The international nuclear realm is under severe strain. Since the 1960s, the international community has constructed a dense web of laws to govern nuclear matters. However, over the…

In our current state of affairs in the world some of us must feel a measure of fatigue. Helplessness. Despair. At loss. A loss. A sense that we're…

Opening the articles section of this issue, Negar Mansouri uses the French ‘wine laws’ of the late 19th and early 20th centuries to present a view of international…

Written by human beings but with a grammar-check programme keeping an eye on these non-native speakers’ expressions, this editorial introduces EJIL’s first Policy on Use of Generative…

The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law will be published this week. We will publish a number of posts outlining the contents…

The situation in Sudan is often described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Going by the numbers, it could well be more than 150,000 people have died. More…

I have, as is increasingly evident, reached the final phases of my academic and professional career, though it is a pretty long and winding way out…. Be that…

One feature of the turn to history in international law has been the adoption of ‘national’ traditions (here using ‘national’ very loosely) as a lens through which to…

EJIL Peer Review Prize The 2025 EJIL Peer Review Prize is awarded to Dr Taylor St John. Dr St John’s peer review reports combine analytical rigour…

The relationship between scholarship and practice in international law is unusually porous, yet still poorly understood.  Scholarship not only informs practice – frequently being cited in international legal…