EJIL: The Podcast!

Episodes

1. Episode 47: Meeting the Moment: ICC Sanctions and the Future of International Adjudication

   26 Oct 2026 · 30 min · Episode 47

   In a matter of months, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has faced its prosecutor's removal for serious misconduct; Chad, Venezuela and Naoero (transcript of address to General Assembly cf written statement)…

2. Episode 46: Protection of Civilians: Crisis, Commentary and Compliance

   13 Oct 2026 · 45 min · Episode 46

   The number and extent of today’s armed conflicts, and the crisis of compliance with international humanitarian law (IHL), are well-recognized. In his annual report on the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflict, the…

3. Episode 45: The Nuclear Order Under Threat

   13 Aug 2026 · 33 min · Episode 45

   The international nuclear realm is under severe strain. Since the 1960s, the international community has constructed a dense web of laws to govern nuclear matters. However, over the past decade, a wave of nuclear…

4. Episode 44: One Strait, Many Chokepoints: International Law and the New Geopolitics of Energy

   15 Jun 2026 · 36 min · Episode 44

   The war in the Middle East has plunged the world into yet another crisis. Days are paced by minute-by-minute updates: at first, tragic reports of civilian deaths and incendiary threats from US President Donald Trump,…

5. Episode 43: Sudan—Does international law have anything to say?

   23 Apr 2026 · 53 min · Episode 43

   The situation in Sudan is often described as the world's worst humanitarian crisis. Going by the numbers, it could well be more than 150,000 people have died. More than 12 million people have been displaced. More than…

6. Episode 42: Russia, Imperial Continuities and Histories of International Law

   7 Apr 2026 · 50 min · Episode 42

   One feature of the turn to history in international law has been the adoption of ‘national’ traditions (here using ‘national’ very loosely) as a lens through which to explore a broader picture. This focus on national…

7. Episode 41: Reading Recommendations

   3 Mar 2026 · 4:23

   Panelists Michelle Ratton Sanchez and Nicolás M. Perrone share reading recommendations on some of the themes in Ep 41: Thinking through Rupture in International Economic Law: Views from Latin America

8. Episode 41: Thinking through Rupture in International Economic Law: Views from Latin America

   3 Mar 2026 · 50 min · Episode 41

   In January 2026, the Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney gave a widely noted speech at the World Economic Forum, in which he described the current period we're living through as a rupture in the world order. How…

9. Episode 40: Palestinian Legal Frontiers: SC Res 2803 and beyond

   23 Dec 2025 · 57 min · Episode 40

   Palestine and the Palestinians are often the subjects of conversations in the news, on blogs and in judicial opinions, but not present in conversations themselves. The issues are treated episodically in connection with…

10. Episode 39: Holding the Line

    14 Nov 2025 · 47 min · Episode 39

    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 suspected drug boats in the Caribbean and the additional threats made…

11. Episode 38: Non-intervention— past, present and future

    16 Oct 2025 · 51 min · Episode 38

    Nehal Bhuta & Megan Donaldson We see today flagrant breaches of the prohibitions on the threat or use of force, but also renewed pressure and scrutiny on a related but broader prohibition, the prohibition of…

12. Episode 37: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Climate Obligations: Remarkable, Radical and Robust

    30 Jul 2025 · 51 min · Episode 37

    There were gasps in the courtroom when the ICJ delivered its advisory opinion on the obligations of States in respect of climate change on 23 July 2025. In this episode, Margaret Young (Melbourne Law School), Phoebe…

13. Episode 36: The Scourge of War

    25 Jul 2025 · 59 min · Episode 36

    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 use of force by Israel and the United States against Iran, and…

14. Episode 35: Human Mobility and International Law

    30 Jun 2025 · 42 min · Episode 35

    Migration has become a defining issue of our time, visibly shaping political discourse, legal systems, and public imaginaries. Yet for all its salience, international law’s capacity to respond to the complexities of…

15. Episode 34: In the Family: Family Tropes in International Law

    5 Jun 2025 · 41 min · Episode 34

    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 lawyers, as the trope of the family runs through the discipline in all kinds…

16. Episode 33: Owning the Future? International Law and Technology as a Critical Project

    2 May 2025 · 48 min · Episode 33

    International law operates in a world of rapid technological transformation. From the battlefield to the border, from online content moderation to open-source investigation, from humanitarianism to development, from…

