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EJIL: The Podcast! Expands

After 6 trial podcasts initiated by Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb, in which they, their guests and an EJIL editor in chief, discussed issues ranging from immunities to international organisations, from cyber attacks to the US elections, the EJIL boards reviewed the experiment. A decision was taken: continue, and expand. We expand in terms of team members, topics and frequency. Board members Megan Donaldson and Surabhi Ranganathan have joined the team of podcast hosts. They begin with a new series titled Reckonings with Europe: Pasts and Present. Delivering on the expansion in themes, they open conversations about enduring legacies of empire, capitalism, and racism in international law and the legal academy. Ranging across contexts and scales within and beyond Europe, from international order to quotidian experience, episodes will be released quarterly.  EJIL: Live!, the interview by the EJIL Editors in Chief with authors who appear in the most recent issue of EJIL, also continues as part of the podcast series. The first EJIL: Live! as part of the podcast…

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Black Lives Matter and the UN Human Rights System: Reflections on the Human Rights Council Urgent Debate

The protests against the police killings of George Floyd and many other Black people in the United States catalyzed a transnational movement. Around the world, people mobilized to express solidarity with protesters in the United States while also challenging U.S. imperialism, as well as systemic racism, colonialism, and police brutality in their…

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Redistributing Punishment: The Limited Vision of Coercive Human Rights

In an eloquent blog post written in June 2020, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions Agnes Callamard acknowledged the structural racism and systemic injustice that breed the ‘state-sponsored racial violence’ which the brutal killing of George Floyd so painfully exemplified. She asked: what can we do — what must…

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International Law and the Right to Food: What We Can Learn from Racial Justice Movements

Until very recently, international law usually dealt with questions of race and racism through two primary mechanisms: denial and containment. On the one hand, the outlawing and criminalisation of the most egregious forms of racial discrimination contributed to the narrative that international law was the polar opposite and even the primary antagonist of racism, which was…

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‘Racism will not pass’…

In her excellent recent post, Sejal Parmar takes us through the UN Human Rights Council’s ‘urgent debate’ on racism in US law enforcement that took place in the wake of the police killing of George Floyd in May. That debate was initiated by a draft resolution from Burkina Faso (on behalf of the Group of African…

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