Congratulations to Navi Pillay, International Lawyer, Judge on the Thin Red Line, and Nobel Peace Prize Laureate | by Marko Milanovic

High Moral Character as Optional? ICC Vetting Design Flaws | by Ezequiel Jimenez Martinez

80 Years After Nuremberg’s Foundational Moment: On the Current Situation of the Crime of Aggression | by Claus Kreß

Runaway Interest in ISDS: Back to (Legal) Basics | by Toni Marzal

Michal Saliternik and Sivan Shlomo-Agon offer three angles on time and international law: 1) the ‘disjuncture’ created by international law’s temporal categories; 2) ‘temporal capture’ processes that make disjuncture’s effects seem natural; and 3) ‘temporal resistance’ to undo disjuncture.

By reading the reparations claims of survivors of the counterinsurgency in colonial Kenya in British courts alongside J.M. Coetzee’s Waiting for the Barbarians, Vasuki Nesiah reveals the rift between the temporalities of colonialism and international law.

Consumed by waiting for and processing data on the seemingly inevitable outcomes of emergencies? You might be experiencing ‘palliative presentism’. Fleur Johns diagnoses the condition in a study of how digital interfaces for emergency relief work invite users to perceive and respond to disaster.

If international law contributes to the desynchronization of the economic, the social and the political, as Nicolás Marcelo Perrone argues, then it may also be key to resynchronizing them.

What is the legal status of national positions on the applicability of international law to cyber activities? Kubo Mačák argues that these statements represent a new genre of legal instrument.

Two(ish) Weeks in Review: 7 September—2 October 2026 | by Sebastian von Massow

Announcements: Future(s) of International Water Law Webinar; CfR Code, Law and Capital; CfA WSIL Early-Career Mentoring Program; Impact of Neutrality on Research and Knowledge Production in Legal Scholarship Workshop [...] | by Mary Guest

Two nodes of interaction between AI and the obligation to respect state sovereignty | by Tsvetelina van Benthem

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Announcements: CfS Cyber Law Toolkit; GLAR Ghandhi Research Seminar Series; ESIL Conversations Webinars | by Mary Guest

Serious Misconduct Cost the ICC Its Prosecutor. Its Judges Face a Vote No Character Report Reaches. | by Carina Bury

Changing the Map, Reframing the World? | by Hendrik Mathis Drößler

Announcements: Attribution of Non-State Actor Conduct Event; CfP The Netherlands as Host State of the ICJ and ICC; CfA Symposium in Memory of Theo van Boven; Bingham Centre for the Rule of Law Vacancy [...] | by Mary Guest

AI and International Law’s Algorithmic Geographies | by Loqman Radpey and Frédéric Mégret