The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law will be published next week. Over the coming days, we will publish a number of posts outlining the contents of this issue.
Here is the Table of Contents for this new issue, as well as the Abstracts:
Editorial
In This Issue; In This Issue &ndash
EJIL: Talk!
Blog Authors
Latest from EJIL: Talk!
A Human Right to Carbon Import Restrictions? On the Notion of ‘Embedded Emissions’ in Klimaseniorinnen v Switzerland
The European Court of Human Rights’ (ECtHR) climate decisions are out, and comments followed suit (for general overviews: here, here, and here; for related discussions of the notion of a carbon budget in the decisions: here and here). If anything about the decisions’ legal and factual implications is sure, it is…
Common Article 1 Does Prohibit Complicity in IHL Violations, Through Arms Transfers or Otherwise
Last week, over on Articles of War, I read with great interest a post on Common Article 1 (CA1) of the Geneva Conventions by my good friends Mike Schmitt and Sean Watts. Their post, building on their prior work, argues that CA1 should not be understood as having any external dimension. It comments in…
Inter-generational Equity, Future Generations and Democracy in the European Court of Human Rights’ Klimaseniorinnen Decision
It was immediately evident that the European Court of Human Rights judgment in Verein KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland was groundbreaking in multiple regards and will prove fundamentally important in terms of shaping and, in many ways, advancing climate justice litigation at the European, international and domestic law levels. That decision, as well as those in…
Announcements: Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty Event; CfP German Yearbook of International Law; GROMADA Summer School and Moot Court; Global Health Law Interest Group Student Writing Competition
1. Exiting the Energy Charter Treaty under the Law of Treaties. In the latest in the series Bocconi Conversations in International Law, Lorand Bartels (University of Cambridge) and Tibisay Morgandi (Queen Mary University of London), in conversation with Roger O’Keefe (Bocconi University), will discuss whether there is a way under the law of treaties…
A Swiss human rights budget?
In his vigorous, thoroughly readable, partly dissenting opinion to the recent ECtHR climate change ruling (Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland), Judge Eicke wonders whether the court has ‘tried to run before it could walk’ (para. 68). In particular, he is exercised by the Court’s attempt to apply a set of criteria…
Breaking New Ground: Climate Change before the Strasbourg Court
An ocean of ink has been already spilt for the long-awaited judgments of the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) on the KlimaSeniorinnen v. Switzerland, the Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal and 32 Others and the Carême v. France case (see inter alia here, here and here). On the 9th of…
Climate Change and the ECHR: The Results Are In
To much media attention, excitement and general anticipation, the European Court of Human Rights finally handed down judgments in the three climate change cases relinquished to the Grand Chamber. The three cases are Verein KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz and Others v. Switzerland (application no. 53600/20), Carême v. France (no. 7189/21) and Duarte Agostinho and Others v. Portugal…
People from La Oroya vs Peru, Inter-American Court of Human Rights: How Effective is International Law to Protect the Environment in Extractive Contexts?
On March 22nd, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ruled a landmark decision on the protection of the right to a healthy environment in the context of mining activities. The Court declared the international responsibility of the Peruvian State for breaching the Inter-American Convention on Human Rights, specifically for violations of the right to a…
Gender Persecution and Gender Apartheid in Afghanistan: Seeking the Appropriate Legal Basis for International Accountability
From as early as 1980, Afghanistan signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW), a decisive step in protecting women’s rights to equality, notably in education. Additionally, since 1994, Afghanistan has been a signatory to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which…