In association with the International Commission of Jurists

Symposia

01 Oct

[María Paula Marroquín works at the Center for Studies and Dissemination of the Constitutional Court of Ecuador. She holds a Bachelor of Laws from San Francisco de Quito University and an MA in Social Justice and Education from University College London.] In July 2025, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHtR) issued the Advisory Opinion AO-32/25 on Climate Emergency and Human...

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30 Sep

[Eduardo Cavalcanti de Mello Filho is an MPhil candidate at the Faculty of Laws, University College London. This post was written while the author was a research associate at the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.] In this post, I claim that Advisory Opinion 32/25 (AO-32/25 or Opinion) of the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (Court) reshapes the way...

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30 Sep

[Erick Guapizaca Jiménez is an S.J.D. candidate at the University of Michigan Law School, a lecturer at the Universidad Internacional del Ecuador, and an Assistant Editor with Opinio Juris] Once again, the Inter-American Court stands at the edge of history with the Advisory Opinion 32/25 (AO-32/25). This time, the Court addresses a monster of our own making, climate change. Responding to...

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26 Sep

[Digvijay Rewatkar is an LLM candidate at Harvard Law School and an international lawyer with seven years of experience. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not reflect the views of his affiliations. This post was drafted before he commenced his course at Harvard Law School.] Fortunately or unfortunately, depending on the readers’ vantage point, the seabed...

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26 Sep

[Digvijay Rewatkar is an LLM candidate at Harvard Law School and an international lawyer with seven years of experience. The views expressed here are those of the author and do not reflect the views of his affiliations. This post was drafted before he commenced his course at Harvard Law School.] The Advisory Opinion (AO) of the International Court of Justice (ICJ)...

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26 Sep

[Monica Iyer is an Assistant Professor of law at the Georgia State University College of Law] Climate change-related migration is an issue very much in the public mind, and the question of whether it is legal to send someone back (or refoule them) to a place where they might face human rights harms because of climate change has become a key...

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25 Sep

[David W. Patterson is a PhD candidate at the Groningen Centre for Health Law, Faculty of Law, University of Groningen, and a coordinator of the Human Rights and the Climate Crisis Working Group of the Netherlands Network for Human Rights Research.  Benjamin Mason Meier is a Professor of global health policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and...

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25 Sep

[Dr. Fabián Cárdenas is a Professor of international environmental law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana] The decision of 23 July 2025, issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), displays the progressive yet cautious trend recently adopted by this traditionally orthodox tribunal. With the banners of climate change, the Court, also carry the flag of the progressive development of international law, providing...

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25 Sep

[Dr. Fabián Cárdenas is a Professor of international environmental law at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana] The Advisory Opinion (AO) issued by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) on 23 July 2025 portrays the progressive, yet cautious, trend recently adopted by this traditionally orthodox tribunal. With the banners of climate change, the Court also carries the flag of the progressive development of international...

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25 Sep

[María José Alarcón Santillán is an international lawyer and S.J.D. candidate at GW Law, serves as Counsel in the ICJ Advisory Opinion on Climate Change, is a CISDL Fellow, and Regional Co-leader at the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. She has advised states on cases before the ICJ, ICSID, ITLOS, and the PCA. Erick Guapizaca is an S.J.D. candidate...

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24 Sep

[Sanne Taekema is Professor of legal theory at Erasmus School of Law] In April 2025, there was a two-day workshop in Oñati on Legal Mobilization and Infrastructures of Protest Culture. Spending two days discussing protest and legal mobilization left my head spinning. Coming into this workshop as a co-organizer and discussant, I felt my ideas about the meaning and significance of mobilizing the law were confirmed...

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24 Sep

[Michał Stambulski is an Assistant Professor in legal theory at Erasmus School of Law, Erasmus University] Contemporary conflicts over democracy play out on two intertwined planes. In the streets, they are intensely kinetic: bodies of protesters and police collide in public space while livestreams and viral clips race through social-media feeds, competing for attention and spurring fresh waves of mobilisation. Echoing Hong Kong’s maxim that...

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