Sarah Nouwen
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Sarah Nouwen is a Professor of International Law at the European University Institute in Florence (on leave from Cambridge University and Pembroke College) and an Editor in Chief of the European Journal of International Law.
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EJIL Roll of Honour
EJIL relies on the good will of colleagues in the international law community who generously devote their time and energy to act as peer reviewers for the large number of submissions we receive. Without their efforts our Journal would not be able to maintain the excellent standards to which we strive. We thank the following colleagues for their…
EJIL: News!: Thank you Wanshu – Welcome Abhimanyu!
May 29, 2025
Sarah Nouwen
As EJIL authors and peer reviewers will know, the Associate Editors are a key part of the EJIL machinery. They receive articles, send them out for review and communicate with authors and peer reviewers. It is a lot of work and can be quite intense. The role provides great insights into the world of publishing, but if one…
Sudan v UAE: Where Legal Categories could have met Fluid Identities
Sudan v. United Arab Emirates is no more before the International Court of Justice. Not only did the Court reject Sudan’s request for provisional measures against the UAE due to a lack of prima facie jurisdiction; it controversially – nine judges voted in favour; seven against – removed the case from its general list, arguing that there was…
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Popular articles by Sarah Nouwen
On My Way In II: Countering Gender Stereotypes in Letters of Reference and Shifting Academic Valorization While We Are at It
July 13, 2021
Sarah Nouwen
It is that time of year again. After months (October-December) of producing one letter of reference after another, it is the season to collect those written by colleagues. I am seeking inspiration for my next season of writing: How does this colleague manage to make me think that the next Marie Curie/Albert Einstein is applying? What lengths do…
Response to the Letter to the Editors Regarding the Publication of a Symposium based on Papers Presented at an IDF Conference
We are grateful for this letter. It raises important and difficult issues. These are issues that must be identified, aired, discussed, specified and further discussed. This letter has spurred such a process. The symposium that the letter objects to focused on the question of the identification of custom in international humanitarian law. It consisted…
EJIL: The Podcast! Episode 10: Whatever happened to International Law & Democracy?
July 31, 2021
Sarah Nouwen
Whatever happened to International Law & Democracy? Accompanying the Symposium on that question in EJIL issue 32(1), this podcast contains a duel between anti-anti-international law & democracy scholar Akbar Rasulov and anti-international law & democracy scholar Brad Roth. The debate continues on this blog: read Akbar Rasulov’s rejoinder here…