by Carolyn Sharp | Nov 5, 2021
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 international law that either bans the use of these weapons or mandates...
by Marten Zwanenburg | Oct 28, 2021
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. This raised immediate concerns that the devices and the data they give...
by Marko Milanovic | Oct 21, 2021
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 Sharing in Multinational Military Operations. Links to the...
by Joshua F. Berry, Michael W. Meier | Oct 20, 2021
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 field of operational law in the U.S. military. Both of us are honored to...
by Victor M. Hansen | Oct 18, 2021
Hays Parks and the Doctrine of Command Responsibility While he was a graduate student at the Army’s Judge Advocate General’s School in 1973, then-Major Hays Parks wrote a thesis titled “Command Responsibility for War Crimes” that was published in the Military Law...
by Michael N. Schmitt | Oct 15, 2021
Assassination in the Law of War Few lawyers better appreciated the importance of terminological precision than my late friend and law of war colleague, Hays Parks. Over three decades ago, he turned his attention to assassination. This post builds on his work by...
