Articles of War
Nuclear Weapons Part III – What Is To Be Done?
Editors’ note: This is the third of a four-part post on legal considerations applicable to nuclear weapons. If the prospects for significant nuclear disarmament in 2026 or indeed in the foreseeable future do not appear to be particularly rosy, can anything be done to...
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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...
Operation Rising Lion and the Self-Defense Condition of Immediacy
On 13 June, Israel launched Operation Rising Lion, striking Iranian military leadership and critical infrastructure as well as key personnel...
The Myth of Jus ad Bellum–Jus in Bello Purity
In modern international law, the separation of jus ad bellum (the law governing the right to go to war) and jus in bello (the law governing conduct...
Shadows in Orbit: Unpacking the Cosmos 2588 Amidst Legal Uncertainty in Space
On 23 May, 2025, Russia launched Cosmos 2588, the latest in its Cosmos series of military satellites, into low Earth orbit (LEO). As first reported...
