Utkastet til lov om aldersgrenser for bruk av sosiale medier er i strid med både EØS-retten og ytrings-/informasjonsfriheten. Særlig klar er EØS-striden, som vil være umulig å unngå. Loven må derfor skrotes. Les mitt høringssvar her og se oppsummering i tråden under 👇 obykanalen.no/wp-content/u...

Klok tolkning av WTO-regelverket. Og et eksempel på forskjellen mellom EØS, hvor toll er forbudt, og britenes mer begrensede avtale. www.nrk.no/urix/eu-komm...

I joined @sranderson.bsky.social and @alanrozenshtein.com to talk about the Comey indictment, the California law limiting ICE’s use of face masks, and more. Give it a listen!

Even during the first Trump administration I used to enthusiastically encourage my students to apply to all DOJ positions except for a very small number of highly politically exposed ones. It breaks my heart that I now have to advise them to stay far, far away. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

Day one of the ESIL Annual Conference 2025 has come to a close — a full day of rich discussions, new connections, and inspiring ideas. From panels to special events, the energy in Berlin is unmistakable. Looking forward to what tomorrow brings. #ESIL2025 #InternationalLaw #ESILCommunity #ESILAC25

1/ I worked at DoD. I literally cannot imagine lawyers coming up with a legal basis for lethal strike of suspected Venezuelan drug boat. Hard to see how this would not be "murder" or war crime under international law that DoD considers applicable. Read expert analysis by @bcfinucane.bsky.social⤵️

Yale Law School never beating the “they don’t teach law at Yale” allegations

Skriftlig spørsmål fra Marius Arion Nilsen (Frp) Dokument nr. 15:2935 (2024–2025) Besvart: 26.08.2025 av utenriksminister Espen Barth Eide www.stortinget.no/no/Saker-og-... Hvis EU kan innføre beskyttelsestiltak for å beskytte egne markeder mot det de påstår er ubalansert handel, så kan Norge også.

I'm quoted in this very interesting piece about the ongoing stalemate at the ISA over seabed mining regulations, and how to respond to the US's move to unilaterally license deep seabed mining. grist.org/oceans/the-i...

The 2026 #Jessup problem looks at What are “the general principles of law recognized by civilized nations”?. I do have a book on this, inspired by my own Jessup experience in 2003 where I kept asking the same question and no-one had a satisfactory answer! www.bloomsbury.com/au/general-p...

Grand Chamber Judgment in Ukraine and the Netherlands v. Russia Forthcoming Next Week | by Marko Milanovic

This is a bonkers headline and sub-headline! Even the article itself (which most people won’t read) concludes that there’s no way Israel’s attack is legal.

"Israel’s use of force against Iran is, on the facts as we know them, almost certainly illegal."

Marko Bošnjak, president of the @echr.coe.int until two weeks ago, was today appointed judge of the CJEU: eulawlive.com/eu-member-st...

Gårsdagens minst overraskende: rett24.no/articles/eft...

Fortsatt mulig å få med seg dette seminaret i dag:

The CJEU has ruled that Member States cannot prosecute asylum-seeking mothers who travelled on false documents with their children as people smugglers - in a judgment with broader implications for the criminalisation of immigration. My analysis: eulawanalysis.blogspot.com/2025/06/a-ca...

EU-domstolen med videoforklaring av dom, såvidt jeg vet for første gang. Høyesterett begynte med det samme for et par år siden. Hvor kommer inspirasjonen fra? Har en pioner presentert et eksempel på dette på et europeisk dommermøte eller lignende? Tviler på at HR var først ute...

FIDE 2025 opening ceremony is underway:

Veldig hyggelig, og desto mer overraskende: www.jus.uio.no/om/aktuelt/a...

"His bank accounts in his home country of the U.K. have been blocked"... "In the last year, three countries – including two in the European Union – have refused to execute warrants issued by the court." Meanwhile, EU continues to proclaim its support for the ICC www.eeas.europa.eu/eeas/interna...

Norsk forening for europarett inviterer til et møte om forsyningssikkerhets- og beredskapshensyn i EØS-retten torsdag 5. juni kl. 14:00 til ca. 15:30. Under møtet vil vi belyse hvilken plass forsyningssikkerhet og beredskapshensyn har på sentrale områder innenfor EØS-retten.

There is no US trade deal. Everything that happened yesterday was performative pantomime. Nothing has been agreed for definite yet. There's a 5-page document scoping out the general shape of future negotiations. It says explicitly: "this document does not constitute a legally binding agreement"

ECHR Law Review special issue: "The New Agreement on the EU Accession to the ECHR: Can It Succeed?" brill.com/view/journal...

"If you find that we're doing something illegal that's irreparable harm" is the kind of argument that judges are very, very annoyed that government attorneys make.

The CJEU’s decision in Commission v Malta offers an expansionary reading of EU citizenship without any substantive legal justification. MARTIJN VAN DEN BRINK on the dangers of a thinly argued landmark decision. verfassungsblog.de/why-bother-w...

