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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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GC IV Commentary Series – Individualization in Civilian Internment Decisions
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. The Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 regulates the...
GC IV Commentary Series – Introduction
Editors’ note: Sean Watts, co-author of this post, served on the Reading Committee that advised production of the ICRC’s Commentary on the Fourth Geneva Convention and co-authored two entries in it. Recent decades have produced a deluge of private and public-sector...
Lieber Studies Non-State Actor Attribution Volume Series – The Customary Law Status and Relevance of the Attribution Rule in Article 11 ARSIWA
Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series dedicated to Dr Jennifer Maddocks’ monograph, Attribution of Non-State Actor Conduct during Armed Conflict, appearing in the Lieber Studies book series with Oxford University Press. In her recent book, Jenny...
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