Coding the Law of Armed Conflict: First Steps

Coding the Law of Armed Conflict: First Steps

Coding the Law of Armed Conflict: First Steps [Editor’s note: The following post highlights a subject addressed in the Lieber Studies volume The Future Law of Armed Conflict, which was published 27 May 2022. For a general introduction to this volume, see Professor...
How Human Rights Law Bodies Handle Situations of Armed Conflict and Human Rights Law

How Human Rights Law Bodies Handle Situations of Armed Conflict and Human Rights Law

How Human Rights Law Bodies Handle Situations of Armed Conflict and Human Rights Law This is the second of two posts dealing with aspects of the relationship between the law of armed conflict (LOAC) and Human Rights Law (HRsL). HRsL bodies have long dealt with cases...
Ukraine Symposium – The Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group & Ukrainian Prosecutions of Russian POWs – Part 2

Ukraine Symposium – The Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group & Ukrainian Prosecutions of Russian POWs – Part 2

Ukraine Symposium – The Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group & Ukrainian Prosecutions of Russian POWs – Part 2 A prior post recounted the recent trial and guilty plea by Russian Army Sergeant Shishimarin in Ukraine. That post identified a number of important...
Ukraine Symposium – The Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group & Ukrainian Prosecutions of Russian POWs – Part 1

Ukraine Symposium – The Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group & Ukrainian Prosecutions of Russian POWs – Part 1

Ukraine Symposium – The Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group & Ukrainian Prosecutions of Russian POWs – Part 1 On 25 May 2022, the European Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom announced the establishment of the Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group...
U.S. Strike Cells: Dispelling the Myths

U.S. Strike Cells: Dispelling the Myths

U.S. Strike Cells: Dispelling the Myths Last August, in the wake of the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, the world witnessed a disastrous incident in Kabul when ten Afghan civilians, including up to seven children, were killed by a U.S. drone strike meant for ISIS....
Ukraine Symposium – The Ukraine Conflict and the Future of Digital Cultural Property

Ukraine Symposium – The Ukraine Conflict and the Future of Digital Cultural Property

Ukraine Symposium – The Ukraine Conflict and the Future of Digital Cultural Property Various international instruments explicitly provide for the protection of cultural property in armed conflict. As conceived, the law was formulated to protect physical works...