Antonios Tzanakopoulos

Here is the paper on which the talk was based, with some obvious updates: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I gave a talk on the UN and its sanctioning power at the International Symposium on the 80th anniversary of the United Nations in Shenzhen. Thanks to the wonderful colleagues at the Institute of International Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences for the kind invitation.

With some excellent colleagues we represented the Republic of Equatorial Guinea before the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in the M/T Heroic Idun (No 2) case. A great team.

A wonderful - if unorthodox (pun intended) - start to the academic year: a seminar on reservations to treaties for the LLM of the University of Athens, on the margins of a long hearing at the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea. Thanks to all for the enjoyable seminar.

With Johanna Lorenzo and Christian Walter, we shared our impressions at the concluding roundtable of the @esil-sedi.bsky.social 2025 Annual Conference in Berlin on Reconstructing Int’l Law. Chaired by Vasilka Sancin. Many thanks to Helmut Aust and Heike Krieger of @freieuniversitaet.bsky.social.

You can read the Issue Paper here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Our Issue Paper with Efthymios Papastavridis for UNODC on Surveillance and Enforcement of High Seas Marine Protected Areas has been published and will be presented at UNHQ in NYC on 27 Aug.

You can access it here:

But the executive summary is available now - following some further work at UNODC HQ in Vienna.

UNODC Expert Group Meeting: our issue paper with Efthymios Papastavridis on Surveillance and Enforcement in High Seas MPAs is still in draft as we incorporate comments from the experts.

A picture of graduate students in front of the library of All Souls College, Oxford

Thank you, IDS class of 2024-25. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did - and sorry we got rained on just when y’all wanted to take a picture.

We’re now mid-way through Trinity Term! 🌞 Today, we had the fantastic opportunity to hear from Prof @atzanakopoulos.bsky.social on ‘International Law and Domestic Courts: Quantum Uncertainty’.

Read the pre-print version of the commentary on Art 50: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Read the pre-print version of the commentary on Art 21: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

I wrote commentaries on Articles 21 (self-defence) and 50 (obligations not affected by countermeasures) for the Commentary on the Articles of State Responsibility edited by Patrícia Galvão Teles and Pierre Bodeau-Livinec.

Registration and scholarship applications: www.hagueacademy.nl/programmes/t...

Together with some excellent colleagues, I will deliver a special course on international law and domestic courts at The Hague Academy of International Law in January 2026.

Happy Week 2 everyone! In today’s PIL seminar, Tsvetelina van Benthem shared interesting aspects of her research on ‘International Law Protections against Indoctrination’.

For our pleadings (both written and oral) please click here: www.icj-cij.org/case/196

Team Malaysia 🇲🇾 at the ICJ for the Advisory Opinion on the presence and activities of the UN and others in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

YouTube video by Antonios Tzanakopoulos US Sanctions against the International Criminal Court

Listen here: youtu.be/Oyj6-f2De7o

I spoke to Matt Frei on LBC Radio on the sanctions imposed by the Trump Administration against the International Criminal Court.

Gathering outside the Greek Embassy in London to protest the death of tens in railway accident and cover-up.

Λονδίνο σήμερα. #Δεν_Έχω_Οξυγόνο

Brad: digitalcommons.wayne.edu/lawfrp/278/

Antonios: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

From our discussion with Brad Roth, moderated by Maria Varaki, and hosted by Yuval Shany at the Center for Transnational Legal Studies in London on ‘Marx in Our Times - and Legal Order’. Papers below.

Today 17:45 at CTLS London with Brad Roth, Maria Varaki, Yuval Shany.

YouTube video by Antonios Tzanakopoulos Interview with DW on ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant

I spoke to ‘The Day’ on the Deutsche Welle regarding the ICC arrest warrants for Netanyahu, Gallant (and Deif).

United Nations (Human Rights Special Procedures) - International Conference on Sanctions, Business and Human Rights 🇺🇳🇨🇭

United Nations Regional Course in International Law for Asia and the Pacific 🇺🇳🇹🇭