International Law Observer

Call for Papers: Humanrightization in Migration Societies: Conditions, Forms, Consequences - The research group MeDiMi welcomes proposals for presentations on legal, political, and everyday struggles concerning the human rights of migrants in today’s societies. Context ...

Transitional Justice in Situations of Ongoing Conflict? The Case of South Sudan and Beyond - Following a referendum in 2011, South Sudan became independent from Sudan after decades of protracted armed conflict. The optimism for a peaceful future of the world’s newest nation s...

Call for abstracts, 2nd Annual Nordic IHL Symposium, IHL/LOAC Implications for Nordic Preparedness in Relation to Emerging Threats and Technologies, Copenhagen, 28-29 May 2026 - 2nd Annual Nordic IHL Symposium,IHL/LOAC Implications for Nordic Preparedness in Relation to Emerg...

International Law Association (American Branch) Webinar: A Report Card on the Laws of Armed Conflict - A Report Card on the Laws of Armed Conflict (February 17, 2026, at 11 AM Eastern Time/4 PM GMT) The observation that these are challenging times for international law and...

Call for Papers: Journal of Law, Market & Innovation (JLMI) - JLMI - Call for papers - Issue no. 3/2026 The Journal of Law, Market & Innovation (JLMI) welcomes submissions for its third issue of 2025. The Call for Papers for this 3rd issue is devoted to Digital markets,...

Thirty years from Dayton: Has the Bosnian Constitution found its legitimacy? - Written by Nedim Hogic /Cross-posted from EJIL: Talk where it was posted on 10 December 2025 This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of the Constitution of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Known as the...

Call for papers: Human rights and the crises of global order  - The Nordic Journal of Human Rights invites submissions of papers presenting innovative scholarship analysing the multiple challenges facing the international human rights project amid shifting global power relati...

Call for Papers: NLIU JOURNAL FOR LEGISLATIVE DRAFTING AND PARLIAMENTARY RESEARCH - NLIU-CPS is pleased to invite original and unpublished manuscripts for publication in its annual journal, NLIU Journal for Legislative Drafting and Parliamentary Research (JLDPR). This edi...

Call for input - Draft General Comment No. 38 on Article 22 (Freedom of Association) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights - Background The Human Rights Committee, in accordance with article 40, paragraph 4, of the International Covenant on Civil and ...

Conference on ‘The U.S. and International Law in changing times’, London, 5-6 November 2025 - The SLS International Law section and Solon Solomon (BUL) together with Saeed Bagheri (University of Reading), invite you to the 2-day Conference on ‘The U.S. and International Law i...

Call for Papers of the Journal of Law, Market & Innovation (JLMI)  - The JLMI Call for papers, Issue no. 2/2026, has been published and it is devoted to "Governing AI and Digital General-Purpose Technologies: Balancing Innovation, Competition, and Rights in the Digital Econom...

CfP: The U.S. and International Law in Changing Times - The SLS International Law section and Solon Solomon (BUL), together with Saeed Bagheri (University of Reading), are organising on 5-6 November 2025 in central London and at BUL the two-day international conference ‘The U...

CfP: Charting the Council’s Future: Reflections on the United Nations Human Rights Council at Twenty - The year 2026 will mark the twentieth anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), a milestone that offers an important opportunity f...

Some personal takeaways from the DANCING Conference: on methods and legal research beyond the letter of the law - By Roberta Esposito* * Roberta is a PhD researcher in International and European Union Law at the University of Pavia, Italy. Her project centres on the human...

Article 90 of the Dutch Constitution: Constitutional Duty to Act in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict - By Otto Spijkers Otto Spijkers is university lecturer in international and European law at Leiden University College (LUC), Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs of Le...

Call for Papers: 22nd Study Meeting on Good Faith in International and EU Law - The University of Ferrara is inviting submissions for papers on The Principle of Good Faith in International and European Union Law. The Department of Law at the University will host the 22nd ...

Call for Papers - The Age of Human Rights Journal - revistaselectronicas.ujaen.es/index.php/TAHR… The Age of Human Rights Journal is a scientific journal of international relevance, published in English, peer-reviewed and open-access, containing papers concerning Human Rights from different app...

Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice Conference - The Responsibility to Protect in Theory and Practice Series is a series of biennial international interdisciplinary conferences established by the Faculty of Law, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. The series is de...

Security versus Compliance with International Humanitarian Law? Revisiting the 1977 Ottawa Convention in Contemporary Europe - Introduction internationallawobserver.eu/security-versu…

ECtHR Finds Cyprus in Breach of Articles 3 and 8 in Rape Case - A Case Note on X v. Cyprus (Application No. 40733/22) Introduction & Background of the Case In the case of X v. Cyprus, on 27 February 2025, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled that Cyprus had ...