I wish to want our readers a really Completely happy New 12 months! One can not but in addition want the world a 2025 that’s extra peaceable than 2024. Sadly, armed battle continued to rage in lots of components of the world and, sadly, the hope expressed in my Completely happy New 12 months submit of a 12 months in the past that 2024 would deliver peace and luxury to the various in want of them proved to be in useless.
We revealed some weblog statistics just a few months in the past exhibiting the numbers of submissions we obtained and the numbers we accepted. What these statistics don’t present was the very various vary of matters which these blogposts cowl. Nonetheless, as was the case in 2022 (when the record of most learn posts was dominated by the Russia-Ukraine warfare) and 2020 (when COVID associated posts had been on the high of the record) one factor has attracted the eye of our readers in 2024, and maybe unsurprisingly, it’s the tragic battle in Gaza! Seventeen of the posts in our record of twenty most learn posts in 2024 relate to authorized points arising from Israel’s navy motion in Gaza (and elsewhere within the center east). These submit cowl points arising from the regulation regarding the usage of drive (the jus advert bellum), worldwide humanitarian regulation, the regulation and process of the Worldwide Court docket of Justice, the prohibition of genocide and many others. Many due to our readers for turning to us for evaluation of those and different points, and to all those that submitted posts this 12 months.
As I’ve reminded readers in earlier years, this record comprises these submit which had been considered essentially the most by readers within the 12 months being surveyed (2024), regardless that a few of them had been revealed in earlier years. That is why you will note some posts revealed in 2023 within the record. Certainly the No. 2 most learn submit in 2024 was the No. 1 most learn submit in 2023!
On a extra private observe, that is my final submit written as one of many editors of this weblog. The weblog began in December 2008 with me because the editor and it has been an enormous privilege to work on the weblog since then. Nonetheless, after sixteen years as editor, the time has come to move on the baton to others. I take into account my work on this weblog to have been some of the necessary and helpful issues I’ve to this point completed as a global lawyer. As I wrote on the weblog’s 10 12 months anniversary, the duty of editor modified (no less than for me) considerably through the years. Within the early years most of my time was spent writing weblog posts with a later transition to primarily reviewing and modifying the ever-increasing variety of posts we obtain. By way of this method of evaluation, it has been a pleasure to be in contact with, to learn, evaluation, edit, revise the work of, so many worldwide legal professionals in any respect profession levels! Collectively, with those that joined me as Editors and our Affiliate Editors, the work was additionally one in every of overseeing the operating of the weblog.
I’m immensely grateful to the EJIL Board of Editors (and particularly to Joseph Weiler, who was sole Editor in Chief on the time) for taking a danger again in 2008 in relation to the format and for entrusting me with the duty of modifying the weblog. I’m very fortunate to have labored through the years with a crew of extremely proficient weblog Editors andAssociate Editors. I’m indebted to all of them.
Now for that record of essentially the most learn posts of 2024!
1) Jesse Limpel, Why the ICJ Can not Order Israel to Cease the Battle in Gaza as a Provisional Measure (Jan 2024)
2) Marko Milanovic, Does Israel Have the Proper to Defend Itself? (Nov. 2023)
3) Marko Milanovic, ICJ Delivers Preliminary Objections Judgment within the Ukraine v. Russia Genocide Case, Ukraine Loses on the Most Vital Elements (Feb 2024)
4) Marko Milanovic, ICJ Signifies Provisional Measures in South Africa v. Israel (Jan 2024)
5) Amal Clooney & Marko Milanovic, Panel of Specialists Publishes Report Supporting ICC Arrest Warrant Purposes for Crimes in Israel and Palestine (Might 2024)
6) Marko Milanovic, ICJ Delivers Advisory Opinion on the Legality of Israel’s Occupation of Palestinian Territories (July 2024)
7) Olivia Flasch, Rebutting Allegations of Genocide Towards Israel (Jan 2024)
8) Marko Milanovic, Had been the Israeli Pager and Walkie-Talkie Assaults on Hezbollah Indiscriminate? (Sept 2024)
9) Marko Milanovic A Fast Tackle the European Court docket’s Local weather Change Judgments (April 2024)
10) Luciano Pezzano, The Obligation to Forestall Genocide in South Africa v. Israel: Lastly a Responsibility with World Scope? (Jan 2024)
11) Eugenio Carli Group Pursuits Above All: The Ongoing Procedural Results of Erga Omnes Partes Obligations Earlier than the Worldwide Court docket of Justice (Dec 2023)
12) Jérôme de Hemptinne, Classifying the Gaza Battle Underneath Worldwide Humanitarian Regulation, a Difficult Matter (Nov 2023)
13) Brian McGarry, Decoding Nicaragua’s Historic Request to Intervene in South Africa v Israel (Feb 2024)
14) Geir Ulfstein, Does Israel have the fitting to self-defence – and what are the restrictions? (Might 2024)
15) Yussef Al Tamimi, Implications of the ICJ Order (South Africa v. Israel) for Third States (Feb 2024)
16) Victor Kattan & Gerhard Kemp, Apartheid as a type of genocide: Reflections on South Africa v Israel (Jan 2024)
17) Nico Krisch Talking the Regulation, Plausibly: The Worldwide Court docket of Justice on Gaza (Jan 2024)
18) Marko Milanovic and Michael Schmitt, Israel’s Use of Pressure Towards Syria and the Proper of Self-Protection (Dec 2024)
19) John Quigley, Authorized Normal for Genocide Intent: An Uphill Climb for Israel in Gaza Go well with (Mar 2024)
20) John Quigley, Karim Khan’s Doubtful Characterization of the Gaza Hostilities (Might 2024)
