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Robert Kolb,
Benjamin Meret
| Mar 19, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Law of Neutrality
Clarifying Neutrality: The Rise of Different Statuses? With the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine, one can witness the rebirth of a classical topic of international law: the law of neutrality. Some argue that neutrality is “obsolete.” An alternative...
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Joanna Jarose
| Mar 18, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Other Bodies of Law
ENMOD: Dead Letter or Environmental Lifeline? Editors’ note: This post is derived from the author’s article published in issue 118(3) of the American Journal of International Law. There is little denying that the world is fragile and battered. While our natural...
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Winona Xu
| Mar 17, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium
Ukraine Symposium – Russia’s Reproductive Violence in Ukraine: Hidden Atrocities of War Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine has inflicted enormous harm on the civilian population, exposing many women, children, and in some cases men, to abuses including sexual and...
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Ben Saul
| Mar 14, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Human Rights, Law of Armed Conflict
Australian Compensation for War Crimes in Afghanistan: A Rights-Based Approach, Not Military Charity, is Needed In July 2024, Australia adopted a new legal scheme to compensate victims of war crimes committed by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) in Afghanistan, which...
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Gary Pattison
| Mar 11, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict, Weapons Law
Booby-traps and “Apparently Harmless” Portable Objects Recent hostilities in eastern Europe and the Middle East have generated significant interest in issues of law of armed conflict (LOAC) compliance. Notably, several incidents have led to close scrutiny of the LOAC...
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Jan De Gols,
Vaios Koutroulis
| Mar 10, 2025 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog
A New Tool in the Fight Against Impunity for Core International Crimes Globalisation has made various aspects of our society more efficient over the past century. At the same time, it also brings with it a certain complexity. This is noticeable, for example, in the...
