Having just been appointed to the highest office in world sport on March 20, Kirsty Coventry is expected to address many issues: the organization of the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the choice of venue for the 2036 Olympic Games, questions about the evolution of the Winter Olympic Games in light of the climate … Read more
Over the past two weeks, EJIL:Talk! has featured a range of contributions spanning pressing issues, including: the growing challenges of regulating Private Military and Security Companies (PMSCs), the under-recognized crime of targeting children in conflict zones, legal dimensions of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, criminal military investigations as a tool for civilian protection, the potential impact of … Read more
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
The Olympic Movement has recently experienced its own Habemus papam moment. After a 12-year mandate, Thomas Bach announced his intention to step down from his position as President of the International Olympic Committee (‘IOC’) this year. Much has been made of the secrecy and lobbying that accompanies the election and creates resemblances with the papal … Read more
Combating sabotage of submarine cables and pipelines is first and foremost a matter of law enforcement. The problem is that the international law of the sea, as traditionally understood, does not provide coastal States with sufficient authority to effectively respond to sabotage activities beyond their territorial waters (for an in-depth discussion, see here). The European … Read more