Are “Transparency” Procedures and Local Community “Consultations” Enough? A...
It is nearly the end of 2018, and so many “reform” efforts are underway throughout all realms of international economic law that one is inclined to think all our good intentions must lead somewhere,...
View Article2018 Favourite Readings: Values, Identity, and Growth in the Global Economy
Editor’s note: Continuing a tradition started by Isabel Feichtner a few years ago, EJIL’s Review Editor, Christian J. Tams, invited members of the EJIL board to offer short reflections on their...
View ArticleLingering Asymmetries in SDGs and Human Rights: How Accountable are...
The recent US nomination (and thus de facto appointment) of well-known World Bank critic and US Treasury official, John Malpass, as the new World Bank President following the abrupt resignation of Jim...
View ArticleSCOTUS Decision in Jam et al v. International Finance Corporation (IFC)...
Editor’s Note: In view of this landmark SCOTUS decision yesterday, this post is a brief deviation from our ongoing Symposium for the ESIL Interest Group on Migration and Refugee Law on the UN Global...
View ArticleThe Reviewability of the Security Exception in GATT Article XXI in Russia –...
The landmark WTO Panel Report on security exceptions in GATT Article XXI came out Friday last week in Russia – Traffic in Transit. I have written extensively about necessity and national emergency...
View ArticleThe Right to Development and Archaic Dichotomies in UNCITRAL ISDS Reforms
Editor’s Note: This is the concluding post in this week’s series of several posts critically examining the UNCITRAL ISDS reform process, which held its latest Working Group III meetings in New York...
View ArticleThe ESCR Revolution Continues: ILO Convention No. 190 on the Elimination of...
On 21 June 2019, the International Labour Organization (ILO) adopted the landmark ILO Convention No. 190 (Convention concerning the Elimination of Violence and Harassment in the World of Work). The...
View ArticleWhy Arbitrate Business and Human Rights Disputes? Public Consultation Period...
In June 2019, the Draft Hague Rules on Business and Human Rights Arbitration (hereafter, “Draft BHR Arbitration Rules”) was released for global online public consultation, with the consultation period...
View ArticleAnnouncing our Second EJIL Symposium June 2020: Call for Papers on Inequality...
International law in the UN Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and other foundational treaties and conventions of the multilateral system entails a premise (and promise) of equal...
View ArticleHuman Rights Regulation in the Tech Sector? The European Court of Justice’s...
BigTech may well be the new BigPharma where local, national, or regional human rights-based litigation and human rights-based regulation is concerned. While the recent exchanges between US...
View ArticleFavourite Readings 2019 – What IS the Real Price of Development?
As in previous years, EJIL’s Review Editor, Christian J. Tams, has invited EJIL board members and (associate) editors to offer short reflections on their favourite books of the year 2019. No strict...
View ArticleCOP25 Negotiations Fail: Can Climate Change Litigation, Adjudication, and/or...
The failure of the 25th negotiating year by the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change’s (UNFCCC) Conference of Parties (COP25) held this month in Madrid to achieve the necessary global decisions to...
View ArticleHuman Rights in the Era of Automation and Artificial Intelligence
Editor’s Note: Following is a Keynote Lecture delivered at the 2nd KU Leuven AI Law & Ethics Conference (LAILEC 2020), held on 18 February 2020. The author is grateful for the exchanges with...
View ArticleCalibrating Human Rights and Necessity in a Global Public Health Emergency:...
COVID-19 has reached every continent, every region, and almost all countries in the world. Most of us are either in quarantine, sheltering in place, in hospitals fighting for lives, in the front lines...
View ArticleQuo Vadis? The Future of International Dispute Settlement through the Art of...
Reading Professor O’Connell’s latest opus, The Art of Law in the International Community, one cannot help but see its (deliberate or unintended?) twinning with Hersch Lauterpacht’s The Function of Law...
View ArticleThe Myth and Mayhem of ‘Build Back Better’: Human Rights Decision-Making and...
Human rights were already under siege everywhere around the world before COVID-19. But there is also a dawning race now against reaching the ‘twilight of human rights law’, due to: 1) authoritarian...
View ArticleWe Can’t Breathe: UN OHCHR Experts Issue Joint Statement and Call for...
No one on this planet could have failed to see the 8 minutes and 46 seconds in which George Floyd was killed. The United States signed the International Covenant on the Elimination of All Forms of...
View ArticleSDG Report 2020: The Civil, Political, Economic, Social, Cultural, and...
The United Nations recently released its Sustainable Development Goals Report 2020, and the results are expectedly grim during this global pandemic. Not only has the world fallen well off track from...
View ArticleBeyond the State: Our Shared Duties to Cooperate to Realize Human Rights...
I was not expecting my University to land in global news reports this week (see here, here, here, and here, among others), because of its decision yesterday to temporarily move to online instruction...
View ArticleThe ‘New’ World Bank Accountability Mechanism: Observations from the ND...
On 8 September 2020, the World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors approved a Resolution establishing the World Bank Accountability Mechanism [hereafter, “Accountability Mechanism Resolution”],...
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