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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Empowering Combat Leaders.
Federated Front: AI-Assisted Targeting, the Rendulic Rule, and Multi-Domain Operations
Consider the following scenario in the not-so-distant future: the Suwałki Gap, Autumn, 203X. In a desperate test of the North Atlantic Treaty’s Article V, mechanized forces of the Russian 11th Army Corps guarded by pervasive electronic warfare (EW) measures probe the...
Rethinking Proportionality in the Cloud Age: Reverberating Effects of Attacks on Data Centers
Few issues have attracted more attention in contemporary targeting law than reverberating effects from attacks. Much discussion has focused on attacks against traditional critical infrastructure—particularly on electrical power systems—where civilian harm may extend...
Compliance by Design V: LOAC in the Israeli Defense Industry
Editors’ note: This is the tenth post in a series dedicated to Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (LAWS) and the questions of human oversight and legal accountability under international humanitarian law. Previous posts have focused on LAWS, China, Russia, the United...
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