Pedro A. Villarreal explores the recent WHO declaration on COVID-19 no longer constituting a public health emergency of international concern (PHEIC). Villarreal addresses the legal consequences brought upon by the end of a PHEIC and sheds light on the lack of concrete and clear criteria for doing so.  The author notes that input from medicine and public health…

Marko Milanovic offers a summary of the Amicus Curiae brief he co-authored with Sangeeta Shah submitted recently to the ECtHR. The brief, regarding the case of Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia, deals solely with the downing of the MH17 plane. The authors examine the outstanding jurisdiction issues that were not dealt with in…

Katie Johnston explores the Good Friday Agreement in the context of International Treaty Law. Johnston analyses the potential implications of the hybrid nature of the multi-party agreement of 1998 and relevant subsequent practice under the British Irish Agreement of 1999. In particular, the relationship between the multi-party agreement and the obligations…