This episode accompanies the launching of a new rubric in the European Journal of International Law – Legal/Illegal. The first installment of Legal/Illegal, which appears in issue 32(4), focuses…

On Thursday 28 January, the ITLOS Special Chamber delivered its judgment on the admissibility of the Dispute concerning the delimitation of the maritime boundary between Mauritius and…

The recent ICJ Advisory Opinion concerning the Chagos Islands has, understandably, received a great deal of attention. The controversies surrounding the more political elements of the decision…

What does 2019 have in store for international law? Little seems predictable, but 2019 is likely to be the year in which the International Court of Justice…

[Part II of a two-part post] When consent has been vitiated One of the most challenging aspects of partition is…

[Part I of a two-part post]  The advisory proceedings concerning the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in…

The oral hearings in the advisory proceedings concerning the Legal Consequences of the Separation of the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius in 1965 took place at the ICJ…

On 8 February 2017, the UK Supreme Court held unanimously that a Wikileaks document is admissible in a domestic court. The Wikileaks document in issue purported to be…