Marko Milanovic
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Marko Milanovic is Professor of Public International Law at the University of Reading School of Law. He is co-editor of EJIL: Talk! and a member of the EJIL's Editorial Board.
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Four new editors appointed to EJIL:Talk!
EJIL is delighted to announce that Julian Arato, Wanshu Cong, Miles Jackson and Justina Uriburu have joined Nehal Bhuta, Devika Hovell and Marko Milanovic as editors of EJIL:Talk! Julian is professor of law at the University of Michigan; Wanshu a lecturer at the Law School of the Australian National University;…
ICC Office of the Prosecutor Releases Draft Policy on Cyber-Enabled Crimes
April 4, 2025
Marko Milanovic
This article is cross-posted at Lawfare. On March 6, the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) published a draft Policy on cyber-enabled crimes, which is now open for public consultation. States and non-state actors are increasingly using advanced cyber tools, including artificial intelligence (AI), to commit or facilitate crimes against international law. This…
On Parties and Co-Parties: A Comment on Alex Wentker’s Book
April 1, 2025
Marko Milanovic
Editor's note: This post is part of a book discussion on Alexander Wentker’s “Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law". I doubt that a doctoral thesis – and then a book – on international law could be more timely than Alexander Wentker’s Party Status to Armed Conflict in International Law. The ongoing wars in…
Popular articles by Marko Milanovic
Does Israel Have the Right to Defend Itself?
November 14, 2023
Marko Milanovic
This is a deceptively simple question. It has several possible answers, each of which rests on different (and highly contested) assumptions. In this post I will try to explain what these possible answers are, and what are their implications. I don’t myself know what the ‘correct’ answer here is. It is not my intention to argue for one.
What is Russia’s Legal Justification for Using Force against Ukraine?
February 24, 2022
Marko Milanovic
With missile and aerial strikes across Ukrainian territory and Russian ground forces entering Ukraine from multiple directions, there is now no doubt that the Russian Federation has used ‘force’ in the sense of Article 2(4) of the UN Charter against Ukraine, and has done so on a large scale. The burden is now on Russia to attempt to…
ICJ Indicates Provisional Measures in South Africa v. Israel
January 26, 2024
Marko Milanovic
Earlier today the International Court of Justice handed down its order on provisional measures in the genocide case brought by South Africa against Israel regarding Israel’s military operations in Gaza. The outcome was much as expected (I’ll refer readers in that regard to the discussion on the last episode of EJIL: The Podcast). Briefly, the Court…