May 5, 2021

Maximilian Bertamini

Thinking aloud When it comes to climate change, there is a disparity between causers of effects and the ones having to endure them. Virtually all states and many large businesses contribute to climate change, whereas the resulting damage does not affect everybody equally and at the…

December 22, 2020

Corina Heri

On 30 November, the Court made headlines when it communicated its first climate change case. The application was brought by six Portuguese children and young people, with the crowd-funded support of the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN). The respondents are 33 Member States of the…

November 13, 2020

Helen Duffy Lucy Maxwell

During the past week, the Norwegian Supreme Court has been hearing the People v Arctic Oil case, a rights-based challenge to the Norwegian State’s grant of petroleum exploration licenses. The case raises myriad questions of significance regarding States’ human rights obligations in the context of climate…

May 6, 2021

Marko Milanovic

The Facebook Oversight Board’s decision on the ‘indefinite suspension’ of Trump’s account has provoked a storm of commentary, akin to a landmark judgment of a national or international court. Much of that commentary is understandably focused on the bottom line: that Facebook was justified, at…

April 26, 2021

Marko Milanovic

Last week 130 migrants perished off the coast of Libya, as their rubber boat capsized in the stormy Mediterranean. Some 750 migrants have died this year in trying to make the crossing. (See here for the IOM report, and here and…

April 22, 2021

Xiaoou Zheng

Japan’s recent decision to release more than one million tons of treated wastewater collected at the wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear powerplant has aroused intense controversy both locally and internationally. Opposition and condemnations are expressed not only by local fishermen and fishing industries, but also strongly by its…

April 19, 2021

Shehzad Charania

  In the final weeks of the Presidency of ICC Judge Chile Eboe-Osuji, I conducted the following interview with him. I begin by asking Eboe-Osuji why he wanted to become President. ‘I have always believed in the idea that if you want to achieve real change,…

March 12, 2021

Yael Ronen

On 3 March the OTP of the ICC confirmed that it had initiated an investigation regarding the Situation in Palestine. The investigation will cover crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court that are alleged to have been committed in the Situation since 13 June 2014.

March 8, 2021

Diletta Marchesi Chiara Fusari

On 29 January this year, the Pre-Trial Chamber A of the International Criminal Court (ICC) decided to grant interim release to Paul Gicheru, a lawyer suspected of offences against the administration of justice under Article 70(1)(c) of the Rome Statute, consisting in corruptly influencing ICC witnesses in…

May 12, 2021

Marko Milanovic

Think of Myanmar, and the awful consequences of the military coup which are continuing to unfold. One of these consequences – among the least awful, but among the more legally interesting – is that in the immediate aftermath of the coup it is unclear which set of individuals…

May 9, 2021

Gail Lythgoe

EJIL A new issue of the European Journal of International Law arrived last week. Catch up on the Table of Contents and details of the free access article in this issue (Mickey Zar’s Piracy: A Treasure Box of Otherness). Joseph Weiler reflected…

May 9, 2021

Mary Guest

1. Diversity on the International Bench Public Lecture Series on Women’s Voices. The SNF-funded project “Diversity on the International Bench: Building Legitimacy for International Courts and Tribunals”, led by Professors Neus Torbisco-Casals and Andrew Clapham (Graduate Institute), has launched a monthly public lecture series on “Women’s Voices…