A month ago, the United Nations General Assembly took a position significantly less ambiguous than the ICJ on a question of existential importance to island States threatened by…

The International Law Commission (ILC), during its seventy-sixth session in May 2025, provisionally adopted the first-reading draft conclusions on Subsidiary means for the determination of…

This is a post in our Joint Symposium on "Negotiating a Treaty on Crimes Against Humanity" run in partnership with Just Security.  The international community stands…

On the 25th of July 2025, a French judge issued an international arrest warrant against a former Algerian diplomat to the embassy in Paris. According to Le…

1. Introduction On 28 April 2025, the International Law Commission (ILC) held the first meeting of its 76th session in Geneva. However, the atmosphere this year…

The International Law Commission (ILC) has published its advance report on the work completed during its 76th session this May. This post focuses on progress in two…

In December 2024, the United Nations General Assembly took an extraordinary step: it adopted, by consensus, a resolution deciding to elaborate and conclude a legally binding instrument…

Introduction In April and May 2025, the International Law Commission (ILC) is due to discuss, and possibly adopt on second reading, the Draft Articles on immunity…

The child is not dead not at Langa nor at Nyanga not at Orlando nor at Sharpeville nor at the police station at Philippi where…

Immunities of state officials are a subject matter in international law that continues to raise tensions between States. The seventy-sixth session of the International Law Commission (ILC) will…