Articles of War
Reciprocity Without Retaliation: Rethinking Fairness in the Laws of War
Editors’ note: This post is the second in a series relating to the author’s book, The Persistence of Reciprocity in International Humanitarian Law, published by Cambridge University Press. The first post in the series is available here. In the first post of this...
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Ukraine Symposium – Reparations for War: What Options for Ukraine?
On 14 November, the UN General Assembly received a resolution calling for international support and cooperation on reparations for Ukraine. For...
Programming Systems Like Soldiers: Using Military Control Mechanisms to Ensure AWS Are Operated Lawfully
Time is overdue for moving on from discussing whether autonomous weapons should be banned to looking at how to ensure autonomous weapon systems...
Ukraine Symposium – State Responsibility for Non-State Actors’ Conduct
The conflict in Ukraine is international in character, but it nevertheless involves numerous private individuals and groups. These include Ukrainian...
Ukraine Symposium – Using Cellphones to Gather and Transmit Military Information, A Postscript
In a previous post, Major Casey Biggerstaff and I analyzed the legal consequences of Ukrainian civilians using the “ePPO” application (app) to...
As Warfare Digitalizes, So Should Protection: Towards a “Digital Emblem”
As societies digitalize, cyber operations have become a reality of armed conflict. In the United Nations, States have identified the increasing...
Ukraine Symposium – Are Civilians Reporting With Cell Phones Directly Participating in Hostilities?
As Russia continues to pummel electric grids and other critical infrastructure from the air, Ukraine is creatively developing methods to defend its...
Ukraine Symposium – Doxing Enemy Soldiers and the Law of War
This post was prepared in academic consultation with Major Inna Zavorotko, a lawyer with the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense Legal Division. A fuller...
Ukraine Symposium – Dirty Bombs and International Humanitarian Law
On October 23, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu made separate calls to the Defense Ministers of France, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the...
The Syrian Democratic Forces, Detained Foreign Fighters, and International Security Vulnerabilities
Three-and-a-half years since the United States, its coalition partners, and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) overpowered the last redoubt of the...
Proportionality in International Humanitarian Law: A Principle and a Rule
This post is based on research supporting a doctoral dissertation in progress at the University of Geneva. Proportionality plays a key role in...
Ukraine Symposium – Attacking Power Infrastructure under International Humanitarian Law
Over the past few weeks, the scale of Russian attacks against Ukraine’s power infrastructure has grown dramatically. The Washington Post, for...
Ukraine Symposium – The Complicity of Iran in Russia’s Aggression and War Crimes in Ukraine
In recent days Russia has attacked Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities using Iranian-made “kamikaze drones” or loitering munitions. While the EU is...
