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Retaliation, Retribution, and Punishment and International Law
On April 13, Iran launched a massive missile and drone attack on Israel. Hezbollah and Houthi attacks took place contemporaneously. Israel, alongside forces from France, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Jordan, successfully neutralized most of these threats,...
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 Command, intercepted a fishing trawler, the Marwan 1 (Marwan), a flagless vessel, in the Gulf of Oman. A security team from 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 troubled, long-standing history of the independence of Palestine, and questions regarding the tactical and operational...
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 time in Israel’s history, Article 40(a) of its Basic Law: The Government. Israel’s invocation of Article 40(a) was...
Regulating Military Force Series – The Meaning of Prohibited “Use of Force” in Article 2(4) of the UN Charter
Editors’ note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion, Destruction, Rebirth?” at the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law, Palacký University...
Regulating Military Force Series – Justice and Accountability in the Era of Modern Mercenarism
Editors’ note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion, Destruction, Rebirth?” at the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law, Palacký University...
Regulating Military Force Series – Rhetoric and Warfare in the Age of Rights
Editors’ note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion, Destruction, Rebirth?” at the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law, Palacký University...
Regulating Military Force Series – Hybrid Warfare and Jus ad Bellum
Editors' note: The author delivered remarks on the subject of this post at the conference “International Law and the Regulation of Resort to Force: Exhaustion, Destruction, Rebirth?” at the Centre for International Humanitarian and Operational Law, Palacký University...
Russian Nuclear Weapons in Space
Recent news reports indicate that U.S. authorities fear Russia “wants to put,” a nuclear weapon into space, with U.S. intelligence describing this as a “serious security threat.” The suggested possible purpose of the weapons would be to target Western satellites in...
Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Algorithms of Care: Military AI, Digital Rights, and the Duty of Constant Care
Editors’ note: This post is based on the authors’ chapter in Big Data and Armed Conflict (Laura Dickinson and Ed Berg eds. 2024), the ninth volume of the Lieber Studies series published with Oxford University Press. In Big Data and Armed Conflict: Legal Issues Above...
Attacking the Quds Force and Affiliated Groups under the Jus ad Bellum
On 28 January, a drone strike on a U.S. military outpost in Jordan known as Tower 22 killed three soldiers and wounded 34. The Islamic Resistance in Iraq, a non-State militia group, claimed responsibility for the attack which it said was in response to U.S. support...
Lieber Studies Big Data Volume – Corporate Data Responsibility
Editors’ note: This post is based on the authors’ chapter in Big Data and Armed Conflict (Laura Dickinson and Ed Berg eds. 2024), the ninth volume of the Lieber Studies series published with Oxford University Press. Big data is playing an important role in the global...
