After seven years, this is our last ‘In This Issue’. We are signing off with a bumper issue full of reviews in different shapes and sizes. Two review essays offer in-depth engagement with foundational questions. Fuad Zarbiyev reflects on Alain Pellet’s 2018 Hague Academy General Course, now published in book form. Pellet’s vision of the ‘elusive theory of reality’ (l'introuvable théorie de la réalité) in international law leaves Zarbiyev puzzled at times, as its biases and limitations seem so striking. But he ends on a ‘sentimental’ note, recognizing his secret desire that Alain Pellet, as the ‘Père Fouettard’ of international law with a long record of ‘dispensing beatings to “naughty” colleagues ... would come back and restore some order in the discipline’.
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This issue, and this volume, opens with our annual EJIL Foreword, authored this year by Susan Marks. Marks provides a critical exploration of the enduring metaphor of the world as a family, examining the ideas about family that both influence and are influenced by it. Through a careful analysis of three prominent familial tropes – the human family,…
New Issue of EJIL (Vol. 36 (2025) No. 1) – Out Next Week
The latest issue of the European Journal of International Law will be published next week. We will publish a number of posts outlining the contents of this issue and the editorials over the coming week. Here is the Table of Contents for this new issue, as well as the Abstracts: Editorial…
Announcements: CfP Disarmament from the Margins; CfS CILJ; CfC Protecting the Rule of Law in the EU; CfL Marine and Environmental Law Conference; CfP Genocide and the Ocean Workshop; BICCL Summer Schools; CfC Non-Dominant Feminist Grammars in Global Governance; Property in Outer Space Conference; CfA European Migration and Asylum Law
1. Call for Papers: Disarmament from the Margins. As part of an AHRC-funded project ‘Disarming International Law: forgotten pasts and future possibilities on a global front line’, the organisers (Charlie Peevers, University of Glasgow and Anna Hood, Auckland Law School) are inviting submissions for a conference exploring how disarmament is envisioned, contested, and enacted beyond traditional state-centered…
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;…