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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Asia-Pacific Journal Series – Introduction: Military AI Has Left the Laboratory
Editors’ note: This post appears as part of a series highlighting articles in a recent volume of the Asia-Pacific Journal of International Law, on which presentations were made at a workshop hosted by National University of Singapore’s Centre for International Law....
GC IV Commentary Series – Article 23 and Humanitarian Relief: What’s Right, What’s Left Unclear
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. Article 23 of the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 (GC IV)...
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...
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