EJIL

Two Weeks in Review, 10 – 23 March 2025 – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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Two Weeks in Review, 10 – 23 March 2025 – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Over the past two weeks, EJIL’s contributors have offered thoughtful insights into a variety of pressing international law issues. Among the topics discussed are significant climate litigation rulings, developments in indigenous rights, challenges surrounding secondary sanctions, and the evolving role of peacekeeping forces, highlighting the dynamic nature of international legal frameworks. Climate Litigation Enikő Krajnyák … Read more

International Law as a Common Heritage of Mankind – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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International Law as a Common Heritage of Mankind – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

In 1990, when the European Journal of International Law (EJIL) had its first issue, its founders, including myself, obviously stressed in their first editorial the link between international law and the construction of the European Union. The socio-political context in which the Journal had just been launched was very different from that which prevails today. … Read more

The Inter-American Court Faces Its First Case on Indigenous Peoples in Voluntary Isolation – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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International Law as a Common Heritage of Mankind – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Yesterday, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights published a landmark ruling in the case of Pueblos Indígenas Tagaeri y Taromenane v. Ecuador, the first case in its 45-year history to address the rights of Indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The case concerns Ecuador’s international responsibility for the violation of the rights of the Tagaeri … Read more

A Jus Cogens Criteria for Draft Article 7? – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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International Law as a Common Heritage of Mankind – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Immunities of state officials are a subject matter in international law that continues to raise tensions between States. The seventy-sixth session of the International Law Commission (ILC) will take place in Geneva from April 14 to May 30 and June 30 to July 31, 2025. One of the topics to be discussed on the agenda … Read more

An Independent Norm Under Customary International Law to Prohibit Secondary Sanctions? – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

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International Law as a Common Heritage of Mankind – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

We can witness in real time how the Trump administration is devastating international relations as well as the international legal order. Sanctions form an integral part of this disruptive behaviour, as they attribute political and economic weight to the US’ foreign policy agendas (see e.g. here; here). One particular tool to maximize these aspired goals … Read more

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