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The ICJ Obligations of Israel Advisory Opinion – Qualifying Israel as an Occupying Power in the Gaza Strip
Editors’ note: This post is part of a series featuring analysis of the 2025 International Court of Justice advisory opinion on obligations of Israel in and in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory. The introductory post to the series by Sean Watts is...
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Legal Advisers in the Field during Armed Conflict
[Editor’s Note: This post is based on Professor Dinstein’s recent article published in International Law Studies, vol. 97 (2021), pp. 917-936.]...
Occupation Resistance, War-Rebels, and the Lieber Code
The origin of the codified law of belligerent occupation is often traced to the Hague Regulations of 1899 (updated in 1907). However, the Lieber...
Improving Compliance with IHL: A Long-Term Enterprise
It is difficult to talk about the mission and mandate of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement (the Movement) without talking about...
Legal Advice in Modern Aerial Warfare
Military lawyers play an increasingly vital role in lethal (and non-lethal) targeting operations. Although their involvement is operationally and...
Russia’s ASAT Test and the Development of Space Law
On November 15, Russia launched a direct ascent anti-satellite (ASAT) missile that deliberately struck Cosmos-1408, one of its own satellites that...
Military Partners and the Obligation to “Ensure Respect” for IHL
The Common Article 1 obligation to “ensure respect” for international humanitarian law (IHL) has become a topic of considerable reflection and...
Joint Symposium: Oxford Forum for International Humanitarian Law Compliance
This is the first post in a joint symposium hosted by EJIL:Talk and Articles of War, the blog of the Lieber Institute at West Point. The symposium...
Announcement: Mehmet Çoban Joins West Point and the Lieber Institute
The West Point Department of Law and the Lieber Institute are pleased to announce that Major Mehmet Çoban Kilinç of the Royal Netherlands Air Force...
Cognitive Lethal Autonomous Weapons Systems (CLAWS)
With the debut of lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS) in combat, opponents of LAWS have called on States to fast-track the creation of...
Biometrics and International Humanitarian Law
In August 2021, reporting emerged that biometric devices used by United States armed forces in Afghanistan had fallen into the hands of the Taliban....
Intelligence Sharing in Multinational Military Operations
[Editor’s Note: Articles of War is hosting this first in a series of four posts by Prof. Marko Milanovic on the International Law of Intelligence...
Hays Parks on the Means and Methods of Warfare
Hays Parks was one of the leading voices of the United States’ view of the law of war over the last 50 years, and one of the founding fathers of the...
