In this issue [6 of the European Journal of International Law]

Abstract

The last issue of EJIL’s 30th anniversary volume opens with our ‘Afterword’ rubric, in which Janne E. Nijman, Francesca Iurlaro and Benjamin Straumann react to Martti Koskenniemi’s EJIL Foreword, ‘Imagining the Rule of Law: Rereading the Grotian “Tradition”’, published in our first issue of the year. The Articles section opens with a contribution by Raffaela Kunz, who analyses the intricate interplay between human rights courts and domestic courts, portraying the diverse and at times even conflicting roles performed by national courts. Michelle Burgis-Kasthala shifts the focus to the civil war in Syria and evaluates the work of the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, which, she argues, may be characterized as ‘entrepreneurial justice’. Francisco de Abreu Duarte concludes this section by critically reflecting on the jurisdictional monopoly of the European Court of Justice. Taking the investment court system as a case study, he not only examines the ‘final say’ of the Court but also the power-grabbing concept of autonomy of the European Union as well as its external implications and impact. To mark EJIL’s 30th Anniversary our Roaming Charges in this issue presents a kaleidoscope of all Roaming Charge photographs over the last nine years.