Articles of War
Laws of Yesterday’s Wars Symposium – Jewish Ethics of War in the Torah
Editor’s note: The following post highlights a chapter that appears in Samuel White’s fourth edited volume of Laws of Yesterday’s Wars published with Brill. For a general introduction to the series, see Dr Samuel White’s introductory post. The Torah contains one of...
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Australia’s Afghanistan Inquiry Compensation Scheme: A Pragmatic Model for Individual Reparations
Editors’ note: This post draws from the author's forthcoming examination of the Afghanistan Inquiry Compensation Scheme's legal framework and...
Military Chaplains and Other Religious Personnel under IHL
Editors’ note: This post is drawn from the author’s article-length work, “Military Chaplains and Equivalent Religious Personnel Under International...
Protecting Inhabitants of Occupied Territory: Settler Violence in the West Bank
On July 11, 2025, Israeli settlers allegedly beat Sayfollah Kamel Musallet, a Palestinian-American U.S. citizen and Florida native, to death during...
The Madleen Incident and the Gaza Naval Blockade
On June 9, 2025, Israeli naval forces intercepted the Madleen, a UK-flagged sailboat operated by the Freedom Flotilla Coalition, attempting to...
Ukraine Symposium – War Termination: Legal Implications for International Security
The Kremlin announced on June 20 that it would finalize a date for a third round of peace talks with Ukraine. This follows two meetings in Istanbul...
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...
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...
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...
Cross-Linkages between Non-Adverse Derogation and Non-Renunciation of Rights in Modern IHL
Articles 6/6/6/7 of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 (GCs) allow belligerent States to conclude special agreements either to implement their...
An Operational Perspective of Military Advantage and Proportionality
Scholars have described the law of targeting as lying at the heart of the law of armed conflict (LOAC). Within the law of targeting, the rule of...
Comparative Law, the Law of War, and Usufruct
The nature of the legal pluriverse (“the plurality of existing normative orders”) remains a subject of debate. Monists view international law and...
Ukraine Symposium – Ukraine and the Future of the Ottawa Convention
In 1935, the International Labor Organization (ILO) adopted its 45th convention, generally prohibiting the employment of women in underground mining...
