From War Booty to War Learning: The Legal Status of Captured Military Artificial Intelligence

From War Booty to War Learning: The Legal Status of Captured Military Artificial Intelligence

From War Booty to War Learning: The Legal Status of Captured Military Artificial Intelligence The law of armed conflict has long recognised that military victory carries with it certain legal consequences beyond the battlefield. Among them is the ability to capture...
Wildberries and the Unit of Analysis in Targeting Law

Wildberries and the Unit of Analysis in Targeting Law

Wildberries and the Unit of Analysis in Targeting Law Since the middle of July 2026, Ukrainian long-range drones have struck more than twenty warehouses belonging to Wildberries, Russia’s largest online retailer. By August 5, Deutsche Welle estimated the company’s...
Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum

Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum

Identifying NIAC Series – Classifying Battlefield Actors in NIAC: Another View on an Old Conundrum Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge...
Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text

Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text

Target Selection by Machines: The Duty to Verify and the GGE Rolling Text Editors’ note: This post is based on the author’s article “Target Selection by Autonomous Weapons Systems: What Does the Duty of Target Verification Require?,” published as an Exeter Centre for...
Identifying NIAC Series – Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification

Identifying NIAC Series – Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification

Identifying NIAC Series – Aggregating Criminal Violence: Challenges to NIAC-Classification Editors’ note: This post appears as an entry in a series examining Dr Nathan Derejko’s book, Identifying Non-International Armed Conflict published by Cambridge University...
Identifying NIAC Series – Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict

Identifying NIAC Series – Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict

Identifying NIAC Series – Introduction: From Armed Violence to Armed Conflict Having spent the better part of a decade researching, writing, thinking, and teaching non-international armed conflict (NIAC), I am delighted to share the culmination of that work: my recent...