17. Episode 32: No Country for Women: Lawyering for Gender Justice in Afghanistan

    18 Mar 2025 · 48 min · Episode 32

    Since returning to power in 2021, the Taliban has sought to reverse Afghan women’s hard-won progress toward gender equality. Through dozens of decrees, policies, and statements, it has targeted the autonomy and rights…

18. Episode 31: Gradually, then Suddenly - Climate, Trade and the Charter Order in Precarious Times

    10 Feb 2025 · 47 min · Episode 31

    Christina Voigt, Andrew Lang and Mona Ali Khalil join Megan Donaldson to reflect on the present moment in international law from the perspectives of the climate, trade and security regimes. The conversation brings out…

19. Episode 30: On the Precipice: The International Criminal Court and State Immunity

    9 Dec 2024 · 58 min · Episode 30

    In this episode, Paola Gaeta and Roger O’Keefe join Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb to discuss recent developments at the International Criminal Court. The Court has now issued arrest warrants, or arrest warrants…

20. Episode 29: Echoes from the Invisible College

    18 Oct 2024 · 48 min · Episode 29

    In this EJIL:The Podcast! Luíza Leão Soares Pereira, Fabio Costa Morosini and Artur Simonyan join Editor-in-Chief Sarah Nouwen. Inspired by their articles on Brazilian textbooks as Markers and Makers of International…

21. Episode 28: Unlawful Occupation, Annexation and Segregation: The ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Palestine

    12 Sep 2024 · 1 h 17 min · Episode 28

    We asked three distinguished Palestinian lawyers on to the podcast to discuss the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion. They had views. Hosted by Nehal Bhuta, Professor of International Law at the University of Edinburgh and…

22. Episode 27: Preoccupied: The ICJ’s Palestine Advisory Opinion

    7 Aug 2024 · 1 h 04 min · Episode 27

    In this episode, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb are joined by Yuval Shany, and discuss the recent advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the Legal Consequences arising from the…

23. Episode 26: Hunger for Thought

    19 Apr 2024 · 54 min · Episode 26

    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. And most of this starvation is not due to natural disasters but…

24. Episode 25: Do We Have a Responsibility toward Future Generations?

    8 Apr 2024 · 43 min · Episode 25

    What is the Alpha and Omega of Climate Control discourse? Surely it is Intergenerational responsibility. Our responsibility towards future generations. Yet, in January 2023 EJIL published Against Future Generations, by…

25. Episode 24: The Third World: At the Centre of International Law?

    28 Feb 2024 · 43 min · Episode 24

    Does the decision of the International Court of Justice with respect to Gaza illustrate the influence of Third World Approaches to International Law (TWAIL)? Has TWAIL perhaps become ‘mainstream’? And how germane are…

26. Episode 23: Unhappy New Year! Genocide in the Courtroom

    15 Jan 2024 · 55 min · Episode 23

    In this episode, Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb, joined by Mike Becker, discuss the oral hearings before the International Court of Justice on provisional measures in the South Africa v. Israel case, in…

27. Episode 22: Organizing International Organizations

    30 Nov 2023 · 27 min · Episode 22

    International organizations are often expected to solve problems that states cannot or do not solve. But how should we understand international organizations? Marking the year-long symposium ‘Hidden Gems in…

28. Episode 21: The ICC’s Other Africa Bias?

    25 Sep 2023 · 29 min · Episode 21

    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 might the ICC suffer from another bias that disadvantages Africa?…

29. Episode 20: Disordering International Law

    6 Apr 2023 · 31 min · Episode 20

    Much of international law is about ordering. But in her article in issue 33(3) of the European Journal of International Law, Michelle Staggs Kelsall calls for the disordering of international law. This is not an appeal…

30. Episode 19: From Russia with War: Part Deux

    24 Mar 2023 · 1 h 02 min · Episode 19

    In this episode Marko Milanovic, Dapo Akande and Philippa Webb are joined by Oona Hathaway (Gerard C. and Bernice Latrobe Smith Professor of International Law at Yale Law School) to discuss big legal issues arising…

31. Episode 18: Be Careful What You Ask For

    28 Feb 2023 · 50 min · Episode 18

    In this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb are joined by Philippe Sands and Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh. They reflect on the role and significance of advisory opinions by international courts,…

32. Episode 17: What’s wrong with the international law on jurisdiction?

    4 Oct 2022 · 38 min · Episode 17

    What conduct occurring where are states allowed to regulate? The international law on jurisdiction provides part of the answer. But international lawyers use different images when conceptualising the geographical reach…

