EJIL: The Podcast!
Episodes
Episode 40: Palestinian Legal Frontiers: SC Res 2803 and beyond
23 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Palestine and the Palestinians are often the subjects of conversations in the news, on blogs and in judicial opinions, but not present in conversation...
Episode 39: Holding the Line
14 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Philippa Webb and Marko Milanovic are joined by Nicolas Angelet and Oona Hathaway to discuss the legality of the US strikes against s...
Episode 38: Non-intervention— past, present and future
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nehal Bhuta & Megan DonaldsonWe see today flagrant breaches of the prohibitions on the threat or use of force, but also renewed pressure and scrut...
Episode 37: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Obligations: Remarkable, Radical and Robust
30 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
There were gasps in the courtroom when the ICJ delivered its advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change on 2...
Episode 36: The Scourge of War
25 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb are joined by Tom Dannenbaum to discuss two sets of issues. First, the legality of the...
Episode 35: Human Mobility and International Law
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Migration has become a defining issue of our time, visibly shaping political discourse, legal systems, and public imaginaries. Yet for all its salienc...
Episode 34: In the Family: Family Tropes in International Law
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Susan Marks’ EJIL 36(1) Foreword asks ‘If the World is a Family, What Kind of Family Is It?’. It’s a provocative question for international la...
Episode 33: Owning the Future? International Law and Technology as a Critical Project
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
International law operates in a world of rapid technological transformation. From the battlefield to the border, from online content moderation to ope...
Episode 32: No Country for Women: Lawyering for Gender Justice in Afghanistan
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban has sought to reverse Afghan women’s hard-won progress toward gender equality. Through dozens of decre...
Episode 31: Gradually, then Suddenly - Climate, Trade and the Charter Order in Precarious Times
10 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Christina Voigt, Andrew Lang and Mona Ali Khalil join Megan Donaldson to reflect on the present moment in international law from the perspectives of t...
Episode 30: On the Precipice: The International Criminal Court and State Immunity
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Paola Gaeta and Roger O’Keefe join Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb to discuss recent developments at the International Criminal C...
Episode 29: Echoes from the Invisible College
18 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this EJIL:The Podcast! Luíza Leão Soares Pereira, Fabio Costa Morosini and Artur Simonyan join Editor-in-Chief Sarah Nouwen. Inspired by their ar...
Episode 28: Unlawful Occupation, Annexation and Segregation: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Palestine
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We asked three distinguished Palestinian lawyers on to the podcast to discuss the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion. They had views.Hosted by Nehal Bhuta, Prof...
Episode 27: Preoccupied: The ICJ’s Palestine Advisory Opinion
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb are joined by Yuval Shany, and discuss the recent advisory opinion of the Internationa...
Episode 26: Hunger for Thought
19 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We need to talk about hunger. After seven decades of a decline in mass death from starvation, starvation is now a reality for millions of people....
Episode 25: Do We Have a Responsibility toward Future Generations?
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the Alpha and Omega of Climate Control discourse? Surely it is Intergenerational responsibility. Our responsibility towards future generations...
Episode 24: The Third World: At the Centre of International Law?
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Does the decision of the International Court of Justice with respect to Gaza illustrate the influence of Third World Approaches to International Law (...
Episode 23: Unhappy New Year! Genocide in the Courtroom
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb, joined by Mike Becker, discuss the oral hearings before the International Court of Ju...
Episode 22: Organizing International Organizations
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
International organizations are often expected to solve problems that states cannot or do not solve. But how should we understand international organi...
Episode 21: The ICC’s Other Africa Bias?
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The International Criminal Court has been frequently accused of a bias against Africa in that all its defendants thus far have been from Africa. But m...
Episode 20: Disordering International Law
06 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Much of international law is about ordering. But in her article in issue 33(3) of the European Journal of International Law, Michelle S...
Episode 19: From Russia with War: Part Deux
24 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Marko Milanovic, Dapo Akande and Philippa Webb are joined by Oona Hathaway (Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of Internati...
Episode 18: Be Careful What You Ask For
28 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb are joined by Philippe Sands and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh. They reflect on the role a...
Episode 17: What’s wrong with the international law on jurisdiction?
04 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What conduct occurring where are states allowed to regulate? The international law on jurisdiction provides part of the answer. But international lawy...
Episode 16: Disputing Archives
28 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In the third episode of ‘Reckonings with Europe: Pasts and Present’, James Lowry and Meredith Terretta take up the object of archives: how law con...
Episode 15: Now or Never, Or Maybe Later: The Use of Force to Recover an Occupied Territory
23 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
This episode accompanies the launching of a new rubric in the European Journal of International Law – Legal/Illegal. The first installment of L...
Episode 14: From Russia With War
06 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb, joined by Rebecca Barber and Mike Becker, examine various aspects of Russia’s war on...
Episode 13: Loot!
13 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this second instalment of the 'Reckonings with Europe: Pasts and Present' series, Evelien Campfens, Chika Okeke-Agulu and Dan Hicks reflect on call...
Episode 12: No Licence to Kill
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb discuss the legal issues that arise from targeted killings conducted by states outside ...
Episode 11: The Limelight on ESIL!
27 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the podcast, Joseph Weiler is joined by Helene Ruiz-Fabri, Photini Pazartzis and Marko Milanovic, to discuss the EJIL’s sister in...
Episode 10: Whatever happened to International Law & Democracy?
28 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Whatever happened to International Law & Democracy? Accompanying the Symposium on that question in EJIL issue 32(1), this podcast c...
Episode 9: Reviewing Book Reviewing
02 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Which author of a legal monograph has not had that frustrating feeling -- Why is my book not getting reviewed (and his or her book is...!)? And yet, i...
Episode 8: After the Fall
20 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this new series, 'Reckonings with Europe: Pasts and Present', Surabhi Ranganathan and Megan Donaldson host conversations about enduring legacies of...
Episode 7: “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?” An Interview with Laurence Helfer and Erik Voeten
04 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast, EJIL editor Sarah Nouwen interviews Laurence Helfer and Erik Voeten about their article “Walking Back Human Rights in Eur...
Episode 6: Trumping International Law?
31 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode examines the effects of the four years of the Trump Administration on international law. Dapo Akande is joined by Joseph Weiler, Neha Jai...
Episode 5: Breaking Bad - in a Specific and Limited Way
27 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb analyse the Internal Market Bill currently pending before the UK Par...
Episode 4: Court between a Rock and a Hard Place
01 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
The International Criminal Court has for a long time been criticised for exclusively focusing on Africa, as opposed to investigating situations in whi...
Episode 3: Hacked Off!
11 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
With cyberattacks against the health care sector on the rise, this episode focuses on international law and cyber operations, especially in the contex...
Episode 2: WHO let the bats out?
05 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb are joined by Gian Luca Burci, former Legal Counsel of the World Health Organiz...
Episode 1: Contagion
16 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb discuss the compatibility with international human rights law of the measures taken ...