I know I have Tweeted that I would add my tuppence on the Court of Appeal at The Hague on Wednesday reversing (English translation of the Court of Appeal here) the first instance judgment in Milieudefensie v Shell. That judgment had imposed CO2 reduction emissions targets on Shell. (In my post on the first instance […]
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As the first city worldwide, The Hague decided to adopt a legal ban on advertising for petrol cars, flights and cruise ships (see here and here). This decision underscores how advertising represents a new front in the struggle for the green transition. It is but one example of the general trend in Europe to challenge […]
Many rural areas across Europe have experienced a decline in their populations over recent decades. Drawing on new research from Spain, Fernando Merino, María A. Prats and Carlos-Javier Prieto-Sánchez show that the provision of digital communication infrastructure should be viewed as an important priority in efforts to prevent the depopulation of small and medium-sized municipalities. […]
By Kelly Blount, Zlatina Georgieva and Miroslava Scholten Today, our blog celebrates its 100th blog post. Since September 2016, we issue at least one blog post per month, always on the last day of the month. The blog is open to anyone wanting to contribute, also in a different language than English. Our aim is […]
Professor Steve Peers, Royal Holloway University of London Photo credit: Mstyslav Chernov, via Wikimedia Commons Hamster idiom credit: Adam Sharp (Thanks to Zoe Gardner for discussion of the case; the following analysis is my own) Introduction Remember the ‘refugee crisis’ of 2015-16? One part of the EU’s response to it was to negotiate a […]
Print this article POST 21 OF THE SERIES OF THE ODYSSEUS BLOG ON THE PACT ON MIGRATION & ASYLUM By Niovi Vavoula, Associate professor in Cyber Policy, University of Luxembourg 1. Introduction Eurodac (European Asylum Dactyloscopy Database) is the EU-wide, large-scale IT system (database), initially designed to assist in the implementation of the Dublin system […]
PDF VersionVol 13, Issue 12Editorial board: Patrycja Grzebyk (editor-in-chief), Lucas Lixinski, Alina Miron, Anne Saab and Peter-Tobias StollJoachim Strzelecki (Geneva Graduate Institute) Image by Joachim Strzelecki (cc) 1. Introduction In her 2021 non-fiction book “Under a White Sky”,[1] Elizabeth Kolbert tells stories of different teams of scientists working to limit humanity’s impact […]
1. Call for Papers: BIICL-SLS International Law Section Workshop. The British Institute of International & Comparative Law and the International Law section of the Society of Legal Scholars are hosting a one-day hybrid workshop taking place in central London on 26 March 2025 under the title ‘Soft Law in International Law’. The organizers, Dr Jean-Pierre […]
The European Human Rights Law Review just published a new issue (Issue 5, 2024). The issue contains one editorial, three research articles, seven case comments and one publication review. The articles focus on the topics of the recognition of a right to family reunification under Article 8 ECHR, the conceptualisation of forced marriage and the […]