33. Episode 16: Disputing Archives

    28 Apr 2022 · 37 min · Episode 16

    In the third episode of ‘Reckonings with Europe: Pasts and Present’, James Lowry and Meredith Terretta take up the object of archives: how law conceptualizes the archives of states; the ‘displaced’, ‘disputed’ or…

34. Episode 15: Now or Never, Or Maybe Later: The Use of Force to Recover an Occupied Territory

    23 Mar 2022 · 48 min · Episode 15

    This episode accompanies the launching of a new rubric in the European Journal of International Law – Legal/Illegal. The first installment of Legal/Illegal, which appears in issue 32(4), focuses on the question whether…

35. Episode 14: From Russia With War

    6 Mar 2022 · 56 min · Episode 14

    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 Ukraine. The discussion begins with an evaluation of Russia’s legal…

36. Episode 13: Loot!

    13 Dec 2021 · 51 min · Episode 13

    In this second instalment of the 'Reckonings with Europe: Pasts and Present' series, Evelien Campfens, Chika Okeke-Agulu and Dan Hicks reflect on calls for return of cultural artefacts looted under European empire. How…

37. Episode 12: No Licence to Kill

    18 Oct 2021 · 44 min · Episode 12

    In this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic and Philippa Webb discuss the legal issues that arise from targeted killings conducted by states outside their territory. They begin with a discussion of the recent…

38. Episode 11: The Limelight on ESIL!

    27 Aug 2021 · 44 min · Episode 11

    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 institution, the European Society of International Law (ESIL) – its…

39. Episode 10: Whatever happened to International Law & Democracy?

    28 Jul 2021 · 41 min · Episode 10

    Whatever happened to International Law & Democracy? Accompanying the Symposium on that question in EJIL issue 32(1), this podcast contains a duel between anti-anti-international-law& democracy scholar Akbar Rasulov and…

40. Episode 9: Reviewing Book Reviewing

    2 Jul 2021 · 31 min · Episode 9

    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, in one of the many exquisite paradoxes of academic life, all Book…

41. Episode 8: After the Fall

    20 May 2021 · 36 min · Episode 8

    In this new series, 'Reckonings with Europe: Pasts and Present', Surabhi Ranganathan and Megan Donaldson host conversations about enduring legacies of empire, capitalism, and racism in international law and the legal…

42. Episode 7: “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?” An Interview with Laurence Helfer and Erik Voeten

    4 Mar 2021 · 27 min · Episode 7

    In this podcast, EJIL editor Sarah Nouwen interviews Laurence Helfer and Erik Voeten about their article “Walking Back Human Rights in Europe?”, published in EJIL issue 31(3). What does it mean to “walk back human…

43. Episode 6: Trumping International Law?

    31 Jan 2021 · 31 min · S1 E6

    This episode examines the effects of the four years of the Trump Administration on international law. Dapo Akande is joined by Joseph Weiler, Neha Jain and Chimene Keitner. In their conversation, they explore the…

44. Episode 5: Breaking Bad - in a Specific and Limited Way

    27 Sep 2020 · 37 min · Episode 5

    In this episode Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb analyse the Internal Market Bill currently pending before the UK Parliament, which the UK government’s own legal officers admit breaches…

45. Episode 4: Court between a Rock and a Hard Place

    1 Aug 2020 · 39 min · Episode 4

    The International Criminal Court has for a long time been criticised for exclusively focusing on Africa, as opposed to investigating situations in which powerful western states are heavily involved or have strong…

46. Episode 3: Hacked Off!

    11 Jun 2020 · 41 min · Episode 3

    With cyberattacks against the health care sector on the rise, this episode focuses on international law and cyber operations, especially in the context of the fight against COVID-19. For this discussion, Dapo Akande,…

47. Episode 2: WHO let the bats out?

    5 May 2020 · 40 min · Episode 2

    Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb are joined by Gian Luca Burci, former Legal Counsel of the World Health Organization, to discuss international health law and pandemics. They discuss the…

48. Episode 1: Contagion

    16 Apr 2020 · 43 min · Episode 1

    Dapo Akande, Marko Milanovic, Sarah Nouwen and Philippa Webb discuss the compatibility with international human rights law of the measures taken by states in the fight against the corona virus. Do states have a duty…