The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP)’s Chapter 19 Dispute...
Over this past weekend during the 37th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Summit hosted by Viet Nam, the ten ASEAN Member States (Brunei Darussalam, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand,...
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Favourite Readings 2020 – A Tapestry of Five Books: Solidarity and Human...
Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, The Narrow Corridor: States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (Penguin Random House, 2019) Johan von Bernstorff and Philipp Dann (eds.), The Battle for...
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Equitable COVID Vaccine Distribution and Access: Enforcing International...
Editor’s Note: This post was prepared in advance of my remarks for the 12 February 2021 Global Webinar of the Notre Dame Eck Institute of Global Health (“Are we all in this together? Assessing and...
View ArticleA Study in Contrasting Jurisdictional Methodologies: The International Court...
The International Court of Justice issued two significant Decisions on Jurisdiction in early February: its 3 February 2021 Judgment in Iran v. United States (where the Court accepted jurisdiction over...
View ArticlePassing the Buck? The UN Security Council’s Undue Reliance on ASEAN to Defuse...
After the UN Special Envoy’s highly-charged report to the UN Security Council of “widespread, systematic attacks on civilians in Myanmar” and the continuum of unabated atrocities against peaceful...
View ArticleThe IMF, WTO, World Bank, and WHO all come around? Multilateral Unity Against...
Sometimes, they do come around, albeit so narrowly. Back in February 2021, I argued that international law (specifically based on the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights,...
View ArticleSCOTUS Further Narrows Parent Corporate Liability under the Alien Tort...
Introduction On June 17, 2021, the Supreme Court of the United States issued its decision in Nestle USA, Inc. v. Doe, __ S. Ct. __ (2021), which involved six former child slaves (“Respondents”) who had...
View ArticleThe Endless War Against Human Rights in Afghanistan: Human Rights Defenders’...
Today, the 31st of August 2021, marks the official deadline for withdrawal of United States troops from Afghanistan after twenty years of military presence initially motivated by the 9/11 attacks of Al...
View ArticleJust Transitions in Climate Change Actions: Are States Respecting, Promoting,...
Recent exchanges hosted on EJIL:Talk! on climate action and how to go about “mainstreaming” it (see here and here) provide a microcosmic view of the ongoing challenges of State policies to transition...
View ArticleInternational Economic Law in a Time of Global Perils: Omicron and other...
The World Trade Organization decided to indefinitely postpone its 12th Ministerial Conference, originally scheduled for this week (30 November to 3 December), due to travel constraints for many...
View ArticleOvercoming the Global Vaccine and Therapeutics Lag and ‘Vaccine Apartheid’:...
Entering the third year of this global pandemic, the United States posted a grim global record of 1 million COVID cases on 3 January 2022. This record, of course, exists in a shadow of relative...
View ArticleThe International Court of Justice’s 2022 Reparations Judgment in DRC v....
On 9 February 2022, the International Court of Justice issued its much-awaited Reparations Judgment in Armed Activities on the Territory of the Congo (Democratic Republic of the Congo v. Uganda)...
View ArticleNon-Recognition
With Russian troops pouring into Ukraine today in the aftermath of President Putin’s open questioning of Ukrainian statehood, there is an immediate danger that the international community of States,...
View ArticleProgramming Note by the Editors
Dear readers, We have been receiving, reviewing and publishing an unprecedented number of posts on Ukraine in the past two weeks. We have now covered most legal aspects of the crisis, which looks...
View ArticleThe Human Right to Food, Freedom from Hunger, and SDG 2: Global Food Crisis...
Much has been written and reported in the past 100 days since the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine, regarding all manner of mass atrocity crimes, continuing egregious human rights violations, war...
View ArticleFavourite Readings 2022 – Pursuing International Law and Human Rights Outcomes
As in previous years, EJIL review team, Gail gail.lythgoe {at} manchester.ac(.)uk" data-hovercard-owner-id="98">Lythgoe and Christian J. Tams, have asked colleagues to offer short reflections on...
View ArticleBetween “Measurability of Objectives” and “Meaningful End Points” on...
Today, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) issued its Decision striking down (6-3) the race-conscious admissions processes of both Harvard College and the University of North Carolina in...
View ArticleDevelopment, 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...
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