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Al Hassan Symposium – The ICC’s Coerced Confession Double Standard
Editors’ note: This post is part of a joint symposium hosted by the Armed Groups and International Law and Articles of War blogs. The symposium addresses the ICC’s judgment in the Al Hassan case. The introductory post is available here. On June 26, 2024, the...
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Artificial Intelligence for Better Protection of Civilians During Urban Warfare
Editor’s Note: This post is drawn from the author’s article-length work recently published in The Military Law and the Law of War Review. Images...
MARWAN 1: How U.S. Central Command Transferred Seized Iranian Ammunition to Ukraine
On December 1, 2022, the USS Lewis B. Puller, an expeditionary mobile base ship assigned to the U.S. 5th Fleet and U.S. Naval Forces Central...
Reprisals Against Enemy Civilians, the Object and Purpose of Additional Protocol I, and the United Kingdom’s Reservation
Editors’ note: This post considers one aspect of an article recently published by the author in The Military Law and the Law of War Review. It does...
State Submissions on the Legal Review of AWS and Possible Good Practices
The review of weapons, means, and methods of warfare for compliance with international law has attracted significant attention during the...
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Press Access during Armed Conflict
The conflict between Hamas and Israel remains a focus of global media coverage. The unprecedented nature of Hamas’s attack on October 7, 2023, the...
AWS Legal Review Series – Protracted Debate, Incremental Progress, Unexpected Outcomes
This post appears as part of a series on the legal review of autonomous weapon systems. An introductory post by Professors Rain Liivoja and Sean...
Israel – Hamas 2024 Symposium – Reflections on the Invocation of Common Article 1
The South Africa v. Israel case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning alleged violations of the Genocide Convention during the...
AWS Legal Review Series – Inclusion of Quasi-Legal Considerations
This post appears as part of a series on the legal review of autonomous weapon systems. An introductory post by Professors Rain Liivoja and Sean...
Invisible Soldiers
Images of drone strikes, hypersonic missiles, and directed energy weapons have cultivated imagination of how war might be fought in the future....
Ukraine Symposium – New ICC Arrest Warrants for Russian Flag Officers
The International Criminal Court’s (ICC) wanted list for Russian perpetrators of war crimes committed in Ukraine has doubled. Prosecutor Karim Khan...
AWS Legal Review Series – Transparency and the Experience of the Netherlands
This post appears as part of a series on the legal review of autonomous weapon systems. An introductory post by Professors Rain Liivoja and Sean...
Israel-Hamas 2024 Symposium – Israel’s Declaration of War on Hamas: A Modern Invocation of Recognized Belligerency?
Hours after Hamas launched a horrific and unprecedently large-scale terrorist assault on Israel, the Israeli Security Cabinet invoked, for the first...