To Remove Or Not To Remove The Sudan Genocide Case From The ICJ’s General List By Provisional Measures Order – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

To Remove Or Not To Remove The Sudan Genocide Case From The ICJ’s General List By Provisional Measures Order – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

Prelude to Sudan v. UAE

As evident from Sudan’s Application Instituting Proceedings in Sudan v. UAE before the International Court of Justice (ICJ or Court) and the UAE’s declaration demanding the “immediate dismissal” of that case, it was predicted that the provisional measures hearing of 20 April 2025 would largely concentrate on the dual between “prima facie jurisdiction” and “manifest lack of jurisdiction.” Indeed, Sudan argued that the Court had prima facie jurisdiction while the UAE insisted that the Court’s lack of jurisdiction was manifest. In line with the recent trend of the Court, it was predictable that Sudan would confront the risk of its case being removed from the General List of the ICJ as a result of the UAE’s claim of the ICJ’s “manifest lack of jurisdiction” (see, Verbatim Record 2025/2, p.16, §6).

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EU-IndoPac Jean Monnet Module Teaching Programme; ANZSIL Annual Conference; SIEL Taipei Global Conference; EU’s Role in Reviving Multilateralism Workshop; Illegal Occupation in the ICJ’s Palestine Advisory Opinion Lecture; Use of Force in International Law Summer School; Double Standards for International Law Workshop – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

To Remove Or Not To Remove The Sudan Genocide Case From The ICJ’s General List By Provisional Measures Order – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

1. EU-IndoPac Jean Monnet Module Teaching Programme 2025. The UCLouvain, IEE Saint-Louis Belgium, and the Department of Studies in Law, University of Mysore, India, are holding the EU-IndoPac Jean Monnet Module Teaching Programme 2025 virtually from 2 -4 June 2025, with an essay-type examination on 5 June 2025. This course will be taught by Prof. … Read more

Illegality, Third States Obligations and the ICJ’s 2024 Advisory Opinion – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

To Remove Or Not To Remove The Sudan Genocide Case From The ICJ’s General List By Provisional Measures Order – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

In the last few years, despite such prohibition, Israeli officials have announced their plans and intention to annex the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt) in whole or part. In a recent statement, on 11 November 2024, Israel’s Finance Minister Smotrich announced a plan to impose Israel’s sovereignty to and annex the occupied West Bank in 2025. He also confirmed that the groundwork is already being put into place (see here and here). His plans also include annexation of the Gaza Strip, where the Israeli regime is conducting mass forcible transfer of Palestinians and building military bases (see here and here). The announcement of the US President to forcibly transfer Gaza’s population of over two million to Jordan and Egypt and take over the Strip, which was embraced by the Israeli far-right government (see here and here), emboldens Israel’s long-visioned plan to freely annex the occupied Palestinian territory. It has, in fact, encouraged further Israeli settlements expansion and land confiscation in the West Bank (see here and here).

This comes to no surprise as the Israeli government, led by Natanyahu, has long been in support of annexation and confiscation of Palestinian land in favour of illegal settlements (see here). At the factual level, Israel has been i) maintaining and expanding illegal settlements and outposts and their associated infrastructure, ii) expropriating Palestinian land and exploiting its natural resources, iii) proclaiming Jerusalem as its capital, iv) maintaining a restrictive and discriminatory planning and building regime for Palestinians, and v) applying extensive Israeli domestic law to East Jerusalem and extending Israeli law extraterritorially to Israeli settlers in the West Bank.

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Greening CERD? The ICJ’s (Over)Cautious Stance on Environmental Harm as Racial Discrimination in Azerbaijan v. Armenia – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

To Remove Or Not To Remove The Sudan Genocide Case From The ICJ’s General List By Provisional Measures Order – EJIL: Talk! – Go Health Pro

On 12 November 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ, ‘the Court’) delivered its ‘twin’ judgments on Azerbaijan’s preliminary objections on jurisdiction in Armenia v. Azerbaijian, and on Armenia’s preliminary objections on jurisdiction and admissibility in Azerbaijan v. Armenia. Both cases, brought in late 2021, invoked Article 36(1) of the ICJ Statute and Article 22 … Read more