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- Announcements: CfP Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict; CfP European Yearbook of Constitutional Law 17/05/20261. Call for Papers: Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict. The Journal of International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (JILPAC / HuV) invites submissions for its second issue of 2026 on the “Enforcement of International Humanitarian Law Beyond the Battlefield”. The issue seeks to explore sanctions as tools of IHL enforcement, frozen and […]Mary Guest
- Two Weeks in Review: 4—15 May 2026 17/05/2026The last two weeks have seen commentators range across a number of topics and jurisdictions. The US-Israeli war in Iran has remained in focus, with the use of US bases abroad raising questions of neutrality and the interdiction of Iranian oil tankers novel question of the laws of the sea and naval warfare. The European […]Sebastian von Massow
- Use of third-state air bases by the United States in the conflict with Iran 15/05/2026The United States has used air bases located in third states in the armed conflict with Iran that began on 28 February 2026. Yet, the action of the United States in Iran may be qualified as aggression, given that neither the conditions of self-defense nor an authorization by the Security Council appear to be satisfied. […]Benjamin Meret
- The ECtHR’s First Victimisation Judgment… 50 years after the 1975 Equal Pay Directive 14/05/2026In December 2025, in Ortega Ortega v. Spain, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR), for the first time, found that unremedied employer retaliation against a sex discrimination complainant amounted to sex discrimination. The domestic courts upheld a woman’s dismissal after she complained about unequal pay. The ECtHR found a violation of Article 14 with Article 8 […]Margarita S. Ilieva
- The Twice-Coerced Zambia and the Synergy Between Human Rights Violations and Prohibited Intervention 13/05/2026Last week, like many other scholars and activists, I was due to participate in RightsCon, the leading conference on human rights in the digital age. This year it was supposed to take place in Zambia, with thousands of participants. The conference is organised by Access Now. They had for many months directly cooperated with the […]Marko Milanovic
- Functional Immunity and “Covert Violent Acts”: The BGH’s Progressive Development of CIL in the Nord Stream Case 12/05/2026On 10 December 2025, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof, BGH) delivered its order (StB 60/25, English press release available here) in the criminal case against Serhiy K., accused of participating in the destruction of the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in September 2022. K.’s defence raised functional immunity as a procedural bar, […]Przemysław Roguski
- Diriyah Meets Washington: The IMF’s Institutional Reform Dilemma 11/05/2026Amid uncertainty over the continuation of the war in the Middle East, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) held its spring meetings from 13 to 18 April 2026 in Washington, D.C. As expected, the economic turbulences created by the conflict dominated the proceedings. The IMF promised to step up its support for struggling countries. In the […]Robin Beglinger
- Announcements: CfP Mapping International Law’s Second Worlds; Digital Battlefields Summer School; From Transitional to Transformative Justice Seminar; Law, Environment and Vulnerability PhD Workshop; Rosalyn Higgins Prize 10/05/20261. Call for Papers: SWAIL II – Mapping International Law’s Second Worlds: Middle Powers, Semi-Peripheries and Shifting Hierarchies in the Global Legal Order. Yong Pung How School of Law, Singapore Management University, 16-17 November 2026. While international law’s role in perpetuating hierarchy, domination and exclusion are increasingly acknowledged even in mainstream disciplinary accounts, less attention […]Mary Guest
- Rewriting Article 422: Ecuador’s Constitutional Court, ISDS, and the Limits of Judicial Constitutional Change 06/05/2026Introduction On 30 March 2026, Ecuador’s Constitutional Court issued Dictamen 19-25-TI/26A, conditionally approving the Agreement for the Promotion and Protection of Investments between Ecuador and the United Arab Emirates (the “UAE BIT”), including the investor-State dispute settlement (“ISDS”) mechanism established in Article 20. The ruling concludes a two-stage constitutional review: on 5 March 2026, the Court […]Ladan Mehranvar
- Process-oriented Review in German Arms Export Litigations: Beyond Victories and Defeats 05/05/2026The ongoing humanitarian situation in Gaza presents complex legal and ethical challenges. As the ICJ considers Nicaragua v. Germany, the international legal community is examining how German courts have assessed the legality of arms exports to Israel. This article aims not to present generalizable judicial principles but to demonstrate that procedural governance is key to […]Shun Oshita