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April 2, 2026
Hussein Badreddine
Introduction Around 800,000 Lebanese residents have been displaced so far since the beginning of this round of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. On 2 March 2026, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) issued evacuation orders directing residents of villages and towns in southern Lebanon to leave their homes and move north of the Litani River, effectively depopulating an area covering about 8% of Lebanon’s territory and affecting hundreds of thousands of residents (here and here). Similar orders followed on 5 March 2026, instructing roughly 400,000 residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs to evacuate (here), and on 12 March 2026, directing residents between the Litani and Zahrani rivers to move north of the Zahrani River (here and here; and see map here). According to Doctors Without Borders, these blanket evacuation orders covered at least 14% of Lebanese territory and displaced more than 800,000 people (here).
Oded Hen - April 2, 2026 at 14:42
This analysis is fundamentally one-sided and disregards essential factual and legal context. First, it ignores that Hezbollah initiated sustained attacks against Israel on October 8, 2023, in support of Hamas…
Eitan Diamond - April 2, 2026 at 12:33
Ellen Nohle and I covered similar ground in our paper 'Humanitarian Displacement? The (Mis)Appropriation of Humanitarian Principles to Justify Mass Displacement', Forthcoming in Heike Krieger, Pablo Kalmanovitz, Eliav Lieblich, and…
Nicolas Boeglin - March 27, 2026 at 14:38
Dear Professor Moya Sánchez Many thanks for this extremely interesting post. In my view, the “rephrasing” of one or more questions by an international judge constitutes a genuine lack of…
Alexander Orakhelashvili - March 24, 2026 at 13:46
https://blog.bham.ac.uk/lawresearch/2026/03/diego-garcia-hormuz-and-all-that/
April 1, 2026
Anna Kohte
On 5 March, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACtHR) notified its long-awaited judgment in Celia Edith Ramos Durand v. Peru. The case concerns the forced sterilisation of Celia Edith Ramos Durand and stands for thousands of predominantly Indigenous women who were sterilised under coercive conditions in Peru in the late 1990s. It is only the second…
March 31, 2026
Abdalrohman Khamise Rusruse
Introduction: Confronting the “Double Erasure” As the dust of explosions settles over the Gaza Strip, a profound realization dawns upon the survivors: the destruction is not merely physical. It is a systematic attempt to tear the memory of the place, uproot victims from their human context, and dissolve them into silent, anonymous statistics. This “double erasure”—of…
March 29, 2026
Mary Guest
1. Summer School on European Union Law in Corfu Island. The Summer School on European Union Law in Corfu Island will take place from 27 – 31 July 2026 in Corfu Island, with the topic ‘The EU as a global actor: legal foundations and challenges’, and applications are now open. The Summer School is yearly organised by the…
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March 26, 2026
Mexico’s effort to hold the gun industry to account has now encountered an institutional setback in San José. Its request for an advisory opinion raised six questions before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR). This post examines, against a more expansive account of OC-30/25 offered…
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For a long time, the obligation to co-operate occupied an ambiguous position in international law. It appeared in diverse treaty regimes and institutional contexts, yet it was seldom recognised as an autonomous, self-standing obligation, i.e., as a general duty of customary nature, underpinning the various legal regimes, and…
April 2, 2026
Introduction Around 800,000 Lebanese residents have been displaced so far since the beginning of this round of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. On 2 March 2026, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) issued evacuation orders directing residents of villages and towns in southern Lebanon to leave…
March 31, 2026
Introduction: Confronting the “Double Erasure” As the dust of explosions settles over the Gaza Strip, a profound realization dawns upon the survivors: the destruction is not merely physical. It is a systematic attempt to tear the memory of the place, uproot victims from their human context,…
March 27, 2026
Legal assessments of the ongoing Israel-US hostilities with Iran have thus far been largely characterized by a binary framework. Criticisms have focused on the manifest disregard for the UN Charter and the law governing self-defence. Supportive assessments have either contorted the…
April 1, 2026
On 5 March, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACtHR) notified its long-awaited judgment in Celia Edith Ramos Durand v. Peru. The case concerns the forced sterilisation of Celia Edith Ramos Durand and stands for thousands of predominantly Indigenous women who were sterilised under coercive conditions in…
March 19, 2026
On 17 March 2025, the Secretary-General of the United Nations received a letter from the Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship of the Argentine Republic, informing him, in his capacity as depositary of the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO), of Argentina’s denunciation of the…
October 7, 2025
Introduction The International Health Regulations (IHR) are, for the moment, the sole global binding legal instrument in force for the prevention and control of the international spread of disease. They are the successor of the pre-WHO international sanitary agreements that were taken over by the newly…
March 26, 2026
Mexico’s effort to hold the gun industry to account has now encountered an institutional setback in San José. Its request for an advisory opinion raised six questions before the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACtHR). This post examines, against a more expansive account of OC-30/25 offered…
March 18, 2026
On March 6th, 2026, the United States re-ignited their pressure on Brazil to designate two major Brazilian crime syndicates, PCC (Primeiro Comando da Capital) and Comando Vermelho, as “terrorist organizations”. In this post, I will introduce the U.S. practice to label Latin American drug syndicates…
February 12, 2026
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April 2, 2026
Introduction Around 800,000 Lebanese residents have been displaced so far since the beginning of this round of hostilities between Hezbollah and Israel. On 2 March 2026, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) issued evacuation orders directing residents of villages and towns in southern Lebanon to leave…
April 1, 2026
On 5 March, the Inter-American Court on Human Rights (IACtHR) notified its long-awaited judgment in Celia Edith Ramos Durand v. Peru. The case concerns the forced sterilisation of Celia Edith Ramos Durand and stands for thousands of predominantly Indigenous women who were sterilised under coercive conditions in…
March 31, 2026
Introduction: Confronting the “Double Erasure” As the dust of explosions settles over the Gaza Strip, a profound realization dawns upon the survivors: the destruction is not merely physical. It is a systematic attempt to tear the memory of the place, uproot victims from their human context,…
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Last month, Joseph Weiler's post on Catalonian independence and the European Union triggered a lively discussion here on EJIL!Talk (including Nico Krisch's reply). Yesterday's publication by the British government of a legal opinion by Alan Boyle of the University of Edinburgh and James Crawford of the University of…
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May 28, 2018 Douglas Guilfoyle
I recently posted here on the extraordinary 500-page “Critical Study” of the Awards in the South China Sea Arbitration published by the Chinese Society of International Law (CSIL) in Oxford University Press’ Chinese Journal of International Law. The piece drew a number of interesting…
October 28, 2019 Başak Çali
There is no doubt that Turkey’s use of force in Syria and the unfolding consequences thereof should generate much legal debate and analysis. The legal issues are broad. They cover primary norms under international law on the use of force, international humanitarian law, international human rights law and…
December 20, 2024 Paula Nieto
Introduction On November 12, 2024, the Hague Court of Appeal overturned the judgment of the Hague District Court in Milieudefensie et al. v. Shell. While some elements of the legal reasoning remained aligned with the District Court’s decision there were notable shifts. For instance, the…
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