This book situates the war in Syria within the actual and imagined system of international criminal justice. It explores the legal impediments and diplomatic challenges that

have led to the fatal trinity affecting Syria: the massive commission of international crimes that are subject to detailed investigations and documentation but whose [...]

This online symposium is being held just before the ACES-Asser conference on ‘Migration deals and their damaging effects’, which will take place online on 8-9 October.

The conference and the contributions in this symposium aim to examine the legal and policy implications of the increased informalisation of the EU’s external action [...]

Evaluating the effectiveness of institutions is a hard mission, and it causes numerous theoretical and methodological difficulties. This is especially true for evaluating the

effectiveness of quasi-judicial institutions such as the United Nations Human Rights Committee (‘HRC’), as my 2019 EJIL article attempted to do. [...]

Jennifer L. Behrens (J. Michael Goodson Law Library, Duke University School of Law) has posted The Empty Chair: Reflections on an Absent Justice (Green Bag Almanac & Reader

131-142 (2020)) on SSRN.  Here is the abstract: This article examines a January 1888 letter to U.S. [...]

On July 30th 2020, within the framework of the Common Foreign and Security Policy (CFSP), the Council of the European Union has imposed its first ever “targeted restrictive

measures” against six Chinese and Russian individuals as well as three legal entities – two located in the aforementioned countries and one in North Korea – [...]

Fog catchers (atrapanieblas) are fairly simple constructions. They consist of large plastic or nylon nets stretched between two vertically positioned poles, perpendicular to

the direction of the incoming, airborne extension of the ocean, fog. As coastal winds push ground touching clouds toward the net, the air’s capacity to hold water [...]