EJIL depends on the great will of colleagues within the worldwide regulation group who generously commit their time and power to behave as peer reviewers for the big variety of submissions we obtain. With out their efforts our Journal wouldn’t have the ability to keep the superb requirements to which we try. We thank the next colleagues for his or her contribution to EJIL’s peer overview course of in 2024:
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Is Israel’s Use of Power In opposition to Iran Justified by Self-Defence? – EJIL: Speak! – Model Slux
This morning, Israel launched a serious army operation towards Iran concentrating on its nuclear programme, together with services, particular person scientists and army management. On this submit, I’ll present a fast, preliminary evaluation of the legality of Israel’s use of drive towards Iran as a matter of the jus advert bellum. As I’ll clarify, Israel’s … Read more
Capping Freedom of Expression? Assessing Kneecap’s Controversy below the ECHR – EJIL: Speak! – Model Slux
On Friday 23rd Could, the Irish-language rap trio Kneecap headlined London’s Broad Awake music pageant at Brixton’s Broxwell Park. Attended by 20,000 followers, this marked the Belfast group’s first stage efficiency for the reason that announcement that the Metropolitan police charged one of many group’s members with terrorism offences. Liam Óg Ó hAnnaidh (stage identify Mo Chara), is scheduled to seem at Westminster Justice of the Peace’s Courtroom on Wednesday 18 June after allegedly displaying a flag in assist of proscribed Lebanese group Hezbollah at a Kentish city occasion in November 2024. Ó hAnnaidh’s court docket look will happen one week earlier than the Belfast group’s scheduled—though now unsure—look on the Glastonbury 2025 pageant.
Kneecap’s vociferous rhetoric on Israel’s alleged genocide in Gaza. and the ensuing fees introduced by the Metropolitan police, have unsurprisingly spurred debates concerning the place traces have to be drawn on the correct to freedom of expression. Substantively, many supporters of the Belfast group have probed whether or not Ó hAnnaidh—as a controversial musical artist—is an appropriate goal for potential prosecution below part 13 of the UK’s Terrorism Act 2000. Over 100 artists have signed an open letter to assist Kneecap’s freedom of expression and ‘register opposition to any political repression of inventive freedom.’ The rap group have themselves labelled the fees a type of ‘political policing’ and ‘a carnival of distraction’ away from their substantive protestations in opposition to Israeli atrocities.
Delegation Diplomacy and the Politics of Narrative in Worldwide Regulation – EJIL: Speak! – Model Slux
Setting the Scene
Within the wake of the terrorist assault in Jammu and Kashmir in April 2025, the Authorities of India launched what it referred to as a “Political Mission” on the worldwide stage. On the centre of this initiative was the deployment of high-level all-party delegations to key capitals. This apply, referred to right here as delegation diplomacy, concerned briefing host governments on India’s account of the incident, the alleged position of The Resistance Entrance (TRF), and Pakistan’s purported complicity in cross-border terrorism. In accordance with official briefings, the intention was not restricted to strategic messaging. It was the projection of a authorized narrative designed to current India as a state beneath siege and to border Pakistan as a violator of worldwide norms.
A Milestone in World Well being, however Will it Work? – EJIL: Discuss! – Model Slux
The COVID-19 pandemic uncovered vital weaknesses within the international authorized framework for pandemics. In response, in 2021, WHO member states launched negotiations to develop a brand new pandemic settlement geared toward addressing the gaps revealed by the pandemic. After three years of negotiations, on 20 Might 2025, the 78th World Well being Meeting (WHA) adopted … Read more
