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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Promoting Understanding.
Empowering Combat Leaders.
Intelligence Wars, Their Warriors, and Legal Ambiguity – Part II: Ambiguity
Editors' note: This post is the second in a two-part series that explores the role both military and civilian intelligence organizations perform in armed conflict. The first post in this series examined intelligence-based activities related to large scale combat...
Intelligence Wars, Their Warriors, and Legal Ambiguity – Part I: Wars and Warriors
Editors’ note: This post is part of a two-part series that explores the role military and civilian intelligence organizations perform in contemporary hostilities. On June 13, 2025, the world was still adjusting to the news of Operation Spider’s Web, the audacious June...
What Is Left After Leaving Ottawa?
With 165 member States (at the time of writing), the Ottawa Convention is arguably the most widely recognized international treaty on conventional weapons. It was long regarded as a triumph of civil society, with progress reported on an annual basis. Even the fact...
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