In August 2021, the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan. This followed two decades of US-led military intervention and occupation, repeatedly justified as a mission to

liberate Afghan women from the Taliban during their first regime from 1996-2001. Since their return, the Taliban have enforced an institutionalised regime of systemic [...]

[Dr Aurel Sari is a professor of public international law at the University of Exeter Law School] On 6 January 2026, US President Donald Trump restated his longstanding desire

to take control of Greenland, declaring that the US needs the autonomous Danish territory ‘right now’. [...]

We are delighted to announce that Sinan Abidi will be joining the Opinio Juris Editorial Team as an Editorial Assistant this month. Sinan will support the full Editorial Team

with copyediting, logistics, and coordination of special projects and events. His bio is below: Sinan Abidi is in the final year of his Senior Status LLB degree at [...]

[Alexa Koenig, PhD, MA, JD, is a research professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, faculty director of UC Berkeley’s Human Rights Center, and director and co-founder of the

center’s Investigations Lab. Brianne McGonigle Leyh, PhD, MA, JD, is professor of global justice studies at Utrecht University’s School of Law, director of masters [...]

[Kartik Sharma is an undergraduate law student at National Law School of India University, Bengaluru and an analyst at SpicyIP] The first sentence of Article 1.1 of the TRIPS

agreement requires members to ‘give effect to the provisions’ of TRIPS. Its exact meaning found centre-stage in a WTO dispute between the European Union and China, [...]

On 17 December 2025, “as part of the ongoing review of its procedures and working methods”, the International Court of Justice (‘ICJ’ or ‘Court’) amended article

78 of the Rules of Court to make available to the public reports provided by the parties concerning compliance with provisional measures (‘provisional measures [...]