by European Journal of International Law
EJIL: The Podcast! aims to provide in-depth, expert and accessible discussion of international law issues in contemporary international and national affairs. It features the Editors of the European Journal of International Law and of its blog, EJIL: Talk! The podcast is produced by the European Journal of Law with support from staff at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
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June 15, 2026
Host Justina Uriburu interviews Jorge Viñuales and Sergio Puig about how international law shapes the global energy economy amidst geopolitical shifts and the new energy geopolitics.
April 23, 2026
<p>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 21 million people are in a situation of acute food insecurity. But this framing of a humanitarian crisis, or worse, a humanitarian tragedy, seems to deplete the situation of agency, as if the situation is unfortunate, collateral damage of something that is inevitable. This framing stands in contrast to that of other situations of intense violence, for instance, Ukraine, Palestine, Myanmar and Iran, which are increasingly discussed not merely in terms of the humanitarian situation, but also in the language of international law, self determination, aggression, genocide. What does international law have to say about the situation in Sudan and how could it be used to halt the violence and promote justice, broadly defined? What role is there for the International Criminal Court, International Court of Justice, African Union, local courts or other institutions? How should we think about tensions between peace and justice, after decades of neither? <u><a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/author/snouwen/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Sarah Nouwen</a></u><strong> </strong>is joined by <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kholood-khair-1733633a/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Kholood Khair</a></u> (<u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/kholood-khair-1733633a/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Confluence Advisory</a></u>, formerly based in Khartoum), <u><a href="https://timep.org/author/mohanedelnour/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mohaned Elnour</a></u> (Sudanese human rights lawyer in exile) and <u><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/amb-namira-negm-dr-500b574/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Ambassador Namira Negm</a></u> (<u><a href="https://www.facebook.com/DrNNegm/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Director</a></u> of the African Migration Observatory). For links to events, materials and institutional mechanisms touched on in the discussion, visit <u><a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-podcast-page/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.ejiltalk.org/ejil-the-podcast-page/</a></u>.</p>
April 7, 2026
<p>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 traditions has converged with rich work styled as comparative international law, exploring how international law operates as a fragile common language even as governments deploy its grammar and vocabulary in quite different ways. In this episode we take up the question of whether there is a distinctive Russian approach to or use of international law. This takes us to reflections on the terrain from which we judge this, particularly today. What are the comparators and from which perspective are we taking a view? It also takes us to the stakes of thinking in terms of these long-range continuities in national legal styles in the first place. How does that shape our perspective on the broader system and how it might develop in future? <u><a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/author/mdonaldson/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Megan Donaldson</a></u><strong> </strong>is joined by <u><a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/author/lmalksoo/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lauri Mälksoo</a></u> (University of Tartu), <u><a href="https://www.ejiltalk.org/author/erikadewet/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Erika de Wet</a></u> (University of Graz) and the political scientist <u><a href="https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/gulnaz-sharafutdinova" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gulnaz Sharafutdinova</a></u> (Director of the Russia Institute, King’s College London).</p><p>Scholarship discussed in the episode includes Lauri Mälksoo’s recent book, <u><a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/9780198955962.001.0001" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Russia, the Soviet Union, and Imperial Continuity in International Law</a></u> (2025); and Gulnaz Sharafutdinova’s <u><a href="https://academic.oup.com/book/33438" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Red Mirror: Putin's Leadership and Russia's Insecure Identity</a></u> (2020) and <u><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/afterlife-of-the-soviet-man-9781350167735/#:~:text=%5BThe%20Afterlife%20of%20the%20'Soviet,can%20be%20for%20any%20thinker." rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">The Afterlife of the ‘Soviet Man’: Rethinking Homo Sovieticus</a></u> (2023). Erika de Wet expands on themes in ‘Is the future for collective security regional? Assessing current challenges to regional and sub-regional security frameworks in Africa’, forthcoming Japanese Yearbook of International Law (2026).</p>
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EJIL: The Podcast! aims to provide in-depth, expert and accessible discussion of international law issues in contemporary international and national affairs.
It features the Editors of the European Journal of International Law and of its blog, EJIL: Talk!
The podcast is produced by the European Journal of Law with support from staff at the Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
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