1. Introduction It has been more than a year since the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) delivered its groundbreaking climate judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen…

The EU has been at the forefront of efforts to consider environmental and development issues in trade agreements. EU new generation agreements include a ‘Trade and Sustainable…

Russia’s withdrawal from the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands didn’t make global headlines—but it probably should have. At first glance, a wetlands convention may seem an unlikely casualty…

The climate change regime has been one focal point of international law over the past year, as the International Court of Justice (ICJ) has undertaken the task of…

In January 2009, Israel imposed a far-reaching naval blockade after attempts by the Free Gaza Movement to enter the closed Gaza Strip by sea. While international lawyers…

In a prior post on this blog, I examined whether the existing framework of international crimes—namely, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide—could be mobilized to address…

On 31 January 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”, “the Court”) ruled on large-scale environmental pollution caused by the illegal dumping and burning of toxic waste…

In November 2024, deep in the corridors of the climate change COP 29 in Baku, the True Animal Protein Price (TAPP) Coalition worked tirelessly to collect signatures on…

It’s not like international criminal justice has had an easy summer. Now it has a new bone to chew on – and it’s a particularly meaty one.

Despite recognizing that “climate change is the defining crisis of our time,” the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees (UNHCR) has not endorsed the concept of “climate…