On behalf of the EJIL: Discuss! editorial workforce, I want to lengthen our greatest needs to our readers and their households for the brand new yr. Hopefully it is going to be a bit higher than those earlier than it.
This has been a really busy yr for the weblog. We revealed about 20% extra posts this yr than final yr, and final yr too was a really busy one. We had about 10% extra views than final yr. The variety of submissions was additionally about 20% greater. Our rejection charge equally stays excessive, with many in any other case publishable posts not making the minimize for numerous causes – we publish round one third of all submissions that we obtain. Nearly all posts that we publish are unsolicited. (See additionally Dapo’s new yr’s submit from final yr and this submit on stats). We solicit posts exceptionally not often, and that is is often within the context of particular symposia.
As Sarah has already introduced, I’ve determined to resign as editor of the weblog, and resign as effectively from the Govt Board of the EJIL. I’ve labored in that function for 13 years, and that’s loads by any measure. So that is my first and final ‘most learn posts’ submit – they had been very a lot Dapo’s factor! I’m very proud of every thing that we’ve achieved with the weblog, and the editors now in cost are a wonderful bunch. I’ll nonetheless be writing for the weblog, as I’ve completed since December 2008 (it’s been some time!). I’ll simply don’t have any editorial function any longer. I’m very grateful to all of my colleagues on the weblog and the Journal for the numerous years of collaboration.
Right here, lastly, is the highest 20 checklist of most learn posts on the weblog in 2025 (observe, as all the time, that not all of those had been written in 2025). As ordinary, present occasions dominated this checklist, together with the conflicts within the Center East, the ICJ’s advisory opinion on local weather change, and the insurance policies of the Trump administration:
Marko Milanovic, Is Israel’s Use of Pressure In opposition to Iran Justified by Self-Defence? (June 13, 2025);
Marko Milanovic, No, Recognizing Palestine Would Not Be Opposite to Worldwide Legislation (July 31, 2025);
Marko Milanovic, The Unlawful Israeli-American Use of Pressure In opposition to Iran: A Comply with-Up (June 23, 2025);
Jacques Hartmann, US Withdrawal from NATO and Its Impression on Entry to Greenland (April 14, 2025);
Marko Milanovic, Does Israel Have the Proper to Defend Itself? (November 14, 2023);
Federica Paddeu and Miles Jackson, State Accountability within the ICJ’s Advisory Opinion on Local weather Change (July 25, 2025);
Julian Arato and Justina Uriburu, Treaty and Customized within the ICJ’s Local weather Change Opinion (July 24, 2025);
Ekaterina Antsygina, The Authorized Debate Surrounding Greenland and Denmark: Unpacking Donald Trump’s Statements (January 24, 2025);
Tal Mimran, Immunity of State Officers from Legal Jurisdiction: The Debate Continues (February 5, 2025);
Marko Milanovic, The European Court docket’s Deserves Judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia: As Good as It Will get (Virtually) (July 10, 2025);
Marko Milanovic, Proving Genocide (September 18, 2025);
Alexander Lott, Christmas Day Cable Cuts within the Baltic Sea (December 31, 2024);
Guglielmo Verdirame, The British Assertion on Recognition of Palestine: A Reply to Marko Milanovic (August 6, 2025);
Giulia Bosi, Intercourse in Jail: The Worldwide Human Rights Framework on Conjugal Visits, Ranging from the Case of Italy (June 10, 2025);
Margaretha Wewerinke-Singh and Jorge Viñuales, The Nice Reset: The ICJ Reframes the Conduct Answerable for Local weather Change By the Prism of Internationally Wrongful Acts (August 4, 2025);
Philippa Webb and Lydia Kim, Six Viewpoints on the Way forward for the Worldwide Authorized Order and the Position of Worldwide Courts (August 20, 2025);
Coalter Lathrop, The Newest Trump Risk to Worldwide Legislation: Unilaterally Mining the Space (Could 6, 2025);
Ardi Imseis, On Palestine and the Demise of the West’s Worldwide Authorized Order (November 26, 2025);
Marko Milanovic, The Backside Line of the ICJ’s UNRWA Advisory Opinion (October 23, 2025);
Marko Milanovic, Trump’s Coercion of America’s Allies and the Prohibition of Intervention (January 13, 2025).
