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EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 46: Protection of Civilians: Crisis, Commentary and Compliance

The number and extent of today’s armed conflicts, and the crisis of compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL), are well-recognized. In his annual report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, the UN Secretary-General has underscored how “[i]nconsistent standards, assertions of exceptional circumstances and hollow calls for compliance [have] undermined respect for international humanitarian law”. Similarly, the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has acknowledged that the problem is not only about a lack of compliance, but active disregard for IHL. At the same time, the ICRC has recently come to the end of a long cycle of work revising its commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention, which sets out key protections for civilians in armed conflict and under occupation. This episode focuses today on what feels like a stark gulf between the intricate work on the commentary – looking closely at individual articles of a 75-year-old Convention – and the larger sense of a growing and highly complex crisis of compliance in IHL. Joining us for…

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Can We See Generative AI in International Law Blogging?

Gen AI and its Contributions In July 2026 EJIL published its ecosystem-wide generative artificial intelligence (Gen AI) policy. The policy is carefully worded and wisely narrow. While it also addresses a series of concerns which would merit discussion individually, such as those concerning plagiarism and accuracy, in this contribution I will focus on what…

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EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 45: The Nuclear Order Under Threat

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 past decade, a wave of nuclear weapons activity has sparked concerns that we have entered a new nuclear age. This episode takes a hard look at the international legal issues…

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In This Issue – Reviews

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 losing. It might have been a day like this when George Orwell's Winston Smith sat in his room and wrote the first page of his diary. ‘From where Winston stood…

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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 economic law that challenges the neoclassical account of global economic integration. She traces a link between French efforts to protect its wine producers from the unexpected competition by wine from…

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