EJIL Analysis

Until recently, it was fair to decry the lack of attention paid to how ISDS tribunals quantify compensation, against evidence of ballooning awards and the sometimes dizzying amounts involved. Today, however, this issue is no longer secluded from public and academic scrutiny: it features prominently in critical scholarship and is probably the…

Artificial intelligence (AI) is interacting in ever more complex ways with the sovereignty of states. On the one hand, AI technologies are beginning to underpin key sectors and services, including national security, the economy, healthcare. Consequently – and unsurprisingly – states are seeking to protect AI capabilities and the data infrastructure they rely on. The…

On 18 August 2026, the Aylla Rewe del Ngen Mapu Kintuantü, an autonomous political, social, spiritual and cultural alliance bringing together ancestral authorities and more than 150 communities of the Mapuche Williche Indigenous people in southern Chile, filed a complaint against Statkraft AS before the Norwegian Consumer Authority. The complaint concerns Statkraft’s human rights due…

The ICC removed a Prosecutor for misconduct. This December it elects six judges — after its own Advisory Committee reported that it could not complete the moral-character check the Rome Statute requires, and while the report that would complete it sits unseen by the States who vote.