Geraldo Vidigal

Geraldo Vidigal

About/Bio

Geraldo Vidigal is Associate Editor of EJIL:Talk!. He is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of International Law and Dispute Resolution of the Max Planck Institute Luxembourg. His research interests include international economic law, regional agreements, and international dispute resolution, with a focus on the role of international courts and tribunals in the establishment and enforcement of international obligations.

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Compliance Adjudication at the ICJ – The Alleged Violations Case

January 26, 2016

The ICJ should soon deliver judgments on Preliminary Objections in the two most recent Nicaragua v Colombia cases. Both cases are closely related to the 2012 Judgment in Territorial and Maritime Dispute (Nicaragua v Colombia). In one of them, Nicaragua repeats a pleading the Court rejected in the 2012 Judgment for procedural reasons – that the maritime…

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Curriculum Vitae: A Prequel | The Video

January 10, 2016

Earlier this week, we reproduced in two posts on EJIL:Talk! Roger O’Keefe’s insighful and hilarious Inaugural Lecture, delivered at UCL at the end of 2015. It is now available as an online video. In his inaugural lecture, Professor O’Keefe teases out some recurrent international legal problems through the story of the life…

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New EJIL:Live Extra! Joseph Weiler and Lorna McGregor Discuss the Adequacy of ADR to Deal with Human Rights Issues

December 29, 2015

The latest in our EJIL:Live! podcast series features an extended conversation between Professor Joseph Weiler, Editor-in-Chief of EJIL, and Professor Lorna McGregor of the University of Essex, whose ground-breaking article, “Alternative Dispute Resolution and Human Rights: Developing a Rights-Based Approach through the ECHR”, appears in EJIL, Volume 26, Issue 3. The conversation…

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Popular articles by Geraldo Vidigal

Trade Agreements, EU Law, and Occupied Territories – A Report on Polisario v Council

July 1, 2015

Speaking of occupied territories, an interesting judgment should soon come from the General Court of the European Union (GC) in Action for Annulment Frente Polisario v Council (Case T-512/12), a case with fascinating international law aspects. I attended the hearing last week and think it warrants a report. Frente Polisario is a national liberation movement…

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Trade Agreements, EU Law, and Occupied Territories (2): The General Court Judgment in Frente Polisario v Council and the Protection of Fundamental Rights Abroad

December 11, 2015

This is a follow-up to my July post on Action for Annulment Frente Polisario v Council (Case T-512/12), a case before the General Court of the European Union (GC) in which Frente Polisario – the National Liberation Movement for Western Sahara – seeks the Annulment of the EU Council decision adopting the 2010 EU-Morocco Agreement…

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WTO: The First 500 Disputes and the Last 100 Disputes

November 11, 2015

Yesterday, the WTO dispute settlement system received its 500th formal request for consultations. Because members may only request a WTO panel after unsuccessful consultations, filing such a request is the first step in the initiation of WTO disputes. For this reason, the request for consultations, without being per se a contentious act, signals the willingness of the…

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