At the crossroads of scholarship and practice
The Lieber Institute at West Point facilitates and contributes to the global dialogue on today’s most pressing and complex law of war issues. Through its research, publications, events and education, it strives to advance the understanding and maintain the primacy of law in today’s armed conflicts.
The Lieber Institute seeks to bridge the divide between legal scholarship and battlefield experience in the study of the law. It engages in innovative research and collaboration on multiple topics of legal study including targeting, detention, artificial intelligence, emerging technologies and war crimes accountability.
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Transit States and Malicious Cyber Operations: No Due Diligence Obligation
The Tallinn Manual 2.0 advances the view that a transit State has a due diligence obligation to take feasible measures to terminate malicious cyber operations that may affect the rights of other States that it knows are transiting its territory or infrastructure under...
GC IV Commentary Series – Allegiance and Protected Persons in Proxy Warfare
Editors’ note: The following series considers ICRC’s 2025 updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention. Rosa-Lena Lauterbach, Liisi Adamson, and Sean Watts’s introduction to the series is available here. As outlined in Dr. Anaïs Maroonian’s post, principles hold...
GC IV Commentary Series – The Role of Principles in IHL
Editors’ note: The following series considers ICRC’s 2025 updated Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention. Rosa-Lena Lauterbach, Liisi Adamson, and Sean Watts’s introduction to the series is available here. Principles occupy a distinctive place in international...
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