Join us online on 6 May, 2-3:30pm for our Case C-181/23 Commission v Malta (Investor Citizenship) Discussion Panel. Our online panel will provide an initial reaction to the judgment that Malta's citizenship scheme is contrary to European law and discuss its possible implications. edin.ac/42UQEv6

CJEU, EU citizenship New judgment: Malta's investor citizenship law breached EU law by commercialising EU citizenship Press release - curia.europa.eu/jcms/jcms/Jo... Judgment full text - curia.europa.eu/juris/docume...

🚨🚨Small publication alert: I have just published my EU Law Live Op-Ed: titled “Effective Remedies and Procedural Autonomy- Judicial Review of Actions by the European Public Prosecutor (C-292/23, EPPO v I.R.O and F.J.L.R.)" .🧵

I'm going to explain what he's referring to with each. Not endorsement or agreement, just explanation. Not 'gotta hand it to him' or 'sanewashing', just explaining the terms. Do not @ me. So: "Non-Tariff Cheating" means ways to protect domestic industries in unfair ways without using tariffs.

Posting again with a direct link to the episode: @explaintrade.com and I talk Trump’s tariffs but also some general trade law. Possibly a good resource for those embarking on introductory trade law studies, with only occasional (and justified!) swearing. on.soundcloud.com/HQsBk6G4zuk7...

PACE sets out the final steps which could lead to EU accession to the European Convention on Human Rights #ECHR - and explains what this would mean. pace.coe.int/en/news/9863... #HumanRights #RuleofLaw

This is an odd, and likely inaccurate, article. It suggests the #STCoA will recognise personal immunity for in absentia trials but not for in person ones. That makes no legal sense. Any trial would violate the troika's personal immunity, per the ICJ in Arrest Warrant.

It is difficult to convey how monumentally idiotic Trump’s tariffs are. Allow me to try. Let’s begin with Adam Smith. In the 200 years prior to Smith’s 1776 “Wealth of Nations” Mercantilism was the dominant view of trade.

"Politi og bevæpning ble grundig utredet både i 2017 og i 2022. Det offentlige ordskiftet ser likevel ut til å ta mer hensyn til påvirkningsarbeid, enkeltsaker og den menneskelige tilbøyeligheten til å vektlegge konsekvens mer enn sannsynlighet" www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

As of Friday, there have been 46 cases in which federal judges have blocked Trump policies. The rulings in those cases have come from 39 different judges appointed by 5 different presidents (of both parties) to 11 different district courts across 7 different circuits. Maybe it's not the judges?

STRØMMES DIREKTE NÅ: På kanten av stupet: Hva skal være Norges rolle i en verdensorden i krise? - Foredrag av statssekretær Andreas Motzfeldt Kravik (videofeed nederst på siden) www.jus.uio.no/english/rese...

You know it's bad when the Hobbes scholars are staying away.

Statssekretær Kravik (UD) holder åpent foredrag på UiO om Norges og folkerettens rolle i en turbulent verden den 27. mars klokken 11: www.jus.uio.no/english/rese...

So, this what we lawyers tend to call a confession ...

I går kveld publiserte jeg en "lynanalyse" av HR-2025-490-S (MH), hvor jeg oppsummerer og kommer med noen umiddelbare kommentarer til Høyesteretts dom. Klikk lenken nedenfor for å lese hele analysen. Jeg har forsøkt å oppsummere hoevdpunktene i denne tråden.

Høyesterett i storkammer anerkjente i dag at den frie bevegeligheten til personer går like langt i EØS-retten og i EU-retten, i tråd med rettspraksis fra EFTA-domstolen: www.domstol.no/no/hoyestere...

Glad to share some thoughts today with Opinio Juris about why I think #Sudan faces an insurmountable jurisdictional hurdle in its #GenocideConvention case against #UAE based on the longstanding validity of Art IX reservations to #ICJ dispute settlement. opiniojuris.org/2025/03/14/a...

The end of a very long era today: after almost forty years working @leidenlaw.bsky.social Niels Blokker is retiring as professor of international institutional law. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025...

Åpent møte 7. april kl. 14:15, med innledning fra Rolf Einar Fife (spesialrådgiver i UD og medlem i ILC):

- EFTA-domstolen tar feil, mener irsk jusprofessor. rett24.no/articles/na-...

Kort og konsist svar på et ganske opplagt spørsmål. Samtidig flott at UNE faktisk stilte spørsmål til EFTA-domstolen, slik at feilpraktiseringen av unionsborgerdirektivets vilkår om "tilstrekkelige midler" nå forehåpentligvis opphører. eftacourt.int/cases/e-2324/

Before people get too drawn into this, there is a significant jurisdictional obstacle here for #Sudan: #UAE made a reservation to Article IX when acceding to the #GenocideConvention. In other words, the UAE does *not* consent to #ICJ jurisdiction over Genocide Convention disputes.

As I said before - it's possible to adopt conclusions on behalf of 26 Member States. Whether Orban can veto subsequent measures depends on the issue - some things are subject to qualified majority voting, or a coalition of the willing, or could be done outside the EU framework entirely.

Replikk Hvor godt beskytter EØS-avtalen oss mot EU-toll? Europeiske mottiltak mot Trumps tollmurer kan ramme Norge. Det er usikkert om EØS-avtalen gir oss beskyttelse. Halvard Haukeland Fredriksen – Professor UiB Arne Melchior – Seniorforsker, Nupi www.nrk.no/ytring/hvor-...