Eugenio Carli

About/Bio

Eugenio Carli is a Senior Research Fellow in Public International Law and a Lecturer in Fundamentals of International Law at the University of Siena. He holds a PhD in International and EU Law from the University of Florence.

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The Sudan Genocide Case and the Legal Effect of Reservations to Compromissory Clauses in Disputes Concerning Obligations Erga Omnes Partes

Introduction On 5 May, the International Court of Justice (‘Court’ or ‘ICJ’) issued an order in the case brought by Sudan against the United Arab Emirates (‘UAE’) (see commentaries here and here). The dispute concerned alleged violations of the 1948 Genocide Convention (‘the Convention’) arising from acts attributed to the UAE in its…

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Obligations Erga Omnes, Norms of Jus Cogens and Legal Consequences for “Other States” in the ICJ Palestine Advisory Opinion

 As correctly pointed out in this blog, the Advisory Opinion (AO) of 19 July 2024 issued by the International Court of Justice (the Court) on the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem has important implications for third states. In its Resolution of 30…

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Eunavfor Aspides and the Ratione Temporis Application of the Right of Self-Defence

The post is based on my previous one “La missione EUNAVFOR Aspides dell’Unione europea e l’applicazione ratione temporis del diritto di legittima difesa”, published (in Italian) on SIDIBlog on March 19, 2024 Introduction On February 19, 2024 the European Union (EU) launched EUNAVFOR Aspides, a military maritime security operation in…

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