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.
From War Booty to War Learning: The Legal Status of Captured Military Artificial Intelligence
The law of armed conflict has long recognised that military victory carries with it certain legal consequences beyond the battlefield. Among them is the ability to capture and exploit enemy military property. Whether described as “war booty” or, as some modern...
Wildberries and the Unit of Analysis in Targeting Law
Since the middle of July 2026, Ukrainian long-range drones have struck more than twenty warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer. By August 5, Deutsche Welle estimated the company’s losses at between 1.2 and 1.5 million square meters of...
Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum
Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge University Press. The series features alternating posts with our friends at Armed Groups and International...
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