Gaza – Liberal peacebuilding sans liberalism, or: Capitalism without a human face

On 29 September 2025, Donald Trump unveiled his 20 point peace plan (20 Points) for the conflict in Gaza in a joint press conference with Benjamin Netanyahu. The proposal has been welcomed by leaders ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 10d

Pinochet, Bashir, Putin, Netanyahu, Gallant, Herzog: Immunities for High Officials – the Importance of Getting State Practice Right | by Max Du Plessis

Pinochet, Bashir, Putin, Netanyahu, Gallant, Herzog: Immunities for High Officials – the Importance of Getting State Practice Right

Immunities are back in vogue. And the debate about them – their relevance, and whether they can shield wanted war criminals from investigation, prosecution or issued arrest warrants – is again front ...

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Jeremy Letwin @jeremyletwin.bsky.social · 11d

This might be read alongside this excellent update bsky.app/profile/ejil...

EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 17d

Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR | by Paulina Rundel

Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR

In the shadows of the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion, Strasbourg has been busy with climate cases too – busy, mostly saying no. Published on 28 August 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 11d

The Uneven Application of Universal Jurisdiction: Living with Impunity vs. Living in Fear | by Natalie Bryce, Leslie Johns and Máximo Langer

The Uneven Application of Universal Jurisdiction: Living with Impunity vs. Living in Fear

This will be a busy fall for French courts. Two major cases are testing France’s approach towards international justice. First, Roger Lumbala Tshitenga, a former Congolese warlord accused of crimes a...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 12d

Responding to the Pressing Financial Needs of the United Nations | by Hosung Ahn

Responding to the Pressing Financial Needs of the United Nations

As the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (‘GA’) high-level week draws to a close, the time has come for the GA to get busy with discussing the pressing issues on the table. Among the...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 12d

Proving Genocide: A Follow-up to Marko Milanovic | by Kai Ambos

Proving Genocide: A Follow-up to Marko Milanovic

In his recent – as always highly inspiring – post on proving genocide, Marko Milanovic makes five points on the “correct legal position” of which I will challenge here the second and fifth one. 1. Fir...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 13d

Dystopian International Law | by Marko Milanovic

Dystopian International Law

There is now a whole genre of scholarship in which international lawyers ruminate on the disastrous state of the world – Philippa Webb and Lydia Kim recently did a good survey of it here on the blog. ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 14d

Xi’s, Putin’s and Trump’s (Not So) Competing World Orders | by Tatjana Papic

Xi’s, Putin’s and Trump’s (Not So) Competing World Orders

The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), the world’s pre-eminent and most inclusive multilateral forum, started last week in New York. Rather than a cause for celebration, the g...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 15d

Announcements: Ghandhi Research Seminar Series; CfP Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and Others Workshop [...] | by Mary Guest

Announcements: Ghandhi Research Seminar Series; CfP Writing and Publishing in the Law of the ECHR and Others Workshop; CfP Knowledge of International and European Law Since 1945 Workshop; CfA GNLU-CPI...

1. Ghandhi Research Seminar Series 2025-26, Fall Semester. Global Law at Reading (GLAR) is Reading University’s research hub for public international law, EU law and human rights law, with a proud int...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 17d

Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR | by Paulina Rundel

Inadmissibility Decisions after KlimaSeniorinnen: Hope Remains for Müllner v. Austria as the Next Successful Climate Case before the ECtHR

In the shadows of the ICJ’s climate advisory opinion, Strasbourg has been busy with climate cases too – busy, mostly saying no. Published on 28 August 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 17d

Two new Associate Editors appointed to EJIL: Talk!
| by Julian Arato, Nehal Bhuta, Wanshu Cong, Devika Hovell, Miles Jackson, Marko Milanovic and Justina Uriburu

Two new Associate Editors appointed to EJIL: Talk!

We are delighted to announce that Dr Luíza Leão Soares Pereira and Dr Sebastian von Massow have been appointed as Associate Editors of EJIL: Talk!, joining Mary Guest on the team. In this role, they a...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 18d

Two Issues Concerning the French Arrest Warrant for the Algerian Diplomat: Functional Immunities and Qualification of the Crime | by Maxime Rogier

Two Issues Concerning the French Arrest Warrant for the Algerian Diplomat: Functional Immunities and Qualification of the Crime

On the 25th of July 2025, a French judge issued an international arrest warrant against a former Algerian diplomat to the embassy in Paris. According to Le Monde, the arrest warrant concerns the parti...

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Bronwen Manby @bronwenmanby.bsky.social · 20d

Interesting post on UN sanctions regime compared to EU or US and other national sanctions & role of the UN Ombudsperson framework in bringing "a modicum of independence, fairness and accountability into sanctions governance"

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Fifteen Years of the UN Ombudsperson: Due Process as Competitive Advantage | by Devika Hovell

Fifteen Years of the UN Ombudsperson: Due Process as Competitive Advantage

This year marks the 15th anniversary of one of the most quietly revolutionary institutions in global governance: the Office of the United Nations Ombudsperson to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctio...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 19d

The Revised EU-Mercosur Trade Deal: Does it Adequately Address Trade-Environment-Development Interlinkages? | by James Harrison and Sophia Paulini

The Revised EU-Mercosur Trade Deal: Does it Adequately Address Trade-Environment-Development Interlinkages?

The EU has been at the forefront of efforts to consider environmental and development issues in trade agreements. EU new generation agreements include a ‘Trade and Sustainable Development (TSD) Chapte...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 20d

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Does It Throw a Wrench into the Negotiator’s Toolbox of Diplomatic Problem-Solving Techniques? | by Daniel Bodansky and Susan Biniaz

The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Change: Does It Throw a Wrench into the Negotiator’s Toolbox of Diplomatic Problem-Solving Techniques?

The International Court of Justice’s recent Advisory Opinion on Climate Change (AO) has been widely celebrated by many States, non-governmental groups, and commentators as a victory for climate ambiti...

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EJIL: Talk! @ejiltalk.bsky.social · 20d

Fifteen Years of the UN Ombudsperson: Due Process as Competitive Advantage | by Devika Hovell

Fifteen Years of the UN Ombudsperson: Due Process as Competitive Advantage

This year marks the 15th anniversary of one of the most quietly revolutionary institutions in global governance: the Office of the United Nations Ombudsperson to the ISIL (Da’esh) and Al-Qaida Sanctio...

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