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Sean Watts
| Dec 17, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Prisoner of War Repatriation and Interpretive Choice – Part III: A Lesson from Military History? Parts I and II of this three-part post outlined the legal framework applicable to post-war repatriation of prisoners of war and highlighted two prominent fault lines...
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Sean Watts
| Dec 16, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
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...
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Sean Watts
| Dec 15, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Interpretation & Development, Law of Armed Conflict
Prisoner of War Repatriation and Interpretive Choice – Part I: The Legal Framework and Reciprocity Prisoner of war repatriations have long been thorny, contentious post-war affairs. Disputes over their timing, scope, and implementation have routinely threatened...
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Tobias Vestner,
Nicolò Borgesano
| Dec 12, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Weapons Law
Legal Reviews of War Algorithms: From Cyber Weapons to AI Systems States are obliged to conduct legal reviews of new weapons, means, and methods of warfare. Legal reviews of artificial intelligence (AI) systems pose significant legal and practical challenges due to...
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Emily E. Bobenrieth
| Dec 10, 2025 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Cyber, Law of Armed Conflict
Gaps and Seams in the Law of Armed Conflict for AI-Enabled Cyber Operations The continued, robust use of cyber operations in both competition and conflict has inspired many States to express whether and how international law applies to cyber operations. While these...
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Su Myat Thwe,
Rosa-Lena Lauterbach
| Dec 9, 2025 | AoW Posts, Blog, Law of Armed Conflict
Anything Other Than a Classic NIAC: Examining Myanmar’s Legal Battlefield Myanmar’s civil unrest is traditionally characterised as a non-international armed conflict (NIAC). It arguably represents one of the most enduring civil wars in modern history. For the past...
