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Apportioning Historical Responsibility After the ICJ’s Climate Advisory Opinion: From Principle to Practice

When the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on Obligations of States in Respect of Climate Change on 23 July 2025, commentators rightly called it a...

Institutional Discretion, Due Process and the Common Heritage of Humankind: The First Provisional Measures Orders in NOR...

The first contentious proceedings ever brought before the Seabed Disputes Chamber of the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (the Chamber) concern far more than a procedu...

International Courts Against the Defunding of Climate Science? Revisiting the ICJ’s Climate Change Advisory Opinion

Introduction The first eighteen months of the second Trump administration have witnessed a sustained assault on scientific infrastructures enabling understanding of anthropogenic c...

Can environmental leverage in trade policy achieve climate action?

Environmental Leverage in Times of Climate Crisis by Giulia Claudia Leonelli examines how stronger trade-related environmental regulation can help to tackle the climate crisis. Leo...

Nuclear Liability Beyond Earth: Who Pays for an Incident on the Lunar Surface?

Lunar exploration during the 20th century sought to reach, explore and, in some cases, return from the Moon,; rather than to serve as successive stages in the construction of perma...

Greenwashing, EPR & Chemical Updates

European Commission Proposes to Extend EU ETS to International Flights Beyond Europe, Puts CORSIA on Trial

ITLOS Ruling: A Landmark Defense of Freedom of Navigation

In the largest penalty the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) has ever levied, a Special Chamber ruled unanimously against Equatorial Guinea on May 27, 2026, ord...

Legal Weapon Against Sovereignty: The UN’s Global Climate Change Mandate

Legal Weapon Against Sovereignty: The UN’s Global Climate Change Mandate Has All The Characteristics Of A ScamAlex NewmanReports about the death of climate alarmism have been great...

Why international law and diplomacy matter now more than ever

Recent global conflicts demonstrate a troubling shift in international politics driven by two primary factors: a declining adherence to international law alongside open contempt fo...

Two Weeks in Review: 13—24 July 2026

The last fortnight has seen commentators focus primarily on conflict, climate, and immigration. A mini-symposium has ranged over a number of legal questions raised by a potential R...

What We Are Reading: Environmental & Energy Series

Industrial Pollution Under Judicial Scanner: Supreme Court's Comprehensive Environmental Roadmap

Supreme Court's Jojari River judgment sets a new benchmark for industrial pollution control, environmental enforcement and sustainable governance.

Forum seeks to enhance environmental protection

SALALAH: The Environment Authority on Thursday organised a forum on mechanisms for updating legislation and procedures related to environmental protection and enhancing ways to add...

An Update on the Relationship Between IHL and IHRL, Lex Specialis and Recent Developments

The past couple of years have seen a substantial number of new developments regarding the relationship between international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights l...

The Plastics Treaty Process Needs Greatly Improved Observer Participation at this Critical Point in the Negotiations and...

GENEVA, August 24 (IPS) - In 2022, the United Nations Environment Assembly mandated an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC) to develop a global, legally binding instrumen...

Vanuatu sues France over Pacific Islands and Exclusive Economic Zone dispute

The nation of Vanuatu on Monday filed an application with the UN’s International Court of Justice (ICJ) against France, requesting that the court affirm its sovereignty over disput...

What Every Multinational Should Know About … The New Customs Enforcement Realities (Part III): The Increasing Enforcemen...

Navigating Challenges to Class VI Permits Before the EPA Environmental Appeals Board

W(h)ither Climate “Multilateralism”?

A former lead climate lawyer for the U.S. State Department offers her perspective on the future of multilateral initiatives to combat climate change. The post W(h)ither Climate “Mu...

Call for Chapters on ‘International Law in a Fractured World’ by International Journal of Legal Affairs and Exploration...

About the Book International Law in a Fractured World: Conflict, Cooperation and Global Governance is an edited volume that critically examines the evolving role of international l...

Trade with the Settlements: How EU Law Points the Way Out of the Deadlock

The International Court of Justice’s Advisory Opinion of 2024 on Legal consequences arising from the policies and practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Terrritory, includ...

Beyond Domicile: The BHP Litigation and the Functional Interconnection of Public and Private International Law

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