[Jessica Dorsey is an Assistant Professor of International Law at Utrecht University School of Law, an Executive Board Member of Airwars, and the Managing Editor of Opinio

Juris.] In a New York Times essay published last week, Jeh Johnson, General Counsel of the Department of Defense in President Barack Obama’s first term and Director [...]

Ancient Divination and Experience Lindsay G. Driediger-Murphy (ed.), Esther Eidinow (ed.)The introduction to this volume describes the contribution that it makes

to scholarship on ancient divinatory practices. It analyses previous and current research, arguing that while this predominantly functionalist work reveals important [...]

Jean-Noël Luc est professeur émérite à Sorbonne Université. Historien des forces de l'ordre et plus spécialement de la Gendarmerie, il est l'un des fondateurs d'une approche

universitaire de ces études, aujourd'hui très développée. Il a rédigé ou co-dirigé de nombreux ouvrages, dont Gendarmerie mobile et maintien de l'ordre, XIXe-XXIe [...]

Just in time for the holiday season, on November 25th, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) issued a press release that sparked celebrations amongst rights advocates across

Europe. [...]

To have your event or announcement featured in next week’s post, please send a link and a brief description (1-2 paragraphs) to ojeventsandannouncements@gmail.com. Calls

for Papers AILA Conference on International Law: The Armenian International Law Association (AILA) invites scholars, practitioners, and students to submit abstracts [...]

Sixty-five years ago today, the UN General Assembly adopted the Declaration on the Granting of Independence to Colonial Peoples and Countries. Fourteen years later on the same

day, it set out its definition of aggression. Both—in different but related ways—remain highly pertinent, as the last two weeks at EJIL:Talk! have shown. [...]

1. Call for Papers: Digital Solidarity and International Law – Collective Action and Human Rights in the Digital Age. This edited volume will be published under a contract

with Routledge in the Routledge Research in International Law series. It will examine how solidarities are formed and expressed in the digital sphere and their implications [...]