Development, Marine Biodiversity, and the Common Heritage of Mankind: The...
Starting July 9, 2023, the International Seabed Authority (ISA), sited in Jamaica, will allow companies to file permit applications for commercial deep seabed mining. In 2021, the Government of Nauru...
View ArticleResponse to the Letter to the Editors Regarding the Publication of a...
We are grateful for this letter. It raises important and difficult issues. These are issues that must be identified, aired, discussed, specified and further discussed. This letter has spurred such a...
View ArticleHuman Rights Reparations and Fact-Finding Quandaries in the 2024 ICJ...
Perhaps more than any other time in the history of the International Court of Justice, international human rights law has never been more ubiquitously and stridently deployed at the World Court by so...
View Article“Stringent Due Diligence”, Duties of Cooperation and Assistance to Climate...
The International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea’s (ITLOS) 153-page 21 May 2024 Advisory Opinion on Climate Change and International Law is the first decision issued in the trifecta of advisory...
View ArticleChina’s Duties to Prevent and Redress the Human Rights Impacts of the Belt...
China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative continues to expand its project financing activities to around 147 countries in the world as of this writing. This exceptional global footprint, undertaken...
View ArticleWelcoming Nehal Bhuta as Editor
We are happy to announce that Nehal Bhuta will be joining us as the fifth co-editor of the blog. Nehal will be well known to our readers, especially because he had already edited the blog, back in its...
View ArticleSome Blog Statistics
The blog’s editors, with the help of our Associate Editor Tal Gross, prepared some statistics for the recent annual meeting of the EJIL Editorial and Scientific and Advisory Boards, which may also be...
View ArticleInternational Legal Protection for Mothers Experiencing Global Crises and...
Humanity now stands at a total population of 8.1 billion, of which 2 billion are mothers. Apropos of this year’s Christmas celebrations throughout the Christian part of humanity, I’ve often had...
View ArticleUndoing the Grand Bargain? Pax Americana and the United Nations
Since its 3 February 2025 Executive Order, the United States has engaged in a series of decisions to either pause or entirely remove funding for various international organizations and agencies within...
View ArticleInternational Law Cannot Endure Without Human Rights.
After ten full years of serving as one of the intrepid Editors of EJIL:Talk!, and twelve years of service to the European Journal of International Law beginning with my membership in the Scientific...
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