Many world leaders will arrive at the United Nations for their annual high-level meeting in the last week of September with a sense of trepidation. Although the U.N. is marking
the 80th anniversary of its founding, three less happy themes will overshadow the gathering. [...]
Signup to receive the Early Edition in your inbox here. A curated weekday guide to major news and developments over the last 24 hours. Here’s today’s news: ISRAEL-HAMAS
WAR [...]
On Sept. 9, Israel mounted “Operation Summit of Fire,” in which the Israeli Air Force (IAF) struck a residential and office compound in Doha, Qatar, used by senior Hamas
leaders involved in ongoing ceasefire talks with Israel that were being brokered by the United States, Qatar, and Egypt. [...]
The Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) of 2015 is set to expire at the end of this month on September 30, 2025. The Act removes barriers to companies sharing information
about cyber threats, addressing privacy concerns and requires the federal government to share threat information. [...]
Der Weltraum ist seit dem „Outer Space Treaty“ von 1967 immer wieder Gegenstand internationaler Regulierung. Am 25. Juni 2025 hat die EU-Kommission ihren Vorschlag „für
eine Verordnung des Europäischen Parlaments und des Rates über die Sicherheit, Widerstandsfähigkeit und Nachhaltigkeit von Weltraumaktivitäten in der Union“ [...]
In just over a year, three of the world’s most prominent courts have addressed States’ legal obligations in the context of climate change. In May 2024, the International
Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) issued its advisory opinion in response to a request by the Commission of Small Island States. [...]
The judgment of the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in the Case C-225/22 from September 4 confirmed that the Chamber of Extraordinary Control and Public Affairs
of the Supreme Court in Poland is illegitimate. The ruling not only exposes the collapse of judicial legitimacy at the highest level, but also shows how chaos in [...]
The Articles section in this issue opens with an analysis of lump sum agreements by Lauge N. Skovgaard Poulsen. Drawing on a compilation of almost 400 lump sum agreements from
Westphalia until today, Poulsen provides a historical account of this central piece of international claims infrastructure. [...]
The first view article of the third issue of the ICLQ for 2025 was published yesterday. It contains the following article on conflict of laws: Ardavan Arzandeh, “Anti-Suit
Injunctions in Support of Foreign Dispute-Resolution Clauses” [...]
[Melis Irem Kirkdisceoglu is senior editorof the Nottingham Advocate, and a member of both the International Law Association and the European Society of International Law.
She is an LLB candidate at the University of Nottingham.] This post critically evaluates how structural imbalances shape the “international community of states [...]
