September 22, 2020

Ole W Pedersen

It was only ever a matter of time before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) would be called upon to interpret the application of the ECHR to the climate crisis. Climate change litigants have scored a series of notable successes in domestic courts of late. Most famously…

September 7, 2020

Isabella Risini Geir Ulfstein

On 19 August 2020, Liechtenstein lodged an inter-State application against the Czech Republic. Liechtenstein alleges breaches of the rights of its citizens, inter alia, of their right to property under Article 1 Protocol 1 of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR, the Convention). The case made it…

August 14, 2020

Isabella Risini Geir Ulfstein

Malaysian Airlines flight MH 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down in July 2014 over the territory of Eastern Ukraine, killing 298 persons. On 10 July 2020, almost exactly six years later, the Dutch government lodged an inter-State application against Russia before the European Court of…

September 24, 2020

Prabhash Ranjan

The rise of populist regimes in many countries has triggered scholarly debates on populism and international law. However, studying populism and international law is fraught with methodological challenges because populism is a difficult term to define. At the most fundamental level, populism is both anti-elitist and anti-pluralist. This…

August 31, 2020

Gleider Hernández Evelyne Schmid

At many different levels of social interaction, COVID-19 has emphasised the need to act in a spirit of solidarity. The disruptions in higher education raise challenges for teaching and our field as a whole. One of the goals of the European Society of International Law (ESIL) is…

August 20, 2020

Diane Desierto

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 after seeing a surge in COVID-cases barely two weeks into reopening…

September 21, 2020

Lorin-Johannes Wagner

The Nottebohm judgement is probably one if not the best-known case of the ICJ. Ever since its release in 1955 the tune of a genuine link has been reverberating in international law. However, just like so many other one-hit wonders the genuine link has been belittled and…

July 23, 2020

Anna Ventouratou

On 14 July 2020, the ICJ issued its judgments on the cases of the Appeal Relating to the Jurisdiction of the ICAO Council under Article 84 of the Convention on International Civil Aviation (Bahrain, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates v. Qatar) and Appeal Relating…

July 8, 2020

Kai Ambos Matthias Lippold

Today is the anniversary of the ICJ’s Nuclear Weapons Advisory Opinion. We would like to revisit, and invite readers to reflect on, one particular conclusion (not discussed in previous posts on the Marshall Islands cases here, here, here), contained in operative paragraph 2 F…

September 24, 2020

Prabhash Ranjan

The rise of populist regimes in many countries has triggered scholarly debates on populism and international law. However, studying populism and international law is fraught with methodological challenges because populism is a difficult term to define. At the most fundamental level, populism is both anti-elitist and anti-pluralist. This…

September 23, 2020

Devika Hovell Jan Klabbers Guy Fiti Sinclair

The symposium on “Theorizing International Organizations Law” in issue 31:2 of the European Journal of International Law seeks to excavate the intellectual history of this important sub-discipline of public international law. As noted in the introduction to the symposium, that history has, until relatively recently, been dominated by…

September 22, 2020

Ole W Pedersen

It was only ever a matter of time before the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) would be called upon to interpret the application of the ECHR to the climate crisis. Climate change litigants have scored a series of notable successes in domestic courts of late. Most famously…