Opinion 2/13, in which the Court infamously declared the first draft agreement on the accession of the EU to the ECHR not to be compatible with the Treaties, is one of the

clearest examples of the CJEU’s protectiveness in its external relations case law. [...]

The proposed Common European Sales Law (CESL, COM (2011) 635 final) expressly includes an “autonomous” interpretation standard. The interpretation method is included in

three places in the instrument: in the Preamble, Recital 29, the Regulation itself, Article 11, and in the actual sales law, Annex I, Article 4. [...]

My thesis provides a comprehensive examination of the intersection between international law and counterterrorism. It thoroughly explores the concept of terrorism, analyzing

it from the perspectives of international criminal law, crimes against humanity, and war crimes. [...]

The effect of armed conflict on bilateral international treaties of the belligerent parties has undergone a considerable change in the past century. From the concept of termination

as the effect of armed conflict by the time of World War II practice of the States had reached the position of suspension of application or no effect at all. [...]

Forcible displacement because of armed conflict as well as gross human rights violations continues to present compelling legal challenges despite the catastrophic effects that

such dislocation has upon its victims. This is despite the significant advancements that international law has admittedly gone through especially post-WWII and as [...]

Since the emergence of the concept of sustainable development, lawyers across the globe are trying to come to grips with its legal status and the potential legal consequences.

Nowadays, the concept of sustainable development is represented in legally binding texts at international, European, and national levels. [...]

This is the latest in a series of annual surveys in this Journal reviewing dispute settlement in the law of the sea, both under Part XV of the UN Convention on the Law of the

Sea and outside the framework of the Convention. The most significant developments during 2022 were the award of an Annex VII arbitral tribunal relating to the preliminary [...]

The relationship between international humanitarian law (IHL) and international human rights law (IHRL) has long divided experts into two camps: those who treat IHL as the

exclusive normative framework for armed conflict, and those who maintain that human rights treaties continue to apply in war alongside IHL. [...]