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Steven van de Put
| Apr 10, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, State Responsibility
The Dutch Chora Judgment: Ex-Gratia Payments and Compensation Recently, a Dutch district court in The Hague delivered its judgment concerning claims arising from a 2007 battle in Chora, Afghanistan. Whereas an earlier post by Marten Zwanenburg reviewed the judgment...
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Michael N. Schmitt,
William Casey Biggerstaff
| Apr 7, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Use of Force
Are States Aiding and Assisting Ukraine and Russia Using Force? The provision of military aid and assistance from States supporting Ukraine and Russia has been a salient theme in their international armed conflict following Russia’s renewed invasion in February 2022....
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Hitoshi Nasu
| Apr 4, 2023 | Accountability, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, State Responsibility
ICJ Ruling on Iran’s Proxy War: The United States Must Pay On March 30, the International Court of Justice issued a ruling on financial measures that the United States had adopted against Iranian assets. The case was brought by Iran, seeking to challenge the legality...
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Todd F. Buchwald
| Mar 29, 2023 | AI, AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Emerging Technologies, Policy
U.S. Support to the ICC (in AI-Generated Iambic Pentameter) I never imagined I would submit for publication a poem from Chat-GPT about U.S. policy toward the International Criminal Court (ICC). But that is what I am doing today. The background is as follows. Each day,...
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Welmoet Wels
| Mar 28, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, LOAC History
Dead Bodies of War in Legal-Historical Context “We have come for the bodies of the slain, wishing to bury them in observance of the universal law ….” Euripides, The Suppliants, ca. 423 BCE[i] Since the early days of the war between Ukraine and Russia, there have been...
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Stuart Casey-Maslen
| Mar 24, 2023 | AoW Posts, Blog, Compliance, Law of Armed Conflict, Ukraine-Russia Symposium, Weapons Law
Ukraine Symposium – The Legality of Depleted Uranium Shells and Their Transfer to Ukraine The decision by the United Kingdom (UK) in March 2023 to transfer depleted uranium tank shells to Ukraine provoked a fierce reaction from senior Russian political and...
