[While members of the Opinio Juris team sighted this post before publication, the views expressed are my own.] On 3 November 2026, the UN General Assembly and Security Council elected Dapo Akande to the International Court of Justice. While many aspects of his profile earned this honour, I note that he was a founding editor of EJIL:Talk! Like Opinio Juris, Völkerrechtsblog,...
[Dr. Priya Kumari is currently affiliated with VIT-AP School of Law, VIT-AP, Amaravati, India and writes on business and human rights, environmental law etc.] The interlink between human rights and climate justice has been going through a phase of transformation. In 2024, the Indian Supreme Court delivered the judgement in the case of M. K. Ranjitsinh v. Union of India (hereinafter,...
[Natalia Cwicinskaja is an Assistant Professor of international law at the Department of International Law and International Organisations, Faculty of Law and Administration, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.] The author conducts academic research on human rights law in contexts of contested territorial authority. She is not involved in the pending communication discussed in this post. In April 2026, the Moldovan NGO Promo-LEX,...
[José Emmanuel González Carbajal is an international lawyer specialising in international economic law, treaty interpretation, and international dispute settlement.] Trade–labour disputes sit at an uneasy intersection: adjudicators must engage seriously with international labour law, yet they operate under trade agreements with their own carefully negotiated limits. On 21 May 2026, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) delivered its Advisory Opinion on...
[Dr. Tuğba Tosun Çobanoğlu is an independent interdisciplinary researcher working at the intersection of law, human rights and legal psychology.] On 16 October 2026, a short amendment entered into force at the International Criminal Court. At their annual retreat on 29 September, the judges agreed to amend the Code of Judicial Ethics. A new paragraph 3 of Article 10 requires them...
[Delphine Rodrik is a senior legal advisor with the Border Justice team at the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) in Berlin. Dr. Niamh Keady-Tabbal is a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Law and Criminology, Maynooth University and a consultant at GLAN. She was part of the legal team that supported G.R.J.'s case before the ECtHR. Silvia Rojas Castro...
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[Adrián Agenjo Aguado is a PhD candidate and Teaching Fellow at the Universitat de Barcelona and the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. This post draws on a work-in-progress paper on neutral and professional contributions and complicity in international criminal law presented at the University of Bologna and the European University Institute in October 2026.] When I read the Prosecution’s responses to the questions...
[Juliana Laguna Trujillo is an international human rights lawyer who works as a legal and advocacy consultant at the Women’s Initiatives for Gender Justice. Akila Radhakrishnan is an independent human rights lawyer and gender justice expert. She is a legal advisor for the End Gender Apartheid Campaign.] On 31 August 2026, ten years after Paola Buenrostro, a trans sex worker, was killed in...
[William Fortin is a PhD researcher at Tilburg University.] On 5 June 2026, a woman from the Dutch town of Naaldwijk, Ayada K., was sentenced to 7 years’ imprisonment by the District Court in The Hague for the following offences: participating in a terrorist organization; carrying out preparatory acts to commit terrorist offences; putting her minor son in a helpless condition...
[Rachel J. Schoner is an Assistant Professor at Tulane University specializing in international law, international organizations, and human rights. Andrea Vilán is an Assistant Professor at American University specializing in international law, human rights, and transnational activism.] The United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child recently held its 101st session in Geneva. The session highlights both the expansion of opportunities...
[Tjorben Studt is a fully qualified lawyer in Germany and a doctoral candidate at the Institute for Air Law, Space Law, and Cyber Law at the University of Cologne.] On 14 September 2026 the US Secretary of the Air Force disclosed that the Space Force has on-orbit space control weapons to ensure the protection of US interests in outer space. While...