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Two Weeks in Review: 10—21 August 2026

August 23, 2026

As we swelter through late summer, a hardy few have retained a cool hold over their critical faculties. In the last two weeks, attention has turned chiefly to the ICC: from the in absentia convictions of members of the Rapid Support Forces, to the removal of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan, and a decision recognising that a State Party may face conflicting obligations when asked to arrest a person attending UN-convened peace talks. The deep seabed has also remained in focus, with reflections on the International Seabed Authority’s supervisory powers under Part XI UNCLOS, as well as the vulnerability of submarine cables under existing international legal protections. Meanwhile recent trends in climate litigation seem to be shifting away from individual harm towards structural injunctions, increasingly vesting initiative and authority with NGOs. And the recent crisis in Ceuta raises foundational questions about the existence of an international duty on states to control borders. Not to mention the nuclear order under threat on the EJIL Podcast, and the unwritten rulebook for the succession of judges at the ICJ.

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Sudan’s Death Sentences Against RSF Leaders: Complementarity and Accountability Under International Law

August 11, 2026

On 12 July 2026, the Anti-Terrorism and Crimes Against the State Court in Port Sudan sentenced General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo (‘Hemedti’), commander of Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF), and fifteen others to death in absentia (See also here and here). The convictions relate to the killing of West Darfur Governor Khamis Abdallah Abakar in…

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Two(ish) Weeks in Review: 6 April—1 May 2026

May 3, 2026

In a slightly extended version of Two Weeks in Review, we take in fundamental questions about what happens when law and lawyers seek or refuse to justify illegal actions, “relocation orders” issued by Israel in Gaza and Lebanon, the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, Australian soldiers and Belgian consular officials in domestic courts for international crimes, the…

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Legal Limits for the ICC’s Jurisdiction over International Crimes Committed in Sudan

December 5, 2025

On 3 November 2025, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) announced investigations into crimes allegedly committed in Darfur since the outbreak of hostilities in April 2023. This announcement comes as reports emerged from from El-Fasher, Northern Darfur, about mass killings, rapes, and other crimes.  On 7 November, UN High Commissioner for…

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Abd-Al-Rahman Trial Judgment: New Views on the Principle of Legality Applied

October 15, 2025

On 6 October, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued its much-anticipated Abd-Al-Rahman trial judgment, in which the defendant was convicted of crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in Darfur, Sudan, between 2003 and 2004. Even before the trial judgment, the case had become paradigmatic for its decisions (here and…

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