Articles of War
Prisoner of War Repatriation and Interpretive Choice – Part II: Involuntary Post-War Repatriation
Part I of this three-part post outlined the law of war applicable to post-war repatriation of prisoners of war. It further recounted how questions concerning reciprocity have arisen from repatriation efforts. This part considers the difficult and close question of...
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Non-State Armed Groups’ Perspectives of IHL: The FARC-EP Case
Non-State armed groups (NSAGs) are one of the dramatis personae in the current humanitarian landscape. Not only do these entities use armed violence...
New Edition of The Commander’s Handbook on the Law of Naval Operations
The Stockton Center for International Law (SCIL), U.S. Naval War College (NWC), recently completed a 2-year effort, in coordination with the U.S....
Ukraine Symposium – Cyber Neutrality, Cyber Recruitment, and Cyber Assistance to Ukraine
The war between Russia and Ukraine has given rise to many challenging international humanitarian law (IHL) questions. In this post I will focus on...
Ukraine Symposium – Maritime Neutrality in the Russia-Ukraine Conflict
Most of the reporting and commentary regarding the conflict between Russia and Ukraine has so far focused on the land domain of warfare. However,...
Putin and Xi’s Pact for Outer Space
On the eve of the 2022 Olympic Games in Beijing, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a joint statement on...
NATO SHAPE Serge Lazareff Prize Awarded to COL Williams and LTC Alcala
On 5 April, the Office of Legal Affairs at NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE) informed the Superintendent of the United States...
Ukraine Symposium – Comprehensive Justice and Accountability in Ukraine
As the war between Russia and Ukraine enters its second month there are increasing allegations of serious law of armed conflict (LOAC) violations....
Ukraine Symposium – Results of a First Enquiry into Violations of International Humanitarian Law in Ukraine
On 3 March 2022 the Moscow Mechanism of the human dimension of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) was invoked by...
Ukraine Symposium – Cultural Property Protection in the Ukraine Conflict
Cultural heritage is once again in the crosshairs of an invading army. The Ukrainians, while concentrating on defending their homeland and their...
Ukraine Symposium – Ukraine’s Levée en Masse and the Obligation to Ensure Respect for LOAC
In its quest to mount military resistance to the Russian invasion, Ukraine has looked beyond its regular armed forces to its citizens and others....
The Creeping Normality of LOAC Noncompliance
Taking stock of the state of the Law of Armed Conflict (LOAC) may be one of the most important tasks facing international law today. In that vein,...
Ukraine Symposium – Maritime Exclusion Zones in Armed Conflicts
Since the early 1900s, belligerents have established maritime zones during armed conflict to control access to broad ocean areas and to shape...
